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...with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used to hit the "African Dodger" instead of baseballs in the old days. Then there is a toy ship for the kiddies, and sometimes there are moving pictures. As you come in you sit down on a chair, and some of the chairs are made with only three legs so that you often have just the surprise of your life. Out back of this pleasure palace, for those...
...good ship "Kawa" had quite a motion, but not enough to make this author feel off color. Just as much brown and coral as ever inside the same green cover...
...hundred and fifty dollars have been offered by Captain D. H. Smith of the Convict Ship "Success" to the University or M. I. T. man who will spend a week in confinement aboard the ship under conditions approximating those which existed when the ship was in actual service as a floating prison...
...Success" is said to be the only remaining ship of the old British felon fleet. She was built in 1790 at Moulmein, British India, and was originally used as an armed East India merchantman. Her tonnage is 1100, and she is 135 feet long with 30 foot beam. She is built throughout of solid Burmese teakwood. In 1802 the "Success" was chartered by the British government to transport to Australia the overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what...
...insult to a man of his mettle (says Mr. Bell), with so many high crimes to his account, to hang him for having killed a common seaman on his own ship by banging him over the head with a bucket...