| Show 1 I remore I 1 killed a robin the little thing th scarlet b east on a g ovy wing that nea in the apple tree to linb I 1 flung a stone as he t tl ere I 1 only meant to give him a scare but off t went and hit h m square A bittle fl ater a 1 atle cry then on the ground I 1 aw him lie I 1 dian didn t think be was golrig to d e but as I 1 watched h m I 1 soon could bee he never would sing tor ou or me any more in the apple tree never more in the sunshine never more in the sunshine briant tl 11 ng his song in gay del nd I 1 m thinking every summer da how never never ca I 1 apay ahe 1 atle 1 f that I 1 took away sdney da re 1 youths companion fun F sh ng for apples A great many places about the in try have no water where fish the apple fishhook found and boys and girls living near them have little or no opportunity to elsh those very places though are apt to have apple orchards and fish ing for apples may furnish a new amusement beginning in august there are gen brally a lot of poor apples fallen from the trees which lie about on the ground underneath them they are known as windfalls gather a lot of them and put them on the ground inside a barrel hoop now tor a hook get a stick about six inches aa is shown in the picture point it at aae end and make the other not over bait an inch round push a good hard apple on this round part and fasten a cord to the part of the stick stick ing through it any long stick will do for a fishing pole but the cord must not be shorter than fo ir feet those who want to fish may gather around the apple pile anil with pole and hook properly prepared should be gin together to catch an apple the pointed stick must be poised above it and then dropped suddenly it the aim Is true the apple will stick upon catching an apple fish the point and may be drawn from the pile there should be no interference with each other unless the last apple is being fished tor but at no time when fishing must the bait or hook be touched A large stone placed ir the pile will spoil more than one point and the time taken in sharpening it will be lost to that fisherman some conundrums it santos dumont fell from his air ship what would be till against 9 his inclinations why Is a little dogs tall like the heart of a treed because it Is tar chest from the bark what Is smaller than 4 gnat s mouthy its tongue why Is a map of turkey in europe like a dripping pana because there is greece at the bottom when is a man thinner than a latha when he is a shaving why Is an egg like a horsek because you can t u it till it is broken if a man who Is carrying a dozen glass lamps drops one wha does he becomes A lamp lighter what is the we of the moon in round numbers 9 four quarters there is a belh own word in the english language the first two letters ot which signify a male the three first a female and the fajr first a great man ard the whole a great a man he her hero heroine woodpeckers savings bank among the woodpeck wood ers of cal for nia there is one kind popularly called the carpenter which is of such careful habits that many a friendly society might take a lesson from it although the winter is not very severe the bird well knows how hard ft will then be to obtain food so it begins early to lay by for the frosty day it stuffs the ho es of trees with u ind it is artful enough to choose those that contain the larvae of insects the larva thrives on the fruit and in the course of time becomes a fattened tit bit for the bird pine trees on which acorns do not grow have often been seen dotted or plugged all over with them sponge land although the best sponges come from the mediterranean where divers bring them up from the rocks in the depths of the blue sea a goodly num her may be found on the shores england lying about the beach washed up by the tide or sticking to shells into which they have bored fhe shore between the marks of high vater and low water has been called I 1 an 1 aishi 1 mits ct colors mai be hunt la abe bools they brighten bea a these scarlet orange gelloa white gray and black of the sponge one dually Is the skeleton of the jelly like ving animal and several of these skeletons make pretty onu merits for girls who crochet for one who crochets and knows the annoyance of haling the spool of cotton roll about the floor where it tangles an 1 becomes soiled thai pie 1 atle spool holder in the il lustra tion wall fill a long felt want procure a strong wire hairpin and pinch it together at the top making a loop by which the holder la hung from a b atton ou the wearer s shirt waist about three quarters qu aiters of an inch from the ends bend the lounts in and these points can be sprang into the ends of the spool which hangs in such a way that it unwinds easily with every move of the crochet hook cigar box tor a boat A practical vessel capable of forg ing through the water a distance of five or six yards after each winding can be made of a cigar box the rib of an old umbrella a rubber band a candle and a little cord after these articles have been used in the con st ruction of the boat itself many adal eions such as deck houses and don key engines can be affixed by a lad who Is handy with his penknife the first thing to be done Is to secure a good strong cigar box and to rip away its lid cut two pieces of I 1 aste board each the width of the box bv one third of its length and tack these across the front and back of the opening this makes a tore and after dek with a hatchet chop from an umbrella rib two masts a foot long pushing one through the tore and one through the after deck and pound ing both firmly into ithe bottom of the cigar box edke what remains of the umbrella rib say three inches lay halt of it along the audle of the fore ceck allowing the other halt to project secure it to the pasteboard with sealing wax and the bowsprit Is in position enow the cigar box commences to rese able a ship and it is time to be