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��Mahogany

Steamboat

Cabin for

a Home

WHEN the steamer Lilian was built her de- signer had her fitted out with a soHd mahog- a n y cabin, made of the heaviest and finest mahog- any wood obtainable, only to discover when she was launched that she was top- heavy. It was necessary to remove the expensive mahogany cabin and dispose of it. Accordingly it was sold to an

���The mahogany cabin of a duty as

��eccentric resi- dent of San Diego, who hauled it up the steep em- bankment to his vacant lot and lives in it. The cabin makes a fine little bachelor home and is spotless in its polished splen- dor without and within. The heavy French plate-glass windows and Venetian blinds also add a note of distinction. Several reminders of the sea are still present inside the cabin-home.

��topheavy boat now does a cabin

��A Giant Pair of Scissors With a Symbolic Meaning

JOE STECHER of Dodge, Neb., owns the largest pair of scis- sors in the world. Also he possesses the great- est scissors grip in his powerful lower limbs. It is that scissors grip of his which has made him famous as a wres- tler.

Recently the friends of Joe Stecher gave him a big celebration at his sented him with a three diamond-studded belt.

��Mammoth Tusks from Alaska

THE huge mammoth tusksshowninthe photograph were dug out of the earth at Silver Creek near Daw- son, British Co- lumbia,] ustacross the boundary from Alaska. They are far larg- er than the tusks of the greatest of

���Joe Stecher, the wrestler's, scissors are longer than his legs, but not so mighty

��home, and pre- thousand dollar One of the nota-

���Enormous fossil tusks from Alaska

��bles of the state, in- vited to address the as- sembly on that occa- sion, spent no time pre- paring a speech about a diamond belt, but in- stead went to a big manufacturing plant and ordered a pair of shears eight feet in length. The factory put men to work and worked them overtime to produce the mon- strosity of cutlery. When this speaker, (^olonel James C. Elliott of West Point, Neb., was introduced, he presented, not the diamond belt, but the giant scissors.

��modern elephants and the animal who swung them must have been a giant even among mammoths. The buffalo skull and horns seen in the center of the pic- ture, large as is its massive head, show b\- compari- son how huge must have been the head of the mammoth.

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