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Keeping Shampoo Soap Out of Your Ears 273

A Shaving Mug with a Soap Pump 273

Snapping the Snapping Turtle 273

A Headlight Dimmer Operated from the Seat. . . . 274

A Stepladder and Ironing Board 274

Increasing Your Grip on the Golf Club 274

It's a Wise Man That Knows His Own Tooth

Brush. 274

A Sop to Feminine Vanity 274

Making Potato Chips by Machine 274

MISCELLANY

Sea Shells for Decorating Concrete 9

The "Back Yard Limited" 9

Lengthens Life of Rubber Gloves 11

Shipping Pigs in Baskets 17

A Pueblo Village for the Garden of the Gods. ... 19

A Millinery Store on Water 24

How Savages Prepare Poisoned Arrows 25

Two-Year-Old Eggs 25

Your Feet are Wiped When You Enter Bohemian

Bakeries 26

No Chance to Pass This Shop 32

An Illinois Community with Ideas in Street

Lighting 32

Polite Sign Boards Bring Results 32

Artificial Sausage Skins 32

An Indian Weeding Party 51

Curious Trades of Other Lands 52

Fly Impaled by Spear of Grass 55

From Cellar to Sidewalk 66

A Clock Made of Straw 66

Street Corner Directories that Tell You Everything 70 Where Men Are Still Cheaper Than Machinery. . 76

A Golf- Tee Fertilizer 88

A Real Sultan's Strange Body-Guard 88

Building with Cobblestones 102

Bottle Corks Made from Blood 107

Left-Handed Watches for Left-Handed People. . . 112

The Longest Letter in the World 167

A Boy's Street Boat 1 70

Fish That Travel on Land 177

Fossil Plants Twenty Million Years Old 1 78

The Latest Style in Handcuffs 211

Have You Eaten Your Cow> 211

A Tree Captures a Fence 224

What Is the Best Shade Tree in the United States? 225

A Merry-Go-Round in the Water 230

Forest Rangers Must Fight Snakes as Well as Fires 230

Making Butter by the Barrel 230

How to Make Knots, Ties. Hitches and Bends. . . 235 Brushing Your Teeth; There Is a Right and a

Wrong Way 236

A Revolution Timer and Stop Watch Combined. . 246

Our Big Bird Seed Pill 252

Making a Dancing Floor Into a Skating Rink. . . . 252

A Business Office in the Open Air 253

An Ant Heap as a Look-out Station 256

Living in a Tree Stump 256

How to Sit Straight and Be Comfortable 258

Three-Wheeled 'Rickshawa for Asia 260

Giant Metal Shoe 261

A Saw That Stands Up 262

A Rolling Clock 263

A Bird-House That Can Be Cleaned 264

If You Only Have a Rope 269

That Mathematical Short Cut 270

Hotel Keys Which Take the Place of Call Boys. .271

The Strength of a Stream of Water 271

Parcel-Carrying Rack for Bicycle 294

The World's Largest Flagstaff 325

Converting an Old Boiler into a Water Standpipe 335

A Test for Baggage Smashers 338

Circular Barn Built of Concrete 339

Piling Lumber in Forty-Foot Monumental Stacks 339

A Shell That Melted Money in a Ship's Safe 340

The Largest Card Holder in the World 341

This Belt Breaks All Records 341

A Gas Well Which Wasted $200.000 344

Why Can a Fly Walk Upside Down? 345

Your Razor is Like a Scythe 349

A Civilized Man's Totem Tree 372

Huge Twin Lanterns Light Entrance to School. . . 372

When Will This Reservoir Be Emptied? 373

A House with a Sail 384

A Motion-Saving Rule-Case for Printers 392

Carving the Confederate Army in a Granite Moun- tain 402

A Sensible Feeding Bag for Horses 404

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This Factory Burns "Sauerkraut" for Fuel 411

A Brazilian Snake Farm 417

Why Do We Have Two Eyes? 418

Why Is the Sky Blue? 419

A Dust-Collecting Window-Ventilator 420

A Medley of Puzzles 430

How to Ascertain Your Latitude and Longitude. . . 432

Improving the Old-Fashioned Ice-Skate 434

Preserving Indian Speech 486

A Man-Power Reel for Hauling in a Long Seine. . 488

A "Center-of-the-Room" Fireplace 489

RoUer-Skates in Business 494

To the "Titanic" Heroes 496

The Lively Bird on Our Cover 496

Every Man His Own Hair Cutter 497

Ladder Tipped with Mule's Feet 503

A Quick-Acting Wrench 503

Operating a Stage Under Difficulties 505

An Improved Hack-Saw Attachment 506

A Grain Elevator Which Holds 3,500 Carloads. ..511

A Blanket with Many Uses 528

Walking Backwards Across the Country 535

A Judge Who Has Succeeded Without Arms. . . . 540

Pranks Played by Trees 542

Mahogany Steamboat Cabin for a Home 543

A Giant Pair of Scissors with a Symbolic Meaning 543

Mammoth Tusks From Alaska 543

How Blotting Paper Absorbs Ink 544

Balsa, Lightest of Woods 544

Did You Know That Flour Explodes? 554

Sea-Scouts as Lamplighters 554

A Braided Tree 558

Better Than the Bread Mother Baked 559

Soda Pulp Has Many Uses 560

Laundering Smoke and Using It Over Again. . . . 562 How a Boy Delivers Packages with His Own

Bicycle-Trailer 564

A Pocket Safe 564

The Refreshment Tree 564

A Sycamore Stump for a Lamp Post 568

Raising Goldfish by the Acre,. 569

Watering the Oyster 581

Music While You Work 582

Army and Navy Clubs Please Notice 582

A Motion-Study Stopwatch Which Does Its

Own Computing 583

A Suitcase on Wheels 583

A Silo and Windmill Tower in One 584

Mark Your Golf-Ball with Your Initials 588

A Medley of Puzzles 589

Hot- Water Bottle Fits the Back 539

How I Made $22.50 by Reading the Popular Science

Monthly 641

An Invisible Ink 644

What One Corporation Is Doing to Make Men of

Boy Einployees 648

Catching Turtles as a Business 65 I

Why Logwood Is Worth $200 a Ton 651

Llamas as Powder-Carriers 656

Singing for the Phonograph 659

Gasoline in Bulk for Panama 660

This Cab Simply Can't Tip Over 660

Buying Telephone Poles by Weight 662

Gas Flows Back to the Earth 662

A Nailless Chair Made by Good Soil, Fresh Air and

Sunshine 664

A Nautical Porch Seat 667

One Tree Grows Through Another 688

Army Pistol Shoots Colors 694

A One-Pound Diamond 694

Serving Food on the Run 695

This Barn Bears a Lesson to Pacifists 697

"Quiere Leche Hoy? " 697

A Model of Joel Chandler Harris' Old Homestead. . 698

Washing Logs for Safety 699

The Shingle-Phonograph 714

Teaching Blind Men to Fence 715

Out-Periscoping the Periscope 716

Putting Speed in Telephone Directories 718

Purifying Iron in a Vacuum 720

A Room Papered with Postage Stamps 728

Soldering-iron Has New Principle 728

Earrings That Denote Widowhood 730

Canceling Checks with a Hammer and Anvil .... 739

Why Can't We Make Diamonds 742

A Fiendish Plant Which Thrives on Cattle 744

A Tree Which Serves as a Bridge 747

A Medley of Puzzles 748

Mechanical Tops Which Puzzle 754

Counting Up on Steel Fingers 756

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