Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-20

Mrs. A. H. Boyd and Mrs. John o. Watson
Of Minneapolis; Mr.. and Mrs. e. Clarence
Holmes, Nat and Minnie Boas Of San
Francisco, L. Lehman Of Oxnard, Cal; A.
Lehman Of Lampere, Cal, and Miss
Eleanor Shotter Of Savannah, Ga.
New French DreadnOughts.
The six new battleships plans for which
have been accepted, will be among the most
powerful afloat They will have a dsplace-
ment Of 2s,457 tons and will be armed with
twelve 3O5-millimeter guns and twenty-five
13S6-millimeter guns. Their speed is to be
between twenty and twenty-one knots, with
steaming capacity OF $500 miles at twenty
knots and 5000 horsepower. The heavy
guns, which are Of the 1906 fifty-caliber
type, firing a 44O-kilogram melinte she'll
will be disposed in pairs in six turrets. The
arrangement of the turrets-four along the
center line Of the ship and one on each side
amidships-will permit ten guns to be fired
broadside and eight ahead or astern. The
fore turrets are TO be about eight feet
higher than the aft turrets, and the highest
placed gun will be nearly thirty-eight feet
while the lowest will be over twenty-one
feet above the water line. The radius Of
fire OF the guns in the center turrets will
be go degrees and In the side turrets 1880
degrees The secondary armament will be
arranged in eight Independent batteries,
each with a radius Of fire of 100 degrees.
The armor will consist Of an armored belt
go millimeters thick amidships and 1SO
milimeters thick at the two ends. The
armored decks will be seventy and forty
eight millimeters thick The battleships
will cost $26sO,0OO each.
Plea for Tourists.
The matin is worried over the aftermath
of the flood. In a recent editorial 1t says:
Foreigners, believing that Paris has be-
come, owing to the recent flood, a city OF
ruins and desolation, have ceased to visit
us Our theaters, hotels and restaurants
are empty. Our pessimism has exagger-
ated. 1t Is time we informed the foreign
ers that Paris is still Paris"
! Pays TO BE Honest.
General Plcquart has found that stand
ing for principle sometimes at least brings
its reward in this world. The man who
braved ruin for Dreyfus has just been ap
pointed commander of the second army
corps at Amiens, one Of the most coveted
posts in the French army. General Pic
quarts role in the Dreyfus case will b,
remembered. This was followed by his
army. Next he was chosen by NJ. Clemen
ceau as his war minister and now he Il
further rewarded by being given one o
the most coveted appointments in tn
French active army.
Her Plan Poor.
A peasant woman named Redon at La
vale. France who concealed c5 In a loa
of bread to prevent the money being stolel
while she was at market, had the loa
snatched from her by a dog, which ate Il
wild Beasts Raid Farms.
Owing to the persistence OF the heav
! snowfall a number Of wolves and vii
boars have left the woods in the vlcinit
OF Clermont- Ferrand and are roamin
around the villages terrorizing the inhab
: tants. No fewer than fifteen wild boar
were killed In the canton OF Pontgibau
alone recently. In one instance the fan
o ished wolves penetrated into a farmyaI
q and devoured the watch dog.
). Honor for Police Chief.
i Parisians derive great satisfaction fro
r the fact that the Academy OF Moral ar
+ Political Sciences has awarded NJ. Lepin
the prefect Of police. It's grand prix, valu,
r at Goo in recognition OF his splendid VOL
during the days OF the great flood, "ho
orinE in him all those who, placed und
k his orders, have co-operated with the sar
- devotion in the relief work which he h
:; so splendidly directed.",