The morning call., 1891-09-12
MILLIONS OF THEM.
The Number of Living Organisms in q
Cubic Inch of Air.

The Number of Living Organisms in q
Cubic Inch of Air.
Science is a great thing. but Its revela-
tons are not always agreeable.
Just think of the amount of dirt and the
myriads of living organisms we are swal-
lowing every moment we live. 1t is too
terrible to think about unless one has a
good stomach. says the Pttsburg CONNER
cial Gazette. DR.. J. e. Mcpherson tells US
that the lowest number of dust particles
ever counted was at Lucerne. when $500
went to the cubic inch, and there are
100000 per cubic inch in the ordinary
air of Glasgow, but Immediately above a
BunSen burner an inch contains 4S9,0o0,00
In dirty town 100000 of bacteria
per annum are deposited by the rain
upon every square inch, and man breathes
thirty-six germs minute in town and
seyenty-twO in close bedroom Every
winter day $50 tons of the combustion OF
sulphur from coal are thrown into the
atmosphere of London. with the result that
fogs become suffOcating. But DR.. McPher
son thinks that sulphur is good from SAM
tarY point OF view.
You have often been told of the number
Of bugs and living things in each drop Of
water we drink. May be you have seen a
few Of them with the aid of microscope.
II not you should call on some Of your high
school scientists and get peep at these
mysteries.
Get them to show you the activity going
on in a bit of decaying frut-in speck on
an apple or peach or banana. Then take a
squnt at drop of cider vinegar and then at
drop of water in which a small bit of yeast
has been dissolved.
You must not think for a moment that
these little kickers will hurt you. They are
all in their right places. If their missions
hod IN, bill tharn NvOulH havn hpon m
people living now.
The human body is not free from busy
bugs and wigglers.
To prove this you have only to squeeze a
black-head out of your nose, or the skin of
your face, aud let one of the young scientists
| probably see two or three wiggle-waggles
| with big heads and wide mouths gaping at
you. This is all right and you are all the
better for having such companions.
Place a small quantity of stuff scraped
| from decaying tooth under tue tell-tale
| glass and see what a swarm of curious,
| agile and playful little mites is revealed.
| These are attending strictly to business,
and you are all the better for the
millions of these that are at work in
stroying the enamel, nor the dentine, but
the poison that results from the process Of
| decay.
Sleek little gimlet-headed bugs get into
| the hair-bulbs, and in the course of time
your hair begins to fall out by the roots.
| One of these little fellows cannot injure a
hair fOllicle very badly, but when a score of
them make o combined attack they are
nearly certain to knock it out. These little
| chaps do not like sulphur. In fact, it kills
them as dead as nits. There are other
things that kill them. but sulphur, having
an affinity for HAIR, it seeks the bulbs ami is
| quickly absorbed.
A good way to apply this germiclde Is to
| mix teaspO0niul of pulverized sulphur in
an ounce of cocoa butter, rub about one
| fourth of it we'll into the scalp at night, tie
the head up or wear rubber cap, and in
the morning wash the hair out with warm
water. The sulphur may be applied direct
to the scalp and we'll rubbed in.
1t will do no good to get scared about the
| bugs that inhabit your body. The great
majority of them are there because they he
long there, and their mission Will not be
| finished until they have grown into great,
| big grave worms and eaten your flesh up to
keep 1t from p0lluting the earth.
| There are disease germs that one would
| do well not to inhale or swallow, but they
| are 50 very small that IL is impossible to
| avoid it, Nature has been very kind. how
| ever, and so arranged our Threats, wind
| pipe and broncbias that these germs and
the air before 1t comes In contact with the
blood. Then the carbunic acid thrown out
| by the lungs is sure death to them.
Those that are swallowed meet sud,len
death in the stomach If the gastric Juices are
all right. A germ must have pretty toug b
hide to resist the action Of Juice that will
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