Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — Not Appropriate. [ARTICLE]

Not Appropriate.

Not many Sundays ago a South Side Sunday-school was invited to participate in a union service with another school a few blocks away, and formed line, with the superintendent at the head, and marched out of doors singing the superintondent’s favorite hymn, ‘Hold the Fort.” Bystanders stopped, and every one looked on the beautiful sight of the proud superintendent marshaling his handsome cohorts of caroling children up the street. Their singing charmed all hearers, too, but when they struck the second stanza— Sec the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on—somebody snickered, and the superintendent dropped back to the rear to speak to the tutor of the infant class.— Buffalo Courii-r.

The workings of the human heart have been computed by a celebrated physiologist, and he has demonstrated that it is equal to the lifting of 129 tons in twenty-four hours. Presuming that the blood is thrown out of the heart at each pulsation in the proportion of sixty-nine strokes per minute, and at the assumed force of nine feet, the mileage of the blood through the body might be taken as 207 yards per minute, seven miles per hour, 168 miles per day, 61,320 miles per year, or 5,150,880 miles in a lifetime of eighty-four years. The number of beats of the heart in the same long life would reach the enormous total of 2,869,776, (U'O! 1