Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-11-01

Frisco to other
Chinese, who purchase them there.
These women are compelled to live q life
OF shame as slaves and they have no pro-
lection whatever from the police unless
they voluntarily make a complaint. In
that case, of course, the police free them
and give them the protection they de-
mand, but the authorities never inter
fere IN these cases unless they have been
applied to for help. On this question /
gathered some statistics that may be of
interest; These women and girls, L am
told, are kidnapped i'll China, imported
to this country, sold in the secret slave
markets of San Francisco and doomed to
slavery which passes description. The
girls are sold and are employed rs bond
servants i'll Chinese families There are
l,S0O women and girls, of whom proba-
bly, hundred are bound-footed women,
and are the wives of merchants and rich
men. From six to seven hundred are
married according to the Chinese custom
and the others are members of the
harems, if / could so call them, of the
rich Chinese. Then there are probably
about eight hundred slave girls and
women who are forced into a life of
shame and misery
s'THE other afternoon" said a down.
town merchant, according to the Chicago
Herdtd, ''It was quite dull at the store,
and | set out to make several business
calls that | had neglected for some days.
Went first to my lawyers. Found on
his door card saying that he had gone
TO court for an hour. Then l went to
see my physician. His slate bore no
tice to the effect that he would 'be back
ut 5, as he had gone to attend serious
case. My coal man left word with his
office boy that he had gone home to
look after sick child, and / couldn't
find any one in. | hated to go back to
the store, so L decided to take in the
afternoon baseball game In the grand
stand ut the grounds l saw my lawyer
yelling at Ewing, my doctor keeping
score on a prescription blank, and my
coal man sitting over in the smokers
section. Over ON what they call the
bleaching boards / saw three of my
own clerks who bad gone home at noon
with sick headaches. But say it was
great game. Did you see that home run
of Krock? Wasn't. that lily?"
THE old tragedy of the bull and loco
motive was enacted near St. John, N.
b., the other day. A huge bull strayed
on the Grand Southern Railway, just as
u locomotive drawing II picnic train APP
peared in sight. He lowered his head,
paved the ties, switched his tail, bel
lowed, and paid no attention to the
frantic tools from the engine. When
the locomotive drew near the bull
charged furiously. There was u below,
a cloud of dust and steam, and then
silence When the smoke, dust and
steam rolled away, the locomotive and
the bull lay i'll the ditch, the horns of
the latter l,cked in the bars of the cow
catcher. The noble animals neck was
blNken. No one ON the train was hurt.
A CoLoRED woman in Florida, it is re-
ported, was bitten by a ground rattle
snake, one of the most poisonous of the
rattlesnake family, and was in tremen-
dous agony. A so-called maidstone was
applied to tho wound, after being
plunged in hot vinegar. 1t attached it
self firmly to the wound, and adhered
like leech for nearly five minutes. 1t
then fell off, and being placed in warm
water, threw oil u greasy fluid, grayish
IN color, with here aud there trace of
green. 1t was again put upon the
wound, and chung there about minute.
by this time the woman was asleep and
apparently free from pain, and at last
reports she was fast recovering from the
effects of the bite.
A SAD story is connected with the sui
eide of Miss Belle johnson in San Fran
cisco. 1t seems that several years ago
her husband deserted her, and she
heard nothing of him since. Her health
failed her recently; she could not work,
and, believing she was a burden on her
old mother, took morphine. Her hus-
band, who had gone to Butte City,
Mont, learned of her bad luck recently,
and on the very day she ended her life
he repented of his desertion, and tele-
graphed her money to buy railroad
ticket and pay her expenses to return
to him. The messenger boy arrived
with the message only few hours after
the unfortunate woman brcathed her
last.
A TRAvELERin Brazil writes to a hor-
ticultural paper te~lg of mistletoe that
he had found growing on telegraph
wires near Rio Janeiro. When he first
saw it no thought that floods had lett
weeds hanging to the wires, but nearer
inspection and the height of the wires
convinced him that the apparent weeds
were thousands of little mistlctoe firmly
fixed to the wires. Many species of this
plant grow in Brazil, and some, called
ssbird Weeds" bear berries which are
eaten by birds. Ile seeds are deposited
on the telegraph wires and take root
They are short lived, OF cousse, but the
constant deposits OF seed clothe the
wires with this curious fringe.
DB. DAsrRE, French Psychologist,
who has been experimenting with nni-
msls to determine the nature Of seasick-
ness, reports that after they had been
subjected to various kinds Of motion,
corresponding to the rolling and pitch
ing VI vessels, he found their intestines
strangely displaced. He concludes that
q similar disturbance produces seasick-
ness on board ships. Cocaine is said No
be an excellent remedy. Another French
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with Dir. Dastre as
the ca,lses Ct sensiclSness, claims to have
discovered two infallible remedies, one