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SAILORS OF THE NAVY EVER READY WITH THEIR FISTS.
The Uravoldable Causes of Friction—-fim-
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The regulation against fighting is per- haps the deadest cf all naval regula- tions. It is impossible of enforcement. If it were enforced to the letter, pretty nearly all hands among the men for- ward would be in the ‘‘brig’’ from one year's end to the other. Fighting is practically a necessary evil among men who wear their country’s uniform for a livelihood. Officers of experience blink at it. They know the bad, con- taminating results of bitterness between a pair of bluejackets under the forecas- tle. They have learned that it is better the thing should be fought out and cone with than that dozens of men should be drawn into a quarrel that festera and grows unless the head of it is Uroken by a decisive battle between the two men who have been snarling at each other. People who have made ocean voyages often dwell upon the weariness which has overcome them at the sight of their fellow voyagers’ countenances toward the end of a passage. This is a feeling which is aggravated a thousandfold amid the uncomfortable surroundings of a war vessel's forecastle, the hundreds of occupants of which are obliged to be constantly together for from one to three years. Each man becomes thor- oughly aware of all his mates’ little characteristics, and after awhile, wheth- er these characteristics are good or bad, they jar upon him, if only on account of their monotony. Thus friction is gen- erated, and it is for this reason that the crew of a man-of-war just returned to the United States after a three years’ cruise in foreign waters is generally such a sour looking lot, even as concerns the officers aft, who become quite as sick of each other as do the men for-
ward,
Hardly a day passes that there is not at ieast one scrap on board most men- of-war, with the promise of a heavier battle to follow. A blmuejacket seats himself on another’s ditty box, and, on being roughly ordered by the box’s owner to vacate, he refuses and con- signs the owner to a much less moist place than Davy Jones’ locker. The men come tegether, two or three blows are exchanged, and then, as by common consent, each man draws away, both feeling that the ‘‘jimmy legs’’ (i. e, the master at arms) is not far distant and neither caring fora trick in the “brig.'’ Having thus become involved in the minor fistic argument of the deck, the two bluejackets are looked to by the entire ship’s company to bring their affair to a satisfactor~ conclusion. The mere exchange of growls between the two men doesn’t go. ‘Pipe down there, ye men-of-war chaws, and settle the thing right,’’ is the general remark hurled at them by all hands when they moot in mere contests of cuss words, and the sailor who is considered to be the aggrieved manu is watched carefully to see if he makes any preliminary moves toward arranging aregular fight. He almost always does.
Nearly all the regular fights between bluejackets aboard ship are pulled off down below in one of the firerooms or inan empty bunker. The empty bunker is preferred on account of its greater isolation. When a fight is to come off between two bluejackets below, all hands know all about it, often includ- ing the master at arms himself, but very few of the men, unless they are inti:nates of the combatants, expect in- Vite tions to the fray. There is not room in » buaker for more than half aedozen friends of each man, and even with this nan.ber the space is rather contracted.
With a second each and a referee agreed upon by beth, the men, stripped naked to the waist, go at it. The fights are not of the rough and tumble order. The men fight according to regular prize ring rules and their shipmates
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Oyster forks for the coming season have pointed prongs, broad at the base and somewhat far apart.
Plaid belts, which represent the col- ors of the various clans, are fastened ‘ with buckles decorated with a thistle or other Scotch emblem.
The latest combination is cut glass, silver and stag horns. It occurs in punch bow]s, loving cups, cigar jars, etc. Glass constitutes the body of the vessel, silver the base and rim and horns the handles.
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Unanswering ever towers the giant rock Amid the centuries that come and go, As if ‘twould only mock The eternal yoice that wailed and wailed be- low.
"Tis thus, O God, the deep sea of my sonl Breaks ever on the foot of thy great throne, Its dread but only goal, In one long, plaintive, awful monotone! -
Unanswered yet, but, hoping, still it «n''s: Will not the throne take pity on the v, ve? How terrible if its walls Are always silent to the wail beiow! —New York Ledger.
