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r. r - fci BALLOONS IN WAK. _____ AIR SHIPS VALUABLE IN MILI, TARY OPERATIONS. What Europeans Have Accomplished 1? ?A Balloon as Big as a FourStory House ? United States War Balloons. j * y O have an effective balloon ' r I j corps fully equipped and I ready to take the field in case of war at a moment's notice is now regarded by all the great Eu1 ropean powers as a matter of vital importance. Even in the United States is the question being discnssed with a great deal of interest. Everything tends to show that if there is one branch of modern warfare, or rather, perhaps, strategy, which is likely to be watched with keen interest during i the next war it will be that of military | ballooning. It is generally conceded jthat France has made the greatest ) strides toward perfection in this line, .though the world at large has not been [permitted to know the exact results of ' its latest experiments. There is a great deal of secrecy about the establishment of Meudon, where the Government Pare d'Aerostation is situated. France has been and is spending a i great deal of money in perfecting an absolutely faultless dirigible balloon, ' one that can be moved in any direci tion at the will of the aeronaut irre. spective of the direction of the wind. The French experts declare that their war balloon, the "General Meusnier," i a milPH I OVUM4iCU t? C^tvu v* v?.v*4vj an hour and could be guided with utf most ease to any given point. How(ever, since no outsiders were allowed to witness the wonderful performance, it might be a trifle exaggerated. The German Emperor does not propose to let his warlike neighbor monopolize this feature of army equipment. He has just presented to the German Society for Promotion of Aerial Navigation for the advancement of this science the sum of 50,000 marks. This is to be applied for the construction and equipment of a giant balloon. This balloon will be as high as a four-story house. It will be fifty-six feet in diameter and will contain not less than 2530 cubic meters of [ gas. It will be made of Egyptian i cotton stuff and wil* be coated with I "vulcanized gum, a 6uostance which is i considered superior to varnish. I f- A very interesting feature of this monster balloon will be the provision of a speoial valve of a new construction which will keep the gas pure for a longer time and thus sustain the balloon for a longer period. It is pro posed to make not less than fifty journeys within a year and to ascend as high as possible. Ah altitude of 33,000 feet is thought to be obtainable by the use of artificial respiration. More than $2500 will be expended iu purchasing scientific apparatus for this balloon, which ib intended more for taking observations than for the j purpose of war. Aside from thia the German army has this spring put in the field as efficient a balloon corps as that of France, ihough, perhaps, not so strong numerically. At Metz, during the late maneuvers, several successful ascensions were made which practically proved the vast advantage an army may derive from having these aerial observatories. A very interesting experiment was also made to show that the balloons can, ia an emergency, supply the want of bridges. A good_._i v n K.J ? Eizea D&I1UOU WUO Buppucu IT1IIU a large number of ropes dangling from its side. One of these was seized by a soldier, -who was curried across the river in the twinkling of an eye. As soon as he had landed he fastened the end of a line securely, after which 1 the balloon was hauled forward and ! back, and in less than no time trans- j ferred a battalion from one side to j another. jfcAnewair torpedo, to be used in j balloon warfare, is the invention of a Frenchman, who has disposed of his patent to the Russian Government. The inventor claims to be able to diireot this with as much accuracy as. fh&fc nf a finhmprirm tomfldo. It has : a carrying capacity of nearly 1000 j pounds of explosives. The discharg- j ing of these can be made without sub- , jeeting the attacking party to any j risks, owing to the remarkable guid- j ing power of this aerial cruiser, which is to strike and glide away with mar-1 Veloua rapidity either as it emerges j from the clouds or springs unseen j above the smoke of battle to let fall j its missiles of destruction when least j expected. No public experiments have as yet been made with this flying torpedo, which, if it is all that the inventor claims, will prove a most dangerous power of destruction. However, till a practical test has been made no one can judge of its merits, i In building the war balloon "General Myer" for the signal corps of the United States army the first real step mm TBANS?Or.TIN*G GA3 AluOSii THE COAST. was taken by tie military oflicia-s of thin country to advance with the great war powers or Enrope in this line 01' military work. It is modoled after both the French and English military balloons and iu mechanical details embodies the best features of each. It resembles the English in the similarity of material