Show BITS OF WAR GOSSIP Mrs Mary 8 Gist who wal th tlr t Woman to olunte her lervles to nurse 10 tho late war I now living In Washington and says she Is I rdy i to go tothe tront one mor Pinafore discipline > eemi to rul on Uie Italian Ironclad Lepanta Whn In a Spanish port some time ago every one on board from the admiral down chipped chip-ped In to buy a ticket In a Bpnnltu gov crnment lottery The ticket dew a prize of 1200 000 which has been t divide UI1 atong tho omerl and erew The anUharmada u Ith w hlch Philip II of Spain attempted to conquer Great I DrIUIn consisted of 130 ships 31CS cannon can-non 87CC sailors OS8 galley slaves i SD3 soldiers 1355 volunteers and ISO Wars n Inspired by women The Trojan war waged for the sake of the fair and fickle Helen Next In point of time I I como the war between Mark Antony and Octavlus which wo raged for the mastery of the norran world nt the direct di-rect Instigation of Cleopatra Next was the Parthian war In which Henobla of Falm > ra fought Home for the empire f the east Lust came the French war nf which the heroine was Joan of Arc It Is Interesting to know just j nt this time that In the United States senate there are 12 senators who served In the Union army and 12 who served In the ConfeJcrnti army Thre are 67 representatives who erved In the UnIon Un-Ion army and 30 who ure Contdr all Oeneral Thoma J nooser ho tought tor the Conldraey throughout ths e1VII war think that this Is the 1 time tor ounll blood and not for the vt ranl young men for Omcerl 101 dlerl anol t iimu are ibat w nod I b laYI not rhumatle dea an1 blind major generals who know nothing ot modrn tacllcI or modm weaponl and who cannot drill a squad without a I > rornpter or mount n horse wllhout n ladder Visitors to Chlckamiuga park have formed some faint Idea of the rigors of a Montana winter by gazing upon the fur bata and caps cloveg and buffalo t > bes which some of the soldiers cf the twentyfifth brought with them ot course the soldlern will nnd no use for iuch clothing In that climate and It Is I only a few of them who are thus provided pro-vided It Is said that Crozler who Invented the dlappearlng gun carriage got his Ida trom a Kana prlllrio dOl jump t lag Into Its bole |