Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-22
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Tattooing the cornca with stcriliZcd
india ink is recommended by Or. j. l..
3orsch for lesscnng the unsightlncss
of Opaque spots on the eye. When the
opacity is slight the treatment may
even give a considerable restoration of
sight
The breathing or blowing Of wells
driven on the plains OF Nebraska has
been lately shown to coincide with
changes Of baromctric pressure, but 1t
Is thought that low pressure can hard
ly account for the force with which
the air Is expelled from some Of thy
wells.
Few persons would guess that tn
smallest things visible to the eye ar
he stars. Yet Or. Edward Divers wa
no doubt correct in declaring such t.
We the case in his address before The
chemical section Of the British Asso
citation at Belfast. Great as many o
The stars are i'm actual magnitude, their
distance Is so immense that their angu
lar diameter becomes inscns.blc. and
ivy bII'l 'tl'Il VIC NblllllNl'l VI StOlll'A
rical points. The minute disks tina
they appear to have are spurious, al
effect of irradiation.
The worlds greatest monument.
priced as marvel Of antiquity, seems
to have been made with tools we class
as modern. From evidence collected
at Gizch, w. NJ. Flinders Petrie con
cludes that the pyramid builders USED
solid and tubular drills, straight and
circular saws and lathe tools. all Of
which were set with cutting stones,
and they did work that would puzzle
the artisan of today. Some granite
cores show that the drill sunk one.
tenth of an inch at each revolution.
while the cut was clean and uniform
through soft sandstone and the hardest
granite. AS diamonds were very
scarce, 1t is supposed that the cutting
material was corundum.
Associative memory, says Prof. T..
G. Conkln of the University of Penn.
sylvania is the fused Impressions of
processes which occur together. so that
when one is recalled the other comes
with 1t. Then he adds, There is no
question whatever that bee leaving
It's hive and flying for half mile finds
lts way back by associative memory.
1t must travel by landmarks; it can
not travel by any scent of itself in the
atmosphere. That is out of the ques-
ton" Among other creatures giving
evidence of the possession of associa-
tive memory, which is the first stage
In the development of psychic life, Pro
feSsor Conklin mentions ants and
wasps, as well as cuttletsh, sQuids and
the higher molluSks. Birds and many
mammals show a high degree of asso.
ciative memory.
The Rev John VI. Bacon, who for
several years. with the aid of n bal.
| loon, has induStirously explored the
atmosphere over London. gives a
strange picture of the Skyward aXtcs
sion of the worlds greatest city. Some.
what fancifully, and yet with GER
tain degree of truth, London might be
said to be 5000 feet high, or deep. for
up to about that level the air over the
vast town is Enthusiastically London air.
Between 5000 and 5000 feet above the
housetops is region where dust re.
sembling chaff, tilaments and wooden
| fiber, such as would arise from thor.
oughfares and from the sweeping of
houses, seems especially to accumu.
| lntn lnnct thnrn ie
nearer the ground. In calm weather
aerial London becomes to "A certain
extent stratified. From above 5000
feet one can often look down upon the
surface of the haze, as if it had a def
mite limit