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Show r 7 3A1 Traveled 7,000 Miles in a Coffin. Mrs. Hanna Lind, 80 years old and paralyzed, arrived at Tacoma, In the '.state of Washington, a few days ago, d (from the interior of Norway in a box, which was padded and .otherwise arranged to make the trip ;ComrortaMe Her son, Henry Lind, jwent to Norway two months ago to visit his birthplace. He decided to i (bring his mother home with him to (the state of Washington where she will pass the remainder of her days. As she could not travel in, the ordinary manner, he hit upon the plan of mak-- 1 ing a Norwegian coffin to serve as a conveyance in w hich she could be car-- 1 ried aboard trairs and steamer In London this arrangement attracted much attention. Lind remained by his mothers side d y and night during the trip of seven tiousand miles, person-- 1 ally feeding her at every mepj. The mother cannot move her limbs. Governato wa3 consequently officially registered as dead The wife, who married again, was startled the other day to see her first husband reappear safe and sound. He had spent five years in single blessedness id Hungary, and returned with a small fortune., He took things coolly and shook hands with the second husband, but requested him to quit. The latter de- clined, stating that the first husband was legally dead and the seoond marriage valid. , coffin-shape- . Ch ' ' ter Woman a Wonder at 96. ' Mrs. Margaret Layman surprised yesteiday residents of Rosbys Rock, W. Va , by walking on her 96th birth-- . day into that town from her home, five miles in the country, and walking home again after taking dinner with friends. The old woman said she felt so spry she wanted to take a walk. She stopped several times along the road to visit friends, but declined all offers to be driven to town. When in town she did some shopping. She said she enjoyed walking over the old play-ground of her younger days At home she assists with the housekeeping and cooking when the family will let her. New York World. Submarine Pleasure Railway. The inventor who has designed a submarine railway system says that its objects are the conveyance of passengers In cars below the surface of the water for pleasure or novel experience to facilitate the gtudy of submarine life or to serve as a means of conveying persons across a stream where 1 ' telephone 'Speaking of ghosts, said the nervous man, When Col. Hutchinson had finished his tale about the Tonljawas last survivor, I never saw one, and dont believe In them, but I was tuken for a ghoBt myseif onqe Lut-kj-n had been in the pineries roughing it all summer and when he began, to urge me to come up and said that I could get a rig at Mont Marre at any hour of the day or night I began to hanker for the solitudes myself. If I bad warned him of my coming it might have been different, but I cet out suddenly, calculating on the rig at any hour and at last found myself standing In eigh Inches of snow lii the middle of a starry night at It the' desolate station Mont Marre. wasfiYTa telegraph station, and the agent, if there was one, , bad disappeared for the night. ,1 dont blame him. The wind was shrieking and whipping through the trees,- - and .the dry snow, flying up from- - the open reaches; stung like salt in a sore. I saw a low, rambling house with a smithy, attached, and plodded over to find out about the rig at any . hour, After ten minutes, pounding .a woman came to the .attic .window and asked-wh- at J 'wanted. I told her I w irbed ,to gqt over, to Lufkins lodge on impose, Lake,, but she snapped,'' rather .shrilly, that Id have to walk it Hdr. husband had taken a party of hunters over to Chappewa Island, and It was only seven miles to Moose Lake. Why nob. walks it, she said. "I jleft word to have my kit carried over the next morning. I dont know I did, and after where about three hoar?' - trudging In the scow'1 utterly exhausted and chilled to ti ligat several the marrow,-Ldaw.- i lights blinking right- merrily among - i- 1 1 - ' r t th'ar. 1 ' "no ;ame ;reat up in Images for the Blind. the latest and most ingenious inventions for the instruction and de light of the blind, is a moving picture apparatus which has just been constructed by a young French scientist, M. F. Dussant In the machine the pictures are shown by Images in relief, and are apprehended, not by the eye, but by the touch. Through this de-ice it has been made possible to give to the blind an Idea of the motion and displacement of objects In which the images In relief take the place of phob, graphs ( These reliefs, passing more or leea Swiftly under their fingers, enable them to follow with Interest, and at , the same time with profit for their intellectual development, the flight of a bird, the motion of the stars in the sky, the galloping of a horse, a train of care in motion, etc. inger One of a , V A Remarkable Lighthouse. 