Wrecking was a calling upon which thousands of Euglaud'a coast people once depended. It is not generally known that the parchment used on the best banjos is made from wolf skins. The sound of thunder may ba heard for 120 or 2o miles— with the ear to the ground much farther. Lightning is reflected for 100 to 200 miles. The machine guns in the Uritidi service are the Maxim one barre', the Gardner one, two, and five-turret, the Nordenfeldt three and five-barrel, and the Gatling 10-burrel. The Maxim is probably the best as regard adipabili-y, as it tires itself, and the mm laying it has no other duty to think of.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 173, 21 August 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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