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Show FELT HAT ON HIS TRAVELS Officials Make Unusual Efforts to R: store It to Owner. A fait hnt blow off a tourist's head last year as ho was leaning out of a railway train window In Sweden. Of tho man himself nothing further Is known, but tho felt hat has become famous all ovor tho north of Europe An omployo of the Hno picked up tho bat whero It lay and, being an honost man, he tried high nnd low to find Its owner. Finally all local efforts falling, he ticketed It and sent It to tho noxt I station, to be claimed by tho owner No such person appeared and tho hat was sent on from station to station, an additional ticket being stuck on each time It set out. Thus It has run tlirough tho wholo of Swcdon nnd Norway, Nor-way, has been at Upsala and Trondh leni, at Chrlstlanla and Clotoborg and Mnlmo, has been sent on to Zealand and Finland and Is now holng sent through tho north of Germany, covered cov-ered with labels lnr.lde nnd out. And If it Is no longer a fit headgear It is at all bvents a remarknble monument of northern honesty and porsoveranco. |