ln the propeller for this purpose tut from the cover two strips of wood n inch broad and tack these to the side of the box just at the bottom so that five inches stick out at each side of the back of the box the position ol 01 the trips to the box Is the position of shafts to a wagon except that they are behind instead of in front they must be tacked very strongly when this Is done run a stout rubber and from the end of ore shaft to the end of the other it out of what Is left of the cigar box top a piddle four inches long and an inch and a hilt wide and the motive power of the boat is ready you have only to p ish the paddle between the sides of the rubber and midway between the shafts and turn it round from left to right until the rubber is twisted tight when ou let go of the paddle it will turn rapidly until the elastic Is untwisted and if the boat is in the water the turning will send it ahead do you know that from two bottles you can make a cannon which will shoot a projectile to a quite respectable distance without powder of any kinda our ammunition in this case Is water think of that when one thinks of firing a cannon one usually thinks too of fire and smoke as feces ary to the discharge and you use alre in this instance a fire of such size that one can hardly realize it oceans and oceans of liquid alre for ou use the sun get two plains white bottles one a short flat flask and the other taller and heavier for instance an old gin ger ale bottle fill the small flash with water and insert in its neck a cork a little large for it so that it al most refuses to go in hammer this coric in tightly and be very sure that it Is firmly and securely in place fill one third of the larger bottle with water and cork it with a corl that fits well but not too tightly arhe a forked stick into the ground so that the fork is about three inches from the earth and prop ur the tall bottle on this rest so that it points at an angle of about forty degrees now drive two more forked sticks into the ground just the hot torn of the bottle one on each side of it these ire to hold your alasi which must be laid across them so that one edg is higher than the other ind its upper side turned directly toward the sun you will notice that the sun s rays shining on tha slightly convex side of the flask seem to focus or all gather together at ore point just beneath the bask if you put your finger on this spot ou will fand that it is very very tao stronger this apparatus and the tighter the rubber is tw sted the tar ther tl e boat will go what remains to be done Is only to make the water tight and to in crease ite likeness to a ship the alist task can be accomplished by calking the cracks inside the box and the holes made by the ahas with putty or gum it neither is ban ly light a candle and let the tallow drip into the proper places ri n a aaring from the mainmast 0 o the foremast and rom tl e foremast to the bow sj rit tor an 1 glue a iriny alas cigar box boat to the top of each cut porthole along the side of the boat or paint them there with ink A can be made to look 11 e a don ey engine a tiny box will serve as a cabin and the vessel Is ready mind read ng it takes two persons boys or garls to perform this feat which Is ay iy simple blit nevertheless mystifying to everyone ato has seen it one of the performers leaves the room and the door is closed so that he cannot hear what goes on then the company names some object that the absent player Is to tell when he returns when the object as been agreed upon the abent one Is recalled and the first performer bays while you were out of the room I 1 told the 1 and girls here that it they would name some object ro mat ter what you wo il 1 guess it the first trial on your return did you hear the object no of chirse yon dian didn t for the door was close 1 and the name was spoken in so low a tone thit you could not have heard now let mo ask ou was it a booke no no va it a chandelier 7 no was it a chaira no was it a lowera now how did the player inov that it was a flowery simply b cause the understanding between tb two performers is that the first per former in as ing those quentio i names some four legged object juat before be names the one that th company has agreed upon when therefore he asked was it a his confederate knew that ho boull name the real object next because a chair has tour legs THE BOTTLE CANNON hot it you put a wisp ol 01 paper there you will see its edges curl up turn brown and presently it the sun Is hot take fire just as if some one had touched a match to them and tre whole paper will burn to ashes abow ou must change the position f the birger 1 ottle until this hot spot is on the glass near the bottom chere the nater Is isow ou must tie pa tient and wait for something to happen but it the sun is apt you will not have to wait long in a few minutes you will see the water in the larger bottle begin to bubble and then a vapor will to arise from it it will bubble iloie and nore and the vapor nill grov thicker and thicker until it fills mhd bottle suddenly you hoar a noise like a small pistol behot the cork ale through the air like i bullet followed by a cloud of the vapor from the bot tie your cannon Is discharged the sun s rays shining 11 on the upper sl lo 10 of the flask and passing through it cocu ed upon tl e water ia the career lottle had the same effect upon it that they had on the piper they beate 1 it the white vicor ws steam the same farce wl ich movee locomotives and all boits of engines and as more and more bocam gathered and legan to exert a pre isaie in ill directions it plied up a lot of force because it was 1 eld in check tt n as its force grew greater an it began to dueh the borit it for that was easier to do than to break the bot tie and at last the cork was sent fl ing and the steam escapade just aa it does from the mouth of the tea hettle on the range at home |
