Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1897, Page 17

- THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1697-24 PAGES. > ae tat |_to his eye have-similar points of resem- | blends the effect into one. The of mn mt. | -blance. The ‘coons ‘lie in the crotches of ; color resulting is marvelously exact. happiness oops rs lia ies alee ie * trunk ni it. ~* ans | ‘The. clk.stay onthe range provided for ae a 80 thoroughly absorbed in it that the them during the winter, as do the buffalo. weather will ha: ‘While ve to get pretty cold before hile | The bears have little dens,.into which they to be it will drive him to his studio. He has rela- | ™*Y Soap pintraer + av abyorinay been doing so much indoor «work recently wT « orthy the- warm: ‘mou that y ao of respect. They were referred to as “sharp- | provided for them during the winter sea- he thoroughly enjoys getting in close P touch with nature once more, and the PREPARING FOR THE. OF ALL | vosea” interiopers. What the alligators re-| son. Unfortunateiy. there arc no polar Preah & nak thee ome marked may not have been understood by | bears at the Zoo just now. If there were, | wudubtetip: de eae ee — the crocodiles, foreigners, but | they would begin to enjoy life a little later ian ae Soe et ee ‘Head 7 ¢ im during the coming winter, Most of the aoa it was by ee Ene es They | cn. oe geese — Fy 3 sketches have been made very rapidly, as ‘A New Building’ is Now Ready for erape ther foam (ing not to understand | nesses = of the Rockies, and he can. show the | composition motives thay he eishee ene % isze ; : ‘was merely a “ Se other inmates of the w to keep warm, | ize in future pictures, but a thal Their Accommodation. Sluggish Brutes. even if the thermometer does 50 below | are all that one could wish without adding zero and no inside quarters are provided. | a single touch, In his ae — i ‘There crocodiles. One ad portfolio of sketches : are two of these The prairie dogs and badgers will burrow | there are both oils ant er col Simaebae Ter of them 1s about eight feet in length./in the earth and gain warmth from cach ak de ie latter being executed on various shades of tinted paper, with use of bedy color, that gives some of them almost the strength of an oil. They were presented to the Zoo by J. Eu-| other and their surroundings. They will gene Jaringan, United States consul to| probably be seen all the winter, as wil ‘oodchucks or groundhogs. “The lat- Utilla, Honduras. Like the alligators, they | the w. des sre confined in a compartment which has ter hibernate to a certain extent, but are THE OSTRICH AS A DANCER x in and out of their little rooms in the cages i. B THIS WEATHER |q tank in it. The water in these tanks| provided for them. ‘Straw will serve to | Mr. Lucien Powell did not bring many He SR Ee 2 keeps up much longer | in the winter is heated to a temperature | keep them warm. sketches with him when he returned from Be - a anne —————_____—— E> I think I'll start for | of about seventy degrees. During most| ‘The wolves, foxes and such animals do Hapa, but Gh these oo : ened ae ion; and th It ak volumes for | pendent water-tight compartments; and y Florida,” said a tall, | Of the time they are sluggish. They are! not require accommodations which are yerasty ‘se one or two are worthy lation; and the results Dies? ee ae water tla) compas ges CRLF slim gentleman with | £€4 00 meat and fish, each day, and have | heated, being accustomed to life out of | °f especial mention. Decidediy the best A Bl Soe aa catienteare ie peter oesteae Pee I. i eres are = tiered owerful the privilege of eating it or not, just a5} doors in all sorts of weather, Ouly warm | is a view of Raven Rocks, a great stone eae Sip: Se inary Plans. papa That, eis be_ provision a eee: eee ee aeake bedding, and plenty of it, is furnished. and} formation cropping out from the side of elim z . : : against accident, her five great boilers are Having determined that the Iowa was to distributed among four separate compart- Design Modern | have a displacement of 11,310 tons when | ments; each of her two ponderous driving To One of the Great ready for sea and with her normal coal al-| engines has its own water-tight space; i 5 and, as far as possible, everything is in le Shi Iewance of 625 tons on board, that she te ine Hoos PS should be 360 feet long, have a maximum sup Hien osw tke intercon ge site cotnee The snakes in the Zoo have begun to! as far as possible shelte: is furnished, so ‘get together” already for mutual pro-| that the ccld blasts may not drive directly tection. They have wrapped themselves | on them. The squirrels and other smail tcgether in an almost solid mass. Their| Shimals are fully provided for. Personality has been completely lost, an’) I the winter the inmates of the Zoo have they are close frierds in all the term