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TARGET PRACTICE.
How to ItecovM* Hklllfd In Art ol
shoot i ii <r*
[From the Army aikI Navy Journal. 1
Borne years ago an army officer who
visited the pistol gallery of Tr ivia, the
celebrated pistol shot mid asked to sec
him shoot, was told that Travis was then
no
shot a match or for exhibition be went,
it appears, through a course of exercise
similar to that taken by a prize tighter.
He walked and ran a certain number ot
milea,exercised with the clubs, was bat lied
and rubbed down daily ami ate and
drank according to rule, tobacco, coffee
and everything stronger than heer being
forbidden. This regimen was followed
for aix or seven weeks, and pistol last prac few
tie* was added only during the Tra
weeks. After the match was over
vis stopped his exerctse and soon fell off
in his shooting. to exercise,
If neglect of or attention
diet, etc., can change an ordinary shot
lation between good shooting and the
development of proper physical coudi
lions is one worthy of more considers
lion than it ordinarily receives Indeed,
one of the arguments m favor of rifle
traction among the Btate troops has
>een that its natural tendency, so far as
it, went, was to promote lmhits of tem
ASs of exercise, ss
fere with a regular course might l>e paid
but more attention to
this. At the ordinary company target
practice the officers smoke and the men
chew. As tobacco affects the nerves
and thus interferes with good shooting,
the use of it jnst before practice should
1» stopped. Observations will show
that scores made directly after pay day
are apt to be poor.
An officer who takes considerable in¬
terest in target practice thinks that where
iufuutry ami cavalry have had equal all
practice the cavalry average better at,
short ranges with the carbine than the
infantry with the musket. The only
difference in the men is in the exercise
they take. The length of the musket
should give the infantry the advantage
at all ranges. Another matter that is
receiving attention here, as well as
abroad, is the proper shape for targets
for military practice. As we have before
argued, the object is to teach the soldier
to hit a soldier of the enemy; and next,
but of leas imixirtanoe, to hit a horse,
and finally to hit and blow up the limlier
liox of a caisson. The man who scores
four eaoli of ten shots is considered a
I.ettor shot than a man who scores three
for each of ten shots; yet none of the
No. 4 shots, if three or nine o’clock,
would hit a man, while all the No. 3
shots would, if six o'clock, and shonhl
used) should have a vertical stripe ten
pTSBBtfub foTEe stripe helgnt would of nve feet about nine
n,elies. Thu oovt r
all the tallest soldier, in the position of
aim, would ex (vise to w enemy’s fire,
The highest value should be given to 1
allots in this from the bottom up
the thirty inches from tlie
next in value should be hits from the
thirty-inch point to the top of the stripe.
Aiming low should be encouraged. front
The object is to drive the enemy’s
lines. A bullet is effective even after
striking the ground, aud moving near
the ground, if it misses the first line, it
may pick up a man in the second line;
while a bullet traveling high is useless
even if it hits a man in the reserves.
Furthermore it is greater advantage to
wound a man in the legs than to kill
him bv hitting in the head or t>ody.
Manners and ( ustouis of Utt* l.ast
Century.
The Philadelphia gentleman of tlie
butt century, if lie were a man of fash¬
ion or moans, won* a three cornered
cooked hat heavily laced. ilis hair
was done up in a cue, and its natural
s
diminutive cape, marvelously 1 oil g
back, and silver buttons engraved with
the letters of hi« name, llis small
clothes came scarcely to the knees; his
hum; stockings were striped, his shoes
pointed and adorned with huge buck
It's; his vest bad flap pockets, liis cutis
were loaded with lead. * * * When ’
be , bowed , i . to .1 the damsels i , that , passed
him. he took half tlie sidewalk as he
flourinhed his cane and scrapod his foot.
