The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-13
THE NONPAREIL MAN

lawmakers should see to it that every
foreign cheese of the noisy variety has
little canned fresh air to go along with
1t as an antidote against the strenuous
life led by this produce.
Something is the matter with Saturn,
the planet with the rings. Professor Bar
nard Of the Yerkes observatory distov-
cred it first, and now w. F. Denning, an
English astronomer, has confirmed it..
Immense white spots have broken out
upon Saturn's surface, with evidences Of
some deep-seated disturbance affecting its
globe, which Is more than 10000 miles in
diameter. It is generally thought that
Saturn Is not solid globe like the earth,
but fluid world. Possibly the cold snap
has reached Saturn and ice has formed
with heavy snoWfalls.
Charles Urban, London scientist, has
photographed the unseen He has been
at work on some delicate machinery for
some time, and now is able to imprison
a drop of water or a speck of Stilton
cheese on a microscope slide, photograph
it's active residents, and. with a biograph
reflect on the screen their ordinary be-
havior, magnified millionfo1d.. The I'M
scientific spectator is surprised and
shocked by the sight You can hardly say
he Is fascinated, yet it amounts to that.
The life in a drop of filtered water, as
seen on the screen, consists of what ap-
pears to be tiny dark colored balloons,
growing in size from q pins head to the
diameter Of halfpenny, when they burst
and throw out trail of specks-their
offspring-which at once begin to increase
| in stature In the speck Of dust from
the rind of a Stilton cheese, gray crabs
gravely crawl from side to side, search
ing for food, which they eat with slow
solemnity. Lesser animalculae move be-
| \, ind ffnyo t1air No ri ar.1Iy
but the whole speck is in turmoil of life;
nowhere can the eye discern absolute rest.
! So it is found that man knows little OF
the marvellous micrococci that sport over,
around, under and in him. Every man
aye. and every woman, too, is literally
| a menagerie. There is our old friend the
typhoid bacillus. He was discovered some
years ago, and the typhoid fever was laid
to him. He now pleads not guilty The
Typhoid bacillus is present in water which
! is not Infectious, and in persons who are
not i'll, or never have been i'll, with ty-
phoid. So, now theory IS propoundeo
! that a healthy typhoid bacillus does not
cause typhoid, but that it exists only
when the bacillus is itself sick Of a fever.
or, in other words, IS itself the prey OF
some infinitely nainuter organisms.
| There are those cheerful old pirates, tt.e
lcoccidiidea. They get mad and have a
| little Sioux uprising of 1868 in your inte-
rior, and you claim to have the stomach
| ache or something equally as good. Sci
ence shows: that it is nothing of the kind
1T is only the coccidiidea all red-headed
and whooping it UP and rioting around
calling for trouble. The way to recover
! is to get this anger out Of the coccidiidean
mind, then everything quiets down and
IyOu go about the streets as usual g..
The. mistake we have made in the past
has been to regard all this varied life ir
us as hostile to us. These bugs are otter
! the best friends We. have, in the world
They clear away waste matter and keer
us moving. When you meet one of the
|micrococci who uses you for a pasture
you want to pat him on the head ant
say Good bug He appreciates kind
ness A. J. r.