Iuka reporter., 1889-08-15
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
AcclDENTs AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
sueer Facts and THRILLING Al.
ventures Which Show That Truth
Is Stranger Than Fiction.

OF some royal ladie,
of the Twenty-irs
Dynasty was, for instance, most elabor
ate, the wrinkles caused by the process
OF mummidcation being filed up will
some kind of enamel, the skin coloret
with ochre, the cheeks and lips rouged
and false eyes introduced under th,
shriveled and alf-open lids, thus giyins
. horribly lifelike appearance to tn,
faces. Others, though now quite bar,
OF ornaments, had evidently been buried
IN oil their jewels, like Queen Aah -hotep
necklaces, diadems, and bracelets having
1efe their impress on the withered skin
Many have been mummifed in comfort
cd attitudes, as if they had died in con
vulsions, but the ghastliest interest o.
all attaches to the remains of an an0ny
nous Prince, who appears to have been
embalmed alive, and upon whose mum
my reports are furnished by DIR. Fou-
quet and M. Mathey. The brain, heart,
stomach, etc., of this unfortunate man
are intact, as in life. The body was
found tightly bound in three places,
namely, round the shoulders, round the
wrists and loins, and round the feet,
these hgatures being drawn with such
force as to leave deep burrows in the
Mesh. This done, he appears to have
been covered with thick coat of btu
men, lime, and pounded resin, and to
have been enwound from head to foot
with bandages soaked in some glutinous
preparation which caused them to adj
here with such tenacity that they had
70 be sawed off. The agonized express
sion of the face, the open mouth, the
swollen and knotted muscles, bear wit
ness to his desperate struggles and to
the horrors of his last agony. His age
was about twenty three, and in his ears
we're small gold earrings. That he was
parsonage Of high rank and the victim
OF some unspeakable tragedy admits of
no doubt; but to his name and parent
age and to the circumstances of his fate
no clue remains.
!, THREE stories were told MS the other
day, showing the power of man is will.
One was OF young officer in the Eng
lish Army, who was peculiarly stubborn
and lrascible. He had been confined to
his bed after severe attack of the heart,
and was unable to move. His physician
asked one Of his fellow officers to warn
him that he would never get out of bed
again, that he might arrange his affairs
before death. When the sick man was
told what the doctor had said, lie arose
IN bed oxcitedly and said: 81 will never
get up again, ell! will walk to the
doctor myself and show him." He
jumped to the floor, walked across the
room and fell dead. The other was
about sheriff out West, who, when ar
resting man. was stabbed through the
heart. He seized the man by the
shoulders, after the blade had struck
him, pressed him to the ground, drew
his revolver, and deliberately thrusti1g
it down the struggling prisoners throat,
pulled the trigger at the instant he him
eelf died. The third story was regard
ing another officer who was hunting
down thief. The man thought he had
given his pursuer the slip, but, just as
he entered one door of railroad car,
the officer appeared in the other. The
thief Instantly fred, the bullet penetra-
ting his pursuer's brain. The officer,
however, returned the shot, bringing
his man to the ground. He then dragged
himself along the side of the car, firing
as he crawled, until his revolver was
empty. He was dead when he was
picked up, second after he ceased to
shoot.
LONGEVITY extraordinary can certain
" be claimed for the inhabitants Of
Chill, If the Chilian census Of 1885 is to
be. believed. From the statistics there
presented it would appear that nearly
BOO persons, out Of total Of 2,200, 600,
are upward Of hundred years old.
This proportion is perhaps not too great,
but the astonishing ages recorded
strain on the strongest creduIity. zone
man cooly returned his age as l5O, and
this would make it very probable that
he is, as the editor Of the census re-
m4rks, the oldest man in the world:
Next after him comes q women aged
1888; two women and one man report
themselves as 1856; 1872. 100 and 127
each have representative, while there
are seven 1875 years old. Below that
( ace the numbers mount rapidly, show
ing twenty-eight persons of the age OF
126. twenty seven aged l15, and no less
than ninety-one aged ITO. OF course,
this is all deliciously absurd. The re-
tdrns carry their own discreditlng on
thar face, with their marked preference
f6k the decades and half decades TWEEN
ky-eirht. for example, set down at l20,
GhiIe but two arc given as 1l9. and only
Z one 10 III; ninety one put a. lio' w'iio
bit eleven reach 100.
AwARR1AaE has lust occurred at Fort