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ARTILLERY CURIOSITIES
Old Trntj Cannon That Wero Mado of
Leathor Wood and Rock
Among the curiosities of artillery
ociu inventions have a great place
Caution have been made of the most
unlikely materials Leather was used
as early as Henry VIHs day at the
siege of Boulogne The very articles
wero stored lu the tower once and
Evelyn saw them there inscribed
Non Marti opus est cul non deficit
Mercurius Are they still lying in
some corner of a forgotten lumber
room The Scotch emploj ed leather
guns In 10 10 to batter Lord Conways
fortifications at Newbourne and they
did the work well Describing the fe
verish alarm in Paris In 1702 Cariyle
says One citizen has wrought out the
scheme of a wooden cannon which
France shall exclusively profit by In
the first Instance It Is to be made of
staves by the coopers of almost bound
less caliber but uncertain as to
strength
Two small pieces brought to France
by the Siamese ambassadors as pres
ents from their king to Louis XIV
were the only artillery procurable for
the atack on the Bastille of eccentric
model no doubt adorned with dragons
and golden Inscriptions but efllcleut
workmanship We read of gold cannon
in India There were two so de
scribed at Baroda in Burtons time
to which regular adoration was of
fered In fact the tubes were of
steel but the massive gold casing cost
20000
For the defense of Malta in the old
days the knights invented a kind of
ordnance of their own unknown to all
the world beside says Brydone an
eyevitnss They followed out the nat
ural rock here and there in such fash
Ion that the cavity was like a mortar
put a barrel of gunpowder into the
hole plugged it with a wooden disk
exactly fitting and heaped miscellane
ous projectiles thereupon About fifty
of these singular cannon defended
creeks and landing places Some of
them were six feet in diameter and
threw 10000 pounds weight of Iron or
stone into the air Doubtless if all
went well they would do tremendous
execution upon au enemy trying to
disembark
But there are eccentricities still more
curious on record In a tomb on the
island of Chinal near Usumacinta
Mexico was found a cannon four feet
eleven inches long of terra cotta with
terra cotta bullets It is suggested
that when Cortes retired after his
great flight at Ceutla Tabasco the na
tives copied the Spanish guns in clay
hoping to produce the same results
London Standard
LIKE THE INFERNO
Graphic Description of a Climb Over
a Volcanic Island
A climb over a volcanic island in
Bering sea is thus described in Outing
Magazine by Robert Dunn
Cliff sank away into chaos Up
right fans of tuffa crevices like salt
crusted wounds chasms with leprous
edges breathed all like mad Less
steam but more crmkly and venomous
gases Tarched white and red and
ocher In their deplhs they seemed al
most to whistle yet they did not
whistle a furtive ambient high
pressure Zjsssho ooo Was it sound
Then I would pause and catch only the
horrid overburdened silence
The thing seemed more friendly
The sulphur no longer choked You
could have passed a burning bunch of
miners matches under my nose and 1
Avould have gulped the fumes like
fresh air But the invisible venom
still belched out everywhere secret
and furtive now from jaws and
gashes four feet and more across no
longer red yellow but with fangs
crusted white or brilliant green and
bristling with rapier like stalagmites
Heat tremors pulsed as the whole
were a vast roof too close under the
eye of the sun And below on tho
blasted acre under the beak the pant
ing steam flashed out the supreme des
olationcrumbling clinkery and over
parched trailed away its smear of the
dull rainbow hues of sulphur from
grotesque mosaics It was a pudding
of slag fresh from that great furnace
of the unknown fusing point and how
alien to the cold waves and winds of
the subarctic
Brain Growth
The brain usually stops growing at
about fifty and from sixty to seventy
it Is more likely to decrease It has
been related by Canon MacColl that
Mr Gladstones head was constantly
outgrowing his hats As late as the
Midlothian campaign when he was
nearly seventy he was obliged to have
his head reineasured for this reason
Canon MacColls conclusion that this
continual growth of brain contributed
to Mr Gladstones perennial youthful
ness appears not unwarranted Lou
don Spectator
Oratory
What am oratory Brudder Jack
son
Brudder Simmins I will elucidate
If you says black am white dat am
foolish but if you says black am white
an bellers like a bull an pounds on a
table wif bofe fists dat am oratory
an some people will believe you
Atlanta Constitution
A Juvenile Wriggle
Mother an invalid Elmer what
did you do with the orange Mrs Neigh
bors gave yon to give to me 3ester
day Small Elmer It was too sour
for you mamma so I put some sugar
on it and ate it myself Chicago News
