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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31

yard hollow log Of forged steel as high as
table and so long that you could hardly
get it into the average parlor.
1t is here drilled out until it is just q lit
tie smaller in its interior diameter than the
circumference of the steel tube, and it is
shrunken on this in the very same way that
a blacksmith shrinks tire on a wheel. In
the middle of this big gun factory there is a
great hole big enough to hold a four-story
house of about 40 feet square. This con-
tains great furnaces and machinery which
will hold one of these great guns upright.
The big crane picks up this 20 ton or so of
steel which constitutes the barrel of the
gun, swings it over this hole and stands it
on end.
Putting on the Steel Jacket.
Then it takes the thirty or forty thou
sand pound steel jacket and puts it into the
big furnace which stands in this hole. By
means of coal-oil, an immense heat is pro-
duced and the jacket becomes white hot.
The crane now catches hold of it, lifts it up.
suspends it over the barrel and, lo the heat
has SO expanded it that it slips down upon
the barrel, and it is left there to cool. Cold
water is sprayed over it through bands of
copper wire, and in day the heat has left
it and it has embraced the tube with ter
rible pressure, which is sometimes so great
that it makes it necessary to drill out some
of the interior of this massive tube to bring
it to the right size.
This Jacket is now three or four inches
thick. 1t has to be shaved down until
nothing but the best and the purest of steel
remains in it. Other great hoops of steel
are shrunk on to the other parts of the
barrel, and these are shaved down and
other hoops shrunken on top of them, until
the whole barrel has three different layers
of the finest of forged steel, more strongly
welded together than though they were one
solid piece of metal.
1t Shines Like a Mirror
The gun is now polished off until it shines
like a mirror, its breech loading apparatus
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on hand at the Navy Yard and every gun
uses three kinds of projectiles
Exploding the steel Shells.

on hand at the Navy Yard and every gun
uses three kinds of projectiles.
Exploding the steel Shells.
These big 12-inch guns will fire steel
she'll with walls about two and.a halt inches
thick and so arranged that they will go of
upon striking the ship. The arrangement
is much like the striking of caps on gun
which ignites the powder and blows the
shells into hundreds of pieces. Another
kind of projectile used is the shrapneL
These are shells filled with leaden balls
about as big around as good sized chestnut
or a plum and there is from 81 to 800 OF
these balls in the shrapnel according to
their sizes. The 12-inch gun will shoot a
projectile containing about 500 of these
balls and should it explode inside of ship,
it would be the last of the crew. The
armor piercing shell has steel point OF the
hardest composition known and expert
ments are now being made upon shells
which will not explode until they get in
side of a ship or which will go off only at
given time after leaving the gun or upon
striking.
1t is wonderful how accurately the guns
of modern warfare can be sighted. Every.
thing is done by machinery, and some OF
the guns go off with the pulling of trigger
like that of q revolver, and the gunner has
a rest for his shoulder and can sight along
the barrel just as you do when you wish to
bring down squirrel. We have Gatling
guns which rain out !, 200 shots minute,
and which can be fired faster than they can
be loaded We have Hotchkiss guns which
work for all the world like big revolver,
and which can fire many big balls minute,
and we have dynamite guns on one OF our
cruisers which are 13 inches in diameter and
which shoot out great shells of dynamite.
We have already some of the best guns of
nearly every kind in use, and within three
or four years we will have the third navy of
the world. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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out with his father, and was pretty high
strung, and Just cut for this country, and
the first he knew he had to get to work or
starve. Well, he'd been to college, you see,
and so he judged he was all right-did You
say anything?"
''No-I only sighed"
'And there's where he was mistaken.
Why, he mighty near starved. And I
reckon he would have starved sure enough,
if some jour. printer or other hadn't took
pity on him and got him a place as appren-
tice. So he learnt the trade, and then he
was all right-but it was close call. Once
he thought he had got to haul in his pride
and holler for his father and-why, you're
signing again. Is anything the matter with
you?--does my clatter-"
''Oh, dear no. Pray go on-I like it."
"Yes, you see, he's been over here ten
years, he's % now and he amt pretty we'll
satisfied in his mind, because he can't get
reconciled to being mechanic and associ-
ating with mechanics, he being, as he says
to me, a gentleman, which is a pretty plain
letting-on that the boys amt, but of course,
1 know enough not to let that cat out of the
bag"
''Why-would there be any harm in it?''
''Harm in it? They'd lick him, wouldn't
they? Wouldn't you? OF course YOU
would. Don't you ever let man say you
amt a gentleman in this country. But laws,
what am L thinking about? 1 reckon body
would think twice before he said cowboy
wasn't gentleman
A trim, active, slender and very pretty
girl of about IS walked into the room now,
in the most satisfied and unembarrassed
way. She was cheaply but smsrtly and
gracefully dressed, and the mothers quick
glance at the strangers face as he rose was
of kind which inquiries what effect has
been produced, and expects to find indica-
tions of surprise and admiration.
''This is my daughter Hattie-we call her
Puss. It's the new boarder, Puss" This
without rising.
The young Englishman made the awk-
ward bow common to his nationality and
time of life in circumstances of delicacy
and difficulty, and these were of that sort;
for being taken by surprise, his natural
lifelong self sprang to the front, and that
self, of course, would not know just how to
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AN EXCUSE FOR THE SMOKER.

