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Show An authority on such matters states that the United States have lost more men iu war since 1776 than any nation in Europe. Br a novel device of reflection on a screen at their rear, heavy guns can now be aimed and tired w ith the greatest great-est accuracy without the gunners being exposed or even seeing the object to be fired at. The most important ship of the French navy, the Brennus, has been launched, after two years and a half of building, at a cost of 28,000,000 francs. Her heaviest guns, of which there are three, are of fifty-eight tons. Bakon Ar.Tnrn Rothschild, a nephew of the house whose millions enable monarehs to put armies in the field, is now serving his twelve months' term in the French army as a full private with a possible marshal's baton in his knapsack. The historic locomotive General, for the capture of. which the Andrews raiders raid-ers were executed, is soon to bo sold at auction. This engine, with a dozen similar ones, stand on a siding of the Western & Atlantic road near Vinings, Tenn. , |