Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-10-25
A LITTLE follow Of about ~ wear.

named Moran went into q Bangor, Me-,
drug store Ill company with three other
boys, with look OF much importance
on his face. One of our physicians was
there and the boy went up to him and
SAID: "Say, doctor, fell off from car
rage up here and my arm went under
me and hurt it" The arm referred to
was being carried in his other hand. AS
he spoke he held it up for the doctor to
look ut. The little fellow was told that
he had broken his arm very badly, and
his only reply was to turn to his COM
pa.nions and ask, "Say, fellers, didn't /
tell We | more than hurt itl Then the
fracture was reduced. He made no sign
OF pain and said nothing during the OPP
Grafton. When the splint was ON the
limb he looked up and remarked "Say,
doc, how much is that going to cost O
Teller r.
GEORGE OWENS and his son were dig
ging a well near Steubenville, Ohio,
hoisting the earth and stone with a
windlass and big bucket. When one
load was near the surface the rope broke,
and the bucket fell ten feet upon the son,
who was in the well. The father got
help and was lowered into the we'll,
where he found the young man insensi-
bic. He tied the rope to his body and
the nelghbors drew it out, and lowered
the rope for Owens; but as they drew
him up the rope again broke, and he fell
to the bottom, breaking his neck and
dying instantly. BY the time the dead
body of the father was brought out the
son had died. Mrs. Owens was SO
shocked at the death of her husband
and son that she died in few hours.
SIXTEEN-YEAR- OLD Sherman Small of
North Chesterville, Me-, decided that
he wanted to to be a pirate, and, as a
preliminary, ran away and walked to
Gardiner, where he hoped to find one of
the long, low, black, rakish vessels of
which he had read. He didn't find it,
and he didn't find anything that his
fancy had pictured, and that night as he
wandered along the wharves, night
watchman collared him and took him to
the lookup, and there Sherman saw four
drunken sailors, and they didn't fit the
picture that his mind had drawn, and
Sherman wept bitterly, and begged for
n chance to walk back to North Chester
started briskly homeward.
The soldiers of Liu Tsin Tan, Cover
nor of province in Chinese Turkestan,
having been without pay for six months,
and being unable to induce the Cover
nor to receive u petition from their
committee, chose eight soldiers by lot
to blow up the Governors house. They
laid mine under the palace and
charged it with $40 pounds of powder.
Half an hour before the time set for the
explosion one of the conspirators weak
ened and confessed. The mine was
flooded, thirty soldiers were killed, and
100 more were arrested and held for
sentence.
A JAoKDAw flew into a church at
Monckton, England, during service,
and took an active part i'll the responses,
jabbering SO merrily that pastor and
people were convulsed with laughter.
The pastor finally had to order the chill
dren to leave the church, they laughed
so, and an effort was made to capture
the bird, which had lighted upon the
reading desk. 1t flew to the rafters,
however, and stayed there until the ser
vice ended, chattering all the time.
Then it was captured, and is now in the
possession of one of the congregation.
Mrs. SCOTT PARTON, North Carolina
woman, was murdered presumably by
her husband, who was arrested, so the
authorities thought, and imprisoned al
Raleigh. The prisoner insisted that he
was not Parton, and after lying long
90 1. Il al D.,1,<
Leeson Porter, the heir of an Irish es-
tate. The fright and excitement due to
the false imprisonment drove him crazy,
and when he was released he walked
over 100 miles in four days. He was
placed in an asylum, and is likely to re-
cover.
AN italian Psychologist, Prof Mosso,
has, it is said, by means of large bal
ance, ON which the human body may be
poised horizontally, found that ones
thoughts may be literally weighed, and
that even dreams or the effects of a
slight sound during slumber turn the
blood to the brain sufficiently to sink
the balance of the head. The changing
pulse even told him when professional
friend was reading italian and when
Greek, the greater effort of the latter
duly affecting the blood flow."
A New ENGLAND woman with brains,
who had little money, but not enough,
hit upon novel and successful scheme
for making more. At a small price she
bought very old house that was in dis
use. She restored the old house, careful
ly preserving the original style, laid out
the grounds suitably and attractively and
advertised the place for sale. She made
handsomely by the transaction, and re-
peated it. After she had sold her third
house she had enough money and retired
from business.
A PARIS hickman was recently gar
roted and robbed by men whom he took
for countrymen who were riding in his
hack. They tied him to the seat with
| the horse blanket about his head and
left him helpless, and escaped with his
money and watch and chain. His horse
drifted about the streets with him oil
night, and the next morning the police
discovered his predicament and unfast-
| a,ad ond unmufliad him