A Professor Has Proved That the Favorite
Weed Is An Antiseptic.
1t has long been popular opinion that
tobacco is an antiseptic, and Prof Ia ssarin
has recently made some experiments on the
supposed germicidal virtues of tobacco. In
order to initiate as nearly as possible the
processes going on in smokers mouth, the
professor passed tobacco fumes through q
horizontal tube into receptacle kept moist
colony of bacilli. 1t was found that the
smoke retarded the growth of some kinds
OF bacilli, and absolutely prevented the
growth of others Among the latter were
the bacilli of cholera and typhus.
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CHAPTER XL

URING the first
few days he kept
the fact diligently
before his mind
that he was in a
land where there
was "work and
bread for all. I" In
fact, for conven-
ience sake he fitted
it to a little tune
and hummed it to
himself; but as time
wore on the fact it
self began to take
.nn a dnnhtfnl lonk
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FASHIONS FOB THE POODLEs.

The Parisienne Now Has . Complete Ward
robe and Rules for Her Pet.
Newcastle, Eng, Chronicie.l
Among the latest instances of fin de steele
fastidiousness in Paris (says a correspond
ent) is an accepted code of fashion in rela-
tion to the garments worn by ladies' pet
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOUTH.
As Roy Couldn't Find the Hole in His Stock
ing, He said it Had Worn Out.

ing, He said it Had Worn Out.
Harper's Young People.l
Ny odd little friend Roy Gregor so often
surprises us with quantity worded remarks
that am once in while of the opinion
that some of his ancestors were of the Irish
stock and that he has inherited their talent
for making what we call 'Irish bulls"
None but an Irishman could grayely assert
that ice or cam is baked in a cold oven, and
if this reply of Roy's to question is not a
genuine Irish bull, am at loss to give it
q name.
Roy" said his mother, ''tbis can't be
your stocking. Yours had hole in it when
you came home from school,"
Yes, mama" said Roy, after moments s
study; "but the hole is wored out, I guess"
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.Her support Isn't Popu,.r.

WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPAToHl
Wool-Why don't you take in the variety
show? The soubrette is charming.
Van Pelt-Yes; but don't like her sup
port
Wool-Who supports her?
Van Pelt-Her husband.
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NE of the biggest
guns ever made in
the United States
crossed the continent
last week, and its
sister is now lying in
the great gun fac
tory at the navy yard
waiting for the spe-
cial car to return
from San Francisco
and carry it to the
Pacific slope. These
guns will be placed
on the Monterey.
The big guns are
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31

Sporting Editor-How did Joblots lose
his place as book reviewer for the Daily
Boast?
of book called "Great Guns" under the
heading ''Our New Navy" 1t turned out
to be about old warehouses; in the Senate
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31

CHEAP and pure, it wins its way and
cures every time. does Salvation Oil. 25
cents bottle.
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,wp,rrrr FOR THE p1sp.roH. :,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPAToH.1
Mrs. French-Drop that book, Helen; you
shall not get taste for fast reading while
am responsible.
Helen French-Why, mamma, 1t is by
Philadelphia author
Mrs. French-Go on with your reading,
dear.
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TWELVE-|NCH GUNS,
ALI the Great Nations Agree
These Are the Largest
Practicable.
TWO FOR CALIFORNIA
Just Completed at the Large Gun
Foundry at Washington.
ACCURATE FOR TWELVE MILES.
Ships Which Hurl Forth Three Tons of Steel
at One Discharge.
COST OF THE AWFUL DESTR0YERS
ACCURATE FOR TWELVE MILES.
Ships Which Hurl Forth Three Tons of Steel
at One Discharge.
,OST OF THE AWFUL DESTR0YERS

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1sPArcH.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.
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vAlae of Newspaper Advertis.ment.

