Scavengers In Your Lungs.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 271, 17 April 1914, Page 6

Scavengers In Your Lungs.

One oi She most wonderful pieces of ov, onanism in the body is the contrivance fo? clearing out dust and ether injurious thingt from the lungs. £<;atumiptg call it ciliated eoillieiiiiui. It is u.: l ikiii wiiieb lines the tubes of the lung;-,, en* lower part of th« rii.ilpipe, the nose, vnii ti.i little tube that connects the ear wi.ii the bat't of tin month. Tnis skin, instead of being n-ada c•) of flat layers like the tskiu of ll.e hain't, fa«a, eta. if composed of little shells shaped like carrots, and placed -.ids „y e idu, with thsil thick Jtidn uppermost. Projecting from these thick ends are little hairs, or cilia, irum twenty to thirty being attached to each cell. There aiu hundreds of millions of millions of them, and they aie aWuys in \vu.-.e like motion, just liks oorn movid by die wind. Although they are ouly i-30,000Ui oj an inch long, tni to fine that they can ijarcely lie seen t>y this mo:;: powerful raioro.scope, Uiej do an immense amount of work, A-hout ten times per second they move swiftIj fr ward and then slowly back again. In tliib way they cause a constant flow a' fh« liuids to take place in an outward direc' a, and with the fluid come tbe particle) ol smoke, dnstnud other Mings which year* always heathii.g in. * ' ' ' They Follow Ships

Whnles are not the only Oie&tures thai accompany ships. Sharks aie the best-known followers. Their motive is, however, piureiy a mercenary one. They are the scavongen of the ocean, ant! swallow everything th&t is ove.boail, including such trifles us feathers, aahes and old hoof . The feioiitj of the g'-iirk has been gi' .t)y exaggerated. They are as cowardly as Aolves. You may swim in perfect safety in shark-infested waters if you make plenty of splashing. Almost as common n ship-follower as th« shark if the porpoise. In tho clear, |;reen waters around the West Indian coasts shoali oi porpoises—sometimes two or three buttdied in number—will outlier round a ship

bulling up mid down, mill constantly throw inn half their length out of the wavstcnj. 1'ln; (.peed at wluoii tliey rwim is simply tiuuzing.

A Japanese Prison. style, with dwarf tie?.*, siwounded by a li?ii;e, instead of a wail. In this paik i.n» jets a group of Japanese houses, like thosf occupied by the piiasimts. The prisoner* tro all at work proportioned to their pliysi ciil ability. Some are threshing and grinding rice; others are weaving coarse cloth, ol a dark red color, of which the prison uniforms are made; the old and infirm art separating leaves of paper. All of them receive a percentage of their earrings. Tin younger prisoners are in school. The disci pline is military in form, bnt in its spirit refoimatory. There are few evasions, notwithstanding the ease with which they could be effected . One reason for this is the ellici enoy »f the Japanese police, which is said to be the best in the woriu. The priflorters art divided i::to tluee grades, and are ijpji.fcnlb iwl, according as they are idle and fifcactGiy. amenable to discipline, or eiceptirtpily wei l behaved. The only oth<" pnnisß&ent it Boiitnry confinement in a sort of-ihWeori, not eiceeding five days. No prisoneMnpy be discharged, however sitort his termsJ|»eri tence, unless liis family or friends nssiraw responsibility for him. The result hu" bait t-hti organisation at a large number uf&ii soners' aid societies. Where Babies are Sailed. The remarkabie cuttom of salting nowborn babies is still practised in certain para of Europe and Asia. The method varies with the differing nationa'iiti v o< the people us 1 '.".:; :*-. The Armenians of Russia cover tttr ei.tire bMu M the infant with a very fine sa't This is left on far Viby for three hours ot jnore, and then si*.ad off with warm water. A mountain triU rf %»'«■ Minor, is flTen moie merciless than trie Armenians. They keep their new-born babies eorereij «iSii sal) fcr twenty-four hours.

Sovere'gns in Soot

Chimney soot is oas ft the lienest fertili •erg known. Thai Bs&'Jn wal is wiy rich it ammonia. When oa) ii burned ammonia li Bet lree. and daring the various changer wkich take place in the process Buljjhite and earbonate of ammonia are both formed Soot is & highly compound snbftauce, cor. taining not only ammonia, but lime, «nlnhu ric acid, acetic acid, nitric acid, cblofln*, *nd iron, a»«ly all «t whieb u* xaluabl*, directly or indhttctlT. *K* i« wild in England for about £lO a ton. It ie often throiaft way as worthless by those who do not kmrtS 'ls value, but farmers should save evory ounce for nse. Sprinkled around som« kinds of paints, it often prevents attack! from mse'te, and the rains then carry II down into the earth whsre it ion duty mm fcrfflva*.