THE FUN OF SEEING THINGS 



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THE ENGINE MADE BY AN OHIO BOY. 



A Small Engine Made by a Boy. 



Salem, Ohio. 

 To the Editor : 



This small steam engine was built 

 by an Eastern Ohio boy, between his 

 fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays. 



The engine measures sixteen inches 

 ■over all, is six and one-half inches 

 wide (along length of shaft). The 

 wheel is seven inches in diameter, the 

 Tim one and one-quarter inches in 

 width, and the shaft one-half inch in 

 ■diameter. The bore of the cylinder is 

 ■one and one-half inches, and the 

 stroke two and one-quarter inches. 



The iron castings were neither 

 "rilled" nor painted, hence they look 

 rougher in the picture than they really 

 are. 



H. W. Weisgerber. 



The Home of the Swallow. 



The natural history teacher was 

 working hard but receiving rather un- 

 satisfactory answers to her questions. 

 At last she inquired : 



"Now what little boy or girl can 

 tell me where the home of the swallow 

 is?" 



Long silence, then frantic waving of 

 a diminutive hand. 



"Well, Bobby, where is it?" 



"The home of the swallow," de- 

 clared Bobby in all seriousness, "is in 

 the stummick." — "Ohio Farmer." 



The Hooks on the Wings of the 

 Honeybee. 



In flight the hind wing is always at- 

 tached to the fore wing by means of 



these hooks, and by watching at the 

 entrance of a hive, one may see the 

 bees unhook the hind wings just be- 

 bore they fold them down. Bees may 

 sometimes be observed on the entrance 

 board or even in the hive, with the 

 wings still attached together, in which 

 event they are held out from the sides 

 and do not lie down on the back. 



There are no hooks on the edge of 

 the front wing to which these are at- 

 tached, but these hooks catch on the 

 edge of the wing that is turned over 

 for the purpose. 



THE HOOKS ON THE HONEYBEE'S WING 



