Popular Science Monthly 



543 



Mahogany 



Steamboat 



Cabin for 



a Home 



WHEN the 

 steamer 

 Lilian was 

 built her de- 

 signer had her 

 fitted out with 

 a soHd mahog- 

 a n y cabin, 

 made of the 

 heaviest and 

 finest mahog- 

 any wood obtainable, only to discover 

 when she was launched that she was top- 

 heavy. It was necessary to remove the 

 expensive mahogany cabin and dispose 

 of it. Accordingly it was sold to an 



The mahogany cabin of a 

 duty as 



eccentric resi- 

 dent of San 

 Diego, who 

 hauled it up 

 the steep em- 

 bankment to 

 his vacant lot 

 and lives in it. 

 The cabin 

 makes a fine 

 little bachelor 

 home and is 

 spotless in its 

 polished splen- 

 dor without and 

 within. The heavy French plate-glass 

 windows and Venetian blinds also add 

 a note of distinction. Several reminders 

 of the sea are still present inside the 

 cabin-home. 



topheavy boat now does 

 a cabin 



A Giant Pair of 

 Scissors With a 

 Symbolic Meaning 



JOE STECHER of 

 Dodge, Neb., owns 

 the largest pair of scis- 

 sors in the world. Also 

 he possesses the great- 

 est scissors grip in his 

 powerful lower limbs. 

 It is that scissors grip 

 of his which has made 

 him famous as a wres- 

 tler. 



Recently the friends 

 of Joe Stecher gave him 

 a big celebration at his 

 sented him with a three 

 diamond-studded belt. 



Mammoth Tusks 

 from Alaska 



THE huge 

 mammoth 

 tusksshowninthe 

 photograph were 

 dug out of the 

 earth at Silver 

 Creek near Daw- 

 son, British Co- 

 lumbia,] ustacross 

 the boundary 

 from Alaska. 

 They are far larg- 

 er than the tusks 

 of the greatest of 



Joe Stecher, the wrestler's, scissors are 

 longer than his legs, but not so mighty 



home, and pre- 

 thousand dollar 

 One of the nota- 



Enormous fossil tusks from Alaska 



bles of the state, in- 

 vited to address the as- 

 sembly on that occa- 

 sion, spent no time pre- 

 paring a speech about a 

 diamond belt, but in- 

 stead went to a big 

 manufacturing plant 

 and ordered a pair of 

 shears eight feet in 

 length. The factory 

 put men to work and 

 worked them overtime 

 to produce the mon- 

 strosity of cutlery. 

 When this speaker, 

 (^olonel James C. Elliott of West Point, 

 Neb., was introduced, he presented, not 

 the diamond belt, but the giant scissors. 



modern elephants 

 and the animal 

 who swung them 

 must have been a 

 giant even among 

 mammoths. The 

 buffalo skull and 

 horns seen in the 

 center of the pic- 

 ture, large as is 

 its massive head, 

 show b\- compari- 

 son how huge 

 must have been 

 the head of the 

 mammoth. 



