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Some of the Curious Facts Re
corded by Physiologists
THE PHENOMENA OF SOUND
Squeals of Mice and the Lowest Notes
of an Organ Are Inaudible to Some
Persons Peculiarities of the Deli
cate Sense of Smell
If you shade the eyes you weaken
your sense of hearing Try it with a
watch and the result will surprise you
If you sip a glass of cold water you
will increase for a short time your
power of vision If you fill the mouth
with water you will greatly strength
en your sense of smell
Many similar curious facts about the
senses are told by physiologists
There Is a multitude of sounds made
In the world every day for instance
which we cannot hear however close
they may be Every sound must last a
certain time In order to be heard by
the ear If It is an extremely feeble
sound it must last quite two seconds
or we cannot hear it But no matter
how long it lasts we cannot hear it if
It is a very low or a very high note
Extremely small animals emit such
high notes that we never hear them
Some people cannot even hear the
squeal of mice The lowest notes of
an organ are mere rumbling noises to
most people and some cannot hear
them at all
It is by means of the external ear we
judge the direction from which sound
comes Stand facing a clock place
your hands In front of your ears with
the palms turned back close your eyes
you will then think the clock is behind
you
Why can some animals smell more
keenly thanotbers It is a question of
the space within the nose capable of
smelling In man this space is very
small less than one fourth of a square
inch In dogs and most mammals it
is very much larger The porpoise has
no sense of smell Then comes man
and also the monkeys whales and all
kinds of fowl and birds with very
feeble smelling power When peo
ple talk of vultures scenting dead
bodies they make a mistake Lions
tigers wolves etc can scent them at
Jong distances but vultures depend on
their sense of sight
The sense of smell is exceedingly del
icate If one ounce of musk were di
vided Into 15000000000 parts one of
these infinitesimal parts would be per
ceptible by the average persons nose
On the other hand many people have
no power to smell some substances
such as mignonette vanillajviolets and
prussic acid
Taste is curious in the fact that dif
ferent parts of the tongue appreciate
different flavors At the tip we per
ceive sweet tastes best at the sides
acid tastes and at the back bitter
tastes Substances must be dissolved
in order to be tasted and a dry morsel
in a dry mouth has no flavor This is
why smokers cannot taste well Theli
mouth glands which manufacture sa
liva are paralyzed by the tobacco
Very hot or very cold things are scarce
ly tasted at all If you want to get
the best flavor from your food it must
be at some temperature between 5G
and 95 degrees
Every one knows how easily the
sense of sight is deceived by optical
puzzles But a curious deception is
practiced on us all throughout our
lives and no one ever perceives it
There is a blind spot in the eye where
the optic nerve enters In everything
we look at therefore there is a little
gap where we see nothing But no one
is aware of it because it has been the
case since we first opened our eyes
In estimating distance we judge by
the experience we gain in walking
The eye itself cannot judge distances
A near hill and a distant mountain
will each form an image of the same
size on the eye We know the moun
tain is farther away than the hill be
cause there are more intervening ob
jects But we can often make an esti
mate of distance in a curious way by
the muscles of the eyeball In order
to focus a near object we must bulge
the lens and to focus a distant object
we must flatten the lens The amount
of muscular labor used in doing this
gives us an idea of the distance of the
object
than in light clothing All black things
in fact appear smaller than white
things of the same size An image re
mains on the eye for some time after
looking at an object If tin thing te
very bright the image remains 1 Urns
time and sometimes if yru look direct
ly at the sun you will carry the image
of it around with yni for days
Color hlird i tlefp fjve
musical sti r Thtv liferent
notes and e tonfusion of
green blind po nlp differs from the
confusion of red IMvd people Colors
strengthen the -- of tste Iel ip
pies and tomrstM tnl srrwlurrp
and green pi kle taste better than the
selfsame vegetables and fruit when
they are paler
e or leeung we nave i variety of
nerves Some spots on the s in feel
pain some warmth soine cold and
some simple touch The tip of the
finger has a much better sense of
touch than the forearm or the cheek
-But the cheek and the forearm are far
better judges of heat In the white
f the eye we can feel neither touch
heat nor cold only pain alone but the
red lining of the eyelids can feel
scarcely anything but cold The
mouth as every one knows can enjoy
tea or colRe at a temperature that
-would give great pain to the bands or
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HIS NINE CHEESES
An Old Time New England Story of
Stingy Parson
