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Remarkable Feats of Endurance
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What Is the limit of human endurance?
Jjdging bv nome recent perfur'nsncee.
particularly In the world of iport and
athietica, it would almost seem that there
la bo limit, save a writer in the Chicago !
Tribune. Take the case, for instance, of
Vedrlnes. This plucky aviator confesses
that he only had three hours' sleep dur
ing the whole of that wonderful flight
of over 1.000 miles round Britain. When
one remembers that for an aviator there
ara no momenta of repose that he must
ever be on the alert. eery faculty of
mind and body strained to the uttermoet.
It Is not surprising that at times both
Vedrlnes and Beaumont were In a state
perilously near to nervous exhaustion.
Perhaps, however, one of the most
striking teats of human endurance was
that of Tom Burrows, the club swinging
champion of England, who. by whirling
hla clubs for forty-six hours without a
moment's respite, broke all records. Ha
reminds one of Arthur Lancaster, who,
two years ago, achieved athletic fame
by swinging a. blacksmith's hammer for
twelve conecutlve hours, and afterwards
added to Ills laurels by beating ull Brit
ish records for ball punching. Ho punched
a tweiu-tour ounce ball for fifteen
hours continuously at the aveiaac rate
of Hj punches a minute. Occasionally he
would go away on a burnt of 2M and 2W
a minuto, and so powerful was his first
work that three times ha broke the rope
of the ball and had to turn his attention
to one keut in reserve.
It is not to long ago since two French
men walked around a billiard labia In
Paris for twenty-four consecutive hours,
paying game after game and covering
a distance of sixty miles.
A Land of chime ringers rang the
bells of St. Martin's, Birmingham, Eng
land, for eight hours without a second's
pause.-
Then there waa th Polish girl who per
formed thu stupendous feat of dancing
fur thirty-four hours. It Is not sug
gested, of course, that sue danced all
this time without a rest; the Intervals,
however, were only short and she did
not go to bed during that time.
Three years ago an Italian living in
Part offered foil to anyone who danced
longer than himself. Five competitors en
teied the lists against him. hut one by
one they dropped out. whilst the nim
ble I Lai I an fantastically footed it for
fourteen hours at the rate uf eighteen
waltzes an hour.
Among the amazing pedestrian perform
ances that of the well known American
veteran athlete. Weston, who last year
completed 3,j00 miles in seventy-seven
days, takes a hiiih place. Mr. Weston la
a man of - years of age. and walked tor
thirteen consecutive weeks at an average
ran of ITU miles a week, or forty-five
miles each walking day. it does not
qua!, so far as the rate of going is con
cerned, the tcorcning of Ueorge Allen,
who walked in 1!H from Lands End to
John o' Groats, in England, nearly l.O'J
miles, in aiventetn days. Aliens best
day accounted for eighty-two and a half
miles, and , his average for the whole
Journey was fifty-eight miles a day. But
Allen was about half the age of Weston,
who was walking before admiring crowds
before Allen was born.
Turning to other remarkable examples
oi human endurance. It might be men
tioned tuat the duke of Wellington was
able to go for Uaj s with no sleep, lie
ouce remarked that a few minutes' doz
ing on the back of his horse waa all ha
I squired. And then there Is Edison, who
In his earlier days, when working at his
grout inventions, has been Known to go
five days and five nights without any
proper sleep. Forty winks in a chair in
his v.oirfshop was all that he required
to keep his brain alive, and. being deaf,
he was ablo to sleep anywhere, even In a
boiler factory.
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Intense Heat as Cause of Strikes
According to a dispatch In the New
lork World, no leas uu authority than
the dignified medical journal, tlie Lon
don Lancet, the recent labor disturbances
were due to too much sunshine. The
British tales have been getting more
than their average share of heat and
sunshine this summer and the overdose
of labor troubles haa been equally as
large.
"It la an Interesting coincident," says
the Lancet, "that labor troubles of no
mean magnitude have broken out during
an unwonted spell of sunshine. Of
course, we are not regarding the strikes
aa caused by tha heat, as the reason for
tha prevailing unrest have many of them
been obvious for many months. But It is
not at all Improbable that the heat haa
played Its part In the form which tha
manifestations have taken. Let us re
mem bor that tha failure of tha white
races to colonise certain tropical tracts
has been attributed to tha excess of
light which there prevails, and not to tha
heat or humidity. The white man tn tha
tropica gradually becomes disinclined to
work under tha influence of the actinic
agencies of the sun; he grows neuras
thenia and finally breaks down.
