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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-6-13, Page 3NOST TERRIBLE 0" GUNS, t, • 4 •x - WITH THE NEW POWDER WILL SINK, SHIPS AT TEN MILES. Will blur' Five lirnidred reunite or Ex- Plosive xPlosive with Lewdly Accuracy—mor. rible Havoc of This New Marvel of Ordnance Which Distances All Other Guns by a Tory Simple ituprovement. Maxim, the gunmaker, and Dr. Sohup- phaus, the gunpowder expert, have just invented a new cannon and torpedo powder which will knook all modern war -vessels to pieces like eggshells. This big gun will throw a huge oannon-ball full of explosives ten miles,and where it strikes it will smash into kindling wood everything within hundreds of feet, In fact,this new terror doesn't even have to hit a warship to do this. I# the shot lands in the water near by it will sink_ the ship and stun everybody on board from the force of the explosion. The discovery is called " the Maxim- Sohupphaus system of throwing aerial tor- pedoes from guns by means of a special powder which starts the projectile with a low pressure and increases its velocity by keeping the pressures well up throughout the whole length of the gun." Patents on the system have been taken out in the United States and European countries. The speoial powder employed is almost pure gun -cotton, compounded with such a small per cent. of nitro glycerine as to possess none of the disadvantages of nitro- glycerine powders, and preserved from decomposition through a slight admixture of urea. It is perfeotly safe to handle, and can be beaten with a heavy hammer on an anvil without exploding. Cleat lee Ii..Euto4ingi. Sick -� Head= e CURED PERMANENTLY A BY TALL- NG r S r4'• ills 'I was troubled a long time with sicki headache. 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Without uniform pressures, ac- curacy of aim is impossible. In order to observe the effect of the corn - THE whether solid or gaseous, at the velocity at which the gases of a dynamite explosion are raised, is several million foot pounds, and since an ,dualpressure is exerted down- ward to raise the gases it will be Been how tremendous is the ooroo whioh would be driven downward irlte the hold of a ahip by the explosion of five haadred pounds of nitro -gelatine, NO VESSEL COULD aTAND 111. No man-of-war ever built could woth- stand such a shook. Its sides would be instantly disrupted and it would sink a broken masa into the waves. The explosion of one of these huge projeotiles under water in proximity to a man-of•war would be equally disastrous, for the water being a uniform body, the force of the concussion would be the same in all directions and would strike the side of the ship like a catapult. This system of throwing projectiles is just as efficacious on shipboard against coast fortificattions or othervessels at sea. It is nob hard to predict what would hap- pen. A man-of-war armed with one of these guns would be lord of the sea, for it oould sink any ship, wood or steel, almost as soon as sighted, and at any distance be- yond the reaoh of the heaviest guns now afloat. The strongest armoured ships would be crushed Bice egg shells before the terrific fire, and the sea would fast swallow up the noble steel cruisers that it has cost the nations so much to perfect. If the time should come when all the navies of the world were armed with these guns and war should be declared they would have such a wholesome dread of each other that the popular running tactics of prize ring would prevail at sea. The best tighter would be the best runner, and this style of battle would be followed until some more powerful engine of destruction waa dis- covered whioh would give new courage to its possessor. No foundation could be built at the present stage of the military art strong enough to resist the explosive force of five hundred pounds of nitro- gela tine. Every gun would be diemantled,and every man killed by the shock. The history of war, like the history of evolution in nature, shows that attack is always ahead of defense. Imagine the fearful execution that would be paused by one of these man-made meteors in ease of bombardment. The mere thought of the carnage would make a demon shiver. No nation menaced by such a calamity could afford to stand on cere- mony in the adjustment of international questions. Wars would consist of one shot, if they were ever entered into at all, and if but one of these earth -shaking projectiles ever fell within a great and populous city war would be banished from the earth as something too frightful, too Satanic to be con templated. TEN 20-INOn GUN. bustion of the powder due to these little holes bits of the powder were examined which having been purposely fired in a gun of too small calibre, had fallen into the sea and subsequently been washed ashore by the waves. The holes in these pieces were about one-quarter of an inch in diameter, showing that the burning surface in each perforationhad already increased eight times. • To test the efficiency of the system in torpedo service the inventors constructed a gun on a new model. The gun was of four - inch calibre and threw projeotiles weighing fifty pounds, containing nitro -gelatine or Maximite, a new, high explosive invented by Mr. Maxim,nearly as powerful as nitro. glycerine and safer to handle. The damage done was confined to a sandbank in the