Show FOP f traveled miles in a coffin mrs hanna lind 80 ears old and paralyzed arrived at tacoma in the state of washington a few days ago irom from the interior of norway in a coffin shaped box which was as padded and otherwise arranged to make tha the trip comfortable her son henry lind went to norway two months ago to visit his birthplace he ile decided to bring his mother home with him to the state of washington where chaill she will pass the remainder of her days As she could not travel in the ordinary manner he hit upon tl e plan of mak mal ing a norwegian coffin to serve as us a conveyance in which she could be car ried aboard trains and teamer steamer in london this arrangement attracted much attention lind rema ned by his mother a side day and night during the trip of even thousand miles person ally feeding her at every me ahe mother cannot move moie her limbs woman a wonder at 96 urs mrs margaret layman surprised yesterday residents of rosbys rok W va by walking on her birth day into that town from her home fire five miles in the country and walking borne lome again after tal ing dinner with friends the old woman oman said she felt so spry she wanted to tale talce a walk wall she stopped several times along the toad to visit friends but declined all oferd to be driven to town when in town she did some shopping she sa said d she enjoyed wa king over the old play ground of her younger days at home she assists with the house 1 beeping and cooking when the family will vill let her new york world A dog s vital ty A startling story of canine vital ty cones con es froal from dover englat d A i ark keeper there lost his dog some weeks ago and supposed it had been stolen on passing a rabbits hole twenty eight days after his los loss he b heard eard a faint bark and on the hole be ing dug open the poor dog was found in a emaciated condition but still alive he had evidently fol lowed a rabbit until he became jammed and could lot i ot extricate bim lim self the worlds smallest ce ca the postoffice post office building at virginia california has the distinction of being the S ablest in the world it is lo 10 acted on the stage road which runs uns i borth from san diego and it Is far avay from ai al k other building or I 1 abi laden upon the days which b ing the stage rast th tina tin edifice the IQS pos master comes to the roadside office and awaits the comin coming of the stage which brings the mail when it ar ril mea ez the mail mai whick has been d t ka ro effir 4 general ce virg nia ijo posited sited in the letter drop by th the five or six pati on of the office la is ex clanged cl angel for tuat that which the stage has brought for the irginia office and it is lb distri distribute butel 1 in the rude local boxes the locks be ng padlock s which 1 ave been attached to the office build ing these aping aces accessible sible from the outside the presence of 0 the ter at times othol than the coming of the stage is not essential images for the blind one of the late t and most ingenious inventions for the instruction and de I 1 of the blind ib a moving picture apparatus which has just been con strutted ted by a young french scientist entis t if F aussant in the machine the pic tures are shown by images in relief and are apprehended cot by the eye but by the to ich through this de ve vice it has been made possible to give to the blind an idea of the motion and displacement of objects in which th the e images in rel et ef take the place of photographs these passing more or less fifth under their fin gers enable them to follow with in terest and at the same time with profit tor for their intellectual develop went the flight of a bird the motion of the stars in the sly sl the galloping ot of a horse a train of cars in motion etc A remarkable L gh the most extraordinary of all but bia ish lighthouses is to be found on arn ish rock Stor stornoway noway bay a rock which Is separated from the island of lewis by a channel over feet side on this rock a conical beacon Is erected and on its summit a lan ian tern Is fixed from which night after eight right shines a light which Is seen by the fishermen tar far and wide the bay vay in which this lighthouse is illuminated is this on the island ot of lewis Is a lighthouse and from a window in the tower a stream of Is projected on to a mirror in the lantern on the summit of arnish rock curious bigamy case A curious bigamy case is to be tried in rome five years ago a corpse was found in a river As a man named governato had been miss ng from mo dena dona his wife was as called to se the corpse which she as her husbands and rel atnes and friends confirmed the bites fidei governato was consee bently officially leg estered as dead the wife who married again was startled the other day to see her first husbard d reappear safe and sound he had spent five bears ears in single blessedness in hun gary and returned with a small for tune he took things choll and shook bands hands with the second husband but requested h in to quit the latter de dined stating that the first bunbar was legally dead and the second mar nage valid ne plea ure ra iway the aln li m who ho has designed a submarine railway system says that ha 11 objects are the com conveyance convey ejai aice ce of passel gers in cars below the surface of the water ater for pleasure plea suie or loicl experience to facilitate the seidy of submarine life or to serve ds as a means of convey ing persons arloss a stream where 71 I 1 V 30 Transport at on beneath the surface conveyance may for any rea son be undesirable the invention comprises a cai tor for passengers con strutted ted in a watertight water tight manner and provid edwith an air chamber to con fine under pressure a st efficient quan city of air to supply the needs 0 of the people while hile sealed up in the car chinese as gamblers some years ago gambling was prohibited in a part of eastern siam and the government did everything it co ild lid to suppress the A ice it turns out however that this laudable action has seriously deranged the labor mar I 1 et the chine e immigrants who i labor in the mines in that part of j the country rank gambling among the necessities of life and the I 1 ept them away so the gov eminent has had to modify its policy accordingly it now enacts that where there is a sufficiently large chinese population gambling houses will mill be allowed the gambling Is to to be restricted to chinese farm ng in norway the rocky cliffs in norway are tilled ear near after year and the farmers whole energies are spent on pushing back the vie wilderness and his ideal I 1 to bequeath to his son a few more feet of arable so I 1 than he h myself in j heated from his father for th s p ir pose he cl el nibs to hardly accessible ridges where his careful eye has de a brightest tei tet green and mows the coarse and weedy grass apt year he finds a finer crop reaps it with joy ties it in a bundle and sends it down doun a wire which in the meantime he has rigged up commini eating with h s barn boor coor ancient speaking trumpet A curiosity of great antiquity Is to be een been within st andrew a church at willoughton Wil loughton near gainsboro Gata eng it is a quaint ing trumpet with an obscure early history dating back to the times of the knights T templar in shape it resemble a a fience horn and is moie than five feet long having a bell at the end of the graduated tube it was formerly six feet in length bit bi t is now telescoped at the jo ants where the metal has apparently decayed tra declares it was formerly sound ed from the tower to summon aid in case of need duck shooting by wholesale the gunners at fort rosecrans california were testing a new 5 inch rapid fire gun recently the range be jug on the water by some mistake i cutting the fuse the shell exploded prematurely about bards from the gun and just over the place where a covey of wild ducks were swimming peacefully fourteen of anem were killed by pieces of the shell the soldiers went out n a boat and p eked ched them up and they verb vere served to the company for dinner calcutta pol ce policemen in calcutta ii lid d a v ear this queer uniform and carry sun shades heart on wron the physicians ot of T N vu va are interested tut tat ral havear aged 9 v q i t I 1 ar a 3 is on the right s be ce of 0 hio hl chest tha boy is healthy and robust desp te th unusual position of the organ |