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...notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked. "There is no second," was the answer. The U. S. invader won by hours...
...stationhouse. A diminutive man, he could not keep pace with them. In the station-house he would invariably transfix the officers with his strange eyes, and recite Scriptures to them. Often they threw him out of their presence; and that hurt those Scotsmen dreadfully. Manhandling the wight was like tearing a page from the Bible...
...line-up for the Team A matches is as follow: H. N. Rawlins, '27 and R. C. Cochrane; J. I. Pool '28 and Howard Gould; E. D. Pratt '27 and Delane Wight. The feature match of the afternoon will be between Rawlins and Howe...
...musical comedy song-might well have gone back to another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily...
...ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch with H. R. H. Edward (VII) of Wales on the royal yacht, Osborne. I spanned the English Channel by wireless that year; extended the range up to 74 miles for messages between battleships; was ready with equipment...