etme. lla Bins BE

ou : _ a. ee —_—

The aidotibaiens of Man.

Wonders, at home, by fauaiuilrivy, cease to excite astonishme net. Hence it hay ppe ns 5 Wha many know but little, ‘house we live in ’—the hu-! man bo is. “We look upon a house from the outside just as a whole or umt—. - thinking of the many rooms, the ' and the ingenious in- | So we look |

about the

neve curl ious pe: assage S. jernal arrangements of it.

upon the wonderful structure of 4 man | —the harmony and adaptation of all) his paris.

In the human skeleton, about the time are one hundred and sixty- The muscles are about five hundredinpumber. ‘The length of the alimentary canal is about thirty-twe feet. The amount of blood in an adult! averages thirty pounds, or one- fifth " the antire weight.

The heart is six inches in length and) four inches in diameter, and beats seven-| Ly Limes pes ADA Le, four thousand, two hubdved times pershour; one headred | th fasand, eight hanedred times Ps day > thirty-six million, seven. hundred and | seventy-two thousand, two. hundred | times per year; two. billion, six hund¥ed | and seventy-five million, four hundred | and forty thousand times in three-score- and-ten years; and ateac h beat two and! a half ounces of blood are thrown out of it; one hundred; and seventy-tive ounees per minute, six hundred and fifty-six pounds per hour; seven and three-quarters tons per day. ‘All the blood in the body passes through the heart in three minutes.

The lungs will Goniain about one gal lon of air at their usual degree of infla- tion. We breathe, on an average, one thousand two handred times per hour, and inhale six hundred gallons of air, or 24,000 gallons. per day. The

aggregate sitriace of the air célls of the lungs exceeds twenty thousnad square inche#—an akea very nearly equal Boy the Moor of ‘& rédom twelve feet square.

The average weight of the brain of an adult male is three pounds and eight oungés'j of a female; two pounds ‘and four ounces. The nerves are all con- nected with it, diréétly; er by the spinal marrow... Chese nerves, together with their branches and minute ramifications, probably-exceed ten millions in number —furming a “body guard” outnampber- ing by far the greatest army; over

murshaled.

The skin is composed of three layers, and varies from one-fourth to one- eighth of an inch in_ thickness. area.in an adult is estimated to be two hundred square inches. The atmos pherie pressure’ being about fourteen pounds to the, square “inch, a person of medium size is subject toa pressure of forty thousand pounds.

Each square. inch of skin® contains threé*thousand five hundred sweating tubes. or perspiratory pores, each of which may be likened to. a litthe drain- tile one-fourth of an inch long—making an aggregate length of the “entire sur- face of the body, of two hundred and one thousand, one hundred and sixty- six feet, or a tile ditch for draining the body almost forty miles long. Man is marvellously made. Hew ho is eager to investigate the eupious, to witness the wonderful works “of Omnipotent Wisdom, let him not wander the wide world around toseek thempbutexamine himself. “The proper stady of man- kind is man.”

of maturity, five bones.

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How They Make Pins.

A snappish, voracious little dwarf ot a machine pulls in the wire, bites it off by inches incessantly, one-hundred and forty bites a inutesand just it seizes if each bité, a little hammer, With a ¢con- cave face, hits the end of the wire three taps, and * upsets ”’ it toa head, while he grips it-im a countersink held be- tween his teeth, and lays it sideways in a groove, where levers apd springs, playing lightning,-point the pin, and whence they «are dropped into @ box. The pins are then polished, and” two very intelligent machines reject every crooked — pin. Another Automaton assorts inl’ a. dozen lengtlisy and al perfect genius of & machine hange the pins by the head, and transfers “them to slips of paper; and by one movetiént f sticks them ail through two corrugated ridges in the paper, when the work is| finished.

The pin machine is ore of the nearest approaches to the dexterity of the human hand that has’ been invented. It is about the size of a sew ing machine, w bich it closdly resen@Kesi.§ OT F400

panei’ ty

Simpkins playfally remarked to his wife that Le had four fools: beautifoply4 dutifool,. yeuthfool, and «delightiool ‘ Poor mo!" saidshe 1- have bat] one.” mabe

—_~ >

~ + Aerie — eae = —_— _--

lis aver age}

Motner.—Now, Gertie, be a Aaa girl, and give Aunt Salis! a kiss, ‘send

say ‘goadan'g vt.” Gerrre!—No, mio! Ff “T. kits ° her, ene'il box my ears, like she did rapes

Jast night.”

