A Massachusetts man has built a miniature battleship, thirteen feet in length, which has all the features of a real dreadnaught, including guns that fire, range finders, wireless instruments, gunners, and even a band that plays martial music. The vessel is propelled by electricity, and can make ten miles an hour in smooth water....
Santa’s Aids Honored.
A large statue of Santa Claus, made of paper pulp molded from five thousand letters written by poor children of the city to Kris Kringle, was presented at the Hotel Astor, in New York City, to William C. and F. A. Muschenheim, two of Santa’s aids. It is the gift of the Santa Claus Association and the Waterman’s Ideal Ten-year Club.
John D. Gluck, founder of the Santa Claus Association, presented the figure to the Muschenheims. The statue is three-quarters life size and rests on a base of Italian marble. Kratina, the sculptor, spent two months in molding it.
The inscription says the gift is in recognition of “assistance rendered to the children of the poor, who wrote to Santa Claus. A fortune was sent to poor kiddies, for fuel, food, and toys, and five thousand of them no longer say there is no Santa Claus.”
Find Missing Man in Shark.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance three years ago at St. Augustine, Fla., of John B. Mooney, of Mooney Brothers’ Company, was cleared up when his son, Edgar J. Mooney, of Cleveland, Ohio, received word from Miami, Fla., that the upper portion of a human skeleton, which is thought to be that of J. B. Mooney, had been found in the stomach of a shark caught near there this week.
In 1912 the elder Mooney was in bathing at St. Augustine when he suddenly disappeared in the surf. It was thought that a strong undertow had carried him out to sea, but it is now believed a shark seized him.
Interesting New Inventions.
The “bicycle built for two” about which there used to be a song was followed by the motor cycle carrying two passengers. This has now been improved upon. The newest kind has two chair seats, one behind the other, instead of saddles.