Th«> historian proctHMh to oonvineo ua
that Uu*droHs uf the lady, asa)u> gravelv
ivttirned his salutation aud oourtosod
nearly to the earth, would seem no less
strange to us. “Those were the days of
gorgeous brocades a d taffetas, liixu
riantly displayed over cumbrous hoops,
tsz n
towci-lmilt hats, adorned with tall
feathers; of calash and muskmclonlKm
note, of high wooden heels fancifully
cut; of gowns w thout fronts; of tine
satin peltieoats, and of implanted
teeth * It appesrs that in J7S4 this
envious custom of transferring teeth
from one woman's jaw to another had
1 eon lately iateodiuNxl in Philadelphia,
J i an advertisement yet extant oue La
J faycur aunounees to His fair but pre
.• nimbly mature patrons, that lim busi
i ess is to trauaplant Dn'tli, and that he
1 as within the six months just preeed
i g transplanted 123; and he assures
those baring front tex’.h for sale that
lie will give two giiHi«a<for even sound
o ie brought to him.— McMaslerx’ liis
toru.
Ihon Shirs. —The works for building
iron ships m San Francisco will la*, the
lUtllctin says, tlie most extensive of any
in the Cuited States.
Julia W ard How* says : Poor pao
Die caiV Vi'llv
N‘*. but Ibex wade u... t s »
tl! I.f. rtslite vGiile lli. v *tv i .
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Benator Ingalls will soon introduce
a bill providing that any person who in
'closes an acreage of public, lands to which
he has no title shall be liatde su-h inclosureTs to * finu^t
$100 a day for the time
maintained, and any person who ob¬
structs the passage of another over or
through the public domain shall, for
every' offense, pay the aggrieved person
$500
u HK Mormon church now embrace* a
p re8 jj en t twelve apostles, fifty-eight
nm •»«»*»■>« w*
priests, 11,000 choirs, 1,500 bishops, and
4,400 deacons. In r.zona there is a
mem \, er .hi p of 2,262; in Idaho twice
,n d nimloI ,arie8 are at work all
.< The
Europe and the United TT; , Slotes State*, in
over
time appears to lie coming when the
(j er , t jjes wifi have to hide their women
f " lK l{ tht ’> “P 8 ™ . k kee „ eD P uo tl <? their pro* H
sent domestic style.
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paper pulp into a
substitute for wood is attracting favorable
, Mention. It it believed that it will
prove mnc h cheaper than wood, equally
-.....”• work. The paper board »*%£«” will take the
finest polish, as well ns any tint, shads
(>r C() j or ‘ j t ma y made water-proof,
,,uu , he marbIeize d an d grained. In
the constiuction of . buildings . .... rooting „
in
material, in making bridal caskets or for
f um jtnre purposes it is believed that pa
I- "■”»»'•*. -'««■“»««•
era! use.
Onr of the largest sheep ranches in
America is on Bantu Rosa Island, Cali¬
fornia. On this island of 74,000 a ,r es
fully 80,01X1 sheep are kept. Lust June
woo dip from these sheep was
415,740 pounds, which sold for 27 cents
* jHiund, bringing the owner $212,349.80,
a i-lear profit of over $80,000. Even this
WRH ft low yield. Four men keep the
ranch in order during the year, but in
■hearing time an additional force is, of
course, necessary, A shearer is paid five
cents a clip, and $4 50 a day is frequently
made by a good hand The Banta Bosa
sheep require no herding, but two hun¬
dred trained goats run with them, answer¬
ing all the purposes of shepherd dogs.
Knurr, the famous manufacturer of
heavy ordnance, claims that he has scut
forth more than 20;000 of his terrible
engines of war. His pre-emim nee is due
to the fact that lie first substituted steel
for iron in the manufacture of heavy
guns. He was also one of the first to por
ceivo that breach loading cannon would
completely take the p ace of muzzle
eyjaw-r ^ ,n ‘
, -
fiiiwa are his best custoiners. His largest
- , . .
K uu 18 ov ' r 1 J 0 ’
said that not single . part of it
and it is a
could be made in America, ns we have
n o means of hammering or working such
enormous masses of metal.
