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A SILVER FLEET. A DUKE'S UNIQUE XAUTICAIj COLLECTION. Models of Famous Men -of -War A Novel and Instructive F-xhlbit Which Is Highly Prized by the Royal Sailor. TNTERE3TIKG and novel in the ray of curio collections is the silver fleet 6t the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg, which occupies the long gallery in the ducal palace at Co burg. The Duke was formerly Duke o Edinburgh, and is the second son of Queen Victoria. The Duke's reigning passion-is war ships. He has models, in silver, of peventy-four-gun liuo-of-battla ships, fifty-gun frigates, twentyfive-gun sloops of war, ten-gun brigs and mod els of similar vessels of the old navy that made Great Britain for so many years the "Queen of the Seas," and models also of the armored battleships and swift cruisers of the present day. The largest model is that of the ill fated Victoria that was . sunk, with nearly five hundred soul?, off Tripoli eighteen months ago by an unlucky blow from the'rain of the Camper'-' 'down. This little silver and gold model is six feet in length, and is complete in'every detail of the orig inal. ' - Another interesting model is that of the old line British ship of war Mag nificent. She was an ordinary wooden vessel, and on the night of December 1G, 1812,, the was anchored between the reef of Chasseron and the "reef of Isls de Rhe, in sixteen fathoms of water. A hurricane drove her close to the reef, and she would have been wrecked had not Captain Hayes, by a daring manoeuvre, spread all sail, cut the cable?, and, when the ship svung around, stood cut to sea directly be tween the dangerous reefs, and thus saved his ship and 500 men. Her com mander thenceforward was known as "Magnificent" Hayes. The Duke has this story o? the Magnificent, in all its detail-, engrossed and hung in a frame above the model. Another model is that of the Japan ese ironclad Matsusirna, Admiral Ito's flagship and the vessel that has given Euch distinguishe.l service in the China-Japan War. Like the new Ameri can Navy, the Matsusima is painted white. A remarkable curiosity isaparafSne wax trial model of the Royal Sovereign. These wax models represent merely the hull of the vessel, and they are made in England after the plans of a ship are accepted and before the build ing is begun. 'The wax model is al ways made to a seale, and then floated in a large tank 400 feet long aacl ten deep, and by it the draught, resist ance, speed and horse-power necessary ' are determined. The queer-looking craft Twelve Apostles, belonging to the Russian Navy, is also reproduced. The ship is an old one, noticeable principally for the peculiar arrangement of its armor, the great sheets of metal rising above the upper deck and curved In ward at the top, forming thus a sort of covered and shielded promenade, the guns protruding through this screen at irregular intervals. A more remarkable model is that of the new yacht of the Czar Nicholas II., now building at Copanhagen. She will be christened The Standard. The yacht has two funnels and a double screw. The interior decoration is in the Louis XV. style, but made rather more ornate than in the original. The sides and ceilings of the saloon, dining-room, music-room, smoking-room and other apartments are covered with Watteau panels, painted by the most proficient Parisian 'artists. . All the adornments and furnishings are in the highest Parisian style, and the colors are half-tones throughout. But the Russian weakness for gQd and silver has been lavishly indulged, and the columns that support the deck are covered with sheets of the pure metal. The stairwav leading from the social hall down into the Czar's apartments 1-as porcelain steps and heavy ailver balustrades, the latter being coyered prof usively with the finest chasing, The private rooms of the Czar are almost amidships, and cons' st of a dim ing-hall, smoking room and boudoir. The dining-halHs capable of seating forty guests, and is lighted by con cealed eleotrqilers that illuminate the room without being apparent them selves. This room i hung in white silk painted with' Watteau panels. The carpets aro so heavy that the foot sinks into them as into a bed of moss ; they are a delicate shade of bine, with a fine scroll -running over it The fur niture is silver and gilt, each chair bearing upon its back the royal crown. But the gem o-the silver fleet? is the Duke's old ship, the Galatea, in which he sailed around the world and made such a lively sensation in Australia. The model of the Galatea is of pure silver throughout wrought in the highest style of the silversmith's art. She is four feet in length from out water o the stern post, and all the fitting's, rigging, battery, boats and cabin furniture are exact representa tions of the originals. She is thown under