“ JACKIES” IN DEMAND. BER OF SAILORS. New Warships to be Manned-- Life of a Sallor on an American Man- of-War and His Pay. have vari- tvJack men-of-war’'s men I'hey are American no distinctive title ously termed ‘'blue jackets,’ tars’’ and ‘‘jackies.’ The last is by far the most common name given the men who ‘plough the raging main” on ships of war. It is a contraction of the other two, and it to the sailors of all Special attention is directed to the American naval sailor just at this time, because of the 1 the Navy Department ’ : applies alike Navies, preparations of to enlist 1,000 recent rapid increase yf vessels of the navy, on Star formed, has naturally an addition to the force operate them. Secretary represented to the last CU reporter 2 O00 add meet the req during the ginning on gress found to provid half that 1 3 " listed streng o is 9.000 mer Jistments w QOL daring t { hundred needed within for the man: battla ships the gut : The three commission the Texus at and Lat SIX vessel about about force ter 1! short I'h of of | i ration that United States n IS &q or nutritive American sail his sleeping quarters it i8 nsseri as it is the gircumstance to that of navies, exce Living ro { board modern warships. Everything below decks is sacrificed to en boilers and bunkers. Conse. quently huddled to- : i Each allowed but fourteen inches is hammock, and the ham- lovetailed together from am, 80 that the sleeping tars form a solid, compact mass with hardly room to swing even ina rolling sea. This is the greatest drawback to service on a modern man of war, and is a source of general complaint from the veteran who has experienced greater breathing space in the more spacious wooden frigutes of bygone days. With this exception, the lot of the modern tar is much easier in every respect than in the olden days of sailing ships. He is now better fed and better cared for gines conl ’ ickies’' are storm like sheep in a bénmn to be he is afforded better the part of the officers. Their gen- eral nature, however, has not under- gone any material change since the days of Cooper and Muryutt. They are a jolly. happy-go-lucky set, al- ways ready for a lark or a fight, with an abnormal fondness for grog, and are chironic grumblers over imaginary ils. Nevertheless, it is said, they are stanch and true, and patriotic to ) the last breath, and will never go back on their country or a friend in | distress. The best ratings open to ‘‘jackies’’ are boatswains and gunners, These | places pay from $1,200 to $1,800 a year. They are open to any sailor who has served more than one en- listment in the navy, and who shows special aptitude for promotion. All appointments as warrant officers are based on the record of the applicants. There are vacancies in the list of boatswains at present, but none in the list of gunners. Warrant officers are retired on three-quarters pay Petty officers are pensioned on half pay if physically incapacitated for re-enlistment There is a popular impression that the rank and file of the navy osed of aliens, who have no patri- n with this country or several is com- ns, That this onstrated by EGGS WITHOUT SHELLS Thousands Exported from Use italy Confectioners’ Th ‘onsular reg of Ger ig to the g shown at at Dresden remarkably well he trial ; ot by any means fact that t the dogs sat Gas’ « f he them y for the system of train- isfactorily passed speaks highl ing the animals cated road, with n and quite strange to them although ering with who were qui unknown to and in spite of the heat intense, did some excellent dispatch y. ‘Tell,’ a dog belonging to the Jager Guard Battalion, brought dispatches from a soldier to head- quarters, a distance of nearly a mile, in less than two minutes, while dogs belonging to the Dresden Corps accomplished the journey in about two minutes. Tests were next made with the dogs as ammunition carriers, ench animal carrying on its back a weight equal to 250 ball carts ridges, arranged in a kind of saddle, and they showed that in this diree- tion they might be thoroughly relied upon, for they supplied the line of firing troops, who were also strangers to them, with fresh ammunition. The trials wound up by testing the power of the dogs in seeking the battle, and the intelligent creatures were equally as successful in Red Cross duties as (Un a very compii~ nny ero the maneus them, being most the Rifle Preached Himself to Death. An Alabama preacher, Greenleaf Lee, tof Double Springs, preached himsell to | death the other day. He was delivering | a sermon on bell, and had worked himself { up into a great fervor of excitement in his | descriptions of its horrors, when, sud. denly, he ceased speaking and fell to the | floor unconscious. Death followed in » | few minutes. The doctors sald that ba | had ruptured a blood vessel. He wae ? | young man, sod of great physical vig.» AN ELECRIC GIANT THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE BUILT FOR THE B. & O. COMPANY. Tests That Proves It One of Powerful Machines of the the Most Kind in the World~--Iits Simplicity and Ease of Oneration. tunnel which the Baltimore and Ohio Rullroad hus re cently completed For yen: i New York and Philadelphia trains of this railroad had to be ferried the channel by boats, a | was at once slow and exper 1890) Baltimore has a « the HETross ress hint ive. In the railway undertook to drive n tunnel straight throueh the heart yf the city for the most throueh Howard street, one prineipal thoroughfare nel isaboutb one and i8 One of the tunne!s ever driven. tunnel complet 1y determined not ith « lectricity, but wer, lie steam | Ives back yard : ne had i iY more than juni to steam thie ty. t is as ustment pli as the gearing bright boy uiate its iittie © of a can le trolley car. arn to manip machinery in minutes, and the er well as an i Of ed ff 11s