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Show j NAUTICAL :- :-.. :-.. .j NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: On November 7, 1572, the Mary Celeste put out of New Orleans for Genoa, her hold filled with barrels of alcohol. On board was the captain, Benjamin S. Briggs, his wife, their small daughter, and a crew of seven men. Five weeks later the Mary Celeste Ce-leste was sighted 300 miles west of Gibraltar; her sails were set on a starboard tack, and she was ploughing plough-ing steadily eastward, but she was completely deserted. The decks were in order, no sign of a struggle, mutiny, mu-tiny, robbery or murder. In the captain's cap-tain's cabin were the captain's watch, money and compasses. They found Mrs. Briggs' sewing machine with a garment half stitched. In the forecastle fore-castle were the seamen's chests, their money, and even the remnants of a meal. The ship's boat an open yawl was gone. Obviously the Mary Celeste Ce-leste had been abandoned in a hurry, but why? Possibly those on board feared an explosion in her hold, put off hurriedly with no provisions, then waited for the disaster which failed to occur. Too late they may have tried to overtake her, only to find her sailing steadily farther out of reach. Gold can be extracted from sea water wa-ter but it is present in such minute traces, about one part in 200,000,000, that it is as yet an unsolved problem of chemical engineers how it can be economically extracted. On August 22, while enroute to Rio de Janeiro, the U. S. S. Ranger, after af-ter twelve hours steaming off her course, reached the freighter Collingsworth, Collings-worth, and removed one of the cooks. " J; pre the credit of inventing the cata ' "or meclianical device for laj, 8 " planes from ships not equipped, "U a flight deck. ea his purpose and faith and swore by the hilt of his sword, raising it to his lips for that purpose. The "one cannon-ball battle" occurred oc-curred at Sacket's Harbor, on Lake Ontario, during the war of 1812. A British ship sailed up to the American Ameri-can fort and fired into the works. The ball, perhaps due to a weak charge, fell short and landed at the feet of one of the defenders. The American picked up the missle, put it into his own cannon, and fired it back at the ship. There was no lack of charge back of it this time, and it raked the vessel from stem to stern, killed four-teen four-teen men, and wounded eighteen others. Thus the battle was ended. The slow motion picture was originally origin-ally devised by the United States navy for studying motions of projectiles pro-jectiles in flight. To the United States navy belongs Blood transfusions were volunteered, and the stricken cook was transferred to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, where i physicains stated that his recovery was likely because of the aid given by the crew of the American aircraft carrier. The cook, Nicola Delafuente, was an Argentenian. In New York, out of a total of 18,-663 18,-663 policemen, there are 1530 ex-enlisted men, or 1 in 12, and in the fire department of a total of 6,551 there are 2,741 ex-sailors. The "sword salute" originated at the time of the Crusades, when the hilt of the crusader's sword was made in the form of a cross. Every cru-1 sader kissed the cross as a seal of |