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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOB BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., NOV. 30, 1807.
Contents of No. 22.
Washington Crossing the Delaware—illustratecLpage 169
Poetry—What the Minutes Say 170
Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding-
Chapter XIV., —original 170
Silent Influences 170
Poetry—Three Links of a Golden Chain —origi-
nal 171
A Little Lamp 171
The Giraffe—illustrated—original 171
Editorial—
A Sunday School Paper for Nothing: More
about Hunger; Use of Cat’s Whiskers; Back
Numbers, etc 172
Uncle Ollapod Talks to the Boys about Base Ball
original—illustrated 173
Poetry—The Children in Heaven 173
Harry’s Sermon 173
Poetry—The Mother’s Choice 174
Jack Dobell: or, A Boy’s Adventures in Texas —
Chapter XV.—original 174
Charley Abbott—original 175
“ If I die before I wake,” 175
Paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer 175
Plant Something 175
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 176
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BXT R KE’9 XV E E KEY.
More about Hunger.
tFEW weeks ago we told you something
about the cause of hunger, and promis
ed, in a future article to speak farther
ffjWyxi on the subject. If you will turn back
yPpJ to page 124 of the Weekly you will see
that we told you something in that
number of how the blood was nourished by the
air breathed into the lungs. The blood lias two
offices to perform: it furnishes food to the tissues,
or elementary portions of the animal fabric, and
it stimulates them into activity Unless.the tissues
possess certain vital properties they cannot be
stimulated into activity; and, when stimulated,
this activity brings about a waste which must be
repaired. If, therefore, the stimulus is applied
by the blood without equivalent nutrition, the
force is soon exhausted. The blood carries in its
current certain bodies called blood discs, which
perform the chief part in nutrition. These discs
are of two kinds —the red and the colorless. “If,”
sa, s Lewes, “ we examine the blood of a starving
man, we shall find its elementary composition to
be precisely similar to that of the same man in his
healthy state, but the proportions of that composi
tion will be greatly altered ; the discs —which have
been named the nutritive solids of the blood—are
much diminished in quantity, and ail its inorganic
(or unorganized) constituents are changed.” In
other words, the blood loses its healthy character,
becomes diseased, aud no longer possesses the
qualities necessary to its offices.
But in what way does the blood furnish nutri
ment to the tissues of the body? In itself it is in
capable of doing this —so much so, says Lewes,
“ that if it be poured on them, from the rupture of
a blood vessel, it binders nutrition, and acts like
a foreign substance.” So true is this that nature
has shut it up in a system of closed vessels, but as
it rushes along these vessels, certain of its ele
ments ooze through their delicate walls, and fur
nish a material from which the tissues are nour
ished.
A distinguished writer on physiology compares
the body to a city intersected by a vast net-work
of canals. “These canals are laden with barges
which carry to each house the meat, vegetables
and groceries needed for daily use, and while the
food is thus presented at each door, the canal re
ceives all the sewage off the houses. One house
will take one kind of meat, and another house an
other kind, while a third will let the meat pass
and take only vegetables. But as the original
stock of food was limited, it is obvious that the
demands of each house necessarily affect the sup
plies of others. This is what occurs in nutrition :
the muscles demand one set of principles, the
nerves a second, the bones a third, and each will
draw from the blood those which it needs, allow
ing the others, for which it has no need, to pass
on.”
You will see at once that the absence of food
from the system hinders the blood in its work, and
eventually, «if the supply be cut off, stops it
altogether. How long a time must elapse before
death from starvation will ensue, is dependant up
on circumstances, and the consideration of this
part of the subject will properly come up in a fu
ture article on the “ Effects of Hunger.”
In conclusion, let us say to our little readers
that these articles are necessarily short and in
complete. Our object is simply to interest and
set you to thinking and reading for yourselves.
The subject is full of interest, and will repay you
for any amount of time devoted to its study.
Southern School Books,
f F there ever was a time when it was the duty
of Southern teachers to use Southern school
books, that time is now, and we take pl eas .
tU) tire in directing attention to the very excel-
Vg lent series published by the well-established
b house of J. P. Morton k Cos., of Louisville
Ivy. It embraces Butler’s G ram mars, Readers and
Speaker, an excellent work on Composition. D
our accomplished townsman, Dr. Boxxell. presi
dent of the Wesleyan Female College, and a series
of Arithmetics and Algebras, by Professor P. A
Towxe. Os the last named books, the Hon. R
Rioiiardsox, late Superintendent of Public In
struction in Kentucky, says :
“ These books bear unmistakable traces of hav
ing been prepared by the hand of a master. The
Arithmetics, which 1 have carefully examined, I
think surpass everything of the kind ever publish
ed. If Mr. Towne will continue, in a manner at
once thoroughly scientific and practical, to make
smooth the rugged paths to knowledge of the high
er mathematics, as he has so well done in the pri
mary branches, millions of men, educated in part
through his instrumentality, will hereafter rise up
to call him blessed.”
♦<»«-
Use of the Cat’s Whiskers.
®g&AVEyou not often noticed the whiskers
Or" on a cat’s upper lip, and wondered whe
ther they were for use or ornament? We
v'o dare sa y a g rea t many of our little
M G readers do not know that they are of the
utmost importance to all animals of the
eat kind. They are organs of touch, and are at
tached to a bed of close glands under the skin,
each of these long hairs being connected with the
nerve ©f the lip. The slightest contact of these
whiskers with any surrounding object is thus feit
most distinctly by the animal, although the hairs
themselves are insensible. They stand out on
each side of the lion as well as in the common cat,
so that, from point to point, they are equal to the
width of the animal’s body. If we imagine, there
fore, a lion stealing through a covert of woods, in
an imperfect light, we shall at once see the use ot
these long hairs. They indicate to him, through
the nicest feeling, any obstacle which may present
itself to the passage of his body ; they prevent the
rustle of boughs and leaves, which would give
warning to his prey if he were to attempt to pass
through too close a bush; and thus, in conjunc
tion with the soft cushions of his feet, and the fur
u i on which he treads (the retractile* claw comes
in contact with the ground,) they enable him to
move towards his victim with a stillness even
greater than that of the snake which creeps along
the grass, and is not pierceived until he is coiled
round his prey.
* Capable of being drawn back,
**4-
Winter.
When you hear the shrill winds of winter blow
ing among the leafless trees, bless God for kind
friends, warm clothes, and a comfortable home,
and have a kindly thought fur those who are b.-»
fortunate, remembering the words ot Holy
“ He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Loid.
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