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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

DR.. C. G.. Magunibar, a distinguished
native physician OF Calcutta, India,
has been in this country attending the
worlds medican congress in Chicago,
where he read a paper on the practice
OF medicine among the ancient Hindoos.
He will pay what some would consider
. heavy price Tor his visit to America,
Is he will henceforth be debarred from
social life among members OF his own
caste. This win In 70 wise interfere
with the practice q. his profession,
hut Re may not break broad or sleep
N the same h0sae with my OF hia
former associates, and any on Who re-
5ceiyes him socially win suffer the
,aane penalty.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

loading guns was among the earliest
ideas of civilized man. The gun is
said by some to be ever $ % many cen
turtles old. Contrasting this little piece
with the rapid-fire ordnance Of to-day
displayed at Jackson Park by every
nation is well calculated to impress the
human mind. Modern rapid-ire ord
nance has attained it's highest growth
and development within. the past five
years. In the artillery display of every
country there is something marvellous
and novel. What the old thirty-two-
pound cannon did to win victories for
Nelson and the galaxy of American
commodores, who in the early part of
the century did SO much to glorify the
American flag, the light rapid-tire artil-
lery of to-day is able to accomplish ten
fold. The proved inventions in this line
Of artillery are so numerous that they
almost become wearisome. The Amer
leans have four types Of equal value.
These are the Hotchkiss, the Briggs
Shredder, another type invented by
Ensign Dashiell, Of the navy, and vet
another whose name is not now re-
called. England exhibits the Arm
strong rapid-fire gun, to be seen at the
fair, which is fully the equal Of any of
the American type. The chief feature
of the Armstrong rapid-ire is its cah-
bre, it's lightness and the rapidity with
which it can be handled. 1t has a six
inch bore, weight six and one-half tons,
throws a 1OO-pound p%rojectile with
seventeen pounds Of smokeless powder
and is fired by electricity. The best
trials of this gun show a speed Of five
aimed shots in ffty-ive seconds, four
of them striking the target at a range
of 900 yards. The powder used with
this gun is known as cordite. 1t is
a high-power explosive. This, there
fore, may be regarded as the very
highest type of modern rapid-fre ord
nance. The Americans are improving
the Hotchkiss, SO that soon that gun
will equal the British.
What the French Show.
In the French exhibit is shown the
Canet rapid fire gun. The largest gun
of that type is five and a half inches
in caliber and 11,OOO pounds in weight.
It uses twenty-four pounds of smoke
less powder and throws a seventy
pound shell. In rapidity of fire the
French r ahead Of both British and
Americans, for at a trial of one of
these guns at exhibitions two years
ago, seven unaimed shots were fred
in f~ifty-four seconds and at another
trial of a smaller one Of the same type
five unaimcd shots were fired in twen-
ty-four seconds. The Russian naval
authorities have adopted the Canet
type Of rapid fire gun for their service.
Then there are other types of such
ordnance on display in their depart
ment by the different nationalities.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
Pretty Gowns.

A dainty black gauze, made up for
afternoon wear, is figured with a little
transparent chine design in black. The
lining Of this gown is apricot-colored
satin. The skirt is made in the new
circular shape. The skirt Of gauze
alone is cut in the circular form. Tho
satin slip skirt is considerably narrower
and is united to the skirt Of gauza
only at the belt. The gauze skirt is
trimmed at the bottom with a four
inch band of black Chantilly lace, laid
over apricot satin, with a second baad
Of the same kind about fourteen inches
below the belt. The bodice is made
rather full and round for a slender
figure, with a triple girdle of black
satin. A bertha OF the gauze-like na.
terial, bound with black satin, is placed
across the back, and ended in short,
jabot-like, revers in front. The sleeves
are in the high leg-o'-mutton shape,
Of the tissue over satin, and extended
well over the arm.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
HAD BRAINS AND PLUCK.

