For Our Young Readers.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 12 November 1897, Page 5

For Our Young Readers.

LESSONS IN PHYSIOLOGY. The following is an old rhyme which has assisted many boys and girls to locate and remember the bones in the human body ; How many bones in the human face ? Fourteen when they're all in place. How many bones in the human head 1 Eight, my child, as I've often said. How many bones in the human ear ? Four in each, and they help to hear. [ How many bones in the human spine '/ Twenty-four, like a climbing vine. How many bones in the human chest 1 Twenty-four ribs and two for the rest. How many hones in the shoulders bind 7 Two in each — one before) one behind. How many bones in the human arm ? In each arm one : two in eaoh forearm) How many bones in the human wrist 1 Eight in eoch if none are missed. How many bones in the palm of the hand ? Five in each, with many a band. How many bones in the fingers ten 1 Twenty-eight, and by joints they bend. How many bones in the human hip ? One in each, like a dish they dip. How many bones in the human thigh ? One in each, and deep they lie. How many bones in the human knees .' One in each — the knoepin, please. How many bones in the h g iom the knee ,' Tw o m each, we can plainly see. How many bones in the ankle strong .' Seven in each, but none is long. How many bones in the ball of the foot ? Five in each, as the pulms were put. How many bones in the toos— half a wore ..11. 1 Twenty-eight, and thurc are no more. And now altogether these many bones wait, And they count in a body two hundred and ei^ht. And then we have in the hum in month, Oi upper and under, thirty-two teoLh. And now and then have a bone^^Bfould think, That forms on a joint or to fill ii|™a <. luak — A sesamoid. bone or n, wormian we call. And now we may re-,t, lor we've told them all. Columbus was a weaver. Kranklin was a journeyman piinfor Pope Sixtus V. vas employed in keeping bvy^ne. Burns was a ploughman. was a slave. Homer was a Iwggar. Daniel Defoe w, s apprenticed to a hosier. Demosthenes wart tho son of a cutler, while Virgil was the son of a baker. Ben Jon-on w,is a bricklayer. Ceovantes was a common .soldier. (rifford and Dloomfield, poets, were shoemakers. Belzoni was th» sun of a barbu 1 . Djagkntojuy

was the son of a linen-draper. Canova wa3 the sod of a stone-cutter. Captain Cook began his career as a cabin-boy. Falconer was the son of a barber. Haydn was the son of a poor wheelwright. Pizarro was never taught to read when young, but was sent to keep hogs. Kirke White was the son of a butcher. Shakespeare began his career as a menial. — Axe Maria. DIAMONDS OF THE FIRST WAT£R. The Catholic Guardian tells a pretty story about Princess Eugenic, sister of the King of Sweden. v\ ith royal generosity she had disposed of her diamonds in order to raise funds to complete a hospital, in which she took a deep interest. \\ hen visiting the institution on one occasion after its completion, a patient wept tears of gratitude as she stood by her side, which forced the Princess to exclaim : " Ah I now I see my diamonds again ! "