Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Twelve Hundred Times Across the Atiantic. [ARTICLE]

Twelve Hundred Times Across the Atiantic.

Captain Samuel Brooks, of the Guion steamer Arizona, recently wrote to a friend: “Jf lam spared one more voyI shall have cainpleted 600 round trips when I reach Liverpool on the trip leaving New York, October 30.” Capt Brooks is a, hale and hearty, jovial mariner. He is 57 years old. He began his seafaring life as a cabin boy in a small sailing vessel when only 15 years of age His life has been full of stir- . ring incidents. . • .z _ _ The sea-serpent has been seen again off the eastern New England coast It beatsail what*strange sights they Will persist in seeing in prohibition States.