0 lly |

20;

We Will Offer on Saturday

the 5 oa hh bmstee

THE BALAN

OF OUR SPL!

|'

Next,

CHE

INDID STOCK OF

Black and Cslored Dress Conds,

Cashmeres. Preneh Meris Persian Cerds, Paramait Beppe, Poplins Eustres, € obaras, etc.,

at cost.

PECIAL LOT OF

Serges,

208,

a airs

| ;

iply, with bianks, will be se at free.

FANCY BRESS COODS!,

at:hali price.

Balance of Ladies’ trimmed |

Eats, at half price.

-

Pbk ry of. AMAW ool Shaw! iss!

a a. cost.

¢

A Special Lot Seing at halt

niance of Ladies’

less. Jackets i PRICE,

A Lot of Ladies Hoisery, |

Ay COST.

‘THE BALANCE OF LADIES’ ULSTERS

—+AND-

WATERPRUG Ln

AT HAL PRIGE

THE B BALANCE AIL)

AT. COST

SPECIAL LOT,

BED QUILTS |

defies, GS cts. oie $1.08 ench, »

The Balance Red, White and Flannels at Gost,

Balance All-

at the follo Fr Yaues :—— Patrs for $495. worth $5

$7.00,

THE. BALANCE OF CLeTn RUBBER OVERSHOES

Mens’ Plain, $1.10 per pair 5. Fancy, $1.20 per Ladies’ Plain, 85 * cts. per pair ; 7

ee ; Faney, $1.00 "per pair.

868 DOZ.

Special Lings, — 4 cts., § cis., 12 cts. e: chy “bargain, re

Sk EETINGS AT cost!

Clothing Department,

The Balance of Men's Reefers, Top Coats and Usiers,

AY THE FOLLOWING RATES’:

Ree fers for Fi %. 08, worth $4,753 s $5.

worta $ cares S $6.60, worth

Top Coats for Seae7 3,

$5.7 é >t ‘ Bh. 1. W orih $7.25 3 ’ * worth $11.95.

Ulsters for Si. 58, worth $9, 60; ! orth Sie; Ste, 50,

$5,580, We Wworen S42 98.

The Balanes of Boys’ Glo

53 AT A GREAT i BARG, ALN,

& LOT OF

MEN'S: ALL-WO0L FLAWNEL SHIRES,

For $1.25, srortl- $1.79. | 4 itd BALANCE oF Buffalo and Woif Hebes,

rr)

skin Coats, Ladies’ Far:

‘ufls ante Manties, .

ATP COST.

Black eh Gelered: Silks, at Gost

- LOT OF

FANCY & JAPANESE SILKS |

: AT HALL-PRICE,

“

The Balange of thet?

of Decergher, iz

Rich a ae Y? TAPESTRY, WODLS;

: _.. FELTS. rem [ We wus pak a s speriien,cf the ° CARPET DEPARTMENT

a & valibing sa- |

:

aiid al eee

tisfs , and eve ry *O

p oe si of the cee as the stock

Lo umriv alled for its value, hls a tel atidertent)"

ato,

DAVIES &

January 3rd, 1878.

Wosl § Clouds, Bre: rk fest Shaw Is, Sleeve- rid | Sueques, av HALy

WAY RUGS |

-¥0al Blakes,

BOY $4. 50 wéeth 36.00 ; $5.00° worth 36.50: #5.25 worth |

TOWELS |

| Price. |

carts, |

Z |

Fane Cy

AND g°83

20 cts.

fr pey

$7 3 worth $9.75 ds

a

coon

$ 4

4

000 Y ARDS. OF CAR} PUT, ady ertivedl duping we month

je inter, Express,

~

Eo:

we 6 2

C0,

=O CE Dec,

iwhich has been found t » due | ment. W rite ult history a service and state} j}ameunt ¢ f pay rod boun ity rec Sad. Certificates a i ij itant Ge acral oe showing seivice sd honorable discharge there- from, in place of discharge lost, procured tor 2 | smali fee. ;

“a be Sold TUBSDAY, the 12th day of FEBRUARY,

“by the Committee. _ T+ ror ies } " Det} 27+-t# ‘3 ‘ ait (TR:

seep ee reer ta

American & Foreign Patents

ew ere

Gilmore, Sufith & Co., Successors to Chi ywal,

Hosmer’& Co.

tae ue chia Sai No fews |

in advance. No charge for services until the |

I alent is granted. T’reliminary examinations ree, Our valuable panphiet seat free upon re

ivipt of stamp. t i

Address, GILMORE, SMITH & CU., W ashiegton, D. 0 ARREARS OF PAY, BOUNTY, ETC.

