SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Aug. 25, 1900   This issue contains illustrations, accompanied by text, of the latest inventions of the day including: "Some of the Stage Mechanism of the Production of 'Ben Hur' at the Broadway Theater, New York", "Super-Heated Water Motor, Showing Arrangement of Tanks and Compound Engines", "The New Paris Underground Railway", "Gathering and Curing Crude Rubber", and "Rubber Trees in the Assam District of East India". 
This 16 page issue is missing two pieces of the back page.  One measures approximately 3 by 4 in. and the other 2 by 4 in.