"Tha widespread discontent of tha lab
oring claaaea reached an acute stag
during a period of excessive and Intense
light which promises to break ail existing
records. Have the forces of tha potent
sun. consequent upon a long period of
chemically active sunshine, altered tha
energies of the body and mind uf tue
worker, as in the case of the would-be
colonizer In the unsuitable tropics? In
an admittedly bad state of affairs, has
an overdose of sun proved a poiaon? Iu
other words, should sunshine, like so
many good things, be doled out on
posological lines, lest It poison the in
dividual? When the dark days of winter
come we ahall yearn again for some of'
this "poison," knowing, however, full well
that then tha doses, even when contin
uous, are lesa potent: but it Is quite pos
sible that the Instinct Is a sound one
which makes many of us. Inhabitants of
what should be a temperate lone, almost
resent unbroken heat." .
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"Ftrfa-etarlana."
The table manners of the Popplebury
children were execrable. The kicked the
legs of their chairs, tilted them back
wards, drummed their fingers on the
table, hummed snatches of songs over
their toup, and always ran over to the
window If there was anything on.
"Children, children!" exclaimed Mr.
Popplebury teatlly, "why can't you be
have yourselves ?"
"It's the new craze!" mumbled Tommy,
his mouth full of plum-duff.
"The new craze? Blow the new erase!"
cried Mr. P. "It's fidget, fidget, fidget,
from the moment you sit down till the
moment you get up!"
"That's right, pa! That's the new
erase!" chimed In Albert. "We're fidget
arlans!" New York World.
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Corrections
Philippe VI. of Prance called "La Blen
Fortune," was never fortunate. He was
defeated at Sluys, Creeay and Calais, and
one-fourth of his subjects were carried
off by "black death."
Self-Neglect
German silver la not silver, neither was
It invented by a German. It has been In
use In China from time out of mind.
Pompey's Pillar, In Alexandria, was
neither erected by, nor to. Pompey. it
was constructed by the Emperor Diocle
tian, according to its Inscription.
Mosaic gold has no connection with
Moses or the precious metal, being an
alloy of copper and sine used tn ancient
teasalated work.
William the Bllent. the Hollander who
occupied the English throne, was far
from being silent or taciturn.
Cleopatra's Needles were not erected by
sor in honor of that queen. Ther were
reared by Thotmee III.
Goths did not Introduce Gothic archi
tecture. It was the ecclesiastical style
employed in England and Trance before
the Renaissance.
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Rice paper Is not made from rice, but
from the pith of tung-tsan. or hollow
plant.
Turkeys do not come from Turkey, but
North America, through India.
Arabic figures were not invented by
Arabs, but bv East Indiana
Dutch clocks are not of Holland but -of
German manufacture.
Ilfrogs Khw Jobs
When Colonel William M. Howard,
now a member of the tariff board, was
electioneering for congress one autumn
in bygone days, he struck a backwoods
county in Georgia, and got very busy
talking softly to the voters. He was
much concerned about a man named
John, who was now for him. then against
htm. and always changeable.
"What's the matter with John?" tha
colonel asked one of his eonstttuenta
"Aw, you can t tell nothln' about John,
colonel." waa the assurance. "He Is the
met fickle man you ever see. Why. he
has had religion so many times, and lost
it so many times, and been baptised tn
the creek down here so often that the
bullfrogs knows him every time he's
'mersed." Popular Magazine.
More than 57.000 motor vehicles have
been registered by the London County
council, and tha lettets L E are to be
adopted aa a new index mark.
Shakespeare says, "Self-love is not to
vtle a sin as self-neglect," and those of
us inclined to think little of self -a uuld do
well to ponder this a bit
Many a mother should take !t to heart,
says a writer In the San Francisco
Chronicle. She la so absorbed in her
children that she thinks little f self.
