Show NEW EW MUNITIONS OF WAR IVAR mr gale whose experience with gung guns t pistols and ammunition have resulted in more than one invention has just produced a cartridge of a very novel construction the powder ignot is not a gunpowder but an explosive fulminate 25 per cent stronger in power washed on both sides of a strip of paper suppose this strip coiled around the shank of a common round headed hobnail and a percussion cap cp stuck on the point of the nail such is is mr gales cartridge in the primitive form he would fire this kile flie from 0 a pistol fixed in a vice and show you that tho the hobnail would hit truer than a bullet now a bullet very like in form to this hob hobnail nall Dail is what mr lir gale calls his rudder tail tall ball at the first glance itis it is evident that the lever attached to the ball must make it fly straight the rudder tall converts it into a dart and the leverage of the shaft mut must act upon the air without cessation and keep the point odthe of the heads head always raight straight st to the mark the rudder tail ball may of course be fired from ft a smoothbore smooth bore of a rifle it would fly straight projected from the former although undoubtedly it would theoretically posses more advantages in being fired from the latter this fulminate 6 or rather explosive material is composed of chlorate of potash and other substances paper linen and fibrous material are saturated with this product products and the sheets heets are then rolled up and cut cat off into cartridges of various diameters and aud anc lengths according to the operation operational sf for fon which they maybe maybo may bo required red fo POI example mr gale has shown us besides cartridges for small arms one large cartridge 10 inches in length lengl by 11 1 inch in diameter for blasting purposes for which this new explosive e material seems to posses great advantages dv n t ages especially when fired in a novel and ingenious way proposed by him such a cartridge roll can be pushed at once down into the blasting hole and the damp or wet condition of the rock will in no way affect it as the cartridge is thoroughly waterproofed and might even itself bo be used to drive the water out of the bare I 1 the new explosive material it is said cabbe ean can be manufactured quite as cheaply as if not far less than gunpowder while the preparation of it is quite harmless and not dangerous there being no risk of explosion in the mixing or satur batur ing processes whereas in the ordin ordinary dry try enfield cartridge 21 2 drachms drachma of gunpowder are required mr gales cartridge will do the sime bime same work with it 1 drachma drachms of the new material nor is this new cartridge the only military novelty which this remarkable inventor has on hand t the present time he speaks of having nearly perfected a fog shell and a baloon shell the last of most destructive properties the object of the fog shell is that thrown on board ship it will after a certain lapse of time generate a dense vapor through which the sailors and marines shall find it im to see themselves with any certainty or it may be used on the tho other hand for producing a dense loud cloud behind which a ship may itself escape attack the balloon shell is filled with a fulminate which requires a tall fall of a hundred feet to explode e it or it may be dropped from any height by slightly altering its internal arrangement a blo bio blow biow from a lidin hammer mer or similar instrument not being able to detonate it this fulminate is said to be so fearfully explosive that thata a shell of 9 ginch inch diameter will be equalito equal to clearing a il large s space ce or area of some hundred of square neet feet of all but ponderous objects j act london shipping gazette no less than soo tradesmen in south london were ked fined during the present year at the newington NW ington sessions for having in their possession unjust weights and measures of these were bubli cans the majority of these offenders are ard described by a local paper as I 1 church and chapel going respectable men and women |