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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1904)
, . . . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . . . . sc. . _ - - - - - - . , rII e F 8 THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE May 61 1904 I f : SMOKELESS POWDER FATAL . , , ( , I Its Use in Guns Not Made for It Often j 1 Causes Accidents , Declares : : Navy Officer . t. , - ' , . One of the navy officers who has I : I made a special study of ordnance , I ammunition , etc , according to the , i i : New York Tribune , speaking of . h.J.i. the explosion of the eight inch \ . f gUlls on the battleship Iowa , said : \ ' t\ 1 . \ No ordullce sharp seems to : know the real cause of accidents to so many of the guns on the navy ships , and much study has been given to the subject. In mJ' opinion - ion these accidents arc largely due j' to the use of smokeless powdec ) ; in guns not made specially for this ; kind of ammunition 'here n. \ , I f- I has been the idea gun made with ea ; , of black powder only being used , . , if there is any tendency to weakness - I } , . , neBS anywhere it will _ develop with the use of smokeless powder , " which has the greater energy , and is more erratic. If you should put two guns of the same size side b.y side , assuming that both guns : , 1 have equal strength , you could tell I I i by a cursory glance at the chasing ! i which one was using smokeless f powder , and which the : old style , i- . for the greater effect would be in " "I. the forlUer. \V ( ' speak of the life I , of the guns lllc'ly haying become . \ come exhausted , but it is yet an \i\ \ tif ! unsettled question as to what the \r.t \ : ; life of a gun is. Theoretically It r ! ] 3.inch gun should last about 70 : l' { firings , but in the Spanish war the tr s question seems to have been prac- i' , ticallY settled that it would run as Ihl ; " high as twice that number. Fo ) I example , the explosion of the 13- . inch gun of the Iowa a few months i ; 1 ago was on its IHSth shot , so the ' Ii fact remains that guns do explode most surprisingly and unexpectedly . edly , and especially when smoke- less powder is being used in guns built for the use of black powder. # . Speaking of great guns , the . question of positions in ships has become a controversial one. Are , ti we , the American navy , mounting our guns too low ? Other navies mount their guns on a higher plane than we do , on the theory that it gives la rger. possibilities for their use in a sea wa ' . The disadvantages of low gun posi- tions-and this is especially the case on the low freeboard idea of the monitor-lmve been pointed out bJ' seagoing officers , but Ill' especial consideration to the proposition of higher positions has been given , because of the efforts - forts to keep down weights and the center of graYitr. : . There is lllueh of uncertainty in the problem , hut there would seem to be good argument against the low positions , since the mod- ern view of naval authority is that battle fleets must keep l to the lhigih sea , and the theory that naval bat- c. tIes will be fought at considerable . able distances from the bases of either cnemJ. The last board on construction decided that the gun t positions of the American ships . were not too low , but there is a different . ferent view among many of the officers , who have had practical experience . and they assert that . . f . . . . . , " . , " . , " is the stability in asea - WIlJ' is dc creased the lack of height tends to render guns useless in even a mod. crate Ben. French Alligator Farms Several French dealers have recently - cently visited America to purchase chase stock for an alligator farm which they propose starting in the youth of Frunce. Alligator skin has become so highly prized throughout France that the animal . mal denIers believe it will pay wen to raise the alligators on this , the first ( farm of its kind in the world. Not long ago President ) Loubet received - ceiyed a present of a hunting suit of alligator ] ] skin. The skin is said f'o be rowing scarcer each year , and there is always a great d ( ' , hand for it for boots , shoes , hand. bags , writing pads , portfolios , and toilet Hrticles.