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Show - DESIGNED .10. EIGHT.' WHAT A REAL' BATTLESLIP LIKE. 15 An Officer of a Monitor Is Responsible for a New Design That May Be of Oreat Value to the Navy Not a Thing of Beauty. The accompanying sketch was made a naval officer who has had some experience on the larger monitors. It represents in a general way his conception of the ideal battleship. All ships are compromises, and this design departs materially from the and approved monitor type in having a superstructure forward. This feature enables the ship to maintain Dy well-kno- thah' to occupy one ning towers. of, the alleged 'con- The smoke pipe t esses up through the center of the tower and receives protection from it. The smokepipe is utilized as a mast, and carries the usual fighting top and signal yard. The top of the smoke pipe is 100 feet above the water line, and as the fighting top is fifteen feet below the smoke outlet, the men at the top guns ought not to suffer any discomfort from smoke. The barbettes and conning tower rest on the main deck, which is two inches thick. The side armor is continuous and has a mean thickness of twenty inches, twenty-four inches amidships, tapering to sixteen inches at the ends. The depth f of side armor is six and feet. The thickness of armor on turrets, barbettes, and conning tower is twenty inches. The length of the vessel on water line is 300 feet; beam, seventy feet; draught forward and aft, twenty and feet; displacement, about tons; twin screw; indicated horse power, 5.000; speed, about thirteen and knots per hour; coal capacity, 500 tons; main battery, four twelve-inc- h h and six guns; secondary torcK.. qOUFi BUDGET OF FUN. Attention has been attracted to the j merchant steamships that, are classed as auxiliary cruisers to the navy, and SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL . AND SELECTED. which could le fitted out in a short time so as to serve most effectively as commerce destroyers or as speedy Ibe Horror of an American Winter Sad Effects of the Strike on transports for the handling of troops. BrJy The available steamships that could be An Olisming Sou of Milesins Raining utilized by the government would conthe Wlml. stitute a big fleet, and experts believe that it would prove of great service Itiug. in the event of war with any country. He was a man well known in town, and people called him Bing. The four big steamers of the American He could toll another person how to do St. the the St. Paul, the Louis, line, most anything; ore the largest And, strange as it may seem to you, for New York and the Paris, of his adue ships of the number, and besides these Nt ouldnone he exact o ft tend or foe even the there are the steamships of the New smallest price. one-hal- one-ha- lf And tho' he never owned could another show a house he Just where the rafters and ridgepole ought properly to go. he ever tried was he a great naught success. He alwajs thought that his advice was far rom taluehss. And tho' in 1 8,-G- He could tell another person just when to buy and sell. And if they followed his advice he knew they would do well. And though to aid stmebody else he often used to yearn, U heneer he acted for himself things took a losing turn. He could toll a big contractor Just how to dig a ditch, And could map out for a merchant the sure way to get rich; He knew Jus-- t when a man should sleep, and when a gill should wed. And yet he scarce had brains enough to earn his daily bread. one-ha- lf four-inc- battery, six er rapid-firin- g mm. Hotchguns and two thirty-seve- n kiss revolving cannon. The sketch represents the ship cleared for action, the boats at other times DESIGNED TO FIGHT, her speed in a head sea; which is whol- being stored on the superstructure. The ly Impracticable with the ordinary presence of a superstructure amidships monitor, although a sea abeam has but adds much to the comfort of a monlittle effect on the speed of this pe- itors crew and does not increase her culiar craft. For about of size as a target, as bridges and other its length the design presents a free- gear would incumber the space between board of only thirty inches, which may the turrets and give the enemy as good he considered the monitor standard. a mark as does a superstructure. This The freeboard at the bow is ten feet. point is illustrated by a comparison of The twelve-inc- h guns are well located the Minantonomah and the Amphitrite, for sea work, being eighteen feet above the former having no superstructure. the water line. The turrets are housed The model of this design is necessarily in barbettes. The height of each bar- - very full, otherwise the enormous ar- two-thir- ds JUDGE ADVOCATE MARIX. (He Carried the Report of the Maine Inquiry to Washington.) York and Cuba Steamship company, He could tell a railroad magnate how and the Mallory, Morgan, Red D and best to build his road, And the way to run a paper an editor has All of these vessels Panama lines. ; could be fitted out and prepared for And showed as to give a doctor points, one day a in time. would short very he duty They tried. He suddenly fell sick himself any very be supplied w ith guns of the shortly died. and Hotchkiss pattern, Thomas E. Porter in Boston G which are designed to throw a large number of small projectiles with great Empty. Naval officers do not be- rapidity. Driggs-Scliroed- er NORTHWEST NOTES. . . r i,. i Fire-a- t Clancy, Mont., recently $3,000 worth of property. About 500 people are stalled at Havre Mont., by blockade and have eaten the town bare. Gallatin and Madison counties will build a $7,000 bridge across the Jefferson river at Willow creek. The Montana state land board has decided to make no selection of lands that will not appraise 82 per acre. The prospects are that Wyoming will make no state exhibit at Omaha, hut several of the counties will be represented. The Sand Coulee Coal company of Montana, has sent to the Omaha exposition a single block of coal that weighs five tons. Jacob Teters of Libby, Mont., who made a trip over the Horse Shocrange last week, saw 200 deer in one day, within a radius of three miles. The capitol building commission has awarded the contract for making the state house plans to the firm of Bell & Kent of Helena, Mont., for $3,2?0. A passenger from North Carolina to Spokane became insane on a Northern Iaeific train, and was turned over to the sheriff of Domson