The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13

tise red. White. red he ohast y; 6s second
h Gans Of tss s lSEsr th %hi iS T 1Ss E nEOsTSin Sis Re
the Austrian fleet he is salutsd with tyventy.one
gun and fifteen cheers. = Field Mhrs3aa se.1
thirteen and seven; a Commodore eleven and
three. and every other rank gets its proper al
The first French dag was blue, the Ghspe Do
g. Martin. believed Ley to oh, % 2 part q ths c9Ps th2t
the scarlet flag OF Sc. Denis ousted the blue flag.
but It went down ut ARincourt In ld15. n
liliss Of France we're ADDED p t p blue ! gaS at :
Protestant, adopted. as his bahnSr the HuFse::
nots' white flag, and the liiies were soon added
during the Revolution, when the %trieoior -.
placed them, to last until 1913 when the white
t%riccOior returned. and has stayed up to the
time of going TO- press. During, the first and
second empires the white stripe bore an eagle,
The spanish royal standard is most eompli-
IL said to DO derived from this occurrences: In
1888 Charles;the Bold dipped his tngers IN, The
them down the Count's golden shield, in token
Of his appreciation of the %latter's bravery. Tho
sbieid 90 marked became the arms of BARGE
S sGna; we're Wn,sa taken HsG" BY tb Rsti Kingdom Now to tSe
royal standard. p the irst quarter, or upper
, saa R osstll Err tho % l 1SS n snd s ths. ' ess fS%' ,t & h SEQ,
Upper AErs ssira 81 SPf 'hs .hi sss a shs q ss%I ;d IF slsii7y an Tss
two-thirds, is divided, between. the flag of Bur
chequers. another Burgundlan device. while the
fSTsr and the e golden lion Of R lsS sas's and
ON top Of ell this are two shields, one showing
the Portuguese arms, the other the. French
feur.de lys. That's some potatoes Of o flag,
The old Papal States used the yellow and
Godfrey Of Bouilion Is said 70 have chosen in,
defiance of the laws OF heraldry. In order that
Psalms: Though 20 have lien amongst tho
pots, yet shall ye be as the. wings OF a dove COW
esroesdd with silver, and her feathers with yellow
The Danish flag is the oldest nag in existence,
S With q SQUARE Sa1a % w idts Cross asr and Is said 4 70 ~ Be due DUO
to the fact that King Waldemar of Denmark
in q critical moment of his career saw a white
strength Of Denmark. The Dutch flag was
tho orange became red, and it remains so to this
ED; and yellow !, Of &, The Bslsis y aas are aiken
blue and white Of tho Greek flag were adopted
in compliment 70 Ohio of Bavaria, who be.
moon and star Of Byzantium were adopted by the
Turks, after their conquest in 1452. The Byzan.
esns. h hSs n ndSP!!sd at snsm I'm sG Ss% Sisa p,spS; be- 70
them an attempt BY the soldiers of Philip Of
Macedon TO undermine the walls of the city.
Tho personal flag OF the Sultan is of red and
bears his personal device, SO IL changes with
each accession. The:device Is called the TuRh.
ra, and consists Of the name OF the Sultan,
the title Khan. and the epithet FL Muzaffar
daizna. the ever victorious. It originated thus:
Sultan Murad L., who assembled the throne A.
the Ragnsans, he wetted his open hand with ink
and pressed II on the parchment. the first. sec
ond. and third fingers making smears close to-
gether. while the thumb. and fourth finger were
apart on eithor side. To this day, the ,Tughra
manual; as It may be seen on Turkish coins and
stamps. the three upright marks indicate Murad's
three fingers, the rounded line to the left the
thumb. and that to the right the little finger.
The smaller characters change with each SOW.
ereiRn.
Mr.. Hume speaks Of the flags that have dis
appeared. OF thirty-flve flags shown in a flags
Of all nations supplement to q London weekly In
1858. barely forty. years ago, eleven have dis
appeared. among them those of the East India
Company, Of the Ionian Islands, of Tuscany,
Naples. and the States Of the Church, of the
Russian American Company. and of Sardinia.
Now that Alaska Is making itself felt here,
the Alaskan flag might be revived. in a modi.
fed form. The upper two-thirds were white,
showing the Russian eagle; the upper half OF
the lower third was blue. the lower half red.
1t must have iuttered gayly over the Alaskan
but our own Stara and Stripes ia
quite as much at home there and futters and
struggles at Its halyards just as well.