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the gbowihg teee0e8 op was uu creator yelocliy ol cannon ball lord arnutrons statement in bejard to the modern wcaponi powder and ships the nnl meeting of the shareholder of sir w g armstronjr mitchell collmit- ed was held in the elswick mechanics in stitute london kng the other evening lord artastroog chairman of the company presided and in the course of his address said when i last addressed you i referred to the success which had attended the introduc tion of our quickfiring guns of large calibre and i am happy to say that continued trills with those guns and progressive improve ments in their manufacture have firmly established their advantages tnose advantages will be still further enhanc ed by the employment of the new smokeless powder whbb it may be said is now certain to be brought iuto use with ordinary powder it would be impossible to fire these large guns at their maximum rate of some ten rounds per minute on account or the hanging smoke from the discharge whioh benders aixiisc impossible with the socalled smokeless powder in which nitrate of ammonia is used as a base the same hindrance is not experienced the smoke produced by the discharge being very much less in volume and dissipating very readily excellent results have been ob tained with it velocities of about 2 300 feat per second in the 12centimetre gun 4j inoh being reached ai d in tin 15 centimetre gnu 6 inch the extraordinary velooity of 2500 leet per second has been realized in both in stances with very permissible pressures bat even with these powders though much reduced in volume the smoke is still present as a partial hindrance and extended experi ments are now being carried out to endoavor if possible to obtain a powder with a total absence of smoke we have lately been experimenting with a new powder recommended by sir freder ick abels committee known from its ebaeces costly isitio 00l0hy- how the french treat the annamltes the women of tonqula ilililn french after china with its hundreds of thou sands of great brown coolies and its slim ones who will walk all day np hill under burdens that would break down a european athlete on tha level the annamiiea strike you as a nation of pigmies their average height must be under five feet they are narrowchested and thinlegged their months are always stained a slobbering filthy red with the arece nut and lime tbey chew unceasingly and they are stupid beyond the powsr of words to tell whether is is the faut of their conquerors or not i csnnot say but they appear to be a people destitute of selfrespect at any rate the french treat tpeni as if they h vd none the first time i went into dejeuner at the hotel at haiphong one of the boys had left a dirty plate ca the little table to which the host showed me qaest ce que tu fals toi j demanded the latter pointing to the plate and smack a box ox the ears followed that you conld have heard fifty yards off and this in the middle of a crowd- ed dining room you would no more think of striking a chinese servant like that than of tweaking a policemans nose on yonge street before a froncfcmaa un annamite appears to have eo rights both men and women in tonqnin wear ttieii hair long and twisted up into a kind of chignon on the top of the head it is of course always lanky and jet black their dress is of the mo3t simple the men wear a loose jacket and short trousers and the women a long straight shift reaching from neck to heels the annamite man is- a very poor creature audit is only among the upper classes that one sees occasionally a well formed or handsome face with some eleva tion or dignity of expression tha women are much better looking and would often bo pretty except for the stained mouth and teeth which render them horrible to a european eye bat in figure they are much the most favored of any i have yet seen in the east and in the course of a walk in stringlike form as cordite with much hanol eat r dozan who are 8trai ht sf j 5 6u t l a 4 r enough and shapely 2300 feet have been obtained with cordite enough to a moae their at pressures somewhat ovor twelve tons as j native danoa te a barleeq of the j yet it wonld bo premature to say up to what i tha aooompanlmont a fiddla eot size of gun this powder might be used and its adaptability for the service has of course still to bo proved by climatic and othor tests bat at present the results are very promising it is impervious to damp and above all it is absolutely smokeless and should the results mentioned above be main tained its employment will in all pro bability work a revolution in modern arma ments and render the use of j quickfiring gcns ot only an advantage but a necessity so much for guns and powder when last addressing you i referred to our continued success in the