from which the envelope is made. The eystem of inflation is 1 also like that of the English, the hydrogen being stored under pressure within steel cjlinders. In the plan of its suspension gear it is after the Frensh models. The envelepe of the "General Mver" is spherical in shape, with a capacity r ' f . of 13,000 cubic feet, corresponding i with the ordinary balloon used abroad i for captive ascensions, and having a ' lifting power sufficient to carry two BALLOON ATTACHMENT FOB GOYEBNING ? ASCENT AND DESCENT. I f men with the necessary signal instra- 1 ments. The envelope is formed of \ gold-beaters' skin, which is especially i adapted to this purpose, as it is im- 1 pervious to the hydrogen gas and is c very light. The membranes from j which this fabric, gold-beaters' skin, is formed are taken from the entrails t of the bollock, each animal furnishing e mm THE FIBST UNITED STATES SIGNAL COBPS one. When sti etched they are from ^ eighteen to twenty-four inches long i] and ten to sixteen inches wide. After b taking the membranes from the v slaughtered bullock they are first il scraped free from fat and soft parts ti and salted till needed for use. After v taking them from the salt they are ti first culled, 'washed and soaked in ti fresh water till the salt ip taken out. ii Then a day or two before using they ji ore placed in a vessel containing soft h water, in which has been dissolved g some fish glue, which adds to their ^ adhering qualities when making the ? fabric of the envelope. ii In making the envelope, says a I* TJSING BALLOONS FOR CROSSING RIVERS, t ' g correspondent in the Aeronautics, a rj cotton model balloon with a neck was fl made of the same size as the General ^ Myer and its surface oiled. This cot- ^ ton bag was then inflated with air by q a blower and the neck securely fastened so as to retain the air. The * model was kept in a 6tate of tension Q by applying the blower from time to time as the air under pressure within 1 ' - ill 1. a I ieH.ik.CU Iliruugu. xiig luuuci iauud alujj i ^ I inflated was suspended by ropes at- _ I tached to the neck and to the top or opposite hole. This suspension permitted the balloon model to be turned as upon an axis, and thus brought every part of its surface in rotation within easy reach of the operator. A scaffold framework, having a height nearly equal to the semidiameter of the model, was placed around oue side, or semicircumference, thus presenting to the workmen a nearly i vertical surface on which to lay the I membranes. The nice task of placing the membranes forming the fabric of the envelope was done by women. Each membrane was taken from the . water, stretched oiit upon the surface si of the model, smoothed down by I hand, and sides or ends, where ir- t: regular, were cut off by a pair of fi bluet-pointed shears, which the women o used most deftlj. Being wet and p charged with the solution of fish glae, the membranes stretched taut over d tho surface and adhered while damp il to the model. The membranes in this n way were placed side by side, the a edges overlapping, until the entire h surface of the balloon model was c covcred with one coherent layer of d tbe gold beater's skin. Over thiB first e; | layer a cocond and third were put, in a {like manner, except that the mem- o j br*ues in each alternate were placed t] at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the preceding series. Over the third layer were placed, from the top to the neck, long ribbons about an inch wide, of the same material, laid in lattice. These ribbons were made by stretching a layer of gold-beater's skin upon a long and smooth oiled board, and superimposing thereon five additional layers successively, and after drying, the fabric, which resembled parchment, was cut into narrow strips. These interlacing ribbons, or cords, appear as diamond-shaped figures, increasing in size from each pole to the equator, and strengthen the balloon fabric and limit its tearing to rents no greater than about sixteen inches at the equator, in case the balloon should come in contact with any sharppointed object. Over these strengthening cords three additional layers of s?old beater's skin were placed Bimilar to the first three. Around the top and about the neck an idditional layer was placed to further strengthen these parts, where the strain is great. After the fabric tvas thus completed t'ne air was pumped >ut of the model, the neck of the cotton bag was separated from that of the outside fabric and air was blown into i the true balloon envelope between the skinB and the cotton material, gently separating the skins from the oiled mrface of the cotton model and pernitting the latter to be pulled out ;hrough the neck of the balloon proper. Fhere remained a translucent globe, vhich, except for the latticed ribbons n diamond-shaped figures, appeared lomegeneous throughout, not the line >f a joint or lap of the thousands of jieces of which it was formed showing. In the top of the balloon envelope pas now cut a circular opening about ighteen inches in