Show WAR6 NEW trftflO DevJcea For Slaujjhter hat Are Almost Beyond Be-yond Imaginat ons Grasp Indications are that when two European Euro-pean armies eventuajlly meet on the field if the war talk drer resolves itself into actual conflict Ji good many men will faint away in terror of their adversaries ad-versaries The inven ions which have been brought out latel 7 in France Germany Ger-many and Austria anci which have been purchased by the gove nments of those countries are iunumc rable and everyone every-one of them is designe 1 to slaughter hut hu-t man life at a rate that appals the imago ination The most int ensa Md theatric secrecy is maintainer concerning all these inventions an only a few general gen-eral facts regarding em have been mad public The Gf sian army it is understood is armed itlinifing which will send a bullet t rough four men standing one behind t e other at a distance dis-tance of 2U miles fro the rifle Austria Aus-tria has a machine un which shoots several thousand bullet a minute which is operated by steam nd controlled by n single gentleman th a waxed mustache mus-tache and n monocle i his left eye who lightly turns a crank At least this is the condition of things according to the latest illustrated journ Is at hand The man with the eyegla s can turn the I crank fast enough t < 7 sweep 30000 or 40000 men ii tqeter ity during the I luncheon hour J T Incidentally a German tailor hMm vented a coat that makes the wearer absolutely indifferent to bullets at any range and the Italians have machines for throwing very small 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 eneiny and explode t with force enough to kill 100 or more I 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 clieerfnl feature of it is that there are I no disagreeable odors 4ipr jiny smoke 1 I whatever when the explosion occurs M Turpin of Franca is tile latest heroin hero-in tliis direction He has invented something I some-thing which is so altogether awful that the taxpayers have reguested the government gov-ernment to give M Turpin a great amount of money so that he will not turn his machine over to the Germans This machine is operated by electricity 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 no use because JM Tnrpins 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 all engagement The facts are inspiring but there is a lack of detail about them which is in accordance with much of the literature which has lately i been put forth by the various Mun oh usens among the war officers of Europe Eu-rope The Tnrpin im ention so far outstrips out-strips everything else iccording to the critics of modern war are that it will insure universal peac One machine alone is enough to dev state a country New York Sun |