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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4708, 8 February 1884, Page 2

By a late invention ladie^ are to be made taller. The wouia» who has to undergo ' this process is encase i in a very tight cpwet, and her feet are" placed in shoes weighted with 501bs of Uud each. - She is tbefr^jflacciin a maahttftWoasisting of a : ring, whidh encircle* h*r ,W*ist, and. sus« pendcd,ffcplt4ke ceiling attach 4* height as to prerent heT-fa&ftaAnSoaeQtsg tb« ground.,. The^resstireottQe corset forces - tbeiupperpart of the"body upwards, and the; weigh tof the «hoea stretch*! her fironi ' the waist downward^.,.lt-is.«stjirated that the extreme length to which the spine mar. be stretched by the" prooeis thiißde«eribed U is 2iri:rand that Uti* knee arid; trip joints can'be stretched an inch and a-half more. Thus three inches and a-half can be added to the height of any woman who., has. the courage to undergo the trouble;' and pain .J necessarily connected with a stretching ■■ process, laitiog,, with brief ioterrals, dcring fire or six monfhs. A patent has been taken« out for preserving fresh meat, and it is of snch an ; ingenious and thoroughly .scientific character that one cannot do better than : i gire an outline of. it. The means for ; - preserving the meat ia a mixture of car* ." bonic oxide and carbonic aoid gases—the . former a conbustible gas, the latter a non-. •■ supporter of conbusiibn. These gases, when mixed in definite, proportions, say . ~ not less than 55 per cent nor more than !-: 75 of carbonic acid, with not more than. r;' 45. per cent of carbonic oxide, nor /less" V than 24 form a thoroughly, inflammable^ ', - and tasteless mixture in which the meat; remains unchanged for any length of time.. > The mixtur j of the gases takes place in a . specially prepared iron cylinder, the details of which are giren in the spjcifi* cations of the patent. The latter is taken ~ out by Mr 0. M. Pielsticker of Sydney- *' - terrace. Kilbnm. • v : ' That Hpsbabd of Mike is three times tha ' man he was bcrore he began using " WeW Health Rnnewer." Drng<r<6t?. Motei, HoH & Co., Sydney, General Agouti.