Show miscellaneous JOHN jonir SMITH WITH variations john smith plain john smith id is not very high sound bound bounding ing it does not suggest aristocracy it is not the name of any liny hero in die dle away nov eiss ela and yet it ia Is good goody strong and honest transferred to other languages it seems to climb the ladder of respectability thug THUS gil ill I 1 in latin it ja is johannes smithia Smi hus thua the italian sm smoothed odthe it off into giovanni glov Giov annl anni smith the tha span lard renders it juan smiths Smi thus the dutchman adopts it as hans hana schmidt the toe french flatten rout it out into jean sweets and the russian sneezes and barks when john smith gets ints into the tea trade at canton be he becomes jablin Sch if he clamber clambers about mount hecla the iceland leeland Ic elanders ers eTs say be he is jahne smithson it he trades among the caloras car oraa he becomes ton qua smitta in poland ilc lic he is known as ivan iran should he wander among the welch moun bains they talk of ailion schmida Sch midd when he g es to mexico he ia is bo booked 0 ked as F sin t t it idof 0 f classic turn he lingers among G greek ek r ruins ii 1 0 beAu he tarns riis to lou iou lou ion ton and in T turkey ur ke ie he is utterly disguised asboe as yoe seef THE T 11 BATTI ta TZ E di or TIM Z the contest now going on at charleston between two of the tha best beat if jf not absolutely the two hegt heat engi engl engineers in their respect ive armies is 13 extremely interesting in every point of view besides that which con cerns itself with ilbe libe the national bearing of the result IV iff is universally iver lver admitted that if Beaure Beauregar gardis jd is good for anything in the way wax a I 1 of gener ship it isas is as an engineer an and be he probably is very 1 accomplished complis hed and ingenious in that line lide of service vice his hib actual exploits thus far are arel not fa of creat great originality as perhaps the occasion did not call for it but bilt they show no detect detects ii in his bis claim to be a firs t class clasa engineer reen leer but general gilmore in his reduction of fort pulaski Pula ski aki demonstrated highly original and brilliant qualities what he accomplished in thai case is well known but the follow lne ind Ine statement by bk the philadelphia orth american ot of the immense barriers of routine opinion which he had the boldness to attack and demolish at the same flame time tine but shows what whal stull the man is made of atia it ia stated that general wright for three years chief of the engineer bureau at washington after a cartful survey pronounced most positively against the practicability of f an attack on pulaski puta Pula akl aki stating that there is not iron enough in america to take that for fort general totten long the head bead of the entire engineer corps is 13 reported to have said you might as well undertake to bombard the racky mountains from tybee as fort pulaski gen robert E leeg giva give ve testimony ouy ovy to the same point the enemy may fill your fort with shot and shel shei 1 but they cannot breach its walls wails 2 but the incredulous 01 more insisted on an opportunity to drag bome gome cannon miles across floating marshes to a little firm land on which he be proposed to plant them for a breaching battery and by some strange chance ha he was permitted to do BO so the world knows the effect on oil fort pulaski puia Pula akl aki and are now informed that it its 11 C consequence on sequence with the tha branch of the service to which be was wag attached was to make mal e gen gilmore the best med wed officer in the engineer corpin cerpa ay lenez dun dur No taire fa a the name of a new no the hepsa ion lor order forder by bythe the celebrated parisian i novelists edmnd about aboul the hero i ia a a b highly I 1 g h ly respectable parisian notary of the fa u bo ut g st germ alny abny rich and well looking with a handsome ito roman nose surmounted with spectacles on account ii of short sight sights at one of the ev evening e receptions ioas in the greenroom green room of the imperial impe 1 opera where the young allies of the corps de ballet highly estimate him he quarrels with the secretary of the turkish legation who invites him to the duello in which his big nose ia is cut cub cutoff off by a damascene blade and is run away with by a tom torn cat witness wit nesb nesa of the comb combat a from whom it la Is not recovered tho at LA bert the notary runs after his nogo noaa in the cats mouth for over three miles accompanied compa nied in the thi race by the turk and three others of the same facea marquis and a stockbroker spectator spectators a of the combat the noss nose irretrievably lost surgical science is called in ili to provide a substitute for two thousand francs i a poor water carrier allows as much flesh to be cut out oe of his left arm to provide a new rose for the notary T the b e new n e va handle handia to his bis face is grecian instead of ito man and improves the aspect time goes on but the nose becomes ruddy the water carrier from whose arm it was taken takes having h ae v g pent spent e his hia 2000 francs in bard living livi rigg I 1 he ref reforms and the nose again flourishes flourished twelve months later the handsome greek nose is found to be limp the water carrier ia is dying f from rom want of food and is nouris nourished hea beA back into health which restores the not arili nasal feature at last the notary whop who is a 2 lady killer resolves to marry but on the tho morning of his hig intended nuptials awakes nose lessl lesal the lady who at first had heroically resolved to wed the notary nose or no nose cannot carry out this purpose when she see seeb sees bobat ambat sad spectacle he is theena iv the notary sells his practice retire retires to an elegant villa in the environs of 0 paris and has a silver nose made for daily use one day ia taking a walk awald be he runs against romagne the the water carrier whom the doctor had declared dead wretch where ia is my nose nobe ex claims fhe abe be excited notary ah ab air il U waz wai wa not nok 0 t rrt iny fault the ube trembling water haiir c carrier a 1 I got into a factory and mylett my lett left arm aria being caught in inthe the teeth 0 of an iron wheel was torn clean off ae it happened eaily early in the morning morn 1 rig of the ad of march ivsich happened to be bd the morning fixed for the nce nue bials such stich is the new dew sensation novel whick which ia is the latest rage in paris it is impossible for a tale to be founded on a greater extras ian kan gance ce nevertheless it is said to be very i well written and will make M about mor a ore oro popular appu I 1 a r than ever 9 THE tiie GREEK FIRE the greek fire which is so distasteful atil to the fire eaters of charles ton is the invention of mr levi short cs cf this city who was for a time a suitor to taft 06 government to use thia thib projectile but did not not succeed until it was recommended by A admiral 1 a miral porter by bs experience at vicksburg rg meantime representatives of foreign governments have applied for the invention with 1 out avail the base of the terrible agent is 1 3 p petroleum chemically coin combined mined with othie othle othu highly inflammable ingredients known ta to the inventor the whole forming an utter utterly ls inextinguishable furns turns uis hable bable compound which once igi ig i cited ite it burns triumphant bant hant over all alt ordinary means Ine airis atris of quenching fire burns even in ir watery water a and n k an n only be put out by being f T this Is fearful tearful fear rear fulwar war agent is contained in a light metallic cra cla chamber amber enclosed in the common form of percussion shebl shei that itself dis dia charged bv by striking the object aimed almed at the is scattered broadcast ita its fierce firmes giving a new terror to tei tet th perils of war buffalo advertiser |