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Accelerating the Fruit - Picker 

 with a Picking Harness 



THE friiit-ijickcr who has 

 long pill up with tlie in- 

 conveniences connected with 

 picking fruit from trees 

 will welcome the appear- 

 ance of a picking harness. 

 The harness consists of 

 broad straps or sus- 

 penders to which the 

 fruit basket or pail is 

 hung in front, leaving 

 the hands free for pick- 

 ing. 



Equipped with it the 

 picker goes about his 

 task with ease, placing 

 the fruit in the recep- 

 tacle in front of him. 

 He does not need to 

 worry about its getting 

 away from him, as the 

 old pail hanging on the 

 tree-branch often did, 

 and he can strip a tree 

 clean of its fruit in 

 much less time with 

 the new harness. In 

 the berry season the 

 harness can be used to 

 advantage, and it is a great improve- 

 ment for all workers in the orchard. 



arge luminous area like a lantern 

 on the top of the head. This 

 extraordinary creature must pre- 

 sent a singular api)earance when 

 swinmiing in the dark abysses 

 the ocean. In the model the 

 luminous spots on the sides 

 are represented by buttons 

 of glass connected with the 

 interior by tubes. The 

 > luminous protuberance 



on the head was model- 

 ed in gelatine and then 

 tinted. When in opera- 

 tion the model is con- 

 nected with electric 

 current so that a dis- 

 tinct glow appearing 

 in the side spots and 

 the frontal "lantern" 

 produces a very strik- 

 ing and, it is believed 

 by fish experts, a quite 

 accurate representation 

 of the appearance of a 

 living phosphorescent 

 deep-sea fish. The mod- 

 el is about a foot long. 



This harness is light and enables the 

 fruit-picker to work with both arms 



A Sailor's Nautical 

 Wind-Wheel 



A 



A Deep-Sea Fish Which Has a 

 Lantern of Its Own 



AMONG the most remarkable fishes 

 Ix. are those provided with lanterns of 

 their own, and which swim in the dark 

 recesses of the bott(3m of the deep ocean 

 where no ray of natural light from above 

 can penetrate. A model of one of these 

 fishes, notable for its phosphorescent 

 organs, is on ex- 

 hibition in the 

 United States 

 National Museum. 

 The sides of the 

 fish are dotted at 

 regular intervals 

 with luminous 

 spots, which may 

 be seen, in the 





NOVEL wind -wheel which gives 

 the elTect, even in a light breeze, of 

 two sailboats pursuing each other in a 

 circle can be constructed easily and will 

 prove a source of considerable amuse- 

 ment to children. Tlirough the center 

 of a strip of wood a yard in length, no 

 wider than one inch and no thicker than 

 one-half inch, a nail is dri\on which 

 serves as a pivot. At either end of the 

 stick a miniature sailboat is mounted. 

 The boats should measure about 

 twelve inches in length, with a tapering 

 bow and stern 

 which may be 

 whittled or sawed. 

 A mast is mounted 

 in the bow of each, 

 and a triangular 

 cloth-sail tacked or 

 sewefl in place. For 

 a ship-shape wind- 

 wheel, the sail may 

 be stiffened with a 



Illustration. In The luminous sp>ots are represented by 



addition there is a buttons of glass which Hght periodically sturdy boom 



