Show ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMER anchoria atlantic ocean oct S S your correspondent is at uth about miles from ireland present westward bound on the anchor liner the sun aun is shining beautifully anchoria chorla An the south wind is playing on hills that rise and fall watery the around us and a few sea gulls circle the vessel as if to cheer us up around L and to show us how easy it is after all the atlantic happy birds to cross the restless on they can rest even of the ocean waves the anchoria An chorla is a vessel about she is not a racer her average tons speed speed being about thirteen knots but she is well wel I 1 adapted for passenger traffic she has splendid first class accommodations large state rooms f dining room drawing room etc and the comfort i what is so essential to officers and servants seem travelers of to take pleasure in making the sojourn on board a pleasure as far as the second cabin is some i possible comfortable than some others other s what less I 1 have seen but I 1 presume the charge proportion there are at present is in about abou t passengers in the second cabin many of whom are bound for utah and other w western estern states in the first cabin we axe are forty souls there are also 90 steerage passengers many of whom look like russian jews board an ocean steamer is tafe lite on necessarily monotonous the great events of the day are the meal hours when the passengers meet on intimate terms as it were and entertain entert aln one remarks about the another w with ith weather the speed or the course of the vessel or with the wonders of foreign have visited the regions region s they may most trivial abse observations ovations are intently listened to as if they were specimens philosophy the most common of platos yarns are received with polite attention between meals the sea is scanned 0 canned eagerly and if a vessel is righted or a 9 school of porpoises seen playing in the water the news Is spread aprea d from one to another and an d all are to see the sight A common eager tramp steamer is 10 an object of admiration when seen out in mid ocean all this however presupposes good weather and a calm sea As everybody knows there are moments when you want to be alone on the ocean more so than on land and then neither meats meas nor fish nor the yarns nor the ships that pass have any attraction the tables are deserted and life is not considered worth living there has been a good deal of sickness on board on leaving ireland and pawing passing through what the sailors I 1 believe call the devils hole we encountered a fresh gale with rough sea imd and the majority of the passengers were prostrated from the outset today 1 Is the first fine day and the sick are appearing on deck pale but probably not much injured by their late experience the anchor line is one of the old reliable transatlantic lines it was established e in 1852 and has now seven vessels plying glasgow and vw mew york one of these thes e city of rome Is a ship of over tons while the others are fe smaller besides war service gel vice to new york tork the corn J pany has steamships stearn ships carrying passengers and freight between liverpool and bombay london and calcutta via G genoa enoa and alexandria and also aiso from glasgow to mediterranean ports they have no less than 33 ships constantly plowing the deep and agents in all the principal sea ports of the world one feature of the anchor line service is the side tours arranged for the accommodation of american tourists these embrace all the principal cities and places of interest in england scotland and ireland and also the continent and tickets can be secured through the offices of the anchor line in looking over what literature there happens to be on board I 1 came across the other day a little bit of history concerning the stars and stripes it may be of general interest it seems that near althorp parka station on the london and northwestern road is the parish church of Br ington in the aisle of this church is a brass bearing an inscription that conveys the information that robert washington of in the county of northampton and elizabeth washington his wife were buried in the church in the year 1622 in the neighboring of there are more brasses and one is devoted to the memory of laurence washington twice mayor of northampton first in 1532 and then in 1545 another brass shows the arms of the to have been stars and stripes a device still to be seen above jhc ehg porch of the ancient manor house where once the mayor washington resided A description in heralds college of the cashins ton arms is as follows arms argent two bars gules in chief three mullets of the second crest a raven with wings in dorsee indorsed Indor sed proper issuing out of a ducal coronet or from this description it is argued that it Is earv to perceive the affinity of both the star spangled banner and the spread eagle of the united states with the washington arms the first president of america was a direct descendant of laurence washington of whose great grandson john was knighted in 1657 and it is supposed the united states adopted the washington arms as the national emblem as one mark of gratitude to the father of ht his country here Is a story about bismarck that has circulated in european papers maurus bokal the celebrated run hun writer gives in an australian journal the following disclosures concerning Bis marcks shirt of mall mail in the beginning of 1866 when the reeling feeling between austria and prussia had bad become a very bitter one a young hungarian magnate d desired an audience of bismarck this same young man a baron was known in his native country as a very verv eccentric personage T tte he te had not paid a single farthing of taxes during the long reign of absolutism his lands had been left uncultivated to save his being obliged to pay any on being admitted to marcks Bis presence he stepped up to the latter and informed him he had invented a shirt chirt of mail not only bulletproof bullet proof but also not unpleasant to wear T the he chancellor smiled upon which the baron observed that he wore such a shirt and requested the other to test its powers of resistance bismarck Is not a man to be trifled with and seeing that he had not a fool before him he seized his revolver and fired five shots successively at his visitor the latter remal remained ned unharmed and immovable while the bullets struck him and fell to the round ground hereupon he be showed the chancellor his bis invention it was a shirt 0 of f many folds sewn together the ea elasticity aftic ity and denseness of the stuff produced its power of resistance the Hungar hungarian nobleman now advised the chancellor to accept his invention and when tho latter inquired what was to be the price of it he said beat the aus triana we shall do that in any case replied bismarck some days after this occurrence an attempt was made on Bl Bi life the would be assassin firing five shots at the latter at a distance of two or three paces only the newspapers stated that the chancellor appeared quiet cool and even smiled whilst being shot at not one of the bullets had bad hurt him A mouth month later bismarck had kept his promise the austrians Aust rians were beaten J M X S |