The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-06

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iatlons IN temperature; it can grow 10
prodigious strength and to complete IN
ertia and still live.
Miners in the far western minee ,.,orl,
under temperature Of l65 deprees
almost unbelievable. . Ii will function
IN temperature Of 70 and even more
below zero.
The strange thing is that the bodily
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\ can travel BY its own power al lie
rate at 9 and 3-5 seconds for a distance
OF hundred yards; it can run mile
faster than a horse over uneven ground
it. can travel greater distances also.
! Recently Samuel A. johnson trotted
from Boston to NewYork distance az
go miles in less than fifty hours. He
Islept one night on the way. He main
tanned dog trot for the entire distance
lie weighed l56 pounds when he
started and lost Is pounds during the
ordeal. His diet consisted of milk
| and poached eggs.
Men have gone long periods with
out sleep. There is told story Of Al
old town Waterman in middle west
fern city who hadn't slept more than
two hours night for period of more
than forty years. He went home at 6
a. m. ate breakfast and was about the
house and garden from 9 a. m. on and
went on watch at z pm.
Men and women have been known
to keep vigil for week without sleep.
1t Is no uncommon thing for watchers
over the sick to stay awake 48 hours.
Sleep is necessary but if worry can
be done away with and an occasional
period Of complete relaxation INDUCED
IN great stretches can be encompassed. |
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Rickshaw men of Japan are positive
ly amazing in their powers of endur-
ance. They take a jog trot and easily
travel five to thirty miles a day carry
nng a passenger. Dried fish and rice
constitute the bodybuilding materials.
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The animating force of the human
body to-day is as much mystery as
when Aristotle confused nerves with
tendons. The moderns say it resides
in the brain and is transmitted over
nerves TO tissues.
Formerly the bowels were supposed
to be an important point for the dis
tnbution of intelligence. The liver <
once had the honor; the spleen came {
in for attention also. The heart, sup
posed TO be the blood agitator, or air
was once endowed with direct
ing power, K
The brain, comparatively recently Is
mas been accepted as the seat of real /
power. The anatomists since 1850, or 6
hereabouts have made about all the t
discoveries that are at present accept t
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Broca discovered that there was q
certain section of the brain on the side t
If the head that contained the speech S
,enter. Destroy that and all memory Q
If word production is gone. Some 9TH Il
RS say that speech is controlled from v
| lobe In the lower cerebelIum. Y
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Man, in the embryonic state, passes Il
hru all the stages of mans existence Ii
m earth. Within $50 days he evolved a
hru all the forms that evolutionists v
ay he passed through in the adult
orm. He's not pretty object in some t.
# his stages. An unfinished fish, or v
5reat-headed pollywog or monkey are Il
lot nice things to look at. s.
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There seems to be a furore over the St
tatement that man 'sprang" form it
monkey. Rather say that monkey e
prang from man. Man sprang from b
lothing. He evolved and the process Il
las been tremendously slow. He has st
tremendous physiological and psy- il
biological past. He's but on the first "
ap of the cenozoic age-man age. His p
uture is impossible Of determining. Ia
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Forty thousand men and women 81
watched ball game recently with e.
reathless interest. The swat of the p
all with resounding smack. the hurry p
0 first base. the slide, the cut, brot Il
orth groans and cheers. One man Il
nocked three-bagger and ten thou |
and people arose and threw hats in the p
ir. ic
The foremost men of England, Italy. q
rance, Germany and Russia met to Il
iscuss ways and means to settle for b
yer the status of man to man, prevent f
,ar and make a stable currency Who w