Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-10-24

custom. During the reign of Kanp Hi
! I664A A. ID. an edict forbade foot cramn.
ing under various penalties. the local
officials being held responsible in some
degree Tor vio'aGion Of the law bv peop,e
IN their district. But the fashion was
too strong, and in 1868, at the instiga.
ton OF the Board of Ceremonies. this
edlct was withdrawn. It is still mi
yersal in Kuantung and Kuangsi.
Miss CLARA BOIL, the twenty two
year old daughter OF Mrs. John Boil. O.
Canton, Ohio, is the subject Of an ode
experience. For years she has beer
troubled with what she supposed was
catarrh. This affiiction has bothered
her since she was two years old. and ,
few days ago Miss Boil consulted [,
physician, who made an examination
and came to the conclusion that som,
foreign substance was lodged in one O
the nostrils. He probed for it. and
after removing few small pieces o
bone, came upon a substance which
upon close examination, proved to be
small cloth covered button. A SECOND
search brought forth another button
When babe she forced the buttons ur
her nostrils, and they have remained
lmpedded there ever since, and gave
rise to the symptoms of chronic catarrh
with which she thought she was suffer,
ing.
MRS. AMANDA CONNER, of Ellis. W.
va, is q great lover Of birds, and has
near her house several boxes on poles.
hlled with her pets. A few days ago
she missed some of her songsters. and.
making an examination of one OF the
boxes, she observed the head of black
snake peering out of it. Mrs. Conner
procured O shotgun and brouget the
reptile down to the ground with shat
tered head. A rostmortem examina-
ton showed eleven birds III the snakes
interior. a day or two later, being at
the residence Of her son, Mrs. Conner
related the occurrence, when the young
man said he noticed his birds had sud
denly disappeared. He went out and
examined the bird boxes, and caught i
seven-foot blacksnake in the act OF climb
ing pole to marten box. Snakes are
unusually plentiful this season, and birds
are scarce.
FELIX PYAT, the dead Communist
and litterateur, was character in his
day. He made sensation in Paris by
his cleanliness. In the days Of his
foppishness, it is told Of him with awe
and wonder in Partisan Bohemia, that
he changed his shirt and white kid gloves
twice day, and obtained great success
in fashionable restaurants by the adroit
manner in which he knocked the neck
od bottles so as to prevent the possible
contamination of his wine by the fingers
OF walters After 1S4S the life of the
deceased Communist was chiefly passed
either in prison or in exile. At one
time he was familiar figure about New
York.
New HAVEN police recently detected
a saloon-keeper who WAS selling liquor
on Sunday in curious way. An officer
assembled East Rock, having first Sc
cured a good spyglass. He took posi-
ton where he could sec the saloon and
watch it. Presently he saw some men
enter and he thereupon gave signal
by waving handkerchief to squad of
officers stationed in house near the
saloon. They also had o glass end
when the signal was given descended
upon the saloon. The proprietor was
arrested and fined $50 and costs.
Mr.. LAIenroN, of Preston, Conn.,,
dwelling on farm three miles from Nor
witch, is odd without doubt, 80 his
neighbors think. Be it winter or sum-
mer tho Preston man takes bath once
day in the rapid river that crosses his
farm. A few other men in the world
have q similar habit, but the queerness
about Mr.. Iaghton's bathing is that he
first takes warm bath in the house.
then hastens to the rivers brink and
hops in. Mr.. Laiehton has been doing
SO for forty years; he is as tough as
leather, was never sick, and never even
had cold.
A CURIOUS exploration is now being
undertaken in q vast region OF Scandi-
navia, which has practically run wild for
nearly hundred yea $, when whole
villages, as we'll as homestcads and
farms, were deserted on account of an
epidemic. The tract has been bought
by London syndicate, who have COM
missioned Sir H. Pot!inger, one Of the
pioneers Of Norwegian travel, and J.
Sargent, the we'll known Oxford
'scoach," to report upon this almost for
gotten territory.
THE discovery of curious ice cave in
Ashley Valley, Utah, continues to at
tract attention. A man, who has Just
returned from here, SAYS that III the
latter part OF August he found in the
cave section of ice twenty-five feet
high and thirty feet thick at the base.
A small lake was also discovered. One
Of the rooms in the cave was over l,200
feet long.
A MILFoRD farmer recently brought
an extraordinary bunch Of wheat into
Kansas City. twas composed OF thirty
two heads and wighed fifteen pounds,
or little less than one-half pound to
the head. The straw was five feet and
two inches in length and very heavy.
One Of the heads was shelled out and
the naked grains .lst filed half-pint
cup.
a CORRESPONDENT at Algona, Iowa,
writes that many large lakes in north
western Iowa have gone dry. Bancroft
Lake, 4 great resort for wild fowl, is as
dry as the streets in q town. In some Of
Az 1oLao doad fish NAV 1,a found in