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Show hundred millionth part of a grain of musk. No chemical analysis can detect such minute quantities. The most powerful microscope would not render a particle ten thousand times as large, visible. We could not taste it were it many thousand times, as large. While we taste liquid, we can smell only gases. Fill your nostrils with eau de cologne, andj you will experience no odor whatever. Fine as our sense of smell is, it has deteriorated, immensely im-mensely since the time when our forefathers were wild men. . The Calmucks can smell an encamp-, ment miles away; the Peruvians can distinguish all the South ! American races by their odor. But smell is a sense highly jsusceptble of cultivation even bv the modern white man. Dealers in tea, spice, perfumes and drus, inconsequence of their training, can distinguish the faintest differences differ-ences in odors. i The taste nerves in the physical system are paralyzed by very hot ocvery cold liquids. After drink-'3e drink-'3e very hot or ice cold water we EaId not taste even such a substance as quinine. This fact - supplies a useful hint for consum- j ss cf ill flavored medicines. ! iEieli. though the least . useful, '; ' the most delicate of all our tsciiea. We can smell the three |