A remarkable dynamite experiment is re ported m the American papers says the SI James's Budget : — " ColonellMoblitzer, of Bu kcannon County, W. Va., expert iron ond steel chemist, representative m Pittsburg of the Atlantio Iron Company of Wheeling, placed a charge of dynamite under a ten-ton iron anvil m a vacant lot opposite the Republican Iron Works on the 14th of May. Ho lit t V fuse and retired. A moment later the whole country around, up and down and across the Monongahela River, echoed and re-echoed tho mighty reverberation of a series of quickly succeeding Bharp reports. A whole block wa3 covered with fragments of the anvil, and the excitement among the people of the neighbourhood for a time was intense. James Acton, who was standing m front of liis stable door, v»aß struck on the leg by a 151 b piecD of iron, and painfully injured. The pieces of iron which varied m weight from 4001bs to 25lbs, roso obliquely to a height sometimes of 150 ft, some falling on vacant lots and others striking against tho roofs and aides of houses, crushing through to the living apartments. Mr 3 Cruikshank and her husband who live on Edward-alley, ■were m the kitchen when the explosion occurred. Mrs Cruikshank had just stepped from the stove to the cool-box for fuel when a pieco of iron weighing 2501bs crashed through a baking oven, situated ten feet from the kitchen, knocked tho side out of the kitchen, and landed m the middle of tho floor. Two inchos to the right and it would have struck Mrs Cruickshank. In the house of Joseph Lott, of Sydney street, a baby lay asleep m the bed m the front up3tairs room. A 1201 b fragment of the anvil knocked a post from the bed on whick tlio baby lay. The carpet was torn up and two chairs were reduced to splinters. At the residence of Mr Emil Ertzweio, at Twenty- sixth and Sydney streets, a 751 b piece crashed straight through to the bed m which the two boys were sleep ing. The damage will reach several thousand dollars and will be paid by Colonel Hoblilzor." j

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