Some of the temporary barracks erected at Newport News, Virginia, are one hundred feet long, twenty-two feet wide, and twelve and a half feet high at the ridge, and accommodate seventy-six men, giving each 360 feet of air.

Opposite, and just below the town, is Carlton Island, on which stand the ruins of an old French fortification, the walls and trenches and the solitary chimneys, from which the wooden barracks have rotted or been burned away, remain as melancholy testimonials of the bloody strifes between the red men of the forest, and the pioneers of civilization who were driving them from the hunting grounds of their fathers.

There are extensive barracks for cavalry at this place, at present occupied by the Swiss guards.

"At Adrianople a vast barrack was taken for a hospital, and in three days 1,616 patients were admitted.

Commodious barracks have already been erected at most of these posts, with such works as were necessary for their defense.

" As the fire roared, and the wind whistled about their miserable barracks, he sank away into dreamland again.

The flags of the several navy-yards and marine barracks will also be hoisted at half-mast.

"Your predecessor's boy; and there"pointing to a lonely barrack that loomed white over the stunted grove"there's your house.

"Where's our nearest barracks?" enquired one of the Scotsmen.

Lieutenant Tito de Moraes put off in a small boat from the naval barracks at Alcantara, rowed to the San Raphael, boarded it, and calmly took possession of it in the name of the Republic!

Caunipoor is a strong military station, with four handsome barracks; there is also an important missionary society.

The whole of the harem courts of the palace were swept off the face of the earth to make way for a hideous British barrack, without those who carried out this fearful piece of vandalism thinking it even worth while to make a plan of what they were destroying, or making any records of the most splendid palace in the world.

It is a great, little, splendid, mean, extravagant, poverty-stricken barrack for soldiers of fortune and votaries of folly.

They are stationed at London and Windsor, and lodged in magnificent barracks, apparently ample for their accommodation.

The prisoners were housed in new, clean, one-story barracks; well fed, so far as one could tell from their appearance and that of the kitchens and storerooms; they could write and be written to, and they were compelled to take exercise.

For having during this time been bandied about from one to another, I at length got positive refusals from every one that I could apply to, that is, the Council, the Selectmen, and the Justices of the Peace; upon which the General, [Gage,] who came here on purpose, has found himself obliged to hire and fit up buildings at the expense of the Crown, by which means the two regiments are at length got into good occasional barracks.

The commanding parts of the Nothe are heavily fortified and the permanent barracks are always occupied by a strong force.

The buildings are long, one-story, pine barracks, just wide enough for two rows of beds with an aisle down the centre.

During this second imprisonment Paul could see very little outside the praetorian barracks, but his friends brought him the news, and he had ample time to write letters.

Until these inquiries are respected, conscious character building or even stock breeding must remain the laughing stock of the smoking rooms and the regimental barracks.

She has not only penetrated, but has dominated; a year ago towns like Aleppo were crammed with German officers, while at Islahie there were separate wooden barracks for the exclusive use of German troops.

A mile or two from St. Louis, on the Carondelet road, are situated spacious infantry barracks, named after Jefferson, one of the former presidents of the Union, where troops are stationed in readiness to act against the various tribes of Indians in the Upper Missouri country, who sometimes show a disposition to be hostile.

It is a great, little, splendid, mean, extravagant, poverty-stricken barrack for soldiers of fortune and votaries of folly.

Others compare it to a palace put of the Arabian Nights raised at the Prince's bidding by a Genie, or like Lippomano, the Venetian ambassador, to "the abode of Morgana or Alcinous"; but this topheavy barrack is anything rather than a "fairy monument"; it might with as much humor be called a "souvenir of first loves," as M. de la Saussaye has it.

The inner works of itthe redan and the underground barracks, and the magazines, and allwere built after the style .followed by military engineers back in 1883, having revetments faced up with brick and stone; but only a little while agoin the summer of 1913, to be exactthe job of inclosing the original works with a glacis of a newer type had