Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . through at therate of 600 shots a minute. The Armstrong gun is the largest ofthe rapid-fire guns. It is for large calibershells, using 4^ pounds of smokelesspowder, and throwing six-inch projectilesweighing loopounds with enough forceto penetrate fifteen inches of wroughtiron. A smaller gun of the same orderfires forty-five pound she
Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . through at therate of 600 shots a minute. The Armstrong gun is the largest ofthe rapid-fire guns. It is for large calibershells, using 4^ pounds of smokelesspowder, and throwing six-inch projectilesweighing loopounds with enough forceto penetrate fifteen inches of wroughtiron. A smaller gun of the same orderfires forty-five pound shells at the rateof fifteen per minute. The Driggs-Schroeder and Hotchkissrapid-fire guns are inventions of Ameri-cans, and are used largely on our battleships, especially in the fighting swing on pivots, so that they maybe directed to any quarter. They fireone shot at a time, and to aim the gunan arm-piece similar to that of a rifle isattached. The gunner presses thisagainst his shoulder and steadies it,while his two hands remain free to openthe chamber, insert a shell, pull thetrigger, and reload. It fires at the rateof thirty-six shots a minute. INVENTION OF THE BICYCLE. Among the inventions that came intopopular use during the last quarter of. DRAISINE—1816. the century was the bicycle. Manyyears previous to this attempts were made to construct some vehicle bywhich the use of the horse could be setaside, yet its speed could be as-sured. As in nearly all inventionsthe first efforts were only partiallysuccessful and the machines thatwere built were not adapted to gen-eral use, and were therefore unsat-isfactory. All this has been obviated and itis evident that the bicycle has cometo stay. No new method of loco-motion ever leaped so rapidly intopublic favor. While there have beendifferences of opinion as to the phy-sical advantages of cycling, theweight of thisopinion is decidedlyin favor of it. The exercise is health-ful when not overdone. Bven walk- MISCELLANEOUS
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