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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
ENGLAND's FIRST SHIP.
Great Harry Was the Country's Pre-
mier Fighting Machine.

Great Earry Was the COuntry's Pre-
mier Fighting Machine.
OF the first ship, properly speaking.
of the British navy, known as the
Great Harry, the following particu-
lars are given in an old number of the
Mechanics Magazine, dated Oct. %,
1923:
The Great Harry was built BIZ King
Henry VII at cost of f14,0O0, and
was burned at Woolwich, through acct
dent, in 1858.
Though King Henry, as well as
other princes, hired many ships, ex-
elusive of those which the different
seaports We're obliged to furnish, he
seems thus to have been the first king
who thought of avoiding this incon-
venience by raising such a force as
might be at all times sufficient for the
service of the state. Historians tell us
that he caused his navy, which had
been neglected in the preceding reign,
to be put in condition to protect the
British coasts against all foreign inya-
sions, and that in the midst of pro-
found peace he always kept up a feet
ready to act.
In August, 1912, the Regent, a ship
of 1000 tons, which was at that time
the largest vessel in the British navy,
was burned. and to replace it the
Great Harry, or. as it was also known,
the Henry Grace de Dieu, was built in
1915.
! The vessel, of about 1000 tons bur-
| len, was manned by $40 soldiers, 301
marines and so gunners. She had four
masts and portfolios on both decks and
in other parts.
Before the time Of her construction
the cannon were placed above deck
and on the PROV and poop. One De
charges, a French builder at Brest, is
; said to have invented portfolios.
In list of the British navy, as II
stood on Jan. 5, 1913, the Great Harry
is said to have carried 10 brass and 10a
| iron pieces of ordnance.
The name Of the ship is supposed tc
have been changed in the reign of Ed
ward vi to Edward, which. on Aug
2G, 1852. was reported to be still 'ir
good case to serve" and was ordered
"to be grounded and calked once 8
year to keep it tight. Coasters Maya
1 zine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
SOME CURIOUS CHURCHES
Congregations Which Meet In Inns
Windmills and Boats.

A public house is one of the last
places one would expect to be used as
place Of worship. The Inhabitants
of Twyford, village near Winchester,
would not consider this at all a nov
city, because for several years past
the Phoenix inn has been used Sunday
for religious purposes. The room in
which the religious, services are held
will comfortably hold about 200 people
and opens at the back on to pretty
tea garden. The most remarkable fea-
ture of the services is that they are Of
ten conducted while the public house
is open for business purposes, and the
customers can join in the singing if
they are so disposed.
There are two or three instances of
public houses which have been con-
vefted into churches, and there are
also two or three theaters which are
now places of worship. The Fen dis
trict possesses a canalboat church.
There are large number Of people
church, and the canalboat church tray
els from place to place for the benefit
of such folk. The boat will seat a
congregation of about 100.
The old chapel of ease at Tunbridge
Wells has a unique situation. 1t stands
in two counties and three parishes
When the clergyman leaves the yestry
he comes out of the parish of Frant of
Sussex. If he is going to officiate at
the altar, he walks into the parish OF
Tunbridge. in Kent. If, on the other
hand, he is going to preach the sermon
he walks from the parish of Frant tc
the parish of Speldhurst on his way te
the pulpit.
The chapel at Milton Bryant is stu
ated in the village pond. The reason
for the selection Of this strange site
was because no landowner would
would grant any other position.
The swindmill' church near Reigatt
is familiar to London cyclists. Not 81
familiar is the underground church a
Brighton. Owing to some ''ancien
lights difficulty, the authorities coult
not "build up" and as the site was ;
good one they decided to "build down.
London Mail.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
An Absurd Superstition.

A popular belief is that the sound
produced by little insect known as u
"death watch" portends the death of
some relative or friend. That the
noise made by this little creature re-
sembles the ticking of Il watch is un-
disputed. but that it in anywise fore
tells the dissolution of a human being
is absurd. Observation has establish
ed the fact that these little insects in
fest u timber and posts, and
that the peculiar noise is caused by
them in glawin. and boring through
the rotten wood fibers in quest of food.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
LULLABY.

