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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1911)
First Trust & Savings Bank of Lincoln The directors of this bank are the same as the directors of the First National Bank of Lincoln 4 per cent Interest on Deposits We gladly open accounts for sums as low as one dollar . Once Tried Always Used ; Little Hatchet Flour Made from Select Nebraska Hard Wheat WILBER AND DeWITT MILLS RYE FLOUR TELEPHONE US Bell Phooe 200; Auto. 1459 145 ARTIFICIAL EYES. The Art of Making Them Resem- uic i wen nuiiictn rdiicuia. MATCH IN SHAPE AND COLOR. They Fit the Eyo Socket Perfectly and May Even Be Worn During Sleeping Hours Made of Glass, For Which No Substitute Has Yet Been Found. Germany leads all other countries in the manufacture of artificial eyes. The American consul general at Co burg relates that probably ever since the beginning of the world civilized people have endeavored to hide or remedy any flaw in their appearance, such as the loss of an eye would cause. How this was done by the va rious nations it is hard to say. Up to the present time no discoveries have been made that would offer enlighten ment on this subject. There" are, it is true, a few unauthentieated ' accounts as far back as the middle ages, but the first reliable report is given by the French surgeon Ambroise Pare in 1560. Two kinds of artificial eyes were known to him, the ekblepharos and the hypoblepharos. The ekblepharos was made by painting the eye'atocl all surrounding parts as far as the brows on a plate, which was placed in front of the eye socket and held in position, by a string tied over the head. The hypoblepharos was used in a manner similar to that of today, being put be hind the eyelid, in the eye socket it self, . and was composed of a metal shell of copper, silver or gold, covered with enamel and glass fusions. It was only at the close of the eight eenth century that these artificial eyes really became of practical use. it being then found possible to do away with the metal shell altogether and employ enamel and glass. The material used .was a soft lead glass, easily shaped, but also easily destructible, and an eye had to be renewed every three or four , mouths to prevent the socket from becoming 'affected. . It is known that In the middle of the nineteenth century eyes were made by enajnelers in. Dresden. Prague. London A SPECIALTY So.. 9th St., LINCOLN, NEB. and Stockholm, ahcTfh TTiurfrigia. The Thuringian makers were not enamel ers, but glassblowers working in con nection with the porcelain painting In dustry, whose endless and untiring experiment resulted in . the . discovery of an ideal material, cryolite glass, the use of which led to a new technique in eye manufacture. Moreover, there can now be produced all the charac teristics of the human eye which had been possible in enamel work. The new prosthetic eye received the name "reform eye." To be of value, how ever, it must be made to exactly fit the eye socket Today It Is possible to give to the re form eye any form and color desired, and in most cases it can be even worn at .night, thereby preventing the lid from sinking into -the. socket and the lashes from sticking together. At times attempts have been made to re place the breakable glass by vulcanite or celluloid, but such efforts have long since been given up as useless, In 1852 the method used In France for making eyes was as follows: -On the broadly pressed end of -a small, colorless, transparent rod of enamel the pupil "was first made, and the iris was then formed on this by means of a small, thin pointed, colored enameled rod. the designing of the iris being made possible by melting the point of this rod. u In I'aris the good eyes are now so made. A glass tube, closed at one end and of the color of the sclerotic, is next blown into the form of an oval, and In the middle of this a hole is melted, the edges. of which are round ed off evenly and pressed a little out ward The iris is "then ..placed In this ypenlng and well melted in. A thick bating of glass remains behind. Th'e eye is. rounded off, the projecting rim of the white coat Is smoothed with a metaf'Tod. and this coat is thereby joined to the sclerotic. By means of a thin, pointed red rod the blood vessels to be seen on the hard coat of the human eye are then melted in. The superfluous back part of the eyeball is melted off. thereby giving to the eye the desired form. The eye is finally placed on hot sand, where it becomes arradually cooled off. Glass eyes are made In quite a dif ferent manner in Lauscha. the center of this industry' in Germany, where their manufacture is altogether; a house industry. The eyes are Usually made by one member of a family, and the art is handed .down, from one. gen eration to another. A gas flame is used for melting the glass. A small drop of white glass is put on the white blown ball from which the sclerotic is to be made and is then blown so as to make a circle about eight millimeters (0.315 inch) in diameter. On this cir cle the structure of the-iris"is built by means of variously colored glass rods. A drop of btack glass makes the pupil. Over the finished iris crystal glass is melted In order to imitate the cornea. The further manufacture is similar to that gjveu in the first -description. , Flannagan's Way.. J '' Cassidy Flannagan's thinking of go in' Into the haulin' business. He, bought a foine new cart today. Casey But shure he has no horse. Flanna gan No, but he's goin to buy wan. Casey Well, that's loike Flannagan. He always did git the cart befoor the horse. Philadelphia Ledger. It Is a very great thing for us to do the very best we can do just where and as we are. Babcock. THE SPIRAL NEBULAE. One of the Terrifying and Mysterious Forces of Space. The most stupendous manifestations of force of which we have liny knowl edge are presented by-he spiral nebu lae, whose mysterious' and terrifying forms were first clearly revealed by the Lick observatory photographs made In 1898-1900 by the late Pro fessor James E. Keeler. The heavens are full of them they exist by thou sandsand as astronomical photogra phy is brought to greater perfection their amazing shapes tend more add more to upset all former Ideas con cerning the processes of creation and destruction going on in the interstellar spaces. They affect in an equal de gree all theories about the origin and ultimate fate of our own solar sys-, tern." - . , .' , - ,X Who would ' imagine .on looking up at the starry heavens some quiet night that the earth is like a person lost in the midst of the whirring wheels and spinning . shafts of some enormous mill or machine room, where' running bolts, whirling spindles, champing, pistons, grinding cogs, gy rating governors. dizzying flywheels and leaping rods confuse the eye and the mind and paralyze the limbs with, the terror of impending annihilation? We are -not aware of this startling situation because, while we see the stars, we-do-not see what Is among the stars. The spinning machinivy of the universe .is revealed only. pho tographs,' and as far as our senses are concerned it performs its: functions with, a silence which., to the imagina tion becomes : a part of the horror of space.; r -These cosmic wheels spin with in calculable velocity, .but the. span of human life is but a. second of time in comparison with their, periods.' If we could magnify time so that a second would become as a century, then an hour would be equivalent to 360,000 years, and the true aspect of the spiral nebulae would burst upon our astonished senses. Garrett P. Serviss in New York American. Made Napoleon Wait. On the day when the courier brought news of the signature of the peace of Amiens, Talleyrand thrust the impa tiently awaited document in his pocket, went to the emperor and engaged him in current affairs. When these were all disposed of he said: "Now; I 'have good news for you. Head!" 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