production of war ships and especially of protected cruis ers and i alluded particularly to a vessel of this class we were building to our own designs for the italian government 1his vessel the piedmonte was thon jast haunch ed but she has since then passed through both her speed and her gunnery trials aud has i am happy to say more than realized the prediotionb which i tnen raptured to make both as to her speed and power of armament i said last year that she was expected to obtain a speed of 21 knots in real- ityahe has accomplished 22 3 knots qaal to 2g miles an hour which is the highest speed ever obtained by any seagoing ship she carries on either broadside four 6 inoh jzunb three 12 centimetre guns and five 6 pounders excluding mitrailleuses and with this broadside fired at the maximum rate she could discharge some 5000 pounds weight of projectiles in a minute i have long contended that vessels of this class wonld prove more serviceable in relation to their cost than armored battle ships especi ally in the case of a navy like ours which has a very widespread commerce of incalcul able value to protect the moving towers of qruson atthe german army manoeuvres the other day the emperor took up the defensive po sition which was strengthened by eight sobumann ironclad towers provided w icb machine guns these fortifications are on wheels and resemble beehives inside sit two men one on a saddle like that of a blcylo the other handing him ammunition of whioh 600 shot can be stored within the turrets contain a quiokloading gun firing thirty small shrapnell shell or solid shot the latter for use against cavalry the turrets revoive and are bullet and bhell proof the ohief objection to them seems the difficulty of moving them horses were not available and about twenty men with their auxiliary force of villagers wero required to drag each of the ewht turrets employed iuto position at the extremities f thn in fantry intronohmenb smokeless powder was employed in the guns but it gave a bright flash like artillery so that tho posi tion of the turrets whioh were painted the color of the soil could be distinguished but major von soheibert warmly advocates them arguing that evon if artillery after much trouble had destroyed oss it would be a slight loss compared with the execution the turrets can infllot major von scheibort is an opponent of all permanent fortifications hesays thefrenoh repent their expenditure od them and in stanced the fatal attraction of metz aud strasburg during the last war for frenoh armies the turrets were invented by tho lato capt schumann and built by gruson of magdeburg tho old officers oill them tine or hand fireengine whioh they resemble long the few women you see with olean mouths and white teeth are almost sure to be the mistresses of europeans tha most ourious of the surfaoe impres sions of tonquin is the language you must learn to talk with the natives your ear becomes familiar with pidgin english before you have spent a day in tho east and a horrid jargon i it is convenient no doubt but growing positively repulsive after a while bat v pid gin frenoh or petit negre as it is call ed comet as a complete surprise and it is all tho funnier because of the excellent native pronunciation of french petit negro is characterized as compared with french prop er by tour features omission of the auxiliary verbs ignoring of gender employment of the infinitive for all moods and tenses and ab sence of words taken bodily from tho native liko maskeo manman and ohop- chop in pidgin tho one expression which recurs again and again with an infinity of meaning is yamoyenor vyapaamoyen and after this comes fili for fini nearly as often the you navvy of pid gin is noi cohnaitre themy wantohee is mol vouloir the native servant is every where called by the english word boy pronounced boioe in two syllables and language is farther enriched by a number of words recalling the nursery like pouase- pousse for jinrikisha oonpaooupe tor a big knife and so on beaucoup does dnty for trea and bien so one is con stantly hearing sentences liko these mol beaucoup vouloir avoir sampan sonpe beancoup mauvais mol donner voub beau- coup bambou and toibeauconp imbecile petit negre is of course much younger than pidgin for one person who sneaks ib a hnndred thousand apeak tho latter and it is not capable of the flights of oratory to whioh the accomplished speaker of pidgin oan soar nor will ib ever become what pidgin has long been the vehicle of communication between the vast numbers of people other wise acquainted with only a score different dialects and tongues i may add here that tongking is the same word as tokyo meaning eastern capital and that the former is tho only correob spelling to express tho chinese sounds tonquin is absnrd either in frenoh or