Anecdotes In which the mean and
grasping man is outwitted or held up
to ridicule are popular everywhere and
always Few ancient towns are with
out their historic or traditional in
stances of stinginess punished or sharp
practice defeated In one village of
New England says the Youths Com
panion there is still current such a tale
concerning an unpopular parson of
more than a century ago
Although a learned man of impress
ive manners this clergyman was noted
for undue reluctance to expend and
readiness to acquire He had a habit
of pleading poverty and hinting for
gifts
The parish although with some mur
muring had responded with fuel for
his kitchen bay for his horse Thanks
giving turkeys for his table and a
subscription cloak of black satin for
his wife when her wedding manteau
became shabby The murmurs in
creased when it was found that the
parson turned an honest but over-
shrewd penny by selling instead of
using many of these donations But
they were not loud enough to disturb
his stately calm and he went his way
without condescending to notice them
At last however fortune played him
trick for trick
One pleasant winter day he made a
round of calls and at each house
when just about to leave he casually
asked his hostess if she could let him
have a little piece of cheese as his
wife happened to have none in the
house and unexpected company had
arrived In each case the good house
wife Instead of a little piece generous
ly presented him with a whole cheese
which he graciously accepted As he
turned from the door stone at the close
of the last visit while the mother of
the family and her brood of nine chil
dren stood politely gathered to watch
him drive away he carelessly pulled
the wrong rein the sleigh tipped
sharply on a drift and out from under
the ministerial lap robe rolled nine
large cheeses which spun friskly away
In all directions on the icy crust
His hostess understood the situation
at a glance
Dont disturb yourself pray sir
she said politely as be made a motion
to descend It is quite unnecessary
The children will gather them up and
none will be overburdened or will
there be any quarreling for the priv
ilege See it is just a cheese to a
child
So it was and the embarrassed par
son unable to escape was obliged to
receive back his cheeses with due
thanks to each giggling volunteer as
they came up in gleeful procession one
by one
Too well he knew that by the next
day the whole parish would be laugh
ing at his misadventure although he
could scarcely have guessed that the
joke would be recalled a hundred
years later
Natures Cunning
Protective mimicry that cunning de
vice of nature to preserve animals
from their enemies is well known in
the eggs of certain fishes notably the
California shark known as Gyropleu
rodus franciscL The shark Is of a
sluggish habit lurking among rocks
and its dark egg resembles a leaf of
kelp or seaweed folded up spirally It
is deposited among the beds of kelp
and clings to the leaves by the edges
of the spirals The young shark bursts
open the end of the egg and swims
away Another sharks egg of the Pa
cific coast has tentacles which clasp the
seaweed and also imitate its appear
ance
Mozart and Bretzner
When Mozart was at the height of
his fame he composed the music of
Bretzners Belmont und Konstanze
The Abduction From the Seraglio
at the request of Emperor Joseph II
The author of the drama was so angry
at this that he inserted the following
notice in the Leipziger Zeitung A
certain fellow of the name of Mozart
has dared to misuse my drama Bel
mont und Konstanze for an opera
text I hereby solemnly protest against
this invasion of my rights and I re
serve to myself further procedures
Signed Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
Author of Rausch chen
Long Necked Belles
Eastern standards of beauty differ
like the customs from those of the
A man seems much thinner in dark west In Malacca we are told the
small waist and velvet eyes do not
count but instead the length of the
neck is the criterion of beauty The
girl of Malacca at a very early age
is fitted with a metal collar which
compels her to keep her head erect and
as she grows the collar is increased in
size and by this means the neck is
gradually elongated
Quite Enough
I should think youd go slow said
the cautious friend You know as
Lincoln said you can fool all the peo
ple some of the time and some of the
people
Thats all right Interrupted the
sharper but I find its always pos
sible to fool enough of the people
enough of the time Philadelphia
Press
The Worst of It
Suffragette Lecturer Yes my sis
ters man has tyrannized over us op
pressed us abused us maltreated us
scorned us ridiculed us and Ancient
Maiden In audience Yes and what
isjyvorse he never married us Kansas
City Independent
Lots of people fool dollars away
and then bowl that the reason they
dont get rich is that no one gives
them a chance Atchison Globe
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MAN SHOULD NOT DIE
There Is No Physiological Reason
For Death
THE BODY IS SELF RENEWING
Perfect Diet and Mode of Living Would
Insure Exact Balance Between