im-| i;rgely increased rations furnished them, Des. poet Fre A ede ne oud | and they generally grow fat on this ac- Blackburne says they always seem per-| CCUunt. They appear at their best at this season. re Rants prepared in the main|,.A8 @ matter of fact, there are more vis- t the Zoo i ‘inter th: in summer, bullding for the benefit of the sea Hons. | on" 3t {neZo0 In, winter than in summer. fully as wide awake, and in some instances more so, than in the summer season. The little community of aliens on Rock creek were so well kept last winter that there was not one case of frostbite among them. All that is required of them is to eat, sleep and look pleasant—when they have visitors. Head Keener Blackburne gives them lessons in the latter art. —_——. ART AND -ARTISTS. the mountain. On the crest and at the base are Rtorm-twisied trees, with h and there the bleached skeleton of some dead pine, making a scene of desolate grandeur. Mr. Powell has caught the spirit of the subject very well, and the study might be worked up more elabo- Trateiy to good advantage. Another of the Sood sketches that he made is a scene along the bed of a small brook, in which autumn coloring plays a pleasing part. * He wore a peculiar outer garment, which somewhat resembled @ coat of mail, ana looked as if he had > —~_- seen better days. He appeared well kept and was somewhat corpulent, but had en uneasy expression, as if he was out of his element. “Washington is all right in summer,” con- tinued the speaker, “but give me the far south for the winter months. I’ve been that complete disablement may be practi- beam or width cf seventy-two feet and a fraction, and draw a mean of twenty-four Sey ere CALLS FOR VERY CLOSE FIGURING) ccct cr’ water unaer those conditions, a Interior Arrangements. After the disposition of the main weights af th PrODGMEUE Lac eee rier aT Gon Gatien a aot | Comte: this comaldarstion/ on tidileeser onc their arcs of fire. The sizes and disposi- | lesser in separate gravity, but vast in num- How the Work is Done in the | tion of the guns being found agreeable to | pers. There must be blowers to fan the the bureau of ordnance, the “lines” or ee Say wien cote at stape of body below water being establish- | £477aces to blinding fury ¥ Navy Department. ed, a series of complex computations were | top speed; there must be other Dlowers to] + iin. 3 ttle chilly for some ace made by the bureau of construction and re-| send fresh air into every corner or to] 197 Ue a soos to serine wank : pair to determine the power needful to| draw from ever recess the lurking, nox- lage to scrape together enough drive the vessel through the water at 16 | ous gases; there must SSS Ge sae Use bill, I will take a sneak 3 ¥ knots an hour. By estimate, it was se! erate power and to for a warmer clime.” DETAILS OF IMPORTANCE tled that 11,000 indicated horse-power proud ate ee must pustareee pianesesto nee This seemed to tickle another gentleman, = = fel t speed of 16.75 knots, and | vide a bountifu a dhe bureaee’s steam engineering was called | water; there must be pumps to drain or] ‘Who was the interested listener, so much ** On November 4 the members of the de- Sigring class of the Art Students’ League gave a lunch to provide funds for some reference works for their class. The young ladies had no designs on the lives of their patrons, ané served a sumptuous repast at a ruinously low price. The affair Was voied such a success that it will prob- ably be repeated later in the month. A ee jana aise Spee the members of the league was = : s uch weight in boilers, | ficcd the various compartments in case of | that he grinned literally from ear to ear. eld on Tuesday afternoon, but nothing of Caen Dt ecathcse iiaee lariont nace seivartenancen: | aasesercnsinvceiafoertizes: thercemvantine [is mouth opened like a threshing ma. irportar.ce transpired, though the. usual ‘Written for The Evening Star. would be required to develop, economically, | lifts for the big masses of shot and shell. | chine, and the display of teeth looked like routine of business was gone throzgh. An important meeting of the Washington Water Color Club ts scheduled for this afternoon at half-past 4. Ail the matters teuching the coming exhibition, which orens December 6, will be discussed, as this is the first time thet the members have come together since the early summer. The meeting will be held in Miss Bertha Per- rie’s new studio, a room which she has just fitted up in a cozy way on the upper They can stand some cold weather, but] floor of the Art Students’ League building. it is thought best to have them housed. * In the main erimal building are quartered * * the lions, hyenas, the tiger and other Miss Sara Bartle is resting temporarily members of the feline race, which come] trom her work, but will take It up again from warm countries. An