The St. Johns herald., 1899-03-18
WHAT A WORK IS MANI
The Human Body the Most Wonder
 full Thing I'm the World.

full Thing In the World.
 Human beings are of all sizes, but the tall man is less common than the short. Only one in every POS exceeds the height of six feet. For every foot of stature a man should weigh from 26 to 28 pounds, proportion that is not the
 lot of all in these hurrying, scurrying days. An average sized man weighs 40 pounds; 8 woman 125 pounds. Curious ly enough, the mean weight and height of lunatics are below those of sane peo- pie. Another unexpected thing in this respect is that negro's skeleton weighs more than that of an Englishman.
 The vitalizing power is the blood, a drop of which takes but 22 seconds to go the round of the body There passes through the heart once every three min. utes an amount of this precious fluid equal to all that is contained in the body. The mileage of the blood circula- tion reveals some astonishing and un- dreamed of truths It is estimated that, assuming the average speed of the heart to be 69 beats a minute, the blood travels 207 yards in 60 seconds. In oth- CT words, miles an hour, 16s day, or {, 6,320 per year.
 If man of 84 could have one single blood corpuscle floating in his blood all his life, it would have traversed in that period no less than 5, 150, sos miles. The average weight of the brain of an adult male is 8 pounds 8 ounces. of female 3 pounds 8 ounces. The woman's brain begins to decline in weight after the age of 80, the mans not till ten years later According to high authorities the nerves, with their branches and minute ramifications con- necting with the brain, exceed 10, OOO,- 900 in number.
 The palms of the hands and soles of the feet are composed of cushions of fat, in order that sudden jolts and violent blows may be successfully resisted and no injury done to the muscles and bones underneath. The muscles-of which | the tongue monopolizes Hand bones of the human structure in combination are capable of more than 1, 200 different motions.
 The teaching of experience indicates that accidents are far more likely to oc- cur to the right leg and arm than to the left. Further evidence of this fact l is supplied by the makers of artificial | limbs. They dispose of many more ap- pendages to the right side of the body than to the other. Statistics show that in 54 cases out of 100 the left leg is stronger than the right.
 If a man could move his legs propor- tionally as fast as an ant, he would travel not far from 800 miles an hour.
 Wall Paper Trick.
 "An old fellow came along the other day" says Philadelphia restaurant keeper. ''who gave me a pointer had never dreamed of He came in and of- tered to patch up all the bad places in ny wall paper and so skillfully that couldn't find place after it was done We'll. hadn't any patching to do but bet the old chap quarter and his linner that he couldn't do what he aid tore patch out of the wall paper. and when he was through eat ng he went to work
 ''The first thing he did was to cut a 'iece of blank wall paper big enough to over the hole and paste it over Next le took brush and painted ground he same as the other paper Then. kick nc If he didn't t take other brushes and olors and paint in the design of the 'aper. l willingly yielded up quarter with the dinner and was satisfied when saw the alacrity and ease with which he fellow did his work ",