1 t e A Curious Bigamy Case. . A- - curious bigamy case is to be tried fa Rqrae, s Five yearq ago a corpse was found in a river. As a man named Governato bad been missing from Modena, bis wife was called to see the corpse, which she identified as her husbands, and relatives and friends coniWed the wife's identification. . "Shea critical I change ol you abou of Perun comment cured he would b wonderft "Abou my own JS years' past gom accordin its use i pletely c OU hr the UBBOt I tceordL you am Tak( Six jmdBl I ... It The Difficulty in the Way "Your mother and I, said the old man, severely, began In a small way. We had to live on $10 a week, and we lived In two rooms. t That's all right, dafjdy, cooed the girl, persuasively, but If Jim and I lived that way that diamond star and those lovely gold lined things you and mamma are going to give us would all get stolen the first week. Besides, how would they look alongside of corned beef and cabbage and me washing the dishes?, - DARD Too Great a Strain. The late Col. Gupplnger, I believe," Eaid the man who had called, after the lapse of a suitable time, to collect was a materials for a biography, thorough clubman, a devoted husband He was, interrupted the widow, but people wouldnt believe that Just say be was a devoted husband. A curiosity of r I Dont Know Got Lost. How it and said, rather Luflins shack on his sieage. t meant gravely, I thought, 'Come in, uncle. to tell Lufiin about my narrow escape, That-wa- s pretty, good and I guessed but hes such a kldder that I kept putthat it was a salutation peculiar to the ting it off. About a week later, having returnregion. The warm air of the heated room ed from Mont Marre with our mall made me instantly sleepy, and, turn- and supplies, he said: 'That was a funny thing happened ing to the young woman who had let me in, I said: Im dreadfully, sleepy. down at Thurlbys, You know the Duck. Shooting by Wholesale. May I go to Jied? She said yes, and old man died about two weeks ago and theysent word to his brother The gunners at Fort Roseci an, led me up rickety stairway to a hallway, off which three or Hiram.' As the weather was cold California, were testing a new 5 inch rapid-firgun recently, the range be- - feur doors opened. .Stopping outside enough they kept the body so Hiram I could tend ,the funeral, and sure leg on the water. By some mistake one she said quietly: In here. In cutting th' fuse the shell exploded thanked her, stepped in and noticed enough, onp night about a week ago prematurely, about lO yards from the that she softly closed the door. There he jshowed,up, afoot anij all petered gun and just over the place where was a lighted candle on An old pine out near midnight They took him Up a covey of wild ducks were swimming table in one corner, and in the bed to view the remains, but he wasnt in bearded and grizzly the house more than an hour when peacefully. Fourteen of them were a t Pete Winkler came over from Chipkilled by pieces of the shell, , The old man. I fumbled out of my garments, blew out the light and pewa with a letter from Hirams soldiers went put in a boat and picked them up, and they were served to the crawled In between blankets beside widow sajing that Hirjnn Thurlby had been dead two months, and couldnt the sleeping form of my host. company for dinner. therefore attend the funeral. Well, creakheard footsteps !PresentlyI ing up the shaky stairs. They came sir, it sounds like a ghost story I know, Calcutta Police. pattering along the hallway, passed but Winkler and Mrs Thurlby and- all my 'door, went to the end of the house, of them saw the man come hr,-- at and returning went slowly down Into least all but Winkler. When Uncle' the sitting room, where a murmur of Hiram didnt come out of the room excited . voices seemed to welcome where the corpse, was .they all got them. This was repeated so often lights and wpnt In. There was the that I grew almost Insanely anxious. corpse, the bed was mussed about and Perhaps I was In a den of thieves who the window was open, but never a intended to1 murder me in mjr sleep. sign of Uncle Hiram. What do you I had left my guns and ail weapons think o that? concluded Lufkin, And 1 never had the nerve to own with the woman at Mont "Marre. I It up, quoth the nervous man, finishing had .ofne money about $200. Lufkin is such an unmerwould be aa easy matter to suffocate bis yarn. me while, I slept, throw my body into ciful kldder. John H, Raftery In a hole in the frozen river, and lose all Chicago A woman opened 4 ... ' His Blunder. said the aeronaut, my flying machine is a failure. 1U know better next time. , . "Wouldnt It fly? No. But that didnt make so. much difference. My mistake was in making it so big that I couldn't bring it into the lecture hall where the audience could see it" , Yes, , i r V A Manager You are to wear . help recover the wreck.1" . 