From all accounts the synchronous
multiple telegraph system is I'cstined to
inaugurate a marvelous revolution in
telegraphy. It is claimed that a syn
chroninm has been obtained between
distant rotating ayotcmaso absolute ns to
secure their rotation for weeks at a time
without a variation between the two of
1-600 of a second. The application of
this principle will divide an ordinary tele
graph wire into a number of electric cir
cuits, each of which is entirely indepen
dent of the others. The inventor of th
i wi M-r.. n-»
Yorker, of Irish descent. Th«$ pruu iple
carried out in his system is capable of m
finite possibilities. It rentiers certain the
practicability of telegraphing by sound,
j ex-Ms «» photographically s-* r by telegraph may
be realized,
Thk hamumriess gun is one of the
latest fashions in fire-arms, and some
i»\tterus are quite expensive. A liand
sonic twelve gauge, seveu-aiul-a-luilf
pound , gun can , be had , , . for _ m,ui $ I DU. The rue
barrel f of the finest Damascus steel, . , aud ,
is
tlie artist who eugraves the lock-plates
leeeives a salary of $3,500 a year, Tho
hammer# are inclosed within the hx - k
P Mt , . *’ ,uul , m $ '' rou « ht ‘ H kn in* f
iswitiou by the dropping of the barrels
in o;xming the gun, an automatic device
at the same lime locking the triggers so
th ‘' M uuti l the little slide is pnabcti
forward. Th»*sc guns are considered
quite safe, and it i< predicted that they
wll , oomc into gpn(>nil Wl Another
«-hacge , the ,, •
. m gnn fashions , , . is growing _ „
popularity of smaller gauge and lighter
gnus. The American chesp guns ar
imprtiving and sell readily over inqiortod
guns of the same grade.
Fashions iu jewel y are now materialis¬
rather than deem stive. in' designers
six k models from ev. rv # >nree. We find
pins, vi s(>s, ear-drop. and brooches in
the form of saws, bammerg hlow-pipee,
w atering pots and shades. Whole scenes
reproduced in gold and previous shmes.
On a golden roof two swallows in dia
mou a„ ^ #hown building their nest;
the head of • terrier in bri liant emerges
through the crevice of a golden board in
pursuit of a silver rat; a couple of kittens
in diamonds and emeralds playing with
;l pearl, make s brooch; diamond
bora,** galloping through . horse shoe,
and poodles leaping (ho*ngh ho>j<e are
for buckles a(: and A
also in high favor jewelry)
brooches. A new idea in is
simply a thin spot of gold set irregul irty
with precious stones, asif a bit of table motfu abd
K old had been dropped on the
then strewn over with emeralds silver j«fk- a|d
rubies and diamonds. Black
eby is also new.' J
Every new publication of statistics fe
lating to our foreign commerce shoVs
that our ocean-carrying trade is 8 ow)y
approaching the vanishing point. -Hr,
Nimmo shows in his annual report thht
during the last fiscal year the tounage of
American vessels entering at our porta
was less liy nearly 134,000 tons than tl^e
year before. The Charrtber of Commerce
report shows that of our total foreign
commerce only about one-sixth is carried
on by American vess Is, while ftiliy five
sixths gives employment to the vessels of
other countries. Since 1866, the propor¬
tion of tonnage of American vessels
trading with American port shasdwindted
from 711 per cent, to about 20 per
while thatof foreign vessels has increased
to nearly 80 per cent Of course the <$.
cay of ship-building has kept pace
the decline in the use of American ahijv.
Iiivst year we built only about forty thou¬
sand tons of iron ships, largely for tb$
protected coast trade, while in Grea;
Britain inure than six hundred and fifty
‘housand tons were built.
The first attempt to cultivate cranber
l ies in this country wns made in 1812 bj
Captain Henry Hall, of Barnstable, Mas#
Their cultivation has a sumed vast p ru¬
portions ; not less than 50,000 barrel*
being annually produced .on Cape tod,
and a'still larger amount in New Jersey.
