Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-12-19

reposed there, the closed eyes slowl,
opened again, staring wide, and agaiii
SLOWLY closed, to remain so forever. Fiy,
men saw the strange action, and as the,
ale well known hsle as honest and truth
fui men, their story is not questioned.
A RACINE (Wis.) special says that .
weii-known lady of that city recent,
underwent two surgical operations witt
peculiar results. She has been troubled
Win severe pains in her left arm anc
right leg for long time, and treatment
by various physicians afforded no relief
some days ago she consulted DIR. Sem
OF milwaukee,, who went to Racine ano
opened the arm. He discovered nee
ole Embedded in the tissues and muscles
OF the arm, which he removed. The on.
GRAFTON afforded the patient tempo, ary
relief, but pains continued in the right
reg. Or. Sem was again called and Oh.
Grated on the leg, finding second
needle imbedded in the tissues of that
ilmb. The doctor says the case is most
peculiar one, especially so as the patient
can not imagine when or how the needles
entered her body.
The most ingenious, perfect and COM
pick watch ever manufactured was sent
out from the works of Patek, Philippe
u Co., OF Geneva, Switzerland, in July,
1887, and is now in possession of Baron
| Nicholas. 1t is what is known as the
full-sized "hunter." On one side the g
Is dial Of the regulation kind, exhibit
ing the hour, minute and second hands:
also an in dependent chronograph hand
which marks the fifth of seconds. The
same d al has repeating mechanism
VIII oh strikes the hours, quarters and
minutes. The opposite dial has hands
poin ling to the months, weeks and days.
Another large cen raj hand on this dial,
if set at the beginning Of each year,
correctly points to all moon phases and
acts as perpetual calendar. It is SO
constructed as to admit of it's keeping
two different times, say standard on one
side and sun time on the other.
HE latest trick in amateur photogra-
ply, according to the Boston Courier,
is to have trained dog who at given
signal will run and phil string, by
means of which the slide of an instan-
taneous camera is worked, 80 that his
master may be taken in group or alone
as often as he pleises. It is of course
necessary to start the creature at dis
tance sufficiently great to give the
master time to rearrange his features
aftsr 6 wing the word, but this is not a
difficult thing to manage and the young
man who devised the trick has heen ex-
caedingly popular ct the seaside hotel
where he passed the summer, as all the
pretty and most of the plain young
10 lies in the house where anxious to
have their pictures taken by the agency
of the clever little bull terrier which
served as his assistant.
AN elderly man went to Harrisburg
penn merchant and rendered him q
quarter of dollar, saying it was due
him. On asking why, he told the mer-
chant that about one year before his
daughter had bought remnant at his
store, paying IS cents therefor. But on
getting home she discovered that two
remnants had been put into the pack
age by mistake. She intended paying
for the second remnant, but put it of
from time to time, until she fell sick,
when she told her father the circum-
stances and asked him to see that the
money was paid. He promised, but also
neglected the matter. Finally the young
woman reached deaths door, and al
most with her last breath she asked her
father if he had paid for the remnant.
A CITIZEN of Eatonton, Ga, smokes
about twelve pounds OF tobacco yearly
in pipe that he declares is over two
hundred years old. This leads a mathe-
NAUTICAL person to calculate that if that
were the average amount used in the
pipe since its first day, 2,400 pounds of
the weed have been burned in its bowl,
and if the first $12 had been put out at
compound interest at the rate Of 10 per
cent. it would now have grown to the
sum of $1,755, 443, 200. Just how this
would have benefited the first owner of
the pipe does not appear.
A SOMEWHAT novel and intere ting
traffic wns witnessed at Baton Rcu2e,
La. 1t was nothi g more than wagon
BY Ebnezer Goze at fifty cents eech.
GOz0 says he lelJ nome WIN 1OTtY-uVe
turtles and four allegators, and ia Id
all but the five TINT es then in his wig On
and they We're eagaeed. He cat:nes
them in Baton Rouge bayou and Devil
swamp, about seven miles above the
city. Those sold wers as large round
- ha'f bushel measure.
The heart Of Queen Mar.e of Bavaria
was removed from her body soon after
her death at Munich several months ago
and emhalmsd, nc:ording to the custom
which has Pre- ailel in the royal house
since TIE Middle Ages. Recently it was
plac ed in siIs or uln, and taken with
much pomp and ceremony TO the an
Q emit chapel Of our Lady Of Mercies,
where it now rests in . niche Of the
chancel wall neH the hearts Of kings
and queens who died centuries ago.
A. sINGuLAB circumstance recently oc-
cur . at Lower Biddeford, Ne. Two
mea, one small, slender person, and
the other Of proportions in the neigh
borhos d OF three hundred pounds, were
employed by ; woman to dig grave ON
her family lot. They worked rapidly,
and ere they wee aware the excavation
was SO Urge and deep that the fat man
" raN'e to get ous of the hole, A
machlnu i. Us con Jiructed and after quite