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The photographer's art is responsible for the curious study in faces reproduced herewith. You are not looking at the counterfeit presentments of three brothers, but of one and the same man, who, in the first instance, is with a moustache, in the second with a full beard, and in the third he is clean shaven. By covering the lower part of the face you will see the resemblance at once. The deception has been exceptionally well carried out, and it is curious to note the air of vigour that is imparted In the central face by the full beard. The gentleman in question is Mr. Robert Pfeiffer, of Cincinnati, U.S. A. Of course, each portrait was taken at a different sitting, hut all three were taken on the same day. The photo. was taken by Krieg, Cincinnati.

It is somewhat difficult matter to trace any similarity to an ordinary glass tumbler in the odd-shaped article seen in our next photograph, but such was its original mission. It was found standing on a tank, outside the premises of Messrs. Goodchild and Co., of Vryburg, after a fire had destroyed their premises, having been reduced to this shape by the heat. The photograph was sent in by Mr. W. Klisser, photographer, of Vryburg.

This photograph is of very peculiar interest. It represents a scene in the churchyard of Badulla, Ceylon, that is now familiarly referred to as "Christianity Embracing Buddhism," and the reason is because of the association of the tombstone with the tree. The latter is the Bo-tree, the sacred tree of Buddhism, which in growing has carried the tombstone up bodily off the ground in the singular manner seen in the photograph. The tombstone was erected about 1840, but it has been embedded in the tree like this for many years. The photograph was forwarded by Mr. H. B. Christie, Civil Service, Badulla, Ceylon.