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ARINE SHIPS
HE STOPPED SHORT,
TREE TRUNK CANNON,
Wonderful Wooden Hide Wound Guns Rsason For the Peculiar Signature on
of the Antilles.
the Hotel Register.
The mention of wooden guns sug
Many peculiar signatures in the
tard These
Craft
gests a company of boy soldiers com course of a season find themselves
ma tided by a captain who wears a tin upon the register of a hotel. There
Biscomforts. sword.
The revolutionary soldiers of are foreign fists of all sorts in script
Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Re that none but the Kytka could un
public, however, have from time to ravel. The most curious of al), how
NOVICE time
FOR
made cannon from trees and ap ever, was placed on the book only re
plied them to practical purposes. In cently. It Is this:
“Wm."
S Choking For Air and Suffo- the Antilles there grows a peculiar tree
Only that and nothing morel
■ From the Fumes of Gasolina with u winding grain, so tenacious of
There Is no surname, no address,
^Lony Is Excruciating—Added fiber that to split it by ordinary means
is almost au Imposslbilty.
nothing at all but just “Wm.”
K When Caught In a Storm.
When wanted for artillery purposes
This Is the way It happened:
■rlne boats have been develop- the tree is felled, a section some five
A well dressed man entered the ho
K point where they can cover feet In length and one foot In diameter tel the other day and followed his
■ own power a radius of 800 Is selected and cut. the bark is remov bags to the desk. The register was
■ effective fighting trim.
In , ed. and uneven places on the surface swung around into position for him
Eid calm the submarines are ■ are dressed down.
and a pen banded him by the gentle
■ of navigating the seas with i The embryo cannon is then placed manly desk clerk. Then, lu a free,
L their Inventors and construe- on rude trusses and a bore burned In swinging hand, he wrote the accepted
Kith a fleet of these vessels sta- it. n process that serves further still to
abbreviation of his first name. "IVm."
E the vicinity of any of our i harden the wood. While the bore ts
As If a thought had suddenly oc
Kgst cities It would be difficult ! being burned green ox hides are ent
curred to him. he stopped writing and
into
long
strips
by
beginning
In
rhe
■lesbips to get within effective
looked up.
tenter and working toward the outer
■ distance.
“What do you charge for a single
■rst Impressions received on de- edge as one would peel an apple.
room here by the day?” he asked.
K into the hold of a submarine
When all Is tn readiness oue end of
"Three, four, five and six dollars."
Ke of discomfort and suffoca- this rawhide band, which is about answered the clerk.
ffbe accommodations for a crew three inches In width. Is spiked to the
"Ain't you got no dollar rooms?”
ten seem about right for half a wooden caunon near the breech. A
“No. we have no dollar rooms
I Oue Is In too close proximity ! lever or bar is attached to the butt. Three, four, five and six."
Bring machinery, too, to enjoy Two or three negroes grasp the arms
“Gosh!” he said, and he didn't look
of the bar and slowly turn the hollow
Isation.
the part either "This Is no place for
■ I sides are arranged electrical ed log on its supports. The band of me. Gimme my luggage.”
[ and machinery to operate the green hide Is kept under a strain, and
And he sneaked out of the hotel ns
Ind the torpedoes. A thin shell In this way the core of the cannon Is
one who had trodden on sacred grouud
I separates the visitor from the wound with one of the toughest ma i i
Which Is why on the register today
les, and the outside water is so terials. wire excepted, in the world,
is the odd signature:
The first layer of hide is tightly
that one can almost feel its
“Wm.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
wound to the muzzle of the growing
fe
ta under way on the surface the gun and back toward the breech
ERIN ANCIENT
rlne bums and trembles. The again until a number of layers have
[of gasoline are almost suffocat- thus been wound on and the promis
there Is no escaping from them, Ing piece of artillery has grown Bev- Untimely Death Was the Rule For
Monarche of Old Ireland.
if the men contract what is call- eral Inches In diameter.
’Tis ould Oireland can bate them all.
It Is then placed In a draft of dry,
isollne heart." if under water
ig the fumes make one sick and hot air and allowed to harden. When begorra. when it comes to talkin' of
the hardening and curing process is kings and coronations! For there was
Bovlce cannot remain in a sub- complete the persevering Inhabitants probably a king of Ireland when Noah
was building his ark. There certainly
|e under water for any great have a really serviceable weapon.
One of these homemade wood and was one In 1300 B. C. To be sure,
J of time without suffering ex
iting torture. In time, however, rawhide cannon used during the last though. Ireland's ancient monarchs
its used T5 It, and a trip may be Cuban Insurrection Is said to have mostly came to unhappy ends, either
withstood 104 charges of powder be dying of the plague, being assassinated
■ enjoyment.
lit is when the submarine dives fore becoming useless. The projectiles or killed in battle, says London An
Rhe most unpleasant symptoms for It were made of scrap Iron, broken swers.
For Instance, King Lugbaldb. who
I There are ten compressed air stone and fire hardened clay balls.—
reigned in the second century, was
[ supplied, and these furnish suf- St Louis Republic.
i killed by being thrust through the eye
k air to keep the crew alive a
with a spear during a conspiracy. His
■nany hours.
successor. Feargus. was assassinated
[did you ever live on compressed
by order of the uext comer. Cormac-
Ilf not it will be a new sensation,
May Get a Cup Almost Any Place
(Jlfliada, who. however, was merely
[ally if you are fifty feet below You
Exc.pt In Java.
choked to death by a fish bone at
nrface of the water. There is a
It seems strange that in the far east, supper.
ng sensation all over the body, where tea and coffee come from, it is
“Slain by his successor," iDdeed. was
tndlng of the eardrums and pos- very difficult for the traveler in nearly
the fate of very many Irish kings, but
a sense of nausea.
all places In India, the Straits Settle
the air is automatically regulat- ments and elsewhere In the orient to of Congal Cionmaglialr. who died in
pm the compressed air tanks one procure a cup of really good tea or 693, it is simply but eloquently re
bls share of the oxygen, but some- coffee. This, says Sir Frederic S corded that he "died suddenly.” ne
was a "cruel persecutor of the Irish
I the supply may vary, it cer-
Isham, the novelist, although seem
In 398 Klug Dathy was
r does in different parts of the I ingly paradoxical, is only on a par with church.”
