Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF.

The average number of teeth is thlr-y-two. The average weight of a skeleton is ibout fourteen pounds. The brain of a man is twioe as large is that of any other animal. A man breathes about twenty times in i minute, or 1,200 times an hour. The average of the pulse in infancy is 0 beats per minute; in manhood, hit: it 60 years, 60. A man breaches about eighteen pints >f air in a minute, or upwards of seven togsheads in a day. The average weight of an Englishuan is 150 pounds: of a Frenchman, .36 pounds; of a German, 146 pounds. A 3i an gives off 4.08 per cent, carionic acid gas of the air he respires; respires 19,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid as in twenty-four hoars, equal to 125 uclies of common air.—Loudon Answers.