Show I BURiEU TOO SOON A Recent Invention to Make This I Terrible Experience Impossible People and they appear to be more numerous than is currently supposed I says a London journal who are harassed by nervous fears in the matter mat-ter of premature burial may draw some comfort from the invention of a Russian philanthropist who has been studying the means of remedying a real or fancied evil by allowing any person who may have been interred by I mistake to communicate with the outer world and to breathe freely until succor suc-cor is forthcoming Samples of the special coffin which he has contrived for the purpose are now at the establishment estab-lishment of his agent who is endeavoring endeavor-ing to induce the municipal council to permit its adoption in the metropolitan cemeteries The agent is very enthusiastic enthus-iastic about this invention for he says that if it be taken up no one will in future run any risk of being stifled in the grave and that even at the threshold thres-hold of the tomb all hope need not be abandoned as the problem Is solved and lethargy is vanquished The coffin as designed is provided with a tube the lower end of which is placed a little above the chest of the presumed corpse while the upper end rises above the surfate of the ground The slightest respiration leads to the loud peal of an I I electric bell arranged at the top of the I j tube while at the same moment a I small flag is shot out for the purpose of indicating to any one who may be I on the watch the precise grave at I which the phenomenon has occurred Simultaneously air and light penetrate I into the coffin the tenant of which can I converse without the least effort or f difficulty with the persons who have hastened to the rescue What opinion may may eventually be formed or an i I invention prompted by purely philan f1 throplc motives remains to be seen but I it is certainly deserving of attention i |