| Show A HEW FEW ANTIQUES Chicago News Buried Burled under the water of o Lake Nem Italy Itah lie two pleasure galleys which belonged to the Roman emperors Tiber Tiberius Tiberius ius lus and and which contain art treasures coveted for years Of the two vessels the larger measures about feet in length with an beam the smaller feet in length with a beam Some of the wood which was used in building the galleys was soft and some hard and resinous The soft wood employed mainly for sheath sheathIng Ing and deck planking is pine The harder wood is either red pine or Oak Oal pins were were employed to hold down the planking In sheathing the vessels the planks were placed edge Sedge to edge and joined d by wedges As the planks swelled the wedges formed a tight lt joint Long copper nails were driven drien through the planks at intervals of four or five feet the nails passing through one plank down to the next and the succeeding nail being driven through the second plank to the third Short copper nails held the planks themselves s to the beams be ms of the frame framework framework framework work To render the hull particularly stanch an outside layer of hard plaster was employed upon which a woven I fabric was w s laid Then came a sheath sheathing sheathing sheathing ing of lead plates held by nails two inches inc es long To get at these galleys it isnow Is now proposed to drain Lake Nemi Archery was once a compulsory exer exercise else cise in every English parish after Sun Sunday S n day clay church It is a worthy game preached Bishop Latimer fla a whole wholesome wholesome some kind of or exercise and much com corn commended commended mended In physic A fine of a half halfpenny halfpenny halfpenny penny for abstaining from archery practice on Sunday was enforced in Edward Ills reign and Henry crack regiment the yeomen of the guard was composed entirely of bow bowmen bowmen bowmen men Archery flourished some time after the introduction of the hand gun though this bad been used In England as early as 1471 This developed in James Is time into the so called caned from the English misconception of an order to supply English soldiers with guns of the same caliber as the French pattern and the long bow was finally abandoned In the civil wars London has been suffering from a plague of nf caterpillars but about years ago it was visited with a plague of flies compared with which the pres present present present ent fades ades into insignificance An ac account count of the period runs thus About the middle of or August of this year 1708 such a prodigious quantity of flies pes pea pestered pestered the city of London that many of the he streets were so covered with them that the peoples feet made as perceptible ble an impression on them as upon thick snow and notwithstanding many hundred bushels of them were swept into the kennels yet no distemper en ensued ensued ensued sued nor did the Inhabitants receive the least Injury in their health |