Many a wife Is so taken up with the
things of the home that she gives no
heed to herself. Some people become so
absorbed In their work that self is
neglected. All about can be seen those
guilty of this sin of self-neglect.
Too great self-love Is not to be ad
mired, and some go to the other extreme,
through disgust at exhibitions of self
love they may have seen. Then, again,
self-neglect has to some extent been held
up as something creditable. It Is In
line with unselfishness and selJ-tacnflce,
all of which are by soma looked upon as
commendable qualities.
But If you look deeply Into this matter.
It la easily seen how self-neglect can be
come a Bin. Every one has the godhead
within him. And to neglect this, to let it
wither and die. Instead of developing, la a
sin. Every one owes certain duties to
himself. He should develop the best that
la In him, rise to the highest of which
he Is capable. And when he fails to do
this, surely be la not doing right. And
this is what Shakeapeare meant when he
said self-neglect was a sin. This master
reader of the human character saw the
soul tn each, and not to develop that' soul
to Its fulleat capacity was to bury the
talent, as did the unfaithful servant.
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September 21, 1911.
Xanie and Address.
Helen Adam, 1921 South Fourteenth St
Gretchun L. Allen. 2S12 Hickory 8t
Wallai-'A. Anderson, 9S1 North Twenty-fifth Ave
Myron Blotcky, 932 North Twenty-fourth St . . . .
, & v
Phote ry Heyn.
STANTV KENNEDY
li.5 S.iutli Thirteenth Avenue.
Sohool. Year.
.Lincoln 1S97
.Park 1S97
.Kellom 1904
.Kellom 1903
Herschel H. Brown, 2318 Pinkney St Lothrop l$9."i
Arden K. Buohels, 1714 South Thirty-second Ave. .Park 1902
Hazel Carlson. 400 4 Fort St Central Park 1S96
f Loretta's Looking Glass-She Holds it Up to a Traid Cat
.Vinton 190.-1
.Central 1901
Park.
.High
. Monmouth
. Comenlua
Franklin
. Howard Kennedy .
IS93
1S9.-.
, 1902
. 1S96
. 1S9S
, 1900
189.'.
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.1904
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Lanral Carrpy, 4214'i South Twenty-fourth St. .
Clarence Christopher. 107 South Seventeenth St.
Jesse Danielson, 5331 North Twenty-fifth Ave. .
Rosie Dnnilewicz, 4939 North Thirty-sixth St...
Albert Dolys. 1934 South Fourteenth St
Roland B. Edmundaon. 3313 Hamilton St
Myra C. Edwards. 2920 Grant St
Tessia Edwards, 2838 Harney St Farnam
Kathleen L. Fearon, 911 South Thirty-sixth St High
Frances Ferris, 2618 Corby St Sacred Heart.
Edna L. Gatchell, 1814 Corby St Lake .'
Josephine Gray, 2825 Parker St Long
Fontella Green, 1919 Vinton St Vinton 1902
Walter Hansen. 809 North Forty-seventh St Saunders 189S
Howard Icke, 1210 South Eleventh St . .Pacific 190 4 '
Mercedes Jensen, 3718 Farnam St Columbian 1901
Stanton Kennedy, 1039 South Thirtieth Ave Park 1905
Elsie D. Larsen. 3468. Grant St Franklin 1901
Ralph Lupton, 3730 North Thirty-sixth Ave Druid Hill. 1900
Donald McAndrews, 811 North Seventeenth St. . . .High 1892
Frank G. McConnell, 4158 Davenport St Saunders 190 4
Philip B. Matton, 834 South Thirty-fifth St Columbian 1897
Francis Murphy, 1118 North Thirtieth St Long 1S95
Claude Newman, 3337 Spalding St Druid Hill 1899
Frederick Olesen. 2605 Bristol St Lothrop 190
Gladys Parcell. 2421 Dodge St Central t900
Mary Randazzo, 1425 South Eleventh St Lincoln 1903
Isadore Robinovltz, 5144 Sherman Ave Sherman 190;
Harry Robinson. 2114 California St Central 1902
Julius Rosencranz. 1614 Chicago St Cass 1899
Marian Ross. 206 South Twenty-fifth Ave Central 1903
Claude A. Rusland, 2828 North Sixteenth St Lake 1899
Wlllulmina Scherff, 2015 Castellar St St. Joseph 1898
Goldie Schomens, 2025 Ohio St Lake 1902
Erner Simonsen, 1821 North Twenty-first St. ... . .Kdlom 1895
Jack Slaven, 1709 South Tenth St Lincoln 1899
Ival Smith. 4619 North Twenty-ninth St Saratoga .1899
