Show A SMUGGLERS MUSEUM 11 devices have been used to belt beat the antoh custom home house at scotland atland yard saya hie the st james jamea there li Is an almost unknown kno n museum full of the significant a and nd ghastly object which hive have aided antho in the commission commission of great crime probably the police of most great capital capitals havo have made similar collections eions ti ons at the cust ilou u e there is believed to lie be a room in which eh are kept a selection of lie the mot mo t curious aids to smuggling hollow cheeses boxes with fabe bottoms and the like which have been seized in the possession of persona persons of 0 undoubted in ingenuity but of shaky honest in paris pails there is is a similar but pio probably bably much more interesting inui museum eum bince since the existence of tir the duties which aro are levied upon a great variety of article articles induces a good many people who mho in in other regards aro am probably to 11 bly honest elou enough b to c endeavor end eivor 11 vor to defraud if t the ii revenue bleie arc are kept somo some scores korea of the most clever devices vices of professional or amateur smugglers which bavo have from time to ahne been seized at the barriers of the city or at the custom rouses throughout the country most lost of them are exceedingly cee ingenious ingeni oua and some are indeed of a nature to suggest that in in france even smugglers possess esprit what V hat appears at a casual glance t to Q be a block or carrara marble w biot really p punted sheet iron iron box it armed arrived at alie frontier in in a trail train from italy altal along with five similar one A curious depression upon one of these blocks aroused the suspicion of a dou anier and upon examination the trick was discovered discover e d the boxes m were ere filled willi with ballast to make them heavy and at the bottom of each lav lay 1000 worth of venetian lace A pile of in innocent lookin looking logs of firewood binh such as are burned burdef in paris were found to bo be hollow metal the bark of trees and filled with datable liquors probably only only an officer who ho possessed long cami familiarity carity with the ways lays of smugglers would mould suspect a vero pile ae of four doen dozen ordinary soup plat plates here is is such a pile there is ie nothing in the least suspicious about the top and bottom dozens but the tm en ty four hour plates in in the middle from froin one deep a wi with I 1 h t two wo dozen p projecting r 1 e c ing rims and when the adroit ai little 1 i arrangement rano ran gement emen was seized this tin a vessel 1 aia q full of contraband ont brandy A co coflin afi r from marseiles and bear bearing a railway label has a curious history during the epidemic of cholera at marseilles tw tm 0 or three years ears azo a coffins were constantly paa passing sing the barriers of that city and tho the officer re respectfully uncovered an as another coffined victim of the pestilence was ft wheeled past on a handcart hand uirt the fear of infection lulled their suspicions per perhaps halx but when the cholera was stamped out and the coffins did dia not diminish in in number it vas was resolved vOl to pluck out the heart of the mystery tho the next coffin tint that arrived waa opened ned and was found to be crammed ozeah with choice cigars perhaps the most daring schem for che cheating atin tho the parisian city chest ce of which the museum con evidence w I 1 as elaborated by a gentleman who h was w as in ju tho the habit of of driving hi fiig e I 1 le nt catl ta victoria every evening past alie ie carrier r at ahe lie entrance to the baisde bois de boulogne ho ile was always accompanied by a smart groom who slumbered red peacefully upon the box while the master droan shortly afterwards su sufficiently long elou enough ai to allow the gentleman to make tile the regulation tour four du lac jae the carr parigo hage would return and the officials become so accustomed cus tomed to ite its me that they ceased to e examine it and anti the owner drove back into pans paris at a smart trot court eoll 4 I 1 returning their salutations BA wit with K ina his whip that smart trot was im undoing one evening 1 the lie victon victorm i ran into a heavy wagon and master mister and groom were thrown out monsieur was wits picked u up insensible mcc nuble while from a deep wound woun if in in tho the held head of the groom lowly trickled a stream of champagne liam tho the int erting menial was com composed posed of zinc dexterously fashioned and painted and he lie had found a resting place in in thia this smugglers a era inu museum seum the carriage was found to a certain zinc zinc well which was likewise lihew me full of champagne india rubber dress improvers arranged to conceal articles r t I 1 I 1 Z of contraband have often been seized while n not t tho the least eurious exhibits is an india 0 rubber baby capable of co containing 11 eighteen n pints of unfixed untaxed liquor |