Bodily Waste and Renewal and
Would Mean Physical Immortality
The last enemy that shall be de
stroyed Is death said the Scriptures
yet if some man attempted seriously
to reassert this ancient truth today we
would look upon him as a mad prophet
indeed Yet the time will come when
men will be able to believe this prom
ise of the Bible although they may
never see it literally fulfilled
Death some day will be acknowl
edged to be as unnatural in the econ
omy of the creative plant as are sin
and suffering But whether or not In
some millennium period mortal man
will be able to forego the gross proc
ess of physical dissolution in becom
ing a spiritual body is a purely meta
physical question that does not enter
here What does interest us is the
question occupying the greatest scien
tific minds today whether the body as
such cannot be retained in perfect con
dition indefinitely
William A Hammond one of the
great Yiuthoritles answers it by say
ing There is no physiological reason
why man should die
Thomas J Allen M A LL D writ
ing in a similar strain says The hu
man body is not like a machine which
must wear out by constant disintegra
tion for it is self renewing It is a
simple scientific fact that we get an
entirely new body every few years
estimated at from three to seven
Every day is a birthday for the proc
ess of waste and renewal never ceases
Perfect balance betwen elimination
and renewal would avoid permanent
waste
There is no doubt that when we be
come more enlightened and understand
perfectly the laws that govern and de
termine our physical lives and when
we conform to these religiously life
will be immeasurably prolonged
The decay of the body as evidenced
in old age is unnatural The aesthetic
within us recoils in merely contemplat
ing its approach We feel that there
must be something self perpetrative In
the change when the strong color in a
healthy man and the fresh beauty in a
pure woman take their departure
when the bloom on the cheeks fade
when the brilliant light within the eyes
grows dim and the full red lips become
pale and fallen
Medical science has pointed out the
physiological cause of these conditions
Probably the time will come when it
will be able to point out the manner of
avoiding them
We know that the body grows old be
cause of the existence of an imperfect
balance between the waste which the
body accumulates and the amount it is
able to throw off During youth the
balance is perfect because the body
has more than its normal vitality and
strength to throw off the waste matter
but as we grow older this perfect bal
ance becomes destroyed from one cause
or another
The strength that should go to elimi
nating impurities from the body is not
husbanded but rather squandered in
different ways Then too we eat and
drink those things that cause excessive
waste An impure diet composed of
foods containing uric acid such as
meat or of drinks containing poisons
such as tea and coffee taxes the elimi
native poAvers and when the time
comes when these give way a state of
Imperfect elimination has set in and the
wastes in part are deposited in the sys
tem settling in the arteries and joints
of- the body and accumulating until
they become obstructive elements
The blood stream circulates imper
fectly and when once this condition
exists bad functioning of every organ
of the body results and old age and
death gradually ensue
Mind too has a great deal to do in
hastening or retarding the unpleasant
signs of physical decay Mental sci
ence has satisfactorily demonstrated
that mean narrow selfish and unpleas
ant thoughts act destructively on the
tissues of the body while thoughts of a
wholesome and positive character act
constructively
And when the curtains of the win
dows of the soul are drawn when the
temples door is closed and a final si
lence is within when the spirit passes
the threshold to take up a newer and
finer edifice of its own creation science
assures us that the body lives on
Here at least physical immortality is
an assured fact
Theology has irreligiously taught u
that the body returns to inanimate
dust The religious answer of science
is that it returns to God The latest
word in the field of biology is that all
nature including the all mother soil
is animated and hallowed with the di
vine principle of life
More than this matter is indestructi
ble and eternal There is not an atom
that can be lost in all the universe
For this reason our bodies do not really
die They are in the care of the angels
of the elements
The peculiar cellular arrangement
that formed them into a beauttful body
may be caused to disintegrate through
the action of the oxygen upon it time
may change the position of the atoms
composing it but the latter still con
tain within themselves the sacred and
eternal principle of life as much ns
does the soul and they exist only to
enter Into new and perhaps more beau-
jtiful combinations of life Health
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A- BAD PLAN OF TRAVEL
The Scheme That Worried One Woman
on Her Trip Abroad
When I hear of people joyfully mak
