Popular Science Monthly 



there were a pair of cyclops, one pair 

 of twins and one hundred and ten nor- 

 mal. In the second lot there were nine 

 typical Cyclops and seventy-eight nor- 

 mal. The twin Funduli were most close- 

 ly observed and were killed and pre- 

 served on the sixteenth day only because 

 it was evident that they were about to 

 die. The cyclops was the smaller of the 

 two ; the eye on the right side was ap- 

 parently lacking. 



One-Eyed Animals and Men 

 Dr. Chichester also describes three in- 

 stances of Cyclops in mammals, one in a 

 rat, and the third in a man. 



The man had an hour glass eye in the 

 center of his forehead. The rat had no 

 external or internal indications of an 

 eye; the pig had no eye-ball nor lens, 

 but had three lids, the two upper ones 

 being fused almost completely. Neither 

 the pig nor the rat had a proboscis. 



Obviously, monsters and freaks are 

 now in a fair way to be explained with- 

 out cursing nature for a visitation, 

 which is experimentally traceable to 

 human ignorance, accidents, disasters, 

 and the circumstances that interfere 

 with the natural gravitation of living 

 things toward an even keel, a symmetri- 

 cal development and the staljility of 

 health and a balanced figure. 



Maude, the Motor Mule, on 

 Our Cover 



MAUDE, the Motor Mule," whose 

 portrait appears on this month's 

 cover, is an automobile which has been 

 performing the latest dances upon vari- 

 ous racetracks over the country. Before 

 the racers commence their whirlwind cir- 

 cling of the speedways, the band plays 

 a tango or a one-step, and "Maude" ap- 

 pears upon the track, rearing upon two 

 wheels and cavorting to the tempo of 

 the music. 



A photograph and a brief article were 

 reproduced in the December Popular 

 Science Monthly, but a few addition- 

 al details of "Maude's" way of working 

 will be interesting here. The car was 

 built especially for exhibition purposes. 

 Kunning jjcneath the body is a small 

 track upon which moves a heavy weight. 

 Another weight is fixed on the overhang 

 behind the rear axle. When the driver, 

 Roy Repp, pulls a lever, the heavv 



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weight beneath the car moves forward 

 or back as desired, the center of gravity 

 is upset, and the car, suddenly stopped or 

 slowed down, rears up on its hind 

 wheels. The counterweights are so del- 

 icate that the car may be run while bal- 

 ancing upon the rear wheels, as shown 

 on the cover. 



Each of the rear wheels is fitted with 

 a separate brake. When one of these 

 brakes is engaged the wheel is locked, 

 and the dififerential gear drives the op- 

 posite wheel alone, causing the car to 

 swing. By means of these independent 

 brakes the car may be made to wheel 

 and dance in time to the music. 



Six hundred pounds of almost pure silver 



Nature's Horde of Solid Silver. 



RECENT development at some of 

 the mines of the Cobalt district 

 of Ontario, Canada, has resulted in the 

 production of more of the wonderfully 

 rich silver ores for which the camp 

 was famous during the days of its first 

 working. At the Temiskaming mine 

 there has been found some rock which 

 makes a special record for high value. 

 The six hundred pound slab shown 

 assays about ten thousand ounces of 

 silver per ton, being therefore about 

 one-third pure silver. There is no 

 gold in the ore, that being one of the 

 general peculiarities of the ores of the 

 Cobalt district. 



