Show ABMY AND NAVY GOSSIP The Luneta is the fashionable rome nade of Manila and one may there see the best social side of the Philipptneg Time Luneta Is a sort of Fifth avenue along the banks of the Pasig river ICitp telephones for torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers are being tried by the British navy A kite sent up held by two strings each attached to a detroyer along which the message Is sent Of what practical use in warfare this device is expected to be no information is given The Cincinnati CommercialTribune calls attention to the fact that every colonel that went out under Shatter han been killed or disabled by disease and sent north That is a fatality almost unexampled unexam-pled In modern warfare but It also tels a glorious storyone to adorn the pages of United States history The last issue of the Fogllo dOrdine or official journal of the Italian navy contains con-tains the following order On battleships as a general rule the use of wood will be abolished This Is the first effect of the report of the American naval experts after the destructIon of Admiral Cer veras squadron by the American fleet Dr Field who was the examining sur geort for the naval reserves while tIme recruiting re-cruiting was being lone in New Orleans has many a good story to tell of recruIts in the service A good one lie tells Is of a German who was walking his post and calling the hours as required He called Seven bells and alls veil The next call howeve was a variation It Was Eight bells and all is not veil I haf droppit my musket oferboard Shatters luck is often spoken of In army circles He was a farmer boy when he enlisted for the civil war and had risen to first lieutenant at the close of hostiii ties Then he applied for transfer to the regulars His request was granted but the clerk in time adjutant generals ofilce wrote lieutenant colonel instead of lieutenant and the commission was signed by Lincoln with a big batch of 0th ers Protest was made by men over whose heads Shatter had been promoted bu in the turmoil Incident to the assassination the matter was dropped A member of the house of commons has two nephews who are engineers in tha American navy in a lettcr to his uncle one or his young kimismen relates that in one of the bombardments of Morro castle a gun of an American battleship was putout put-out of action by a shell from the forts immediately all time chief engineers were summoned from the whole fleet by signal and were brought aboard thls ship to give advice its to the gun They all loqked at the gun thd examined her damaged ma Chlnery and the yesult o their combined wlts was that In half an hour the tua wa back in action as sound as ever |