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Show 'WILL, DESTRO&r vr gJ n THE FROffCLAS. I S. Shecklcr of WelUvllte, Ohio, haa Invented and applied for a patent on a lovlce to destroy Ironclad battleships, which Secretary of the Navy Long and Pjroldcnt McKlnley believe will bo a Joot-tsse J-es-to r-l t i SJ.JL. .. U, t j 1 Km 1 wnlch unwind from a reel on top o. that veuel It Siaggtr-t Humanity. When tbo English budget was Introduced Intro-duced somebody ssld that every Doer killed had cost $5,000 Tho Drltlih have certainly not killed 10,000 Doers It Is doubtful whether they have killed 5,000. If It bas cost them tT50.O0O.00O to kill 10.000 Doers that Is 175,000 per Doer If only 5,000 novo been disposed dis-posed of, tho butcher's bill amounts to 1150,000 apiece. Thero wero less thsn 40.000 Doer families In tbo two repub- X i-isZr?S$t!m jA Hi ettSTitatitetatatstatattitictstitstatatatatstatst bbbj ...,... --it.t .Wvtt't "! T-rt .. .Htstssia THE EXPLOSIVE ADHERES TO THE IRONCLAD'S HULL. I iucceis,th, Invention having been submitted sub-mitted to thslr Inspection Shscklar is a well-known electrical engineer ana has worked for two years on his Invention. Its utilization all depends de-pends on the success of the submarlno boat, Tn, devlco is a steel box two feet aquare, highly magnetized, filled with powerful exploalves. Tho box la attached to tho top of a aubmarlno reaasl In such a manner that It can bo released when under a steel battleship, and by magnetism tbo box will Immediately Imme-diately adhero to the armor of that vcaiel. Its discharge Is regulated from tho submarlno boat by electric wires, lies when the war began KEsland could have given every family 120,000 without spending any more than she has paid for fighting The Doer republics, repub-lics, whose combined population Is leis thsn that of Dotroll or Milwaukee, have given the Drltlih empire the most costly war It has over bal In Its whole history In the same space of time. England bas Juit borrowed 1300,000,000 to pay a mere Installment of tbo cost of tho Hoer war. Tbo . Crimean Cri-mean war of threo years Increased the national debt by 1105 000000. The Doer war has lasted a year ond a holf. in thot time England has had to borrow moro than aha ever borrowed In any M two years of any other war In hei M history. Moreover aha bas spent mors M than we spent In our civil war In the H samo length of time. Our most expen- H slvo year was tho fiscal year IStS.wher wo had over a million soldiers undai M arms The cost of the war for tho year H waa 1570.887,377 89. England haa paid over (750.000.000 for a year and a halt H of Doer fighting and expects to psy a billion before the Job Is over. At Naundorf In tho Hunsdlck near H tho Rhino, a Roman temple bas been enclosed In a walled enclosuro meas- a urlng 220 by 200 feet The tempi standi In tho middle and Is CO feet by U 50. It contains moro terra cotta ob Jects than havo been discovered hitherto hith-erto In Oermany. They are votive offerings, of-ferings, about 100 being wholo figurines figur-ines reprssentlng goddesses Small bronze statuettes of Mara, Jupltsr and Mercury bavo also been found. |