animal which is = a native of the burning sands of sunny |!" @ Short time. Her stay in Newport dur. Africa can not withstand the rigors of this | ing the summer was decidedly successful, climate in winter. and she found her time pretty well occu- Outside the main building are the cages | pied. Among the miniatures which she comrginng ihe lithe limbed, emerald-eyed | made there may be menticned the likeness- nthers, accustomed to co! weather, am , Equally at home in frost and snow, as in | € Of Mrs. Benjamin Thaw and her daugh the scorching sun of the southern climes. | ter Henrietta of Pittsburg and the portrait They have dens, which are furnished with | of Miss Barnes. If Miss Bartle’s present straw during the winter, and make them-| plans are carried out she will go to that son Gone city about Christmas time to execute some “Commissioner Ross.” crders, and later to New York. She has “Commissioner Ross,” the splendid os-|ncw under way a miniature of a little boy trich, is now located in a warm little struc- | with golden hair, which, even in the unfin- ture in a compourd inclosed with wire net- | {ehed state, gives promise of becoming a ting. Blackburne introduced the reporter | perfect gem. That she is unusually suc- to the commissioner. The bird smiled | cessful in her portrayal of children no one viandly and requested an opportunity to ace peta ce eg ee rean | lature of her nephew wi e ce Tae cteiesciwes copcederte: "door time ago. Miss Bartle spent the early part pened and tne highiand fling, gyrauons | of the summer in East Gloucester, and, and genutiections mauiged in by the more | #side from her work in portraiture, she than two hundred pounds of bird ilesh ee Ss oue | of ary eet ete sonia have been a lesson ior a Gaiety trae Cimiacterizes he, tnnlatures. ‘Both ot th i the bird held its ese water colors, ich al feathers presented « ridiculous, likeness to | tinted paper, are moorland scenes, one of a danseuse in short skirts. ‘Tired of the | them presenting a corner of the great boul- exercise, and the applause which he re- | der that every visitor to Gloucester knows ceived, the comimissioner made for a small ye peter Sor apnea OU SEAGE Cake Sousthe Ee ene rot ake | dotes a Udievand froma successful motive fact that bathmg days are over. ‘Che bird | Showing a bit of Rocky Neck one would and Biackburne indulged in a somewhat | hardly guess that all the requisites for the heated argument regarding the matter, the | Practice of this interesting art are a zinc pird deciaring petuiantly that ice would | Plate, a mixture of printer's ink and bicycle be here soon and every opportunity would oil, and a clothes wringer in lieu of a press. be lost. A workman was sent for and the | Press. . aftalr finally disposed of by having the Bole cet : . n sical suasion S Blackburne kept the coommestioner irom | Mr. H. B. Bradford employed most of the landing heavily on the solar plexus of ihe | time which he spent at Bristol, R. 1, in work:uan. he reporter, standing near, | making portraits in black and white, and mentally calculated if two bodies move at | has a number of these to show for his sum- the sane rate of specd at the start, how | mer’s trip, though, of course, many have far apart would they be at the finish, dis- E \ eo eae Esa tauce and an increasing rate on the part | {ready Passed into othe: e aged mainly on pen of one being unknown qualities. The hole | Téturn he has been engage was finally filled in, and the plumed knight | Work for illustration, and has been busy of the African desert assisted in the cere- | with a number of bicycle subjects. One of monies by trampling in the earth. His out- | these, in which he has pictured a young door exercise will soon be curtailed, and ie a anes ae ai his exhibitions confined to a caged portion |™@" and a girl out for a ride, a 4 sponds at once and | 1,212.47 tons, and that much of the total} boat and the raising of the heavy anchors; aes Seen of hay rakes in a hardware ~ i he | Weigh: of the craft was assigned them for | there must be power to control the rudder | store window. appreciatively to the “Ho, ho, ho!” he roared, “wait until about Thanksgiving day, old: man, and if you don’t freeze so stiff your tail can be used for a base bail bat, I'll eat my little brother. Wait till everything is white outside and the water gets hard ike a rock. Then you can talk. This is Sardines and whitefish compared with coarse sturgeon. If it kept this way I'd be satisfied, but I spent last winter here, and 1 know what we are go- ing up against.” The two gentlemen were residents of the main animal house out at the National Zoo, and their family name is Alligator. deed, ot aii those admirers realize how far THE GUN PLAN OF A BATTLE SHIP. One was an old inmate of the place, the : Biase other a comparative newcomer, who had bres geen