Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-05-27

Ia4R9SE ing animals-has in his system a
Sgssg gt4JGSfZ considerable quantity OF irOu. It
aSkfriPSFS1$@ is found in the more important or
T7~sR@TzS gans, and there should also be a
good deal in the blood. Babies possess a fairly
large stock of iron, nearly three times as much,
comparatively speaking, as adults.
Then in your bones there is very large quantity
OF that metallic base Of lime called calcium; while
phosphorus is also present in the bones in so large
an amount that they are the main source OF the
worlds supply OF that valuable article Stranger
still, there is in the human body appreciable
amount OF arsenic. What there is of this poison is
concentrated in the thyroid gland, and small
quantity is also to be found in the skin, hair, nails
and also in the bones aud brain. There are lots OF
odd things about our human frames which even dee
tors and other OF science have only lately dis
covered, and of which the average person is quite
unaware Few people know, for instance, that
when we go to sleep the whole body does not sink
into insensibility at the same moment.
According to the researches OF the French phys-
Ologist Cabanis it is the muscles Of the legs and
arms which lose their power first. Next, those
which support the head, and thirdly, the muscles
which sustain the back. So, tOO with the senses
The sense of sight sleeps first, then the sense Of
taste, and next the sense OF smell Hearing goes
fourth, aud last of all the sense of touch PrOba.
bly, You imagine that your pulse always beats with
the same rapidty. This is quite mistake. Your
pulse varies with the temperature. There is regu.
lar an usual rhythm, which may be represented
by something like regular curve. Most curious
of all the annual rhYthms Of the pulse in men and
women are quite different. A mans pulse beats
more strongly in winter and ladies' to minimum in
summer. WOmans pulse, on the contrary, displays
a winter minimum and a summer maximum.
Behind the bridge of your nose is little cavity
in the SKULL the origin Of which appears to be Un-
known It probably was gland, consisting OF two
tiny lobes, Joined together, and is named the sella
turcica. Psychologists believe that this is the re-
mains OF a sixth sense which OF practical value
to our antediluvian ancestors. But whether it en-.
abled them to see in the dark days before they pos
gessed fire. or helped them to find their way through
trackess forests as wild beasts can today or what
other purpose it may have served, we do not know,
and probably never shall know.
There is an unsOlVed mystery in the ear of every
human being The function Of certain portions OF
the inner ear is not understood but merely guessed
at. Within the ear are three small globe. shaped
prOtuberances. These have their inner sides Gov
cred with small cells, each of which contains tiny
hair surrounded by fluid. When you move sharp.
" the hairs follow the motion, while the lymph nat
urally moves less rapidly. Thus the hairs are bent
in a direction opposite to that of the movement, and
BY means of delicate nerves the irritation thus pro-
duced is teegraphed direct to the brain. It is sup
posed that by means of these hairs swimming In
lymph the sensation we call dizznehs is caused
when we rotate rapidly as in dancing. 1t is also
believed that seasickness has something to do with
the same phenomenon. 1t has been noticed thai
some persons when suffering from ear diseases that
have destroyed parts of the inner ear have sound il
difficult impossible to maintain their balance
whep< Landing upright with closed eyes. It is
therefore, possible that these peculiar ear organs
contain some inexplicable not generally class
fled as such-the static sense or sense Of balance