Show ky ir A NEW instrument ay OF DEATH deach the tile P pans ris correspondence of the now new york limes says you have all riad of juiet julet gerard the lion llon killer and of his wonderful encounters in the jungles of africa when gerard came back to paris pans the last lest time flom his bis favorite lavonte jav amusement in in africa he be suggested to devisme the well known know gun maker of the boulevard des It aliens the tho idea of inventing a ball th that atwould would explode when it arrived in in the animals aniro aps aVs body mr dev isme ime went to work to realize this idea the utility of which in tile the chase of lions elephants and other wild beasts ia la but too joo obvious and alid it is is pretended that lie lias has per perfectly succeeded tile the new projectile is is about 06 the size size of the minie mime ball balk its force is equal to the common ball arri arrived ved ill in the animals body it explodes like a bomb and of course causes the sudden death ofal of the a animal if shot into the lungs ot of an elephant for example the tho ball in exploding disengages carbonic acid gas and the animal which from fram its size might otil otherwise sun ive lve to fo a short time will suddenly fall asphyxiated asphyxia ted A few ew days davs da a agoa groa peo pro a party of gentlemen accompanied mr devree to a horse bous hous Q tho the environs environs of 0 tile the cly cis ivy there the new projectile was tried oo 00 five horses that W evere ere S standing tied lp arence alence to be shot tile tiie they y were each the lungs tiie the bali ball ba 11 exploded and the animal fell dead tile the e experiment was vas completely satisfactory since then mr devisme to demonstrate nion strate the practicability of 0 his new projectile project ie als aas a s a ss substitute u b or the harpoon in the destruction of whales iia lia has haq slone sione gone rone to havre haire not qi with the hope that hat a whale would present itself lo 10 to he be killed but to try the experiment oil on au an artificial whale that would respond in its resistance to tharal a r al one the entirely successful and those who witnessed as assert kert positively that tile the substitute for the harpoon is found but if this ball will bill pe penetrate afrate the blubber of a whale to a ruffic sufficient e depth its utility over tco ice harpoon is i so great that the use of that 1 instrument must suddenly cease for harpoon is is not only an uncertain but a aag dag dangerous erous in instrument ent for those who use it iti while the ball of al de devisme v lime igme is both bolli certain and safe making que il allowance lowance for french exaggeration in m the matter of inventions inventions indent ions lons there yet yel ren reu remains lains jains a hope invention mv enfin is aier a serious ious lous anid arid a practical I 1 onea oneo sac aji iian A u 22 1857 etwo 53 two friends were wely mely speaking of a certain publisher whose kindness 0 of f disposition has been frequently abused to his injury when one remarked j 1 P isa ia noble fellow and might have been rich but his heart is so klad kidd neier never never cin ein bear to sa say ives ipes no to an application to publish yes replied the tiie other a publisher must be a no ing mar man and a h man or he will soon find hii hlen hiEn seli seii self seif an owing owin ma man n I 1 I 1 U arthe uthe the reply of f all an enli enlightened 11 to a missionary is is characteristic of the race of of moslems your reli rell religion glon gion sa gays says 37 he gives me three gods and one wife inie mine alves gives me three wives and one god gog I 1 prefer my own 3 idi 1 fim jim m afraid ald said sald aid a jad lady y to her husband hus bind that I 1 am going to have a feneck ff neck not at all ali improbable my dear replied her spouse 1 I have lave seen een strong symptoms of it ever since we were m married 1 gid gip G when it is not despicable to be poor we want fewer things to live jive in poverty with satisfaction chanto than to live jive magnificently fitly with riches st evremond |