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Banks County Journal.
VOL. 2.
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DYNAMITE GUNS.
(plfteeu Men In ReUju Are Required to
Work Them.
Dynamite guns, -such as are used upon
the Vesuvius, are operated upon an en
tirely different principle from the ordi
nary powder guns. They have engines
and boilers nud air compressors and
coolers and all sorts of intricate ma
chinery in a house net* for away, by
Which the projectiles are tired. Tho
dynamite or gun cotton rr explosive
gelatin or whatever the explosive ma
terial may be is contained in the pro
jectile only. This projectile is called an
“aerial torpedo” by the manufacturers
and is exploded by means of a fuss
■ similar to any powder gun’s.
Dynamite or any other high explosive
cannot be used in an ordinary cannon,
because tho powder would explode the
dynamite before it left the gun, there
fore tho system of using compressed air
came into vogue as the only method of
throwing dynamite to any distance. The
air is compressed and passed along
through various tubes before reaching
the gnn and is used at about 1,000
pounds pressure to the square inch,
which is much less than the power of
powder. Dynamite will be exploded at
about 6,000 pounds pressure to the
square inch. These guns are enormous
affairs, smoothbore, 60 feet in length,
made of the best iron, in three sections,
flanged and bolted together and support
ed on a steel carriage. The carriage is
mounted upon a steel racing ring, so
called, and the system of handling is by
moans of an eluctrio motor. As these
guns are coverod by a large number of
patents they are very expensive, costing
the government many thousands of dol
lars .oh. Fifteen men in relays are
required to work them.
The gunner stands upon a platform
on the left side of the carriage, uses a
fine telescopic sight, and when all is
ready he pulls a lever which allows the
compressed air to enter tho gun, and
! the discharge takes place. These guns
are all loaded at the breech, and the
rr-; ; . ... i by a separate car
riage i'he projectile is about 10 feet in
length for the 15 inch gun, and when
charged with 500 pounds of dynamite
or gun cotton weighs fully 1,000
pounds. It is a steel tube composed of
walls three-sixteenths of an inch thick
and has a spiral vane at the rear. The
fuse is a foot in leugth and weighs 20
pounds. This fuse oontains two pounds
and a half of dry gun cotton and a few
grains of fulminate of mercury as a de
tonator. It is set to explode at impact
or as the gunner may desire as to time
—Liealie’s Weekly.
‘•Stoonhln ScoHl"
•'A few nights ago,” writes a Trans
vaal correspondent, "I, in company with
a chum, took a stroll round the Native
Looation which lies abont 200 yards
from the railway station. We made for
a row of huts, four in number, in the
front of which wood fires were burning.
“On reaching them we noticed the
natives wero in the act of catching lo
custs, flying acts and other queer look
ing insects which were swarming around
in hundreds, being attracted by the
bright light of the fire.
“After their wings had been singed
through coming in contact with the
fire, the insects were scooped into a
large hole dug in the sand. We waited
several minutes wondering what the
motive for all this could be, when the
niggers formed a circle round this hole
and commenced taking out handfuls of
these hideous looking things and gating
them.
“This, as we ascertained, formed tba
niggers’ evening meal, they informing
us it was ‘mooshla scoff’ (nice food). ’ '—
London Answers.
A Simple Sunshine Recorder.
Procure au empty quarter plate card
board box, and iu the top of the lid cut
a holo about half au iuch iu diameter
close to thoedgeof one side. Then paste
a bit of stiff brown paper over this hole,
and when dry prick a hole in the brown
paper with a pin.
To nse the sunshine reoorder place a
piece of paper in the bottom of the box,
but sensitive side uppermost, and on
this place a glass plate to keep the pa
per flat. Now put the lid on containing
the pin hole, and stand the whole thing
flat on a window ledge, the pin hole side
facing the south and make a pencil mark
all round the box, so that you always
place it in the same position, and change
the paper once a day, when a very clear
record of every peep of sunshine wiil be
fouDd.—New York Mail and Express.
# Hl* Brain Bell.
"You know,” said a man who writes
things for a living, ‘‘there'sa bell rings
on the typewriter when you get to the
end of the line to warn the operator
that the end has been reaohed, and he
must stop and take afresh start. I have
no bell in my brain, but I have some
thing there that tells me with no less
certainty when X have done my stint,
and it is time for me to stop for the
day. And I sometimes wonder if the
gentle reader doesn't think that my
brain bell ought to ring earlier.”—New
York Suu.