english t3e bee01x23 of tobkffl a splended temple dedicated to two ciru who was enduring fame a little outside of the city of hanoi in tonkin is a remarkably handsome pagoda in which live twenty women they seldom leave their chosen home and they subsist cpon the contributions of visitors and upon small revenues which the temple receives from the government some of them are young and pretty and in intelligence and attainments they arc alljabove the common people they are reclusca and their mission la to periorcn tho work of the temple and to keep a light constantly burning before the life eza statue of two young women whose patriotic heroism is thus honored and the memory of their achievements and martyr dom for their country kept alivo in the hearts cf the people though they lived nearly nineteen centuries ago their career greatly resembled that of joan of arc in the year 36 of the present era tonkin wis suffering under the opprewive rule of china who had driven her legitimate kings from the throne tonkin was a chinese pro vince ruled by chinese functionaries and the people groaned under a heavy yoke two young sisters of noble family named chinse and chin eul took advantago of the widespread discontent to stir np a revolt remarkable tor their energy and bravery and greatly admired for their beauty and splendid horsemanship thsy placed them solves at the head of a volunteer army and drove the foreigners pellmell out of tonkin for a time tonkin was again her own mas ter tha sisters were idouzsd and tho people received thorn with acclamations and grati tude tho news travelled to pokin of the dis grace the two women had infliotod upon tbo chinese arms and the emperor koang ti sent a great army under ono of his mo3t famous soldiers to teach tonkin and her famous generals a terrible lesson when the army reached tonkin the sisters and their warriors met the chinese host on tho frontier and contested the gronnd step by step porforming prodigies of valor tho de cisive battle finally took place on the out skirts of tho capital the tonkineso at first had the beat of the fight but in the crisis of the battle some of their generals passed over to the enemy this treason pave tho victory to the chinese thetwo sisters fell from their horses pierced with apearo aa they were leading a last charge in the vain effort to check the chinese advance the memory of their patriotism and feats of arms has been perpetuated in this costly temple high walls surround it and only those can enter who have a permit within are many carvings and paintings done in the best style of tonkineso art depicting scenes in the brief bub glorious career of the two sisters a great couch is shown whioh is fupposed to bo similar to that upon which the listers sat when they gave audiences specimens of anoient weapons of warfare hang on the walls there are life az3 paint ings to rcpresentthe horses upon which the sisters rode and one wall is entirely devoted to a painting of the two elephants whioh always marched at tho hoad of tho army of the heroines tho btatues of tho sisters bland upon bases cf atone and they are richly robed fc silks i before them bnrns a lamp and che recluses of tho temple ate very careful to keep the flime constantly blaz ing il i i me electrical expebimests- a simple apparatus by vf bleb electricity can br generated although the generation of frictional elec tricity from a practical point of rlew is nob nearly as important as the generation of stvanic electricity thanks to the wonder- full discoveries and inventions of the nine teenth century still experiment of this kind ore of great interest not only to the learned who work io physical laboratories bat also to tha educated lairy the appara tus described in the elektronischen echo leipsic o leber should therefore bo of universal interest by means of this apparatus an electric spark can be obtained in the simplest way imaginable by any one with very little expense of time or trouble a strip of tin foil is fastened around the centre ot a common lamp chimney and then a straight strip of the same material u pasted on the chimney from one end of the same to within a centimeter of the ring then a piece of silk is wrapped around a brush to clean the chimney and the interior of the chimney is rubbed briskly but the fingers must not touch the tin foil if this is done in the dark each time that the brush is withdrawn from tho chimney a bright electric spark will be seen to spring from one piece of tin foil to the other many other experiments of this kind can be tried with this slmplo ap paratus for example it may be shown that poor conductors can be electrified by rubbing further than good conductors can carry tho electrioty from an olootrifiedbody to one which has not beon charged with eloctrlcity and finally the power