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Mediaaval s‘oldiers made frequent use at the "wolf" in the defence of castles and towns. This was a species of huge harrow, made of bplks of timber with wooden spikes at. the intersect.ions,which set up outside the walls could be thrown crown down and forward to crush the besiegers as they crowded to the as- sault. When cannon were invented their names became legion. A ship or a train of artillery contained a perfect. zoological garden of birds, beasts and fabulous animals. There were basilisks. drakes, dragons volant. falcons, ser- pents and pelicans. not, to mention “double dogs" and partridge mortars. We have of late years seen a good deal in the newspapers about. the train- ing of dogs for military purposes. such as scouting. giving notice of the ap- proach of an enemy and searching tor the wounded. ln former days this in- telligent animal was also employed in Ancient warriors had a great pen- chant. for naming their various warlike engines and machines after animals. real or imaginary. Thus we have the Roman “musculus.” or “little mouse." a machine for undermining the walls (.1 n besieged city; the battering ram, the sow, the scorpion for discharging big arrows from a powerful bow. the on- ager for hurling stones. The onager, according to tradition, was an animal that had a pleasant trick oivklcking stones with great violence at its pur- suers. Again, the Roman warships were equipped with a spiked gangway known as a “corvus,” or “crow,” which on being let. {all upon the enemy's ship grappled her and formed a bridge for boarders. Many of these warlike appliances. especially those belonging to the Mid- dle Ages, are of the most grotesque de scription. As at no distant date the making 0t hideous grimaces to strike terror into the heart of an enemy was cultivated as a branch of the military art by the troops oi the Celestial Em- pire. so in mediaaval times the grotesque seems to have been considered at least as much a desideratum as the practical by the inventors of offensive and ckL tensive weapons. So we have such ex- traordinary contrivances as a “machine 1c break the ranks of an enemy" and OTHER DRAGONLIKE EDIFICES. How the formerâ€"which appears to b: a kind of medicevul motor carâ€"got over the ground and how it brought its tormidable array of spikes to bear up- on those who had the hardihood to op- pose its progress. must be left to the imagination. The other machine 15 merely a grotesque edition of the mov- able towers that played such an import- ant part in the sieges of ancient and medizeval cities. CURIOUS WAR WEAPONS Machine lo Break the Enemy‘s Ranksâ€"s Dragon (or Attacking Towns. Some or these. such as the “hand gonna,” Edward lll.'s “crakeys of war” â€"â€"â€"the cannon he took against the Scots â€"and the engineer Giannibelli's "devil ships 0! Antwerp." may be regarded, writes Licul.-Col. C. Field in the Scien- tific American. as being the direct u-n- cestors of the rifle. gun and torpedo :t' to-day. But Lhcre have been hosts vi others. which have either become enâ€" tirely obsolete after a very short reign. have never “caught. on," or, in very many cases, have never had any actual existence outside the plans and ideas of their sanguine inventors. = Many of these warlike appliances. The ingenuity of man has been taxed to the utnms‘t to contrive new and more deadly means of killing and wounding his fellow man, and science has now brought our modern weapons to such pericction that it seems almost impos- sible to imagine any advance in their eflectiveness. it we except the cold steel â€"which still has its uses, if we are to judge by the recent war in the East -t.herc are but. three classes of often- sive weapons; the gun and its projec- tiles. the rifle and the mine or torpedo. In the process of their evolution from the stone and club of our prehistoric an- cestors an enormous number of con- trivunces have been invented by the ter- tile brains of soldiers, mechanics and scientists. GROTFSQUE MILITARY ENGINES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Sfiééé颢§®¢¢¢©émwéfiéfi to call it, is 01 diseases known. awwwwwawawww Scott's EmuIJz'on. which is Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites in easily di- gested form, is the greatest strength-builder known to medical science. It is so easily digested that it sinks into the system, making new blood and new fat, and sh‘engthening nerves and muscles. Influenza. Grippe Or Influenza, whichever you like call it, is one of the most weakening ALL DRUGGISTS: 500. AND $1.00c Invaluable for Coughs and Colds. Scott'J‘ Em a (J 1'0 n after War carts or chariots were not un- usual at this time. especially in Ger- many. They generally took the form of a rude machine gun. several musket barrels being placed together in the centre, and a great array of curly. mur- derous looking spears and halbreds ar- ranged on either side. The Lyoners is a later type without musket barrels and intended for blocking a narrow pas- sage” Sometimes a whole sheaf of mus- ket barrels were fixed upon a stand rr carriage. These contrivanccs were called argues, from their resemblance to the pipes