countj, Mont. Petitions have been filed in the district court at Helena for the disbarment of Attorneys M. L. Wiaes and E. 5. Booth, who are charged with per- jury. Helena capitalists made up a pool and purchased 5100, 00J worth of United States 4 per cent bonds, at 121, on advices from New York that there would be no war. The trial of the big damage case of E, Rollins Morse, vs. the Montana Ore rJ y'rn. l.. Purchasing company at Butte, which resulted in a disagreement, cost each side about 830.000. Mike Holla, an Italian who killed Senorio Cortez, at Ilorr, Montana, has been captured recently, and is held for lie claims that the Cortez murder, brothers attempted to kill him. Recent visitors from White Sulphur Spring, Montana, report the deepest snow in some localities in the memory i j'v of the oldest inhabitant. Telegraph I it and wires are completely buried. poles, f. L o,S7 '3 Thomas J. Riley, charged with the murder of Banker Largey at Butte, Rure he Mont., has applied for a charge of (uTEe lookTnrMll Venue, ., a. ormlioation Is backed by Muldoon Phy, Brady hov indegla-tion.- " 109 affidavits by many of the most prominent men in the city, who do not Casey "And now pwhat dthe dlvll believe Riley could get a fair trial at gave him indegistlon? Butte. Muldoon Dthe stroik it vraa faith The Ilawlins, W30., road to the Its nothin hes had t degist dthe lasht two weeks. Grand Encampment will cost $2,353, when completed. They expect to have their stage line in operation by Raising the Wind. Tramp "I dont want anything to May 3, the date of the arrival in Raweat, Im too far gone for that, but if lins of the first of fourteen Grand Enyou have a bicycle pump that you could campment excursions to be run during lend me to pump a little air in my stomand summer. ach to keep me going, or better still, if the spring W. E. Mrs. Towle, who owns a ranch yu have a punctured tire that you could let me apply my lips to, so as to draw on the little Laramie river, about 20 the norishment gradually, Id feel utiles from Laramie, Wyo., trapped The inobliged. two coyotes a few days ago. Lady of the House "I can fix you trepid ranch woman clubbed one of better than that. Just let me turn the the animals to death and shot the othdog loose, then you hold your mouth er one after he had dragged the trap open while he chases you around the considerable distance over the coun-trhouse, and you can take in a full sup- a ply of wind. J. II. McLean, a practical sheep The Horrors of an American Winter. Caller What! Dont like to see It ihearer of Buffalo, Wyo., has perfected for aiding in the work ef snow,? Why, the very sight of snow an invention makes one feel poetical. shearing sheep by hand. Sheep shearI know it only too well, and ers almost unanimously pronounoe the Editor of steam sheep shearing machine a failthe trouble is that about the people feel it their duty to put their ure, and it is believed that McLeans emotions in writing. Invention twill, in a measure, take It had been snowing only seven min- their place. utes, but the door softly opened, and a women and seven hoys were Two d enindividual melancholy, tered and approached the editor, carry- arrested at Laramie, Wyo., on coming a roll of manuscript on his shoul- plaint of Special Ageat Tenrose of der. Denver, Union Pacific railroad detecBut the editor had fainted. tive, charged with stealing coal from cars la the Laramie yard. All pleaded A Blighted New Years Hope. guilty to the charge. The two women Im very much afraid Miss Passeigh were dismissed with a reprimand, and Is in love, said one young, woman. the boys were fined small amounts and Tm sure she doesnt say anything sentences varying from ten to lead one to think so," replied the given jail 30 days. to other. No. But I found her Just now with Elko county, still holds the banner a pencil and paper figuring for dear for low taxation in Nevada,, the rate life to see whether four goes Into 1S9S of 81.65 recently voted being the lowwithout leaving a fraction." Wash- est Washoe levy so far reported. ington Star. In first which ranks wealth, county, has made a rate of 82.20 Humboldt, Observant the Winnemucca school tax, an theres some Including Casey "Bedad! $3.27. Storey, which collected imposes mighty queer things in the system of 85 last year, has reduced its levy to natur, as they call it 4.55 for 1893. Brady "Thots no drame. one an of them is of that Casey "Yis, State Examiner Henderson, the dryer the weather is the less it Wyoming reports the condition of the rains. state banks as follows; Resources, loans and discounts, $188,154.73; due A Hard Gness. other banks, $109,731,38; cash and from Wont poor DJnny Mrs. ORourke miscellaneous items, $57,321.11, total, be surproised to get a letther from us? fund, $29,000; in355,207.22. Surplus he will. An Thot Mr. ORourke d ye know, Oi put on a little postscript dividual deposits, $161,46S.84; certifitellin' him to guess who It was from cates of deposit, $78,677.76; undivided before he opened the envelope. profits, $14,062.62; total, $355,207.22. t. s 394! mi Wv? y. two-thir- long-haire- THE COLUMBIA, THE FASTEST VE SSEL IN THE UNITED STATES NAV Y. twelve and one-l- f feet. A leading feature is the con-n- g tower, which is a tower In fact as jll as in name. It has a height of feet above n and feet in e water line, is twenty-fiv- e Inches thick, ameter, and twenty now afloat, to it is equal lere nothing le conning towers on most ships are ere death traps, and many officers say they would rather ke their chances on an open bridge tte above the deck enty-seve- Is one-ha- lf com-andi- mor weights could not be borne. The absence of eight-inc- h guns means a sacrifice of offensive power, but there is a corresponding gain in armor protection and in general simplicity. The ship can be commanded by one man and handled by a small crew. The designer believes that this ship, although thirds as much as costing not over and Indiana being much cheaper to the maintain, would be more than a match for the pride of the Hoosier state. tw-o- - lieve that all the available merchant steamships would be called upon to do duty as commerce destroyers. They believe that half a dozen of the fastest ones would be more than enough to wipe Spains small commerct from the seas in a comparatively slort time. The navy. yard at Brooklyn ruld ac" one commodate ten large steamships time if it were necessary to 6 them out at short notice. te. |