Unconventional Collection (page 3)

Sport / Gryllo
A strange game, Gryllo, based on double-wicket cricket, but played with lawn tennis racquets instead of bats. A net at each end of the pitch takes the place of the stumps!

Sand Yachting C1903
A sand yacht race takes place on the beach at Biarritz, France

AEROPHON
Similar to the CALLIOPE, this American instrument is basically an organ which uses steam instead of air : it is successfully demonstrated at Cremorne Gardens, London

Musical Glasses
Sometimes known as a GLASS HARMONICA : glasses, filled with liquid to different depths, emit different notes when struck, giving a sound somewhat like a xylophone

Kastners Pyrophone
Frederic Kastners instrument is a kind of organ, with keyboard and pipes, but the sound is produced by flames within the pipes

Sport for Disabled / 1895
Sport for the disabled at Nogent-sur-Marne - men with wooden legs competing for first place

Walking on Water
Jesus did it by faith alone, but the rest of us need these sea-boots if we wish to walk on water. Sounds fun : why didn t the idea catch on ?

Parasol Yacht
Pilcher of London and Wilson of Dublin demonstrate their Cyclone yacht at Southampton : the parasol not only sails your boat, it protects you from sunburn !

Ornamental Chimneys 1850
A selection of towers and chimneys with unusual architectural details

Wedding on Bicycles
UNE BODA EN BICICLETA a wedding on wheels

Wed in Wheelbarrows
At Fiera, a suburb of Teviso, Italy, Umberto Annibale and Maria Robazza are conveyed to church in wheelbarrows, and thence to a hotel for the wedding feast

Panicking Bride
PANICKING BRIDE A Parisienne panics at the altar and flees the church (subsequently, though, she goes through with it)

Bigamous Wife
A bigamous woman with two husbands (one in jail) and one at her side. She seemingly has the blessing of the church

Food / Unconventional
THE HORRORS OF FOREIGN FOOD " Water I do declare - with worms in it." (soup with vermicelli)

Sport / Unconventional
THE ROPED-HEAD GAME A Bavarian contest, in which two men seek each to pull the other with the rope which links both their necks

Five Ladies on One Bike
Ladies in coloured shirts on a bicycle display the range of Maypole soap dyes

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