Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1913 — Well Named. [ARTICLE]

Well Named.

A retired naval officer passed a week end at Magnolia, Mass., where he wearied a circle of newly made friends by his never ending prattle of colorless reminiscences. After he had retired for the night a judge advocate who had known him for some years remarked to the group: "We call him the thirfeen-inch gun.” “Why?’ asked a lady from the west. “Well, madam, he Is as big a bore as we ever had in the navy.”