Collisions At Sea

A careful study of the causes ot many maritime casualties of the past decade shows conclusively enough that, f the point of safety which it was supposed could be gained ly watertight bulkheads and all such safeguards is to be reached, greater attention must be given in the future to those in charge of vcssels and to mensures outsiuc or nieie inecnami.a helps. The percentage of casualtie to be attributed to the fault of mat is entirely too large. Collision have been of frequent óccu.rreric lately. They are not confined t any waters, or to the vesscls of atv particular nation. They seem equaí ly disasfrous in their effects whethe an okl wooclcn sailing vessel is con cerned, or a fírst-class ocean steatne with all the precautions of safet btílkheads. They have hnppened on clear days as well as in the thickcst weather, and many of the vessels have been in charge of skilied officers and good crews. Rules have been promulgated to prevent collisions at sea. That those rules are not as good as might be is well-known to sea-faring men. It is absolutely necessary that there should be added to them a better system of fog signáis and a svstem which will teil j yond all doubt the position of a vessél in a log. Thcre is littlc doubt that had some such system buen in use the City of Brussels would still bè áffoat and the terrible calamity of the Cimbria would not have happened. The position of the United States ín a question of this kind is most clisgiaceiul. Not only is nothing done by Congress to secure supervisión over those who sail the vessels, but even the International Rules of the Road at Sea not yet been iidopted by that body. In American waters, American vessels must follow the oíd rules while forcign vessels follow the international rules. Is it strange then, that collisions happen, when Government takes so little interest in securing the establishment of means to prevent thém! Marítimo licgister. Tbc mummies ni the Egjptiau King Anjenhotep I. and others, díseovered last y-ear at Deir-el Bahari, weré vvrappéd i" garlands of ffótfére.verycuTiouslv woven. The eminent botanist, Dr. Sehweinfurth, has elasiíied and mountm1 (hese íowers, and iy the sideof eaoh variety has placed modero examples of the same flowere. Anong them are to be seen the.brighi bine blossoms of tlic larkspnr, the Blue lotus, the White lotus with pink-tipped sepáis, the orangeInied gafflower or Carthamns tinctorius, the yellow blossom of the Acacia Nilotica, and the Ilowerof a species of wat crmelon now extinct. The hues of these ancient flowers are said to be as brilliant as thoseoftheir modern prototypes; and bilt tor the labels wliich show them to be 3,000 years apart, no onlinary observer, it is said could distingnish between those which were buried with the Fharaohs and those which weré gathered and dried a few months ago. The editor of thé Omaha Herald now goea barefooted. He hung up bis stock ino-s Christmas eve, and hasn't seen them since. lt is thought that puerhaps Santa Claus needed some new horse