Wesley Smith, 3313 South Twenty-hlrd St Vinton 1901
Ella Thode, 920 North Twenty-ninth St Webster 1904
H. M. Thorpe, 115 South Forty-second St High 1894
Palma Utbach, Eleventh and Paul Sta Cass 1903
Bertha F. Vaughan. 1522 South Thirty-third St... High 1893
Elizabeth Weeks, 3508 Jackson St Columbian 1901
Madge Wells, 4120 Lafayette Ave.. High 1893
Burton West, 2215 Seward St Kellom ...1902
Paul Wilcox, 202 South Twenty-ninth St Farnam 1899
Rochard Williams. 1224 South Twentieth St Mason 1901
Mary Wilson, 2019 Leavenworth St Mason 1903
Ksawer Wojtklewlcz, 2514 South Twenty-sixth St. .Im. Conception. . .1899
Frank Woodcock, 505 Cedar St Train 1900
Tried To goaa.
Husband I think that Mas Ma ad la
pretty-
Wife Tou do 7 That snicker-faced man
hunter! I admire your Idea of beauty.
Che's homely enough to frighten blind
people. But that's the way It goes after
a man tires of his wife everything In
skirts appears pretty to him. and then he
don't know enough to keep it to him
selfcomes home and tells his poor heart
broken wife about It. Boo hoo
Hm band Pretty well toward 15. I was
about to observe. San Francisco Chronicle.
Another of the lady cars! Only this
one calls herself names Instead of mak
ing me do it. Hear what she says:
"My Dear Loretta: The paper la which
your valuable comments appear encour
ages correspondence. They must think
women are a brave lot. The way you
hurl your acathlng criticisms suggests
that performance in the circus where a
girl stands against a board and an expert
knife thrower launchea gleaming steel
knives at her. just missing her, but so
accurately aurroundlng her with the
harp weapons that when she steps
away from the board her picture Is left
there, silhouetted by the knives.
"One watches with bated breath, fear
ful that a blade may pierce the girl.
And that's the way it is with your looking-glass
play. Tou have stuck your
knives all around the girl. Alt her faults
have had a jab. At least. I think there
can be no more to Invite the accurate
aim of your knife till I get the paper.
World is Shrinking
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Why f
Why does a shrug of ths shoulders with
the hands thrown up In depreciation
mean "search me." or why does a down
ward nod of the head mean "yeas" and a
horisontal motion "nor Why do we say
"aa dead as a door nail" (even Dickens
wondered at that), when any other nail
la Just ss dead; or "as awkward as a
cow when a pig ts twice aa much so? It
reminds one of the Utile youngsters In
quiring Into the whys and wherefores of
the language: "They ca.led a pig a pig
'cause he is so awful piggtBh. didn't they,
mot her T'
Bread and bait were formerly eaten
when an oath was taken.
"There Is one thing I object to about
moving pictures." said a man who ia fond
of tha films, "and that Is the fact that
they are gradually pinching up thn world
until the old ball doesn't look much big
ger than Mrs. Bob Crachit's plum pud
ding. Whwn a man can see teakwood
cut In India, pearl diving off Ceylon, lion
shooting In mid-Africa, herding in Aus
tralia, mining In Nevarla and kite flying
in China, to say nothing of close fa
miliarity with all the great cities of the
globe, he begins to feel considerable con.
tempt for the little old planet he calls
home.
"And then he Is afflicted with another
sort of familiarity, a familiarity that at
tacks the ordinances and hedges that are
built up around tha chosen great ones of
earth. Why. the other morning I saw
King George, and the rzar, and Em
peror William and the French president.
all within twoty minutes met them face
to face, aa It were, and saw them smile
and nod and wave their hands to me.
"Tea, aa I sit In the darkened hall, pry
ing tnto the hidden oornera of the earth
and hobnobbing with the great, the ter
restrial ball growa smaller and smaller.