diameter, into mm 7 _Wm J "WAR BALLOON, THE GENERAL MYER. rhich the valve ring or thimble was aserted and seized, and into the thimle was secured the valve. The enelope of the balloon being complete, b was placed within the netting, the ap of which waB secured about the alve ring, and upon ropes being Atached to the ring the balloon and netLng were hoisted, air was again blown ato the balloon and the netting adisted. After this the balloon was oisted higher and the suspension ear, with basket, was attached, after rraor?fllflf ifl. rillUU UAU1U bUC va^/uro gvwi. *wy be cable which holds the bAlloon when t ascends. All was perfect and the 'General Mjer" was ready for use. The cable serving to hold the balnon captive is made of several strands f steel wire, having in its center an nsulated wire for telephonic work, he outside strands acting as return rires. The balloon, with complete quipment, is now at the Fort Riley Kan.) School of Instructions, where t is being used in instructing the sigLai corps at that post. It has been >ronounced by experts as a mastertiece in balloon building. This is not the first time the United itates army has made use of balloons. )uring the Civil War the Federal Govrnment recognized their value for nftlrintr nViBprvaiiori. In the month ?f September, 1861, one of the most laring aeronauts, La Mountaine, furlished important information to Genral McClellan. His balloon rose from be Northern camp of the Potomac ,nd passed above Washington. ?he ropeB were then cut nd La Mountaine rose to the leight of a mile and a half and found timself directly over the lines of the Jonfederates. There he was able to ierfectly observe their position and lovements. When he had made his bservations he threw out ballast and ose to a height of three miles, when n air current carried him in the diection of Maryland, where he de BUBYIN'G A BALLOON'. cended in safety. General McClellan 'as so well satisfied with the observaions taken taken that through his inuence the War Department received rders causing more balloons to be rovided. The use of balloons, however, was iscontinued for many years, but now ; is believed they will be given a perlanent place in the equipment of all rmies. The science of aeronautics as so advanced, new features being onstantly added, that it is hard to isbelieve anything claimed by the athusiasts in this line. The chances re that we will dispense entirely with rdinary fleets and do our fighting in tie air. The only thing needed just now to show what can be done with these mnch-talked-of war balloons is to start a first-class continental war, A Musical Legend of the Chinese. The Chinese have some extraordin* ary superstitions relating to music. According to their queer notions, the Creator of the universe hid eight sounds in the earth for the express purpose of compelling man to find them out. On the same principle, it is presumed, Jupiter, according to Virgil, hideB fire in flints and honey in trees in order to whet the ardor of man's industry to persevere in his efforts to rediscover the hidden treasures. According to the Celestial idea, tha eight primitive sounds are hidden in stones, silks, woo :1s or various kinds, the bamboo plant, pumpkins, in the skins of animals, in certain earths and in the air itself. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure (?) of seeing and listening to a Chinese orchestra will remember that their musical instruments were made of all these materials except the last, and that the combined efforts of the other seven seemed better calculated to drive the ethereal sound away than to coax it from the air, which is really the object of all Chinese musical efforts. When the band plays, the naive credulity of the people, both old and young, hears in the thuds of the gongs and the whistling of the pipes the tones of the eternal sounds of nature that were originally deposited in the various animate and inanimate objects by the all-wise Father.?St. Louis Republic. Origin of the Mathematical Sifns. The sign of addition is derived from the initial letter of the "word "plus." In making the capital letter it was made more and more carelessly until the top part of the "p" was placed near the centre, hence the pins sign was finally reached. The sign of sub6traction was derived from the word "minus." The word was first contracted into mus, with a horizontal line above to indicate the contraction, which was a printer's freak that may be found in almost any ^ook bearing a date earlier than the beginning of the eighteenth century. After the lapse of a long period of time the letters were omitted ?Jtogether, leaving only the short line so well known to all, thus ?. The multiplication sign was obtained by changing the plus sign into a character resembling the letter x. This was done simply because multiplication is but a shorter form of adJ'j.