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BUREAUOFORDNANCE
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At Its Head Stands Rear Admiral;
Charles O'Neil. I i
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One of the Ablest Officers of the Navy, I
, Whose Knowledge of Guns and
Animunltlon ls Virtually
1 Unlimited.
Rear Admiral. Charles O'Neil, who is
at the head of the ordnance bureau of
the navy department. was born in 1842.
He was appointed from Massachusetts,
having receiver] his eariy education in
the grammar and high schools of [303'
bury—now part of Boston, Mass. ‘Be-
fore entering the navy he made two
voyages to the East Indies before the
mast, in the merchant. service, in the
Newburyport ship Oliver Putnam. lt
foundered in the Indian ocean on his
second voyage, and while all hands
were finally rescued, they endured many
privations before reaching land. Ad-
miral O’Neil entered the navy in 1861,
and his first service was on board the
‘sloop-of-war Cumberland, which was
destroyed on March 8, 1862, off New-
port News. Va., by the confederate
ironclad Merrimac. He was promoted
for gallantry on this occasion, and then
served with Admiral Wilkes in the'spe-
cial West Indian squadron. on board
the gunboat Troja, on which he re-
mained until the summer of 1884, when,
being taken ill with yellow fever, he
was detached and given a short leave to
recuperate.
He next. joined the gunboat Rhode
Island. and took part in the capture of
Fort Fisher. In 1865 he bgcame a lien-
tenant, and served as such on several
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vessels. being promoted to lieutenant -
commander in 1868. In this grade he
served on the east coast of South Amer-
ica, in China, and on the home station,
and spent a couple of years in the train-
ing ship for apprentices. He was pro-
moted to commander in 1884, and to'
captain in 1897, having been in charge
of various vessels on different stations,
his last command being the Marble-
head. While on shore duty he devoted
himself exclusively to ordnance mat-
ters, and was on' two occasions the su~
perintendent of the naval gun factory
REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES O’NEIL.
(Head of the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy
~ Department.)
at Washington, and took a very active
part in the development of that- estab-
lishment. June 1, 1897, he was ap-
pointed chief of the bureau of ordnance,
and entered that office with a full
knowledge of all its diiiicult and per-
plexing duties.
Since assuming charge of the bureau
Admiral O’Neil has devoted himself to
the improvement of the guns, mounts
and various munitions of war essential
to naval vessels, and to such parts of
the naval establishment as pertain to
the bureau of ordnance, especially the
magazines and navy yards. During the
war with Spain the duties of this
bureau were very onerous, as it de-
volved upon it to keep all the vessels of
the navy, both at home and abroad,
fully supplied with ammunition of all
kinds, 'and to rapidly accumulate a re-
serve supply, and in no instance was
anything lacking that was essential to
the efficiency of our vessels. Admiral
O’Neil is especially interested in the
new guns, the first of which to be
tested will be one of six-inch caliber,
and in the further development of
smokeless powder and its general intro-
duction into the navy.
Typhoid F‘emér'”ri~‘om man.
It has been proven that cases of tyo
phoid fever originated from germs
transmitted from a well (where the
dairyman simply rinsed his cans),
through the milk to the customer. Milk
is almost entirely free from germs
while it is in the healthy udder of the
cow, but as soon as dirt and dust are al-
lowed to get into the milk while milk-
perature is right, these microscopic
plants will grow as fast. as toadstools
on a moist, warm summer night, and
will sour the milk in every few hours.—
Ifagpiers’ Voice. __
Enormous pool Production.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-——The .statis‘
tics of the production of coal in the Unit-
ed States during 1898 have just been
completed by Edward W. Parker, static
tician of the United States geological
survey. The compilation shows that the
total production of all kinds of coal in
1898 reached the enormous figure of 219,-
83’,993 short tons, an increase of nearly
10 per cent over the output in 1897.
which amounted in round figures to 200,-
220,000 tons and was up to that time the
largest tonnage ever obtained in the
United States.
_ The Deadly. Ono-slug.
BUFFALO, May 29.—Joscph Keller
and'Ray Sherman of. Alden, N. Y., and
Louis Carey of Auburn Four Corners,
Pa., were killed at Wendcs station at 2
o’clock Sunday morning while driving
across the New York Central railroad
tracks. Their carriage was struck by In .
cast bound express'train. The bodies of
Carey and Keller were thrown .on the.
west ‘bound track, and a freight train
Which passed a moment litter mangled
them beyond recognition. , .
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‘a late stage in the repast he might care-
,hum’l Vegetable Compound has done
' ing spells, and I' could not stand long
~Tn it EVE‘NIN'I'} GAZET r P:
IN 'GALICIA.
‘ Conn try Where the Men and Boys
Are Strikingly Handsome and
‘ Picturesque.
‘ The men'and boys were strikingly
handsome, with straight features, dark
eyes and hair cut across the forehead
and falling onthe neck behind, like a
Velasquez portrait, says Blackwood’s.
The garments they wore, too, were not
only comfortable and sanitary, but
amazingly satisfying to the eye. The
groundwork, so to speak, for both men
and women, was rough, homespun
linen which -lay bleaching in narrow
lengths beside the river. The men’s
trousers were stuffed into high black
or yellow boots and their shirts were
embroidered on the sleeves in blue and
red or black, and confined at the waist
by broad leathern girdles, much orna-
mented withvbrass.
long garments, like the men’s shirts,
coming down to their ankles and clov-
ered_b§hind and before by a- pair of
voluminous aprons, made of a ruddy,
striped woolen stuff, more or less bril-
liant in hue.
