Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-10-10


r. time by placing her hand
on the ears of one of them.
She says the fea!s never tire
her, but just before trial she feels ner,
vous and weary. She sleeps well after
throwing strong people about She
must stand on wood and operate with
wooden chairs and sticks. When in
contact with carpets and iron she can do
nothing. Recently, when exhibiting in
the South, somebody connected wire
with her body and grounded it, and i'm
mediateiy she was powerless. She is a
small. delicate woman, very quiet and
modest,
PHILIP A. GREENWOOD, m employee
of the Alaska Seal Company tells O re-
porter of the st. Louis Post Dispatch
how sea skins usel to be struggled.
1.-The miners came to our assistance, and
by their aid we succeeded in running
hundreds of thousands through the cor
don OF United States officials at the
United States ports. The mode of pro-
cedure was to place tightly packed bales
OF sealskins in the hold Of an ore vessel
and cover them with old sacks. For the
privilege of doing this the Alaska Com
pany, or at leastits employees, paid the
wages of the crew and the expenses of
the vessel. In the early days Of mining,
when those engaged in working the
quarsE veins were very inadequately
supplied with capital, to be relieved Of
the expense of transportation was very
important item, and they were more
than willing to cooperate with the skin
smugglers. On arriving at an American
port, generally San Francisco, the pa
pers Of the ship would be shown, stat
ing that so and so many tons of sacked
ore were on board. SealsBins occupy
only small amount of space and many
thousand dollars worth of furs could be
carried without perceptibly increasing
the bulk of the cargo" This illicit
killing has now been stopped, for it
threatened to exterminate the seals.
DIR. BARNsFATHER, well-known
physician of Cincinnati, who has been
for six years victim of rheumatism,
GAINS to have discovered that this all
ment. like SO many others, is due to ba-
cillf. Their breeding places, he says,
are IN ,decaying vegetation. "Young
plants IN room are propagators, and
they will come from any place where
matters are undergoing decay. The
spores from such are carried into the at
mosphere by the evaporating OF mois-
ture-say the water that is sprinkled on
plants thence passes into the
lungs. The healthy action of the kid
neys is destroyed by their presence in
the blood. As the kidneys cannot re-
ieye the gathering of the salts, the skin
takes up the waste and the profuse acid
Bweats constitute one of the characters.
tic phenomena OF acute rheumatism. 1
had always had great many plants in
my house, and after my researches re-
moved them and took medicine to de-
stroy the bacilli. have not had pain
since. I"
A GENUINE blue lobster of good size
has been captured at Marshfield, Mass,
by Henry p. Taylor. Nothing of the
sort has been found before in those
waters, although case was reported
some years ago from Long Island sound.
MIR. Taylor's lobster is of pure ultra
marine blue of handsome shade. Along
the back the color Of this singular crust
acean is almost as dark as indigo, but at
the sides it is as light as robins egg,
and in the joints of the shell shades
away to Q delicate cream color. In an
ordinary lobster these parts would be
shaded in dark and light green's The
claws Of the blue lobster are slightly
mottled in shades of blue and purple on
top and most delicate cream under
meath. Mr.. Taylor's lobster car was q
centre Of interest for the curious. It
was caught in an ordinary pot and it diff
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