Show NEW TERRORS doric for slaughter that are almost he yomi gnup indications am that when two euro acau eventually meet on the field i tho war talk over resolves itself into actual conflict a good many men will faint away in terror of their adversaries ver saries tho inventions which have been brought out lately in franco germany and austria An and which havo boon purchased by tho governments of choso countries conn tries are innumerable and every ono of them is designed to daughter human lifo at a rate that appala appals tho imagination the most intense and theatric secrecy is maintained concerning all choso inventions and only a few general facts regarding them havo been mado public the german army it is understood is armed with rifles which will send a bullet through four men standing ono behind tho other at a distance of 2 miles from the rifle austria has a machine gun which shoots several thousand bullets a minute which is operated steam and controlled by a single gentleman with a waxed mustache and a monocle in his left eye who lightly turns a crank at least this is the condition of things according to the latest illustrated journals at band the man with the eyeglass can turn the crank fast enough to sweep or men into eternity during the luncheon beur incidentally a german tailor has invented a coat that makes the wearer absolutely indifferent to bullets at any range and tho italians havo machines for throwing very small and almost in visible torpedoes a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile the torpedoes de baribo a parabola in the air drop into tho camp of the enemy and explode with force enough to kill or soldiers it they happen to in tho vicinity great numbers of them can bo thrown at a timo and a pleasing and cheerful feature of it la that tharo are no disagreeable odors nor any smoke whatever when the explosion occurs turpin of franco is tho latest hero in this direction ho baa invented something which is so altogether awful that the taxpayers have requested the government to give M turpin a great amount of money aso that bo will not turn his ms ichino over to the germane this machine is operated by electricity and according to its inventor it is of terrible a nature that it will do away with all fortifications throughout tho civilized world this is merely a detail of tho execution which this machine is to accomplish forts will bal of no use because M machines would rend them all into atoms aad at a distance of miles a man o 0 mow down tho enemy at the rato of at an engagement the facts are inspiring but tharo is a lack of detail about them which is in accordance with much of tho literature which has lately been put forth by tho various mun chau sens among tho war officers afen ofen ropo tho invention so far outstrips everything else according 9 the modem warfare that it wll insero universal buo ouo machine alono is enough to devastate a country |