Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Big Guns for Business Only. [ARTICLE]

Big Guns for Business Only.

People always expect fa big ship tc fire her biggest guns on saluting. Big guns take big charges, which means big money. Consequently vessels use their secondary batteries, six-pound-ers and small ordnance when firing for politeness, and reserve their big guns for business. Moreover the life of these big guns is limited, a few hundred discharges exhausting their vitality and making them dangerous to those who serve them.—[Boston Transcript. A Buddhist priest in Siam recently deluded many'of his people into the belief that he could make them invulnerable by tattooing. One of the viotims gave a test of his charm by placing the muzzle of a loaded gun in’his mouth and pulling the trigger with his toe. Usual result. One half the population of Mexico are full-blooded Indians.