Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — Magnetized the Bayonets. [ARTICLE]

Magnetized the Bayonets.

A singular aberration of the sidearms of marines on board English ships is reported. It appears that the bayonets belonging to the marines have, in many cases, become highly magnetized through contact with, or close proximity to, dynamos, and the result is that compasses have becopie affected by sentries passing nea&ibere when wearing these sidearmsi An order has bedn issued that tutu re sentries are not to wear sidearms when on duty in theneighborhood of dynamos,! and. it is expected that this will overcome the difficulty.—Electrical Review.