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Show SCIENTIFIC) TOPICS CURRENT NOTES Of DIBCOV-RFiy DIBCOV-RFiy AND INVENTION. Olees Warning ef rln -Mr IMommara llaalaa lo rrtreat lopl from TakLag lha Wroac MarfUlna llatlla lha Lang (laa la KIT.atl.a In rml Warfare. raarrla at lha WsUI Uetwren the pelvis and ribs, tbe only on-ly bones are those of the spine, five bone having great freedom of motion The waist dspendi for It strength and vigor upon the broad muscles which msk up the walls of the trunk at thla place henca th need of that condition of those muscles which ouly extrclae will produce Here cornea In ono of the great evlla of any device In dress which by auy degree of rigidity gives support lo Ihe body To the extent of the support given tbe muscles are relieved of tbelr proper functions, they accommodate themeetrea lo the demand made upon them The lest the demand the weaker weak-er do they become Tbe tight or bon ed waist becomes a splint A splinted muscle loses power Btrong abdomln at muscle ar a great essential to easy and safe delivery of children since the abdominal muscles ar the aecondary fore In child birth Weak and useless use-less abdominal muscles have prolonged prolong-ed many confinement, and ted to many a serious Injury when tho trouble trou-ble might hav been avoided had the mother possessed strong abdominal muscles Hut this Is not all Many dssths have resulted from the tame caus lot want of atrength In these muscln prolonged labor and htmor rhsge havo carried away the mother and oftllmes the child Ho wo emphasise abdominal exercise for all women, to secure a better figure, fig-ure, mora vigor of body, and above all greater safety In child bearing It am If for Sloaqullu llltea James ! Foley, a well known In-suranco In-suranco man, has written a letter to General 0 M Sternberg, surgeon general gen-eral of tho United States army, suggesting sug-gesting a reme ly for mosquitoes black file and sand flies with which tho troop In the far south are now bothered both-ered Mr Foley served through th civil war, and haa hal conalderable personal experience In tho mattor, having resided for several summers In different parts ot Canada The preparation prep-aration he recommend la composed ot olive or cottonseed oil, with a sufficient amount of North Carolina tar lo give the mixture the consistency of ordinary ordin-ary croam This a piled to exposed parte of the body, face neck ant hands, a few timet during the dty or Just boforo retiring at night, will, he sayi, relieve the soldiers ot all Insect peita found In warm cltmatei A Natal llaalaa. Prom tho New xork Bum Tbe vital Itatlstlri ot this city teem with brier obituaries ot ladles who get up In Ihe night for cough medicine, and, not having hav-ing time to light Ihe gas, hit upon tho wrong bottle, which la usually found by tha coroners physician to contain corbollo acid It would appear ap-pear that bottles containing poison haro a mysterious power of presenting themselves before all others to the groping hand To obviate this source ot mortality various schemes have been suggested, among them Ihe use ot corrugated glasi bottles, easily distinguished dis-tinguished by the touch, for poisons, and the employment of luminous paint to warn the midnight searcher from tbe perilous dose Th latest devise Is by Albert T riummer of this city, whose attention waa turned to the subject last fall by a case of accidental poisoning In his own family which nearly resulted fatally fa-tally and by an editorial In the Bun about the same lime commenting on tbe fact that nobody had succeeded In producing a bottle from which poison waa not likely to be taken by mistake After considerable reflection Mr I'lum- !ilIslStAW mer contrived tbe anchor safety stop-ir, stop-ir, which It now In uto In many hoi-I hoi-I Itala, and which Ihe accompanying Illustration Il-lustration represents The anchor Inside In-side th bottle Is of heavy glass and Is attached to the cork by an asbestos cord which neither affecta nor Is affected affect-ed by acids or chemical used In med Iclna, When tht cord I withdrawn tho anchor catches and anothsr warning warn-ing Is given by tho rattle ot the an char striking the neck of the bottle Tbe contents of tbe bottle may be easily poured or dropped out by hold Ing the cork at the aid with tbe ringer, rin-ger, ai tbe anchor doca not Impede the flow law thin ailka Ala JUUa. The well known beauty of the China silks, now produced lu such large quantities quan-tities In Zurich Is said to be due to a peculiar process ot preparing and printing the fabric there pursued Urlefly, after tbe usual preliminary treatment the warp la atretched tightly tight-ly on a table about twenty yards long and covered with a cloth then printed by ineana of blocks, for which th colors col-ors are supplied from receptacles that slide la grooves along the entire length WKmmmWmmmmWmmmWtmWmW mm tattrataaasaBBsaisaaiaaaasawiisajaBasaaiaajataaBs" ot tht table Whin the whole or lha plee haa ben printed It Is subjected to the action ot