Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-08-18

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writer who lived about A ID. IA saws
When the towns Of India are attacked
by their enemies the people do not rush
into battle, but put them 10 flight by
and lightning" 1t is said,
too, that one of the Roman emperors,
who lived just after the crucifxion OF
Christ, ''had machines which initiated
thunder and lightning, and at the same
time emitted stones" Then, about A.
ID. eco, there was written recipe "for
an ingenious composition to be thrown
on an enemy" which very nearly COR
to our gunpowder. During the
many hundred years that follow, little is
until about the ninth century,
when there appears in an old book, now
in Paris library, an exact recipe
for gunp0wder, aud description of .
rocket. 1t is said that in 1909 the Sara
Gems, in defending Jerusalem, "threw
abundance of pots Of fire and shot fire.
darts, mo doubt some kind of bombs
and war-rockets. History affords &C.
counts of other wars about this time, in
which gunpowder was undoubtedly used
in some form. But in 1915 monk,
Friar Roger Bacon, made gunpowder;
and it is asserted he discovered it indie
pendently, knowing nothing of its exist
ence elsewhere. 1t il not unreason.
able to believe this, for in those days
people kept their inventions to them
selves if they could, and news travelled
slowly. Some authors say u German
named Schwartz discovered it in 1890,
and perhaps he did, too, and as honestly
and independently as did Friar Bacon,
or the East Inoians, or the Chinese.
Others insist that it was invented origin
ally in India, and brought by the Sara
Gems from Africa to the Europeans, who
it. At any rate, an English
gentleman who has made translation of
some Of the laws of India, supposed to
have been established. 800 years before
the Christian era, or over $500 years
ago, makes one Of them read thus: "The
magistrate shall not make war with any
deceitful machine. or with poisoned
or pith cannon and guns, or any
tind Of fire Grnas."-St. Nicholas.
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