Bullet-Proof Cloth

For shields has been popularly experimented nted with during the past two years. Wire or thin steel is supposed to provide provide the resistance to penetration. Paper pulp and aluminium are also used. The coat employed weighs from 9 to 12 pounds, the cloth being about 2 inches thick. Experimental bullet-proof coats or shields have been presented by Boyton, Dowe, Lennard, Lucas, Loris, Manard, Maxim, Smith, Weber and Zeitung. Bull-Fighting. Popular amusement in Spain; also practiced in Portugal, s. France, and Spanish-American countries. It appears to have been an inheritance from the Moors, Spanish Bull-fight at San Roque. and to have been originally an exhibition of horsemanship in which the nobles took part. It exists in Spain as a game, the score of which is the record of horses killed by the bulls and the points made by the matador, or bull-fighter, and his troop. The latter travel from city to city, in most of which are special amphitheaters, Plaza de Toros.