StNicholas [serial] . lics of the mu-seum at Salem. One is a well-modeled portraitbust of a man from the bark Solomon Piper,wrecked in 1861, and the other a female figuretaken from an unknown vessel wrecked on CapeCod. The faces are remarkably true to life. Thelatter figure bears before her a medallion with aportrait which has been conjectured to be that ofThomas Jefferson. A few figureheads of our war-ships of the pastare to be seen on the grounds of the Naval Acad-emy at Annapolis, in fact, one of the most famousof all figureheads is here—the statue of GeneralAndrew Jackson, which for forty
StNicholas [serial] . lics of the mu-seum at Salem. One is a well-modeled portraitbust of a man from the bark Solomon Piper,wrecked in 1861, and the other a female figuretaken from an unknown vessel wrecked on CapeCod. The faces are remarkably true to life. Thelatter figure bears before her a medallion with aportrait which has been conjectured to be that ofThomas Jefferson. A few figureheads of our war-ships of the pastare to be seen on the grounds of the Naval Acad-emy at Annapolis, in fact, one of the most famousof all figureheads is here—the statue of GeneralAndrew Jackson, which for forty years was onthe frigate Constitution. One night the head ofthe effigy was sawn from the body but the missinghead was recovered, fastened on again, and thelikeness has since been in service. Many of the most notable of these lookouts,however, have gone beneath the waves with theships to which they were supposed to bring goodluck. The statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, for in-stance, on the bow of a New Bedford whaler, was. HOW THE OLD-TIME FIGUREHEAD HAS BEEN SIMPLIFIED.—BOW ORNAMENT OF THE CRUISER NASHVILLE. (THEGOVERNMENT HAS DECLINED TO ABOLISH EVEN THISORNAMENT IN THE NAVY.) lost in the Arctics in the eighties and the carvedswallow on a ship of that name went ashore onthe coast of Georgia a few years ago. A NEW SPORT FOR BOYS HOW TO MAKE AND FLY MODEL AEROPLANES RESUME—PART III BY FRANCIS ARNOLD COLLINS It is only within the past few years that we haveguessed the secret of the graceful flight of the early attempts to build flying-machines, thewings were made to flap up and down. The sadfate of Darius Green is a case in point; nor didthe other imitators, dating far back into ancienttimes, fare any better. When it was discovered,however, that the birds might balance themselvesmerely by bending the tips of their wings, themodern aeroplane became possible. A great many experiments have been made tofind whether the flat or curved wings give thebetter support, and how sh
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