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Show Tlml Kin tiuii. One of the biggest guns manufac- liirml l.v llneh'Sam nassed 1 1 1 rouul l Ogden, Tuesday, on its way to the Coast to scare tin-Chilians. About oOO people gathered to have a peep at. it. The gun is feet, inches long; 20 inches in diameter at the mouth and four and a half feet at the bearings. It has a l'i-inch bore ami 1 o inch chamber a nd weighs 10iIK) pounds. The shell weighs S ltl pounds and if takes blO pounds of powder lo semi it on its mission. It is said that it will throw the shell lift ecu miles and that it will pierce twenty-seven j inches of steel at a distance of a j thousand yards. The breach and , carriage w ill weigh almost as much as the gun. |