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Show ciimismr i. war. T1IE BlrnCTLTIES ATTE.-CDINO TUB USE OK Tim SJIOKEE.UX. Tbo rapid prosress of scienco Is bringing about important aud rar-nacalng rar-nacalng chaoses In tbe art of war. Smokeicsa powder, solar as most of tbo experiments at field reviews barotctted it. has commended It-sell It-sell to tbe military authorities of Kurope. Actual cxpcricnctj with it ia tbo lint Euroixsn war may suddenly sud-denly brluR It into univcnal use. The advantage gained iu moreefil-clent moreefil-clent aim is uudcnlable, and also lu tbo CODCvalmect of tbe sbarp-iboot-ur, bo, w ithout a puO" of ull-tale smokH to rice aud indicate hi whereabout, may pick, oil (lie enemy almost with impunity. There are, hou ever, soma disad vantages connected with the uavr tmoteli-ss ammunltlou. If an ad-vauclng ad-vauclng column can, through the absence ot a rolling lice of amoVe, see their human targets belter, the human targets will have ako the adrautsgeofgrratcrdeflnlteiit'ss Iu their attempts at retaliation. This fact has been appreciated by military mili-tary men, and the smoLeUtli, to raise a cloud of impenetrable obscurity ob-scurity under which an altacMn; columu may advance, Ia the result. Hut the tmofctball, nt leatt tbe one now iu uj v, Is oljectlonable on ao count of its abominable trucll. In the sliam tight at Portsmouth the other dsy in honor of the Emperor William an advancing column was K alTected by mocbaii fumes tbat tbe men had to keep thtlr liands to their noses toaoId suHocaUon. It Ls iwrhapEjUnlikely thatany sntote-ball, sntote-ball, satlsfaitory in thequautlty of Mnoke it produces, can be invented tbat will not be more or liasobji-c-tionable In point of smell, flie ilifllculty a In o( men muit have In charging the enemy, or in taViug aim, with one hand held to their Diwf, may well bo imagined. Tlie aim is certain o be IneCldent, and tbe charge to lose the dah, energy and tntiiuaUiai which have made it one of the raott successful movements move-ments on tlio battle field. Tbo stnoUball, it li proposed, shall receive a further development. It has occurred to some military men that, instead of half sutlbcat-iag sutlbcat-iag their onu troops, it would be better to asphyxiate the enemy. Accordingly a Vienna scientist has Invented a bomb of exceeding mal-odor, mal-odor, which renders unconscious for several hours every one who happens to be within hundreds of yams of It when It explodes. Should the new bomb bo tuccess-ful tuccess-ful every Kind of powder will be almost al-most discarded iu war; hitting the enemy will not be cunsUered at all lmiortant: It 111 Hinlce tbat the chemical arlillery get their bombs near enough to nlm, or lay their mine m that 7a.; volumes ofauiru-eating ofauiru-eating vajer ru-- lu discharged op portunately to-'clifck his ailvance. liut the cud Is not J et. Just as lm-provt-d cannon on battleshlis h.is brought abuut ojual imnrovcmecU in armor plate, to osjdiyxlating bomU may be met by the uso of cherukoli, v.litc'1, by rapid irmi-blnatlou, irmi-blnatlou, will iivutralixe the cfTect ofthelomVs, lletwuun oBiokeleu powtler,snioKo balls and suffocating bojibr, war aud military life iuut undergo van modifications. The bright color iu cicthlng mutdrapar.as it mazes tlie soldier a better mirk for the foe, and with this disappearance much of the glory of the KMlcl'slife,Uith in peace and war must vanish sUo. Cbenii-try will bouud to a leading place at our military collegts, arm tlie soldier of the future will b- a thin, bent, spectacled man, "siefc-llrd "siefc-llrd over with the pale cast of tlisught." Moreover if tlie bombs do not get beyopd the pwlut of prcn durlug mrro ttKi)rxirarj uncon-fciouimt.-', the largest army of the military w-rvlcewlll be the corps of prisoner catcher. Aud ahetherlt liota r not, the army with tlie fevrect mein contUtent with proper jttentloii to bomb throwing will be tbe better advautage lu a battle. Tunmfa 4IrT, |