"MAKING LIGHT" OF MEN AND WOMEN."

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1423, 28 July 1884, Page 2

"MAKING LIGHT" OF MEN AND WOMEN."

«. Every man has 240 hones ; except the minstrel corner-men, who have 244 each. The lungs contain one hundred and seven ty-five million cells. This is what makes man a practical joker. A man breathes about twenty times a minute — that is, unless he is fat, or is waking away from a tailor with a bill. The brain of a man is twice as big as that of any other animal. That is wliy a really noble dog has so much respect for a man. A man's average, weight is 140 pounds. Except when he has to wait for his wife to change her necktie. Then its's forty minutes. I A man's brain weighs three and a half pounds. A woman's is somewhat lighter, but of finer quality. That is what enables her to taste lard in her neighbor's pastry. 1 The heart in its normal condition beats seventy-five times a minute, but when a young man meets a pretty girl at a party, and steps tremblingly up to proffer an escort home, the number of beats— heart beats— instantly mounts up to 162 in the shade. The average number of teeth is thirty-two, but when one of them is decrepit, aiH in the dark it runs into an ambuscaded raisin-seed in a piece of wedding cake, a man is apt to fancy that he has only one tooth at the most, and that it is three feet square.