With These Young Claude Shrou-
shire Won Success as a Lawyer IN
Paris. 40
The career Of the new vice consul
general to Paris. Claude Shropshire, OF
Georgia, shows what a young Ameri
can with no other capital than bruins
and pluck can achieve. He is tall, OF
slender figure, with a pair Of very fine
dark eyes and q face betokening intel
lect. He is only twenty-seven years
OF age, and just four years ago, un-
acquainted with any person IN Europe
mo ignorant or any language save his
mother tongue, left his home In North
Georgia Tor the capital Of France. He
quietly announced to a few friends his
ueternlnauon to seek fame and for
tune IN Paris. but according to the
washington Post, they not only dis
couraged his vaulting ambition, but,
70 use the slang of the day, gave him
tne augh. What could q youngster
OF twenty-three. who had only three
years experience at the bar and who
couldn't speak a word Of French, hope
10 accomplish In that great city?
III go and try 1t, anyway" was
S~hropshire's answer, and he went.
Luck favored the enterprising Young
man from the start. and he rot d Mace
with the United States legation. q va
cancy occurring through the resiRna-
ton o. one OF the legal advisers. He
studied the language harder than he
ever labored at any college textbook.
n ! six months time had a fair vo-
caDularY at his command. To-day he
could DasS muster as q native Partisan.
he had a taste OF bad fortune. too.
Tor IN q big riot that occurred dnrinr
q great demonstration for an eight.
hour working day he suffered seyerely
at the hands Of the mob. He was
knocked insensible and had MI his
clothes torn or. but the French GOV.
eminent made him q handsome npol.
ogy for the Ill usage OF the commune
Mr.. Shropshire. in addition to his GOV.
eminent service. has built IN a fine
general practice, and is associated with
q OF the biggest legal firms 81
France. He is not only skilled ia the
law, but is an orator Of high rank. He
was noted at college for his eloOuence
and his natural genius In this rcsnecl
has been vastly improved BY his later
associations. It is considered that Con.
sui General Merss is fortunate III hay.
ing such an assistant, and IN Paris thp
appointment was received with great
satisfaction.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

the fair. There has W been, per.
haps, SO interesting and varied an ex.
hibition in modern artillery as is now
In Jackson Park. The very latest in.
ventions in the way of ordnance,
heavy and light, in all the nations OF
the earth r there to be seen, and
what makes the display more interest.
ing Is that each new invention or i'm
provement is accompanied by its an
te-type of many years ago. For in
stance, in the British display, con
tiguous to some ripe old smooth-bores
Of the days Of King George-guns
taken from Nelson's flagship Victory
appears the first attempt in rified artil-
lery. The Whitforth breech-loading
rifle was a creation of the Crimean
war. 1t was effective while it lasted,
and for some uses was a valuable aces
sion to field and naval ordnance. But
with the advent Of steel armor plates
and the Introduction Of heavier and
powerful ordnance the old Whitforth
rifle ceased to be manufactured in Eng
land. Near this obsolete specimen are
several types of the Armstrong steel
high-power gun of to-day. The Eng
lish government has ceased to manu-
facture any larger gun that what is
known as the sixty-five ton Armstrong,
but no gun as large as that is on ex-
hibit. The largest is a thirty-ton gun
which corresponds in type with the
American eight-inch rifle. These Arm
strong guns in their various sizes and
weights form the heavy batteries of
England's new battle ships.
The German exhibit OH eavy ordnance
Is mostly confined to the Krupp pavil-
lon, which is not yet ready for the pub
lie. When it is thrown open it win be,
perhaps, the grandest display of mod
ern artillery the world has ever seen.
Speaking of the Whitworth breech-
loader, there is on display in the Amer
lean exhibit q unique and somewhat
amusing production Of the brain of
Col. Colt, inventor of the Colt revol-
liver. 1t was during the civil war, when
every thought was in the direction of
human slaughter, that the colonel con-
cluded to build a gun ON the model of
his revolver. In fact, it was a regular
Colt revolver ON something like q two
ton scale. 1t held six shots, and the
revolving motion was conveyed by ma
chinery turned by a crank. The cali
Der of the barrel was three inches and
the weight of the ammunition and shell
about twenty pounds. The colonel built
two of these guns. Unfortunately one
OF them at the first trial met with an
experience which rather discouraged
its further manufacture. All it's cham
bers being loaded, a test was made of
the gun. The charge fixed for explo-
sion went off all right, but so did all
the others. Result-four dead men
and more than a dozen in the hospital.
In charging the principle of his revolt
yer the colonel forgot that he was n
larging everything in connection with
it, and particularly did he forget that
he was %enlarging the quantity of
illuminate of mercury, which. ex-
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
ANTIQUITY OF BELL FOUNDING

