Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-08-09
MYSTERIES OF A DAY
MOVABLE EVENTS THOUGHT
WORTHY OF RECORD.

EVENTS THOUGHT
WORTHY OF RECORD.
The Bridge BuiIder-What Animals
Cost-Over a Trestle-A Tender
foot Postmaster-HowT They Live
in China, Etc, Etc.
A STORY is told Of Postmaster whose
lack of knowledge of working his own
NEST lost him an increase of $100 on
his salary next year. When he sent
his returns in he lacked 81 cents of the
amount called for by the law to permit
an adjustment of his salary. His re-
port showed the yearly receipts of his
office to be $2,099.20. AS the depart
ment allows fraction over half dol
lar to be counted as dollar, the Post
master would have been 800 more in
pocket if he had had shrewdness enough
to buy 81 cents worth of stamps out of
his own pocket. Since he sent his re-
port he has learned his mistake, and
anybody in the county now can kick
him. His was the only case Of the kind
in the $500. 1t caused much merri-
ment among the clerks at the Post Office
Department..
A TEN-YEAR-oLD son of J. H. Wood,
of Montpelier, Ind, caught four pound
black bass in a novel manner. He saw
the bass in pool in the rapids of the
Salamonie, and conceived the idea that
If he went into the water and knelt
down the bass would come up to him to
get into the shade thus made in the
water. He went in, kept quite, and the
big fish after darling in aud out few
times came up close to the boy and nestl-
ed there. Quietly the boys hand slip
ped to the gills of the fish, one quick
grab and boy and bass were in tussel,
but the boy held on and carried his fish
IN triumph to his mother. Considering
the age of the boy, the plan adopted
and the size of the bass it is one of the
unique fish incidents Of the season.
How EASILY bitterness may be produc
ed by too much sweetness was illustrat-
ed the other day by car incident. One
little girl about five years old leaned
over the back of the seat in front, and
whispered in the ear of small boy. IT
love YOU" Having no reply, she again
said, II love you" eyes," SAID the
boy. "but don't say that again" 81
WILL" was the determined answer of
the girl. "You won't, replied the boy
with equal determination, and there
upon began fast and furious quarrel
which lasted until the girl was borne
away by her nurse, her voice sounding
shrilly down the car aisle, 81 love you,
1 love you, l love you," over and over
again.
AT Elkton, Ohio, the Pittsburgh, Mar
ion and Chicago Railroad crosses the
Big Beaver River on trestle los feet
high. Over this trestle John Hawkins
was walking with his little four-year old
daughter when the child complained he
was holding her too tightly, and he re-
laxed his hold and turned for moment,
when in some manner the little one
slipped between the ties and landed
over q hundred feet below, partly in
the water and partly on the ground.
The father reached his child expecting
to find her dead, but, strange to relate,
while the little one was unconscious not
bone was broken. She soon revived,
and unless internally injured, will re-
cover.
HE foreman of hook and ladder
company in Cologne, Germany had his
attention attracted by the futtering of a
swallow high up in church steeple.
The bird had become fastened by a
thread in the nest and could not free
itself. Fastening to the headquarters
OF his company the foreman telegraphed
to the central station, asking if it would
be permissible to turn out the company
to save the swallow. The Fire Marshal
regarded turnout allowable if viewed
merely as necessary exercise. An alarm
was rung in, the department responded,
and, amid the shouts of hundreds Of on,
lockers, the swallow was rescued from
his almost fatal nest.
The price paid for animals varies very
much. A good male lion is worth 81.
goo, and tiger $1,000; leapords cost
$500; for monkeys we pay from $12 up
ward, according to the species. Ordi-
nary East India or African monkeys
OF rare species cost as high as $50, $40 and
$50 each. The best speaking parrots
are either the African or the Mexican
double yellow head. For young birds
OF this species the dealers pay $40 apiece
when buying number at time, retail
ing them at $50 and $40 each. The old
talking birds of this variety are worth
from $50 to 300 apiece, the price depend
ing on the number of words that the
parrot can talk.
AT CANTON, China, some $50, 900 peo-
pie live continuously on boats and many
never step foot on shore from one wears
end to another. The young children
have habit of continually falling over~
board and thus cause q great deal Of
trouble in effecting a rescue, while in
many instances this is impossible and
cniid is drowned. China is an over-pop>
uiated country, and the Chinese have