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Body Wonders

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Day
4
Month
February
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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Wbik in. i t boyi aiil girk uiaj kauw ihat tlioy huw a baart, ïhey may reallj knnw hut Kctle of it. it looatioo even it size, ita use or it ndattry, laboring hard, ofien, a it doei) Fraai birtii to death, day uü'l i. do liolidays or vaca tion% no re-t. Whi ¦ . ep, i -till toils in, -uil! dof tlie irork whieh mu-t b; di ae, or we should 'lic in a It i' irnn tour o -ir inchea ¦ du tl,, lelt si. tue ii.]i ne:ir the i-er of the hreast bone, :m I about s liinh as the atmpits, while the lower Jiart lalN still flrtbei t" CM li't't, the point siriking the of il ln-t btl the tiltil and siith ril'. It ha .ur rliain )er, and it wIla ari' xoeediogly stronjr. ¦ i wil! -iii,mm' hIh-ii f. u thiok .'I the auiount T work that it does in a inlc day. '1' 1 1 - li' in of iha boy vho i 8i lUtck aml aulivc betts laster than tbal "I ihé man .-iImiiii une Inurth in health ; while iu sickness, a :i l'cvor, it labon very hard, nd ¦ 't% iiiiich more blood Any ly wlio i-" iiiil t Scores may Ko iiitr..'sted in daeiding juni how mioy tim bw baart oootracta tr " Keu-, seen by prc!.fiu t Bnger 'in nr uver 1 1 1 - nrtrry in the wrist, or by li-toning to the bcatiiik' of the heart - in au honr, at the rate of eightyfive each minute, at ihe g oi twelve yearfi. If iliat oamber i BiHiphed by lUe hours of the day, the day! of year, and so on for a lil'etiuic, nr "trirefl More and ten ¦." he will bc mi priaed al tfa number of lets, alüin-t ui ratc ui' a million a year, while ihat of ¦ babe, t l)irth tme liuutlrcd iuid thirlyeaob Dihiote, ¦iould ba still more. The huart eoBlraota, ia produoinj tbc beats of the pulc, with a foroe of aboul tliirüv'ii pouodit, doing r t j ¦ - u.irk niual to that of raning twn hundred aml twonty tons daiiy, or twenty ton extra it a uian hm whisky! Nuw, cailiox nno piot ¦ pound, it will l! Hreresting to estímate tlio ntnn ber oí bogabeada of bload paariac ihrough tlus little odustrioui hcarl io a year. Tlien think how inany tteam enf ine ould be worn out in perforioinx the same amoaol t' labor ' And yettbii litlleblood eaciao, with walk abonl oae inrli tbick, n. aratealat lilicr of Ureads, whioh, to give tboaa Wall.-, the grealest streng tl other in threc dirfttonn, inanv ol them behg join'ii. liko tlnce lili neta, many ol tin; tinca. U being tied tojjethcr. So you will seo that the hoai t is tint likcly I Imr.sl ,r irear out eamly, as it was made t. do ¦ vast aniount of t"il -ooaataatly lalirin; ' This blooil i ttai to the laaga by the heart, iherc t" ba aarMod by the actioa "i tle litihli air- iuiy : air d.- iliis well -?;iÍB retnrned tn the h.'art, that, with the ii''W hi-xy ma'lc from roccnl l'uod being sent by woirlurful blood imgiii every part, every nook and corner of' the Ixidy, to K'ivt' strength to aran n bone, nerve, blooil feaae] and Ibet of tbc body. Tlioi1 littlt: blood ire so small and tbick tbal when tbe amalleol needie pieroea the skin. one of them, al leait, rut. and tbe blood flowi out. ( nc lar?e one leaves the beart, ilmut an tin 1, ia diameter, whic'n 1 í v i 1 1 ¦ , seading smaller ones to the bead, arms, lega, rtc, tl continuinK to divido till thoy béooui sniall to be scen. Tlnv oarry noariahment to every part of tho body, wliich would starve, a-iiic Imtn thi- iupjily. Not one hair ot'tli' i I f the heao oreriooked. Not a bone, a muscle, or the uiallost fiber of the mallest musele u pasaed by. All ar fed by tliii blood eerUinly n the

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Ann Arbor Courier
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