Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — PHYSIOLOGICAL. [ARTICLE]

PHYSIOLOGICAL.

Bearded women have been very nunevous. The most noted of the number was the famous Margaret of Austria. appointed by Charles V. to b® Governor of the Netherlands. She had a long, stiff, black beard, and conceiving the 4 idea that it added to the majesty of.her- appearance, was very careful of it, and so combed and trained it as to make It seem much greater than It was. The apparatus for keeping the eye moist is complex and efficient. It con> prises the lachrymal gland, which secretes the tears, the lachrymal caruncle, a small fleshy body at the inner angle of the eye; the puncta lachrymae, two snia 7 openings at the nasal extremity of the eyelids, the lachrymal ducts, which convey the tears tht uose, and the lachrymal sax*, a dilatlo® of the canal. An idea of the Importance of the perspiratory glands may be gained fron their number. On the back, breast and 'egs there are about 500 to the square. Inch; on the neck, face and back of th* hands, about 1,000; on,the palm 6f the hand, about 2,700. The total number in the human body is estimated at 2»‘ 300,000, and If the mijiute tubes were straightened, their total length would Oe over two and- a half miles. They form the sewerage or the human sy? tern. The must remarkable Instance of rapid growth was recorded by the French Academy in 1729. It was a boy 6 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches In height. At the age of 5 his voice changed, at t his beard had grown, and ne appeared a man of 80. He possessed great physical strength, and conld easily lift to his shoulders and carry bags of grain weighing 200 pounds; H!« decline waa fts rapid as his growth- At 8 his hall and beard were gray;-at 10 he tottered In his walk, his teeth fell out, and hla hands became palsied; at 12 he died with every outward sign of exl-M-tu® ok' igo.