The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-06-11
MEMS FIVE SENSES.
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT THEM NOT
GENERALLY KNOWN. !,

GENERALLY KNOWN. !,
The Nerves of Taste Are Para1yEed
by Either Very Hot or Very Cola
Lfquids-The Ear IL a wonderfS!
orEan-The Eyes Easily Deceived.
For some unknown reason different
parts Of the tongue are assigned for
the perception of different tastes.
With the tip we taste sweet substances
and salts, with the back we taste bitter
things and with the sides we taste
acids. The middle part of the tongues
surface has scarcely any sense Of taste
at all.
The long named substance parabrom-
benzoic sulphinide produces Il most re-
markable effect, for it gives a sense OF
sweetness to the point OF the tongue
and of bitterness to the back. Pure
water tastes sweet after sulphate of
magnesia. ...-.
| We can only taste things in solu-
! ton; hence if the tongue were perfect
! " dry it would not be affected by the
strongest favored substance in a dry
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The taste nerves are, paralyzedr by
very hot or very cold liquids, After
| drinking very hot or ice cold water
we. could not taste even such a sub
stance, as ,auipine. This fact supplies
| 4 useful hint for consumers Of i'll fla
vared medicines: ..~s..r}., Is ,-7..
Smell, though the least useful is the
HoEn 70 ~ III
! can smell the three-hundred- nlillionth
! part of grain of musk No chemical
analysis can detect such minute guam
| titles The most powerful microscope
| would not render a particle ten. thou
I sand times as large visible. We could
not taste it were it many thousand
times as large. !, rr,,...20..r:yr cd4 !
h. While. we, taste liquids, we can smell
pnly gases. Fill your nostrils with eau
| de cologne. and you will experiences no
todor whutever. Fine as our sense Of
smell Is. it has deteriorated. immensely
since the time when our forefathers
were wild men, The, Calmucks, can
tsmell.; an eucampment twenty miles
away; the reruvians ca q, distinguish
all the South American races by their
ODER :,aa% 20 4.'.,5~s,... est fr,f.:'.;n !
but: smell is sense highly suscep7
tible1of, cultivation even by the modern
white man. Dealers In tea, spices per;
fumes and drugs. in consequence Or
their :, training, can distinguish the
fsintest, differences In doors. arr e.
The organ Of hearing is, one Of the
most mary elous pieces of mocha nfsm
in the body. In animals the external
ear. acts as a trumpet TO collect the
sound waves; in man. il is little more
than an ornament. but the, Internal ear
is alike in BOTH So, wonderful - ITS
construction that we can distinguish
sounds varying from forty to, 4, 600 VI.
brations per second This feat is, per,
formed by poF tdfon OF he ear called
the organ of Corti. What a wonderful
organ thiit is may be .ul1d ersto cd from
the fact that 1t consists Of 8, 900 pieces
of appat atus.. @eqclf piece Being made
up OF two rods. tone inner hair CELL "a nd
four outer hair cells that is, 50, 900
separates parts, In some mysterious
manr1er the rods, with other thin gss are
Tuned to different notes, and when they
vibrite they cause the chairs to ira nstI
nit :lnafmpufse@ to the nerve Of hearing.
40 be- ninsiealli- therefore,is to lav We
epad organ Of Corti. ,E4, ii 5f3$s ss&
~ Is. II = that scratching ii piece of
glass with metal causes sucB al uB-
pleasant .sSupac & Because it is what ,is
called the fundamental tone OF, the. ear.
9,iachais yeryi high, What the, fppda-
mental tone exactly is would takp5 too
much spa ce Ito zexpain. but il YOU blow
I4across the monthsof "a bottle, a hollow,
I globe, oetc4s e. youaget: its Fundamental
tone. Us 81 b9a89sq aBw e899G9
T. JTheoear fsg aedeceptiFe organ, a4sd IT
lis often a. matter,of guesswerk to tell
Nvhence agsound comes Indeed. HfypU
| place the open hands in front Of your
ears and carve them backward sounds
producednin front will appear to, GONE
fronI behindsdt ,sJESeds 9hJ 10 9bta | Il
acknowledgement monkeys seecmost
things with. both eyes. Our whole field
Of vision extends oyer dIS0f degrees 70.
half "a scircles The middle half Of this
We .ssei with both eyes together B ut
the quarter atGeach side ds seem only
with one0eyegA = bna nasu % ygn Z
r. All other aanimals tseer most 4things
with oneBeyesonly Scarcely ever can
they fx both eyes on any thing at the
same time, sBntfthere are cpnsidera bile
varia tionsst "a bulldog for linsta nee.
somewhat CLOSELY approaches 1.-THE CON
dition Of monkey. The larger the pu7
Pill = the greater the quantity of ght
which enters th-3eye. Large IMPLIED
people, therefore. zee the world in a
brighter and more aci;aerfulz state than
those2witha small pupils. aEhey can see
things betterain the ddskso, at night ,-
7 AS every one .knows3fromf the optical
Eillusion pictures the feyes areaaeasily
deceived EAEtwhite asquares on a. ack
ground appears larger stfssaksa black
square Of the same size longsgsy bite
ground. lieu near green looks reduer;
fblue near yellow sIooks Bluer; white
near black looks whittier. ~
Il Touch really includes several senses.
Thus there are spots on the skin " hich
feel heat only. spots which feel only