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Miss Waite (confused)—Oh, this is so sudden!—London Fun
" Bicycles are used for smuggling on the frontier of France and umm. The customs officers at Tourcoing took to pietes the machine ridden by a man they suspected and found that all the
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Horse Model Makers.
“Making full sized models of horsss is quite a distinct and well paid busi- ness, the models for the whole world almost being made in London,’’ said the manager of a great firm of carriage builders in Long Acre.
‘There is scarcely a considerable car- riage builder or dealer anywhere who has not in his shop or warehouse one or more full sized models of horses (we and some other firms have respectively several such models always), which are not only used as a mere attraction, but are also, being movable, put into differ- ent sets of shafts, so as to show custom- ers how a complete turnout will look.
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TURF TOPICS.
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Anteeo, 2:1613, once sold for $52,000, is dead.
The Hartford meeting developed fow sensations.
Little Dan Q is giving a good ac
count of himsclf this year. . It is stated that Alix will be started in some specials this month, -*
The Medina (N. Y.) meeting was do- clared off on account of bad weather.
Bonnecer isin good racing form again, ' thanks to Lapham’s careful handi-ug.
William Johnston, one of the oldest members of the New York Driving club, is dead.
Ed Lock wiil race no more this sea- son, Mr. Hughes having decided to tara him out.
H. H. Longstreet, Matawan, N. J., recently sold the pacer Allen Lowa, 2:12, to Lynn Bros., Canfield, O.
W. J. Andrews, who has been seri- ously ill at Poughkeepsie for several weeks, is reported as much improved.
George H. Huber secured first money with Ti Point Mary and Little Glen at the White River Junction (Vt. ) meet- ing.
The filly Queen Lil, 2:2414, by Heir at Law is out of a mare by Mars, the stallion once owned by Byron Newton, Buffalo.
Edward G, a 38-year-old brother to Bumps, took a pacing record of 2:1634¢ in a winning race overa half mile track recently.
Queen Ethel, the dam of Bumps, | 2:043,;, hes been bred to Allie Wilkes, | 2:15. She is owned by L. V. Harkness, Lexington, Ky.
Johnson & Clark, Oneida, N. Y., re- cently sold the mare Senatress, 2:22, — to Frank Jewell, Syracuse. The re- ported price was $500.
Town Lady, 2:13'4, by Wilton, cost her owner, J. H. Shults, Brooklyn, $250 a year ago. At that time she had never started in a race.
Half the turf writers insist upon writing it ‘‘The Abbott.’’ It would bo just as well to call the other Hamlin gelding ‘‘The Monkk.’’
Knapsack McCarthy is deserving of not a little of the credit for Star Point- er’s great mile. Hedrove the runper with excellent judgment.—Horseman.
ORIGIN OF -NATIONS.
The Arabs claim that they are dcirect- ly descended from Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, born 1810 LB. C.
The Bohemians were originally the Boii, who, 283 B. C., attempted a con- quest of northern Italy, but were driven back by the Romans and settled iu Bo- hemia.
The Sardinians are descended from the Pheenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, RKo- mans, Vandals, Saracens, Genoe ss, Pi- sans, Arganese and Spaniards, who, at one time or another, inhabited the is- land.
The Swedes first appeared in his- tory as the Suevi in the fourth century. This warlike German tribe spr: ad its conquests in several directions, one ex- pedition penetrating Spain, another Sweden and a third the country now known as Servia.
The Germans were repeatedly men- tioned in early Roman history as in- vaders of the country south of the Alps. Iu 118 B. C. the Teutons and the Cymry inflicted a great defeat upon the Romans i Illyria, and, in turn, were defeated by Marius, B. ©. 102. The first historical treatise dealing with the Germans was written by Tacitus.
It is believed by some oritios that the name Hebrew was more ancient than the time of Abraham. Before this ‘‘fa- ther of the race’’ had founded a family he is spoken of as ‘‘ Abram, the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eschol and brother of Aneér.’’ His descendants are mention- ed as ‘‘children of Israel’’ in Genesis i, 25.—St. Louis Globe-Democpat.
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