neighborhood of their works, but even with so small a projectile sand was thrown as high as a ohuroh steeple. To teat by a large gun the actual de- structive work oftthis new powder would be impossible in a civilized community. The force of the high explosive thrown would be too great. It would be necessary to withdraw to the Great Sahara Desert, the wilds of Siberia or some equally unfre. quented locality in order to see just what would happen if 600 pounds of explosive should hit something. Even in Sahara some wandering caravan or exploring party thirty or forty miles off might be missing after the discharge. A TERRIBLE GUN. The big gun which Messrs. Maxim and Sohupphaus propose to construot will be a twenty..inch gun especially adapted for coast defense. This gun will show some peculiarities. It will not be built lip, that is, composed of many pieces of steel bound together, but will consist of a single thin steel tube about thirty feet long with walls not over two inches in thickness, in marked oontrast with -the mortars whose walls are made eight or ten inches thick in order to recoil of pressure of the discharge. The recoil of the gun will be offset by hydraulic buffers underneath oontaining water and oil. When the gun is fired some of this oil and water will be displaced by the shook and will rise into the eide•chambers shown in the illustration. The entrance of the water and oil into• the chambers will so compress the air in them that on the cease, tion of the recoil the air will force the water and oil bank into the buffers and the gun will again be in position for • firing. On account of the simplicity of its construc- tion and the lightness of its walla this gun will not be expensive to build. So uniform are the pressures and veloci- ties obtained that a wonderful accuracy of fire 18 possible. It would only be necessary to train the gun upon any ship sighted by the rangefinder within this radius to insure its complete destruction. The quantity of explosive thrown would be suffioient to sink a man-of-war if the projectile exploded in the water within fifty feet of its side. At one hundred and fifty feet the concussion of a five hundred. pound projectile would be severe enough to cause dangerous leake and disable a ship. Equally fatal consequences would ensue if one of these great projeotiles struolc any part of the superstructure of a ship and exploded. The energy required to lift a body weighing five hundred pounds, Suggestions. When prices go down manufacturers do their best to reduce cost of production The dairyman must do the same. How can it be done ? In many ways. If the dairy is not composed of special purpose cows, either thoroughbred or grades, do not lose any time in improving it in that direction. If you are engaged in butter producing then get one of the several kinds of dairy breeds especially adapted to that branch of dairying. We mean get some cows of suoh a breed, or get a male of such a breed and grade up your dairy herd in that way. If you cannot afford to buy a full grown animal, get a calf and wait for him to grow. If you can't do as you would, do as you can. At any rate make a start.,i It is not the man who keeps the great- est number of cows, but the man who gets the beat reaults from those he does keep that makes dairying pay: Study breeds, methods, apparatus, re quirements of markets and-oustomers, and above all strive to make a good article, and then put it up in attractive form. Study the question of food and above all use common sense in the matter of select- ing same for your dairy. Raise as much of it as you can instead of buying it. - There are many nice points about dairy ing, all the way from the selection of the herd to the marketing of the product, yet none so nice or difficult but can be master- ed by. one who is interested, and anxious to learn to the extent of making thorough applioation. If you do not like dairying and oannot cultivate a liking for it the sooner you get, out of it the better. The man who makes a study of dairying from beginning to end will be very likely to acquire a liking for the business even if he does not have it at the beginning. • Ibis the private dairy butter producer! that 'stands the best chance during the' present low prides, this provided he makes a good article. If he makes a poor article there is no hope for him. The man who fits up for it and makes his own butter, not only saves the four cents per pound charged at the factory for making, but he has all the by-products at home and in the best possible condition. The by-products in butter making are, as every one knows, skim -milk and butter. milk. Neither of these as received from the factory are as a rule satisfactory to the patron. Remember how very dry it was during the summer of 1894, and how you wished you had put in some kind of a soiling crop? Resolve you will not be caught in the carne way the present season. Of course we all hope it will not be such dry weather this year, but we cannot tell. Even if you should have no use for a soiling crop it will be worth all it may coat, to cut and store for winter feeding. If you did not have such facilities for furnishing your oowe with water -hist sum- mer, at you needed, do not fail to provide them for the coming summer. It is vigilance, thought, investigation, applioation, patience, energy and persist- ent work that makes a auceess of