Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Great Waves. [ARTICLE]

Great Waves.

A traveler who crossed the Atlantic in company with an army officer says that in spite of his sympathy for his companion’s suffering from the pangs of seasickness, he could not help deriving eonsiderable amusement from it. Going into the stateroom one particularly rough- day lie found his companion tossing in his berth, muttering in whkt at first appeared to be a sort of delirium. Stooping over to catcli bis words, tit friend heard him say, “Sergeant, majo sergeant, major, or, only eighth corpor al; brigadier general, brigadier general, ugh, lieutenant general, a-a-a-h!” , “What are you saying?” asked; the friend in some alarm, as the sufferer looked piteously up at him after his last gasping “a-a-a-h!” “Assigning tho waves their rank,” said the military man, rolling over toward the wall agaiu. “There have been eight lieutenant generals within the last twenty minutes'.”