-New York Times What Microbes Are Since Pasteur demonstrated the fact that mnnJ' human diseases are due to minute living things which grow and multiply 'in our bodies , there has been a tendency ) to call all microscopic organisms , whether harmful not " " or , "germs" or "micl'obes" 01' "bacteria" indis criminately. This confusion maybe ue cleared bJ' the statement that protozoa are the lowest known forms of animals and that bac- teria are the lowest known forms of plants , while "germs" and "microbes" may apply to the dis ease.causing forms in either group-Century. EVILS OF EATING ALONE. The Digestion of a Solitary Diner Is Always at a Disad- vantage. There are some few happily dis posed individuals , lays the LOD- don I.Jancet , who C.l1.1tline \ : alone , and not eat too fast , nor too much , nor too little. With the majority it is different. The average man puts his novel or his paper before him and think tlu'tt ' he will lengthen out the meal 1 with due deliberation bJ' reading a little with , and more between , the courses. He will just employ his mind enough to help , and too little to interfere with indigestion. In fact , he will provide that gentle ! mental accomplishment which with happier people conversation gives to a uea1. This is your soli- tary's excellent idea. In reality he become engrossed in what hn is , reading till , suddenly , finding his food cold , he demolishes it in a few mouthfuls ; or else he finds that he is hungry , and paying no attention to the book , which 11/1 / flings aside , he rushes through his food as fast as possible , to plunge into his arm chair and literature afterward. In either case the lonely : man must digest at a disad- vantage. For due and easy nutrition - tion , food should be slowly taken and the mind should not be intensely . tensely excited during the process. Everyone knows that violent bodily exercise is bad just after a meal , and mental exertion is equally so. Wise people do not even argue during or just after dinner . , and . observation of after- - - - - - - ' . , , - , ' r Reavis Abbey , , . . r I A 0. . . : 14'1 :4t : I , t chi ' iAiiaiiUII ' y . . . . . . .r& U.l ' A 1111.a.I.IUJI''I' I . , ' H OBJECT = = Innocent Amusement RESULT = = Sometimes matrimony then comes furniture and this is where we get interested. I I - - . . . . . . . - "It is the way of the wise" to buy the best goods for the least money. We have the , only completeline of furniture and . , floor coverings ever carried in the , county. straw matting 12 to60c ; all wool Ingrain carpet 50 IReavis & Abbey _ ' ; . ' , . - . : ' . . , -4. , , ' . . ; .t t ) 'oj- ; , . , I' , , . , ' ; ; . . , . 1. Ia dinner speakers neither endure themselves nor excite in their hearers any severe intellectual ef- fort. In fact , the experience of countless generations , from the red Indian of the woods to the " 'hite.shil'ted diners of a modern party , has perpetuated the lesson that a man should not eat alone nor think much at this time , but should talk and be talked to whilt' . he feeds. Most people do not think much when they talk , and talking is a natural accompaniment of eating - ing and dl'inldng. How does it fare with' the ' many . solitary women of today ? No better WP know } than with the men , but dif- ferently. Alone or not , a man may gen "flll ' be trusted at any time to take food enough. Fruit-and-Nut Fiends . There is just one little , tiny , in. finitesimal error in the assumption that our primordial ancestors lived entirely upon uncooked fruits and nuts , a trifling miscal dilation which vitiates the conclusion . elusion that what met our wants when we dangled head downward from a tree limb will meet our ) wants now that we have been turned t'other end up. The error is this : They didn't. No animal lives exclusively on vegetable , or , . . - " , . . to 75 cts sewed ; . Linoleum , 6 , 74 and 12 feet wide' 50 to 65 cts , laid. Some of our de = signs will certain = " T , . ' Iy interest you ' and the quality , and prices are right. . ' t , , , , * . 'f ' . fir . . _ _ _ _ _ H . . animal food. \VlinPs a chicken carnivorous or graminiyorous ? ! - . . . Gl'amiY01'OUS , of course. It liven ! upon corn and oats and wheat , the seeds of plants , grass blades , the . lettuce that you expected to eat , and all such. Yes , well Yon keep . ' them on that diet and see how . . , t , . - many eggs you ; get. And then ; rOl1" " - - .f give them beef scraps with their . . ; . grain , and notice the difference.- I Ever 'bodJ"s : Magazine. . . " . . i Endurance of the Yak. . ; Yaks , which are the beasts of burden in Thibet , are very sure / footed and a good one will carry ) . . I a load of more than 200 pounds . safely along the steepest hillside. ' _ They can exist on the scantiest't ; grass , but gain food suits them for f ; n few days onIJ' Eight miles fC i day is good average work. A re . cent traveler tried leather boots for yaks , without success , Tame yaks are white , black , gray and brown , and all intermediate gra - < A\ 4 . dations of these colors. The wild yak is invariably black , and ill early spring his winter coat almost . . . sweeps the ground. At such sea. sons wild and tame are almost - indistinguishable , and a story is i told of a big game Imnter Thib et who shot his own baggage an imals by mistake.-Knowledge . ' I ,