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SAILORS OF U. S. BATTLESHIP CONNECTICUT GOING ASHORE AT SOUTHSEA, ENGLAND.

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THE LATE KING CHULALONGKORN OF SIAM AND ELEVEN OF HIS SONS. This monarch had eighty wives and seventy children in all.

This makes it necessary to wash the land free from the deadly white crystals by means of tile ditches and flooding. By means of this machine a ditch eight feet deep can be dug and the tile laid in it at one operation. The total cost of tiling and filling in costs about six dollars an acre. Lands that were not worth fencing are made extremely valuable by the ditcher and a little water. In the Pecos Valley there are a number of farms that are almost worthless because of the alkali on them. These are being tiled

and washed and next spring will be worth from $300 an acre up.

INDIAN PLOUGHING SCENE

THE picture below depicts a spring

scene in India, and shows the natives ploughing the flooded rice fields of the East with their open-yoked ploughs. As will be observed this space of ground is artificially flooded. The result is that two and sometimes three crops of rice are obtained in a single year.

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DINING AROUND THE FACE OF A CLOCK, AT LEICESTER. ENGLAND.

The dial of this huge timepiece is twenty-five feet in diameter.

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BLOWING UP A CARGO OF DYNAMITE OFF YARMOUTH, ENGLAND.
The dynamite had become saturated with water, and hence was "tricky."

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FRENCH WEAPONS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST HOLD-UPS. These are respectively: walking stick and bay net comb nation; metal frame to steady stick when shooting the revolver and dagger walking stick.

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GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS WATCHING THE MANEUVERS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE KAISER.

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