Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — The Wonders of the Body. [ARTICLE]

The Wonders of the Body.

“ How many bones have I in my who.e body, mother ? asked Charlie one day. Charlie was washing his hands at that moment, and as he washed them lie kept opening and shutting them, and Twisting them about in all sorts of wavs; and as he did this he couldn’t help seeing that the hand was not one singlo piece, but was made up of a good many pieces. And from that he began to feel his head and his body, and to look at his feet and legs, and he saw that he was all made up of little pieces. That was what led him to ask the question.* 44 You would be surprised if I should tell you,” answered his mother; “will you try to remember?” “Yes’m, indeed I will,” said he. “Just let me see if I can guess —as many as fifty, I do believe.” “ More than that,, my son—two hundred and eight.” “Two hnndred and eight! I can hardly believe it. There’s one great sound one for my head, and—” 44 Stop, my dear. Instead of that great round one, it takes thirty small bones to make a head. Then there are fifty-four in the body, thirty-two from the shoulder to the finger-tips, and thirty from the thigh tothe ends cf the toes. The hand Is a most wonderful little machine, and so is the foot. See how you can move them about. How many things they will do for you 1 I hope you will never let your hand or foot, or any other part of this body, which God has so wonderfully and beautifully made, he used to commit sin.— Child's Own.