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Keeping Shampoo Soap Out of Your Ears 273
A Shaving Mug with a Soap Pump 273
Snapping the Snapping Turtle 273
A Headlight Dimmer Operated from the Seat. . . . 274
A Stepladder and Ironing Board 274
Increasing Your Grip on the Golf Club 274
It's a Wise Man That Knows His Own Tooth
Brush. 274
A Sop to Feminine Vanity 274
Making Potato Chips by Machine 274
MISCELLANY
Sea Shells for Decorating Concrete 9
The "Back Yard Limited" 9
Lengthens Life of Rubber Gloves 11
Shipping Pigs in Baskets 17
A Pueblo Village for the Garden of the Gods. ... 19
A Millinery Store on Water 24
How Savages Prepare Poisoned Arrows 25
Two-Year-Old Eggs 25
Your Feet are Wiped When You Enter Bohemian
Bakeries 26
No Chance to Pass This Shop 32
An Illinois Community with Ideas in Street
Lighting 32
Polite Sign Boards Bring Results 32
Artificial Sausage Skins 32
An Indian Weeding Party 51
Curious Trades of Other Lands 52
Fly Impaled by Spear of Grass 55
From Cellar to Sidewalk 66
A Clock Made of Straw 66
Street Corner Directories that Tell You Everything 70 Where Men Are Still Cheaper Than Machinery . . 76
A Golf- Tee Fertilizer 88
A Real Sultan's Strange Body-Guard 88
Building with Cobblestones 102
Bottle Corks Made from Blood 107
Left-Handed Watches for Left-Handed People. . . 112
The Longest Letter in the World 167
A Boy's Street Boat 1 70
Fish That Travel on Land 177
Fossil Plants Twenty Million Years Old 1 78
The Latest Style in Handcuffs 211
Have You Eaten Your Cow> 211
A Tree Captures a Fence 224
What Is the Best Shade Tree in the United States? 225
A Merry-Go-Round in the Water 230
Forest Rangers Must Fight Snakes as Well as Fires 230
Making Butter by the Barrel 230
How to Make Knots, Ties. Hitches and Bends. . . 235 Brushing Your Teeth; There Is a Right and a
Wrong Way 236
A Revolution Timer and Stop Watch Combined. . 246
Our Big Bird Seed Pill 252
Making a Dancing Floor Into a Skating Rink. . . . 252
A Business Office in the Open Air 253
An Ant Heap as a Look-out Station 256
Living in a Tree Stump 256
How to Sit Straight and Be Comfortable 258
Three-Wheeled 'Rickshawa for Asia 260
Giant Metal Shoe 261
A Saw That Stands Up 262
A Rolling Clock 263
A Bird-House That Can Be Cleaned 264
If You Only Have a Rope 269
That Mathematical Short Cut 270
Hotel Keys Which Take the Place of Call Boys. .271
The Strength of a Stream of Water 271
Parcel-Carrying Rack for Bicycle 294
The World's Largest Flagstaff 325
Converting an Old Boiler into a Water Standpipe 335
A Test for Baggage Smashers 338
Circular Barn Built of Concrete 339
Piling Lumber in Forty-Foot Monumental Stacks 339
A Shell That Melted Money in a Ship's Safe 340
The Largest Card Holder in the World 341
This Belt Breaks All Records 341
A Gas Well Which Wasted $200.000 344
Why Can a Fly Walk Upside Down? 345
Your Razor is Like a Scythe 349
A Civilized Man's Totem Tree 372
Huge Twin Lanterns Light Entrance to School. . . 372
When Will This Reservoir Be Emptied? 373
A House with a Sail 384
A Motion-Saving Rule-Case for Printers 392
Carving the Confederate Army in a Granite Moun- tain 402
A Sensible Feeding Bag for Horses 404
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This Factory Burns "Sauerkraut" for Fuel 411
A Brazilian Snake Farm 417
Why Do We Have Two Eyes? 418
Why Is the Sky Blue? 419
A Dust-Collecting Window-Ventilator 420
A Medley of Puzzles 430
How to Ascertain Your Latitude and Longitude. . . 432
Improving the Old-Fashioned Ice-Skate 434
Preserving Indian Speech 486
A Man-Power Reel for Hauling in a Long Seine . . 488
A "Center-of-the-Room" Fireplace 489
RoUer-Skates in Business 494
To the "Titanic" Heroes 496
The Lively Bird on Our Cover 496
Every Man His Own Hair Cutter 497
Ladder Tipped with Mule's Feet 503
A Quick-Acting Wrench 503
Operating a Stage Under Difficulties 505
An Improved Hack-Saw Attachment 506
A Grain Elevator Which Holds 3,500 Carloads. ..511
A Blanket with Many Uses 528
Walking Backwards Across the Country 535
A Judge Who Has Succeeded Without Arms. . . . 540
Pranks Played by Trees 542
Mahogany Steamboat Cabin for a Home 543
A Giant Pair of Scissors with a Symbolic Meaning 543
Mammoth Tusks From Alaska 543
How Blotting Paper Absorbs Ink 544
Balsa, Lightest of Woods 544
Did You Know That Flour Explodes? 554
Sea-Scouts as Lamplighters 554
A Braided Tree 558
Better Than the Bread Mother Baked 559
Soda Pulp Has Many Uses 560
Laundering Smoke and Using It Over Again. . . . 562 How a Boy Delivers Packages with His Own
Bicycle-Trailer 564
A Pocket Safe 564
The Refreshment Tree 564
A Sycamore Stump for a Lamp Post 568
Raising Goldfish by the Acre , . 569
Watering the Oyster 581
Music While You Work 582
Army and Navy Clubs Please Notice 582
A Motion-Study Stopwatch Which Does Its
Own Computing 583
A Suitcase on Wheels 583
A Silo and Windmill Tower in One 584
Mark Your Golf-Ball with Your Initials 588
A Medley of Puzzles 589
Hot- Water Bottle Fits the Back 539
How I Made $22.50 by Reading the Popular Science
Monthly 641
An Invisible Ink 644
What One Corporation Is Doing to Make Men of
Boy Einployees 648
Catching Turtles as a Business 65 I
Why Logwood Is Worth $200 a Ton 651
Llamas as Powder-Carriers 656
Singing for the Phonograph 659
Gasoline in Bulk for Panama 660
This Cab Simply Can't Tip Over 660
Buying Telephone Poles by Weight 662
Gas Flows Back to the Earth 662
A Nailless Chair Made by Good Soil, Fresh Air and
Sunshine 664
A Nautical Porch Seat 667
One Tree Grows Through Another 688
Army Pistol Shoots Colors 694
A One-Pound Diamond 694
Serving Food on the Run 695
This Barn Bears a Lesson to Pacifists 697
"Quiere Leche Hoy? " 697
A Model of Joel Chandler Harris' Old Homestead . . 698
Washing Logs for Safety 699
The Shingle-Phonograph 714
Teaching Blind Men to Fence 715
Out-Periscoping the Periscope 716
Putting Speed in Telephone Directories 718
Purifying Iron in a Vacuum 720
A Room Papered with Postage Stamps 728
Soldering-iron Has New Principle 728
Earrings That Denote Widowhood 730
Canceling Checks with a Hammer and Anvil .... 739
Why Can't We Make Diamonds 742
A Fiendish Plant Which Thrives on Cattle 744
A Tree Which Serves as a Bridge 747
A Medley of Puzzles 748
Mechanical Tops Which Puzzle 754
Counting Up on Steel Fingers 756
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