ing plans for their first trip abroad
said a man who has made many n
transatlantic voyage I am tempted to
give them a little bit of advice based
of course on my own observations but
particularly upon a remark made to
me by a middle aged woman whose
seat in the saloon was next to mine on
my return trip last summer This wo
man had a husband and it was to him
that she referred In answering my
question one day I asked her what
she had been doing on the other side
She looked half quizzically half re
proachfully at her spouse and said
Well my principal occupation was
trying to keep track of John
It developed that her concern was
not over what John might do In Euro
pean capitals but simply related to
the difficulty each had In meeting the
other after pursuing their several
ways in a strange city she to browse
among the shops and he an inveterate
sightseer to visit this that and the
other spot of interest Their general
scheme as I was Informed was to di
verge say in the morning following
their respective bents and arranging
to meet at a certain place at a certain
time The plan sounds feasible but it
is experimental and as both of them
found it was an experiment that didnt
work well First one would be delayed
and then the other and if you have
ever waited for a person in a foreign
city you can appreciate the particular
variety of anxiety that comes in about
ten minutes Theres a feeling that
something has happened to the missing
person for one thing and for another
theres an increasing realization that
you yourself are wasting time If you
start out to look up the delinquent the
case becomes practically hopeless The
needle in the haystack is easy com
pared to that search When the re
union doea come at dinner time in the
hotel or pension explanations are re
ceived with tears or haughty disdain
Oh I know Ive been through it
New York Press
A Kaleidoscope of Fashions
For my part I commend a quick
changing fashion and could I have
chosen my period would have fixed on
the fickle years of the first empire
when fashions shifted from week to
week and that too with such fine
shades of difference that only the most
frivolous could follow them Then the
great conqueror brought to Paris finery
from thu ends of the earth muslins
from India garlands of roses from
Bengal stuffs shining with gold and
silver from Cairo from Turkey of
course turbans and from the far east
shawls shawls from Kashmir from
Persia and from the Levant shawls
particolored blue bright blue and red
and green and black and the clear
yellow of the sun shawls patterned
with all the Interfacings of Asian ca
price and fit not only to hang from the
shoulders of the fair but to give a
coquette of eastern fancy day long
visions of the orieut From the past
for all time as well as all the earth
was then Napoleons came the fashion
of the troubadours chapeaux a Cre
neaux sleeves a la mameluk cheveux
a lenfant lending to a very modern
period who can say what charming
Gothic airs How do not such revolu
tions of fashion enlarge the feminine
heart and teach it to live in all ages
and all climates -Atlantic
-Lucy M Donnelly in
The Adored One
He Is a confirmed bachelor In fact
his attitude toward women is almost
that of a mysogynist His particular
bete noire is a new acquaintance of his
sister Miss Blank
He met her in the street the other
day and seeing no way out of it stop
ped and spoke to her She saw how he
was fidgeting to get away and said
You seem very preoccupied Ah I
know You are thinking of the one
you adore
I adore no one was his stiff re
joinder
You cant deceive me I know yotf
are deeply in love Besides your sis
ter showed me a photo of the object of
your devotion only last night It isnt
a type I admire But there every one
to his taste I wont tell any one
Goodby
And before he could reply she was
gone
When he reached home he said to his
sister
What girls photo did you show Miss
Blank last night
Not any The only photo I showed
her was one of yourself
Then it dawned upon him what Miss
Blank was driving at London Scraps
Automatic Salt Works
About a hundred miles north of
Lima near the town of Huacho is one
of the great curiosities of nature a
salt factory on an automatic plan
When the tide comes in it fills a lot of
shallow basins and the water is pre
vented from flowing back into the sea
by closing the gates The atmosphere
is so dry that the water evaporates
rapidly and leaves a sediment of salt
in an almost pure state which Is scrap
ed up packed into sacks and shipped
to market Within the coast a little
farther the percolation of sea water
through the porous rocks Into pits and
hollows has caused immense deposits
of salt to accumulate The salt is
taken out in blocks six or eight inches
square and sold in that form As soon
as he salt is excavated the water
comes in again and In a year or two
has solidified and Is ready for the mar
ket Wells driven Into the sand dis
close strongly impregnated water at a
depth of twenty five feet which seems
to Jje a great deal heavier than the sea
water and Is drawn off Into vats for
evaporation
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