* CUUOIL Division was formerly indicated by placing the dividend above a horizontal line and the divisor below. In order to save space in printing, the dividend was placed to the left and the divisor to the right, with a simple dot in place of each. The radical sign was derived from the initial letter of the word "radix." The sign of equality is said to have first been nsed in the year 1557 by a sharp mathematical, who adopted it as a substitute for the words "equal to."?St. Louis Republic. mm? Inoculation Against Snake Bites. Dr. Calmeth is experimenting on the introduction of Pasteur's inoculation methods to the cure of snake bites. His idea is that venomous animals are unaffected by their om noison. and that therefore persons bitten by such animals may be cored by inocnlating them with tha blood of the animal. He has obtained ex* cellent effects by inoculating or injecting viper's blood into various animals. The blood is first treated by heat, or by chemical agents, such as hyposnlphite of soda. His results confirm those recently obtained by M.M. Phisalix and Bertrand at the laboratories of the Paris Museum. A Device to Keep tirapes Fresh. Glasses such as are shown in our il1 ' *' ? - ^ ?/iV?r\rrt nn lustration &rtj ououi mc inucau of grape-growers in England to keep KEEPING GRAPES. the fruit from drying dnring the winter. The jar is made of clear glass, and, having a wide mouth, water can easily be added from a small watering can as required without the trouble of taking it down or removing the grapes. The weight of the bunch will press the immersed end of the stem against the upper side of the bot* tie, and so prevent its slipping out. It is always best to leave about eighteen inches of stem beyond the buncb when the grapes are cut, as otherwise the berries are apt to crack throughabsorbing too much of the water wher first stored. It is well also to cut ofl the immersed end about once in three weeks to maintain a iree passage iur absorption. i^ueer Nest ot the Tontobane. The oddest of ail birds' nests is the one built by the tontobaue, a South African sonster. It is built of cotton, and always on the tree producing the material. In constructing the domicile the female works inside and the male outside, where he builds a sentinel box for his own special use. He sits in the box and keeps watch or sings nearly all the time, and whey danger comes in the form of a hawk or a snake he warns the family, but never enters the main nest.?3t. Louis Republic. ^ Innocence Abroad. A lady who was recently returned from a Mediterranean trip says that, as the ship was leaving the harbor of Athens, a well dressed lady passenger approached the captain, who was pacing the deck, and pointing to the distant hills covered with snow, asked: "What is that white stuff on the hills, captain?" "That is snow, madam," answered the captain. "Now is it really?" remarked the lady; "I thought so, but a gentleman just told me it was Ctjeece."?Argonaut, A Land ot Samples. The first impression of the Bermuda Islands to one expecting a semitropical appearance is disappointing on account of the cedar. This is the prevailing tree; indeed, all the islands are covered with this scraggy foliage. The trees for the most part are small, and suggest to us a Northern latitude and a poor soil. It is true that they are Southern cedars, which originally drifted over from Florida, and some people might try to call them cypress, and give them a botanical juniper flavor ; but to us they are Northern, and in such contrast to the cerulean waters and soft blue skies and genial atmos-. pbere that we are not easily reconciled to them. Yet they are the only thing that seems to be native to the land. Every other tree and shrub has an exotic appearance?even the mangroves, which grow in the 6alt marshes, putting down their branches and dropping their long seeds, loaded at one end, into the slime, and creating an impenetrable thicket, and finally land. It is, indeed, called the continent maker. Palms grow here of several sorts?sagos palmetto, cabbage and date?but they are little more than specimens. The bananas of 6mall and fairly good variety flourish, but not in quantities sufficient to supply tne wants of the islands. The oranges and lemons have succumbed to the scale, and the few other semitropical fruits are of no consequence. The islands are at times brilliant with vaiious flowerB, but not in the vigor or profusion of Southern California. Very fine, indeed, are the great fields of lilies in bloom .