Show a Fun With an Indoor Catapult L Z5 I1 4 to About to Fire a Projectile from the Catapult Before gunpowder was Invented machines ma-chines wore used In war to hurl great I stones Into fortifications and from besieged be-sieged places against the besiegers and these machines were called catapults cata-pults The little apparatus hero pictured pic-tured and described works 01 k a similar I sim-ilar principle but tho projectiles which It throws aro harmless pellets I of bread or wet paper A glance at tho picture shows how tho catapult Is made It consists explains ex-plains the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune Tri-bune merely of three stiff elastic steel pens and a soft board Two of tho pens are stuck firmly Into the board with their backs turned In the same direction and at such a distance apart that when tho first pen Is bent strongly backward tho end which goes Into tho penholder will nearly but not quite touch the eye or hole of the second pen Bend the first pen back in this manner I man-ner taking care not to break it and hold it down by catching it under the point of the third pen which you havo thrust through tho hole In tho second or upright pen Lay a little ball of pressed bread or moistened paper on tho hollow shank of the bent pen and pull the third pen which you always hold with your fingers and thumb backward until its point slips off the bent pen At onco tho bent pen in virtue of Its elasticity straightens with a Jerk anil stands erect throwing the light bullet half way across the room Tho first peon the ono that you bond down should bo ns tough and springy a pen as you can find tho others maybe may-be any old pens except that tho upright up-right one must have a hole In It Tho board should be soft so that you can stick tho pens securely into Itso please dont mako uso ot the dining or parlor table or your school desk If you do so you mayand 1 hope you wl11bo tho chief victim of your experiments In gunnery Also look out for your eyes and other peoples peo-ples for sometimes tho pens fly as well as tho bullets |