of bodies charged with tha same kiud of- electricity to repel each other be illustrated in the following manner bind a woolen thread or better still an iron or braes wlref over the tin foil ring and on the end of this hang little strips of thin paper it the interior of tho chimney is now rnbbed the silk covered brash being introduced at the opposite side to that into whioh- it was formerly placed the ring of tinfoil is charged with electrioty which is conducted by the thread or wire to the strips of paper which fly apart as in all such experiments the loss ef elec trioty through dampness must be avoided this oan bo done by thoroughly drying the brush the silk and tho chimney at the fire before trying the experiment a sorrowful census the baffiloos twenty years ago thoro roamed over the plains and mountains of the far west nearly 18000 000 buffaloes to day thoro ars less than 500 hoad of the animals in cxlstenco therd are but eightyfive head of wild buffaloes 301 altvo in captivity and about 200 under the protection of the government in yellowstino park- thoro is also said to be about 550 head in our northwest v of the eightyfive head of wild bnffaloes which are known to exist twenty fivo are in texas twenty in colroado twenty six in wyomlnetonio montanaandfour in dakota the statistics have been- carefully gathered by the effi dais of tho smithsonian institute and lb is absolutely known that tho number stated comprise all the wild buffaloes of tha world tho skeletons of tha numerous herds of a score of years ago are bleaching on the western plains a tribute to tho prowess of tho american nlmrod stanley in africa- the most f avonrable view that oan bo taken of the results of stanleys expedition is that something has been done at the closing stage to promote the ends of civilization as an organized process of rescue it was a signal failure but aa a diplomatlo expedient for extending the infiuenco on the british east africa company in tho interior it may have accomplished some useful purpose that company ia rapidly acquiring a great african empire to its original concessions has re cently beon added tho occupation of a coast- lino 700 miles in length from the umba to the port of warsheikh stanleys ohief pat ron sir william macklnnon ia the presi dent of the oompany and his financial in vestment far the relief of emin will prove a remunerative one if tho explorer by diplo matlo negotiations has contrived to enlarge the jurisdiction of the directors and to open trade routes inland to the bordors of emins province this would be a dlstinob gain for afrloan civilization and it is to bo hoped that stanlsy has succeeded in promoting the material interests of tho oompany other wise his costly expedition has been a miscal culated failure from beeinnbe toend enin when foucd was not in ncod of re enforce ments and relief and tho shnttored column that emerged on the shores of the albert nyatzafrom the uninhabitable wilderness was not in a position to help him tho res cuers themselves were in the worst possible plight and havn only been onablcd to rotnrn to the coast by emins hearty cooperation and organized aid now york tribune what he meant bp 3d of the uulf stream three miles ia about the average velocity atthe whole stream though at plaoea ib attains aa high a speed as 54 miles per hour as ib pafaes through the yucatan channel whioh is 93 miles wide and and over 1000 fathoms deep tha ourrenb does not ii iw at a higher rate than onefourth ot a mile an hour but in tho narrower straits of bernini it has a velocity of from four to five miles a breadth of 50 miles and an average depth of 350 fathoms this velocity decreases as we go ncrth until at new york its speed u nob more than two and a balf knots while three miles to the east the velocity of tha stream which has constantly been spreading out fanehapod ia scarcely per ceptible its speed as a rale is greater in its axis than along its edges yet the current though blow in the atlantic is not lost but its heat is rapidly eliminated at newfoundland it is 320 mies wide though still warm enough to cause fogs when it meets with tho cold current from the north from this point it heads aorosa tho atlantic widening out oooling and losing velocity until in lat 47 deg n long 25degw it is 830 miles wide hero ib divides one of the two branohes flows to tho northeast alorg tho coast of ireland scotland and norway impinges on southern icelmd and extends round tha north cape to tho kara sea where its in fluence is still felt audita apeed thongh re duced to barely 100 yards an hour anffialent to land the soeda and fruit oi tropical plants on tho low shores past which io creeps a small branoh deflected from it sweeps along the e is5 coast past capo farewell is felt for njme distance along the western shoro of