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REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF A FLYING DUCK. 

 By Ernst Nieliergall, Sandusky, Ohio. 



Whither, midst falling dew, 



While glow the heavens with the last steps of 

 day, 



Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pur- 

 sue 

 Thy solitary way? 



There is a Power whose care 

 Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — 

 The desert and illimitable air — 



Lone wandering, but not lost. 



All day thy wings have fanned. 

 At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, 

 Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, 

 Though the dark night is near. 



He who, from zone to zone, 

 Guides through the boundless sky thy certain 



flight. 

 In the long way that I must tread alone, 

 Will lead my steps aright. 



— "To a Waterfowl" by Bryant. 



The Advantage an Anastigmat Lens 

 Has Over an Ordinary Rapid One. 



Fix up flat against a vertical wall a 

 large sheet of newspaper, and place the 

 camera opposite the center. Now fo- 

 cus the center of the sheet, and then 

 focus some object in the corner of the 

 ground-glass, using an ordinary lens 

 and large stop. If you notice very 

 carefully you will find that when the 

 vertical lines are sharp the horizontal 

 lines are not sharp, and vice versa. 

 But if you repeat with an anastigmat, 

 both vertical and horizontal lines in 

 the corners of the ground-glass are (or 

 should be) equally sharp at the same 

 time. But by stopping down the or- 

 dinary lens one can get horizontal and 

 vertical lines both sharp at the same 

 time. What it comes to in practice 

 is that the anastigmat with a large 

 stop gives as good definition in the 

 corners of the plate as an ordinary lens 

 does with a small stop. — The Photo- 

 graphic Times. 



A Remarkable Coincidence. 



Some animals lose their tails in 

 traps, but this skunk "kept'' the tip of 

 his by placing it against the sky in- 

 stead of the white background. 



A SKUNK PLIOTOGRAPHING ITSELF. 



This skunk considerately posed so that its white 

 pointed tail might be silhouetted against the blackness 

 beyond instead of lost in the whiteness of the painted 

 board. 



