The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-31
CURIOUS AND sCIENTIFIc.


WArEKPRooF SILK PAPEB.-Silk pa
per is allowed to float for a little time
on the surface of an aqueous solution /
of shellac in borax, and then dried IN |
the air. BY the admixture of small |
uuantity of an aniline color with the |
borax colored papers are obtained.
A NEW life-saving invention has re-
Gently appeared in Paris in the shape
OF a durabla garment which covers the
entire body. It is made of rubber, and
is provided with flexible tube which
has mouth-piece. BY blowing into
tn , latter, the person in danger initiates
the garment, which buoys him up when
in the water.
A PARAGRAPH is going about the pa
pers that the largest room In the world
under g. single roof, unbreken by pillars
or other Instructors, is at st. Peters
burg, in Russia, and is $50 feet long and
$50 feet wide It is said to be used for
military display. The Grand Central
depot, in New York, is 800 feet long by
$40 wide, covering about four acres.
The roof is supported by the side walls.
EXPLORATIONS have recently been
made into the mounds of Ottumwa,
Iowa. In one a mass of charcoal, a bed of
ashes, and some calc.ned human bones
were found, showing that cremation was
pracbiced by the people who erected
them. AS Indians never burn their
dead, this adds another proof to the
theory that they were not the original
mound builders. The similarity of the
mounds of Mexico and of Iowa point to
the fact that they were constructed by
the same race of ancient Mexicans.
a FRENCH medical journal reports
the cure of the most refractory corn by
the morning and evening applications,
with brush, of q drop of a solution of
the perchlOride of iron. It states that
after fortnight's continued application,
without pain, a patient who had suf-
=tered martyrdom for nearly forty years
from the most painful corn on the inner
side of each little toe, was entirely re-
-IleYed; pressure was nc longer painful,
"a the cure seemed to be radical.
Other and similar cases are reported as
equally successful under the treatment.
From six to ten drops of the concen-
trated solution of chloride of soda in 6
wlneglassful of pure spring water, taken
immediately after additions of the
morning are completed, will sweeter
the breath by disinfecting the stomach
which, far from being injured, will tx
benefited by the medicine. If necessary,
this may be repeated in the middle Of
the day. In some cases the odor from
carIous teeth is combined with that o.
the stomach. If the mouth is we'll rinsec
with teaspoonful of the solution O.
the chloride in a I'll mbler of water, tn,
Dad odor of the teeth Will be removed
LEFT-HAND WRTING.-A left-hanC
writer in the Scientific American give
some reasons why it is better to writ,
as he does. The hand is never in tn,
way of vision. The pen-poirt is al
ways In plain sight, and SO is the pape
to be written on. There is, consequent
~, no inducement to stoop forward t,
turn the head so as to throw the eye
out focus. 1t is a common fault will
those who write much that the left eyr
has shorter range than the right. I
is overwOrked and compelled to adap
itself TO nearer vision. In writing will
the left hand these evils are avoided
An upright posture is the easiest, ant
the eyes are equally distant from tn
paper.
a BEE-KEEPER gives this plan to pre-
R6bI1Qg
from the hive, with the statement tina
after ten years experience he has neve
known it TO fail but once. As soon a
they show the first symptoms of swarm
ing stop up some of the outlets to thu
hive so as to force them to a Consider
able time coming out. The swarm be
ing made mp in part of young bees
many of them unable to f7 well, and
as the swarm can do nothing until al
are oat and flying about in the air, b,
prolonging their exit the feeble one
become tired, and, finding their plan
frustrated, they alight to arrange thei
journey. If they can leave the oil,
hive at once they care very little abou
alighting.
FROM 81 TO sc MILES AN Hour B,
RAIL.-Fast time was recently ma e b.
the " newspaper train, 4" which left JeI
sey City nsarly half an hour behin
time, and made it all up before reach
ing Trenton. This distance, a fractio
less than 81 miles, was run in 50 min
utes, including q stoppage of over
minnie at Newark and q moderation c
speed at New Brunswick. There wer
some portions where speed was NOR
than mile and a quarter a minute
Just beyond New Brunswick, five mile
were run in three minutes, which is
the rate of nearly Sc miles an houl
About a dozen passengers enjoyed TIN
ex rsordinary ride. -Scie1ltifc Amer
can.
A BIG CHUNK OF PuATINA. The Par
mint has just completed the manufa,
ture of bar Of iridated pIatina of th
enormous weight of five hundre
pounds, and worth 100000 francs, til