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Show I TimeTy Topics , M-CENT MAN A chemist analysing the chemical composition of the humsn body computes Its value at S cents. Fat for soapmaklng. Iron to mak a nail. Urn for whitewash, a speck of sulphur, a small quantity of sugar and Infinitesimal quantities of rarer and more expressive rhemlcala might be recovered from the body of "the average man." From time to time It la helpful to get this sort of an estimate. It rhecka an overplua of human egotism. But It doesn't tell more thsn a fraction of the story even from the viewpoint of th chemist. If the carbon of th man bones wer In the form of a diamond Instead of th boneblack of the laboratory test tub Its vslue would be multiplied a thousand fold If the Iron alone were made Into delicately tempered watch springs Instead of Into a crude nail It would be worth many times the 9J-rent valuation of the bodv. And so It goes with other elements thst mike a man. It Isn't the raw material value that Connie. It la the refinements and combination that make man more valuable than th mud from which Mr. Bryan says he waa derived. New York' Kvenlng World. Japaneae soldiers, w are Informed, have Increased two Inrhea In height alnce meat waa added to their diet. Probably trying to stretch up to the price. New Orleans Item. . j |