Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — Bullet-Proof Cuirass. [ARTICLE]

Bullet-Proof Cuirass.

The latest bullet-proof cuirass halls from France and Is the Invention of M. Threaud. Its essential features are a sheet of metal fitted with an outer and inner lining (the composition of which is not stated), the whole apparatus weighing not less than eight pounds. According to good authority It was recently tested with a Mauser rifle, which was fired from a distance of about 70 yards. The bullet tore the front of the cuirass and made an In* dentation in the metal plate, but did not penetrate It Does singing the song “O, Promise Me” at a wedding, promise anybody anything?