Boone County Recorder . mutual ac-tion of projectile and armor says thata shell frequently fais because a verysmall piece of the point is forced back Intp the mass and splits It. AJaige piece is then similarly forced back,and so on. The main advantage of thesoft cap, this writer thinks, is to pre-vent such splitting. Caps are Inetfectlve at low velocities, but wouKprobably be less so If made larger. London Landmark Vanishing. The picturesque red sailed Londonbarge, formerly so plentiful on theriver reaches, is slowly vanishing. Thecoasting trade in and out of theThames has been so bad lately t
Boone County Recorder . mutual ac-tion of projectile and armor says thata shell frequently fais because a verysmall piece of the point is forced back Intp the mass and splits It. AJaige piece is then similarly forced back,and so on. The main advantage of thesoft cap, this writer thinks, is to pre-vent such splitting. Caps are Inetfectlve at low velocities, but wouKprobably be less so If made larger. London Landmark Vanishing. The picturesque red sailed Londonbarge, formerly so plentiful on theriver reaches, is slowly vanishing. Thecoasting trade in and out of theThames has been so bad lately thatbarges have bad to look elsewhere fora living. The London barge is themeat economic of all coasting ves-sels, says the Express. Her rig isso simple that two men and a boy canwork a barge carrying 200 tons deadweight. Her shallow draft and ponder-ous leehoards enable her to navigatechannels across which a man cou dwade, and to answer her helm like aracing yacht. He isnt much of a baker who eatsall the bread he Whats the trouble, Zambo?I thought it was missionaries, butits a load of Altruists. SICK HEADACHE A Warning. Since one in ten of us, if we weather the age of 36, are doomed to die otcancer, said a physician, it is goodto know the most prevalent cause ofthis terrible disease. That cause ispressure—local Irritation. Certain eastern women wear a beltabout the waist with a tight andheavy clasp of metal in front. Wherethis clcsp presses these women con-tract cancer. Turkish porters carry heavyweights on their shoulders. Whenthese men fall victims to cancer it ison the shoulder that the disease ap-pears. Here with us cancer too often at-tacks mens tongues. The cause isthe cigar or pipe, which, with its pressure and heat, sets up the irritation*hlch is certainly, bo far as we know,cancers chief cause. Worlds Sugar Production. It is estimated that the total production of sugar throughout the worldis about 2,000,000 tons per annum. Ofthis quantity nine-tenths are affo
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