Two of the new-shaped projectiles dropped on this mark, left not enough wood to make a match and enough stone to strike a light upon it, while not a splinter of the missile could be found.

Judge what would happen if they had fallen on a regiment or into a city.

Thanks to the unremitting devotion of this son of France, his country can regard with complacency the monstrous preparations for unprovoked war which a rival realm is ostentatiously making." The other journals repeated the paragraph in much the same language.

The evening edition added that the happy inventor would not have to wait long for his reward.

The Emperor, always a connoisseur in artillery, had sent him ten thousand francs from his private purse simply as a faint token of appreciation.