Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-06-14

t1ehdVor cHine 10 WOO ne9 III the gulSe OF
poor, one-legge2 school teacher (the
other leg having been left on the battle
field at Cor1nth) his suit was opposed by
her parents. But the bold lover one
night tied his canoe to the banks of the
Arkansas near the lady's house and
carried her away before the stern parent
knew what was in contemplation.
s''HERE is IA serious thing" said doc
tor, rs he walked through an Erie Rail
road train yesterday. "This smoking
car seats fifty persons, and yet there is
seldom q chance for seat after the train
starts out of New York. The men in
this car have gone into the country at
considerable expense and disadvantage
Tor the sake of their healths. The only
time they spend at home is at night, and
most of it in their bedrooms in heated
houses where the air is very little differ
ent from that in a city bedroom. They
spend from two to four hours of the only
leisure they have in this car, where the
ali is so vitiated with tobacco that
though | am an old smoker it makes me
as sick. III fifteen minutes as did my first
cigar It is safe to say that the health
OF these mon would have been better
guarded had they stayed in town"
II is not generally known that the
rendered fat of a woodchuck is as good
barometer as any we have to-day. While
In the country, a short time ago, the
writer had occasion to travel through
the lower part of Berks. At the house
of a friend he pressed me to take an UNI
brella with me. There were no signs of
storm. l asked why he persisted in so
logged manner for me to accept the
article. "Wby," said he, ''look at my
barometer. There upon the shelf stood
a bottle sealed with beeswax. 1t was all
cloudy. The old gentleman said that he
had used this one for most twenty years,
and if storm was brewing the barome-
ter got cloudy twelve hours before the
rain or snow began to fall. In clear
weather the oil was always clear.
IT is said thai during the last Presi-
dental crisis in France a newspaper
correspondent at Rennes wrote regularly
70 his newspaper Every time the "po-
iitical police opened his letters. After q
while he tried the plan of registering his
letters. Enclosure of q 100 francs" he
wrote on the outside of one in order to
insure privacy for it, without, of course,
putting the money inside. The letter
arrived safely; none of the seals were
broken, but neatly enclosed lay postal
order for 100 francs. The clever officers
who had intercepted the letter thought
that on opening it they had lost the en-
closure and substituted another, hoping
thereby to escape unpleasant investiga-
ton.
In the London Standard is an &C count
OF German doctors investigations as
to the size of men and womens hearts.
The masculine heart is larger and weighs
more than that possessed by the fair
sex. A heart, it would appear, grows
most quickly during the first and sec
ond years of life, and between the sec
ond and seventh years it doubles in size.
Until after the fift;eth birthday the
heart grows little larger. In childhood
the male and female heart are the same
size; but after manhood the masculine
heart develops much more than the fe-
male, and ends by being two square in
ches larger than the latter.
ENGINEER Charles S. Homer, of the
Old Colony road, who recently died in
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yen. butier. , Wneii Tue troors occupied
annapons IN 1871, inc ueneral io,lhd
ehat all inc locomotives naa neeh taken
away except q nroEeh-aowh one; ne
called on the ranks ior some one 70 re,
pair ~, ana 1o,ner s.epped 9ue ana
reasoned ne conla IN IL, ana he a cue
using WOOD mainly IN the repairing Inc
loromo.lse oun gooa service, anu Us u
reward zen: Butter olefeo e,e engiheer
ileu.enahss COMMISSION pue NC re-
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ran eI ~ saet that the sarnent vas p .
niece Of n1oth Will ,i,, Ind ACTED down
from one of the mills and caught in
some refuse in tho bottom of the river
Tn 1851 Jenny lind in Edinburoh
visited a music sellers in Prince street