OCR Text |
Show ZZZJZIZIZZZZII It is estimated that there are more than 33,333,000 deaths a year in this old world n faTirli' ours" fne fie111"63 mae one wonder to . iTJ.JLtJ.i3i. .jus yftia.t extent nature uses again the par- q Jji( tides which go to make up the human form. Estimating the average weight at ArG 150 pounds, nearly 5,000,000,000 pounds ' . . of matter is thus returned to earth annu- 111 JO GO. til ally. And this process will go on in in creasing ratio just as long as the human - race continues to increase. That a portion jj By F. H. RICHARDSON of thfi numan form evaporates into gas and EZZZIIS is blown wherever the wind may go is unquestionable. un-questionable. It follows that it is quite possible that particles of matter which were a part of the earthly body of Alexander the Great may to-day be present in our city of Chicago j may even be incorporated in your body and mine, i Matter is used over and over by nature. To-day it is a cabbage, to-morrow a part of a human body; in a few years perhaps it passes into & flower or isincorporated into a sturdy oak. which is hewn down, sawed I into boards and made into the finish of a room. Then, too, in addition to the enormous tribute to mother nature I through death, the human body renews itself every seven years, we are told. In other words, the human body actually dies every seven years, which adds another 650,000,000 (nearly) pounds of matter which human-I human-I ity annually contributes to the uses of nature. j Of course, such a subject as this is to some extent grewsome, but it is nevertheless interesting. The average death rate is computed to be practically one every second of time. cj Every time the clock beats a human soul passes into the great beyond. 5 Truly, in the midst of life we are in death. |