We've wandered all about the upland fallows, Ii
We've watched the rabbits at their play,
But now good night, goodby to soaring swallows
Now good night, goodby, dear day.
Poppy heads are closing fast, pigeons circle home
at last
Sleep. liebchen, sleep, the bats are calling;
Pansies never miss the light, but sweet babes
must sleep at night;
Sleep, lebchen, sleep, the dew is falling.
Even wind among the quiet willows
Rests, and the sea is silent too
See soft white linen, COOL such cool white pillows
Wait in the darkling room for you.
All the little chicks still; now the moon peeps
down the hill;
Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the owls are hooting
Ships have hung their lanthorns out; little mice
dare creep about;
Sleep, liebchen, sleep, the stars are shooting.
Ford NJ. Hueffer in Littells Living Age.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Origin of the Word sterling

The origin of the word sterling" is
very curious. Among the early mint
ers of coin in northern Europe were the
dwellers of eastern Germany. They
We're so skillful in their calling that
numbers of them were invited to Eng
land to manufacture the metal money
of the kingdom. The strangers We're
known as ''easterlings." After a time
the word became sterling" and in
this abbreviated form it has come to
imply what is genuine in money, plate
or character.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
BILLIARD CUES.
How They Arc Madc-America Fur
nishes the Best.

now AAGy SATS - sAA
nishes the Best.
"Most billiard cues" said New York
manufacturer the other day. ARE made
in two pieces-the cue proper and the
handle The cue is made generally of
maple, and the butt, which is wedge
shaped, is inserted into handle of
rosewood, snakewood, ebony. mahog-
any, walnut or some other fancy dark
wood, which is cut to dovetail with the
long part.
''The maple wood used in making the
handles is sawed into suitable lengths
and seasoned. The logs are then split
into pieces from which the handles are
made. These pieces are called bolts.
The bolts are sawed approximately to
the shape of the handle to be finally
made, and in this shape they are han
die blocks. The handle block is turned
to the shape of the handle in lathe,
and when the butt has been fitted it is
finished and polished.
"The finest and best cues are fitted
to the handle or butt by means Of a
double wedge. At the top of the cue Is
a ferrule of ivory. of horn or bone, in
which the leather tip is fitted. While
the ivory ferrule is the most expensive,
of course it is less durable than the
horn or bone ferrules. which are less
liable to crack. The extra workman
ship on cues is put in on the butts,
some of which are deliberately inlaid
and carved in beautiful patterns.
There are number of billiard play
ers who will not permit another person
to use their cues. and for the use of
these particular players cues are turn
ed out from which the tips may lie I'M
screwed. leaving the cue with untinish-
ed points and useless.
american billiard cues are the light
est, strongest and neatest made any.
where in the world. They are made
in all weights and lengths and rank in
price from 80 cents to $50 and more
each according to the quality and fin
ish of the MISUNDERSTANDING Star.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
USING HIS WITS.
Showing How People May BE Guided
by Inference.

e
"You see," said the man with the
bullying forehead and prominent nose,
t'if people would only be guided more
by inference it would save lots of USE
less trouble
81 don't understand you." said the
man who had been tickling pimple on
his chin.
''Why. for instance, passed frozen
pond one winter day. On the ice saw
pair of skates. boys cap and init
ten. Out in the middle of the pond the
ice was broken. Did jump to the
conclusion that boy had been drown
ed and raise great hullabaloo about
tt?'
"Of course you did. or else you ought
to be prosecuted. You don't mean to
say you passed on and said nothing?'
81 do calmly replied the man of the
forehead. 81 inferred instead of jump
ing to false conclusion"
"But you had to infer that the boy
was under the ice," protested the 9TH
er
"Not bit of it. If the boy had fallen
in, the skates and cap and mittens
would have gone with him. l simply
inferred that he had seen rabbit and
given chase. l was right too. In the
course of five minutes l met him on the
road"
"Oh, you did! And maybe you infer
red something else"
"Of course did. AS he had the nose
! bleed. inferred that he had fallen over
a log in the chase and got left, and he
admitted that such was the case"
"Then you ought to have wound up
the performance by inferring whether
it was male or female rabbit"
ut wasn't necessary, my captious
friend. AS passed on found the
rabbit, dead from overexertion, and it
was a male. '-Washington Post.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
A STARTER.

