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Show A MONSTERJANNON BIGQEST GU2T IN WORLD BUILT FOB OUR COAST DEFENSES. "Welglis 130 Tons and Fires a 2,500 Pound Projectile Over Thirty Miles Now Being Tested at Sandy Hook. As In the enso of a good many other ' things, tho United States loads tne world In tho building ot big ordnance. Thero is .now at Sandy Hook proving grounds tho biggest cannon over turned out In tho world. Not oven the Krupp gun works ot Germany have ever dreamed of making such a gun. Tho weapon referred to Is 20 yards long .and weighs 13-tons. The projec-tllo projec-tllo discharged by this monster" Is 10 inches In diameter and Ave feet long and weighs a ton and a quarter. Tho charge of smokeless powder Is of 1,000 pounds weight, and when the projectile leaves tho muzzlo it Is traveling trav-eling at the rate of 2,300 feet a second. The cost of each shot fired, at the lowest low-est estimate, Is 91,500. Tho gua has been discharged eight times. It Is calculated that it can bn II y ucrn iuui.uwu ... .. lng tho number of business failures lam year In tho United States and tho causes to which they era attributable. It Is Btated thnt there were 1.201.8C2 concerns engaged In business In 1901, and that of theso 10.G48 fulled, or con-slderably con-slderably less than ono per rent, of ths whole, a lower percontugo than has occurred oc-curred In any year slnco 1882, savo In '.he year 1900. Bradstreet's classifies the causes of failures under cloven heads, and give lso tho number which It regards as attributable to each causo. Of the eleven, "lack of capital" takes tho lead as most proline In inducing fal'urcs, those ascribed to It numbering 3 323. 'Incompetence" comes next on the list, tf and Is mado accountable for 2,"2r and then "specific conditions," by wh'ch Is moans such things os strikes tits corn crop falluro, tho assassination of President Pres-ident McKlnley, tho lowered prlc of :otton at tho south and similar events 3f a disastrous tendency. To thoan 1.-155 1.-155 business failures are traced. Next In numbor wore failures arising from fradulent dispensation of property" and amounting to 1,154. |