Rejoice, dear, for all France rejoices with you." Cesarine stared all her wonder.

The newspapers trumpeting her husband's name and not in the satirical tone in which the people hail a disaster to a George Dandin.
"The privately appointed committee which has been for some weeks thoroughly investigating the marvelous invention--a revolution in truth--in gunnery, at the Villa Reine-Claude, Montmorency, have deposited a preliminary report at the Ministry of War.

We are not at liberty to state more than the prodigious result.

On a miniature scale, but which could be enlarged from millimetres to miles without, we are assured, affecting the demonstration, it has been proved that the new gun will throw solid shot twelve miles and its special shell nearly fifteen.

The model target was a row of pegs representing piles strongly driven into clay, a little apart, with the interstices filled with racks of stones.