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Show Mr. ITeleh's Experience. James Welch, of Middlctown, Conn , having been told that the force of a dynamite explosion was downward, made n practical test of this principle by boring a big hole into a monstrous gnarled log, iuto which he Tut a lot of dynamite, Ignited a short tlmo fue and carelessly care-lessly sat down astride one end of the log. Soon Welch and the log-ascended log-ascended In a curve about thirty feet. In tbe descent the position or the couple was reversed. Welch arrived at earth first, tho log followed, follow-ed, and Welch says it thumped Mm several times after he wasdowc. Hz. |