It need to happen in Java that, owing
to want of transportation facilities, the
inhabitants of one part of the island
might be starving while those of an
other had as much rice as they could
eat. Railways have remedied that state
of affairs.
Roush on the Solons.
It was in Maine that an outspoken
parson of the old school prayed: ‘‘o
Lord, have compassion on our bewilder
ed representatives and senators. They
have been sitting and sitting and have
hatched nothing. O Lord, let them
arise from their nests and go home and
all the praise shall be thine.”
Figures have been collected in a
suburb of Eerlin showing that 44 per
rent of all the children work two to
three hours at home before school boors.
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Our Itnmenie Railway System.
The railway system in the United
States employs 86,000 locomotives, 30,-
000 passenger cars and 8,000 mail and
baggage oars. These figures seem large
till the number of freight cars is stated,
which is 1,250.000. A passenger train
consisting of locomotive, tender, bag
gage and six passenger oars, with their
contents, is estimatd to weigh about
184 tons. Freight trains sometimes
reach a woight of 560 tons. An ordinary
passenger car costß from $4,000 to $5, -
000 and a sleeping car anywhere from
SIO,OOO to $20,000. The system, with
its gigantic equipment, is practically
tho growth of a singlo generation. With
the additions of another quarter or half
a century posterity ought to stand and
gaze at its stupendous proportions. But
it will probably be gradually educated
out of all its capacities of wui.-ier, as w
have been out of many of our own.-
New York Tribune.
The Overruling of a Jndjfe.
A judge the other day awcke in the
night to find his room in the possession
of two armed burglars. Covered by the
pistol of one of the marauders, the
judge watched the proceedings with
bis usual judicial oalm. One of tho
depredators found a watoh. “Don’t take
that,” the judge said, “it has little
value and is a keepsake. ” "The motiou
is overruled, ” replied the burglar. “I
appeal,” rejoined the judge. The two
burglars consulted, and the spokesman
then replied: “The appeal is allowed.
The case coming on before a full tribunal
of the supreme oourt, that body is of
the unanimous opinion that the decree
of the lower court hhoum be'sustained,
and it is accordingly so ordered. ” Pock
eting tho watch, court adjourned.—
Household Words.
Louklsx forward.
Diggs—Do you know whether Aider
man Blank still has his office on the
second floor of the Cloudland building
or not?
Biggs—No. He is now located on the
nineteenth floor of the same building.
Diggs—lndeed I What was his idea ol
making the change?
Biggs—l guess he discovered he had
no show of being elected to a higher
office, so he concluded to rent one. —
r.hinaun
Tb Mote end the Beam.
When Lord Morris was chief jnstioe
of Ireland, a young junior barrister
arose in his court one day to make his
first motion and spoke in the hard
brogue of tho north of Ireland.
“Sapel, ” said the judge in a low
voioe to the registrar of the oourt, “who
is this newcomer?”
“Hiß name is Clements, my lord.”
“What part of the coonthry does he
hail from in the name of all that's wun
dherful?” asked the judge.
“County Antrim, my lord,” was the
reply.
“Well, well!” said the judge. “Did
you iver come across sich a froightful
accint in the whole coorse of yer born
loife?”
The White House Design.
The White House is an exact copy of
the Duke of Leinster’s palace, Dublin.
In March, 1792, the commissioners
on building advertised for “a plan
for a president’s house to be erected in
the city of Washington.” The prize
offered was §SOO, and that of James
Hobau, a young Irish mechanic, was
aceopted. Tiio dosign was supposed to
be original, but when the house was
completed it was learned that Hoban
had copied it from the duke’s palace.
Some Verdict*.
A Kansas jury of inquest found that
deceased met his death “at the hands
of his saddle horse.*’
An Arkansas verdict over the body of
a man who died on board a boat is that
"deceased was taken off ten minutes
after he was taken on.” —Exchange.
Commercial Zeal.
“Claudia, is the young man indus
trious to whom you are engaged? - ’
“Industrious? Why, papa, he intend
ed to propose to me a month ago, but j
was too busy.”—Chicago Record.
An Appropriate Symbol.
“Snngsby is a member of the Vege
tarian club, isn’t he?”