superheated eteam for about three quarters of an hour which flies th color this warp Is now packed pack-ed In a ssck and worked backward In water by tao men to wash out the thickening used In the printing colors Ths sack and Ha contents are at thla atage wrung centrlfugally, the warp taken out ot the ssck and hung up to dry and finally brushed In order to close up tbe tbresds The discharge printing of figured silk with a dark eyed background has the unique advantage ad-vantage as compared with tho application appli-cation of the background by means ot printing that the pattern Is clearer and sharper while the background Itself It-self Is of a better color The back-grounl back-grounl I died with such coal tar color col-or as can Is discharged by sine dust or tin salt de being mixed with the discbarge which are not affected thereby, there-by, thus preen red yellow and other partl-rolored effects can be got on a dark groun I and afterward steamed New York Bun l-on liana The six Inch rifles of our now cruiser the New Orlesne are Interesting on account ac-count of their great proportional length The gum ar ot what la called call-ed 60 caliber, I e th length ot the gun li 50 timet the diameter of th s bore or caliber The gun la therefore "" "" !5 feet long Until within a few yeara 35 caliber guna were Ihe largrit made, but recently, In France a length ot no less than e0 calibers hat been employed em-ployed The tdvantago of Ihla Incrasse of length Is that a corresponding Increase In-crease ot velocity can be Imparted to th projectile, because II ll subjected for a longer time to the expansive force ot ths gases generated by firing th powder A projectile, from a six-Inch six-Inch gun of 30 caliber penetratet fourteen four-teen Inches of Iron at the muiile, while the samo projectile from a gun of 60-caliber 60-caliber penetrate 31 Inches of Iron Wltb th highest elevation practicable on shipboard, the six Inch rifles ot th New Orleans can send n shot to a distance dis-tance of tlx miles Wl ar TixMnrruw Hasina. Out In the l'aclflc Ocean, somewhere about midway between Bsn rranclico and Yokohama, la n placo whsro to morrow la born and the traveler skips from yesterday to tomorrow without being ablo to get a grip on today. On day la absolutely stolen out of his life, for It It be Tuesday oil one aid of tho line. It Is either Thursday or Tuesday Tues-day repeated on the other N'o matter which direction tho ship may be sailing, sail-ing, tbe pasarugcr Is shy one whole day whci f's to that point Th weekly t lar operates from different differ-ent aide he sea and tho result Is , this conC'i In crossing the Atlantlo from lot un to Now ork the passenger pas-senger gains slightly over half an hour a day l'rom New York lo Chicago he adds another hour lo the three or four crossing the ocean, another In reaching reach-ing Denrer and still another on reaching reach-ing San Francisco The latter city reckons time eight hours later than London, and the better portion ot a day later than Shanghai or okobnniii In crossing the Pacific tbo traveler comet to the time when ho cnUhet up wltb Ihe procession, and drops a whole day out of his II fu as easily as he glides through the water driven by tbe ship powerful screws. This line ot demarka-tlon demarka-tlon It not n perpendicular one from north to south The Itlandt In tho Pacific Pa-cific tako their time reckonings from the continent with which they do the bulk of their trading Thla causes th line to xlgisgdown Ihe ocean In a very ragged manner It might happen that tbe boat would strike an Island which clings to Ban Francisco lime, the vev-tit vev-tit having already aklpped a day In euch a caie It would be Monday on shore and Tuesday on board ot the tare ot ths I jaa. For strengthening the eyrt, plung the upper part ot the fare Into a bowl of clean, cold water, opening and abutting abut-ting them two or threo timet In tbe water. A very toothing application for Inflamed eyet It tcalded milk. Apply Ap-ply with a bit ot soft linen In uilnr any eye lotion, lake a separate rag for each eye, and only pour out na much - lotion at you are likely to require If any remains over after bathing throw It away, W ash or rluse the rag or lint each time after using, or burn those used and have fresh each time ! Irlsd lire I vtllh Mellsit Cliseas tour luncb rolls, two ounces ot butler, but-ler, four ounces of rich chesse He-movo He-movo the topi and bottoms ot the rolls, cut In two slices nnd fry yellow In butter Lay cheese cut In thin slices one on each piece of bread Bst In oven a moment to melt the cheese Serve at once L'.r. of f oat. Coal It not only a source or heat and light, but a storehouse of colors, medicines, medi-cines, perfumes and explosives From HO pounds ot gas tar In a ton of coal over 2 000 distinct shales of aniline dyea ara made tolflMt ol Klaiators. The awlftest elevator In tho world I at the Oneida mine In Amador county, California. Tbo ascent of 1 600 feet waa lately made In twenty ssconds This wat it tbe speed of a mile In 70 ttcondt |