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HYGIENICS IN A BERLIN DAY NURSERY. Every child has its pigeon hole containing soap, tooth brush, etc.. and provided with a number

STYLE OF STREET CAR. WITH ENTRANCE IN MIDDLE, Is GAINING IN POPULARITY.

Space and better ventilation are secured by this arrangement.

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scarcely hope for from the tired or careless pin boy.

Now this fatest invention in the field of games further simplifies matters. By means of a cord attached to a lever, and running from the "frame" to the foul line, the bowler may set his own Dins. This device also makes the playing of the game less expensive, thus increasing the popularity of the sport.

A piece of felt, which Covers the floor of the alley, decreases the customary rumbling noise. The apparatus is a European contrivance.

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FORKED TREE AS A WELL SWEEP.

One end is weighted with. a big stone to counterbalance the weight of the full bucket and the rope is knotted at intervals to make it easy for the drawer of water. This landmark stands beside a mission near the Mexican border below San Diego, California.

WALL CLOCK AS CHAM-
PAGNE ADVERTISEMENT.

A noted French liquor firm's gift to its custom

ers.

CHAMPAGNE CLOCK

AS AN ADVER-
TISEMENT

AMERICANS are very

enterprising in a busi-
ness way in giving all man-
ner of household goods,
such as mirrors, fans, and
odd trinkets, as advertise-
ments, in the way of trade.
But the French have even
surpassed us in their great-
er ingenuity in certain
in
forms of advertising, as
witness the clock in the
illustration.

It is a very modern firm
of champagne makers, in-
deed, who give their patrons
clocks constructed almost
entirely out of
champagne corks,
bottles, and the im-
plements which
open the latter. On

the dial is the name of the dealer. Even the most careless housekeeper could not disregard this constant reminder that the supply of champagne must not be permitted to run out, and where it might best be replenished, whenever that catastrophe might menace the gustatory peace of the household.

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CANDIDATE FOR POSITION OF MOUNTED
POLICEMAN STRUGGLING TO BRIDLE
HIS REFRACTORY HORSE.

POLICEMEN DO COWBOY
STUNTS

THE city of Los Angeles has just con-
ducted an interesting test in order to
for the
pick out available members
mounted police squad. In the far West
there are many ex-cowpunchers who
have drifted into the city, and there are
a number on the regular police force, so
it was not difficult to find expert horse-
men and lariat throwers in the ranks. The
photographs show some of the policemen
as they were indulging in rough play

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ROPING A FELLOW POLICEMAN.

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A HAT PIN WITH THE DANGER EXTRACTED. An extra head slipped on and fastened by a twist of the wrist renders the long hat pin harmless.

during the test. The officer on horseback, a former cowboy, has just ridden. by the man on the ground and while his horse was going at a lope he flipped the

FIRST BATTLESHIP BUILT IN AMERICA FOR A FOREIGN POWER UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT QUINCY, MASS. The Rivadavia, for the Argentine Republic, is to have a displacement of 27.000 tons. She will be one of the most powerful battleships afloat.

noose back over his shoulder and roped his fellow policeman. Another photograph shows a less experienced "cop" struggling to get the bridle on his refractory mount, indicating that not all the applicants were experts. In fact as one of the local newspaper men described the roping test: "Some of the policemen caught the galloping horse, others caught the rider instead of the horse, and one of them succeeded in roping himself, but before the test was over each man had caught something."

The equipment of the horse for this new mounted squad will consist of a regular cattleman's outfit, the saddle having a double cinch and a horn, so that when a runaway is roped by a pursuing policeman it can be easily brought to a halt. The horses, too, are experienced cow ponies, trained to brace themselves against the rope, so that Los Angeles is likely to have exhibitions of rough riding and rope throwing on its main streets at any time. Thus the arts of the frontier will be employed to save the man of the city from the peril of runaway horses.

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PECULIAR ICE FORMATION LEFT IN A CAVE IN SOUTH DAKOTA BY A THAWING STREAM.

Taken with portrait camera at a distance of four and one-half feet.

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THEATRE CURTAIN OF GLASS

THE HE first glass theater curtain will soon be installed in the National Theatre, which is now nearing completion, in the City of Mexico. It contains more than twenty-five hundred square feet of glass mosaic and weighs twentyseven tons. To insure its safe transportation from the studios in New York City, where it was built, to the City of Mexico it was divided into two hundred panels, containing nearly one million separate pieces, which were inlaid in a concrete composition impervious alike to heat and moisture. A wonderful art pattern has been put upon the glass. It shows the last rays of the setting sun to the right of Popocatepetl, gilding the icy summits of the volcanoes and revealing the prone figure of Ixtaccihuatl, the upper slopes of the mountain, suggesting her streaming, luxuriant hair. Above, in the vast expansive sky, the glory of the blue

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