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Show 1M.IMS (IF IIIMItlt'IKO. In lhttedt)tof Ihrcaleutd war, Invention In-vention It nertlng Hi uluioit powcrt In the coiittructlon of euglnet of de-tlructlon. de-tlructlon. Ouly afew wteka ago a gun wat trauijorted acroia thu coutluiut to Kin 1 rauclico which weighed 10 1.DOJ uudr, that it 82 Ameilcan tout, riilt gun liUlect loug, an lot the briiclmi largo at an or Unary flour larrel. The the lit u,.d will each w clgh 63(1 pr uiida, and every ahot flred will lake t. ounc t of jowdcr, mid bo cllectlin wltblu allmltuf twelro uillii. Only fancy Ihu iliitiuclivu tKiwirof uu aSO pound inbtlle niuvlug w lib a m lot lly of SO 1 1 feet a neon J, or Sliullctniulnutcl What It there lu Hie material world to runt tuch force? It will lough IU way through feet of itetlnnd Irou. Thu r.ugllth have much larger guns than that. They have aome that c.crr 1610 IKHIIld Chilli, and It-quire 10(H) pcunltof powder lo Urn them. At n recent Uttof one ol thctc guntoii cm bankment of Irnn, ttcel, granite mil concrete, forty fle fed thick, wa foutlructi-el, nuil Itliloel thta a waller brick tuinty fut thick wat built. One oftbcie moutter gum wat dlr ctcil tuwarilithe worl, aud on 1 J .111, i ball dlacliarRcr-J. The tall Went through twenty Inibci uf Iron and ttiel plate, Hun eight Inchet ol wrought Iron plate, then twenty feet ofuak, five feet of granite, ilevtu felt ol concrete, and finally lodged lu ilx feit of brick, however, time gum aru tald lo tn not at eltectlve at the 12 Inch American (tun, Aaa rule tbete Immenie weapon nro not lojtilar. I raucu hail tuveral of them but dlt-carded dlt-carded their Utt. Tlie gun factory at Waihlogton turned uut thu Han IVancltco montter, and It at prctcnt engaged In making teveral ttl.ert of the tamo ralttru. One thou-aud men aiuemiloyed In thlt factory, and It it tald to be one of Hie lalgett aud belt equip! ed lu Ibe world. Thctt- gum are made of the II nut of w rought tleel. Thero are (.titling gum which rain outLVOtholt auilnutc. Iho llotcli kltt gunt work on the rtvolvcr plan anJ ran hurl Imiuentu balli at the ralo of fifteen to twenty a minute. In addition there am dynamite guna which can project whole tout of dyua mite teveial ntllei. With armt of Ihii kind In I.uglatid aul America, what would u war Utwevii both countries mean? Kven Imagination thriukt al the horror of a leply. |