Show DOES ITS BUSINESS WELL when dynamite Dyna mitt explodes explode it 11 leaves little of value behind it the terrible destructiveness ot of dynamite can be appreciated only by those nho ft ho haie hae personally witnessed the ibo devastation it leaves behind it two interesting exhibits ot of its force are shown in the llie stevens institute ot of technology at hoboken Ho bolen N J they are a r it steel blocks six inches in diameter and ad four inches thick the Impre impression sMon of oil an oak loaf eat and the imprint of the headline ot of a western newspaper it nas during a test ot of high explosives that a cart i ridge of dynamite was as placed on a co vorice the block ot of steel the object I 1 eject I 1 being to see eee how bow much dy would be required to split the metal the dynamite was as fired bred without injury to the deteel but to the ot of the experimenter experiment eC the paint of 0 the me se keepper Epper vc w as deeply pressed into tue the metal 1 the experiment was waa repeated alib the same saine result and then was elaborated cla boraten by trying the charge on an oak ak leaf icat placed between the block anil and ak between the block anil and the dynamite this time the stem and tile the ribs ot of the leaf eal were deeply impressed in the metal what happens Is ig tills this said the hie expert ID 10 harge charge unlike mot other explosives dy tri amite exerts practically all its crushing force downward and not in a general direction so inconceivably quick lind forceful Is fa the iho discharge dl of 0 this powder that the imprint ot of the ribs ot of an oak leaf are made before the leaf icat haa bas time to he be blow to stunts atoms in the iho vase rase of the newspaper it appears that where printer s ink touches tho the paper the paper Is hardened and more capable ot of resistance than la in other oilier places and so it Is that before the paper Is destroyed tile the printing on it 11 Is forced deep into the thai bretal |