(the export of the bulbs is oiie of the industries of the islands), and occasionally great fields of scarlet amaryllis excite the imagination like a compact regiment of redcoats! Brilliant also are the tall hedges of scarlet hibiscus, and everywhere the oleander grows wild in profusion. Much more might be made out of the islands in the way of gardens and small fruits if there were more good farmers and horticulturists and more enterprise; but Bermuda is a sort of child of the sea, and looks beyond the horizon for help. Upon many things there is a sort of blight, at least periodic, and it has even fallen npon the pungent onion and the po* tato, so that the anxiety of a short crop in these great staples is added to the worry about the American tariff. ?Harper's Magazine. The Cloth Cannot be Sewed. The bullet-proof cloth invented by Dowe, the German tailor, abont which so much has been said recently, seems to be of very doubtful value, after all. It is said that it simply cannot be used as wearing apparel, as its thickness and composition forbid its being cut, or shaped, or sewed, as is necessary in the manufacture of clothing. Everyone who has thought of the bulletproof cloth has associated it with something a man could put on when he went into battle and take off when i. i.fi it. ij.ij Ta. iv.i it Jie leu iiitj jueiu. jlv appeuro mat tuo ; material must be carried in the knap- | Back or in the blanket roll, and wound around the body where protection is needed. Perhaps, after all, the "cloth" will be found more useful for shields and torpedo nets than as a species of armor for the soldier. The material is said to be about half an inch thick, and not flexible. One observer, who has reported to the war department on the stuff, describes it as a wire netting, incased in what appears to be a cement substance. The "coat," or garment, which was recently used in experiment abroad, weighed about six pounds, and costs aDoux mxy cents a pounu to manufacture.?New Orleans Picayune. Hints to Athletes. When a man dies from heart failure alter excessive exertion it is because he rests too completely after the ef* fort and allows too great a rush of blood to the left lung and the region of the heart. When an athlete is in good training he runs no risk at all if he lies down after a hard race, but when he commences training every spring he learns by experience that he must rest op gradually after heavy exertion. If a man runs a mile rapidly when overburdened with flesh, and then lies down or sits down, he experiences a choking sensation which sometimes leads to the rupture of a blood vessel. If, on the other hand, he walks around the track until he cools ofl a little, the unpleasant sensation is not felt at all. When a man runs rapidly to catch a train he ought to keep on his feet for a few minutes after he is through with the exertion, and if he cannot conveniently keep in motion, lie should breatne as ireeiy as possible and be careful to keep the whole of his lungs busy for at least several seconds. When he does this all risk is averted.?New York Dispatch. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Blnghamton, N. Y. Great Bbitain has 176,520 owners of farms. Hull's Catarrh Core Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75o. Karl's Clover Root, the great blood pnrifler, j gives freshness and clearness to the complex- ! ion and cures constipation. 25 cts., 50 cts., 51. j Check Colds and Bronchitis with Hale's j Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minrte. A Benucilul Souvenir Spoon Will be sent with every bottle of Dr. Hox?ityi Certain Croup Cure. Ordered by mail, postpaid, 50 cts. Address, Hoxsie. Buffalo, N. Y. 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The "Gegenschein," or "Counterglow," is a very faint, hazy luminosity, which always keeps opposite to the sun in the sky?a nearly round spot varying from ten degrees to twenty degrees in diameter, usually a little brighter at the middle, though one observer has reported seeing it with a darkish center. It is so faint that when it happens to fall near the Milky Way, or even near to any bright star, it is quite drowned out, and, of course, therefore, can be observed at all only at stations where the sky is perfectly dark, and not vitiated by the illumination of gas or electrio lights. It seems to have been first noticed by Drorueu, in uermany, juui, lvriy years ago, and since then has been more or less studied by a number of observers, who, however, have not folly succeeded in solving the mystery. It is quite certain that it is in some way connected with the zodiacal light; in fact, it is only a brighter and wider portion of the faintly luminous ring which bears that name. At present a number of observers are watching it carefully in this country, as well as in Europe and South America, in hopes to determine its distanoe from the earth. It ought to show a notable parallax if it is really a compact cloud of any sort and nearer than the moon. Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, has recently published hie last year's observations, and they rather confirm the hypothesis that it is due to the reflection of sunlight from a multitude of small meteoric bodies, which are mostly far beyond the moon, and brighten up one by one as they come opposite the sun, just as the moon does when it is full; for, as everyone knows, the moon exactly at the full is much brighter than the day before or after the full. If this theory is correct each observer sees his own4 'Gegenschein," as he does his own rainbow, and parallax is out af the question.?New York Independent. Brings comfort and improvement and j tends to personal enjoyment when < rightly used. 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