Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — Tell It to the Marines. [ARTICLE]

Tell It to the Marines.

A German has constructed a ship “so that, in case of accident to the bow, the . stern half can be instantaneously separated from it and continue the voyage securely and easily on its own account.” All that is now wanted is an improvement on this device by which, wlien there is an accident to any part of the hull, the crew and ] assengers may go aloft and continue their voya <e securely and easily, though the hull may go to the bottom. In ancient times Diogenes wandered around with a lantern looking for an honest man, but didn’t find one; and in these degenerate days the gas man wanders around with a lantern looking for an honest gas-meter with pretty pinch the samp success.