Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-15
iCrimean Correspondence OF the London Times.I
THE WAYS OF 4 BOMBSRELL.

into the air expands into cOncer trio rings
then follows the heavy dull report, like
the beat OF some giant drum, and then
comes the Shrll scream of the shell as it
describes its fatal curve, and decends with
prodigious velocity. increasing rapidly
every instant till it explOdes with the pc
culiar noise of" a blast, just as il reach
es the ground. At least il ought TO do
so-but to-day | watched the shells one
after another and only two out of three
burst properly, though the range and
fight was beautifully accurate. The
Russian fuSeeS are bad, bu: for their ar
tillerymen are not to be excelled when
their practice is undisturbed. 1t was in.
teresting-just as he man of pleasure in
Luiretius liked to see the rage when he
was not on board ship-to look at the
shell dropping, and 10 see our active little
Allies scampering away TO their cove and
adjusting themselves 10 the closest posi-
bic connection with mother earth till the
hurtling masses had gone by them. Any
man with moderate confidence and expe-
rience may despise TIE round shot at long
ranges, if he only sees the gun from
which they c me discharged. Well, We
won't say despise exactly. but at all
events " evade." But shell is dia
boical invention. which no one can Ie
gard as it approaches without certain
degree Of mi>giving that a triangular
piece of jagged iron may be whizzing
through his internal economy at the
shortest possible notice afterward. 1t is
sent from gun, it lizzes and roars
through the air, and sends its fragments
before it, the cone OF dispersion, which is
the neat phrase used by the learned mil
liant to imply the direction of The bits Of
shell (or its contents, when il is filled
with bullets, ETC., being in the direction
the shell has taken from the gun, and
the fragments being propelled with
portion of the volicity of the shell at the
moment of explosion Ii it be disehars-
ed from a mortar it whistles gently and
delicately, giving squeak and a roar,
now and then as it rises to its greatest
elevation, and then rushing down with
shriller whistle tDward the point aimed
at. If it explodes on arriving at that
point its fragments are projected all
around radially, and are propelled mere
ly ay the force Of the bursting charge.
A man behind bomb, or at the SIDE Of
it, is Just as likely to be hit as mar be-
fore it when it bursts in that way !;
whereas the piece and shell from a gun,
in nearly every instance, fly forward, so
that a person behind it, or outside the
limits of the co e of dispers on, is safe
Unless the shell or bomb bursts in
front of a body of men in the air, a very
considerable degree of safety may be at
tanned by the men throwing themselves
fiat on the ground, inasmuch as the piece
-of shell which bursts on the earth fly
upward from the point whore they en-
counter the mari nun1 of resistance.
Of course, if bomb bursts over a
man on the ground, or if a shell ex-
plodes in the air in front of man, there
is no great safety by his throwing him
self down beyond the consequent reduc-
ton of the amount of vertical exposure.
This little depression is all aproPOs Of The
conduct of our Allies, which | have Just
mentioned, and is made in order 10 ex-
plain the rationale of their proceedings.
Il is rather an unpleasant reflection when
ever one discussing the range of mis-
sile, and is perhaps in the act of exclaim-
Ing,
There's splendid shot," that it
may have carried misery and sorrow in
To some happy house hold. The smoke
clears oway-the ren get up-,hey
gather around one who moves not, or
vino is racked with mortal agony-lhey
bear him away--a mere black speck-
and lew shoveIs full of mud mark FIR a
little time the res ing place Of the poor
soldier whose wife, OF mother, or chill
dren. are left destitute of all solace save
memory, and the sympathy Of their cnun-
try. One such little speck l watched
to-day, and sawquieily deposited on the
ground, inside the trc"ch. Who will
let the inmates of that desoiate cottage
in Picardy, or Gascony, or Anjou, know
OF their bereavement? However, there
goes another shell, and ii does nothing
but knock up cloud Of snow and dust.
WOMEN LAWYERS Mrs. Z. Oakes
Smith, writes to the Tribune, Emma c.
Coe, has already entered into practice in
Philadelphia, Pa. Elizabeth Young is
doing the same at Lowell, Mass, and
now | have letter before me from a
young lady in Mansfield, Mass who has
chosen like career. This young girl,
grave, self-poised, handsome and intelli
gent, cannot fail t. move in shere hon.
orabIe alike to herself and useful TO 9TH
ers.