Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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TWO GUNS TAKEN PROM THE MARIA TERESA compared with some of the fine Krupp trophy- grassy bank at the side of the captains officeguns mounted but a short distance away. A rests the heavy ram that once pointed the bowfew mortars are among the collection, and on a of the Confederate ship Mississippi.
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SHELLS PILED HEFORE SHELL-HOUSE NO 1902.) A TRIP THROUGH THE NEW YORK NAVY-YARD. 51 Conspicuous among the relics are two sub-marine contact-mines that were raised fromGuantanamo Bay. One, if you remember, wasstruck by the prow of the battle-ship Texas,June 15, 1898 ; and if the torpedo had been ingood order there might have been some seriousdamage clone. It is an oddly shaped objectresembling the stack of a wood-burning loco-motive, and having at its upper edge a num-ber of levers, any one of which, when pushedin, was supposed to explode it. As in everything else during the war, fortuneseemed to favor our vessels that struck thesemines, for all of our navy escaped injury from Near it the grand stand is located, where onSaturday afternoons during the summer a ma-rine band takes its station and the popular airsare played. On a bright day this locality pre-sents a pretty scene, with the brightly uniformedofficers and men and the many fair visitors,while within hailing distance the men-of

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