"It's a pity. Isn't it V Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"lake Kaewleage.
Tha pulgat, a Burmese measurement
Is the only foreign measure exactly cor
responding to one Inch.
The Glnnelle Lock on the Seme ia so
uonstructed that one man can open or
abut It by simply touching an electrio
button as be sits In his office.
And there's another punctured. And the
queer part of It Is. I have not yet felt
that you were 'making up' faults tu&l
to fight them. I can see them all In my
friends. But you really ought to Klvc
the ones who summon courage to write
you some credit for bravery. I feel like
a regular 'frald cataa I finish this, bt
cause I know you will find some fault
sticking out that invites the keen blade
of your knife. 'FRAID CAT."
Bravo, Miss 'Fraid Cat! It takes cour
age to march up to a gun you know Is
loaded. And I should not want to dis
appoint you. If you are braced for an
explosion. It would be a pity to put it off
till a time when you might not be pre
pared. So Maybe you think I am
going to concede courage to the girls who
write me. I am not. I am not going to
concede courage to any girl or woman
till I see her atop her backing and side
stepping from the trials she has to meet.
Right here beside me Is a letter that
makes my blood boil and my face flush
at the cowardice It confesses and begs
me to sympathize with.
It's a wife who Is terrified at the
threat of her husband's Interest In an
other woman, an unmarried, charming
woman. Instead of summoning the forcea
at her command, she Is whimpering and
deliberately inviting the catastrophe she
dreads. She ought to go over her arma
ment, taking an inventory of its strength.
In the first place, ahe Is the wife. It's to
be assumed that her husband loves her
or she would not have that position. So
she has love as ammunition and the stra
tegic point of her position with which
to fight the other woman. Yea. she haa.
A wife can make herself necessary to
her husband. If she has not, it is her
FIRST AID.
.V'5..' -!
In cue of drowning, roll ths pa
tient over g barrel until til air is
expelled from the Jill.
own fault that she Is minus one weapon
against the other woman. Physical coin
fort and companionship mean more to a
husband than women seem to tti.nk. The
other woman has to offer an astounding
array of charms to detach a man from
that satisfaction. And, If tshe haa as
tounding charms, she is limited neces
sarily in their display. If she Is the kind
of a woman who can hold a man, she Is
the type who cannot sacrifice her dig
nity In order to fully reveal herself.
The wife can be her mont agreeable
self he ought to be. The reason ahe
Is a '"Fraid Cat,". Is because she has
ceased to be that and she's a craven
coward to whimper because the other
women happens to be around when she
deliberately lets her husband's Interest
go a-wanderlng. I'll tell you. If a few
more wives were as energetic about de
serving fidelity as they are about de
manding It, there would be a noticeable
decrease tn the number of "other women!"
Diary of Village Saga
Commmon Fare and Luxuries of Ancients
Beef and goose constituted the principal
part of the animal fond of the ancient
Egyptians, though the ktd. goat, gazelle,
duck, teal and quail were well known to
them. Small birds they salted and ate
raw. Fish obtained from the Nile and
Lake Moerls were served whole, boiled
or fried. Bread was made from wheat
or barley, and frequently from the center
of the lotus, dried and powdered. But
their staple food consisted of vegetables
and fruits cucumbers, gourds, leeks,
onions, watermelons, dates, figs and
grapes. ,
In early days the usual fare of the Ro
man masses consisted of gruel made of
barley and called pulse. People of wealth
had their tables arranged with elegance:
enjoyed preparing surprises and carrying
out disguises in their dishes, making
artificial figures of fruit or flesh. They
raveled In such dalntlea as fieldfares,
hares, capons, peacocks, pheasants and
livers of geese, as well as a huge boar
urrounded with suckling pigs made In
sweet paste. OH was used extensively in
the preparation of their food and honey
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waa employed for the same purpose that
we use sugar.
Greeks who Invited Xerxes to supper
made their banquets so magnificent that
all ceme to the extremity of poverty, and
wherever he took two successive meals
that city was utterly ruined. Their prln
clpol article of food was fish prepared In
radons ways stuffed with force-meat
and fried, boiled In pickle, baked in fig
leaves soaked In oil or cooked in hot
ashes. They boiled and roasted meat and
had poultry, small birds and game as
well as vegetables.
