Show Probably the biggest gun In the I world Is having its l finishing touches at I the VVitervliot arsenal It required three attempts before a Jacket could be I shrunk It upon The gun was a 16 Inch gun and to shrink jacket upon It the jacket had to be heated to a tcmperalure of 700 degrees which caused the steel to expand OB of an inch between the outer circumference j I of the gun proper and the Inner circumference cir-cumference of the Jacket That com i I I pleted the gun was slipped iimo place i perfectly and as It cooled the Jacket was made lo t cling to the gun with a pressure of five tone to the square Infh Completed the gun will weigh 25LKIO pounds and its length will be IJ I I feet C inches Jt I t will require half I I a ton of powder for each charge and It will throw a projectile li feet 1 inches long weighing 2870 pounds twentyone miles Jt will require I until August to complulo It I Noling that the farmers of Maryland I i are irylng lo secure a market In Europe Eu-rope for the sweet polalocs that grow lo great perfection l In Iho Southern Stales an Hajslern paper tells us lhal I In 1fSO when tho Irish famine wax on i I the cnrnmuiil sent from flilsi country wan I I unlike anything bcforu JTCII In Huropo l It 1 u I wax as yellow nnd rich as finely powdered twentytwo carat gold und 100l W school l V children wore fed l on it for three montliK Sluice that date It nan been on every pea I sanls table on ho I continent The Am rl I can invent potato will follow In the vrako of erjrmn jal ami nutnifal our host glfin I i lo tho offotij East Thirty years before 1SSO there was a I famine In Ireland A friend I of thor rllcr of ihls was sent with a shipload I I r of corn to thru country The ship was wrecked off thii coast t of Ireland The j f crew was vcacllcd andwhen ihoshipI1 broke to piece the corn flofilod iHhorc I I it I wont ashore heavily 1 charged with I sea water and the huntjry people caught It Imperfectly cooked Jt and1 ale it with the result that all the south of Ireland was wick and the captain and crew of the wrecked ship had to be spirllcd away at night to I keep the populace from hanging them ihelr belief being that they had brought poison to Ihclr coast for the purposu of exterminating the people They evidently took up till Idea that there was already an alliance between the Prilled States and Great Britain and hat part of the contract Oil the i jAmerican side was to terminate all the Irlah possible by feeding them on I i American I 10111 |