SWINDLER'S GAMBLING DEVICE CANFIELD, the former gambler and card sharp, who is now trying to undo as much of his former wrongs as possible by exposing the tricks of the gambling fraternity, has added to his exhibits one of the most elaborate and ingenious devices for cheating at cards ever invented. The photographs show the device "in action." The wires, etc., are shown outside and in sight for the purpose of photographing. When in use the "garters" are worn beneath the trousers. An invisible hook connects them and the grip shown for picking up the card and secreting it in the sleeve is worked by moving the knees wide apart or closer together. As this is done the extension shown at the wrist is either extended out or closed up as the "sharp" desires to carry a card up the sleeve or drop it into the palm of the hand. These devices are not easy to get and they are very expensive, as much as fifty dollars being demanded for a good one. It seems as if nothing were free from "exposure" today, not even gambling graft. FIFTY DOLLARS IS THE PRICE ASKED FOR THIS SWINDLING DEVICE. How the card sharp works his little game. Extended. the instrument thrusts a card into the gambler's hand. power or even more. These balloons, invented by S. Saul at Aix-la-Chapelle, are fixed to the end of an electric wire which at the same time serves to supply current to the lamp. Being transparent and of a red color, these balloons could be readily distinguished from stars as well as terrestrial lights. The first installation of this kind has for some time been in operation at the Treptow Observatory, near Berlin, for guiding the night trips of the advertising balloon exploited by a Berlin Company. While being primarily suited for the marking of airship stations, balloon sheds and landing places, these luminous balloons will also serve to signal the proximity of the sea when the wind THE CARD TRICKSTER AT WORK. An invisible hook grips the cards. is blowing off shore. In foggy weather, the signaling balloons can be used for launching fog alarms of the Saul system, viz.: moisture gauges communicating with an electric generator and the lever of which, the moment the apparatus leaves the fog, entering the region of dry air, will complete by its contact with a metal rod, an electric circuit and thus actuate a bell located on the HEAD OF WOODCHUCK. WITH CURIOUS MALFORMATION. The teeth in the lower front jaw are two and one-half inches long and extend about one inch above the top of the head. The upper front teeth are about the same length one of them coming down outside of the mouth and crooks back. forming a circle. The other one comes down in the lower part of the mouth, then crooks back and has grown upward and penetrates the roof of the mouth. By using its front feet the woodchuck placed the food in its mouth, otherwise he would have starved. ground. Observers are thus in a position to ascertain from the ground the exact moment the signaling balloon issues from the range of fog, entering the free transparent air so as to be seen by all passing air-men. ୫ MACHINES TO DISPLACE CHILD LABOR YOU may have seen unloaded at some railroad station a carload of foreigners, their children, food, bedding and other belongings dumped in a heap at their feet. In May they are going to the strawberry fields, in September to the cranberry bogs. Despite the low wages paid this is a slow and costly method of gathering the berries and so inventors have been stimulated to build a machine for the purpose. In the machine shown in the illustrations on the next page a horse is placed in the shafts, but not in the way we are accustomed to seeing the animal. His head is to the machine and he is made to push it. Around the drum of the machine are placed seven rows of twenty-four fingers each. At the back of the machine twenty-three knives are so placed that their ends come between the fingers on the drum. At their base is a metal hood, the two together serving to keep the berries from jumping out and cause them to fall in their proper place. At the front of the machine are twenty-three short knives, these catch and hold the vines long enough for the fingers on the drum to slip up between them and pull the berries off the vines. The space between the fingers is too small for a cranberry to slip through. As the horse pushes the machine, the drum revolves in a direction opposite to |