The Finger Print Division of the United States Navy has classified 1,024 primary types of finger prints and 11,000 secondary types. The same authority states that there are 1,700,000,000 people in the world and no two have finger prints that cannot be distinguished from one another.
The line patterns in the feet and hands have been handed down from ancestors of countless thousands of years ago and do not change during the life of an individual. The monkeys have similar lines.
The lines are due to ridges of little papillae in the true underlying skin, which contain the sensory nerves and blood vessels.
Nature's Spring Tonics from Field and Garden
The new green vegetables, now so plentiful by a happy stroke of nature, are not only nutritious, but also contain medicinal properties such as needed at this time of the year.
All Spring greens might well be called veritable "hotels" of the human system. The cellulose, or waste, in vegetable foods encourages the peristaltic motion of the stomach and lower intestines; hence vegetable eaters are very rarely troubled with constipation or torpid livers.
During May and June, an excellent array of Spring products is to be had not only by city inhabitants who patronize the markets, but by those living in the rural districts as well. Most of the latter depend entirely upon their home-raised products and upon wild edible greens. 