British Navy Salutes

A sálate in the British navy between two ships of eqnal rank is made by firing an equal nuniber of gnns. li the vessels are of unequal rank, the superior fires the fewer rounds. A royal salnte consists of (l)infiring 21 great gnns, (2) in the officers lowering their sword pointa and (3) in dipping the oolors. Phillips Brooks onoe said tha "the shortness of life is bound up with its fullness. It is to him who is most active, always thinking, feeling, working, caring for people, that life seems short. Strip a life empty and it -will seem long enongh." The flnest complexions in the world are said to be in the Bermndas. This is acconnted for by the faot that the inhabi tante live chiefly on onion&