Both sexes and .all ages, down even
to babies in arms, have short, sleeveless,
sheepskin coats, usually open in front.
The skin side is embroidered in vary-
ing designs, more or less elaborate, car-
ried out chiefly in red wool and green
and red leather. When it is fine the em-
broidered side is exposed; when it is
wet the woolly one appears. These kip-
tars are very light, very warm, and yet,
being sleeveless, they are never stugy.
It is amazing how persistently: they
are worn, and it is only in the hottest
weather that the peasants strip them
oif when working in the fields.
ORIGIN OF MENU CARDS.
Duke Henry of Brunswick IVas the
First Person on Record to’
Use Them.
It was Duke Henry of Brunswick who
was first observed, in the integvals of a
banquet to scan carefully a long strip
of paper by the side of his plate, and.
when the curious guests ventured to in-
quire into the nature of his studies he
explained that it was a sort of pro-
gramme of the dishes which he had
commanded from the .cook, to the in-
tent that if some delicacy which espe-
cially appealed to him were marked for
fully reserve his appetite for it, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer. .
The simplicity and excellence of the
idea instantly appealed to the good
'duke’s guests, and the menu card from"
that moment became an institution. In
its old-fashioned form the bill was
usually written large on cards of such
dimensions that room for only one
could be found at each board. This was
in 1590, and this aid to selection must
have been a boon, for the medieval din-
ner was a mine of surprises. It was di-
vided into courses; whereas nowadays
the diner has a general idea that fish
,will follow soup, and that the entree
will he succeeded by a roast orits étj‘uiv-
alent, there was no knowing what was
going to happen at an early English
dinner, or in what order it would be
served.
The Piu'is Still Aground.
COVERACK, Cornwall, May 29.—.The
ninth attempt to float the American line
steamer Paris was made last evening and
proved an utter failure. Her bow is ab-
solutely impaled by the rocks. Five tugs
were used in the endeavor to tow henoff,
three others standing by for an emergen-
cy. Her boilers, excepting those used for
the pumps, were emptied to lighten the
The effect of the strain of last
week’s attempts is apparent in the in-
crease of water in the engine room. Ef-
forts to pull her off will now be discon-
tinued, and it is proposed to concert some
new plan for lightening the vessel. The
pertinacity ot the attempts to tow the
liner has caused considerable surprise
among experts here owing to the impale-
mcnt of the bow, as her removal by tow-
ing must mean, in the opinion of ex-
perts, the tearing off of the bow.
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Against Sports oh Decordtionfifiy.
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., May 29.—-Tod
post, G. A. IL, of this city has adopted
resolutions protesting against baseball
and kindred sports on Decoration day
and has appealed to the public not. to pat-
ronize Decoration day sporting events,
claiming that it is a, desecration of the
spirit of the occasion. The local baseball
management: says it will pay no atten-
tion to the‘protest and will, weather per-
mitting, play the usual two games on:
Decoration day.
‘— .
Miss Lockheart’s
LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM.
[LETTER._‘IO mas. rmruum no. 67,104]
.“I cannot express my gratitude to
you for the good that. Lydia E. Pink-
for me. I have taken five bottles of .
the Compound and two boxes of Liver ’
Pills and feel better irf every respect.
I had suffered for years with dropsy;
the veins in my limbs burst, caused
from the pressure of the water. 'I had
the worst kind of kidney trouble, faint-
It a time. I also had female weakness
and the doctor said there was a tumor
in my left side. The pains I had to
stand were something dreadful. A
friend handed me a. little book of yours;
so I got your medicine and it has saved
my life. I felt better from the first
bottle. The bloating and the tumors
have all gone and I do not sufier any
pain. I in a ' using- the Vegetable.
Compound hope others may find
.relief as I have done from its use.”—
Mtss N. J. Locmlmr, Box 16, Emu-
BETH, PA. >
Only the women who have suffered
with female troubles can fully appre-
ciate the gratitude of those who have _
been restored to health. .‘.
Mrs. Pinkham responds quickly and"
withoutcharge to all letters from suffer-
The women wore _
ingworneu.‘ Ber addressisLy-nnqdass.‘
Brdhdhih’s fills.
You know the Scotch superstition
about the “little people.” the
"pixies,” who creep into the, house
when all are asleep and sweep it,
clean it and put it in perfect order
to the amazement and joy of the
mistress in the morning. There
. are Pixy Pills. They're Brandreth’s.
While you sleep they are cleansing
the house of the body, getting into
neglected corners, scouring them
and carrying away the refuse. Just
a regular course of Brandrcth's
Pills, one' or two every night, is
often all that is needed to putthe
whole body in a condition of perfect
health. '
look in the Mimi:
Brand-
reth's Pills clear the complcxicz,
You can see the change.
brighten the eyes, make the skin / l
healthy, banish the sallowness and q
pimples. They purify the blood,
cleanse the body and keep the
bowels regular. 'l‘hey are'the true
beauty pill.
Beauty begins in the ,1
blood. Beauty never has a torpld
liver. The very beginning of beauty
is pure blood in a purged body.
Beauty and Brandrcth’s Pills go '
You can, SEE
hand in hand.
it's so.
Brandreth’s Pills are sold throughout the World, both sugar coated and plain. '
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