THE ST. LOUIS. BIGGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT IN AMERICA. Detaiis of Her Dimensions and Ap- poin'‘ments =. Splendid Interior Arrangements of the Great Ship. The new American liner St. Louis is a beautiful craft, alike in regard to her lines, her sumptuous internal arrangements, and above all, her speed. It has not been claimed that the vessel has been built for speed, but when she returned from her sixty hour trial trip it was known that she had developed the remarkable speed of 214% knots an hour withouy being pushed, and that when she was asked if she couldn't do any better the crack liner had plowed her way through the Atlantic at the rate of and odd fractions. This signifies that the St. to put it in plain English, can travel at about 2{ miles do in her trips i inoth- te OLS some IL yLIS, 1 i f an hour er ship aflos abl keep pace with her. first Atlantic greyhound ip that in America. American—bui in an American shipyard, manned | an American Ww {00 men commanded by an Ameri The St. Li than two were she e is the and the ever been x} wile biggest steams! built n 1 - Louis is altorether cre yuis has been years. was later. 0 er n : 3 " ® That wou town c “i$ tle more The length tul fiv number in ti Des w ¢ 1 The ’ Oi total : pieces steal structure of the ship is $0000. and the total imber used than ‘ number of v aildin the + is t far fron u and ua if irom iu and a quarter. The people of ie ma 10 less than nber of a + . i ie more i ) it 3 KI inE} essed I I ii ] ri Do Louis are natur- ally proud of the ship that has been called nfter their town. As au sense of their appreciation they have pre- sented the St. Louis with 1,622 stand- ard volu for the library | and 639 volumes for gecond suloon. Louis | also presented the ship with 20) copies of hymnals and prayer books. Other gifts from the town in- | cluded ten ornamental glass windows, | portraying prominent features of St. | Louis, and u beautiful set of flags, | 1 ho vessel 80 divided that in case of collision two and even three | water tight compartments could be | flooded and not en langer the safety | of the ship. The fastening edges of the bulkheads have been made un- usually secure, s¢ that if the ship sustained a shock in that place in collision the chances ure that only one compartment would be flooded. This same arrangement has been made in the engine and boiler spaces. | The boilers are in two groups, one! for ench funnel. They ure entirely separated from each other, and if one set of boilers became incapaci- tated the other set could do the work of supplying steam to the engines at nn moderate rate of speed. The engines likowise are cut off from euch other by water tight compartments, and it would be possible to run the ship with either engine if the other should break down, In addition to these mes saloon the folks in St, Ie Some is { precautions ror safety, there are In { the life saving equipment fourteen i life bouts, fourteen collapsible boats, one cutter, and four metal { life boats, and they all have the ad- | vantage of being operated from the shade deck above any possible rush of frightened persons to secure places in them. ole gig one Keep the Water Pure. If a pitcher of ice water is set in a room inhabited, in a few hours it will have absorbed the perspiration gases of the room, the air of which will have become purer but the water unfit for use. This depends on the fact that water has the faculty of condensing and thereby absorbing nearly all the gases Hence kept uncovered in a room a while 1s always unfit for use, and should be ften removed, whether it has become warm or not Impure wateris as injuri to health impure air, and every person should provide the ining fresh pure water An hour's in- vater y 10M Hs us for all domestic uses, tellicent examin supply at a prop: would in the untry majority of cases " phe Cnse \ sed eo | large risk of fevers and di in of saturated vour dressing solution of permang: nate of p ash, Mix six 4 3 ent dre water that | upplied. Or ei drinking urns brown war the train. th MIT vaein- Vion, Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland. girlish face which 1 es this paragraph might } i little 1 the I's young queen, The sweet compan AC e- American pic- Wil winsome her four birthday, and is adored by her ts. With all her childish- scious of her that little touch of nat intest helmina. She is a most and lovable girl, teenth ust past loyal subjec ness she is con responsib manners n dignity coming ities, and gives her reserve and almost of seem out THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND. place with the fresh simplicity of her youth. She has just been over to England with her mother, to visit her aunt, the Duchess of Albany, and in the grounds at Clarmont, where her aunt's fine palace stands, with her cousins, a boy and a girl near her own age, she has had as merry a romp as if she were not bur. dened with the coming cares of a kingdom. Everybody will wish this pleasant-faced child, who is both amiable and intelligent, a happy lile and a long and prosparous reign. , BYRNES' METHODS. Ilenidents in the Careerof the De- tective Thomas Byrnes, who tired from tho police force was bor June 15, 1842. He jen of gasfitting and worked it he went to the war in 1861 with worth's Zouaves. He joined t lice force on December 10, IX was advanced by succe the superintendency |i One of the first rders he put was one prohibiting department from ope about police busine: of crime and came from the Detec told by Byrnes Li his business to resently re- New York in thi rned the head of the n int city trude at until Iils- he Po- Go, and s8IVe stages to ' n 1842, { man in his mouth crime mse! tench certain kinds of erime must committed. Highway robbery burglaries, or important burglaries of uny kind, systematic forgeries, coun- terfeiting and a lot of er were prohibited, and, to the cr the system which Mr. Byrn i hem l 1 ot! to suppress t allowed to York. lyrnes was a tn His bt actions gain ia an of force and reriminais bu is Byrnes treated the thie before him with tl} CON = tempt. He spoke to them as if they were the dirt of ti streets, and them as hwrys.' ‘1 never as if y were as big as a d ace,” he has said. "When they to me whining about their to lead honorable lives] say of that here. } know it. Scaal all you can and away with it if you ean, but if try it in New York I'll land you where you belong.’ "” If it happened that a thief! of any note came to town and did not report to him he would send for him, ask him how dared to come, and what he meant to do, and front him with his record. “I'd make him feel that he did not amount to as much as a fly bazzing at the window,”” the late chief has said i He kept a co ps of stool pigeons constantly in the employment of his department to make the acquaint ance of and to betray thieves It was to keep track of all the different kinds of professional erimi- nals that Byrnes organized his force. One lot of men looked after one class of criminals and other lots of the, other sorts, each lot of detectives | having its specialty in crime and | criminals, Betweon Byrnes and his | men and the thieves there grew up a | feeling not unlike friendship. : “They know what their business | is,” sald Byrnes. ‘‘They speak of me with a term of endearment which ! would not look well in print, but they, usually add that I am ‘square with | them.” ‘Byrnes wants tosend every ready ves brought 1¢ utmost to us diseases let them feel ouble Come intention N iiel and you Hie Ou are atl rel you 3 ine con~- 186 LO un eve on them from day A professionul left in Mr. this enc [twas upon acted great gather. funeral Upon each proclamation that if they 1 upon the streets on any of these days they would be summarily arrested and locked up until the show If magistrutes discharged yrisoners after he had kepeo them by is any ) ' Byres eye. principle that he upon Of the occasions of ‘ork he (renieral ings in Now 3% day of Ocens'on wurni were since Crrant he issued a ng riminuls Xe! Wis over. the | the raigt than ened the houses, time allowed law which ity-f re iment, tweet i . HOUrs the ur to arrest men on sidewalk outside the The Trotting Queen. itr i ! 1 ifteen is high head Sha is wri xes of the parad str the inward. a roof apps lle, theref slightly at t monument wit pears to be sides are swe are made to | truth a li chitects d hnman eye they have hum P89 Centers of Paner Whee!s. r wheels of The made centars are of suc inyers paper and glue firm! vd together by hydraulic mz ind a steel or iron plate is then bolted on each side of this paper center, and a steel tire is secured te the plates and center in the same manner as in a 8 ter wheel The centers of wheels of these de. scriptions are practically indestructi. ble. The steel tire, of course, will wear out in time, but all that is necessary is to put a new tire on the center, and then the wheel is as good as new. oso Light by Reflection. find satisfaction in any of the usual methods for the lighting of his cloth mills. either did not give light enough, or finally painted the walls of his room i as we don't steal in New York he of are lights suspended reflectors. ! law.” I don’t molest them unless 1 want them, or somebody else wants me to get them, Otherwise, if they to the room below, and this method of lighting is reported to have been a success. FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, TT 4 H “Halt!"’ eries Captain Lazy Bones, “Halt! halt! and stand at ease; This dusty street will tire our feet, And make us cough and ? Then f your And make your meaning clear; You're not the man to } van Your place is in the ret FORWARD, MAR SNeCLe uri COIOrs I.azy Bones, ie ight about!” & mountain road is rough, we've l nd go to bad feathers, one enough 9 Captain A 1 ir fst OREO has been in and her mistress was fully 10 whe vited an to the years ame unin. according Transcript Her charms made her welcome, and visitors, as a rule, pet her to her heart's satisfaction still she shows her loyalty to her mistress by many feline qualities. Une day a young man came for a short viszit. He was an inveterate | tease. As there was no one else for a victim, he took Blossom in hand, | in spite of pleadings and protesta- | tions, Her ears were greeted with | the strange terms, ‘‘old rascal,’ ‘seapegrace,’’ ‘tramp’ and kindred names till the astonished eat did not know what had eome to her Her pretty ways disappeared, she fled | from his approach and hid whenever she could till he was out of the house. One morning she was missing for some hours and was not to be found in any of her hiding places. A loud cry from the chamwvermald revealed her whereabouts. Blossom had re- venged herself on the visitor's night. she © d took possession, Boston ghirt 5 1 fl Passy wus scol was cautioned to kee shut. In vain! The her way in and maid was throu then the claw the v be oor! One Was tuo returni afternoon | maxing flannel shir on the V tiquity of Our Race Deepest Mine Worth More Than Gold. A Counte of teenth centu 200) sheen the same 5 ang in 3 npelied to depos plate, and uantity to ge ome of his hin ! a heavy penalty i to ¥ i A forms lor from the box and fix two of tween the box and the cover each side, so that their heads may be protruding a short distance from the box, and also pointing the same way Fix a third match tightly in a hori. zontal direction between the two heads of these two matches, so that it is not touching anything else but the two matches. Then strike the fourth mateh and apply the light to the center of the third, Instead of setting light to either of the twu up: right matches as might be expected, the match shoots right out into the air. suriou d with ar hres, 1 aa one ————————— A ALMA Curiosities of Words. It is said that there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order These are “abstemious’’ and ‘face. tious,” The following each have them !n irregular order: Authoritative, dis advantageous, encouraging, effica. cious, instantaned>us, importunate, mendacious, nefarious, precarious, pertinacious. sacrilegious, simulta. neous, tenacious, unintentional, un. equivocal and vexatious,
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