Show one of stories Stor leg ono of Labouch cres stories about the admiralty and the way my lords conduct their labors at whitehall is as follows A few years ago a gun was lost by bursting in the sea of marmora and upon reading the report of the admiral in command of the fleet my lords were moved to telegraph to aak ask whether there was any chance of tho the muzzle of tho the gun being recovered the answer was that in view of the fact that the gun had been lost in eighty fathoms of water nearly out of eight of land where no cross bearings could have been taken the likelihood of its recovery waa was very remote thereupon my lords wanted to know why no engineers accounts had been sent in from the vessel in question but they ceased telegraphing when the admiral replied that the ship had been for ten years a sailing ship cor new york world |