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Popular Science Monthly 



A Merry- Go- Round with Which Ger- 

 man Soldiers Amused Themselves 



AROUND the world in forty days," is 

 „ part of the legend which appears 

 over a ramshackle merry-go-round made 

 by the Germans 

 on French soil. 

 For all we know, 

 this may have 

 been the Ger- 

 man slogan at 

 the beginning of 

 the war. The 

 merry-go-round 

 is now in the 

 possession of 

 the French. 



Two cast-off 

 wheels with the 

 axle form the 

 main part of the 

 makeshift affair. 

 The elaborate 

 structure on top 

 is a giant spoked 



wheel placed French Offioial Photo 



,1 i- A German merry-go-round made out of odds and 



over tne oral- ends on F renc h territory and later abandoned 



nary wagon 



wheel. The seats are suspended by wire — 

 rope being as scarce as copper. 



Keep Livestock Away from Railroad 

 Tracks and Conserve the Meat Supply 



DURING the twelve months ending 

 June 30, 1917, the Southern Rail- 

 way system alone paid out more than 

 $200,000 in judgments to farmers for 

 animals killed on the railroad's right 

 of way. President Harrison, of that 

 system, points out that if the farmers 

 would prevent their animals from 

 straying over the tracks they would 

 help solve the war problems. In the 

 first place, the animals killed are a 

 total loss as far as the food supply 

 is concerned. Then, the sum paid 

 by the railroad in recompense even 

 at the present prices of equipment, 

 would buy more than one hundred 

 standard box cars capable of handling 

 at a single load more than 3,000 tons 

 of freight, thus tending to relieve the 

 freight congestion. Here, then, 

 is a chance not only for the chuck- 

 ling farmer but for the comic artist 

 and the jokester to relinquish a 

 source of income for patriotism. 



The Suitcase Talking- Machine. Take 

 It Along on Your Travels 



WHAT to do with the talking-machine 

 when you leave the city for the 

 summer has been solved by Arthur Stech- 

 bart, of Chicago, 

 Illinois. Like 

 the dog, the cat, 

 the pet parrot 

 and your wife's 

 new hats, you 

 take it along 

 with the rest of 

 the hand bag- 

 gage. Being a 

 portable ma- 

 chine in the 

 shape of a small 

 suitcase, it can 

 be carried from 

 place to place 

 without injur- 

 ing the mechan- 

 ism or destroy- 

 ing the records, 

 which do not 

 have to be car- 

 ried separately 

 but are packed away within the machine 

 itself. 



Brass knobs protect the corners and add 

 to the suitcase appearance of the closed 

 machine. The handle of strong padded 

 leather is placed just exactly as it would be 

 on a. regulation suitcase. But the interior 

 is exactly like that of the small-sized talking 

 machines. The record chamber is on the 

 under side of the hinged cover of 

 the machine casing. A recess is cut 

 into the top board of the casing to 

 hold the needles and needle-carrier. 



The talking-machine is a small- 

 sized suitcase, with a chamber 

 in the cover to hold records 



