People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — A Name for a Battle Ship. [ARTICLE]

A Name for a Battle Ship.

Association does prevail sometimes to hallow, endear, or dignify the mosl awkward arrangement of vowels and consonants. The names conferred by sailors upon their battle ships like those chosen by Red Indians for their braves, usually convey an idea of awe, grandeur, swiftness, or beauty, and there was something comically incongruous in the dispatches which reached tills country of the doughty performances of the Chilian ironclad, tin O’Higgins, in the late war. Specula tion is baffled in attempting to read the significance underlying that pa tronymic; for, even as pronounced by a foreigner, -with the true value of ths vowel i—OTleeggeens—it is impossible, without knowing the history attached, to receive the impression of terror os admiration.—Blackwood’s Magaaise.