Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUN.

A Snap Shot Will Portray the Swiftest Movement of Any Living Thing. Recent years have seen great improvements in photography, and it is daily becoming more and more indispensable in many fields of science, art, and industry. The camera now does work that was deemed impossible only a generation ago, and does it without exciting very much comment. People have become so accustomed to the wonders of instantaneous photography that nothing now seems to surprise them. The latest contrivance for this purpose is

a photographic gun, which, it is claimed, will secure pictures at the rate of a dozen a second of any object aimed at, no matter what its position or how rapid its motion. The gun is the invention of a Frenchman, and is a breech loader. The enterprising amateur may now go forth in quest of his game looking like a sureenongh sportsman, a gun on hia shoulder and a belt full of cartridges about his waist—only the cartridges will contain extra sensitive dry plates, which, though sure enough on suajl shots, will not prove deadly. Attacked by Docks. The captain of a steam tug, which lately reached Philadelphia frojp Boston, says that in Vineyard Sound during a tremendous storm, the vessel was attacked by an immense flock of wild ducks, which had apparently been blown off the land by the wind. They fought desperately against the side of the tug’s house, and the electric light at the masthead, which seemed to be the object that had attracted them. The mate, who ventured on deck was knocked flat by a duck that flew directly against his breast. Fully fifty of the ducks were caught Hartford's Old Men. • There are some old men in Hartford, Conn. Hubbard Hollister is now nearly 88 years old, yet he takes care of the horses, barn, and stable as effectively as ever. Dr. David Crary, 13 Seyms street, is now in his 88th year, yet he goes out with the Fox Hunters’ Club occasionally and bags a fox or two on Talcott Mountain. Deacon Morgan Lewis, 905 Main street, is also 88, and he still drives about, more or less. There are in the town a number of other old people of 88 or along there who keep tolerably lively for that age.

USING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC GUN.