The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-26

shots minute will be an easy matter. the invcntor says.
 The experiment. with the new gun are carried out at the artillery prov ing grounds at Dion and every pre- caution has been taken to keep out spies. ~
 What with this new gun. her su- perior airships and her splendid navy, France feels pretty sure at present that should war with Germany come. the result will be different from that of thirty-eisht years ago.
 Little Man, Big wonan.
 Achilles Prevet is a little man, and his wife. Sophie. is a big woman, who stands six feet two inches. and Is of generous proportions altogether. < Unfortunately for Achilles. Mme Pre- vet has a bad temper and she has ill., treated the little man SO badly of late that last night at dinner he told her of his determination to desert her.
 T have had enough of this kind of life" he said:
 Have you?" answered the lady. Then if you want to go, you shall |"
 She forthwith caught hold of her hus- band. opened the window, and threw him out into the street on the head of a passing policeman. Fortunately hCnllles only DTOke IeR.
 The policeman who broke his fall ran upstairs and arrested Mme. Pre- vet, who was taken off to prison de- claring that if she were allowed to re- turn to her little husband she would forgive him everything.
 New Use for Wireless.
 new use for wireless telegraphy has been suggested by Professor Bou- quet de la Brye at the Acedamy of Science. He proposed that wireless system should be untilized for enabling vessels at sea to find tn cir longitude.
 The Eiffel Tower in Paris can at present send radio-te -telegrams to points within a radius of 1.250 miles, which comprises the Mediterranean and a portion of the Atlantic. If standard time was signalled from the Tower, all vessels fitted with Marconi apparatus within the radius could fix their longi- tude by comparing Paris time with their own chronometers, and thus avoid the complicated calculations which are now necessary.
 N The professor also suggested that if a Marconi station were established on the Peak of Teneriffe. in the Canary Islands. which is about l2.000 feet high. all points of the globe might be reached with the wireless time sig nals and navigation be thus simpli- fled.
 Great Strike Threatened.
 Paris is on the eve of colossal strike which threatens to involve a vast num- Der of industries and create >an ex- ceptional number of unemployed by tn c time May Day comes around.
 The whole building trade of Paris Is concerned. A lockout has already been declared by masters, and employ CTS in the allied trades are waiting to follow their example. Within the next few days. all the masons, carpenters locksmiths, and house painters of Paris and suburbs will be swelling the already vast multitude of unemployed.
 year ago a dispute occurred in the same trades. and lasted seven weeks resumption of that quarrel. The men day. The employers offer 30 per cent higher wages and certain minor con- sessions, but the men have so far re- jected the offer.
 Fifty thousand masons are already locked out. Should the quarrel spread, the number involved will be at least 100000. The police predict that if the strike is not settled before May Day there will very likely be serious dis turbances.
 At present. the building trade of Paris is largely suspended. The con- struction of the new underground rail- road has been crippled. and the build- ing of new houses. has fallen off by half.