Show II i Ready to Remember II i To ro the word bore hore when used usell to tell lell the gauge gause of or shotguns there at attaches attaches at- at an interesting bit of or history In Inthe Inthe Inthe the days when rule rille balls haJJ were spherical pherl- pherl cal and amI lon long elIn cylindrical conical head ed bullets and rifled barrels were undreamed undreamed un un- dreamed dreame of the gunsmith adopted n a curious but convenient con method of or designating the gauge or diameter of the bore He lie expressed it by slat stating how man ninny many bullets of the size that would lit fit a a. particular musket e would go o to lo make a pound Thus a t ten ten- n- n boro bore musket would be one of such a hove bore that ten of oC its bullets would go goto goto goto to make a n pound weight a n. bore IC-bore gun un would be he one ho whoso o bullets would run sixteen to the pound and so on Hence Bence the anomaly that the larger lars denomination musket hl has the smaller I bare l' l I. I Almost yer bod knows know's the hc rule of the that masons that stone Mone used u ed 1 In in building I should be so placed that It will wilt Ho lie asit ns as mt It lay In Its natural bed when hen I ried But Francis W. W Hoyt In the I Engineering News says sas that this fa familiar ta- ta a- a rule tule is not always ahva's to lo be depended depend depend- ed etl upon and needs in man many cases to lo lobe tobe tobe be supplemented with other There are three planes of ot fracture fracture frac frac- ture tun known to qUatT The rhe rift is the direction In tn which the stone splits most ea easily lI the grain that which is next ea easiest ie t the lie head t trial that lal which offers the greatest t resistance c. c In a paving block blod the two o sides represent represent represent sent a rift fracture the top tOI and bollon bollom bottom bol- bol tom lon the grain and the ends the head But in a quarry the to natural bed Iss' Iss is sometimes s' s considerably Inclined to the plane of oC the rift hence tho the Imperfection tion of oC tile the ordinary rule lule for placing placIng- the tho stone In building South China is being covered with Japanese educational appliances specially adapted for Cor Chinese use use school school schoolbooks books map maps globes anatomical and other charts all all helping to rescue the people from their ignorance Every school chool teaches physical and military drill In CI C every cry town of ot any size and often in villages cs there are arc now schools with foreign fittings lot for teaching teach teach- teaching ing Western Vestern learning Large numbers numbers numbers num num- bers of temples often orten every evory temple except the city temple and the Confucian ConCu- ConCu clan cian temple are be being InS InS' converted con into schools and colleges while scholars in their semi foreign fol dress s are aro counted by thousands says the Lon London on Times Tines English songs are sung to tho ho music of or a Japanese harmonium Reports that conio from various parts of ot northern and anti ca eastern tern Maine sa say that deer are suffering greatly this winter from the depredations of the bobcat and the Canadian I lynx The bobcat and his larger cousin the lie Canadian lynx commonly called lu- lu lu-I lu el ce b by hunters and rind woodsmen are arc I tho rho worst enemies the deer have hove Inthe in inthe inthe the Maine woo woods s In winter Years Tears ago ngo it was tho lie wolf the deer had to toC I C fear ar the tho most for COl tho ho wolves WO hunted in I packs acle and on once e the they took the lie trail trailor of or a a. deer that deer was wa as good as dead |