full sail, courses, topsails, top gallant saile, royals, skyscrapers and moon rakers, stay sails, studding sails, jibs and flying jibs, just as she took the trade winds on her voyageout. " " Thtt Duke's love of ships comes to him naturally. According to British custom he was brought up and trained as cadet, midshipman, lieutenant and captain in the Royal Navy, a service to which the junior branches of the royal family are mostly devoted. He waa a crood seaman and was never above his business. As Captain of the Galatea he doffed his title and was known on board as Captain only, be ing addressed, even by the foremast hands, merely by the mode3t epithet, "Sir," on duty, and in the privacy and freedom of the berth deck as "Our Little-Man." He frequently unbent from his dig nity as commander and Prince eo far as to bring out his fiddle in the dog watch and play tunes, especially jigs and feels, to which the men would dance of a calm evening with true sailor's zett. His crew loved him one and all, and even with his oliicers he was a favorite. A Cuban Tradesman. General B. R. Cowen, who returned recently from a trip to Cuba, relates" the following episode as illustrative of the bargaining ability of the native r Cubans. "I wanted a palm hat," said he, "and with a friend entered a store where they were exhibit sd for sale, and asked the price. 'Seven dollars,' said the tradesman. We turned . and walked out without saying a word. Next morning my friend again visited the place and asked the price of the hats. The tradesman recognized him and hailed him as he entered, an. I said that the price of- the hats wa? $3. A''out that time I also entered the place, was recognized and hailed, and told the price was $3. 'I'll give you $3 for a hat,' said I, 'and my ,frienl will give you the same.' , The trades man insisted that tae price was SO, and we insisted that we would give only $3; yet all this time the dealer waa busy lining hats for us and fitting them to our head.1. At last we were fitted and I said: Three dollars.' No, six dollars,' replied he, smiling, i put down $3, and he, torching one, counted 'One, two,' then touching the second, 'three, four,' and the third, 'five, six dollars. Thank you,' and smiling, counted six on the three dol lars my friend placed on the counter, and, still smiling, bowed us from the store. A few days later I visited the store to get a hat for a friend whose wife was of our party. The fellow recognized me and asked $3.50 for the hats. Til give you $3 and not a cent more, said I. He said no, he must have $3.50, but went ahead trimming the hat, aud when it was done, I laid down $3 and he counted them, 'One, two, three and half,' and politely bowed me oat" Cincinnati Times Star. ' : The process of bookmaking has, from time immemorial, been so cheap ! thirty page3 is rarely sold for more t than one cent. jEIectric Iover for London. An original plan waslaid before the Manchester (Eng.) Association of En- gineers at one of their recent meetlng3 ' for transmitting power from the South. Yorkshire coal field to London, with trunk lines for serving the large towns along the lines of transmission, includ Ing, of course Derby, Nottingham, Lei cester, Northampton, and Bedford, and possibly an auxiliary station In South Staffordshire for the service of .Wol verhampton, Birmingham, and the In dustrial areas in the line of Its rtfute across to the point. where it joins the main trunk line serving the metropolis. According to the explanation given the plan is to generate power by burning coal at the mouth of the pit, the poxver to be transmitted electrically. The sys tem provides for removing first the resi dual products of the coal, and, as these form the most valuable portion of the latter, the fuel actually used may be itself , fairly regarded as the residual product of the distillation. Gas en gines are to be employed Instead of steam engines and boilers, the power being transmitted by high-pressure nl-J ternatmg currents. oun. Every new pair of shoes usually de velops a new pair of corns. The wars of the lat save ay year have cost Russia $1,175.-0J.000 aa 1 he l.ve of G6100J men. ! It. 'Kilmer's S w iMP-'ltoot cnri all Kidney and' Bladder troubles, Pamphlet and Consultation lr Laboratory liinshamton, N. i. Jutland was originally Ju' eland, or the lan i ol the Jutes.j a Qo.hlo tribe. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. 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It will give you a new! idea of cleanli ness. -Bathinrf with Pcarline is a perfect luxurv. - Ted&ers and soine unscropuicTis grocers Trill tell yon. N " this is as rood as" or "the same as rearane. Jib C Vv CLL C FALSE Pculiae is csver ixddied. if your grocer ssnds tou an imitation, he honest send it uk. v j..-, ii Nr I . -
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