PEDERAL Officers, Soldiers and Sailors of the: late war, or their heirs, are in Maoy | | CaAes € atitied to money a m the Gover © meat, | ince fiaal pay- |

iiuclose stamp to Gilmore & Co., and full re-

~~ -~, ef . , PENSIONS) PENSIONS. LL Federal Officers, Soldiers aad Sailors, | % Wounded, ru; tured, or injured, in the line | Sitduty iu ye ye war, aod dusabled tyere by}.

* a ap

c omen ERA lors, W have died side discharge of disease contracted or wounds and injuries re ceived in the service and in the line of duty, can} procure pensions by addressing Gilmore & Co,

[ogrensed rates ‘for pensioners Ubtaindd. Boutty Laod Ww arrants procured for service in Avars prioy to March 3,i1855. There are mo war- rants granted forservige in thedate rebellionl (>!

fend stamp to Gilmore & Co., Washington D.C. full iustructions.

| | July34 i977. *) _

MORTGAGE ‘SALE,

by “PUBLI AO ‘TION, oe8

1878 at the Court House in ( harivttetown, at thehour gf ¥2 o'clock, n00a, of the. same dhy, under and) by virtue of a Power of Sale con- tained in a certain Indenture of Mortgage, dated the 3rd day ot January, 1860, sud made betweea Prrer! McIsnis and Mary hjs wife, ot?the.oné art, and Joun Kyicur, now deceased, of the ither part — “All that Piece and Parcel ofLand belie. partof ,Townsbip oe, 45, aod situtuated: near*flre bead of souris-Rit er, bounded of’ the west and north by land then n occupation ot Donald) McCormack, then fin the possessiod of Angus McDénafd, and on the south by Souris River—containing fifty- | e acres oflaed, being the farm thea and uotil ely,in occupati A the . seid Peter Mrloa Attar witha? th nitditgs te aay cies ances connected taerewith For termsy aad conditions of safe, apply. to Messyrss Hodgs du & Nebeod. ‘ Pr S Dated 9th day of November 1877, JAMES McFARLANE, EDWARD J. HODGSON, ?vERNON H. KNIGHT; Trustees and Devisees wader the will of thela Jobo Knight. Nov. 10—t sale

Haile. la

1878°"

Wholesale and Eetail at

|HARVIES BOOKSTORE,

QUEEN SQUARE,

and sold by all ragpectaile dealers throughout the Island. Jan. vei me

if House to Let. ont

v Bi lit rooms, in’ good repairlatelys oecus Pp d by Mr. A. MeDougull. immediate possesSion” given!” ‘Apply af Mr. A. Me- Dougall, or the undersigned. None but a ‘caretul and good tenant need apply. — ARD WEEKS.

Charl i tte toy wh » Dec. 13, 1877 be acl

Toiice oid the Publis,

2

10 PPLIES for ae ** Soup Pi ” will

ee reaches the Coppitte is pets at the pt arAbC

of Mr: ‘Alex. Horne; ‘cdrhér of Queen ¥itzroy Streets.

Donan of money Will be reckiv ed byt then through Dr. Dofid and Mr. J. Quik? *

N. b.—Food for the sick carefully prepared

a on

9 Trusiasaio! Comtiry Schools

rayne Trustees ef several Districts have

been lapplyiagé Gor Sehool.furhiture, ‘mid in | every instance co msider the American and Canadian Combination Seat and Desk too ex- pensive. that is stronger, neater, and one-third cheaper than those that have been imported. Call and see samples of the different sizes. City School Trustees fully approve of them.

MARK. BUTCHER Dec. 18, 1877—ex c im ne a pat pres 41

nacelle —_$$ $$

i THE INT TEN > hed Ly aeaee will continue their business during the | winter via Steamy pafigatlie mdaglitze Express closes every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening at © inl¥s received ae here on the s: ame evenings at 5 o'clock. roods, Valuables, and money, forwarded, | | ' ; ' a |

pans as quick time as the mails. 4 : THEO. L. CHAPPELLE, “Agent. Diamond Bookstore, 85 North-Side Queen Square. poe town, Dec. 26, 1887.—3i

1iof . WTows, “nnd: Nee evildea a of PRAM OI

and,on the east by lane at

— ,

1 have just got up a Combinagiog | ;

’

sc Sidigh Shoeing Hron.

