Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF.

The average number of teeth is tbtr fcr-two. The average weight of a skeleton i» •bout fourteen pounds. The brain of a man Is twice as largx as that of any other animal. A man breathes about twenty times i» a minute, or 1,200 times an hour. The average of tin pulse in infancy ri 120 beats per minute; in manhood, 80: at 60 years, 60. A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upwards of seven hogsheads in a day. The average weight of an English man Is 160 pounds; of a Frenchman. 136 pounds; of a German, 146 pounds. A man gives off 4.08 per cent, carbonic acid gas of the air he respires; respires 19,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid gas In twenty-four ho rs, equal to 12E inches of common air.—London Answers