“I guess he is. I notice he wears an
18 carat badge.” Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
It rains on an average of 208 days in
the year in Ireland, about 150 in Eng
land, at Kezan about 90 days anil in
Siberia only 60 days.
A few doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons
Liver Medicine will do more for a
weak Stomach than a prolonged
course of auy other medicine.
An (.IMabtltoa i.etier.
1 have sent the a letle provision agen
this time, but I cold wish it were much
beter. Thor is a goose pye, a netes
tounge pye, and a mutton pastie for
standers for thy table this Orismas, for
a nede, I knows they will last tell
twelftide, for they are now newe baked.
I have sent the a goose and ij capons
alive for fenro they wold not last tell
ye holy daies if they had bin killed,
but I wish the to kill them on Saterday
at ye furdest lest they growe worse.
* * * I prethe doe so much bb bestoe
for me vjd or viijd in sume oringes or
lemons or ij pouns si terns and sende
them downe no we by Hale * • * and
so with my best wishes to the and Kltt
I rest, Thy Mother, S. D.
—‘‘Antiquities and Cariosities of the
Exchequer. “
Aluminium nm Paper.
Experiments with aluminium as a
substitute for paper are now under way
jn France. It is well known that the
paper used today in the manufacture of
books is not durable.
It is now possible to roll aluminium
into sheets four-thousandths of an inch
in thickness, in which form it weighs
less than paper. By the adoption of
suitable machinery these sheets can be
made even thinner still and can be used
for book and writing paper. The metal
will not oxidize, is practically fire and
water proof, and is indestructible by
the jaws of worms.
Bamboo grows very thriftily In Cali
fornia bottom lands, and is found to be
a very useful plant. The seed of many
species resembles rioe, and is almost as
valuable for feed. The stock may be
used in the building of bridges, fences
and barns and in the manufacture of
water pipes, furniture and boxes.
Cbrietopber Columbus, who was an
admiral in the Spanish navy at the
time he discovered America, was paid
at the rata of S3BB a year.
Mysteries of soan4.
Many of the manifestations of sound
are stiil a oompleto mystery to science.
One of the best architects in New Or
leans remaiked the other day that a
building with gecd aooustio properties
was always a lucky fluke, and that it
was impossible to be absolutely certain
in advance. Sometimes a trifliDg al
teration will do the work—the dimen
sions of an arch are modified by an
Inch, a corner is made blunt, a slight
obstruction removed, and, phestol a
whisper becomes audible.
Tbere are old seafaring men in this
city who can tell strango stories of fog
sirens and bell buoys beard now for an
incredible distance and again not beard
at all when right at hand. There would
be nothing about the air or weather to
account fer such a varietiou, tut Jti'-o.
naked fact was indisputable, aDd the
phenomenon is at the bottom of many
an otherwise unaccountable wreck.
Near the center of the city is a clock
that strikes tho hours on a deep toned
bell. Sometimes the note may be beard
almost to the suburbs. On other days
or rather other nights it is inaudible
outside a radius of half a dozen blocks
Oddly enough, the bell seems clearest
and its toue most penetrating in turbu
lent weather, irrespective of the direc
tion of the wind.—New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
A Henmrlcnble Lake.
The most remarkable body of water
in tbe world lies In the vicinity of the
Colorado river. In southern California.
In this region of ngly volcanoes, deso
late wastes and slimy swamps, tbe
strangest phenomenon of all is what
the naturalists call a "lake of ink.’’
No other description fits as well.
The strange black fluid that forms
the lake bears no resemblanoe to water.
The pool of ink is situated abont half
a mile from a volcano. It is about an
acre In area. The surface Is coated with
gray ashes from the volcanoes to the
thickness of about six inches, thus con
cealing Its real nature.
Experience has proved that the black
fluid of the lake is not poisonous. It
aots as a dye, and cotton goods soaked
in it keep their color for mouths, even
when exposed to the snn. They also ac
quire a stiffness similar to that produced
by weak starch. The fluid has been
analyzed, but its component parts have
not been made known. As to the source
of tho supply of tho lake, nothing defi
nite has ascertained. It is undoubt
edly of volcanic origin, but nothing
more definite is known.
This is a bnd land that bas never been
traversed. Human beings have tried it,
but they never return to tell of their ex
perience or their dieooveries. —Louis-
ville Post.
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
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