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Show IN UNCLE SAM'S JUNK SHOP . The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has been added to Uncle Sam's junk heap. A few years ago this ship of war was declared to be the most formidable engine of destruction afloat. A projectile projec-tile from one of its tubes was supposed to be equal i to a full-blowrr earth-eiuake earth-eiuake within the area of its activity. In the early stage of the Spanish war, , the Vesuvius discharged a few long- ' range messages into the harbor of Santiago. Newspaper obserAers reported re-ported that at each shot an extensive rock-ribbed island disappeared permanently per-manently from the map of that inland sea. The new-fangled agent of high-explcsive high-explcsive warfare was counted upon to reduce the island of Cuba itself to a mere rock pile If necessary Ano no. this terror of the seas is relegated to the dump as an obsolete ana useless type of naval architecture. he government gov-ernment has a number of coast defense guns similar to the Vesuvius Vesu-vius armament which it is xvjlllng v dispose of to the highest bidder junong dealers in old metal. The cost of these worthless and discarded weapons something appalling, but the- iiatiou j rich and its rulers felt jt-tmed jn squandering, untold sums m novel pv Priments in alleged deat h-dealing de-. vices Mouc-tor, tSan Francisco.). , |