of an organ, or sometimes THUNDER CARRIAGES. Monster cannon were an early form of extravaganza in military weapons. There are several accounts of such pieces of ordance. A traveler once stated that he had seen at Brunswick a gun or rather mortar cast in Mil. It was made of brass, was 10 feet 6 inches lzng and no less than 9 feet 2 inches in diameter, and was said to be capable of throwing a 1,000 pound shell. India boasted several of these nionstrosities. One still to be seen at Kubberpore is said to be no less than 2t feet 3" inches long and 5 feet 6 inches around the muzzle. It is called Jaun Kushall,‘ or destroyer of life. by the natives. and was probably cast somewhere in Persia. Another India piece. cast by Chale- by Koomy, Khan of Ahmednuggeer, about the year 1500. has such a tremen- dous bore that the interior is now fitr ted up as a kind of summer house. A cannon made as Bruges in 1346 had a square bore and fired cubical shot. Guns were made of all kinds of ma- terials, though all such may be regard- ed as freaks or experiments. The leather guns invented by an otlicer in the army of Gustavus Adolphus had a certain vogue on account of their lightness. Some were eflectively used against us by the Scots under Gen. Leslie at the battle of Newburn Ford in 1640. They were made by wrapping rope and twine around copper cylinders strengthened by iron rings. They were then coated with plaster, and finally covered with leather. They were very portable. but unreliable and short lived"! Guns have been made of wood hooped with iron. not only in ancient times. but quite "e- cently in the Philippines, where they were used against the American troops. The Chinese had a gun made of bam- boo in 125'). but only the other day the Japanese were making effective use of wooden mortals bound around with bamboo for throwing explosives into the Russian works at the siege oi Port “LETTING SLIP THE DOGS OF \VAR" With the advent of artillery and fire- arms, all kinds of queer weapons were from time to time invented. Many (.f them distinctly foreshadowed our mod- ern repeating and rifled weapons. Not a few revolvers, repeaters and rifled muskets were made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. but as the whole attair had to be made by hand their cost precluded any general adop- tion of these ingenious devices. The earliest cannon were breech loaders. and like our modern guns were built up ra- ther than cast. But. even after the ‘n- vention of cast iron and brass cannon the smaller pieces were generally male t) load at the breech. A couple of such weapons mounted in a kind of a cart were used by Henry VIII. against the Scots, and would uppear‘to have been quite practical little affairs. l‘hey evi- denlly could be wheeled like hand har- rows; the sloping shield would afford excellent protection to the gunners and probably contained a receptacle for ammunition. warfare. not only as a watch dog. One method 01 was to equip them with a. pol, of blaz- ing resin. a collar of spikm and a jacket or leather scales to protect their backs from the fire, and send them among cavalry. much to the confusion of the horses. An Arab writer describes some won- derful wnr dogs which belonged to the Grand Seignior, which he says were as big as donkeys. Were clad in rich cloth. silver collars and neck-rings and a circle of iron points around the neck. Some were even clad in armor. They were equal to tackling wolves, dragons in the fire, eagles in the air and crocodiles in the water; to sny nothing of being able lo bring down a man from horse- back. “however slout a fellow he may be." Dogs equipped in much the some manner were also used [or incendiary purposes to set villages on lire. as were also cats and pigeons. ‘ _in the '603, and the very similar com- pressed air gun patented by one Stur- geon in 1887. none of which realized its inventor's expectations, we can find plenty of - EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIVANCES The wire bullet, proof screen behind which the soldier advancing to the ot- taek defies any projectile smaller than a three-pounder is ~as far fetched an idea as anything produced in the Mid- dle Ages. The reservoir helmet. a French scheme. is about as quaint as anything we have noticed. The lower part. of this eccentric headpiece terms a species of tank or reservoir. into whi'h the water (and pipe clay?) drains from the upper surface of the helmet. The soldier's head is therefore kept cool in the tropicsâ€"though the weight may perhaps be rather tryingâ€"and when athirst all he has to do is to re- move his helmet and fill his cup from the tap at the back. One of the most important qualifica- tions of a good soldier is to be able to march well, but. it is doubtful whether the wearing of a pair of spring soled boots, such as 11 recent inventor has suggested. would add many miles to the day's march. These “seven league boots" have an outer sole. which is piv- oted to lhe one made on the boot just below the ball of the tool. A strong spiral spring is fitted between the two a; the heel. To see a whole regiment charging a position wearing these boots and bounding over the ground like kangaroos