‘ . a een pagquennig sl aber ~~. SS ~ eco - ;

830,000

WORTH OF

an Faney NY GOONS

AT COST AND. UNDER -OOST.

ON & 60.

fl

ASON

3)

Intending‘ to go out + the business,

will offer the whole of their

Steck to the Public Mor

on and after A GENUINE

ay, the 2ist Jan.

GASH SALE

+ ’ “

- : ?

at Cost in

as

AW goons Marked down’

ge) nab

a

z D. MASON & CO,

REN SRUARE HOUSE, 77 QUEEN STREET. Jan 1873.

C nach tect, 2 n,

i ee

MERCHANTS. MARINE. INSURANGE COMPANY

OF CANADA.

al 81, ia 0t0, with powar to Increase -to $9,000,000.

me ew ee

HEAD OFFICE : [ance aa

ee ee ge

ee

TAKEN DAILY AT THE OFFICE OF

CARVELL BROS.

RISKS

. £ , a Agents for P. E.. Istand.

Charlottetown, psy 17, saat Sos =

- a ! STADAGONA | OSTRICH FEATHERS | Cleaned, Dyed and Cuffed. Kid G

‘fire and ti lnsurance LOMpai. | Neckties and’ Ribbons Claret sok

<= -- — —— pe —

Nowige is hereby. given, Loatthe pene | ‘Orders leiteat the Shop of M Diractors of this Company have made | Kttuables, 27 Great George Street, meouipey

a further eall of ; attended to, J .<. Gilm Four 1sidlmegls 0 Lave per | Silk Dyer, ete., as Street, Cer. CCH, | Dec. 26—lim aw

ee

lon the Subse rib e i Cs i} ri ti al a f thie Comp iny, | i payadie at ats Olilice, No 03 St. Peter Street, : MGRE SNOW I

Quebec, as follows :—

Five per Ceat. on or before the Teuth a y

Pt hagoas aes Se" 3 Bae Harrie Al mange

Five per Cent. on or before the of November, t877 ; FOR 1578—PRICE: 12 CENTS. Pive per Cent, on or bi wees the ive nth day | Jan, 340 of February, [873 5)

‘Tefith day)

tn

‘ye perCept, on or before the Bieventh day | 9 af pester hep QUBET W URANGE 00,Y, By order of the Board hot its ; EN CRAWFORD LIN DSA a! } oF ENGLAND.

Neorbtar y | CAPIT “Ai . TWO MILLIGNS STERLING.

June 1877

~--+— -—- —4 ————— nathegned effected on all kinds of. Bi uild-, : » > ings, Merchandise and Prod ; OW ooden are, Vessels on the stotks. DEP ie ABO, IR! Ri OMS, Buckets. .. Tube, , Washboards Special rates for'isdlated residenc Clothes pit et Tubs Vashboards | Losses #étthed shomsithy. ces. . odiyel@ | HASZARD BROS. GEORGE MACLEOD (Union

aan ' Agent for Pp in June, 1ST” " sie roe eed

_~ nanan titel

Codfish, &e.

Bows and. half-boxes selecbed

HASZARD BROS. Quintals gool,retailing _ ee ee ee ___ | Labrador Herring, cases. Eee ~~

TPWENTY Bdles. 14x3 Refined. bony Cut and itach Nails oar Spikes~ ~ l. lor sale by

Stoked’ ‘Fialibut, de, OY | Hor OPE _ “HASZARD. BROS. oviAyues iy str | 1,000 LOAD 2 20 bundles DRIED Po floc. * 0s — MANURE ox HASZARD BROS. . 4 | Defembenis asi7oai7 sa ‘ | oer meena” ao ges delivered

DANIEL GORDON.

\OL ER SALE—A few second-hand Keros ' ene}, P. S.—Leave aS TfO io. 5. t » BPO Bios “REE Lamps, cheap, at EXAMINER OFvicR,, Soil at ‘Pdlice wt ad for, Soa eoe, N ght

Ch’town, Jan. 9, 1878—-

Plain Figeres fn

Dyed. Also -—~ Gent's Clothi . he, ote

ad

Ce

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