Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-01

labyrinth, as some times called from ts
complex character, contains thin, bony
plate triangular in shape across which are
drawn numerous nerve-fibres of different
lengths, somewhat like the wires of a
harp or piano this portion has often been
called the Harp of 5000 Strings"
| The nose is a more extensive organ than
most people think it is. The sense of
smell affords us great enjoyment, and the
Creator has scattered perfume factories,
sweet-smelling flowers, all over the earth
for our pleasure.
The mouth is very useful department
in the "house we live in" for, besides the
thirty-two teeth which are as a mill to
grind the food, it contains the tongue,
the organ of taste and of speech or Ian
guage. What wonderful work the tongue
can do, and does do In the promotion
OF civilization and progress, is there in
this world medium so powerful as Ian
guage? We have an early example of
the cessation of this great work in the
confusion OF tongues at the Tower of
Babel. Language or speech is the great
est bond in the human race. 1t Is said
that language has done more for civilza-
ton than any other power on earth. Now,
practical language is simply talking.
Woman is said to talk more than any one
else on earth she has, consequently, done
more tor civilization than any other power
on earth.
In the very top story of this wonderful
"house" is the brain. Its average weight
is about fifty ounces and it is generally
large in proportion to the highness of in
tellectnal power in the individual, though
this is not necessary relation. The
brain OF an idiot was found to weigh only
twenty ounces. Napoleon's brain, as also
that Of Daniel Webster, weighed about
tifty-four ounces Cuvier's weighed sixty
four. The brain is divided into two parts;
the cerebrum fills the front and upper
part of the skull and is so curiousy
wrinkled and folded rs to strikingly re-
semble the meat of an English walnut.
The cerebrum is considered the center of
mental activity and thought. The cere-
belum lies in the back part of the head,
and is considered the center of control for
voluntary motion.
The mind, the manager of all this ma
chinery, lives up in the brain, and, like a
telegraph operator in his office, is con-
tinually sending and receiving messages;
the nerves act like the wires of the tele-
graph. The man in the telegraph Office
sends and receives messages by the same
wires. The mind sends out messages by
one set of nerves, the motory, and re-
ceives messages by another set, the SEN
sorry. Burn your finger, message is
sent Immediately to the brain. What
does the mind do, leave it to burn? No,
but sends message through some other
nerve to muscles that can pull the finger
out OF harms way. Strictly speaking,
pain ID not felt in any organ, but in the
mind; when any nerve brings news to the
brain of an injury, the brain refers the
pain to the end of the nerve. 1t is said
that the majority who suffer amputation,
do not lose the feeling of the part taken
away. "a gallant Young soldier, who
having left his arm at Shiloh, once when
riding attempted to use his lost hand to |
grasp the rens, while with the other he
struck his horse. A terrible fall was the
result of his mistake" 1t is not neces-
sary to wander over the face of the earth |
to find proofs of Gods power, wisdom and |
beneficence. The study of a portion of
our own frame, even the exquisite me ch-
anism OF one finger will excite the iveliest
feelings OF admiration, reverence and
gratitude; and we should prove this graft
tude by our care for the wonderful dwell |
ing-place provided for our souls.