Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-03-12
BROKEN BOW
NEBRASKA

Celluloid has many limitations.
German one is made by dissoIving is
parts of nitro-celluose in sixteen parts
by weight of glacial aCctic acid ANA
adding five parts of gClatinc, thorough
solution being effected with gentle
heating and stirring After swelling,
the mass is mixed with 10 OF alcohol,
with continued stirring. The product
Is poured into mouds, or 1t may he
further diluted and spread in thin
layers on glass AS an undcrlay Tor
Photographic films, its special adlan-
tages include the property OF remain
Ing Hat in developing.
In late interesting account Of
spider life, DR.. Dallingcr describes the
ruthless destruction by the ichncunon
fly and by certain wasps. The young
of some wasps can live only on live
spiders, and the mother wasp. there
fore, renders the spiders powerlcsS by
her sting-after which they can live Il
month-and then deposits them in the
cocoon where she has placed her egg
On Matching out, the wasp grub Feeds
on the bodies Of the living spiders. An
other wasp deposits her egg in the
body of the spider, which Is then
buried alive and is fed upon by the
wasp grub.
Treatment by Roentgen rays Is PROV
ing of Importance in cancer of the
skin. Reporting four recent cures, DIR.
Gilchrlst mentioned having seen in
Manchester thirtyfour cases that had
been completely cured. while Finsen
has reported forty-tive cured cases. The
application usually lasts lifteel min
utes, though it may extend to thirty
minutes. The malignant cells seem to
be specially sought out by the rays.
but burns may occur, and for prevent
ing them special glass tube--opaque
except at the ends-has been devised.
The effects vary greatly with the lido
syncracies of the patients.
In an address before the Sanitary
Congress at Manchester, England, DR..
w. n. Shaw made the highly interest
ing suggestion that 1t may be practi-
cable to remove the smoke of great
cities In n manner somewhat rescm.
bling that in which their sewage is dis
posed Of He calculated that about
100000 tons Of smoky air would have
to be removed from London every day
I'm order to keep its atmosphere clean.
1t takes 100000 tons of water a day
to carry off the sewage of London Five
hundred electrically driven fans, each
delivering 100000 cubic feet of air per
minute, would carry off all the house
hold smoke of London. What the ex-
act cost would be DR.. Shaw did not
know, but he thought the results might
be worth the cost.
The republication in English of the
famous essay &C the great French
mathematician, Laplace on the theory
of probabilities serves to recall the
harm that has resulted from lack of
general information on this subject.
The confirmed gambler and the recll-
less Spectator do not know how con
tinually they fly in the face of the
teachings of science. A recent reviewer
remarks: IF in game of even chances
red turns up twenty times in success.
sion, 1t Is still an even chance whether
red or black turns up on the twenty.
first time; but no amount of mathe
NAUTICAL reasoning will enable the gam
bier to realize that n previous run OF
bad luck gives no grounds for the
expectation of recovering his losses by
a run Of good luck in the future" Ii
was partly to combat the superstition,
of gamblers and others that I.aplac,
wrote his essay.