Show THE tile grear GREAT the great 36 inch mortar in ahe he invention of which some bay eay the premier had bad a hand was tested at woolwich on friday for the second time this huge gun ia is made of separate pieces of iron together it throws a shell one yard in diameter dia dla metr aud and weighing twenty four hundred wight gome some idea of its fize pizo may be be obtained from the fact that to load it men mount to the mouth by a ladder and enter the clamber chamber to place the charges charge the shells fired yesterday were not filled filed but the tile merb mere weight of the huge huga ball produced tremendous effects at the moment ot ot impact there ia is a report inore seemingly powerful than tile the report of discharge ngit i is it quite like the noise of 9 gunpowder un powder discharge either fancy a hundred thousand drummers tp give one stroke at one and tile the same time and the notion would be more fitting within a radius of two hundred yards the air is iii filled with fragments stones clay turf water roots of trees krees go whirling aloft pa As though A volcanic crater had bad suddenly belched forth the result of the nail trial is a called successful although at it the fifth round the middle ring partially gave way but it iya lya was wak clear that 56 i inch n eh shells could be projected nearly a mile L |