A gentleman whose hearing is de.
fective is the owner of dog that is the
terror of the neighborhood in which be
lives.
The other day he was accosted by a
friend. who said:
Good morning. Mr.. Fl. Your wife
made a very pleasant call on us last
evening"
I'm very sorry" came the startling
reply. I'll see that it don't occur
again. for I'm going to chain her up in
future" Telegraph.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Beautiful Lake View

is an ideal sunni er resort, the peculiar
pleasures OF hunting and fishing being
found here at their best. The North
Western Line. to afford an opportunity
to reach this favored spot. will sell ex-
cursion tickets to Lake View at Sl.2O
for the round trip from Denison. APP
plying Fridays and Saturdays, tickets
limited to return on or before the fol
lowing Monday Apply to agents Chi
cago & North Western R'y. aug
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Why She Wore II.

He Ito the young widow)-Why do
you wear such u heavy veil? though.
that yon had an objection to ostenta-
tious mourning.
She-Oh. it is only to hide my
smiIes.-New York Sun.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14

The horseshoe in China as well as in
other countries is looked upon as har-
binger of good luck. For that reason
Chinese mandarins when buried have
horseshoe graves.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14

The worst mosquito infested neigh
borhood in the world is the coast of
Borneo. The streams Of that region
are at certain seasons unnavigable be-
cause of the clouds of mosquitoes.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Then and Now.

In these days OF cheap literature,
when the masterpieces of English writ
ers can be had for Cd, it is interesting
to note that just 1000 years ago the
Countess Of Anjou gave 200 sheep, one
load of wheat, one load of rye and one.
load of millet for a volume of sermons
written by German monk.-Londoni
Standard.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Other Allurements.

MI. Goodman-Why don't you take
the pledge, my good fellow?
aggsby-Because there are too many
other things to take.-Denver Times.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14

He-You women have such a ridicu-
lous habit of screaming ooh" on every
occasion.
She-And you men have such ridic-
ulous habit of saying "1'' on every &C.
casion.-I indianapolis Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-14
Race Records 2:244

AA0SS AlSSOl No ia
Sixteen hands, 1850 lbs, seal
brow with good disposition. By
DEBORAH H, 5577, with five in
the list, by Mambrino Patchen,
IS, Dam Minnie Robinson, by
Hamdallah, POLY, second dam
Gray Fan, by Allie Gaines,
1850. His get are all large and
strong made colts. DEBORAH Jr,
will make the season until he is
taken in the races June 18th, at
Denison. TERMS-To insure
mare with foal SIS. If parties
should dispose of mares or re-
move same from the county, ser
vice fee will be due at once. His
breeding as shown by the year
book shows he is standard and
registered under Rule l; SO you
see he is fashionably bred. Just
watch this fellow in his races.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-09
ATLANTTC-AVE. BILL SIGNED.
CITY TO PAY HALF THE COST OF DE-
PRESSING THE LONG ISLAND
RAILROAD TRACKS.

Governor Odell yesterday signed the Atlantc-ave.
Improvement bill.
The improvements I'm Atlantc-ave. will cover a
distance of 3O.525 feet, nearly six miles, from
Fort Greene Place eastward to the city line. The
depression of the tracks of the Long Island Rail
railroad. 1t will be eight feet deep there. The
tracks be depressed for distance of con-
siderably mile.
From the east side of Bedford-ave. the railroad
tracks will rise rapidly the grade of the street
and will continue rise elevaNd structure
which at NOstrand-ave. will be high enough not TO
interfere with traffic. At Nostrand-ave there
will be elevated station. The elevated structure
then will continue distance of 500 feet to Ralph
ave.
Beginning at Ralph-ave the tracks will be
ried through a tunnel 2910 feet Stone-ave.;
thence the tracks will rise the present grade at
odckhlan-st AT Snedeker-ave., one block east. the
tracks VIII rise and continue elevated StruCt-
ure 10 Atkins-ave., where the tracks will
the surface
1t is proposed to introduce a trolley line the
surface of Atlanticave The will be asphalt
ed from curb to curb Between forty and fifty
grade crossings will be eliminated. and twice that
number of gates removed, and the street will be
thrown open to unrestricted traffic
Ihe total estimated cost of the improvements is
AW0WO. The working plans of the commission
were prepared three years ago. Bids for the work
OF construction will be advertised for at once
The cost of depression will be s2. 500.000 and the
Atiantlc-ave. Improvement Commission Will have
control of the work. The city will have to pay
Sl,2O,00 of the amount.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-09
WOODRUFF GAINS DELEGATES.
SAYS TWENTY-THIRD WARD OF BROOK
LYN DOES NOT NEED AN EXCES-
sIvE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.

