TESTING THE COAST DEFENCE POSSIBILITIES OF NEW YORK CITY. Battery in action at Fort Totten. BIG AUSTRIAN STEAMER GRADAC, WHICH RAN ON THE ROCKS OFF THE NORTHEAST COAST OF ENGLAND. The photo shows the life line in use. A GREAT LINE OF ILLUMINATION TRAVELING OVER THE FACE OF THE OCEAN. Our North Atlantic squadron as it appears at night. AUTOMATIC CHANGE-MAKER THIS machine is designed to supply change for coins of larger denomination with absolute accuracy, without the requirement of any manual manipulation, such as keys. The change-maker is mounted on top of a pedestal when arranged for receiving fares on street cars, etc., or admissions to shows, theatres, etc. The change-maker is operated either by the hand lever or foot lever. All coins for which change is required are dropped into the one slot shown at the upper left-hand corner, the coin being stopped by a gate in position to be manipulated by movable plate above, actuated by the operating lever. The lever being depressed, the coin is forced downwardly and to the left against a yielding plate which latter sets a sliding bar in position to eject coins from the coin stacks as shown. The various sizes of coins set this plate in various positions whereby selection of the particular coins to be ejected is made. It is an ingenious arrangement. The lower part of the arc of travel of the operating lever is used for ejecting the change into a cup, shown below in the middle of the machine, from whence it is removed by the hand. The fare or admission is then selected and dropped into the fare box below. The return of the operating lever to rest deposits the admission coin in the pedestal out of reach of the operator and returns the parts of the change-maker to positions for receiving and making change for another coin. If a coin such as 5c, lc or $5.00 is dropped in the slot, a partial depression of the lever locks the mechanism and prevents the ejection of any coin and the only alternative is for the operator to slightly raise the operating lever above its point of rest, whereby the coin is passed into the delivery cup without further action of the The inventor has high hopes for his device. AN AUTOMATIC CHANGE MAKER. machine. machine. HOW THEY KEEP THE TABLES OF THE LAW IN MANDALAY, INDIA. There are 450 pagodas containing the native laws of the country engraved on marble plates. HOW A BUILDING WAS MOVED IN MAINE DURING THE PAST WINTER. The structure shown was moved five miles in this manner. pair of 13/16 inch steel beams supported the engine. These were fastened in place to the frame about ten days after applying the cement, so that in setting it might adapt itself to the added strain due to the weight of the engine. After fifteen weeks the boat was launched and during the balance of the season withstood the jolts and jars common to such craft without showing any sign of cracking. The boat is 141⁄2 feet in length with a 66 inch beam, and is 22 inches deep. It is equipped with a three horsepower gasoline engine and attains a speed of seven miles an hour under ordinarily good conditions. HOW THEY MOVE BUILDINGS IN MAINE SNOW AVIATORS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RECENTLY TOOK PART IN A HUNT FOR CRIMINALS. They were unable to locate their quarry, however. NOW in Maine is considered a great asset to the state in winter and this is especially true in the moving of buildings. Nearly all this work is left until the snow comes each fall and then it is kept up for nearly three months. It has been known for a building that weighed ten tons to be placed on sleds and moved ten miles with a pair of oxen. It is not unusual to see a building that is forty feet wide and sixty feet long being moved on sled runners with a number of pairs of oxen hauling the building. In one large town a hotel that was three stories high, 150 feet long was moved half a mile on sled runners. There is saved in the state each year many thousand dollars by hauling buildings in this way in the winter time. Many times if the building was to be moved in the summer the slow process of moving it on rollers would make the expense greater than the value of the building and it would have to be torn down instead. Snow to the New Englander at least is a wind not altogether ill for it blows somebody good in that inclement region. A FRENCH NOVELTY-MODEL ELECTRIC RAILWAY TO CONVEY DISHES TO AND FROM THE TABLE. THE MYSTERIOUS FROGS MR. R. DAVID FAIRCHILD has an extensive reputation amongst scientific men as one of the chief missionaries of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Around Sarita, one of the largest ranches in the southern part of Texas, he is known as an honorary twin brother to Sherlock Holmes. A few years ago the ranchers of Sarita were nonplussed by the discovery of frogs and fish in some lakes whose only source was artesian. The pseudo-scientists of the neighborhood waxed very fertile. Some of their suspicions were: underground rivers tapped by the wells; suspended animation of the eggs that had waited years for the water to set their energies free. Mr. Fairchild stationed himself near the lakes and awaited results. One day a flock of ducks alighted for a rest and a bite to eat, and with the image of them a great light passed into Mr. Fairchild's mind and he saw everything clearly. The ducks had, of course, visited other ponds not of artesian origin, they had there waded in muddy shallows where the eggs of fish and frog are deposited in millions; and smeared with some of this fertile mud they now washed themselves clean in the virgin waters, and thus became the pioneers of an advance community. Mr. Fairchild learned that |