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One may be choking for lack of i conditions in so many of our little killed by a thunderbolt, while Klug
air in one part and be exhllarat- American hamlets and vlllagea where Connor died of grief in 837. And one
’ a too abundant supply tn anotb- good butter, rich cream and good of the greatest of them all. the valiant
Brian Boroihme, was assassinated in
chickens for the residents are practl
■n, times when the engines are cally nonobtalnable. nil of them baring 1014 while at prayer after he bad de
feated the Danes at Clontarf.
Eng to charge the batteries the
It Is hard'y surprising to learn that
Es of the gasoline become so strong been "sent to town."
In Calcutta I beard an American In four of Elin’s kings resigned their
■ men are rendered unconscious.
the best hotel there say to the waiter: crowns to become peaceful, cloistered
E must be taken up on deck then to
"If this." indicating the contents of monks.
E whiff of fresh air.
E this reason the batteries are only a cup before him. “Is tea. bring me
coffee. If it Is coffee, bring me tea "
Water Necessary For Crops,
fced when above the water. But
And the waiter (an Eurasian^, who
A grass plant will in the course of a
Bine of war it might be necessary
had no sense of humor, took away the
■barge them while running below. drink and phlegmatically brought some hot day exhale Its own weight of wa
ter. and a young leaf of wheat or rye
E. tudeed. the man aboard the sub
exposed to the sun may even exhale
line might envy the aerial nad thing else— equally bad. no doubt
Ro after India. Burma and Ihe Malay Its own weight in an hour. Expert-
ir flying above the sea with his
peninsula we waited with bated breath ments summarized by Storer indicate
■idance of fresh air to breathe,
loking under water is a pretty un for tile coffee of Java "Jara coffee!" that "more than 300 pouuds of water
lain and disagreeable work. The The excellence of It was a childhood pass through a plant and are tran
I appliance for this purpose is a tradition. The coffee "mother used to spired from Its leaves for every pound
111 electric beater. This is Just make" was compounded of real Java of dry matter fixed or assimilated by
kt big enough to heat water to In Java surely we should find a nectar the plant.” In Wisconsin. King found
of the gods What did we discover? the mean amount of water used by
Be a cup of coffee and nothing else. An extract of coffee served in little barley, oats. corn, clover, peas and po
I crew have their food cooked
casters! It would bare made the gods tatoes in producing a ton of dry mat
■ rd the tender.
111 Another illusion gone!
ter ranged from 270 tons for corn to
Ihe submarine is built on the prin
Don't go to Java for real Jara cof 576 tons for clover, "the average for i
ks of economising space in every-
fee
You may find it io Ypsilanti. the six crops being nearly 450 tons, or
Bg. There is no room for anything Mich., or Faria. O.. but you won't un
four acre inches for each ton of dry
Bpt the actual necessities. Every
matter.” — Agricultural
Department
earth it In Java—not for money.
t> of space Is given over to ma-
Year Book.
pery. This la everywhere compact
Too Much For Him.
I efficient, but multiplied so often
Ths Magnetic Needle.
Voltaire could not speak much Eng
It one wonders what it is all for.
There ore two places on the earth's
[here Is machinery for running the llsb. The reason why he refused to
surface where the magnetic needle
kt. for guiding It under water, for atndy the language la this: It was
must point due south
They are not
[trolling It when it dives, for com- drilled Into him that "plague" was
pronounced "plaig." which be thought easy places to reach One is In the
last ng the air tanks, for operating
very pretty and acceptable. But right arctic regions north of the northern
I torpedoes and even for regulating
on top of It he was introduced to magnetic pole, on the line between that
I power of vision abort and below
•ague." which bls teacher said must pole and the geographical north pole.
har.
be called “a go«." Finding It Impoe The other ts In the antarctic regions,
Fben caught tn a storm in a aub- sible to reconcile the difference, he south of the southern magnetic pole,
Irine life is really not worth living. went off into a philosophical tantrum on the line between that spot and the
Consists of a series of intense strug-
geographical south pole. In the first
and dropped the study.
s to prevent death by being batter
case the point of the needle Is attract
against steel walls or to keep from
ed to the northern magnetic pole. In
A Bit af a Brag.
toning Involved In whirring wheels
Lawyer—Are you acquainted with the second case the other end of the
d dynamos. If you survive the or
any of the men on the jury ? Wltncas- needle Is attracted to the southern
U you conclude that it Is not oeces
magnetic pole.
Yea. sir; more than half of them
ty to wait fee war to find hades. It Lawyer—Arv you willing to swear that
with you all th« timo.—Harper’s
Rsaseneble Fear.
you know more than half of them
tekly.
“John. Is that yool"
Wltneaa— 8ay. If it comes to that. I m
"Yeah, Mary.”
willing to swear that 1 know more
"Wh.it In the world are you doing
than all of them pot together-Mil
down there? Why don't you come up
waukee Journal.
to bedr
“I'm afraid of gettln' bnrt on three
O.Mrving ef Pity.
darned revolvin' stairsh
Chicago
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Record Herald
think of that mac's financial ember
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