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A HIDDEN PORTRAIT. 
T HIS photograph, which was taken at Beacon 
Hill Park, Victoria, British Columbia, on 
February 17th this year, shows my little daughter, 
Lillian Gould, feeding the swans. It certainly makes 
a pretty picture, but the snapshot is sent to you for 
quite another reason. It contains a hidden portrait, 
which you will notice on turning the picture upside 
down, and the face which stands out so clearly very 
much resembles that of Mr. Arthur J. Balfour. — Mr. 
F. II. Gould, 250, Young Street, Winnipeg, Man., 
Canada. 
A UNIQUE NOTICE BOARD. 
A HOUSE MADE OF BUS TICKETS. 
A T different times pictures have appeared in The 
xA Strand Magazine of various things made 
with tram or omnibus tickets, but I think the house 
shown in the accompanying illustration beats them all. 
The number of tickets used was 9,500- all being from 
the No. 20 service— while the fares paid for them 
amount to £64 8s n tod. The tickets were folded 
together in fours of each colour, />., pink, white, 
yellow, blue, green, purple, heliotrope, and orange. 
Needless to say, it took me a long time to obtain 
enough tickets to make up a sufficient number of sets 
of the different colours. The height of the model is 
1 ft. 6in., the length ift. 6in., and the depth ift. — Mr. 
II. Lawson, 13, Dewsbury Crescent, Chiswick. 
NE is familiar 
Beware of 
or. 
' y -T0PLA K;:s 
with “ Beware of the Trains,” 
the Steam-Roller,” and other 
warning signs, but it has 
been left, to tlic military 
authorities to erect the 
first signboard warning 
people against aeroplanes. 
This is erected on Salis- 
bury Plain, near the 
Central Flying School, 
where the naval and mili- 
tary flying men are 
trained ; and there is good 
reason for the danger- 
board, for on busy 
days aeroplanes pass 
and repass over the 
plain with such 
frequency that an 
unsuspecting civilian 
might easily receive 
damage from one 
of the defensive Fr— 
“ wasps ” of Great 
Britain. The day is 
not far distant, pro- 
bably, when similar 
notice boards will be 
seen all over the 
country. Mr. C.J.L. 
Clarke, 5 and 6, 
Johnson’s Court, 
Fleet Street, E.C. 
THE QUEEREST MAIL-CARRIER IN THE 
WORLD. 
T HIS title can certainly be claimed by Mr. Dick 
Crane for the conveyance he used when 
running the mails in Alaska. It consisted of a bicycle, 
without pedals, fitted with a heavy horse saddle, to 
which was harnessed, of all unlikely animals, a well- 
grown bear ! The quaint vehicle and the still more 
extraordinary steed which pulled it about the country 
have been exhibited in London and elsewhere, and, 
naturally enough, have aroused the greatest interest. 
-Mr. C. J. L. Clarke, 5 and 6, Johnson’s Court, Fleet 
Street, E.C. 
