A. Buck of the Soldiers' Home carving the Lord's Prayer on walking canes. He has sold $2000 worth of these canes. Sept. 21, 1922

William Harman is the only veteran of the Mexican War at the US Soldiers' Home. He is 91 and was born in Ireland. Sept. 21, 1922

Old age versus the cross word puzzle. They don't come too hard for Ambrose Hin. D.C., who just celebrated his one hundredth. "Bring on the hard ones," says Mr. Hines. "I've. dictionaries, time and pencils necessary." And he. too

Carving birds from is hobby of Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., June 25. Using only a common jackknife as a tool, Ellis Miller, has become an expert at whittling birds from wood. Mr. Miller, a mechanic by profession, acquired his hobby through the game of Monopoly. Trying his hand at the game, he li

Mr. John Washington, who holds the secret of making flexable postage stamp concelers used by the U.S. Gov't. Uncle Sam can't get along without him. Nobody else knows how the concelers are made and Mr. Washington won't tell so he is going to work as long as the Gov't needs him

Prepares Vice President's gavel. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. A last-minute sheen is given the gavel Vice President Garner will use in opening the Senate on January 3. J. Mark Trice, Deputy Senate Sergt. of Arms is doing the polishing, 12/28/38

Pres. Coolidge snapped on one of his daily walks sporting a "big stick," the gift of A. J. Shell of Wise County, Va.

Sure sign of Congressional opening. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. A sure sign that Congress is soon to open. E.S. Kenyon, Capitol Machinist, speeding up his production of gavels for the use of Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, who break them by the dozens. David Lynn, right, Capitol Architect

Dr. Nathan Augustus Cobb, technologist of the Dept. of Agric., who has discovered that by the use of a piece of glass he can invoke the aid of the sun in making microscopic studies of minute objects. Until this glass was used, the sun blurred instead of clarified the object