or waliahys. would indeed Lo a. remarkable sight. gain. This was chch‘d in ancient days. according to an Arab wriler, by the_ “powder which explodes without sound." made at El Meidaun, to do away wilh the noise of [he explo- lhe ashes of human bones taking the place of charcoal. The making of this propellant is now. at any ralc. a 1051 art. but [he same object is to a certain extent attained in other ways. _ Col. Humbert ot the French army has invcnled a species of tube which. affixed [U the muzzle of a field piece. prevents either flash or sound. while a rifle in- veuled in America has a big carlridge Another remarkable invenlion is a cannon that lakes complelely to pieces. It consists of a series of strong steel rings which fit over the inner tube, which is. of course, rifled internally. Externally it tapers slightly, so that it is bigger and thicker at lhe breech end. The r§ngs slide down on this tube in their proper order. the cenlral ones having projeclinns to form the trun- nions of the piece. and are screwed light up by means of [our rods and nuts lilting into,a massive framework at ei- ther end of lhe gun. The rear one If these carries lhe breech closing mech- anism. There were many inventions at that time especially applicable to the attark and defence of fortified towns. The petard was much used. It consisted of a bell shaped iron receptacle filled with powder and clamped down to a block of hard wood. It was intended to be fixed to doors and gates for the purpose of blowing them in. Another device was the pot a Ieu or fire pot, which was a kind of ball or globular jar filled with old larred rope. which was thrown upon the enemy‘s works. to light them up at night and enable fire to he di- rected upon them. Loaded pistol bar- rels were attached to these to prevent any one from picking them up and ex- tinguishing them. The pistol u reveillo could be set to explode a mine at a giw en hour. SOUI Another surprising mcdimvcl contri- vance was an iron hat or helmet. which is descride as having “two crowns, each with four pistols." A volley of eight shots from an opponent's head- piocc must. have been very disconcert- lugâ€"probably to all parties concerned. A curious mortar in the Tower of Lon- don is square in front and has no less than nine separate bores. The eigh- teenth century was distinctly the epoch of sieges. The attack and defence ct carefully fortified places was carried out in the most methodical and patient manner. But all said and done, we need not dive inlo lhe past to find extraordinary ideas and weird warlike appliances. Our modern inventors are quite capable oi keeping up the supply. Leaving aside the steam guns, which were intended tn spurt oufsrtroams of bullets after the fashion of :1 Maxim gun. which were invenled by Perkins in 1824. by Wimms When firearms became somewhat more portable. and especially when pis- tols were intrnduced. we find them mounted in the mast extraordinary fashions. Shields or targets not infre~ quently had a pistol fixed in the centre with a small grating for aiming through. but, there is an account of a shield at Genoa which had no less than 120 pis- tol: connected with it. Rather a heavy affair to handle. one would imagine. The Emperor Charles V. had a curious shield which he carried when walking About a. night; “a spear came out, of the side of it. beside that in the middle; if any thrust, was made at the shield. the sword's point. was catched in it and broken." Arthur. Guns have been made of glass and even of ice. Some of the latter, made [or saluting purposes at the man rlage of the Russian Prince Gallitzi in 739. are slated to have been "fired more than once without. bursting." Guns have even been made of the precious metals. In 1663 there was in the or- senal of Verona “a great glln found in Candla, all or gold and silver." A GOLDEN CANNON was captured at Pokin in 1860. and King Thean of Burma was the pos- sessor of another, which was also in- cruslcd wilh precious slones. The early culivor was little inferior to a cannon in clumsincss, as it took three men to carry it and a lourlh to fire it. 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Mr. Haywood's aim has been to thor- oughly know the country, from Atlan- tic to Pacific. its means and methods at transportation; its population; its pro- ducts, and general resources; its cities and towns, and what they are noted for, <0 that he may make use of this knowledge during his lecture tours round the world. The views. with which his lectures are to be illustrated, will show the beauty spots that. are of note and interest, be- sides street views, cities. parks, rivers, waterfalls, public insLitutions, \md such Scenes as would be an inducement to travelers and tourists generally to visit. He also desires to induce travelers from Bombay, Madras, Ceylon. Calcut- ta, Australia. and New Zealand to fav- or the Canadian route in visiting Eng- land. so that they may become acquaint- ed with Canada. its people, and the many picturesque spots that are to be seen from Vancouver to Halifax. His lectures will also be given in the United States. 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