The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-10


and the Toe Nails Are More Orna-
mental Than Serviceable.
Has any n ever complimented you
on the beauty of your upper eye or In
you may not know 1t. you number
these among the disused features Of
your body.
In the center of your brain. looking
vaguely skyward. lie tie atrophied re-
mains of Il third eye. which. Ii Is sup
posed. was actually One of mans USE
full features at some previous state Of
development. 1t Is known us the pineal
gland. though covered by skin, and Is
formed in an almost perfect condition
in certain lizards.
You have -four gills, or bronchial
clefts. which. however. are now closed
up and useless. You originally had
six. but two of them. by forming into
your ear and mouth, respectively,
turned themselves to some account.
However. before your lungs developed
and became fitted to carry on your
breathing system. the work was lone
by the four gills which have since
childhood ceased to develop and be-
come closed up.
Your ears-that Is, the outer ones
IRE quite useless save as ornaments.
You could hear just as well without
them. All the work of hearing Is done
by the middle ear. or tympanum. and
the internal ear. The outer feature Is
purely a pleasant sort of finishing
touch to your hearing system. The
muscles of the outer ear are powerless
and not rSder our control.
Are you iS,are that you have q mini
allure grand piano in your auditory
nerve. which is tuned up to every note
In mnsic? This is known as Corti's
organ and consists of q series of tiny
hairs which yibrate on the drum of
your car ana enable you to distinguish
the differences of sounds.
AS sometimes when you strike a note
on the piano some ornament In the
room will be found to sing with 1t. SO
each of these hairs inside your ear VI
brates in sympathy with the musical
sound corresponding with 1t.
An appendix is generally a useful
thing when applied to books. but mans
appendix is not only useless. but very
troublesome. This Is the remains of
an intestine supposed to have formed
part of our ancestors. Though many
other parts of the body are practically
useless. they are supposed to have
been useful at some time. but scien-
lists cannot trace that the vermiform
appendix was ever Of any service to
man.
Toe nails are entirely useless. and
toe are quite superfiuous. A man
could get along as well without toes.
In fact. q doctor removed eight of q
mans toes without any inconvenience
being suffered. and the loser got along
quite as well without them.
The teeth are rapidly becoming quite
useless. Now that nearly all our food
Is chopped up for US ana we do not
have to bite through hard substances
teeth are gradually o~ecaying.
The fact that the teeth OF our an
cestors 400 or 600 years ago were in
finitely bigger than our own shows
that nature is gradually taking away
these organs.
Tonsils. too. are almost useless md
| fulfill nc serviceable object to the body.
People can get along quite we'll with
out them. AMI q very large proportion
Of the population have lad them re-
moved.
Both the hair and the skin have end
ed their days of usefulness to the hu-
man race. The hair was intended to
| cover orr heads from the heat of the
sun. We cover Up the hair. and by
shutting 1t OF from the exposure which
nature inte1led 1t to have w are
gradually but surely losing this adorn-
ment. and 1t is estimated that in time
we shall cease to grow it.
AS to the skin, 1t was given US to
protect our bodies from the elements.
BY covering 1t up with clothing and
preventing 1t getting proper respira-
ton we deprive ourselves Of its use.
1t Is not inconceivable that the man OF