dairying, Dairying is well worth one's beat efforts, EXETER TIMES THE NEWS INA NUTSHELL THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. Interesting items About tour Own Coun- try, Great Britain, the Failed States, and All 1'ariaor the Globe, Uoudenaed.. and Assorted for Easy *ending. OANADA. The may w leoted on 390,946 pounds of Canadian grown toaacco last year was $19,547. A lad named Charles Grant wa. ,,:roweed on Sunday while bathing in the Dundee canal, near Hamilton.. The Winnipeg Council will ask the Leg- isleture tor power to submit the Sunday street oar question to a vote of the elect- ors. Much of the valuable timber in the Fort Pally district, in Northwestern Manitoba, is reported destroyed by fire during the last year. Fire did$25,000 or $30,000 damage to Mr. Fearman's pork -packing establishment at Hamilton, but the firm's business will not be interrupted. Twenty thousand bushels of wheat were sold in the Winnipeg Grain Exohange on Saturday at one dollar per bushel, afloat at Fort William. •Dr, Montagne, Secretary of State, has accepted an invitation to address the Pan• American Congress, to be held in Toronto, July 18 to 2b. Miss Ireland died at the General Hospit- al, Winnipeg, as a result of blood -poisoning arising from an injury sustained on the journey from Ontario. At Sault Ste. Marie the operators of the Canadian canal have been ordered to report for duty this week. This indicates that the lock will be in operation in thirty days. The bronze statue of Dr. Chenier has arrived in Montreal, and application will be made to get the statue through the Customs without paying the thirty per cent. duty. A Patron of Indaetry storekeeper near Kingstonordered twelve pounds of nutmegs from a Toronto firm. The order was mis- understood, and twelve barrels of nutmegs were shipped. Emanuel St. Louis, the Montreal bridge contractor, is to be prosecuted again on the charge of robbing the Government of $170- 000 in conneotion with the building of the bridge. While assisting at a barn -raising near Harriston, Ont., on Thursday night, Mr. Finlay McLeod was thrown from the build- ing, and received injuries from which he died yesterday morning. According to a report presented to the Dominion Parliament the premiums paid for life insurance in Canada during 1894 aggregated $9,909,284, an increase of $276,505 as compared with the previous year. Sir Charles Rivera W ilspn, the new president of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, is expected in Montreal shortly, and will be accompanied by several mem- bers of the Board of Directors. He will make a thorough inspection of the road. A Scotch Mormon with his three wives arrived in Quebec on Sunday night. The American Immigration Commissioners, who had heard of his expressed intention of starting an establishment in the United States on patriarchal principles, refused him permission to cross the line. e Information has been received in Ottawa to the effect that Mr. J. S. Larke, the Canadian commercial agent in Australia, has laid before the Sydney Board of Com- merce a scheme for the construction of the Pacific cable by Great Britain, Canada, and Australia, which was very well re- ceived. Salmon -fishing is reported unaually good along the Saguenay coast. A spell of strong, northeast wind, which occurred some time ago, is the cause of the abundance of fish. At Tadousao fifty salmon were taken at one spot during one tide. At Point au Pic. where salmon is rarely naught, the fish are plentiful GREAT BRITAIN. It is stated that the Queen is almost an invalid, and that her rheumatism has so inoreased that she can hardly walk. - Fire broke out on Saturday in the Fife - shire Main colliery, and nine men were killed while trying to quench the flames. The new British cruiser Terrible was launched in the Clyde. She is of 14,250 tons, with engines of 25,000 horse -power, and is expected to develop a speed of 22 knots an hour. It is admitted that the English Liberals are not ready for a general eleotion, and they will hold on to office as long as they have a majority, no matter how small, rather than face the people at the polls. St. Patrick was an Englishman, if Dr Nicholson, of the Bodleian Library, i right. He thinks he has found out from the tripartite life of the saint that he was born at Daventry, near Northampton. The London Daily News, commenting upon the attack upon the representatives of Christian powers at Jeddah, says:—"It is not too much to say that there are many signs of a holy war against all Christian communities and all Christian rights in the Turkish Empire." Nazrulla Khan, the eecond son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, is being honored and feted in London, but he is not regard- ed as a social success. He is as stolid as a wooden image, and the members of his suite have an unpleasant taste for pocket- ing the silverware of their hosts. UNITED STATES. Superintendent of Police Byrnes of New York, has been allowed to retire on a pen- sion of $3,000 a year. A monument to the Confederate dead, the first erected in the Northern States, was dedicated on Thursday in Chicago. A man named Atohie Spofford, a Cana- dian, whose relatives live at Camden East, Ont., oommitted suicide on Tuesday night by jutnping into the Charier) river at Bos- ton, Mass, An ordinance was introduced in the Chicago City Council which is intended to