ee ims seen, from the inside, however, what a at success. ern | RE- | . That bureau called for | for the hoisting of ashes, the handling of one T= x cee = HISTORIC SHIP ROTTING AWAY. successful trial per- formances of our naval vessels, ond in the eyes of that public the builder is leoked upon as some- thirg just short of a genius in turning out a craft that meets, or more than mects, ee actions: but few, in- Onc of Commodore Perry's Lake Erie Fleet Rapidly Decaying. From the Chicago Posi Buried deep in the sands at the edge of Spring Lake, near Grand Haven, Mich., lies the bull of the old stoop Percupine, which was one of Lieut. Oiiver H. Perry's fleet the battle of Lake Erie. ‘The old boat nearly gone. She has lain there since 1 when she went out of service, and was beached by a gang of men who had tried to rig her up as a lumber lugger. D. M. Ferry, later a United States senator from Michigan, owred the land where the dis- couraged sailors flung the hull, and he left her there to work deeper and deeper into the sand. She is just at the end of one of his docks now; but he knew the honurable part she had played, and while he lived he refused to move her. When Perry came to Erie that March cay in 181, the British being in command cf the e, and hourly menacing Ohio and Michigan, the timbers of the Porcupine were swaying with the wind in the forests ashore. Two gunboats were building at Erie when Perry arrived, but there was nothing to protect them while building, nor to arm them when completed. If Bai had been Cisposed he could have sent men ashore in the small beat any night and burned up ships and shipyard. But he needed ves: himself, and was willing to let the Ame cans build them for him. Perry sent work- men to the forest, cutting oak, walnut and poplar, and oxen hauled the timbers to the beach. He sent other men to Buffalo, to Commodore Chauncey on Lake Ontario, and to the Secretary of War at Washing- ton, pleading for men, for arms, for ammu- nition, for sails, and for iron. Day and night the work went forward. The Lawrence and the Niagara were finish- ed. The Porcupine, the Tigress, the Som- ers, the Trippe, the Caledonia, the Scor- picn and the Ariel were nastening to com- pletion; and the energy of Perry was bring- ing equipment and men from every direc- ' ticn. He enlisted men for $10 a moath “till after the battle.” By August he had a feet in the harbor and 300 men to man it. We Are Doing Well. that purpose. In return each contributive | against the violent rush of tons and tons| winter dey may be like in the capital the most wonderful of all mechanical fab- | 5reau Was called upon to name what pro- | of water, and there must be a small ma-| Purely on account of a desire to teaat, the Fications, and a better notion of what her | portion of the whole mess of the ship it| chine shop for the exigencies of repair. | old resident neslected te imeare the ante Planning means may be got by realizing, | needed for its particular province. The There are spare parts, spare tools and a mation that every precaution is taken by ¥ d what ehe | bureau of ordnance, having control of | certain amount of materials to meet the| the officers in charge to Keep the pets of Mieke Se Vert WEAE stio tsiand what she | Preea ron uitiicaland aemory dackieatliat | ides lnayortacrvicevse aaiin ana scror eens the nation in their Rock Creek nursery has to be. A “tons would be required for the guns, | wear and tear. ‘There are miles upon miles Take, for instance, such a craft as the Iowa, the latest and largest of our com- pleted battle ships. She {s a floating island of steel, 360 feet long, 72 feet wide, with an average bodily depth of 44 feet, 24 of which are submerged, and she weigas, when ready for sea, 11,410 tons. Primar- ily, she is a heavily armored, navigable fortress, housing 46 guns, which range from the massive 12-inch rifles, firing pro- Jectiles of 850 pounds, down to the Httle gatling, with its bullet-sized missiles. These guns are sheltered behind walls of harden- ed steel some 15 inches through, and strong enough to resist the shock of thousards upon thousands of tons. She nas two great engines that are able to send ber 1.02 supplies and a certain number of the | of piping, ranging from the thickness of eee aunee “mechanisms. The bureau of | one’s little finger to the breadth of one’s eG. equipment, having to do with electric light- | body; there are thousands and thousands ing, anchors, chains, cooking apparatus, | of yards of wire; and an almost inter- crockery, hammocks, etc., estimated that | minable measure of steel plates, angle 158 tons would cover its needs. The bu-| bars ond rivets, the smallest portion of reau of construction and repair estimated | which has an appreciable significance in that 4,915.99 tons would be required for the ; the eyes of the naval