Show A A land yacht novel use la Is made of winds for propulsion of a vehicle near rear cleveland ohio at somo some distance from rosa mont station Is a mine and being un nn able to reside at the mine two of the owners whose homes are in cleveland have established themselves thema elvea about nine milea miles from there their lutent intention lon being to visit the mine frequently and see how tho the work was progressing the journey bolever ho bo ever sever Is unusually difficult and mainly be ause a rt high wind Is generally blowing aver that region it happens however that the bed of a dried up lake extends over the greater part of tha distance ard as it Is a hird hardened ened sheet of sand chich Is as smooth as glass it oc burred to the mine owners that they might be able to make the journey swiftly and comfortably la in a land yacht consequently they constructed the vehicle and gae gase it the name rame queen of tho the desert the yacht rests on strong wheels heels and has a large sail its length I 1 bout boat thir teen feet and it has been known to attain a speed of fitly fifty miles an hour the first experiments with it were ere not very successful indeed on ono one occa lon flon it was as wrecked but it now obeys the helm as readily a any sea yacht and can be bei relied upon to go any rca rea distance stanco di safely and swiftly owl fights himself story telling 13 1 a favorite pastime these nights in the comfortable sit ting rooms of ono one of the taverna taverns in pennsylvania many of the yarns yams spun are ire wonders here Is a sample As zach chandler a deep hollow ollow woodchopper was out on turks hill one day last fall in search of game ho he saw what he supposed sed to be two birds sitting upon the limb of a red poplar tree crouching and creeping ahead he hid bid behind a stump when he saw the objects above him were evidently two to whito white owls the owls were fighting savagely for the possession of a mouse which they lad captured in an adjoin ing field the struggle was lively and noisy nolay for a moment the mouse could be feen in the bill of one bird then in the claw clad a of the other there were loud bouts and shrieks and feathera feathers tell fell from the tree into the fearing that the game would fly away and escape chandler fired at the object and it came tumbling down chandler rushed for forare arl and was amazed to find but ono one owl yet it had two heads and four legs and feet there was as but one body the two heads had been fighting for the pos session of the mouse the frak bird was badly riddled by shot but chandler had sense enough to know that he had a valuable curiosity and he worked falth faithfully full to cave rave it but it F re up the ghost the next day one head appeared to be lifeless halt half an hour before the other one died new york world roman tombstone several interesting antiques hav havo 0 recently been unearthed at cologne and among them waa was a particularly fine piece of monumental sculpture it was found beside the grave of a roman knight and Is certainly a fitting memorial of his career A eave slave j represented as driving the warr lora favorito favorite horse and the warrior him spit solf is represented as taking his ease as doubtless doubt lees he often did after a long days day s fight on the horse are ful and costly trappings but his master has laid aside all his ornaments find and armor some surprise haa has been expressed that a knight night should be sculptured in this fashion but it Is i a fact that for some reason or other never represented homana romans of high rank as arrayed in armor or robea robes of office except when they were riding or standing and in this piece of sculpture the knight Is shown ly ing down probably they wanted anted to be true to nature and knew well that a man does not usually lie ile donn don with his armor or toga on him skeleton in strange grave portions portion of the th ston iton of n man which it Is preau nuu u had tor for nearly a century lain undisturbed a few inches below the flags in A cottage in wood street Deans Dean gate sote manchester Man cheater eng land were unearthed the other day wood it eat was in early days a hot bed of crime the skull appears to have been fratt gred |