Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-08-09
THE suit Of Mary Berry, Of Detroit, for .

IHE suit OF Mary berry, OF DetrOlG, Tor o
divorce from John Berry, on the grounds
of cruelty and non-support. came up be-
fore Judge Brevoort. The plaintiffs
mother took the stand and testified to
the first charge. "One night" she be-
gan, Cherry came home drunk and
chased Mary about the house with 0
knife. She ran down stairs to get away
from him and he picked up a small coal
stove and threw it, fire and all, down
stairs after her. The stove did not hit
Mary and we put out the fire before the
house was burned down." Mrs. Berry
got her divorce.
THROUGH the simplest remedies relief
comes, and the new methods of medicat-
ing patient by food chiefly are carrying
out this formula in General Sheridan's
case. Tactic acid which is not very far
off from the beverage commonly termed
buttermilk, has been doing peptic won~
ders, it is announced. A good many
people who are tout of sorts" with liver
troubles might try the buttermilk cure
direct without waiting for an illness to
have it prescribed to them. Especially
old people and worn out people frequent
ly find fountain Of youth in the
churn's surplus.
The popular idea that razor needs
rest occasionally has scientific founda-
ton in the case of very fine razors. The
grain of the best Swedish razors runs
in o diagonal direction from the upper
end of the outer point toward the handle.
Constant stropping will twist the steel
until the grain sets nm and down. and
steady use draws the grain still further
over. When il gets into this condition
it cannot be kept sharp. but if laid away
and left alone for a while the grain wifi
resume it's first position and the razor be
as good as new again.
THERE orows in Mixteca Mer;co .
plant which the natives call oTha Hsrh
of Prophecy. II is said that wboever
partakes of the herb in a few momsnts
sinks into sort of sleep. or rather hvu-
motto state. in which. apparently unite
insensibly. he has kind of prophetic
Gift. or double sight. answers anestionk
that are put to him. and becomes a.
under the will of another that he obeva
any command even to taking his own
lie. When the effects OF the herb wear
on ne remembers nothing OF what No
has done.
AN English clopmaker named Cream
wood made bet that he would stav nm.
der water LONGER than anvhodv in Have.
ford. He swan ont into the river and
disanneared wbila friends IN tha her[s
held their watches to time him Whar
he had beaten the record thew hecame
alarmed, went after him and dragged
out his liteless body. He had won the
wager, IN one sense, for the doctors de-
clded that he had not drowned, butthat
death had resulted from the sudden i'm
merslon after heavy meal.
THE son and dauobtar of a woman ~
independent means named From head
were recently fined IS in England, for
systematically defrauding a railroad Nv
travelling without tickets until within q
mile of their destination, and then using
tickets for that distance handed them by
friend, giving up those tickets ct the
end of the trip as though that was oil the
distance they had travelled. such fraud
being possible unler the English rail-
way methods.
NJ. ..
O., preacher is in a had AZ She has
eaten pickles until she has dwindled
from 200 to go rounds. She can nn
longer eat. Her tongue is as drv and
hard as piece of leather. and her uhv-
sicians say that the interior Of her ston-
ach is as hard and smooth as the sur.
face OF polished glass. The young lady
is only sixteen years old 80
Spr.K1Na If cant;levers NJ n n
Schneider Of Rmffaln vho are w.. -
that great structnre ncross N;ensra En-
is q modest little German ana 10 wa ia
sooner take him for a nrnsnoro, Won 49," 49,.
chant than a great eno;naar ~ wor ~
d;an;t,, n,h plIiien's, were !! noo iof nis