constructor. Every- hull proper and its fittings, and that 358 | thing has its relative value in pounds, and tons would be needed for equipage, such as | everything must be accounted for, placed boats, spars, furniture, etc. The bureau | and foreseen with a grasp of finalities just of ordnance agreeing to the distribution | short of superhuman. A pound Is a pound, and the thicknesses of armor as arranged | in effect, only at the center of gravity, and by the bureau of cagstruction, it was esti- | grows in moment by every foot it is moved mated by the latter that 2,813 tons should | from that center; and, by that, one can be reserved for that purpose. As agreed | realize how vital is the determination of upon, 625 tons of coal were to be carried at | position, and how, in large masses, the the normal displacement which this esti- | movement of even a foot is a serious mat- mate covers; and 231.5 tons were left as a | ter. A Delicate Task. Every one of these delicate calculations is made in the bureau of construction, to- gether with the exquisite task of the for- mation of “lines” and the nice determina- <4 fey tion of the power required to meet the de- ~ Our Hodve-Warming. i not eS ee TEA ee Un Tete otoe | from ifesling the-enectacol the Coaswinlece low water is the first consideration in| blasts, or, at least, those of them which speed, and that that form has a determi-| Fe unaccustomed to their influences. nate possibility, beyond which greater| Residents of the Soldiers’ Home, inmates d can be got only by a wasteful ex-|0°f St. Elizabeth’s and the other asylums tenditure of power. Such is the fact. and | UEder the direction of the government, are the engines that may induce ten knots in| Well provided for, and care is taken that ft may reach fifteen ina vessel of | they shail -be comfortable during the cold fer tame ail olce verman weather. None are better provided for With the design of the main propelling | than the two-legged, four-legged and no- engines and their auxiliaries settled by | legged waits at ine Zoo.” The arrange: the bureau of steam engineering upon the | ment of their winter quarters and pro- basis of 1,212.47 tons and a development | Visions pnts matter of ene greatest import- of 11,000, capable of inducing a speed of | #h¢e at this season of the year. 16.75 knots as calculated by the bureau of lead Keeper Blackburne of the Zoo may construction and as since proved by her | °F ay not have heard the conversation be- trial, the construction of the ship was|{™cen the two alligators. If he did he r he contractor. understood it fully, for he is perfectly fa- sane millar with the speech indulged in by his The wish to engege, so often shown by the British when Perry’s ships were at Erie, was no longer manifest now that he was on the lake. Perry sailed to Put-in- Bay, and August 10 his lovkout saw the topgallant sails of the British squadroa. He weighed anchor immediately and sailed to meet the enemy, whose ships were the De- trolt, the Queen Charlotte, the Lady Pro- Yost, the Hunter, .he Chippewa and the Little Belt. Barclay had fought under Ne!- son ¢t Trafalgar, and no fresh-water sailor should daunt him. seo beeen : : spirited in action, and drawn with much | But “Perry's luck” went with the Yankee ‘ charges. They confide in him, and he | Of the new building. ecaNncy 8h other. penvarawing pictures | lieutenant. The wind was with the Ameri- Country Life Cured His Nerves. stens to Athair unplaints. “Whenever rather awkward young man dancing with |can vessels. Their commander flung. the Shee ‘commissioner Ross.” the ostrich, requests Frem the New York Times. a sweet, graceful girl. In his pen tech- nique Mr. Bradford is surmounting a good many obstacles, and is fairly successful in the difficult undertaking of catching a like- ness ip @ portrait executed in ink. banner, “Don’t give up the ship,” from the main of the Lawrence, and outran his fel- lows in his eagerness for the fray. The De- troit had long-range guns, and Perry sig- naled for close action. He drove headlong into the enemy’s line and raked him with beth broadsides. But the big Lawrence was crushed, and Perry, assisted by the chaplain and purser, fired his last gun and went In a rowboat to the Niagara. Across the open space between them he stood vp, waving his pennant and defying a shower of canister that Barclay sent after him till he reacked the second frigate. ‘Thea he caught the wind again and swung for a second time against the line. The Detroit and the Queen Charlotte became inextrica- bly entangled, and Perry's broadsides tore through both of them. The little Porcu- pine, disdaining to shorten eail, ranged through the Hunter, the Provost and the Belt so close that the Kentucky riflemen Gen. Harrison had sent on board could Kill the British gunners at their work. a dict of new-laid