The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-02-25
WHAT MEN ARE MADE OF.
THE BODY AN ANIMATED SUGAR
AND STARCH FACTORY.

-numa1 system CarrieS on Mum
ber Of Useful and Complicated Pre-
seesees.
sYou will probably be surprised,
lid a well known professor Of chem
vtry, when l tell you that the mos
>eautiful woman or the most intellect
vi man that ever lived is really moth
ng more than animated white of egg
md yet it is perfectly true that, Il
ou only knew how to do it, you coult
Ike few hundred of eggs-yor
Nould want we'll over a thousand, BY
ne way-and manufacture = second
Ihakespeare or q Helen Of Troy
rom them.
unfortunately ,- or fortunately
4ther-although the materials OF
6hich man is composed are common
Enough, the blending of them to form
! living being is far beyond any hu'
lan powers. But let up just run
hrough the constituents we are made
| see Of what very ordinary ma
F bFials the best and cleverst of US
& 6e composed.
IN If we take 12-stone man and
Neprive him of gas and carbon, there
9ill be only pounds Of him left,
thile even the least oratorical man
nat ever lived is five-sixths gas and
4othing else. Well may it be said
lie are such stuff as dreams are made
B for truly we are just as insub-
gant:al.
! In our 12-stone subject we shall
nd no less than 11S pounds OF oxy-
EN-; he contains as much, in fact, Of
Ehis vital gas as would fll . room
feet long, 10 feet wide. and sahde
yer 10 feet high. II we proceed next
kp deprive him of his hydrogen he
etll only lose . little over Is pounds
his weight by the process. but the
- We procure will I'LL Q room more
I han twice the size Of our oxygen res
yoir; for it will be Is feet square
md as nearly az possible 12 feet
Nigh, and will have such buoyancy
8lhst It could carry cur patient up to
~ clouds.
Il Another essential IS nitrogen, Of
l&hich our 12-stone man has sixty.four
qbic feet slowed away in his body
suhicient to dll Z nice little box 1
eet long, wide, and high. We have
f4ow deprived our man Of three out
his fourteen constituents, have lib
Seatsd gases Sufficient to fill . room,
1egghly, 20 feet square and 10 feet
igh-in which. by the way. you could
1ack 500 good sized men-and have
1educed his weight by . shade under
n stone. or, to BE- more exact, BY 139
1eunds.
There IS not much left of him to
eccount for. you see, now that the
1fee gases are elminated-only 20
Q9pds, in fact. the weight Of an in
at-and OF this q single other con-
ltuent takes the lions share Of "a
FUNDS. This constituent is carbon,
1at curious element which takes
1ch widely diverse forms as COM
ION coal and the Kon-i-noor, and Is
lot to be despised in the lead pencil. |
lust a. coal Keeps our houses warm
"a gives motive power to the steam
lngine. 50 it supplies energy and fuel
y the human body
I'VE have now pounds of our man
j account for. and this is distributed
Irer nine most useful constituen
Fwo and quarter pounds, nearly half
4 1t, consist Of calcium, which will
= more commonly recognized as
me. and which plays very impor-
mt part in the human mechanism:
"a to this we must add l pound II
anceS Of phosphorus, from which, If
ou like, you could make yuncient
aatches to give one to every man,
roman and child in Manchester. The
constituents OF our man
My weigh pound l ounce, and con.
dst Of sodium, sulphur, huorine. chic
me, magnesium, potassium, and sill
un; while in weigh. they range from
70 or three grains to four and half
Nnces.
saNaturally these fourteen elements
I'm combinations in the body in or
y to discharge their duties prop
~. Thus oxygen and hydrogen
pmoine to form in our subject 1918
qnnls Of water, which serves an
llnite number Of most necessary and
leful Offices. The chlorine and So
nm unite to form salt, Of which We
Ill mid about z ounces; and the
&1ium combines with carbon and oxy-
Il to form the washing soda which
- been called the scavenger Of the
~, and which fills in its time by
ring useful part in building up
y bones.
The body is indeed q most wonder
factory, carrying on . number Of
1fuf and complicated processes At
3 same time. Thus it makes really
~ class soap by the hundredweight
] its own use. and glycerine. too, as
tsproduct( It manufactures sugar
= starch, and it makes gum; pep
! alc0hol ana other products more
naerful still. ."-Tit-Bits.
MACHINERY ON THE FARM.