Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Ice Cannons. [ARTICLE]

Ice Cannons.

A Paris paper relates that the Grand Duke Constantine, on visiting the Artillery Museum, was much puzzled at the sight of an iron tube, and was informed that it was a mold which had formerly been used to cast ice guns. It appears that during reign of Louis NY. experiments were made before the Court of Versailles with ordnance of this description, experiments presided over by Boscand Reaumur, and that a cannon ball of snow pierced a two-inch plank at sixty paces. It is not said whether the Grand Duke intends on bis return to Russia to turn to account the raw material which each "winter furnishes in such abundance.