horseshoes or something There is much said about the strain to] of the sort, Blackburne is always dumb the nervous system of the constant noise] except on Thanksgiving day, when such and friction of city life, but it is seldom | delicacies are allowed. If he did hear the that anything like facts ‘can be given in| Conversation, however, it did not remind him of his duties, for he and Superintend- relation to the matter. Now, members of | ent Baker have been for some time making a family which has recently taken up its | arrangements to have the animals prop- abode in the suburbs for good and ail be- ony roused f aoe - that the} Just yet there is no reason why the ani- leve that they can SE eee ches | mualaietiould bel keptrcieceiy eemmaernann city causes, or greatly increases, the exception of those which are natives of vere nervous affection of one of the chil- | the extreme tropical countries. The mon- dren. This child, a boy, has had St. Vitus’ | keys are especially liable to take cold. and dance, and the trouble had become so se-| must be kept warm. The main animal rious that the parents were alarmed for | house, in which their quarters are located fear the little fellow would injure himself. } at the Zoo, has been heated up for come Eating was almost an impossibility, the} time. They doubtless imagine, unless Jerking hands sae puis and coe into} some of them are sharp enough to have dangerous proximity to the eyes. A year} noted the difference E CROSS SECTION OF A BATTLE SHIP. ago this past summer the family took up | Washington weather epee ets its abode temporarily in the suburbs in the | With an average temperature in the build. northern part of New York city. There|ing during the winter months of nearly the boy had plenty of fresh air and exer-| seventy degrees there is no reason théy * * * Mr.’ Carl Weller is one of a number of Washington artists who were at Gloucester this summer, and he has brought back a number of good things by which to re- member his stay in the old fishing town. Among these are the usual sketches so typical of the place, studies of fishing schooners moored to old gray wharves. One of the best of these‘vas pa!nted when the tide was out, leaving a long stretch of mud about the bases of the moss-covered piles. Annisquam, a town a few miles from Gloucester, furnished him with a motive or two, the old church being the most pleas- along. in the face ef wind and tide, at six- | margin upon which to draw for contingen- teen knots an hcur at any time, and down | cies arising in the course of construction. ing of these. In the early part of his sum-| At 3 p.m. the flag came down from the — ¥ : hn 10 cise, and by the middle of September he | should think otherwise. mer trip Mr. Weller visited York, Me., | fore of the Detroit, and in less than five in her boweis are stowed ceal enough Location and Distribution. was apparently as well as any boy could Imcthe New Hone where he made a few sketches of the | minutes two more struck their colors. But feed her bollers and carry her across the = be, and the family returned to the city. S characteristic scenes on land and water. | the Chippewa and the Little Belt cut and Allaatic at full speed, or half-way aroun | With these weights in hand, the bureau | But there the trouble began again, and by | ‘The furred, feathered and scaly hot-house the world at a ten-knot jeg. She has €ighty odd auxii of pumps, di ash hoists, ammunition hois This All Right. All the work which he did poate he was > and hi 2 The two elephants, “Dunk” and “Gold | 2¥2Y js in water color, oleae leee ber of excellent subjects from which to Dust,” were next visited by Blackburne, rssh iy ne » the hob-tailed Manx cat and ihe reporter. | Select his contribution to the coming ex. ig ene has | of construction next begins the considera- Dae Con attion ty Month the boy was in as| plants will be kept in the main building at ty engines in the t f th tio ia bad condition as ever, and the other mem- a : e lers, electric lighting pla! a Gr Cheis, locaeion, and Gistribution, the) | pono recrs ere sympathy, begary to | tB€ 200, where most of them are now con , cranes, ice | fort being olways to Keep them as low | cove in jerks, which sere Leen a | fined during the winter. In addition « new ran, and the Porcupine went after them. It Was a stern chase, but she won it, and they came back side by side—the stars and stripes above them. iv “We havi emy and y steering | as possible and to divide them fore and aft | tressing. building has been constructed, near the ele-| A stove has been placed in, their building, renee * ours,” wrote eee mi hnt renting een eee and side and side, so that they may bal- I don't know how the boy came to have | phant house, where the ones, which are not |in which fire will be kept burning con’ not only for the comfort OF ea ener and minimize the stress | Such ® trouble,” said the father, speaking | siready jocated.in the other, will bo quar cf leverage, so to speak. In designing a whyawershonkl neveLteenec neat tered. The new building is about complet- building, an architect has to consider his "There have never been any diseases of the Se euainE: Beout begun in August. Its di- Weights principally in. their relation to a | nerves in our family before. But there | 7% Rate in wldtne aah citeOne one pigblc foundation and his leverages only so | was one simple remedy for it all, and we | Qnty a tempory one, is reaily most sub- ; na healthful home for | tar us they concern some permanent point. | accepted it immediately. We have moved stantial, It is finished on the outside with 500 exacting above all, she | He can run up his front as massively as he | into the suburbs for good, and I am su 3 © is absolutely sea 1 _abte to be: choose, while the back may be, relatively, | that you would never think that bo: ny tot emacrous Weights with | ever so much lighter; but so iong as the | pointing to a healthy-looking younectar safety in any concition of weather. Such | foundation is proportionately strong be. | careering along the road on ae oN bronco, are some of the requirements. Now let | neath each, his building will be satisfac- | “had a herve in his body.” us see how they were met preparatorily, | tery. Not so with the designer of ships. ———--+0-+—_ and let us follow the evolution of the Towa | He must also arrange his weights that the Seeking Objects, as the best present example of promise | center of gravity of the whole ship shall ‘ fulfilled. be as low as possible, so that she shall not | Fm the Chicago Evening Post. The First Provision. be easily careened; and at the same time,| “I understand they are going to move the : in the case of « fighting ship, he must not | medical college.” In 1892 Congress made provision for the | make her too “‘stiff” or stable lest she right | “Yes; they want to get a little nearer Towa in the following general terms: herself too quickly and forcibly in a sea- | the foot ball field.” “One sea-roing coast-line battle ship, de- ' Sut, ‘or te Go htat might wrench her seri- ae aa ee ern gaa acer with a dlsplace- | enough to meet any condition of weather or | U37,Vat fort” feel bet- ment of about 9,000 tons, to have the high- | the reasonably normal injuries of conflict, | 42% ic peat, est practicable speed for vessels of its class Strength of the Ship. “Chust because it maigs you veel petter? and to cost, exclusive of armament and of You must pe von of dem ebbicures.”—In- any premiums that may be patd for tee | ne, Text thing the bureau of construc- | XU, must Pe von any premium: ay be paid for in- | tion does is to fix the seantlings or dimen- oo creased speed, not exceeding $4,000,000, sions of materials for the hull proper, and A Cut Beneath Her, Of these congressional requirements, the | the midship section is then drawn, showing | From Punch. monetary limit of $4,000.00 was the only | the arrangement of beams, plates and e provision taken into serious consideration, i a a5 and it was the department's mission to get ee a strexgth of that section is eut of that allowance the best possible { takén as a standard for all the rest, aside ship, excluding, of course, the cost of ar- | from any special demand for exceptional er dnd Suns and what might be paid for | Iccal strength, and, for that reason, is speed premiums. drawn first. Other sections f The displacement of a ship is another | and the strength of the ship. ‘ethan ae term for her total weight, and with the | sidered in still water, plvoted one single limitation of displacement the designer | wave at the conter, or poised on the enans, knows just how much material he has to | of two waves. The ship must. be strong work with. With that in mind, he must enough to meet the exceptional, in fact, im- parcel it out to the best advantage among | possible, stresses of the last two condi- the various phases of his ship. He cannot | tions, besides being able to withstand the exceed that limit he change her draft | recoji of her massive guns and the pod of water or alter her body form or “lines.” | ous blows of an enemy's attack Pee Now for the Iowa. With the passage of | Next to the consideration of weight the act, work began in the bureau of con- | comes the question of space, and the nicest to Harrison. the officers, but for their ¢ e and luxury when well, when sic i in battle and the same time an arsenal, a machine shop, a store house * * tinuously, fur elephants feel. keenly the = tac, oR ; eold, and suffer unless provided’ with | 0! Engiish masters, Sermad fine specimens ‘were shown at Fischer's warmth. s As the little party ent2red the house | /ast season, again hold sway there. Of Sir Dunk's eyes twinkled, and he said some-| Joshua Reynolds there are several ex- thing to Blackburne, who looked as if he | amples, the most important as to subject had been struck a sudden blew. being the large canvas entitled “Cupid Dis- An Elephantine Jést. armed.” Less pretentious but really more “It was the same old gag about check- | satisfying is the portrait of a little girl ing his trunk for him—he was tired of car- | glancing up with a roguish look in her rying it,” was the explanation Blackburne | eyes. All the light in the picture is con- gave. centrated on the face and the lightly folded Plenty of warm straw is provided for the | arms, and this effect of chiaroscuro results elephants. Life in the District agrees with |in a very unusual composition. Another “Dunk,” for he has gained 3,000 pourds | painting represents the artist Hamilton siuce he came here, being an average of | showing Sir Joshua's sketch for the Tragic a trifle over 500 pounds a year. Muse. Close by it hangs a striking portrait In oe pas aight igang Hime of John Mason, by Gaj: sborough, and two can slee an enjo; hemselves. jack- - burne says it 1s @ mistaken ides that ele: Sea Bd pra oy - phants are never caught napping. He has | ™ eae ane ieee kena even caught them trumpeting in their | One of the most fascinating portraits in the sleep, suffering from restless dreams, per- | exhibition is the half-length figure of Lord haps. “Dunk” and “Gold Dust” can further | Butte by Allan Ramsay. There is nothing amuse themselves by telling of their ex- | striking about the figure, for it is painted in @ reserved manner, but there is a subtle rien while “‘on the road,” for t Were both “s —s weed charm of color and line that compels ad- were both circus members at one time. The three ngaroos engaged miration. In tre face, which is expressive ae = nw sli of the greatest refinement, the flesh tints —+e. Quicker to Disagree. From the Detroit Free Press, He—"The jury were out several days ana then failed to agree.” She—“That shows the folly of masculine juries—a jury of women would have dis- agreed much sooner than tha ss 2o0— He1se Hunter- have looked over that house which you recommended so highly, and I find the walls damp, the shutters half off, the drainage out of order, lar full of water and the roof leak Agent—“Yes, I know the house is in rather bad condition, but think of its advantages—there isn't a piano in that block!"—New York Weekly. = A. SIMONSON barrack, and a habitabl NEW YORK CITY. The Oldest, Largest and Must Reliable “pebble dash,” something on the drder of stucco work, and is atted up nicely on the ber, in which any extra es which may be left over will be kept. will be fitted with glass and kept a little warmer than the other part. Both this and the main building are heated by steam, ‘When the main building was inspecied, jane cancel accustomed to the moun. passes of the Andes, and can stay ou! ‘all the year. There is a thatched house one they may | the other canvases are portraits by ifrey vo ehoa lie caine ae aacen hee English Knneller, Lely and Zolany anda nude figure ted ILLUSIVE WIGS, of my mote, are te struction and repair at the Navy Depart- | kind of dovetailing must be done to make. SD ORNs oe Saupe prob invention at | standard of perfection, as to fine und superior ment. In the first place. the new ship was | the various mechanical features fit inte from profanity dn o rt print actual | workmanship. to be an improvement on the Indiana and | the least amount of room. ladies, mig. bre ato niNtee ta’ next thing | Our HAIR DRESSING PARLOR 1s a per. class, ships of 10,288 tons displacement; | For safety’s sake, the magazines, boilers man, standing ne; by, Bi culated iow & ed feet Bijou! Numerous artists and experts for hair and. to that end, a thousand tons more of | and engines—commonly termed the vitalee Iently, yet vlan in their nat- rs com ae 3 Weight or material was allowed. At the | must be as far as possible, beyond the | ed tive yeies Seas pe figment tia positive plates | eras Gm various shades) are constantly same time she was to be an advance upon | Fach of an enemy's fire. To that end| fe niese on Keepes FF ee oncra Bend negative, alt | “23 "S. foreign ships of like weight or displace-| they are crowded below the protective | the ehildron” Bet rdoes the pa as oa B Szausite assortment of HAIR ORNA- ment. + | deck, the water-line and many feet of| Nursee°W. tebaunere the mache ‘ only. Then | MENTS, 2 specialty. As the Indiana and her sister ships were | sheltering coal. And, too, for safety’s | expect mm “He clain Peo plates COLORED ILLUST, F. CATALOGUE FREE. then in course of construction. no perform- | sake, the ship has an inner’ or double bot- | cebson? Ere eRe Be cen cal- _ A. SIMONSON, ance data could be had as a basis of calcu- .tom; she ig cut up into mumeroug inde- az she is only b yellow I & t