ns on some huge
rollers that are laid in the high road.

Ropes are then fastened to some of the heavy beams under the house, and
horses are brought. The ropes are tied to the horses, and as they pull,
the house slips from one roller to another.

Houses can be moved very safely, but not very quickly, and it is of course
much less expensive to move an old house than to build a new one.

One of the strangest things about the moving at Katonah, is that the
villagers are trying to take their shade trees with them, as well as their
houses.

One of the residents had some very fine trees in his garden, and he hated
to leave them behind him, so he decided to try and see if they could not
be moved.

The neighbors made the greatest fun of him, but he did not care, and set
to work as soon as the ground was frozen hard enough, to allow of the tree
being moved without disturbing the earth around the roots.

The procession of houses is now varied by a great tree, forty feet high,
which is moving down the road in the same quiet, stately way as the cat,
and the barber's shop, and the yellow cottage.

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

A great sea monster has been washed ashore on the coast of Florida, and
men who study natural history are much interested in it. What is left of
the creature is said to weigh eight tons, and no one can tell exactly what
kind of a fish it is, because it appears to have been tossed by the waves
for a long time, and has been partly destroyed by them.

Those people who have seen it think that it is a kind of cuttlefish, but
that the arms, or tentacles, as they are called, have been broken away
from it. These arms must have been from one to two hundred feet long. It
is now only a huge body without much shape to it. Photographs and careful
descriptions of it have been sent to the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington and to Yale College, and the scientific men there expect to be
able to decide what it is by comparing it with other known kinds of
mollusks. Scientists study these things so carefully, that they can tell
what the exact size of an animal was, and what it looked like, if but a
small portion is left; we may therefore expect to hear all about this
great creature ere long.

The size of this wonderful creature can be better realized, when we learn
that it took four strong horses, a dozen men, and three sets of tackle to
move it.

At first it