Mamma-Don't you wish you had little
sister?
Bobby-Yes, indeed; why don't you an
swer an advertisement in the paper?
Mamma-What good would that do?
Bobby-I saw one to-day which said "a
little girl wants place in small family"
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A Great philosophers Truth.

A Great Philosophers Truth.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l
Herdso-I hear you have made a fortune
in real estate; give me the secret OF your
success
Saidso-I bought with dollars and sense.
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BY MARK TWAIN,

Author of "Innocents Abroad" 'Tom Sawyer" "E
Etc, Etc.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
A Story About a Poet,

Another cigarette have, the Adventures
of poet, Poet born in Puritan village
of Massachusetts, about 1870. Hawthorne
could have told me my story, and how my
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
HOW TO MAKE A GIFT.

There's o Great Deal In the Manner in
Which the Offering Comes.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
General Markets.

NEW YORK, July 1l.-CoTToN-Spot lots steady; futures steady; July, 7.U9c.; August 713c.; September, 7.20c.
 FLOUR-Steady; Minnesota extra, S2356 4S5; superhne, Sl.aUd2.60; fine, $l70d2.25; city mill extras, s4256D455 for West Indies.
 wHEAT-opened weak at "a to ISc. decline fell ssc. more, then rallied lsc and at noon was steady: receipts, 227, 400 bushels; shipments 279,74S bushels; No. red winter, sSc. cash; July 8334c.; August, S3c.; September, S314c.
 CORN-opened weak at 9sc. decline, fell Ac more and at noon was weak; receipts, 84,O26 bushels; shipments, 40, 435 bushels; No. mixed, 56c.; July, 5414c; August, 535s; September, 53ssc.
 OATS-steady; receipts, leO,l5O bushels; shipments, 40,435 bushels; No. mixed, 36c.; July, 35c.; august a13c.
 RYE-Dull and weak; 7S1Slc. in carlots.
 BARLEY-Unchanged.
 MoLASSES Slow demand; New Orleans, U@35c.
 SUGAR-Refined quiet; cut loaf and crushed, 565lsc.; powdered, 494@47sc.; granulated, AS @4Ssc.; mold A, 4lS@4Ssc.
 CoFFEE-Spot lots steady; fair Rio cargoes, l4s4c.
 RICE-Nominal.
 PoRK-Quiet; old mess, Sll.751l275
 LARD-Steady; September, S7A
 BUTTER-Quiet, prices steady; creamery, western extras, 2OlS12lc.; state creamery, frsts to extras l962lc; state dairy, la6tl01fc.
 CHEESE-Steady, but quiet; state factory, full cream, white, fancy, s1Sc. common to fair, 70t734c.
 EGGS-Quiet, but firm; choice state, new laid, l6lSc.; western, l5Is61l6c. for prime.
 TURPENTINE-Quie 2s94@3016c.
 ROSIN-Quiet and steady; strained, Sl.2sx; good strained, SIPS.
 TALLow-Dull and unchanged; prime city, &1414 5-l6c.
 PETRoLEUM-NominaL
 FREIGHTS-Unchanged
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
Making Lightning to Order.

Professor Elihu Thomson, the Lynn, Mass, electrician, claims to have dis covered the knack of making lightning. The invention is at present of more scientific than practical interest, although there will be plenty of prac- tical uses for it eventually. The pro- lessor has succeeded by very simple means in securing extremely potential discharges. In an arc electric lamp the cartoons are three-eighths of an inch apart, and in search light little farther. The flame when they are sep arated acts as conductor.
 In Professor Thomson's machine, how ever, the distance is eight inches, and no flame can leap so far. The result is the torrents of sparks are thrown off without interruption and with reports like the rattling of Gatling gun or a case of fire crackers. The strength of the discharges appear to be limited only by the space of the machine.-Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
Statistical.

