Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Ships. [ARTICLE]

Ships.

French ships usually benrjtho names of French provinces or towns, or of abstract Ideas, but no personal names, except those of great men of French history. German ships bear the names of German rivers, poets, princes, statesmen and characters in German literature. ‘ Spanish Bhips, like those flying the Stars and StrlDes, .are almost .Invariably nanisM^l|fc ! ft?M»V<4t commanders of history.