The same industry increase yearly in
Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. The
est places for cultivating these borrief
lie peat bogs, which are near deposits of
lean sand. It is a trailing, evergreen,
riumi-mpiatic plant which derives its
entirely .. . , -
substenance almost , , rom air
water. It requires no fertilize* and needs
no cultivation after a few year*. 4 he
vines once in bearing will, by judicious
management, p; educe . a good „ , trop y early
during a generation if not for a century.
A yield of four hundred bushels to the
acre is not infrequent, though half that
New Jersey. I lie pi ice is ran } *
than $10 a barrel, an.l during February,
I860, they sold in Philadelphia for $32 a
barrel. The cultivation consists in
i„ K „lher ilnwu Ol tt»
coveyheground, llie demand for these
delic irries constantly increases.
.a’Alf'faii'tl'o'lthje seen- _
eve tor sunset in the northwest,
‘
the stay A the . only , star . of , the .,
near ega,
first magn tilde in that vicinity. Through
1 ^ u oofe8 hal{ the giz0 „f the
•
,1,<>ou 1 1 . UH , lesuggesio o
'
By tlie latter part of Jamir.ry it will drop
down to within 70,000,000 miles of the
sun, ’ and it wiU be much brighter than
when . it .. made its starring tour in 1812. 1Q1 „
The Bar lioldi statue is madeof copper
strengthened by on inner skeleton of
iron. For each piece a center or mold
was made of wood, on which the copper
could be worked and fitted. The sheet
copper epidermis of the figure is made of
800 piece*, and weighs 178,000 pounds,
w | 1 j] e the iron frame weighs 264,000
poua s. When finally erected, the
nlol( j (>< | s i lef q e c f ct) ppe r will be riveted
t thor hy Copper l>0 i ta and the iron
**« itawMQ
by twelve great foundation bolts. The
variations due to temperature are pro
Tided for by elasticity in every part, and
corroding will be checked by painting
with red lead wherever iron and copper
arc in‘contact. It is reckoned that the
pressure of wind upon the statue, which
will be 150 feet high, may go as high as
190,0(H) pounds.
James A. Gart, proprietor of the Al
herton Mills, on the Putapsco, who is
largely , , interested . . . , m . the ., Laurel T , , i fills, r;l .
B;iid : Tha South for the past five or ten
years has had a mania for putting up
cotton mills. Then the improvements La
machinery are such that each spindle
will produce three times as many goods
ns it could fifteen years ago. With tlie
exception of the skilled operatives, who
were drawn from the Maryland mills, the
wages there are 25, 30, and even 50 per
cent lower than we pay, and the hours of
labor are longer. Their operatives live
cheaply, and know n thing of tho domes¬
tic comforts which nnrs have. The
Southern mills are among the best in
point of construction. The Southern
railroads make tariffs by which the mill
product* are carried North as sixth-class
goods, while they charge the same goods
made North and seut South first-class.
Cotton goods from the mills at Augusta
and Columbus, ';..i,. Georgia, are carried
v -. 1 , ‘ ‘ 1 indred
*
pounds, but the same goo .s sent from
the North must pay $1.25. This is pro
tection of tlie South sgainst Northern
competition. The railroads claim that
they make low rates on North-bound
freight rather than sen 1 car# back from
years of my business experience J think
the onu.wk at present is the least satis
factory I have known, 1 ho warehoiues
an* foil of 9 ^hIs, lor which tliere is uo
market, except at prices that either would
siiuw a loss or no profit. M ary land co$*
ton manufacturers.have lost mote by the
^petition of Southern mi Is than those
of any other State. We make the co 'tea
goods which the South is nukmftand
feel the over-production most Ther¬
are too many Spindles, and the spindles
increase more rapidly than the popula¬
tion which is to consume the manufae
tured products.
Tot’ure Sleeplessness.
