HOW MANY BULLETS IT TAKES TO KILL A MAN.
La Natuee publishes some interesting details as to the nutaber of ballets required to kill a man At Soferino it is estimated that 8,400,000 shots were tired by the Austrians, which occasioned a loss to the French and Sardinian troops of 2000 killed and 10,000 wounded ; so that in this battle 42 000
shots wuiv? ivq.iro I i«> kill Hit I 7(>() 1»> wouml one man, showing an cxpuiMlittuv of 2dBlbs of load to eaoh mmi killeti. The Germany howetcr, in the Ffanoo. German war appear to hare shot much better, for it is calculated that w ith an expenditure of 80,000,000 rifle bullets and 362 cannon shots the French lost 85,000 killed or died from wounds, thus reducing the average number of shots required to kill a man to 13,000, about /•filbs. This calculation must havo !><'<>n arrived at by assi'Stiiii? the cannon shots fired at the number oF bullets they woilM correspon \ with in weiyrht.
" I'm B«ir fashed \vi' a singing in my head, John," said one tn; n to another. u Do ye ken the reason ••>' that ?" a^ked (he other. " No." " Weel, it's hecause it'« emntv," finhl John. " Aye, nnui, that'«i queer, «aid the fir.st niin. 4t Arc ye ne'er fashed wP a rin^inj; in yer nin liead, John ?" " No, never," answered John *' An' do ye no k^n the reason o' ihut? It's because it's crackit."
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 109, 4 July 1885, Page 7
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238HOW MANY BULLETS IT TAKES TO KILL A MAN. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 109, 4 July 1885, Page 7
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