Marvels Of The Human System

While the gastric juico has a mild, blund, sweetish tasto, it posesses the power of dissolving the hardent food that can be swallowod. It has no influence whatever oa the soft and deuoatè fibros of the living stomach, nor upon the living hand, but at the moment ot' death it begins to eat thom away with the power of' the strongest acids. ïhcre is dust on the sca, on land, in the valley and on the mountain-top; there is dust always and everywhere ; the atmqsphere is f uil of' it; it penctrates the noisomo dungcon and visits the deepest, darkcst caves of the enrtu ; no palace door can shut it out, no draw so secret as to escape its prenenco ; every breath of wind dashes it upon the open eye, yet tbc eye is not blinded, because under the eye-lid there is incessantly emptying itself a fountain of' the blandest fluid in nature, whioh spreads itself over the surface of the eye at evcry wink, and washes every atom of dust away. But this liquid, so mild aud so well adapted to the eyo itself, bas soine acridity, which, under certain circumstances, becomes so decided as to be scalding to tho skin and would rot away the oyelids were it not that along the edges of them are little oil tnanufactories, which spread over their surface, a coating as impervious to the liquids neoessary for keeping the eyeball washed clean as tho best varnish is impervious to water. The breath which leaves the lungs bas been so perfoctly divested of its life-giving properties that to re-breathe it nuiixed with other air, the moment it cscapos from the mouth, would cause immcdiatc death from suffocation, while if it hovored about U3 moro or lcss destructiva influence over health and lifo would be oceasioned. Cut it is mado of a nature so muoh liglitor than the common air that the instant it escapes the lips and nostrils itaacends to the higher regions abovc the breathing point, there to be rectified, renovated and sent back again, roplctc witn purity and life. llow rapidlv it ascends is beiug fully oxhibittd evcry frosty morning.