'Mike I throw Op th Job rolght here, foor I -t i wherij I cant, wphit on me bands.- wont work at say fTootl " jo Fowdei for sal .HE d -- POOR MEMORY. Convinced. .4 Do-yoread Dickens? No, said Mrs. Cortrrox, rather W 1 n Uy- "Perhaps you are one of those rt do not regard him as representinl tt best literature?1 1 am. T have seen his books of ed for sale as cheap as twenty-li- t cents a copy. - i j u e gray-haire- snow-we- i- Record-Heral- Come. Beggar Say, boss, gimme a cock of cents for a nights lodgin'. Goodman Surely you can't $t nights . lodging for a couple of V J nies? , J-Beggar Well, gee whiz! , yos fcri spose youre de ony easy msrk I Y goin ter touch, do you? ! t- t Kind Lady Dont you know there are a thousands reasons why you shouldnt drinkl Walker Pike I know, but I kin never, think o one of em while Im drlnkin. - . ' willing to partake of a tub of sudt" Her Preference, whenever offered, and.-warapidly a condition of uncon- ' Mother "If you are a good girl, Old Adage Exemplified in Kansas City approaching sciousness when it was carried away Geraldine, I will consent that-- you Saloon. an into wandered by its owner, who was in almost aa have another piece of cake. A drunken man I would prefer, maw, Geraldine uptown thirst parlor early yesterday bad shape as the bird. Kansas City indulgence $bat you, should make-tha- t morning with a aoose under his arm, Journal. c himself and cake's being good.' and called f6r dr , dependent. t ? The Nerve of the Borrower. r VJt the bird.. It tco-ia- t Dinner Table Gallantry, rs ; that tl a "Jit is what I call downright bu convince tlu 1 ii , M its possessor. t Ti ;sald Mrs, Bliggins. The, Hostess You are such an epigoose v, if has occurred? Jnquired hex cure, Mr. Stuffer, that I was almost It seems' Lbut the goose bad breu afraid to ask you to dinner. raffled off the night before abd ?s tia hi.fciand ' Stuffer But the pleasure ,of your neighbors who recently moved winner wis in a convivial mood next door Are going to have company, company more than compensates me. to share a bottle so they sent over- to borrow our par with the pilze which he had wir, iral bin rug take it, and in a "The goose must have beet, a His Motto. , toper, as it west after the beer eugei-l- y, IK fie while they came liatk and said , You were never compelled to( ask ddr-i think'' It w"$' handsome and by the time it reached the Gey , j vindication?? ' ' , to ; o wnh- - tbtY furniture, for a resort mentioned it shoved a the echoed. Senator A vindication? i1 could ar.d I .tfie lertd rt money to jag. symptoms of a I should say Sorgaum scdrnfully. When it was put upon the Hoof its buy a'uew one. Washington Star. motto is Dont get caught in not. My - 4 efforts at locomotion produced as the first place.' White Paint for Screen Doers. Watch Made-o- f Variegated results as could be s c a iu Ivory. If a thin coat of white paint Is put A watch, made entirely of ivory-wo- rks, the Veriest toper, and it Anally land- d Outclassed. , bands and case is the produc- In a heap on the floor. It was unable on the outside of a screen door or winWere there any accidents in the tion of M Henri Houriet of to duplicate the singing performances dow it will effectiviiy obscure the Switzeilnnd. The material em- indulged .r hy Its owner, but showed view from e '"is. The paint Is foothal game? " field We'l, a mule in an adjoining a. the out- 'awks inat it appreciated sea- dy r ployed was taUn from a billiard ball, by sur v 1 A Lc game --r The watch keeps good time, varying t c tiir i i seea broke loo e t. vm! . ihpv were having. In spite sid", and ,Bud v ah only about a minute a mouth. pi iji dt,rso:vel condition it was at all i , on-th- e Hla Enjoyment, Do you enjoy historical novels? Yes, answered Mr. Cumrox, "I like to read them and then reflect qn how lucky I am to live in a time when people refrain from making such cont summate fools' of themselveB. o 1 bf.i.r rJ A Cash Equivalent I was thinking W havinf ushere offer my picture for nk say, one dollar each, said the t celted actor. , . 41 Why. not sell them at their ( value? suggested Mr. Crittick. It thirty jCeqts. t AS FULL AS A GOOSE. , ,T 3 ' 8ure of One Sale. Miss de Muir Mr. Borus, how la your hew novel getting along? Struggling Author' It's Just fairly started. Ive written the last chapter, , though. It ends all right. - On Both Sides. t You say that jour defeat result of a put-uJob? Politick I do, asserted Grafter, "And the Worst bf the I" Job was tb money they. put np before I knew I was Y Cbaux-de-Fcnd- u -- yrl Insinuating. I didnt ring your fare up yet, said jthe conductor,, holding out his hand Oh, thats all right, whispered the passenger, who was trying to evade Just keep it in your pocket paying. I wont tell the company. , J r One Good Reason. Tommy I wish the turkey were made like a dog, mamma. Mamma And why, pray? then it Tommy Why because would have four drumsticks. IfaniMi (. fri Wee .eeeane fbnflCe ' u hit Vila cl enotlie Nka: We i Uei t Iran SMe Cine a Ii Ui thoi hit 1 ren t mcete IU B nttl i Iwelx Ipermi Vetkin hr leu- W1 Stonai Brain, Iblldn Ofl p -- Afraid of Theatrical Pori- , Brownson Is your wife ' you? s. Dawson Jealous is no name fr she f Why, on our wedding trip not even let me admire the s ii, - ii-.