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 why she, after two hundred and forty three years silent aequiescsuce in Rus sia's undsputed title to Behring Sea, should now claim it as an open sen, right to its seal and piscatory fisheries? Perhaps that tight little Isle still labors under the impression that Brit tauia rules the waves, aRd that even al this late day her supremacy win not De questioned by power commanding, as sho believes, fewer ships and less heavy armament than England
 In this, Lord Salisbury may be cal 5ulating upon an easy victory without his host, as was the ease of the Philis- ines over David, the son of Jesse, the Bathlehemite, who slew tho giant, Goliath, of Gath The battle is not always to the strong, nor does the weight of metal always prevail Paul Jones ship the Bon Homme Richard, with which he fought, at close quar- ters, two English vessels, the Seraphis and Scarborough and captured the Ssrapis, jhe most formidable of the two, the Serapis having fifty guns, the Richard but forty The Scarborough was subsequently captured after an hours resistance by the Pallas. The commander of the Serapis was knighted for his bravery Commodore Jones when he heard it said, "Wen, be de- served it, and if I meet him again will make lord of him Reuben Chase, of Nantucket midshipman of the Richard, iu that battle, became the Long Tom of J. Fennimors Cooper's nautical novel, ''The Pilot. Paul Jones himself was the unknown pilot of the story
 Yankee fnesse was successfully em ploysd against the British during the war. An instance is related of five miIitiamen raising the siege of Saysn- nah by firing the woods in the night and riding back and forth and giv- ing imaginary orders, and demand ed the surrender of the British, which was immediately complied with. After bsing disarned they were paroled and then they were permitted to go, but, next morning, wsre pursued and recap tured by an increased number of militia.
 Bshring Strait was first discovered by Russian named Deschnew, who, in 164S sailed from harbor in Siberia, in the Polar Ocean, into the Sea of hamtchatls, and through what is known ss Bshring Straits, but it was not until TIPS that yitus Bshring made his expedition to that Strait which has bean named after him. Behring was wrecked sud died in 1741 on Behring Island, the most westerly of the Aleu- tian Islands, Bshring Sea is a part of the North Pacific Ocean, commonly known as tho Sea of Eamtchatks, bounded west by Kamtchatka, east by Alaska, south by the Alsutian Island and north by Behriug Straits. Alaska vas acquired from Russia by the United States in 1867, at a price of 5z,2OO, GOO.
 The British seem to entertain the same opinion rs when they iusolsntly boastsd in 1872, that "ths '. s. could not be kicked into war, and in order to test that opinion the British government, which was aching for a fight was accommodated, and George IT was the first who cried, hold. enough And just now the guns of the British mau-of- war Macedonia, cap tured by Captain Steven Decatur, now in the New York navy yard, are having the rust knocked off them and mounted on gun-carriages with the view of plac- ing them in the park adjoining tho Lyceum Building. The Macedonia Tag new, carried 3s guns. and was re- puted to be the crack ship of the Brit ish navy. After 'sthe cruel war was over" the King of England expressed his qualification by proclamation of thanks, and when asked what he had to be thankful for, replied, that England mad not been more severely dealt with, ' and he regretted not accepting the of- fsr of Russia to mediate between the countries. The result of that war cost England 1900 merchant vessels and their cargoes.
 The result of the battles of Saratoga, Yorktown and New Orleans, as we'll as our naval victories over boastiul En- gland, should be arsminder that Uncle Sam is able to cope with John Bull Latest Washington dispatches suggest that there may yet be necessity for the burning of gun powder, Salisbury IS obdurats, refuses to renew the modua yiyendi, and makes counter proposi- tions not calculated Co improve the temper of Uncle sam. Salisbury E note and President Harrison's reply were laid before the Senate and caused lL-suppressed surprise and irritation. The Presidents rejoindor is vigorous and to the point Ib declares that if England declines to assist in protecting the seals until tho difference is arbitra- ted, then the United States will protect the seal fisheries single handed, eyon though all the military forces of tle