The San Francisco call., 1901-11-11
April 1900. April 1901.

Gunnery practice is receiving much at
tention Of late in foreign navies, notably
in the French and English. In the latter
the conditions for heavy and light guns
are different, the target used for the IL
inch and 92-inch guns being fifteen feet
high, twenty feet across the top and fifty
feet at the foot. The vessels steam past
this target at eight knots speed at dis
tances varying from 400 to 1000 yards,
firing for a period of six minutes. The
six-inch quick-frers fire for two minutes
over a range varying from 400 to 1900
yards at target of 500 square feet, thss
ships moving at twelve knots speed. Un-
der the first named conditions the cruiser
Terrible fired her two 9.2-inch guns TWEEN.
ty-two rounds and scored fourteen hits, a
percentage of GA.
The commanding officers of the Jana
nese torpedo boat deseroyers Mil and
Akebone have been cOurt-martialed for
the loss of the former vessel and collision
of the latter. Commander Arakawa Chu-
go of the Mil was sentenced to three
months minor imprisonment, and Com
mander Tsukumi Masav of the Akebons
received sentence of fifteen DAYS minor
Imprisonment. The Mil was a new boat,
just out from England. and became a to-
tai wreck July 30 of last year by running
on a sunken rock. and the Akebone col
lided with the cruiser Chihaya June IS
last. All hands were saved on the Mil
but the AkebOne had three men killed ana
one severely injured.
The discovery of wireless telegraphy is
claimed by Russia and to have been made
practical use Of by jacob, a Russian, as
far back as 1S42. 1t was used, so il is
claimed, by the ships of Oranienbauni
and. further, that for twelve months
Nicholas used 1t at the Winter Palace.
1t seems strange that this invention
should have been lost so many years but
to make up for lost time it Is now being
introduced In most Of the ships and at an
naval stations.
1t is rumored that Russia intends to
purchase all the warships of China that
are of any value. These include two cruis-
ers OF 400 tons and twenty-four knots
speed, built in 1S97-9S at Elswick, and
three cruisers of 295O tons and 2O.7 knots,
built in Germany four years ago.
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music first appeared In the GentIemans
Magazine in 1745. Anthony Young, an or.
ganist OF London. is also credited with
having written the music. Burrey. in the
history of music, says that 1T was orig
inally written for the chapel OF James II,
16S5-17O1. and ran God save Great James.
our King" 1t is also claimed that God
Save the King" is of great antiquity and
Of French origin. having been used for
centuries as vintage hymn in the south
of France.
ESTATE-L. II. s. H.. Tulare Cal. y
a husband dies intestate in California ana
leaves a widow and onI-- one child the
property goes to widow and child sbara
and share alike. A husband. II Of so,,rd
and disposing mind may dispose of pron-
erty as he desires. The donor of pronert.,
by testamentary disposition has an q
most unlimited scope within which TO sV-
ercise his judgment or to gratif,r hts ca.
price and intention in the matter
CAUSES FOR DIyORCE-W r
City. In the State Of Pennsylvania +ho
grounds for divorce are physical i,ca-
pacity, desertion for = period of two
years, Imprisonment for felony. cruel
ty, fraud and fraudulent confrrct
violation OF the marriage vow and
where wife by cruel and har-
harous treatment renders CONDITION
Of husband intolerable." In New Ter
sey the grounds are: Violation Of the
marriage vow; physical incapacity: wilI-
full desertion, two years; cruelty. Divorcn
may be obtained In California after wfll-
rui deSert1on for one year COllusiOr, and
SonnIVance Dar divorce. For instance
II IN Call1ornia, husband should agree
with MS wife to desert her for one wear
so there might be a divorce. such agree
ment would De bar TO a divorce