- D. 3aS More to , The' most extraordinary of all British lighthouse? Is to be found on Amish Rock, Stornoway - Bay a rock which is separated from the Island of Lewis by a channel over 600 feet wide.. On this rock a conical beacon is erected, and on its summit a lantern is fixed, from which, night after night, shines a light which is seen by the fishermen far and wide. The is way in which this lighthouse illuminated is this: On the Island Policemen in Calcutta, India, wear of Lewis is a lighthouse, and from a this queer uniform and carry sunwindow in the tower a stream of t shades. , a on to mirror in light is projected the lantern on the suiqmit of Amish ' Bees Fight Pitched Battle. ' t Rock. A terrific battle ' took place the other day in a garden on the outskirts Novelty? Sight of Town of Berlin between two great swarms Fall from James Mrs. Hulse, Branch, to a gentleman 'wio Tenn., an isolated town in upper east of bees belonging this makes a hobby of bee farming. Tennessefe, wd.s .in ' Jonesboro week. She is said to have declared strange queen had been forced on one hives. This led to fighting bethat, though 39 years told and the of the two tween hives, which soon became had five never she of children, mother various hives forming the seen a river, and until she reached general, For an Jonesboro she had never gazed upon a into two great divisions. took the a fierce hour place, struggle had or and never track train, railroad walked the streets of a town or city air being filled with the buzzing of brothers and sis theengaged bees, Whcji the fray was She, has, twqnty-onover thousands of dead and disabled ttrs bees were found on the grass. .LA "Her of the m worst tro jeveral yi - .f Ancient Speaking Trumpet., great aqtiquity is to be seen within St. Andrews church at Willpughton, near Gaiasboro, Eng. - It is a quaint speaking trumpet with an obscure fearly history, dating hack to the times of the Knights Templar. In shape it resembles a French horn, and is more than. five JeetJong, having bell at the end of the graduated tuba It was formerly six feet in length, but is now telescoped at the joints, where the metal has aparently decayed. Tradition declares it was formerly sounded from the tower to summon aid in case of need. wars. 4 to-da- IsOon-foun- General Postoffice, Virginia. ported in the letter drop by the five or six patrons of the office, is ex- changed for that which the stage has brought for the Virginia office, and it is distributed In the rude local boxes ihe locks . being padlocks which have been attached to the office building, These being accessible from the outside, the presence of the postnjas-te- r at times other than the coming of the stage is not essential. U 1 Transportation Beneath the Surface. surface conveyance may for any reason be undesirable. .The invention comprises a car fqr passengers, constructed In A water-tigh-t manner, and provided with an air chamber to confine under pressure a sufficient quanA Dogs Vitality. of air to supply the needs ,of "the tity A startling story of canine vitality people while sealed up in comes from Dover, England. A park keeper there lost his terrlor dog some Chinese as Gamblers. j. weeks ago, and supposed it had been d Some years ago gambling was stolen. On passing a rabhits( hole, in a of Eastern Siam, .part his twenty-eigh- t loss, he days after beard a faint bark, and on the hole be- and the government did everything it could to suppiess the vice. It turns ing dug open the poor dog was found out, however, taat this laudable action In a shockingly emaciated condition but still alive. He had evidently fol- has seriously deranged the labor mar The Chinese immigrants who became ket. lowed a rabbit until he in the mines, in that part'd the trees. I he&dbjhr these comfortable-bjammed, and could not extricate him labor eacons, aiid pretty rank the , country, gambling among . self. the necessities of life, andYhe prohi-bitlQ- roysetlf rapping ift a log ftoflaV door. " n4" i , kept them away. So --the govThe World's Smallest Postoffice. ernment has had to modify its policy The postofflce building at Virginia, It now enacts that California, has the distinction of being accordingly. the smallest ip the world, It is lo- where there Is a sufficiently large cated on the stage road which runs Chinese population gambling houses