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Show orious mast". On May 23rd, 1872, Congress passed pas-sed a bill to the effect that sailors of the United States Navy should have coffee served upon arising In the morning. A nautical mile is 6080 feet as compared with 5280 feet in the land mile. The nautical mile is the length of one minute of arc on the equator, and therefore fits in much easier than the land mile for a navigator's na-vigator's chart work and competition. I Nautical Novelties Probably the longest flags used in the United States are the homeward home-ward bound pennants of the Navy. When a ship has served for more than a year of foreign duty, it flies the pennant on its return to the United States. The usual procedure (each man in the crew. Because of is to allow one foot of pennant for Its great length, ballons are sometimes some-times attached to the pennant to keep it out of the water. The cruller crul-ler U. S. S. Houston, when return-tag return-tag from duty in the Asiatic Fleet, tad a pennant 575 feet long. In fifteen years, changes In the bed of Hwang-ho, Yellow River, caused by the drowning and by de-truction de-truction of crops the loss of more than 30,000,000 Chinese. The Yellow Yel-low River has varied its place of (discharge into the sea by a distance ' of 350 miles. One of the oustanding items of present-day Shanghai, China, is the Sunday Service of the United States Sta-tes Sailors and Marines on duty In that city. The services are conducted conduct-ed by their Chaplain, Commander M- M. Witherspoon, U. S. Navy (former ail-American tackle football foot-ball player from the Washington-Jefferson Washington-Jefferson university), and are held to the modern Grand Theatre. This toeatre, seating nearly 1800 people crowded to the doors every Sunday Sun-day with service people, foreigners nd native Chinese who come to hear the splendid program of music, the stirring address and to take Part in the worship of this unique "Service Church". After the series, ser-ies, by arangement of the Army and Navy Y.M.CA., the sailors and Marines are entertained in the homes of Shanghai matrons. i(The expression in the Navy of "8ing to mast" probably had its origin from sailing ship days when the Captain of the ship meted out Punishment for violation of the by holding court at the base the mast. Today the practice is "ill in use, but in addition requests ""on enlisted personnel are consld-r consld-r at this time. When called be-0re be-0re the mast for exceptional per-wmanee per-wmanee of duty, m order to make Comtnendation, it Is termed "merit- |