prevent women frons wearing," bloomers," or knickerbockers, within the city limits. It waa laid over. The Rev. John Morrow, formerly of Pittsburg, has started a new religion in Omaha, Neb., the principal feature of which is that all members worship in nature's garb only. Miss Beulah Kennard, who prepared the missionary calendar of prayer which is in use this year iu the Baptist churches of the United Statea, died of apoplexy in Philadelphia. Hugli Gough, First Secretary of the 'British Embassy at Washington, has been advised of the death of his father, Lord Gough, and of his own succession to the titles, estates and pension. Mr. M. C. D. Burden, of New York, Whose colored butler, Ferdinand Harris, wets murdered on Monday in the basement of Mr, Burden's house, has offered ten thousand dollars reward for the arreet of the murderers. Loretta Mooney, who also calls herself Addie in the variety theatred of California, is now Lady Sholto Douglas, daughter-in- law of the Marquis of Queensberry. They were married at San Jose by Justice of the Peace Dernale. The new Lady Douglas is eighteen years of age. The advices contained in the reports of Duna and Bradstreet'a commercial agencies continue to be of an encouraging nature. Prices in most of the leading staples are stead- ily advancing, wages are going up, employ- ment is more general,and business all round. is better throughout the United States. Labor troubles are leas talked of,and "dam- age done by frost" is assuming daily smaller proportions. Monetary conditions are favourable. Cotton continues strong additionalwoolienmilla have opened during the week,andin some oases wages have beeu raised. The manufacture of iron is progres• sing, prices -are tending upward, and it is expected that the wages trouble at Pitts- burg wlil terminate without a strike. GENERAL. Six persons were killed by the explosiou of the boiler of a steamer in Lisbon harbor. On Monday lash Emperor William, with his own royal fingers, pulled out Prince Oscar's firet loose tooth. Six persons were blown to atoms on Saturday by an explosion at Major de Roth'e gunpowder factory at Felixdorf, Austria. Bands of Bulgarian brigands are await• ing a favorable opportunity to invade Macedonia, thereby reviving the Mace- donian question. A young unemployed workingman was arrested at Dresden on the charge of threatening to kill the King of Saxony with an infernal machine. The Crispi Government was sustained by an increased majority in the Italian Parlia• mentary elections. Ex -Premier Giolitti is one of the members returned. Three British warships have left Alex- andria for Jeddah in order to insist upon the punishment of the Bedouins who were concerned in the murder of the British Vice -Consul. Prof. Leyden, the famous specialist, who attended the Late Czar Alexander II. at Livadia, has been summoned to attend the Grand Duke George, whose condition bas become very muoh worse, M. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished French chemist, has refused a German decoration that has been awarded him as a result of his labours in the cause of humanity and science. It is understood that the Government of India advices the permanent occupatiou of Chitral by British troops, and the building of a road there to connect with other British military routes from the south. There is a belief in some quarters that the Formosa Republic is a Chinese manoeuvre, banked by,France and Russia; to trick Japan out of the fruits of her victory. It is feared it will re -open the war, The King of Saxony during the past six months has received inenanoing or scurril- ous letters. The author of some of these epistles has been discovered in Dresden in a youthful labourer with unfavourable antecedents. The torpedo boat built at the Germania wharf at Kiel for the Turkish Government was making her trial trip when her boiler exploded. Six of the crew were instantly killed and fourteen mortally wounded. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted urgency upon the Government's demand for a oredit of 250,000 francs tc erect a monument to the memory of the French soldiers killed in the Franco -Prue. aian war in 1S70. Ninety-five houses were wrecked by earth quake and many people buried in the runic in District of Baku, Russia. A shock wa• also felt at Mombassa, on the Zanzibar coast, and several houses in the Town o' Malindi were destroyed. The Embassies of Great Britain, France and Russia at Constantinople have demand- ed the punishment of the Turkish police at Mooch who broke into the residences o. delegates of the Armenian Commission fol the purpose of arresting s servant. A CHAMPION LIFE-SAVER. Two Men, a Roy and a Yacht Snatched frown the Lake. A despatch from Toronto says :—On Saturday afternoon a deed was being per- formed down at the waterfront, which for heroism has seldom been equalled in this city. Albert Brown and James Mathers, two Grand Opera House employees, hail gone down to the breakwater to fish. There was a stiff breeze blowing, and they noticed a yacht outside, with two men in it, making for the harbor. When about 300 yards away the yacht upset, and Brown, hearing their cries for assistance, immediately took off his clothes and swam to their rescue. He succeeded in placing one of the men on the overturned yacht, and then swam to the -shore with the other. 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