Show r < WARS NEW TERROR Devices zT1satArerirnc f t1et For SlatiglitjartUiat t w youdIihaginations Grasp Indicationsare that when two European Euro-pean armies eventually meet on the field if the war talk ever resolves itself into actual conflict a good many men will faint away in terror of their adversaries i ad-versaries The I inventions which have been brought out lately in France Germany Ger-many and Austria and which have been purchased by the governments of those countries are innumerable and everyone every-one of them is designed to slaughter human hu-man life at a rate that appals the imag I I ination The most intense and theatrio secrecy is maintained concerning all these inventions and only a few general gen-eral facts regarding them have been mad public The German army it is understood is armed with rifles which will send a bullet through four men standing one behind thither at a distance dis-tance of 2M miles from the rifle Austria Aus-tria has a machine gun which shoots several thousand bullets minute which is operated by steam and controlled by a single gentleman with fa waxed mustache mus-tache and a monocle in his l left eye who lightly turns a crank At least this is the condition of things according to the latest illustrated journalist hand The I man with tho eyeglass can turn the crank fast enough to sweep 30000 or 40000 men into eternity during the luncheon hour Incidentally a German tailor has invented in-vented a Coat that makes tho wearer i absolutely indifferent to bullets at any range and the Italians have machines for throwing very email and almost invisible in-visible torpedoes a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile The torpedoes describe de-scribe a parabola in the air drop into the camp of the enemy and explode with force enough to kill 100 or more soldiers if they happen to be in the vicinity vi-cinity Great numbers of them can be thrown at a time and a pleasing and cheerful feature of it is that there are no disagreeable odors nor any smoke whatever when the explosion occurs M Turpin of France is tho latest heroin hero-in this direction He has invented something some-thing which is so altogether awful that the taxpayers have requested tho government gov-ernment to give H Turpin a great amount of money so that h3 will not turn MsImiushiiia vipiiiW FeTiCiiiiij a This machine is operated electricity I and according to its inventor it Is of so terrible a nature that it will do away with all fortifications throughout the civilized world This is merely a detail of the execution which this machine is expected to accomplish Forts will be of noose because Turpins machines would rend them all into atoms and at a distance of several miles a man can mow down the enemy at the rate of 20000 at an engagement The facts are inspiring but there is a lack of detail about them which is in accordance with much of tho literature which has lately been put forth by the various MUll chausens among the war officers of Europe Eu-rope The Turpin invention so far outstrips out-strips everything else according to the critics of modern warfare that it will insure universal peace One maohins alone is enough to devastate a country New York Sun |