It Is from the remembrance of joys
we have lost that the arrows of af
fliction are- pointed Mackenzie
lAKE TRAFFIC CIS
NEARLY 10 PER CENT INCREASE
IN 1907 OVER 1906
Department of Commerce and Labor
Reports Volume of Shipments
Reached Total of 83387919
Tons Last Year
Washington Lake commerce dur
ing the 1907 season as measured by
the volume of shipments from the
various lake ports and reported by tho
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor reached the
unprecedented total of 83387919 net
tons This total is almost ten per cent
larger than the corresponding 1906
total and about 20 per cent in excess
of the 1905 shipments
The increase is due mainly to the
larger ore and coal shipments though
the movement of grain and miscel
laneous merchandise likewise shows
larger totals than for the preceding
seasons the only items showing small
er shipments being lumber and flour
The iron ore shipments by lake for
the year exclusive of about 275000
tons exported to Canada were 40727
972 gross tons the largest shipping
ports In the order of their impor
tance were Duluth Two Harbors and
Superior West Superior
The eastward grain movement for
the season included 03349585 bushels
of wheat compared with 47720778
bushels shipped during the 1906 sea
son the main shipping ports in the
order of their importance being Du
luth Superior and Chicago which are
credited in the aggregate with over
93 per cent of the total wheat ship
ments by lake The corn shipments
44335990 bushels about 91 per cent
of which originated in Chicago were
somewhat larger than the 1906 ship
ments of 43531540 bushels
The shipments of oats 20680188
bushels mainly from Manitowoc Mil-
waukee and Chicago were 38 per cent
below the 1906 total while the barley
shipments 13564074 bushels mainly
from Superior and Milwaukee show a
26 per cent decrease as compared with
the 1906 figures
The importance of Buffalo as a re
ceiving port for grain shipped from
the upper lakes is seen from the fact
that 87 per cent of all the wheat 64
per cent of all the corn 52 per cent
of all the oats and 83 per cent of all
the barley received by lake is credited
to that port
The lumber shipments for the sea
son 1380284000 feet show a con
siderable decrease compared with the
total of the preceding year 1807570
000 feet The gradual exhaustion of
the lumber supply in the territory
contiguous to the great lakes is seen
from the fact that the lake shipments
of this article have decreased about
42 per cent since 1901 the first year
for which the bureau has a complete
record of the lumber shipments by
lake
The westbound traffic was made up
largely of soft coal shipments from
Lake Erie ports to the upper lake
ports the principal shipping ports in
the order of their importance being
Toledo Cleveland Ashtabula Lorain
and Huron the aggregate shipments
from these five ports constituting over
75 per cent of the total shipments
15309237 tons The hard coal ship
ments for the year 4079177 net tons
proceeded mainly from Buffalo The
destinations of these shipments were
largely the head of the lakes Chicago
and Milwaukee
The vessel movement on the lakes
aggregated 73769 vessels of 99166
409 net tons register cleared from the
various lake ports compared with 76
097 vessels of 94094316 net tons
register cleared during the preceding
season
LOST IN BABYHOOD FOUND
Sister Sees Brother Work
ing at Place She Visits
Worcester Mass One of the
strange happenings which at times
come in real life took place at the res
idence of John Fuller in Granby when
Ray Turner was brought face to face
with his sister whom he never remem
bered having seen and who had not
seen him for 15 years during which
time he had been lost completely to
his family
Kis mother died when he was three
years old and he was placed in a
family and boarded for two years
When his father came to pay another
year for him he discovered that his j
son had been taken away by the state
authorities The family has searched
for him ever since
His sister happened to drive up to
the Fuller residence and struck by
the remarkable family resemblance of
the young man in Fullers employ
asked if he wasnt Ray Turner and
when he replied in the affirmative she
disclosed her identity Young Tur
ner is now busily engaged in getting ac
quainted with his own family
Live Bees in Stone Block
London While the workmen were
sawing through a block of bathstone
at Exeter they cut into a cavity in
which was found a cluster of two or
three dozen live bees The incident
occurred at the works of Collard
Sons monumental sculptors There
was not much sign of life in the bees
at first but when air was admitted
they gradually revived and after a
few hours several of them were able
to fly The bathstone is to be re
moved to the Royal Albert Memorial
museum for expert examination No
vein or crevice was apparent on the
