The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-08-07

tho wiSest course IL a man cheats YOU
IS Ia Quit dealing with him. If he is
abusive quit his company: if he SLAM
dcrs you. the wiScst way is generally
just to let him alone. for there is
nothing better than this cool, calm.
quiet way OF dealing with the wrongs
we meet with.
TIE SKIN AND IT'S CHILDREN.
HERE'S A MAN VINO HAS COUNTED THE
HAIRS OF TIE HUMAN HEAD.
st. Louis Republic.
There are 33l, 900 hairs on the human
body. Prof. Charles Stewart, who
dcposcd to this at the ROYAL institu-
ton recently, has counted them. lie
would not, OF course, he particular to
Il hair or two one way or the other,
but this, on the average, is the result.
The skin has, therefore. Il very re-
spectacle family az oir-springs, for
the biologists III show us beyond all
doubt that hairs are, after all, only
special parts OF the skin that nature
has modiflcd8in this way in order to
better protect and keep warm her
highly important works within. The
human skin is a much more complex
sort OF fabric tlran is popularity i'm
agincd. The true skin is ri sht under
meath. You Il make its acQuain-
tancc with the aid Of a file or the
sharp corner Of a door lock. The
outer skin or cuticle is really a cor.
~tinually renewed shield OF horny
scales. which are the c~ast-of dead
cells Of the living layer below. The
under skin is the real business article,
full Of cunning little 'touch nerves.
blood vessels, l%ymphatics, sweat
glands, fat glands, hair folliclcs and
what not.
The follicles are the pits in which
the hairs are grown. something like
celery, and nature has expended ap-
parcntly a quite ridiculous amount of
care on these structures. The hair
in each cell is Il direct growth Of the
skin. 1t grows at the rate of half an
inch II month. The colOring matter, as
we know, Is apt to fade and leave us
at the mercy OF those who compound
fluids which ''are not dyes" Professor
Stewart thinks it quite possible that
sudden fright may blanch the pig
lncnt 'in a single night" but how it
is done, since this pigment, in most
cases, is far away from any visible
nervous control, he fails to see.
Some people have a peculiar sparkling
look about their sandy hair. The
Professor traces this to alterations
Of white and colOred growth, which
he finds correspond with alternate
periods Of twelve hours normal
growth. The pigment is, perhaps,
not deposited during the night, but
is during the day, or vice versa.
each particular hair" stands up
like quilts upon the frctful porcu-
pine" (Which by the way, are also
hairs by virtue Of an crcct0r muscle,
one end Of which is fastened to the
bulb Of the hair and the other to the
point near the surface OF the skin.
When the muscle contracts under
nervous excitement, the hair pulled
up vertically Gt usually lies a little
slanting- wise. The ''pull" on the
muscle is also seen at the point Of
attachment in the skin, giving to the
little dimplcs which, in conjunction
with the erect hair. produce the ap-
pearancc known as ''goose flesh"
Other children Of the skin, but only
twenty in number, are the nails.
These arise out Of sharp folds in the
skin, and are essentially very tough,
horny material built up from the liv.
ing skin cells, much in the same a
as hairs arc built up. The growth
is at the rate Of about the thirty
sec0ndth Of an inch Il week. The nail
is fastened to The under skin by a pc-
culiar system Of locking teeth. While
talking about the skin Prof. Stewart
did not overlook the sweat glands
which lie buried in the under skin,
extracting from the blood some fifty
ounces of watcry waste products a
day. These pass out through cork.
screw passages in the outer skin,
emerging in the shape Of the myriad
little pores, which we can just make
out by the aid Of an ordinary pocket
lens. There arc abgut 10000 Of such
openings on the palm OF ones hand.
Prof. Stewart has counted them, but
again he will not risk his reputation
for strict veracity on the question OF a
single pore n way or another. 1t is
averages lie deals in, feeling, of course,