A Sumter county (Ga.) farmer, having accumulated some property, decided that he wanted to get married. He went to Americus shortly afterward and made known his desire to a we'll known merchant. The latter agreed to help him all he could and named over several good looking women whom he thought would make good and faithful wives. Among others he mentioned two buxom and comedy widows of the same name.
 The matrimonially inclined farmer decided that he wished to wed one of the widows. His mercantile friend agreed to do the negotiating, and short ly afterward called upon certain lady and informed her of the honor his bash ful friend wished to confer upon her. The widow, knowing that the farmer was blessed with pretty good share of this worlds goods, expressed, without moments hesitation, her willingness to join her lot with his.
 Preparations were at once made for the wedding. The day arrived and the prospective groom procured marriage license and started for the home of the future partner of his joys and sorrows. Just here the funny part of the affair came in.
 The farmer had never seen either of the two widows. Both bore the same name and he got them mixed up in his mind. The result was that he went to the wrong house. When he found him. self alone with the lady he blurted out, i've come to marry you" After moments hesitation the widow confessed that she didn't care if she did "step off" with him. They accordingly proceeded to a preachers house, where | the twain were made one.
 A few days afterward the newly mar ried planter came to the city and went | to look for his friend. He was telling him of his newly found happiness, when the merchant suddenly exclaimed with groan:
 "Merciful heavens, mani You mar ried the wrong widowp'
 "Oh, that don't make any difference" I" was the reply. "Im very we'll pleased with the wife I've got. "-Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
ST. JOHNS STILL BLAZING.
Several Lives Lost in the Fire-The Los
 wiu Aggregate S25. .O00, ,oo0.

Several Lives Lost in the Fire-The Loss
 Win Aggregate S25. .O0o. 900.
 ST. JOHNS, N. F., July l1.-It is now esti- mated that the great fire which has been raging here has created a loss of property aggregating S25, ,OO0, 900 and has rendered 10000 persons homeless.
 The steamer Alert and the brig Dover were burned at their docks and five men of their crews were either burned to death or jumped into the harbor and were drowned. Two children were burned to death in the city, and a man named Lindsay dropped dead from fright during the progress of the flames The names of the others who were killed or burned are not yet recorded.
 The origin of the fire is not a mystery. A careless smoker lighted his pipe in a barn in the northern suburbs of the city and threw down the burning match. Half an hour later a volume of flame and living embers were rushing down over the entire length of the city toward the water.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
THE TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Governor Psttison Sends the National
 Guard to the Scene.

Governor Pnttison Sends the National
 Guard to the Scene. HARRISBURG, July l1.-Governor Pattison received the following;
 PrTTsBuRo, July H. GOVERNOR PATTIsoN-The situation at Homestead has not improved. While all is quiet there the strikers are in control and openly express to me and to the public their determination that the works shall not be operated unless by themselves. After mak. ing all efforts in my power l have failed to secure posse respectable enough In mum bers to accomplish anything, and am satis' fled that no posse raised by civil authorities can do anything to change the condition of affairs, and that any attempt by an made. quate force to restore the right of law will only result in further armed resistance and consequent loss of life. Only largo mih- tary force will enable me to control mat ters. believe if such force is sent the dis. orderly element will be overawed and order will be restored. l therefore call upon you to furnish me with such assist ance. WILLIAM H. McCLEARY, Sheriff. The governor replied as followsi
 To William II. McCleary, sheriff of Ale. ghany county, PittsburR;
 Have ordered Major General George R. Snowden with the division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania to your support at once. Put yourself in communication with him. Communicate with me further par ticulars. ROBERT E. PATTIsor,
 Governor Several special trains have been ordered to transport troops from this vicinity, and all the extra passenger engineers and fire men have been ordered to report for duty and be ready to take out trains at min ute's notice. The streets are filled with anxious citizens and preparing soldiers. Much excitement prevails at the ordering out of the entire National Guard of Penn. sylvania
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
DO YOU REMEMBER2

Do you remember how that night was sweet2 You called it sweet and something more as well. The fine white moonbeams drifted at our feet. And nestled in each flowers trembling bell. The hollowed waves came creeping to the beach,
 And broke there with joyous sound at last. Do you remember how there was no speech? No need for that. Our heartbeats throbbed too fast. A small white falling star shot through the gray,
 You bid me ''wishl' before it could depart; Do you remember how I answered, Nay" Because there was no wish left in my heart.
 Cora Fabbri.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
An Egg Within an Egg.

