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New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 990, 10 October 1855, Page 3

A Naw Builet Extractor.—That ** necessi y is the mother of invention "has jnat recaifed another illustration, which all who sympathise with our glorious krmjr in the Crimen mu«t bail with peculiar pleasure. Tba frightful list of our wounded at the bard-fought battles of Alma and lukernian, suggested to Mr fc'ltrs Mites (ofStok* Hammond) the idea of constructing an instrument for extract in g bul?ets from the wounds «vb comparative eaoe, rapiditv and safety. The contrivance is very simp! , consisting of a am ill air-pump and cylinder, to wbicb a tap is afn.sed. To this tap is attached puitah e length of flexible tuhi*g, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, lined inside with silver wire to prevent its oollawpiog. At the other end of this tube there is a una It glob*, from wbicb a tuba Sufficiently miuute to pass into a bu'let wound is fixed, the end terminating with an India rubber collar. On the top of the Gl.be there ie a small t»|iin order to admit a probe to pus* d«wn to the tube to sound when en the bullet. The moda of operation it this :—A vacuum is created in the cylinder, the tube before alluderl to is pamed into the wound, and when it is ascertained te be on the ball, the tap in the cylinder is opened, when the bullet becomes fixed to the tube by the vacuum thus created, and is thu* withdrawn. Tbe great merit of this iiiTention consists in i's obviating the necessity for the painful and dangerous operation of cutting out bullets ; and, by its means, a medical man, witb tu« aid of an assistant te work the air pump, would be al>la to a complish the work which now occupies many surgeons. WoNDiaa or Ciibnistry.—The horaeshoe nail* diOpjed in the streets during the daily traffic re-ap-pear iii the form of swords and guns. The clippings of the traveling tinker are mixed with parings of horses'ho fs tr..m the s.iiithy, or the c*i»t,jfT woollen garments of the poorest inhabitants of a sister isle, and soon afterwards, in the form of dyes of the biigulest hlue, grace the dress of courtly dames. The main ingredient 01 the iuk witb which I now write- was pos--sibly once psrt of tiie broken hoop of an old beerbarrel. The hones ol dead animals yield the chief cons'ituent of lucdvr-maleLes. Tbe dregs of port wine, carefully rej««led ty the pou winediinker in decanting bjU li.youiutc bevei are taking by him in the morning, in the form of seid'ils powder?, to remove the effects of his debauch. The cff.l to tbe streets and tii*- w<s>-h.nx of coal-gas re-appear cmeluUy preserved in the ia-iy'a smelling Dottle, are used by her to flavour blancmanges tor her frient'f. Alcuohol rnoM Cost. —A young French chemist, of the nam" of "LieilbeKH, ban made a remarkable dscovey; viz., thai alcohol can he produced directly tiom olefiant pt«, which con be extracted to huge quantities from tJhal The probable eflte{> of this disco* rev it »* impossibia to foceull,