The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-05-09
RIELE-BALLS SEEN In THEIR
FLIGHT.


The fact that human eyes with the aid
Of a field-glass have seen rife-bullets,
during their flight from the muzzle of
the rife to the point at which they were
aimed, has been published, we believe.
several times; but We have never seen,
to our knowledge, the announcement
that they could be seen with the naked
eye. Yet it is well-attested fact that
rife balls were seen in their flight bv
several gentlemen, without the aid of a
glass or anything, at the rifle-range north
of this city, one day last week. A high
wind was blowing and showers were fire.
quentin fact, it rained almost constant
". When the spectators stood at one
side of the shooter they could only fol-
low the ball to the highest point of the
arc which it described, but when they
stood Immediately behind the shooter
Che lying down and they standing up
they could follow the bullet from point
about ten feet from the muzzle, all the
way to the target, or whatever object it
struck. One gentleman told the shooter,
Immediately after he had fired, that he
had shot too much 20 the right, and the
signal of the marker a minute or two
afterward confirmed exactly what he had
said. The balls were seen while the
shooters were firing at 500 yards dis
lance. The rifles were of the heavy
military kind, which carry large bullet
Those who saw the bullets in their flight
say that the arc described by them is i'm
mense at that distance, and that they al
so appear to curve to the right as well as
up and down.-Rochester Express.
NJ. d. CONWAY in his last London
letter to the Cincinnati Commercial,
gives this characteristic picture of the
snarl in European politics:
If the better sense of England were
now free to express itself, there would
be some chance of the nations recogniz-
ing the Mephistophelean character of
the European influences which are en-
deavoring to get them into war with
Russia. Although the French would be
very sorry to have their Exhibition spoil
ed, yet even that interest is largely
subordinated to the desire that England,
who saw them hunbled by Germany
without raising a finger, shall have an
opportunity of suffering the like. The
French now see England making e great
row about Roumania losing Bessarabia;
but why did England give no sign when
Germany took Alsace and Lorraine? 1t
would give France some of that satisfac-
ton which her La R0chefoucauld says
people derive from the misfortures Of
their best friends, if she could see Eng
land meditating over Sedan of her own
on the importance Of French allies is
great schemes. That Germany should be
animated by similar desire to see Eng
land reduced, is but natural. If England
were defeated by Russia-or even weak.
ened by Russia-there would be but
one first-class power i'll Europe. Julius
Caesar would be eclipsed by Prince
Bismarck, with France, England, and
Russia all hobbGng on clutches, and all
the nations holding out their hats for
anything he might choose to toss into
them. If England and Russia go to war,
the only nation that can possibly get
anything by it is Germany. and if this
country were not infatuated it could read
in the Berlin official press-now pro-
Russian. now -English-the exact
part played by those who set dogs by the
ears in ring.