LOCATING ICEBERGS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

LOCATING ICEBERGS.

The captain of an ocean steamer in. roost c-aseo finds .out when his vessel Is approaching an iceberg from the men <lown in the engine-room. That sounds queer, but it is a faet- nevertheless. It appears that when a steamship enters water considerably colder than that through which, it has been goins, *ts propeller runs faster. Such water usually surrounds the vicinage of icebergs for many miles. When the propeller’s action, therefore, is accelerated without the steam power being, increased, word is passed up to the officer on the bridge that icebergs inay be expected, and a close look-out for them is established. There are natural reasons for the propeller acting in this way, and sea-captains will assert the same thing. A LUNA riCS~CHOICE. The asylum doctor was going his rounds when one of the male patients, who had spent many years in the institution, buttonholed him. “Do you know, doctor,” he said, “I am thinking of getting married?” ‘’But you are too old, are you no:i?” “Ob. no,” was the reply, “I ani just 57.” “That’s not so bad,” returned the doctor, humouring him. “I must see if we can get ;.ou anioe wife about 50.” Fifty, doc tor 50* ’ exclaimed the lunatic: “I’d rather have two at 25.” WHEN THE KING MOTORS. It may not bo generally known that tnc crij'ers of the motor-cars of the the Prince of Wales, and the I', e,of Connaught are all policemen, /be .ate King's instructions were. Bun no risks, but lose no time.” The 'VTi c Use use d to be obeyed so iniphciHv that Lord Derby once, when returning -from Newmarket a “horse's length' behind the King, on whom <i? was in attendance, was stopped in his motor bv the police at Barnet — a illusyation of the principle that the King can do no wrong. The Royal fin vers do not rely on a motAborn alone. , Alongside them on the box there sits a footman, who plays a keybugle to announce the approach of the car. Clara : “I see Cynthia has decorated her room with guns, pistols, swords, and the like.” Cora • “Yes :she always has been n great girl for hnvjng arms about her.”