irivin five or ten gine as JUrse Carries i« sm skeleds an i without a roar or a pufl discover power which propeis it points up to a rangement overhead nog con #O0LIoas When you geek 10 whanee comes the the engineer trolley ar- and just at the Jetween the two tracks, and overhead runs an iron rail of something the same size and appearance as an or- dinary steel rail, and along this slips a movable trolley arrangement that looks like a pantagraph built on a large scale. tagraph like adjustment the trolley keeps its hold upon the rail around curves ad as the engine bends and sways, very much us your arm would do if you were standing on the cab and were trying to hold on to a wire or a rope running alongside of the track. curious { tf tha eal side of the cab. gets of the A ASA Some Effects of the Bicycle Boom. One of the most notable results of the phenomenal popularity of eycling is the marked effect of the bicycle industry on allied trades--and even upon trades that would seem, at first glance, to be wholly outside of any such influence. The nucleus of one works In this sewing machine face where wheels wera made in one corner of the shop on a very small of the largest bievele country was a tory, Soon the making of sewing ma- becumne secondary in import- . and was finally abandoned her for the more profital This was only } ig use of the wheel has become almost universal, many fi siness, beginning Mince the radical wrought. For watch factory has gone extensively into the manufacture of cyclome ters, and is having difficulty to keep up with its orders. Another manufactory devoted tc of knitting needles is now day turning out Thi have been instance, a changes IArgo the makin worki not spokes eumauatic tires branch of the rt manufacture of pr become a separate 1 r busines - factories hav excel led 4 { ¥ tothe has I UC pro parafl urious Plant and i= with HOWS through ‘ nilar to whist. 1 the trade winds i. these frees toned yids simil fa qe, OF olhet aif tones, deep N which in rd, id given by those iin and the Soudan are the sill Bout mournful effect f Ni mvages of BAYEe A Wy caused by the insects, whose the trunks, I and become distorted. Alter these hatched and leave their nests, wind plays upon the open spaces, pro. sounding tones similar to Many strange and often are forests of larvae causing them insert themselves into been ducing sweet those of a flute pleas dense are beard in the East caused in the same manner. gr 80 nds tropical the which Unloading Freight. teducing the time required to unload freight cars is a problem that has occupied considerable attention from engineers. In this system each car bed is pivoted on a central bearing and tipped to either side of the track by means of an air cylinder and piston, supplied with air from the locomo. tive and located on the truck. An aux. iliary reservoir is placed under each ear, so that the maximum air pressure may be realized at once. Two continuous lines of pipes run from the locomotive throughout the train, one of which is connected with the several air reservoirs as a supply line and the other operates the valves between the same and the dumping mechanism. The engineer can thus unload the entire train by means of a simple hand move. ment, either when the train is in motion, or standing still. The system is appli. eable to gondola and platform cars, — Railway Review, THE OThr: But presen Head do ugh its breakfast igorous sharp assall- ks of the struc its They kept ju ut of reach, and benks, ants however, circling every and then maki ears and eye the pupil res the feathered d their uniforms the ) med his | n tribesmen ad- BUMMER BOARDERS, Belle and Josie had a little garden he bay wit they weeded and watered { and underneath t dow Every da) it. pulled off the dead leaves, picked the blossoms. They very garden, and to make it look beautiful. (ne day Delle made a Away over in the corner there was a hole, and in that hole lived— what do you think? A whole family of toads! There was papa, mamma and four children, and they all hopped out of thelr front door right into Belle's bed of pansies. “Ol exclaimed Belle, as Papa Toad hopped out. '‘Oh! oh! oh! oh! o-oh!”’ she said, as Mamma Toad avd all the little Toads followed. into the pansy-bed, around the sweet peas, over the forget-me-nois and under the tall castor bean «oy went. Then Papa Toad sat down, Ma-uma Toad sat down, and the four little Toads did the same, And what do you think they did then? Papa blinked his round eyes and eaught a bug for his breakfast, Mamma Toad blinked her round eyes and caught a @y for her breakfasi, proud of their diligently were worked very discovery. tonds tried to Cancer Kullac) Gnee nvit« Berliner who i had t Afte d to play i Not long afterwar thi rtu invited the alter dinner handed him a pas of ola boots, “What am 1 to do inquired the rich mar With a genial smile Kallack i large boot manufactory. an a shoemaker in his tims repast huliack something Wak requeste boot re- pt “Why, the other day you asked me after dinner to make a little music for vou, and now 1 ask you to mend these boots for me. Every man to his trade She Weighed 700 Pounds. Miss Manda Steele was buried a few days ago in Mechanic Township, near Millersburg, 0. She was a school teacher and took on flesh so teaching. She was neacly 40 years of age. The day she died she ate | heartily and then complained of her stomach and shortly after was found dead in her bed up stairs. Her weight was nearly 700 pounds and she slept on a bedstead especially prepared for her. It took twelve men to take the corpse down stairs. Her casket was four feet across and could not be taken into the house and the | porpse was brought out to it. An | old=tashioned wide box wagon was used to convey the remains to the | grave. 2
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