Although not great eaters of meat, the
Persians always celebrated birthdays
with elaborate feasting. The rli.h would
sacrifice an ox, a horse, or a camel to be
roasted whole In ovena, while the poor
gave smaller animals, as sheep. They
consumed much sweet food and did not
use salt.
Ancient Danee and Germans were
copious drinkers and paid but little at
tention to their eatables.
A neighbor's chicken In your pot la
worth two in your garden.
Sympathy will go a great deal further
If It is properly stamped-
Sometimes when you put your shoulder
to the wheel you have to shove the whole
load.
Don't get acquainted too easily, because
It Isn't so easy to get un-acqualnted.
If the course of true love always ran
smoothly people would be more earless
going over the course.
If the noise of your neighbor's lawn
mower dlaturbs you the best remedy la to
get out your own.
Perhaps the reason lightning doesn't
strike twice In the earns place Is because
It prefers to strike something worth
while.
The very worst thing about taking
things for granted la that fact that so
many people are apt to take the things
they want moat. Brooklyn Eagle.
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Carried His Fuel
Cal-vtnUt, bat Ceatloes.
In the early days of the Puritans a
man met one of them going out Into the
woods with a gun, and he said:
"Where are you going?"
"To the wooda."
"What are you taking your gun with
you tor?"
"I may meet an Indian."
"Are you not a Calvtnlet?"
"I am. In deed and in truth."
"Tou can't die until your time cornea"
"I know that."
"Then why carry a gun?"
"I might meet aa Indian whose time
bad coma"
Captain Smith of the Olympic waa ques
tioned In New York about the coal con
sumption of the world's biggest liner on
Its first voyage. Btlt Captain Smltli
shook his head and said:
"That la a coal story I am not privil
eged to speak about. I'll tell you another
coal story, though, if you'd care to
hear It."
"I'd be delighted," said the reporter.
"Well." said Captain Smith. "It's a
story about a poor sailor. He waa taken
down with fever on a brlgantlne. and,
though the mate and captain dosed him
well, he died. They buried him at sea.
"They buried hira with the usual Im
pressive sea rites. He was sewed In a
all round which a flag was draped, and.
to make him sink, the sail was weighted
with a number of big lumps of coal.
"A landlubber of a passenger parties
pated In the services. He watched the
well-weighted corpse slip Into the water.
It disappeared at once, and the land
lubber shook his head and said.
"Well. I've seen many a man go below,
but thla la the first one I've aeen taking
his own coal down with him.' "
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The !Mft A sewer.
"Look here!" the restaurateur said,
Tha while he pawed the air.
"You printers set a line of pi
- Upon my bill of fare!"
"Why, aure!" the printer anawered him,
"And here's the reason why:
No one should run a restaurant
Without a line of pie."
New York Telegram.
Fearful Sailors
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Those men who go down to the sea
In ships and who have recently been In
the throea of an Industrial dispute, are
full of superstitions. You cannot shake
them.
Indeed, you will find It practically Im
possible to convince sailors that Ill-luck
does not cling to a vessel whose name
haa been changed, or that a craft whose
name ends tn "a ' does not rest under an
evil spell. Persist, and you will be asked
about the Victoria, sunk in the Mediter
ranean; the Stella, lost off the Channel
Islands, the Arequlpa. ashore on the
west coats of America; tha Cobra, a de
stroyer, which broke her back on her
maiden voyage In the North Sea: and the
Bardlna. burnt In harbor at Malta. Of
course, there are hundreds of vessels
afloat which bear the unlucky final let
ter, and In which it la safer to travel
than on the railway, but the list of lofcses
is a formidable one.
Then, sometimes. It is a member of the
crew to whom a particular evil Influence
la attached, sometimes It is a passenger.
But If you want to see a sailor shiver
with auperstltlun, let there be some bitch
In the solemn ceremony of launching.
It nearly breaks Ja k s heart. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Icelandic commonwealth was
founded by Norsemen In 875, and was soon
afterward vlalsted by Irish mariners.
Foreigners were banisbed from England
In 11SS becauae they were considered toe)
numerous.
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