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Show Still Belief In Jonahs. There is still a firm belief in Jonahs at sea; and the other day a sailor, who was prosecuted for failing to Join a British admiralty transport, pleaded in excuse that he was known to seamen generally as Jonah and that the sailors sail-ors on the transport had threatened to throw him overboard if he did Join. Certainly, if superstition ever could be rational, they had some reason for theirs. He had served on the Titanic and the Empress of Ireland, both of which were wrecked, and on the Lusi-tania Lusi-tania and Florizan, both of which were torpedoed. |