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Something About Yourself

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Supposing your aj;e fiftecn or therenbouts, I can figure up toa dot. Yon have 160 bones nul 500 musclcs ; your blood weighs - pounds; your haart is fivo iiiches in lciigth and tliree iuclus in diameter; it beats 70 times per minute; 4,200 timos per bour, Iüo.mki per dn :',r.'j--i:)u [,.■■ .,...,. .. I ■ .. .', V ■ .,. ., ljttle Qyer tu.i (iiuiirs gf l.im.t aso fchrowij out ui it, and oaoh day it reoeivoa and diaoharres about scveu tons of thut wonderful Huid. Your lvutxa wil] contain a gallon of ;iir, aijcj fpu inhale 24,000 e&Uonsper day. Tho aggregate surface oï the air cells of your luiiijs, aujjpQging t!nin to be Spread out, exceoda O.OOQ squiife r,',. . Tho weigbt of your bruin ia thrèe pounds ; k)h are ;i min it will weigh eighi ounces inore. Your nérvea execed 10,000,000 in numbor. Your skin ia coxuposed of thfep 1. íítí4 yaries from :-.■■- i'. .. -t :. to ono-cighth of an inol) in thickneas. The arca of your skin is about 1,700 sq vare inches, and you are Bubjected to an atmospherie presBurc of fifteon pounds to the square inch. : guare inoh of your skin contains 8,500 sweating tubes, or perepiratory pores eacb of hioo maj ,. Ukued toalittle draia-uie one-fourth of an inch long making an aggrogate Ungth of tho entix-i surf of your body of 201,166 foei or i tiin diteh for draining tliu body aliuost K miles Jpng]

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Old News
Michigan Argus