Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-16
NEBRASKA

A lately tested section Of the sub
marine cable, laid twenty years ago
between Cienfuegos and Santiago, is
b excellent condition, proving the dur
ability of undiscovered 'bles.
Modern science seems t. uJw that
kprosy, the loathsome scourge of many
lands in the past, Is along the dis
orders that may be cay prevented.
His late Investigations in South Africa
and in India have convinced Dr. iona
than Hutchinson that the disease Is
rarely, If ever, transmitted from one
berson to another, and have confirmed
The theory that the cause Is the eat
ing of badly cured and poorly cooked
hsh. The Kafiirs, who furnish very
hany victims, have a depraved APP
BETTE for rotten fish.
The gradual disappearance Of locusts
b Rhodesia and other pars of South
Africa Is attributed by j. NJ. Orpen, a
writer on the agriculture Of the region,
10 q rapidly growing mould. The In
visible seeds are scattered by the wind,
and In favorable weather the growth
attacks and destroys vast swarms Of
the insects. Since the discovery during
the last locust invasion, the mould has
been regularly distributed by the De
pArtment of Agriculture. The disease
thus artiflcially spread has been very
effective, but dryness has caused some
failures.
A crystalline lens taken from the
aye of bullock has been found espe-
eially useful, says Prof. w. +. Watson,
Tor photographing objects which are
too small for the common camera lens
Ind yet too large for ordinary photo
micrography. Good photographs of in
Bects have been made with such lens,
but the manipulation Is difficult. Even
the composite eye of beetle, which In
some species consists of as many as
e5,000 separate lenses, each producing
an Independent image, can be used
Tor making photographs which are
curious rather than useful. They raise
the question: "What does the beetle
gain by having thousands Of images of
the same thing projected on its retinaY
Quite astonishing is the rapidity OF
working of brain and nerves In modern
piano-playing. At the conference OF
musicians In Dublin 1t was shown thai
the ordinary player must cultivate the
eye to see about 1900 signs per min
ute, the fingers to make about two
thousand movements and the brain tC
perceive the 1,5OO signs while issuing
two thousand orders. In a part OF
Chopin's "Etude in e Minor" the rate
Of reading must reach $3.50 signs IL
~ minutes. This is equivalent t.
about twenty-six notes per second
and, as the eye can receive only abou
ten consecutive impressions per second
1t appears that In very rapid music tn
notes must be read In groups instea,
Of singly.
A scientific investigation of extraor
binary interest Is about to be under
taken In the Philippines, under tn
direction of the Smithsonian Institu
tion. Ethnologists aver that the vari
Jus uloSS III lnoSe lSidHus represent
mixture of the blood of all the race
and varieties of mankind. The white
the black and the brown have eacI
contributed share. In the combina
ton of bloods are found the NegritC
the Papuan and the African; the Mala
and the Polynesian; the Chinese, tn
Japanese and the Cambodan; tn
Hamite, the Semitic and the Aryan; til
Caucasian, and even, in slight d,
gree, the American Indian. The pro
posed research into the origin an
development of this blending of race
involves study of habits, relics, pr,
historic remains, tribal legends and o,
equations.