W. s. Miller, of this place, has curi- osity in the way of an egg, which his daughter found in one of his hens nests last week. It is an egg within an egg, the outer one being as large as d goose egg, with very thin shell, which had been cracked. Inside of this was an- other perfectly formed egg of the usual size, with a smooth shell of the ordinary thickness, the space between it and the outer shell being filled with "white."- Farmington Times.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14


 "One afternoon the cap'n lowered away for right whale. Our boat was close alongside, but the skipper sung out:
 "'Don't you meddle with him, he's my fish So of course we hung back, only standing by to lend hand in case we were needed.
 "Blue Fin made a pretty dart. He hurled his first iron about six feet aft the bow hole, and the other he planted in the belly as the fellow rolled. It was death blow, but before the whale be- gan to spout blood he brought his flukes around, caught the boat before the boys could back out of the way and stove her to pieces. We pulled in and picked up the crew. I grabbed the old man just as he was going down, and when 1 hauled him up I saw that he was hurt badly and was unconscious. He was smashed up in frightful manner and never recovered.
 "Next morning at eight bells we launched the dead body of the captain from the starb'd gangway, while the fish that had killed him was moored with chains to the port side of the ship. Poor Blue Fin felt awful bad, and he kept mourning as the mate read the burial service, saying:
 "'Oh, if I hadn't struck the whale that last blow. Twas the second iron that touched his life" and our cap tain's too'
 "'But, shipmate,' went on the boat steerer, it was to be, and it's the way of the world, I suppose. One man mounts to position through the death of another, just as new ship is built to take the place of a craft that has found bed on the rocks
 "'Yes, there's great deal of truth in what you say, Bill. But how was it that your cap'n's loss rated Blue Fin skipper?
 "'He wasn't skipper in every sense of the word, but twas this way: The off cers that were left were the same as you and I-good sailors and good whalers- but they knew nothing of navigation. Blue Fin, of all our company, was the only one who could handle quadrant or "work up sight" As I said, the whales were plenty, and we didn't want to leave the grounds till the ice drove us OuG, lOI we were LudhluS u1Ouey, SO W6 finished our cruise, and when we reached Honolulu were full to the matches with oil and bone.
 "There was some talk of shipping another man to take the vessel home, but the agent and the American consul said, If that young man knew enough to bring the craft safely out of the Ochotsk sea, he knows enough to find his way to New Bedford They just engaged another mate by the run who was a navigator, and gave the boy charge of the ship.
 We made quick passage around the Horn, and the owners were so much pleased with Blue Fin that they gave him command of the Race Horse on the next voyage, and while away on that cruise they built him this one here, the Grampus, and that's how the lad be- came skipper so young. It goes to prove the truth of what said few moments ago, that Its not always gray hairs which cover the wisest head A boy is sometimes more fit to command than man who has seen twice or thrice his number of years. ."-True Flag.
Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
The Killed and Wounded.

HOMESTEAD, July 7-The list of tho killed and wounded, as far as obtained, is as fol- lows.
 The Killod-william Toy, shot through the breast; John Morris, shot through the forehead Henry Streigle, shot through the neck, J. II. Klein, Pinkerton man, shot through the hesdi Joseph Shepa, shot through the breast; Silas Wayne bullet through his neck; Thomas wel. din, shot in the stomach; Peter Farris, shot through the stomach; David Davis Reuben Forrest Peter Hoise Jules MRrkkowaky, and one unknown man. In addition to these, eight Pinkerton men were shot and fel overboard and their names could not be learned.
 The Injured-Andrew Sular, shot in the leg; Miles Laughlin, shot through tho body. Hugh O'Donnell shot in the hand; Martin Murray, shot in the right knee; J. e. Hoffman, shot in the leg; David Lester, Fullerton man. arm broken; Russell Wells, Pinkerton man, shot in the leg; George Rutter bullet in the hipi John McCurry, shot in the groin; Harry Hughes, shot in the check; Andrew schuyhir, shot through the kneecap; William Johnston, shot in the hip. In addition, not less than twenty Ave Homestead men are slightly wounded. Mine other pinkerton men are also wounded.