Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-11-06
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The electric automobile can be stop
ped and started without any annoying
preliminaries, and is far simpler to
operate than any other type Of horse
less vehicle.
The most effective arrangement for
prolonging the life of electric arc lamps
consists of a chamber, or cylindrical
body, around the pencil ends, which
prevents the access of air.
At the scientific ballooning conference
In Berlin, Alexander insisted that an
unnamed balloon could be sent fifty
miles and returned to starting point,
steered only by Hertzian waves.
United States Consul Hughes at Co
burg reports that the German navy and
some manufacturers are using a new
fuel called 'masut," an oily product
from German brown coal. The coast.
defense vessels are fitted for the use of
this OIL and some battleships and
cruisers are arranged so that they can
use both coal and masut. Masut is said
to have one-fourth greater heat-produc.
ing power than coal, and is easier to
handle, us it is necessary only to open
valve in order to fill the furnace.
Pure blue light Is the new consump-
ton cure with which G.. Kaiser is ex-
perimenting in Germany. The rays
from an arc lamp concentrated through
lens containing methylene blue de-
stroyed tubercle bacilli in about thirty
minutes, and, as the printing of q pho
tographic positive proved the passage
of the rays through the human body, II
was shown to be possible to reach the
bacilli in the lungs, and to kill them all
with blue light In two advanced cases
of the disease great improvement re-
suited i'm six days.
Sir howard Grub, the celebrated
Irish telescope-maker, has invented
new form Of telescope sight for use
with rifle. Neither fore nor back sight
is employed with this contrivance, but
the shooter, in taking aim, looks through
small lens which, by an optical device,
throws an image of u bright little cross
in front Of the gun and in line with the
barrel. This Image serves as fore.
sight, and by simply holding the center
of the cross upon the object aimed at
the marksman takes his aim. The in
venton Is shown at the Glasgow exhi-
bitinn.
AlligatOrs, according to the late Prof.
Cope, belong to mueh more modern
genus than that of their cousins, the
crocodiles. No, undoubtedly extinct spe.
cies of alligator has ever been discov.
cred by biologists. but those animals are
fast being exterminated at the present
day on account of the value of their
hides Aligators are found in China, as
well as in North America; the crocodile
exists in Africa, southern Asia and
northern Australia. The crocodile diff
fers from the alligator in preferring salt
water to fresh. and being more vicious,
in its disposition.
Nearly eveEy shop in Japan for the
sale of foreign goods is furnished with
sign in n foreign language. No matter
whether the language is intelliGible, if
it is only in foreign characters that is
enough. Many of these signs are tt
study. The all countries boot and shoe
small or fine. wares 'Old Curious. -
Horseshoe maker instruct by French
horse leech." "Cut haT shop" IF you
want sell watch, | Will buy. If you want
buy watch will sell Yes, sir. we win
all will. Come at my shop. Watch
maker" Halter native country" An
tematic of Nausea Marina" The house
build for the manufacture of all and
besE kinds of hats and caps