The Art Known to the Saxons Many
Years Before the Norman Con-
quest.
The art of. bell founding is undoubt-
edly Of great antiquity. lie SazoEs
are known to have used bells in their
churches, although probably but small
ones, for the Venerable Bede, writing
at the end of the seventh century,
aludes to them in terms which seem
to show that they were not unfamiliar
things. The towers Of the Saxon per-
iod have belfries of considerable d.
mansions in most cases, and, according
to the Gent1eman's Magazine, at Crow
land abbey, in South Lincolnshire, there
was a famous peal of seven bells many
years before the Norman conquest. Tho
monks at that time and for long after
were the chief practitioners Of the
art of bell founding-which indeed Is
n of the many things those well
abused men have handed down to Us
Their bells were rarely without in
scriptions, often in very bad Latin.
containing perhaps some obscure joke,
the point of which is now lost. More
often they were of a religious nature,
sometimes probably not unmixed witt,
a dash of superstition, as when the
bell declares that it's sound drives away
the demons of the air who caused pes
thence and famine, lightning and thun
derstorms. As a rule unfortunately
they put no dates on their bells, a
defect which has been in somemeasura
overcome by the researches Of many
enthusiastic campanologists, but which
is likely to keep the early history 1T
bells shrouded in darkness for a long
time to come. .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

An Old Williams Gun, Breech-
at Fort Jackson. The science of war
was new to the confederates in those
days, as well as to the federals, and he
was not expected to know all about
firing red-hot shot. His battery con-
sisted of two guns. For two hours he
blazed away at the passing feet, and
after the affair was over every shot
that had been put into his guns was
found in the ditch below the muzzles
of the guns. The secret was that the
men, in their supreme haste to get rid
of the red-hot shot after it had entered
the gun, would run the gun out SO
quickly and with such force that before
the captain Of the gun could reach his
lanyard to fire, the hot shot would roll
out at the muzzle, and the result was
that nearly every shot he fired was
only a blank cartridge.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

Simon Cameron prophesied in 1884
that the child was born who would be
able to breakfast in Harrisburg and
take supper in Philadelphia, and his
prediction was considered a good sub
ject for raillery. But q person can
travel five times faster now than MI.
Cameron deared prophesy.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

A typical South African household
described by Olive Schreiner had an
English father, a Dutch mother with
q French name, a Scotch governess,
a Zulu cook, a Hottentot housemaid
and a Kafir stable boy, while the lit
tie girl who waited on the table was
q BasutO. -. - -
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

No ooner does the popularity of that
beautiful song Papa Won't Buy Me a
Bow-wow" wane than a young woman
steps off an English steamer armed
with a vocal delight entitled Little
Tottie Coughdrop." One can conceive
of a cholera epidemic distributed in
such a way as not to be an unmixed
co1amifv
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

Tacoma's whistling well has COM
.menced operations again after a silence
Of two years. Residents in the neigh
borhood say that just previous to every
storm it commences forcing out air of
a gaseous nature, and that a perosn
looking down stands a good chance Of
~suffOcatiOn.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

Lucy Stone does not believe in wom-
en- jurors. women. are nearly always
a woman's most severe critic" Mrs.
Stone here stands on the rock of his
tory. Nor is it likely that twelve
women void deal out summary justice
to a male criminal of cheap fascina.
ton.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

The barbarous practice Of selling va
grants from the block has come to
an end in Missouri, a recent decision
of the supreme court holding it uncon-
stitutional. The practice was a dis
grace to the state and should have
been stopped long ago.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

The royal palace in Madrid, which
the Infonta Eulalia still regards as her
home, though her mother is in exile,
is one of the most magnificent edifices
in Europe. 1t is of marble and granite,
occupies an area of 10000 square feet,
and rises dazzlingly white against the
sky to the height Of 100 feet.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