surface of the stone
Absenco of Mind
Mauy amusing anecdotes are told of
Bishop Burnets absence of mind but
few perhaps are more striking and
nave been less repeated than the fol
lowing which Lord Orford used to re-
Kite
Burnet was once dining with the
Duchess of Marlborough after the
great dukes disgrace In the course of
conversation speaking of Marlbor
oughs great qualities great services
and great fall Burnet compared the
duke with Belisarlus the great Ro
man
But how in reason exclaimed the
duchess could so great a general be
abandoned
All my lady do you know what a
cursed brimstone of a wife lie had
The hearers to the good Burnets
surprise were confused and dumb
struck with the force of the parallel he
discovered in the cases of the Roman
and the Englishman St James Ga
zette
The Count Too Touching
In the long corridor of an uptown ho
tel they tell of a certain foreigner who
until recently held court there of even
ings At last he disappeared and then
each of the men who had nightly been
entertained by his flow of anecdote
and his abundance of witty stories con
fessed that he had lent the count
various sums ranging from 100 up
The total seemed so formidable that a
movement was set on foot to bring the
defaulter back his whereabouts hav
ing been ascertained But funds were
needed for the purpose One of the
big men of Wall street who was a
creditor on the counts books to the ex
tent of 300 was approached for a sub
scription
Not on your life said he T dont
want him back Hell borrow more
money from me if he gets In town But
Ill subscribe 23 toward a fund to
send him back to France if hell agree
to sail from Boston New York Globe
Recipe For Making Money
First catch your capital however
small or if homemade such as from
savings so much the better Tlace in
a steady secure position where it will
not be disturbed and allow to stand
Skim off all that accrues without waste
and with that at the proper season
make a stif paste of business in
which place your capital or as much of
it as you can use with advantage A
little ripe judgment should be added
Season with hope and enterprise and
stir briskly with a bunch of fresh
energy While your pie is cooking
watch it carefully yourself and see
that nothing goes wrong Keep up a
good fire until it begins to brown and
dont take too much off the top for
tasting until the whole is well cooked
then enjoy the result London Graph
ic
Square Bullets
In 1718 an Englishman James Puc
kle secured a British patent for what
seems to have been an attempt at a
breechloading rapid firing gun An
original feature of the invention was
the use of two different breech plates
one for square bullets to be used
against the Turks and the other for
round bullets to be used against Chris
tians It is curious to find two oppos
ing tendencies in the same invention
first the desire to construct a gun that
should be more effective because more
destructive and second a desire to
recognize certain ethical distinctions
in its use If a round bullet Avas too
good for a Turk a square one was too
bad for a Christian London Chroni
cle
Stereotyping
It is claimed that stereotyping was
known in 1711 It was practiced by
William Ged of Edinburgh about 1730
Some of Geds plates are to be seen at
the Royal institution London A Mr
James attempted to introduce Geds
process in London in 1733 but failed
Stereotype printing was used in Hol
land diiriag the last century and a
quarto Bible and a Dutch folio Bible
were printed there It was revived in
LjCoi by Wilson in 1S04 Since 1830
the durability of stereotypes has been
greatly increased by electrotyping them
irh copper or silver
Tho Cure
W E Grange author of
h il of Primitive Love al
layed in the course of a lecture in Bos
Jon to the modern cynical view of love
that prevails I remember once
a bricklayer and a plumber discuss
loe I hold said the bricklayer that
if you are terribly in love the way to
cure yourself is to run away The
plumber shook his head and sneered
That will cure 3ou he said provided
you run away with the girl
Short and Out
Where is Mr Middleman asked
rhe caller at the brokers office
I think hes out on a little matter
of wheat replied the bright clerk
Out long
Certainly not If he had been long
he would have been in Its because
he was short that hes out Philadel
phia Press
Chemical
In Prestbury churchyard near Mac
clesfield England may be found the
following epitaph on a chemist
Willies dead were full of woe
Well never see him more
He thought to drink of H0
Twas HSO
A Vicious Dig
Patty I always think of all the un
kind things I have said during the day
before I fail asleep at night Patricia
Dear me Do you stay awake as
long as that
Many a fellow has his nose to the
grindstone without sharpening his
wits Philadelphia Record
FENNEY WALKER
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