Lieutenant Governor Woodruff met an angry
delegation of Brooklyn citizens at the Waldorf
Astoria yesterday morning. The visitors were
from the Twenty-third and Twenty y-hfth wards
and included Walter B. Atterbury, Edward G.
Brennan. Captain Perry, the Rev. a. Stewart
Walsh Councilman Leach. Alderman Wirth and
John j. Post. They went TO protest against the
new scheme for the reapportionment Of Congress
districts in Kings County. which indorsed last
week by the Kings County Republican Executive
Committee at the instance OF Michael J. Dady
Mr.. Woodruff suggested that the whole matter
be referred to the County Committee
'ln the place" said he, the plan OF ap-
port,onment against which OF the people Of
the Twenty-third Ward hoty protest was the
work OF John X. Neal. the executive member OF
the XXth Assembly District. Colonel Dady had
nothing TO do with 1t. until after Mr.. Neal sub
mitted II 10 the Senate Committee on Apportion-
ment as a slight modification OF the plan which
/ prepared pursuant a resolution of the ENecu-
tive Committee asking to do
"Can 1t be possible that the Republicans OF the
Twenty-third Ward have in nina the nomination
at any time of so meek candidate as To require "A
Republican majority in the district 10 elect him
greater than the combined RepuDlcitn InaJorlueS
in the other Republican distTictsE
Mr.. Woodruff proposed that the plan be sub
mitted to the Republican General Committee AT Its
April meeting to be held tonight, and that the
decision of that committee be regarded as final:
Meanwhile the supporters of the twenty third
Ward busy trying to win over to their side as
many members OF the County Committee as they
can. The meeting tonight will doubtless be one
OF the most interesting held in years.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-09
TUNNEL CHARTER DOOMED.
ASSEMBLY LIKELY TO REPEAL FRAN
CHIsE OF TERMINAL COMPANY.
InY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l


Albany April s-Another step taken tonight
by the Assembly toward repeating the franchise OF
the New-York and Brooklyn Terminal Company
by which this company is permitted to build tuh-
mel under the East River. Accordingly, when the
bill of Assemblyman Rainey, known as Assembly
bill No 23S which repeas the company's original
charter of 1895, up. objection was soon with
drawn and the bill advanced. The objection
was raised by Mr. McKeown of Kings County. Mr.
Rainey said in defence of the measure:
The charter of this company should be repealed
because it win prevent the city's building tunnel
under the East River the city has bought the
dwn OF way chaPteF S i0 s Of tRe Laws Of & and
gives to the company blanket fEancn1se& & 10 pu1lo
where between Whitehall and East Sixteenth-st.
and in Brooklyn between North Eighth-st. and At
lantic-ave, The company is authorized to condemn
property for the terminals and to build tunnel mel
large enough for a four track railroad under the
of 1898 that W it would put thirty thousand men i'm
mediately at work and expend millions OF capital
does mot 5tend to uige its eharter but is waiting
to Sell III it % to the city When the city Contemplate
the construction Of such tunnel. Unless this bill
cannot be built unt the city bys hs
since the proposed terminal of this tunnel comes
pany.
Mr.. Rainey asked If the Long Island Railroad
not interested in the New-York and Brooklyn
Terminal Company and only withheld from
usng its franchise by the obstruction of the NUM-
know what capital was Interested In the COM
pany whose charter he sought to repeal All that
he knew that the company had done nothing
The bill will come up for final passage in the AS
sembly either tomorrow Wednesday,
Senator Henuessy introduced n bill tonight
amending the Rapid Transit law to provide
for three-cent fare any extension OF the Rapid
Transit system. Senator Hennessy said:
My bill is intended especially to apply to the Bor-
ough of Brooklyn and such schemes as those OF MI;
ID II.
TO for the people three cent fares'"ver any
extension of the rapid transit system that may re
built in the manner In which the present tunnel IS
being built The amendment cannot. of course, ar
feet the existing contract. fact which the citizens
of New-York ought to regret The contract unQer
which the present tunnel will he operated entities
the operatin,. contractor 20 charge five cent rare
during the entire nifty of the lease. irresp,c-
tive OF the length OF ride the passenger may take
study of the statistics street railroads in other
cities Indicates that even where the cost 10 capt a
of building and maintaining a railroad l.! muCh
greater than It would he under the Raphi transit
law there is substantial profit in three cent fares
New-York tribune., 1901-04-09
MILLBURN RESERVOIR HEARING.
TO ACT-THE RESOLUTION MADE
SPECIAL ORDER FOR TO-DAY.