Druggists tell us that there is a
growing demand for various medicines
and preparations containing opiates in
one shape or another. People wreck
their nervous systems by injudicious
habits of life, and the result is unsound
sleep, dyspepkii and countless other
evils. Alittl ■ ilviee to .such persons
may not be out of place. abandon They should,
of course, bs c in fill to that
method of life which brings them into
physical disorder. Their Complaint
may be fed by tobacco; narcotics
should be avoided. One cause of their
trouble mar be that thov take insuf¬
ficient exercise. Perhaps they drink
too much tea or coffee, or eat too much
flesli meat. There are a thousand
practices allowed by convention which
are in themselves harmful and prejudi¬
cial to health.
The quantity of sleep may be im¬
proved by diminishing the length of
time spent in lied. A hot shower bath
at bed time cleanses the skit and pre¬
dispose# to sleep. Many a toiling
business or literary man goes to bed
tired and worn out, only to toss from
one side to another. His brain is hot
•nd full of blood, while his feet are
cold. He thinks over again the thoughts
that iiave lieen engaging his attention
during the day, or does over again the
business that has called forth his en¬
ergies for twelve or sixteen hours past.
His night is a round of tossing to and
fro. Is there anv wonder that, failing
to find out what is the true and natural
remedy for his pains, he resorts him to
opiates, which he knows will give
temporary relief?
There is one sure and safe way to
remedy "he liis pains. If, after leaving
-work, won Id take a brisk walk of a
mile or txvo before go ; ng to bed, and
then, after the. walk, hold his head un
,jer a stream of cold water, he would find
—that, is, suppo ing he does this
when he is first troubled wdth sleepless
nights. But, no; if he lives a half a
or more from lus work he takes a
, off his clothes
L, ^ Mirowjng ,
oes to be(1 a8 „ u j ok iv a8 possible.
The want of balance between mental
physical labor is a fruitful cause of
would improve liis health a great
jj- ] le x V ,,j. e to fit up his attic as a
carpenter shop and spend an hour there
after supper. This, of course, would
£
> 'q q n( | i,j s oceujiation afforded him
iteut. ‘nlfefc-Iffiii iygntal j*ccp«Vition and
.. c oper pro
^ rifril-.. ....
Ths Curfew Bell.
The curfew is commonly said to have
been introduced iu England by Wt'liam,
the Conqueror. By that moi M sh it
was ordained, muter severe p'Eilties, eight
that w hen the curfew bell rang at
o’clock in the evening all lighU aud
Ares rfiould be extinguished. There are
those who hold thut this was merely the
enforcing of an existing and very com
motl police regulation to that effect.
The absolute prohibition of lights after
the ringing of the enrfew bell was abol¬
ished by Henry I. in the year 1100, but
the practice of tolling a bell at a fixed
hour in the evening was continued, and
(bis, whioh is still extant in some places,
is the survival of the curfew of mediaeval
times. At first the common hour was
seven o’clock, then it was gradually ad
vanced to eight, aud in some places to
uine o’clock; indeed, in Scotland, ten
°’ c, ' )ck not “ ymusual hour. The
tom to place the fire in a hole in the
middle of the floor under an opening in
tlie r°° f . to aUow lhe ““‘P* vt tbe
gneke. When the family retired for
fhe night the fire wns extinguished by
Covering it up; hence the term convre
. eu, or curfew. The regulation people was also
tervioeable in obliging the to
keep in their houses, and thus prevent¬
ing night brawls iu the streets. It i*
believed that there is no histories
authority for the popular tradition thai
tbe severity exhibited by the Conqueror
in enforcing obedience to the curfew was
more particularly nssemiding designed to preva it the
j'ygjjg), from in sec it to
p j an H chemes of rebellion against their
Noiman lords,
laisses in Battle.
In the days of hand-to-hand fighting,
when missile weapons were employed by
a comparatively small vanquished portion of the
combatants, the were gen¬
erally almost annihilated and the vic¬
tors suffered enormouslv. At Canine
40,000 Romans out of 80,(k)0 were killed.