He Thought He Was "sighting'' the
plOding by conclusion, could not very
we'll Withstand the explosion Of another
charge near by it. When this re-
suit became known Col. Colt aban-
doned the manufacture Of heavy ord
anc and stuck to his revolver. The
~gun-which did not explode, because it
never had a chance-is on display in the
army exhibit. There are several other
curious relics in the ordnance exhibit
OF. the navy. One of them is old "Long
Tom," the famous bowchaser carried
by the privateer General Armstrong
in the days of the revolution. This
vessel, after a capturing a British frig.
ate in the English channel. and subse.
quently carrying destruction to the
British marine, was finally wrecked on
n Of the Azores. The gun was sub
s%equently fished up, and for more than
eighty years has been mounted on one
of the forts in the Azores islands.
Not many months ago the king OF
Portugal, thinking it would be q grace.
full act to return the old gun to it's ma.
tive country, presented it to the United
| States, and last summer an American
man-of-war brought it home. 1t is now
| at Jackson Park, and attracts scores OF
visitors. It is of bronze, of the old.
fashioned type, has q bore of about -four
inches, and it threw a shot weighing
| eighteen pounds. In the days when
such gums were built the length of the
| gun was the only known way to secure
a long range, and so Long Tom," as
he lies there or his back is almost as
long as a modern five-inch high-powel
rifle.
Captured From Mexico ~
OF the curious old Mexican field,
pieces captured in the Mexican wa,
there is an unusual display. Some Of
these are very interesting because OF
their antiquity. Many OF the old bras,
pieces bear q date In the seventeenth
century, and were Enthusiastically mount
ed in Mexico at the time OF the Spaniel
conquest. The most curious OF all
this ancient display is what is believed
to be the oldest breechIoading CUR
ever conceived since the invention Of
gunp0Wder. Tt came from China, and
for many years has been in the naval
museum ut the Washington navy yard
The breeca-loading attachment con,
sists chieNy Of cutting cut q section Of
the powder chamber, inserting q charge
of powder, stnllng Il 4 ping and let
ting her 90. II - . curious confrivance
and shows that the principle 0f breech,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

The officers If the German army are
to have a new cloak, the novelty of
which lies in the fact that by an in
genious device the cloak may be made
thick or thin. It Is adapted for winter
or summer use.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

The United States produces 1920
pounds of grain to each inhabitant;
Denmark, zoos; Canada, 1900; Rus
STA, 1900; Roumania, 1,15O; Spain,
LOO; France, 900; Sweden, $50; Ar
gentine Republic, $50; Australia, 76O;
Germany, 700; Belgium, eco; Portu-
gal $50; Ireland, 500; Scotland, 400;
England, 800.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

An Indian banner stone that was
used in ancient times as q symbol of
authority among the Indians, and was
carried by the chief, was recently
plowed up at Flint, Mich, by Hugh
Mulholland. The n found is shaped
like a double bitted AK, with a round
hole in the center.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

All the suffers for a girls hand in
Borneo are expected to be generous in
their presents to her. These presents
are never returned. Therefore the
willy female defers as long as posi-
BILE a positive selection Of the happy
man.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
ucetHnr Into a scrape."

The red and fallowz deer which for
merly roamed through the English for
ests had a habit Of scraping up che
earth with their forefeet to the depth
Of several inches, sometimes even OF
half a yard. The stranger passing
through these woods was frequently
exposed to the danger OF tumbling into
one Of these hOlloWs, when he might
be said truly to be lin a scrape." ,lile
college students OF Cambridge, In thsir
little p~erplexities, picked up and ap-
nlied the Phrase 70 other ~perplexing
matters which had brought 9 man mor.
ally into q fix.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

Spain, formerly a conquering and col
onizing power, has lost the greater part
of the foeign territory which she ace
ruled; but she still holds Cuba and Por-
to Rico in America, the PHILIPPINE and
other islands in Asia and possessions
of considerable importance in Africa.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

o.ne Solingen-Remscheid Railroad, in
Prussia, is building a bridge which,
when completed, it is said, will be the
largest structure of its kind in Ger
many. The bridge is to measure 1,64O
feet in length and 351 feet high.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

English workingmen object to being
forced to contribute towards the pur-
chase Of wedding gifts for the duke Of
York and his bride. Even a royal pau
per ought to refuse aims given under
protest.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

The telegraph and telephone lines OF
Switzerland are owned and operated
by the government. There are 1,411
telegraph Offices and 1856 telephone
Offices. The profits derived from them
amount to more than $4,000 yearly.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
lions illustrating scenes pertaining t
the reign Of Louis XIV. m.

