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IT'S AN ABSENT-MINDED WORLD OFFICER THIS MAN ORDERSe7.IO WORTH OF NOURISHMENT, -TO GETHER WITH TWO BOTTLES OF ETHEREAL! FLUID, AND 4 CIGARS. WHEN THE WAITER PRESENTED HIM THE CHECK, HE COOLY SAb. 1 FORGOT TO TELL, JWJ J was BROKE, WELL, BONTl WELL YOU SEE 1 ST THERE OFFICER, ORblM-X LOOKING UKEAAR1LY I CARRY A CHEAP LAUSttjlLAReE SUKS l WHAT HAVE YOU OF MONEY ON GOT TO SAYrVMY PERSON, 'BUT UPON ENT-J ERIN& HERE I OVERLOOKED THE LAST ONE TO LEAVE A POKER GAME AT FOUR OXLOCK THIS MORNING. DIARY OF FATHER TIME the steamship Brittanic, 900 feet long, 12 feet longer than the ill-fated Titanic, has just been launched. The first boats, I remember, long before even sailing vessels were thought of, were used' in ancient Egypt, and were regularly formed boats constructed of sawn planks of lumber. They were long galleys and the motive power was furnished by "galley slaves." The Phoenicians were most enter prising in navigation and in 604 B. C. ciicuninavigatea the continent of Africa, using a mast and a single square-sail in addition to slaye pow er. The Romans paid very little at tentions to navigation until forced to do so by their rivals, the Carthagin ians. On their boats the galleys rang ed from a single bank to five banks of oars. In the first Punic war the Roman fleet consisted of 330 vessels, each containing 300 rowers and 120 soldiers. Ships Intended only for merchant purposes were first built by the Geno ese and not until the beginning of the 14th century were sails used by them.