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Show of depth. Therefore at 100 feet depth the pressure is 44 pounds. The Santa Maria, Columbus' flag-ship, flag-ship, could be placed athwartships on! the battleship U. S. S. Colorado with four feet to spare. The phrase "Dutch Courage" comes down to us from the time of Fromp and De Ruyter. The crews of the Dutch fighting ships were given a nip of Holland gin before gomg into action. This was derisively termed by their English foes as "Dutch Courage." Cour-age." The quantity of salt in the ocean varies from 4 to 6 per cent. The Great Salt Lake in Utah contains approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent salt. I NAUTICAL :- :- ! I -: -: NOVELTIES j The- following "Nautical Noveltiea" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-Icruiting Re-Icruiting Station at Salt Lake City: In the great naval battle at Jutland during the world war, three British cruisers, the Defense, Black Prince and Warrior, steamed into the thick of battle. Immediately after they were under fire, a sea of flame flowed flow-ed beneath the fore turret of ths De-' jfense and up shot an immense column' of fire, black smoke, debris, and spray. When the mist cleared there ! was no sign of the ship. It had been blown to atoms along with the crew. ! At the same time the Warrior was terribly hit and steamed out of battle bat-tle only to sink the next morning. The Black Prince remains one of the great mysteries of the sea. With 250 ships crowding about, she completely disappeared with 7 officers and 820 , I sailors, and no body or wreckage has I ever been found. It was reported that an unknown cruiser, a blazing mass of wreckage, drifted slowly down the German line. The flames shot up to her masthead and the hull was glowing glow-ing almost white from the heat of internal in-ternal fires. Every few seconds exploding ex-ploding cases of ammunition sent up cascades of sparks. Suddenly the night was split by a blinding flame as the powder magazines blew up; then all was darkness. Was the report re-port true? If so, was it the Black Prince ? The Pacific side of the Panama Canal is 27 miles eastward of the Atlantic side. The first lighthouse was erected about 2000 years ago at Alexandria j on the coast of Egypt. The oldest j lighthouse in the United States is Boston Lighthouse, built in 1716. The j tallest lighthouse in the world is located lo-cated at Cape Mendocine, Calif., and can be seen a distance of 30 miles at sea. This lighthouse is 422 feet in height. The inspiring name "Old Glory" was given to the national ensign of the United States by Captain William Wil-liam Driver of Salem, Mass., in 1831. The words wene a salute to a beau-! tiful new flag presented to his ship , when starting on a voyage around j the world. Naval units, somewhat similar to j the R. O. T. C. of the army, are established es-tablished at six universities in the United States, viz., Harvard, Yale, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, Washington Wash-ington and California. Sea pressure is 44 hundredths of a pound per square inch for each foot |