d be a happier place if more people were like
him in this respect.

* * * * *

--For several years a pair of storks built their nest annually in the
park of the Castle Ruheleben, in Berlin. A few years ago one of the
servants placed a ring, with the name of the place and date, on the leg
of the male bird, in order to be certain that the same bird returned
each year. Last spring the stork came back to its customary place, the
bearer of two rings. The second one bore the inscription: "India sends
greetings to Germany."

RIGGING AND RIGS.

by W. J. GORDON.

Though steam is now the pride of the ocean, there are a few points in
which its advantages over sail have not been great enough to crowd out
the clippers, and in long voyages the sailing ship is far from
obsolete.

A drawing of one of these clippers affords an opportunity for saying
something about a ship's rigging, and thereby meeting the wishes of a
large number of amateur sailors.

Let it be clearly understood, however, that we are dealing with one
particular class of ship, and that all ships are not rigged exactly
alike.

There is a general notion that a full-rigged ship is of the same pattern
all the world over, and this notion has been supported by the diagrams
usually published which have taken a war ship as an example.

Now a man-of-war has an enormous crew compared to a merchant vessel,
and her rigging is set up accordingly. The things that are done on a
man-of-war in spar-drill make a merchant sailor's hair stand on end.

The rigging of a merchantman is designed for a much smaller crew to get
along with, and in many respects differs from that of a full-rigged
man-of-war.

Complicated as a ship's rigging may look, it becomes intelligible enough
when attacked in detail. There are three masts and the bowsprit, which
is simply the old bowmast that has gradually increased its angle until
it is now almost horizontal.

These four spars are built into the ship, and all the other spars and
the rigging and sails are fixed on to them.

The three masts, known also as the lower masts, are the foremast,
mainmast and mizzenmast, and each of these carries two masts
by way of continuations. Thus we have foretopmast, maintopmast and
mizzentopmast, and over them foretopgallantmast, maintopgallantmast
and mizzentopgallantmast.

The part of the topgallantmast above the topgallant-rigging is
ca