CURIOSITIES OF BOMBARDING.
At Plevna it took a Russian battery a whole day's firing for each Turk killed. At Gibraltar, in 1781, 260,000 shot and shell were thrown, and the total killed and wounded was only 1,340. It took 200 shots to hit one man, according to the figures of the Franco-German War. Even more surprising, into Verdun, 33,000 shells were thrown, and only 7 persons were killed. Phalzburg had a similar number of fatalities for the 8,000 shells received there. Eight deaths in Bitche were caused by 25,000 shells, or 3,000 shells for each man killed. In Mézières 300 were killed, but it required 193,000 shells to do it. Then there was Thionville, into which 30,000 shells were thrown, with the result that 2 were killed, and finally Longwy, which received during the siege 30,000 shells without losing a single man. At Murfreesborough it took 27 cannon-shot and 130 rifle-bullets to hit one man; while one of the maxims of war, since the campaign of 1870, is that it takes a ton of iron to kill a man.—London Correspondence of N. Y. Sun.