Two Precious Looks Of Hair.
Chairs, desks and bureaus from the
library Of Gen. Lafayette are arranged
beneath the large tapestry Of the siege
Of Douai. Beautiful showcases Of carved
wood with gilt facings, Of Louis XIV.
style of manufacture, occupy the cen
ter Of the salon and inclose q number
Of the most precious relics Of the col
lection, among other things two finger
rings containing locks OF hair from
the heads Of Washington and his wife.
Presented by Lafayette to City Of Paris.
The sword Of honor presented by con-
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
BIG GUNS AT THE FAIR.
EXAMPLES OF MODERN ORDNANCE.
Death-Dcalfng Implements Of War
Nre-GreRt Britain Leads the
World With Her Armstrong-Rapid
Fire the Great ~Desideratum Nowa-
Ilnya. ~ r..

The display of implements for caus
Ing death and destruction in time of
war continues to attract great atten-
ton at the fair. With the exception,
perhaps, Of the heavy machinery and
railway exhibits, the people seem more
interested in the modern engines Of war
than In tie more Industrial features of
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
Decidedly 50.

Materfamilias--I am nfraid 10 think
there will be Just thirteen Of IL going
out to see the Fair and to spend the
summer with Cousin Fannie.
Paterfamilias-Why?
Because thirteen Is such an unllcky
number
Yes (grimly,) for herss.,--Puck.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
WITH the Politicians.

.You don't seem 70 enthusiastic
about the administration as you were
at first"
mo"
II remember distinctly that just att
er the election you said Cleveland took
the bakery, =
"Yes. But Il wasn't % much Of i
political pie bakery 81 ! thought Il
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
Doin9 Well.

4 Ind SmitheFA. Hicks. PapGie ana
Hmbleton 1t my house celebrating my
birthday Inst night '
Wen. did they enter Into thesspirlfft
}of the OccnsiOn 4 !.
did fhey1 We'll i Rues they dtd.
They entered into fourteen QnsrtS 0R'
80 s-Harperas Haxanr.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

"Ol0 Long TOms
There Is a Danish gun known as the
Finspong and a Dutch gun known as
the Gericke, the invention of Capt.
Gericke Of the Dutch navy. Then there
is the Gruson, which is the invention
of a Prussian officer. The gun is
lighter than either the British or Amer
lean type, but it fires an average of
thirteen shots in thirty seconds. Then
there is the Krupp rapid fire gun,
which will be on exhibition in the
Krupp pavilion: This is a heavier gun
than any except the Armstrong, but it
is not SO rapid. The largest type car
ries seventeen pounds Of powder and
est speed is seven aimed shots a min
ute.
Other Death Dealers.
In the transportation building are
several rapid fire guns manufactured
by private English firms. The best of
these is known as the Maxim-N orden-
feldt. This gun is four and three-quar-
ter inch caliber, weighs two and a halt
tons, and throws a forty-ive pound
projectile. Trials made in England
with this gun prove that at a range.
of 100 yards four-inch steel plates We're
plSICCu Will CuSC. Lie CuACl UG1uJy
of these small pieces, howevr, is the
speed with which they can be fired.
The gun of this make Of three-inch
caliber. or what is known as a four
te%en-pounder, can be fired thirty-ive
times a minute. The two-inch gun, or
three-pounder, has attained q speed
Of sixty shots a minute, or one every
second. In fact, at n trial this gun
fired sixty shots in ffty-nine seconds.
In this same exhibit is perhaps to be
found the most effective machine gun
Of any of the smaller calibers. It is
known as the maxim automatic
known as the maxim automatic gun.
There are two Of these guns on exhibit
ton. One Of them, which weighs only
eighty pounds has attained a rate Of
600 shots a minute. The other is a
larger piece, weighs 1854 pounds, has a
powder charge Of three ounces and
throws a little baby shell weighing
one pound, but it throws at the rate
Of $50 a minute. Then there is a gun
shown as the Skoda rapid-fre gun,
is to be seen in the Austrian ex-
Fhibit. The details of this guns capa-
bilities are not at hand, BIT it is in most
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08

Holland has found a new. remedy
for wireworms in strewing good-sized
pieces Of potatoes over the infested
Land which, when collected, are found
to contain several worms.