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Show Marvelous Energy in Human Heart Genlus Has Project by Which He Hopes to Run Wife's Sewing Machine While He Enjoys the Smoke of Good Cigar. I have acquaintance ot a genius who Is making a dellcato apparatus for employing em-ploying to practical purposes his heart beats. Believing that tho human heart Is tho most powerful mechanism Ood over created, ho wants to use it to run his wife's sowing machine, in ndldtlon to maintaining his circulation. Tho normal heart beat 1b 72 to the minute In '&o healthy adult. This man, by smoking a strong cigar, can Increase In-crease his pulsation to 140 a minute without Injury or nny derangement of health, and will uso his electric apparatus, ap-paratus, which is quite sensitive, to opcrnto a small motor. "Tho hydraulic ram was constructed on the principle of the heart rictlon," ho says; "therefore why not use my extra excitement for tho benoflt of the home clrclo? My wife objects to cigars, ci-gars, but If I can run her sowing mn- chlno by laying back In an armchair and taking an occasional whiff I'm sure sho will relent." Tho cause of tho heart beat Is the most Interesting study to which man could possibly dovoto himself. Wo now "learn" that radium Is at the bottom bot-tom of it. Tho general public aro bo little acquainted ac-quainted with anatomy, chemistry, surgery, medicine, etc., -in all their ramifications that any sort of yarn faked up by a clover reporter, Is accepted ac-cepted as solemn fact. Ambassador Bold twenty years ago developed a most amazing appetite for articles about rare surgical operations, and ono of his bright young men filled tho Tribune with such astounding tnlcs that tho whole world stood aghast. Tho reporter hnd Just enough anatomical or surgical lore to make his' stories "deep" to tho masses, Mr. Bold always marked thom "Must." which gave precedence over nny other mattor In the local news columns. Now York Press. |