Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — NEWS ABOUT YOURSELP. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ABOUT YOURSELP.

The avenge number of teeth la thtr> fcy-two. Tan average weight of a skeleton is abont fourteen pounds. The brain of a man la twice aa largt sa that of any other animal > A han breathe* about twenty times ia a minute, or 1,200 times an hour. The average of the pules In infancy is 120 beats per minute; in manhood, 80: at 60 years, 60. A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upward* of seven hogsheads In a day. The average weight of aa English, man is ISO pounds; of a Frenchman. 136 pound*; of a Gorman, 146 pounds. A man gives off 4.08 per oent oar bonio sold gas of the air he respires; respire* 19,666 ouhib feet of carbonlo sold ft as in twenty-four hours, equal to 126 aches of common air,—London Answer*.