THE MILLENNIUM ILLUSTRATED.
THE new Gatling gun, recently exhibited at the works of Sir W. Armstrong, throws all the most terrible and deadly weapons of war completely in the shade. It is capable of firing a thousand shots per minute, and killing a man on a horse at a mile range. It is compact, can be taken to pieces and easily carried about, can be applied to military and naval use, and the mechanism is simplicity itself; the revolving band has two compartments, into which, as they whirl round, metal cartridges drop from a tall, oblong case fixed over the centre of the barrel. At each turn of the handle ten shots are fired, and their dispersion is accomplished by a sliding apparatus. The size of shot in different caliber guns ranges from musket balls to half pounders. By its use three men can do the work of three hundred. A quarter of a million dollars has been spent to perfect the gun, which is now declared by every military expert a complete success.—Exchange.