Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1875-12-04

at her.
"where's your folks ~ he asked
suddenly, as if he had just thought
of them.
Eyes, it is a good plan," answer.
ed Jane, nodding her head approx
ingly. "Geese always ought to
wear pokes. If they don't they'll
be getting into the garden and eat
everything up"
~ asked after your father and
mother" shouted Mr.. Green with
awful emphasis, turning red in the
face with the exertion.
"Let me see," said Jane thought
ru,'y. Huu.y D-~----'- l-n+har =
No, Mr.. Green, don't think I ever
knew him."
"Oh, DEAR" groaned Mr.. Green.
"She gets deafer and deafer. can't
marry her. What if l wanted to
say something to her in the dead of
the night I'd have to wake up the
hull house to make her hear. It's
an awful pity l swan"
Jane kept him shouting at her all
the evening, under the beaming ef
fulgence of her smiles. | never
laughed SO much in my life before.
He came into the kitchen next
morning where 1 was busy getting
breakfast.
"I'm SO hoarse l can't hardly talk
loud" he said mournfully. ~ like
her. She's smart, naturally, an
seems willin', and wants to get mar
ried as bad as any woman ever
see =; but she's too deaf. l guess l
won't stop to breakfast, cause it
will only make her set on havin' me,
an can't make such sacrifice for
the sake of anybody. If you'd on.
ly think favora BILE about it Pd stay.
Couldn't you now, s'pose?' with
very tender smile.
"Not for a minute," said l.
Aud seeing that there was no
hope, Mr.. Green took his departure.
Aunt Philinda evidently saw
through the state of affairs, as re-
ported to her by Mr. Green, for she
hasn't been visiting us since. l
wonder if he's still single?
THE LARGES GUN in THE WORLD.
Tho completion and trial of the 81
ton gun is an event in the history
of gunnery which deserves special
mention, as to the character
and results of the first trial as Civ
Ell by the English Mechanic: "The
charges used consisted Of l7O pounds
of pebbles, or rather cubical pow
der, rising by steps to 24O pounds,
with which the sixth round was fir.
ed. The projectile weighed 1890
pounds, and left the gun with We
locity of 1860 feet per second, the
total energy being equal to about
2O,4OO foot-tons. The gun cannot
consume more then 23O pounds
of powder. which is in the form of
14-inch cubes. The figures given
refer to the fifth round, which ap-
pears to have been the best as re.
CARDS it's effects. At present the
gun weighs nearly 50 tons, is near
ly 81 feet long. and at the breach is
nearly six feet in diameter. The
bore is "a feet long and 143 inches
in diameter, but it is intended to
wided it to 16 inches, when the gun
will throw an elongated projectile
weighing 1850 pounns, and com
suming 800 pounds of powder at
each discharge. In the fifth round
the pressure at the bore was 29.6
tons per square inch, at the base of
projectile 21.S tons-the recoil being
81 feet. Our brief account of this
monster gun would be imperfect
if we did not mention that it's cost
is about $4,000, and that the value
of the powder and shot for firing
shch round as we have described
amounts to nearly G25. Fortunate
" our large guns are generally
fairly accurate. Alread y, however,
our 81-ton gun is threatened with
eclipse. Sir william Armstrong is
building some 1OO.t ton guns for the
Italian government, and the facts
learned in connection with the trial
of our S1-tOn weapon will doubtless
be utilized to the profit of the Els
wick works. The ordnance men
will soon ask for permission to build
a gun weighing 100 tons, and throw
ing a shot of a ton or more in
weight.
"What does Good Friday mean 7"
asked one schoolbOy of another.
"YOu had better 20 home and read