The Committee on Water Supply Of the Board OF
Aldermen yesterday afternoon gave a public hear
ing at the City Hall the $4,000 appropriation for
reconstruction. repairs improvements OF the
Millburn storage reservoir. Alderman Gledhil pre-
sided.
Mr.. Dougherty. chairman OF the joint coihihi',ee
of the Manufacturers Association and a special
committee Of fifty in the Borough of Brooklyn was
the first speaker He said his committee WAS IN
favor of the resolution. for the reason that IL was
favored by the president Of the Board OF Water
supply the chief engineer OF the department anu
the consulting engineers
Alden s. Swan, a member of the Manufacturers
Association. said that every man, woman ana c'lu
in the borough wanted the reservoir repaHeu.
Charles n. Chadwick member of the water
Committee of the Manufacturers Association, said
there was no reason why "a reservoir keeping water
could not be constructed. That. he said. was all
that needed. there was plenty OF water IL 1t
could only be kept from going to waste.
A. ]. Aubrey secretary of the Brooklyn League
and "A member of the joint committee OF the Man
ufacturers Association and the Committee or flltv
also spoke in favor of the resolution
Several of the aldermen spoke in defence OF the
BOARD which was denounced by the March grand
Jury in Kings County for it's action in the matter
Chief Engineer BirdSall of the Water department
was present and advocated the repair OF the res
ervoir He gave statistics to show that repairs
would be practicable. ,, - ,,..,,
26 the Finance Committee reported in favor OF
passing the appropriation. The measure was lost
however. on a vote of % in the affirmative ana N
in the negative the required three e-fourths OF the
members elected failing to vote In favor
on motion by Alderman Goodman the measure
was referred the Committee on Water supply,
with instructions that a public hearing be granted
At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen to-day
the matter will be made special order FOR Z:So
a
New-York tribune., 1901-04-09
MUSIC.
THE ENGLISH CASINO GIRL

II it had not been for memories, nobody could
have told that The Casino Girl had ever been
out of London before THE Casino Girl was said
and acted and sung at the Knickerbocker Theatre
last night. returning from its visit TO England
made over with English patches and filled in and
filed out with English actors and singers and
dancers Still, there persons on the
stage who have been seen on the stage in New
York before.
The performance full Of memories. has
been limited. There bits of the play which
recalled Little Christopher and The Circus
Girl" and ''Erminie' and few other old favorites
and there were actors who initiated Louis Mann
and De Wolf Hopper. Mr.. Hopper himself is often
funny but imitatOrs of Mr.. Hopper are among the
worst Affections of the modern stage-and also the
most numerous. But the book of The Casino
Girl' needs revising and bringing up to the Ameri-
can level as much II IL had never been heard
here before. 1t is quite English in its style of
stupidity.
There is no doubt that il is a pretty show u
look at There is extremely pretty chorus. and
most of the principals good looking and the
costumes are and brilliant. There is
gay and tuneful music. also, and some good dane
ing The dancing quartet is good that there
ought to be more of 1t. and Miss Katie Seymour is
another of the graceful and expert English dancers
who now and then find their way overseas. She
ought TO be excused from singing, but another
dance would be gratefully accepted in place OF
the song. The performance moved rapidly and
was acted merrily. and altogether it was
joyable one. James E. Sullivan. whose name
printed on the programme in heavy type, "
tremey funny in an acrobatic way, and and
then. in a lesser degree. in other ways. Miss Ella
Snyder is to be counted ir the title part.