Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-04

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thinly Quaeka1vsssd Ovr The banA
Of . ufrsur. htD WA1ch John Dull
hooks. ss<p his owu image md uneoor
sciossly his own tEeesarN The I'm
pudsncs Of Prith. the British painter.
setting In he wueid's fair gallery his
sssics of paintingS called The
epldar." has come homo 70 rooss, in the
failure Of the Australian baukA
Tor dguss which would seem 10 show
that there = no saes on thA globe
vhich can loo money - fast - che
EnGiish. Ths Fssnah. perhapa. imi-
sat1d Auseralia end The British invest
nsuss In Tho Argentine country. when
they launched thslr P1namA canal. 20
take the supsrduous mousy Of Frsnce
from the province and give II 10 the
Partisan loresseA RSith's picture. -
have aid. shows The ''6pides." who IL
running and plunderine English hnmss,
presenting 10 them map Ut the United
Sts&ss - IL scsus Of his opersttoaa
Thua. Firth unoouse1oualy has been
steering Engiish capital sway from the
United States and into Australia He
must b the Fifth al Forth. for Il IL al
forth and no4hinG hithsr.
A look into the Electricity build
ING here. which II more bshinA -
present than any building on the
groundA I am reminded Of The fact
that FIRST saw Cyrus W. Field. the
chief promoter Of The Atlsntie cable.
during The worlds fair In London In
1900. was present nearly a the
birth Of . great division OF modern
gunncry. ct that time. Two unsn from
New jersey had obtained IN interest
In what ives then called the coffee
mill" gun, since The Calling gun, the
flrst Of all machine guna. think. I
had seen this gun IN The campo Of our
civil war. where IL Wa being skeptic-
ally experimented with He'd tho
army boards which examine gums less
bigotry. We should have fought our
civil war with breeeh-loAding rides a.
we'll - machine guuA Only greet
caiamitiss cause reeulas army o6cers
to learn anything. Ths Needle gun
was tho product Of the defect Of Ger
many ty France. ~ the battle Of Jena
Soon after that event. or before tho
fall Of Napoleon. The Germans began
10 experiment with oun which would
20 Oh much oftsnse Than The muxzls
loader, 20 that with his small notion
Of people he could nre - many times
- big nstion. like the French. YsSso
slow wss Germany 10 bring forward
her weapon. that not until the Danish
var. In 1895, which was simultaneous
with our American war. did The Ger
mans manage 20 get their gun into use,
. and they made better Ne Of II immedi-
atcly afterwards In the war with Aus
tTiA
The Calling gun. I think. was in
vented by . man named GstlinQ. who
had something to do with the Indiana
conspiracy cases, which were prose-
cuted under the law Of high treason.
Not improbably the Calling gun was
designed 10 aid tho secession cause In
this country. Taken abroad. II wns
~vs..ov~ n A>>&o- ha~ vS~~ t>>~,,>o - <b>
fright which had como over all The ma
tions Of Europe, through the success Of
the Needle gun and Of Ericsson'A mont
tor. Hotchhiss. . Connecticut inventor.
went 20 France and WINS taken up by
the French and given a magnificent
armory, which the government after
wnrd acquired. and he left q great
fortune. and two families Inventors
win be always experimenting With
something Singer. the invento~ Of
clio sewing machine, probably know
ting that the machine would have TO DO
tried By the female ser. industriously
married wherever he went. and ex.
tractcd IDEAS no doubt from his COM
partnerships, like Maholnet, who never
got TO any Heavenly truths unless he
took . now wife.
In the autumn Of 1875 I went out on
the Middlesex riAe ground. and sew
the American ''coftee mill" gun being
fired 1t . target. In the presence OF
some volunteers who were prscticinR
there Cyrus W. Field had IN interest
In the gun, and hs Game out 20 look nj
the tssl He was 70 live thirty years
more, and during that time 10 have
command Of great sums Of money. and
jet his dosing day. were harassed
with care: he saw his con seut 20 prison
for forgeries and other ot7cnses; his
ACTIVE brain went into disorder before
mortality ended. And shis Vas the
man who spun the cable which TALKED
beneath the ocean. I remember the
laying Of the 0rst cable. and the pub
lie holiday which WINS given. some
where about 1855 In honor Of the
event Tho cable then ceased Co speak
until the fall Of slavery In she United
Stairs: 10 ncvor spoke from the time II
the KansaA troubles and John Brown
raid down 20 the battle Of sadowA
Like some sucient oracle, which opened
It's mouth and ssid oue word or sen
tencs. and then spoke no moro until
something errat was impending. the
old cable kept still for about eight
yeara
In 1874 ! went 90 Europe. attempt.
ing TO 20 a. the bottles Of Austria be-
fore peace should Be concluded. When
left New York no cable spoke When
resched Kurvps the cable was talk.
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