The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-04-02

mnrveis OF the Human BODY,

While the gastric juice has q mild,
bland, sweetish taste. ID possesses the
power Of dissolving the hardest food
that can be swallowed. IL has no in
huenGe whatever on the soft and deli
cate fbers Of the living stomach, nor
upon the living hand, but at the mo-
ment OF death IL begins 10 eat them
away with the power Of the strongest
acids.
There is dust on sea, on land, in the
valley and on the mountain top; there
is dnst always and everywhere; the at
mosphere is full OF it; it penetrates
the noisome dungeon and visits the
deepest, darkest caves OF the earth; no
palace door can shut it out, no drawer
so secret as TO escape it presence; eve-
ry breath OF wind dashes ID upon the
open eye, yet that eye is not blinded,
because under the eyelid there is inces-
sanity emptying itself fountain OF
the blandest fluid in nature, which
spreads itself over the surface OF the
eye at every winking and washes every
atom OF dust away. But this liquid.
so mild aud 80 we'll adapted to the eye
itself, has some acridity, which, under
certain circumstances, becomes so de-
cided as 10 be scalding TO the skin aud
would rot away the eyelids were it not
that along the edges OF them are little
oil manufactures, which spread over
their surface a coating as impervious
TO the liquids necessary for Keeping
eyeball washed clean as the best warn
ish is impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs
has been so perfectly Invested OF its
life-giving properties that TO re-breathe
il, unmixed with other air, the moment
it escapes from the mouth. would
cause immediate death by suffocation,
while if it hoverel about us q more or
less destructive influence over health
and life would be occasioned But il
is made Of a nature so much lighter
than the common air that the instant
that it escapes the lips and nostrils il
ascends 10 the higher regions above
the breathing point, there to be recti-
fed, renovated and set back again, re-
plete with purity and life. How rap
idly it ascends is beautifully exhibited
every frosty morning.
But, foul aud deadly as the expired
air is, nature, wisely economical IN all
her works and ways, turns il to good
account In Its outward passage through
the organs OF the voice, making OF it
the whispers of love, the soft words OF
affection, the tender tones OF human
cympathy, the sweetest strains OF raw
ishing eloquence Of the finished orator.
If we'll made man be extended on
the ground, his arms at right angles
with the body, a circle, making the
naval its center, will just take in the
head, the finger ends and the feet
The distance from top to toe is precise
ly the same as that between the tips Of
the fingers when the aims are extend
ed. The length OF the body is just
six times that OF the foot, while the
distance from the edge of the hair on
the forehead to the end of the chin is
one-tenth the length OF the whole
stature.
OF the sixty-two primary elements
known in nature, only eighteen are
found in the human body, and OF these
seven are metallic. Iron is found in
the blood, phosphorus in the brain.
limestone in the bile, lime in the bones,
and dust and ashes in ALL Not only
these eighteen human elements, but
the whole sixty-two of which the uni
verse is made, have their essential ba-
sis in the tour substances Of oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, repre-
senting the moro familiar names OF
fire, water and charcoal. And such is
man, the lord OF earthl-a spark OF
fire, drop of water, grain OF gun
powder, an atom OF charcoal!