Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — HUMAN HEART WORKS HARD [ARTICLE]

HUMAN HEART WORKS HARD

Vital Qrgan of Mankind Can Be Keyer Up to an Energy That —y— is Astounding. It is an astonishing fact that the average heart - beats 36,000.000 strokes every 12 months, working, resting or sleeping. In that period it does work sufficient to fire with their present velocity a dozen of the largest projectiles that were used in the war, or to lift a light cruiser clean out of the water, says London Tit-Bits. If such is the ehergy of a single man’s heart, what is the aggregate force of 3,000,000 men In heartbeats? If It were concentrated into one explosion it would be sufficient to destroy utterly the Kiel canal. Such an explosion, operating in a moment of time, has never been engineered by man, although nature has exceeded it many times in her volcanic energies. To put it another way, the hearts of 3,000,000 men force a river of blood. 900 feet wide and six .feet deep, over a course of seven miles in a single hour, and in the course of a day as far as from Liverpool to Ealnhurgh, and in a week as far as from Paris to Constantinople.