It is not by any means widely known, says the journal, that the _Chesapeake_, famous for her historic encounter with the British ship _Shannon_ in 1813, is in existence to-day, but is used in the somewhat inglorious capacity of a flour-mill, and is making money for a hearty Hampshire miller in the little parish of Wickham. After her capture by Sir Philip B. V. Broke, she was taken to England in 1814, and in 1820 her timbers were sold to Mr. John Prior, miller of Wickham, Hants. Mr. Prior pulled down his own mill at Wickham, and erected a new one from the _Chesapeake_ timbers, which he found admirably adapted for the purpose. The deck beams were thirty-two feet long, and served, without alteration, for joists. Many of these timbers yet bear the marks of the _Shannon_'s grape-shot, and, in some places the shot are still to be seen deeply embedded in the pitch pine. The metamorphosis of a man-of-war into a peaceful life-sustaining flour-mill is, perhaps, as near an approach to the prophecy that spears and swords shall be beaten into ploughs and pruning-hooks as the conditions of modern civilization will allow. * * * * * "Pray, Dr. Smith, what is a good cure for the gout?" was the question of an indolent and very luxurious gentleman to his hard-worked friend. "Live upon sixpence a day--and earn it," was the unexpected answer. End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, November 24, 1896, by Various