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Evening Star, Issue 3499, 11 May 1874, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Fact about Women. -You may meet with twenty men in the day who stutter, but you never heard of a woman who had an impediment in her speech. The New York Herald gives the following from its correspondent, who witSWj % e recent A torpedo practice at Honda Bay.—“A raft 26ft. by 10ft., constructed of heavy planks, was towed i j ?°" fcun „ e t° a Position one mile a ead of the fleet, Each vessel passing e raft carried a 1001b. torpedo, rigged out on the starboard side on a 50ft. spar. Ihe Wabash carried three, and the Brooklyn two. All were to be fired by electricity. Fourteen out of the seventeen torpedoes were successfully exploded. The spectacle was very grand. In many instances a solid column of water was thrown twice the height of the mainmast. 1 ..shock on shipboard was something terrible Commander Parker declares that to-days experiments have demonstrated the impropriety of applying torpedoes to large war vessels incapable of great speed. r