At Hastings the Normans, though the
victors, lost 10,000 out of 60,000; and
at Crecy 30,000 Frenchmen out- of 100,
000 were, it is asserted, killed, without
reckoning the wounded. When the
flint-lock reigned the average of the
proportion of the killed and wounded
in ten battles, beginning with Zonidorf
in 1758 and ending with Waterloo, was
from one-fourth to one-fifth of the
troops present on both sides. The
heaviest loss was at Zorndorf, where
32,916 men out of 82,000 were killed or
wounded. It was also very heavy at
Eylau. being 55,000 casualties out of
men. In the campaign in Italy
to 1859, rifles were used on both sides,
and we find that the proportion of eas
unities to combatants was at Magenta
*nd Solferino one-eleventh. In tJie
Fran co-Prussian war of 1870-71. when
both sides were armed with breech
loading rifles, the average proportion Spich
killed and wounded at Worth,
wte^it ~
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Could Jiot Expect Her To,
Two ladies entered a Fort street car
one day recently and took seats beside
a lady well known to one of them. She
gave her friend an introduction, and
directly “I this one remarked: the-Street
think I saw you at
Church one Sunday, several weeks
ago.”
‘Yes.”
“Ycsj seemed to be as mnch disgusted
with the sermon as I was, for I saw yon
were “Yes, terribly uneasy.”
’ again.
“Did yem ever hear a worse preacher
in all your life?”
“Well, perhaps.”
“ I never did, and I haven’t been there
since. ”
The conversation then rattled off on
some other subject, and by and by tbe
two ladies got off.
“I wonder why she didn’t agree with
me about that preacher ?” queried the
one who lisd blasted him.
“Why, how conld you expect her to?
She’s that very minister's wife !”— De¬
troit Dree Press.
Bamong.—A chief cause of dogs ‘ 'bay- la
ing the moon” and barking at nothing
dissomfort Many unfortunate animals
are from pure carelessness consigned to
cold and oomfortless kennels. It was
found on investigating the kennel of a
dog which had night^ rendered life a
burden to a neighborhood that tne ken
uel was so small that the poor creature
could only lie partly in it, was kept
awake by oold and misery, and not un
exercise. S th ni are rendered restless,
and consequently howl at night. A
Nicknames by States.
The residents of all States have
“nicknames” applied to them by public ,
speakers and others. Most of the
names have become historical. Tlie
nicknames are as follows: Alabama,
lizards: Arkansas, toothpicks; Califor¬
nia, gold-hunters; Colorado, rovers; *
Connecticut, v opden-untmegs: Dela¬
ware, blue lien’s chickens; Florida, fly
up-the-creeks; Georgia, crackers: Il¬
linois, snekers; Indiana, lioosiers;
Iowa, hawk-eyes; Kansas jay-hawkers;
Kentucky, corn crackers; Louisiana,
creoles: Maine, foxes; Maryland, eraw
tliumpers: Michigan, wolverines; Min¬
nesota, gophers; Mississippi, tadjidlos;
Missouri, pukes; Nebraska, bug-eaters;
Nevada, sage bens: New Hampshire,
granite boys; New Jersey, blues or
clam-catchers; New York. Knicker¬
bockers; North Carolina, buckeyes tar-boilers
and tuckoes; Ohio, ; Oregon,
welrfeet and hard cases: Pennsylvania,
leatbcrlieads and Pennauites; Rhode
Island, gun flints: South Carolina,
weasels; Tennessee, whelps: Texas,
beef-heads; Vermont, Green Mountain
I*nvs: Virginia. l>eadles: and Wisconsin,
I iadger».
“Yotib „ September , gas biff is$8, said
the collector. “Thats the best joko
I’ve heard in a long time, saidtherate- in
rw^ckness “Well, you see,
August I had sickness in in the tue fsafiv family, and «id
we burned gas all night and the bifi
was onfy $4. In September, my family
™ m the eotuitov, the house was
of laughter. -Yea.” said the collector,
“it’s a good joke, but whos it ou?
