The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-09-04
Show He is Most Wonder
fully Constructed.
he IS MADE UP OF COMPOUNDS
Of Many Varieties, the Most
Common of Which Are
EnBmerated.
CAUSES FOR SOME OUTBURSFs


You are 100 dozen eggs,
You are four tenpenny nails.
+ You are 3,69f cubic feet Of gas.
You are 25 candles and a cake OF
soap.
You are the heads of enough
matches TO fill S,064 boxes.
You are the contents of hydro
gen balloon big enough to- lift you
above the clouds.
Furthermore, you are six tea
spoonfuls of salt, a bowl Of sugar
and 10 gallons OF water:
And perhaps you are surprised
and incredulous. But the chemists
assure us that the human body con-
tains che ingredients specified in
the list. The figures are predicated
on body weighing $50 pounds. So,
in point OF arithmeticar fact, you
NAV be more than 100 dozen eggs
and the rest OF it.
This analysis of the chemist ex-
l-i'Ihiub ~ VI
ena. Take the eggs, for instance.
When the fact is once firmly grasp
ed that every individual is 100 doz-
en- eggs, more or less, il is not diffi-
cult to understand why some OF
them are so easily broken up and
disastrously affected when they are
beaten, and why others develop a
yellow streak and turn out bad.
Every one has heard of persons who
were added. Or hard-shelled. Per-
haps some subtle explanation Of
badness may be implied in the fun
damental truth about eggs.
II is not hard to detect the per-
son who is 1894 feet of gas. A
word or two shrewdly pointed viii
usually tap his tank and induce a
flow which can be- shut off only
with the greatest dificulty. In GER
tain circumstances incidental to a
democracy, the flow Is spontaneous
and voluntary. The chemists do
not specify In their popular report
what Kind Of gas it Is, but the as
sumption IL safe that it is not OF the
Illuminating sort. Undoubtedly
the supply runs much higher than
the stated amount in given cases.
Everybody knows. the man who
is sharp as tacks," and the other
one with an iron constitution or a
steely eye; or the person Of peneA
tration; or the one who can hold
down a job; or has to be driven be-
fore he win accomplish anything. |
Every one gets little rusty now
and then. Perhaps where. a man is
said to be crooked, the meaning is |
that his tenpenny nails have been
trying to do the work OF sixpenny
nails.
We know now what happens
when a man gets ''all lit up" It's
his 25 candles that furnish the H.
And We know why
some persons are more brilliant
han others. II is because their
candles are in better commission.
And We can comprehend more
clearly than ever why others are
.ouchy and flare up under friction.
L is caused by the many thousands
If match heads in them. II may
% either the candles or the match
leads that make them spiutter.
We all go up in the air once in a
while. 1t is no longer cause for
anxiety. 1t is nothing but the
hydrogen We contain. When the
hydrogen gets beyond control, we
i've in the Clouds state of exist
nee more unsatisfactory to those
emaining on the ground than to
hose aloft. When the match
leads are too necessarily agitated
II the candles lighted up too fire.
luently, there is danger that the
hydrogen will be set off, in which
ase one goes all to pieces.
There are some who will believe
hat the estimate of sugar is too
ow. but that is a personal matter
hat may be adjusted to mutual sat
sfaction by those concerned.
Undoubtedly explanation Of many
more human phenomena may be
erived from the facts supplied by
he chemists. These are submitted
merely as suggestions, to stimulate
thoughtful rumination.-[C Chicago