north, from San Diego, and it is far will be allowed. The gambling is to away from any other building or habi- be restricted to Chinese. tation. Upon the days which hring the Stage past the tiny edifice the Farming in Norway. postmaster comes to the roadside office The rocky cliffs in Norway are tilled and awaits the coming of the stage year after year, and the farmers which brings the mail. When It ar- whole energies are spent on pushing rives the mail, which has been back the wilderness, and his ideal is to bequeath to his son a few more feet of arable soil than he himself Inherited from his father. For this purpose he climbs to hardly accessible ridges, where his careful eje has detected a brighter green, and mows the coarse and weedy grass. Next year he finds a finer crop, reaps it with joy, ties it in a bundle, and sends it down a wire which in the meantime he has rigged up communicating with h'a barn uoor. 1 REPARTEE. Didnt Wait to Hear. Hewitt Gruett says that you 'are afraid of him Jewett Afraid of him! Why,..tt !4i was only yesterday that I called-- , him everything I cod Id think o f; Hewitt What did he say?- Jewett I came away from the as Boon as, I had said hill I trace- of me. I felt cold with fright, : t had to say. , and edged a little nearer to my bedn. I.,, fellow to profit by the warmth of his Caved. He body. There was no warmth. He Did you hear about ttiaf 'Minseemed quite cold. I got up and was nesota man who committed 'suicide .abofit to relight the candle, dreading because he couldnt get married? ameless things, When I heard footMr She woufd you do O, Biggies, steps again approaching, ' and this a thing? pch low conversation. 'murmured time a. . He I dont know, I might If It must be Uncle Hirams ghost, Percival! Take me. I could . She one. 'letter hes This says whispdbed with such a thing on my not live Y dead . s . Lets call Winkler, .said the conscience more there Then voice other wig Relief. shuffling of feet, and presently, I exclaimed the proud Oh, John. heard a heavier tread coi(alci$vg.be as her husband came wearily mother, , uncarpefed hall Th'eTrtjmVyls-tiddythe front steps, baby is beginning whispeted,thehoar.ge .Vplce of np , . ,, , a man and I lowed thaxe It here to walk is a daughter of de revolution. Good! the midnight ejaculated firet Nellie My mudder but th missus hollered fur ever so own Tillie his can "Now he do since, yer granpaw got caught in er 9fvh guess I, martyr. wood an I had V stay an chop. . . de bakery. at floop, walking at night. some was tnerd muttering .Then tbat,l' couldnt make out and finally the man . asked : 'Sally; air yo shore NOT SO SURPRISING. Really a Mere Trifle. Mr. Farwest I met my old schooydu raaly seen him1? and then they all trooped aw ay, as Jf to ,reconnoiter. for the Hr lmate, Lakeside, I was scared, half to death by this time in an age, and I thought froa time, and struck a match, lighted the the why, he acted when I mentioned candle and took ' a look at my bedyou that you and he must have had fellow. His face was as gray as his some romance or other before we , hickory shirt and hla eyes were half met Mi's. Farwest No romance about It open in a vacant stare, I shook him. "He was like a stone, I land my hand We were married for a few yean, upon his and it was as cold as snow! thats all. ' . dawned dead! Then.it He.vas upon me that I was in a real deathMemory?, Instant Response. trap, and that I had gone to bed with i Willetts, wbQ is that girl at the Doubtless other end of , the parlor? my unlucky predecessor. he had been murdered; I 'thought, as "Ive been. , trying all evening tt T jumped into my clothes and blew rather prethink of her name.s-She- a out the lights In five minutes, Just as tty, dont yon think.? - .. , - Rather I heard the stairs creak again, I had pretty? By- George, shei i raised the window and was poised for , peach! the drop. I landed in two feet of Ah, thatibelpkrni'to recall her name. She Is aiMiaS Crawford. It drifted snow and made off as fast as I could gallop through the now dark- ' -- around till OveroffiQioug.' ening night. f , Whats the- Juatter Junshy? , daylight began to show-- and then , ,1 look bothered. met a logger who took me over to I am. I had a happ home until my wife Joined one of those phlla thropic clubs and promised to do soa little thing every day to add to my ' Does yo lailc huckleberry pie, Claud?' happiness, and now shes got so many ideas I cant rest , Claud Deed I could eat huckleberry pie till Im black in de face. " tY Gold. If tfl O! , Pae Experience. Little Willie Say, pa, what, difference 'between 'a snowball , s charity ball? Pa One hits' a nuun on the and the other strikes him - n w pocket, my son. t Ocular Demonstration. Tourist Land pretty fertile a here? Western Fanner Wal, them telegraph poles? Wal. they was only hitchin posts. ( las |