gceenland on whioh also the secda of wesc india plants and other tropical debria have been thrown the priotions of life cant you givo a man a little room said a stout old gentleman to a man who boemed to be in his way in getting off a orowded platform of o brooklyn street car of coarse i conld givo a man room said the person addressed but i am not expeoted to make way for any old behemoth of the forest go off and reduce some of the surplus you old blubber and dont bo smash ing peoples toes here liko a load of gravel the stout old man hurried away tho aggrieved person on tho oar in a loud voice callod attention to tho gait of it and the stout man being unablo longer to stand the abuso of the othor turned and callod af fer ine moving oar bring bajk that fragment that dot that speck that molecule and ill brash the thing off the face of the earth but the oar was tiro blocks away and tio earth is still oncumbered with both tho molo- oulo and the fat man and will ba till thoy meet again prodidous memories there have been stupendous memories enough in ancient and modern times to stag ger belief buoh aa those of theodectes and hortehsina and cineas of whom cicero speaks and in our later days pascal who it is said never forgot anything he had seen heard or thought and avl- oenua who repeated by rote the entire ko ran when he was ten years old and francis suarez who strada tells us had tho whole of st augustine in hie momory enough one wonld think to destroy all his j mental power of digestion and justus lipsius who on ono occasion offered to repeat all tho history of taoltna without a mistake on forfeit of his life and in our own days jedediah buxton and zerah colhurn among othsra who hod such a prodigious power and rapidity of calculating in their minds colburn it is said oould tell tho number of seconds in fiftyeight years almost before the question could bo repeated the story is told that jedediah buxton was ones taken to tho theatre to sea garrick and that he was observed to pay an unremitted attention to the great aotor throughout tho play when he wont out his friend who accompanied him asked him how he had been impressed by the acting and jedediah answered by stating the number of words and syllables that ganiok had spoken his mind had been interested solely in this enumeration i dare say ib was a purely mechanical operation of mind with him and i rather think that with all those great memories ic is the same as i have not a good memory x wish to decry it out of puro envy i wish i could say that great men never have great memo ries unfortunately it ia not true the names of pascal avicenna scanger who committed to memory the whole of the iliad and odyssey in three weeks old dr thomas folier whose memory was equally remark able to say nothing of cyrus hortensias mithridates are so terribly against me that i give up such a proposition and i have serious thoughts myself despte its disgusting ingredients of resorting to the learned grataroli of bergamos recipe for improving my own memory he gives several but one above all others as efficacious and com forting to the memory it la this to mass a mixture of moles fat calcined human hair cumin and bears greaso and swallow a pill of them of about the size of a hazsl nut at bedtime tecs tkibxt3ste is published every friday at the tribune printing house main stbeet stouffville subscriptiod 100 per ankub first irrtoftion per luxe solid nooparcijs fit fgfech abtqucttt iicrtkn per use 00 ivotftisioil crdt per yuur- 4 qp kates under contract qaecofnan per ycur 5a m half column oo yer 3000 giarir columa ono yew 18 m huacoiuratioaftcir xo m for six nwuch or three months ia tho umo ratio hoidge brost publishers and 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washington territoryer hew conspiracy the conspirators retponaible for the mur der of dr cronin of chicago did not believe the body of the murdered man would be found and a now conspiracy was formed to extricate suspected parties from tho net work of circumstantial and other evidence thrown about them those engaged in this conspiracy declared for tho benefit of the publio that there had been no murder but tbey did not base their hopes on mere braz- onnesa of assertion this was to opon the way for the work of the real conspirators whoso objeotive point was the jury while the lawyers for the defence were on parade or engaged in bold adventure or adrolc man- euvro to catoh the eye of tho publio tho real workers for tho defence wero employed in a echemo of intimidation on one hand and bribery on the other possible witnoaees for tho prosecution were driven from the line of action marked ont by thoir own impulses arid possible jurors wore plied with bribes the schema of intimidation was so 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