The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-08-20
to leave it to those with better luck.
Macmillnn's Magazine.

Making of Cannon Projectiles
Projectiles are Of three kinds; the
armor-piercing, the semi-armor pierre
ing and the ordinary bursting pro-
Jectiles, commonly called shrapnel
we are confirming most of our efforts:
at present to making armor-piercing-
and S. i-armor-piercing projectiles.
The armor-piercing shot are practically
solid pieces of metal The semi-armor-
piercing prOjectiles are hollow, and
contain bursting charge, usually of
ordinary powder. The solid shot are.
for use in the large guns of ships, and
are intended to pierce the armor Of
battleships and wreck their machinery.
They simply break up the armor Of
vessel. The semi-armor projectiles are
Tor the same purpose, and also espe-
clally Tor use in mortar guns. These.
guns are short-muzzled affairs, and
they throw their shells high in the air:
so that they may come down on deck,
burst and pass clear through a ships:
bottom. The chief defenses of New
YORK harbor consist Of large battery
OF these mortar guns in the trees and.
behind the sand hummocks at Sandy
HOOK. 1t is estimated that only one.
out Of two hundred shots that they fire
into the air with a high curve will
strike a warship attempting to pass.
into the harbor, but it is also known
that one Of these shots will pass.
through any ship from top to bottom.
and, bursting as it passes through, will
SINK any vessel aflOat. A thirteen-inch
seml-armor-piercing projectiles carries
ABOUT fifty pounds of powder inside,
and 1t is exploded by percussion-that
IS, by the shock of contact with a solid
substance. The shrapnel shells con-
tain bullets Of various sizes, and they
explode on percussion. Their object is.
to scatter bullets about a ships deck
and clear it Of men, rather than to sink
the ship.-Harper's Round Table.
She Will Never Understand.
Hes chump," said the high school
boy, scornfully.
"Just what is chump?" asked the
boys mother, who heard the remark.
'Oh, don't know exactly. A fellow
who can't play ball and is kiddish with
the other fellows
"Kiddish?' again, interrogatively.
Yes, too polite and lah-de-dah, and
all that sort Of thing. you know
The mother did not know, but she.
waited.
"Now, last night" the high school
Doy went on after moments pause,
thinking, perhaps, that he had not been
very lucid, "he introduced me to the
fellow that's visiting him, and what
do you think he said? Mister Hen
dryx, this is my friend, Mister Slos-
son. as if we were dudes.''
"What would have been the proper.
unkiddish way of putting it?'' was his:
mothers next venture after informa-
ton.
ION, that was proper enough, I sup
pose, and we all do it sometimes, but
most any other fellow would have
said: Say, Dick, this is Tom Slosson,
another chump just like you,' or some
thing like that
But wouldn't you have resented be-
ing called chump?''
'Not that way, don't you.s see? You
can call a fellow chump to his face.''
ooh. yes. I do see It's behind his
back that it's not permitted:'
"1es-tEat is, not always oh, can't
explain it all out to you, buff you
were Il fellow you'd understands
Outwitted u Hawk.
-7''.v-e',,rtti'.r'1ys
y flDout q AOSA VI plS3cNuS lutII luCd-
sured brains with hawk and came
out on top in the contest. H. S. Ed
wards owned flock Of pigeons which
one day were cut off from their cote by
a large hawk. Tie pigeons knew that
if the hawk once got above them, one
at least of their number would 20 to
make the hawla a meal, and so up
they flew in circles, perhaps hoping to
go higher than the hawk Tn the ris-
ing game they were no match for the
hawk. The latter kept under the pig
cons, and lelsurely followed their la
boriouS movements.
Then came a curious and unexpected
sight to Mr.. Edwards. Every pigeon
closed it's wings, when they appeared
to be the size of sparrows, and down
they came past the hawk at terrific
rate. That astonished The hawk. It.
actually lodged the dropping BIRDS,
and missed half dozen wing strokes
before 1t got in full chase of them.
When it got down to the barnyard not: