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FLAGS IN THE NAVY. Each Vessel Must Have 250 on Hand All the Time. ''Did you ever happen to think 1 j^rhen yon saw a cruiser or battleship 'dressed' in its full outfit of Hags what a big item flags must be to the navy?" an official of the navy department recently remarked. "Just think of how many vessels, large and small, there are and that every one has to be supplied with 250 flags, which have to be renewed every three years! The annual cost 1*5 about $60,000. and a hundred wo men are kept busy at the Brooklyn , navy yard the year around. "The foreign flags are rather! elaborate as a rule, especially the American republics, and their cost is consequently considerable. Each ship must have forty-three foreign flags constantly on board, the standard size being 25 by 13 feet. The cost of making one will depend upon the design. A simple flag, as that of France, costs comparatively little, while to make that of Salvador means just $52.50. it being a veritable landscape. China's flag amounts to about v-!;) ar.! that of Costa Rica, which runs to s.v.ro effect, nearly! $50. 1f \ mnrioan flmr iicpil X lie lai^rci .iui\.nvuu UU& ?wvv. is 19 by 30 feet and costs $40. There are eight sizes of the American flag 1 used altogether, and they'are less expensive than the foreign flags by reason of the fact that they are largely machine made. There is e special machine that cuts out the stars, stamping out 100 at evenstroke. . "Then there are the special flags of the president, the secretary and of the flag officers. That of the president, while simple, means lr-g and careful work. This fh. * is a blue field, with the arms of the United States in the center. The design is entirely hand embroidered with the finest silk and requires a month of constant oiFort.'' ? New York Ilerald. A Dangerous Cargo. There was great excitement one day some years ago at a small Uussian port on the llaltie. The captain of a newly arrived foreign vessel was arrested for the alleged crime of having attempted to bring a lar<re number of dvnamite bomb. C " into the country of the czar. They brought the unhappy man before. the judge, who happened to be one * of the few intelligent men in the " town. , "Where are the bombs?" said the ?~ judge. "On board the ship," said the police. "There is a small cargo of them." "Go and fetch one," said the judge. "It is dangerous to touch it," said the police. "1 cannot convict," said the judge, "unless I have the material evidence. Bring me a bomb." With much trepidation and many precautions they at last brought one on a cushion of cotton wool. The i j idgc laughed a most unjudicial ~ laugh. "That," he said, "is a coc-oanut." And so it was. A Lcng Game. In the summer of 1810 Henry Clay went to Kentucky on his vaca-' tion. Three nights after his arrival at a certain springs a sociable . 1. ? ? l? On i.omA wnni gaint? ut'^ciii. in 11lv. ^un.v ??v*v- , Mr. Clay, Josiali Blackburn, .Toliu II:.ruin and Sam Clay, a cousin of the statesman. It began on Friday night and ran along with varying luck. They were all old hands and had the nerve to back their cards.; At 1? o'clock Saturday night Blackburn quit a little ahead, lie had been married only two months and was afraid his young wife would think he was dead. Sunday morning at 9 o'clock some one rapped on the door. It was opened, and a negro girl stood in the hall. She had a clean shirt in her hand, and on the bosom was a note from liardin's wife. '"'For ?dr. John Hardin, wherever he can be found." The door was closed and play resumed. Hardin changed his linen at ihe table. The Turkey Buzzard. !,ac t-ih.in lln> t "(in111P liuo itiuvit <j>v . to search out an attribute ' '>eauty in the coninion an/1 rc lisive lc?ckin;_r bird known as the turkey buzzard. His fligld; is said to he the perfection of aerial navigation, and the manner in which 1 'loats * upon the still, soft air .f t\ .-oiitli5rn climes is a dr. ; >?! grace and loveliness. ]>ut '..la n he alights poetry takes its flight, and t lie marvelous soarer is found io be the homeliest and most unattractive of birds. His tastes are law, for he is a natural scavenger. He is bald, scraggy, rusty looking, awkward and repulsive. Pride seems to have been left out of his nature, and his jm.nuers are simply atrocious. No self respecting bird will associate . . with him. 1 i HE GOT COFFEE. The Major Asked For Tea, but T' Made No Difference. Back in the seventies of the last century, when the Kansas division of the Union Pacific was called the Kansas Pacific, Major E. I). Bedrlinctori. who had served with dis tinction in the civil war, was paymaster. At that time the paymaster was the biggest man connected with the road in the estimation of the employees and the people living in the towns along the line, and his arrival in the pay car was usually the occasion for a great outpouring of the people. One night Major lleddington's car pulled into the town of Wallace. The major and his clerks were given a grand welcome by the people. They were escorted to a railroad boarding house and treated as royal guests. It was conducted by a buxom Irishwoman, who boasted that she set the best table of any town along the road. At supper that night every regular boarder turned up at the tab1rt looking his best. The Irish "landlady," as they called her, appeared in a neat blue calico dress, ail primped up and smiling. "Tay 'r coffee?" she asked, with a pretty courtesy, as she passed from one guest to another. The regular boarders understood it all, and they answered, "Coffee, please, mum." Major Iieddington, however, was a down east Yankee' and not much of a coffee drinker, so when the question was put to l.Jw. n-ifll Vlic 11311:ll nn. uiiu iiv- .vj/.n.u ...... ...? rli tort ess: "I v. ill have a cup of tea, if you pieaue." It almost took her breath away. The look of disgust on her face caused the regular boarders to titter. Then she flared up. "Say oolTee, ye omadahn, f'r we have no tay," she said as she poured the major's cup full of steaming coffee.?Kansas City Star. Prorrpt Action Necessary. "Is this Lawyer Sharpley?" asked the caller, who appeared with a big lump on his jaw. The man in the swivel chair admitted that he was "? r ^ i 1 -1 - i,l. - J. 1. ^ .nr. Miarpiev ana aiso umi iiu sa.v the lump. "Yes. it is quite noticeable," said the caller, with a cheerful smile. "I got it a couple of days ago while I was stepping on a street car. The motorman started too soon, and lie made me hit my jaw against the side of the car. I thought at first that it had broken the bone, but it hadn't quite. I: hurt me awfully, though, and 1 want you to bring suit against ti e company for damages." "1 am very busy just now," said the lawyer, "but I can take it up for you in the course of three or four days." "That won't do at all." "Why not"'" "Hcoause," answered the caller hesitatingly, "that might ho too 1 ^ ~ i rrrvf 'in rr emillflr 1UIC*. 1 11C lilllij' ? > pVu:;ip ciuuuvi every day." Scntirr.ert In the Wedding. A'erv few persons have the courage to he marrieiWauictly, without fuss or expense. 3Ten have sometimes pone through the ceremony and left their wives at the church door. But in such cases the marriage was one of compulsion or state necessity and in nowise affected the general custom. The old fashion of the posy ring, given on the wedding day, was pretty, and these rings, with their quaint conceits and affectionate mottoes, are now eagerly sought after as curiosit"o>. In those prosaic times lovers no longer share broken coins or the halves of a locket ? r rive minia*. r?*s to wear around the neck, as even George IV.. that heartless and sell'sli monarch, did. being buried with the picture * f Titz-llerbci t hanging on his I,re;; \ T.ittle items of sentimcn.t are gradually disappearing, but not the fire clothes, tiie parade, the extravagance, tii" crowds the chainnomiA 1 Ar?/^Ar? / lror. ? The Black Maria. 111 Boston's earlv days a licgress named Maria Lee kej>t a sailors' boarding house near the water front. She was a woman of gigantie six" and prodigious strengthand was of great assi-taneo to the authorities in keeping the peace. When an unusually troublesome fellow was on the way to the lockup Black Maria, as Maria I.ee was called, would come to the assistance of the policeman, and her services were in such requisition for this purpose that her name was associated with almost every arrest made. Black Maria often carried a prisoner to the lockup on her shoulder, and when the prison van was instituted for the purpose of earning prisoners it naturally enough was styled the Black Maria. - , Pinesaive cleanses wounds, is high- j ' lv iuitaseptec, uneoualeil t >r cracked i J hands. Good for ewts.? Sod! bv V." j I L Wallace. ! Girls Ars Ss Queer. j "Xo, I never did like him. Why, when he used to write lie glowing O O j love letters I would only glance, j over the:.! once." ' Only once, dear?" ' V.'eil?<r?sometime.; when I couMn t r-.aiio out n.s uoonunaoie scrawl I would glance over them a second lime." ' Indeed! Ar.d was that all?" "Except sometimes at night I would take then from under my | pillow and read them just to kill | time." "Ar.d that was the end?" "Ye*. o:i!v on rainy days I used to look over them just to see how ! sillv a nu.:i can be when he starts ! writing love letters. But I only i glanced o\er them, dear. I never! did like him."?Chicago News. v i A Clover Lawyer. An old lawyer in Paris had in- j strutted a very young client of his j to weep every time he struck the I desk with his hard. Unfortunately : the barrister forgot and struck the desk at the wrong moment. The: client fell to sobbing ar.d crying. j "What is the matter with you?": asked the presiding judge. "Well, he to.d me to cry as often j -- l. - -i 1. *\ . ,..1.!/. " iiS lit" Mlul'S Hit: IU.I.1% Here was a nice predicament, but the astute lawyer was epia! to the occasion. Addressim* the jury, lie j said: "Well, gentlemen, let me ask you how you can reconcile the idea ? . , crime in conjunction with such e ?dor and simplicity. 1 await your <v| diet with the most perfect fm.!-, ! dence." ? I ! p tPriokly Ash, Poke Ro MAKKS POSITIVE CURES OF AI 11B??? ?? I Physicians endorse P. P. P. as a aplen- B .! <) combination, ar. l prrscribc it with I mpn : r. .it sal sfjetion lor the cure? of all M ^ ' rros and s.atret of Primary, Secondary ? K&O i.i. 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