Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-08-25
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az, aoasnt nav to know just little
ohout things" said one OF those men
VINO are always after general informa-
tion Judging from experiance
thoroughly agree with the gentleman
,,ho said. "a little knowledge is danger
ons thing For example, ] have never
hnar ahle TO eat an egg with thorough
relish-though exceedingly fond OF them
fcr their flayor--since | learned that the
t,t,e snot on one side of the yelk, toward
tbs Init end, is the germ Of the chicken.
You may cook an egg In what tasnion
90, nlease but whether it is boiled,
coached or fried, YOU will find that germ
always conspicuous. when once you
know 1t ia there, and you cannot eat the
egg until YOU have carefully removed u.
n wou}d add considerably to my happi-
nass if could believe today what | was
topobt in the nursery that the white OF
a., cgg makes the bones OF the subsequent
fowl and the yelk the flesh, instead OF
knowing, us | do, that both are merely
the food b. the consumption OF which
the germ is developed.
"But that is only II very minor IN
stance. My slight knowledge OF patho-
logical anatomy, AMOUNTING to the mer-
oct smattering. is source of continual
DISTRESS to me. Though an abstemious
man on the whole, cannot indulge IN a
GLASS of any alcoholic beverage without
realizing that | am subjecting my sys-
fem To the action of heart stimnlant'
which accelerates the pulsations OF that
organ injurlously The slightest sensa-
ton of any sort about my chest causes
me TO imagine, despite myself, that the
tubercular bacilli are beginning to get
in their deadly work upon my pulmona-
ny system.
"Presuinably it is only II trifing inter
| costal rheumatism, but ! am none the
less uneasy. A similar feeling in the
small of my back makes me think of
Brights disease Surprising that swal-
low an orange seed by accident, it oc-
ours to me ut once that there is "a chance
| for its getting into certain useless sac
attached to the stomach, where, il it
does. it will occasion inflammation that
is necessarily fatal before long. | know
that my intestines are prey to certain
vermiculor parasites, AS are those OF
every one else; but they do not occasion
me so much annoyance as the POSSIBLE
| ty, always existing, that painful concre-
tions of lime may be forming in my
bladder or my liver
"a superficial knowledge of physiology
takes much of the poetry out of exist
ence and removes large part of the
gliding from the sublunary gingerbread,
as one might say. Having acquired it,
a man realizes rather painfully that he
is largely an elevated animal after all
though hitherto he has imagined himself
chiefly mind
"Supposing that ones partner in the
german is a thin girl, he cannot help
figuring her ont as an articulated skele-
ton and setting an estimated price upon
her as preparation in that guise. This
does not apply, however. when she is an
acknowledged heiress
"Imagination is always opposed to
facts, and by as much as the latter are
calculated to dispel agreeable illusions;
they are destructive of happiness. There
fore am inclined to think that however
desirable knowledge may be respecting
things with which one has no personal
and intimate concern, it is most com
Portable to know very little about ones
self and ones environment. Drink deer
or taste not the Pierian spring. Wash.
ington Star.