Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-01-24

"p LID oWu SWEEP Will us Iaf MS tie IL len
she bridge, and, finding a calf tied up to
tree, the pony began to romp with it.
The little animal, frig htened, lowed
loudly, the old COW charged down on the
pony and completely disemboweled it
with a mighty prod with both horns
The pony ran bowshot and dropped
dead. The soldier found out the name
OF the owner of the COW, and reported to
his captain, claiming CONDENSATION
from the owner; but the captain holding
that the careless soldier was to blame.
and not the COW, which acted from a
proper maternal instinct, fined each of
ms company of fifty men 500 cvsh, or in
all S25, and ma 'e mp the other S25 him
sell ior new pony for the regiment.
HE artificial egg factory, which was
started at Newark, N. j., in 1888. has
been closed, and the industry as such
has collapsed. The operators of the
company and its methods of working
nave OF late been kept profound secret
not only from the general public, but
also from the stockholders. There
seems to have been reckless outlay of
money In managing the affairs of the
concern, which has helped bring about a
final collapse. A large shipment of ex-
detrimental eggs with new process shells
failed to stand the heat of the tropics in
1886, and the consequence was a claim
Tor damages. A gentleman who pre-
tends to know little about the matter
says that the concern never made dol
lar, and that lis affairs were wound ND
because the stockholders saw that it was
impossible to make legitimate profits
out of the manufacture of imitation
eggs.
HERE are sanitariums for the Door
and suffering scattered here and there
over our land, but there are very few
homes for wornout or disabled animals.
One for horses, however, in Illinois, is
conducted on most extensive scale.
Barns are lighted with electric lights,
and are clean and roomy, for every de-
vice known to science has been used to
make them healthy. Competent men
are employed to care for the horses.
The food is raised almost entirely on the
farm where the home is located, and it
10 OF the best quality, while the water
drank by the animals is from a spring
which is ner by, and which, it is
claimed, possesses mineral virtues.
Such institut ons should be less scarce,
and doubtless would be did man half
appreciate his friend the horse
SERGEANT Robert Oldham, of the
Charleston Navy Yard, is an interesting
soldier He is nearly 60 years old, and
40 years ago, when raw irish lad, en-
listed in the English army, where he
fnr II
artillery service, and went through the
Crimean war and tue East Indian mu-
tiny. He was in the battles of Balaklava
and Inkerman, and was before Sebas-
topol until the evacuation took place.
He served two years in the war of the
rebellion, and then enlisted in the Mar
inc Corps, to which he has been attached
ever since. He has never been wounded
and likes soldering 80 well that he says
he shall reenlist when his present term
expires.
IT is said that when Mr.. Jay Gould is
going up or down the stairs of the "L"
road in New York he always puts his left
foot on the step first, even if he has to
get out of step to do it. If, by accident
or through thoughtlessness, he happens
to start with the right foot, he is certain
to remark it before reaching the top OF
the steps, and, if he does, will return
and start over again. Another reported
of Mr. Gould is his antip-
athy to fair haired men. There is not
a single blond clerk in his immediate
employ, and it is said that he dislikes to
do business with men who have fair hair.
A STRANGE election wager has Just
been settled at st. Louis. An agreement
had been entered into between +. j.
Bissell, an artist, and well-known So
ciety lady, that if Cleveland was elected
Mr.. Bissell should paint portrait of the
lady. and if Harrison was elected she
was to pose for two weeks as model for
his class of pupils. For while the lady
could not summon courage to pay the
wager, but last week she went to the
artists studio and posed every day.
After she had sat for week Mr.. Bissell
released her from further service.
Mas. .GREENLEAF, of Pennington, Me.
hearing a commotion among her fowls
ran out and saw that big hawk had
just seized one Of them and was about to
make meal from it. She ran back to
the house, got her husbands gun, went
into the barn by the back way, stuck
the muzzle OF the gun through con
venient hole, and blew the life out of the
robber. The hawk was magnificent
fellow, forty -four inches from tip to tip
of wing He had stolen four of Mrs.
Greenleaf's chickens.
ONE Of the smartest Western towns
growing is Gladstone. Mich. Fourteen
months ago it began to be, and was
named after the Grand Old Man. To
day it has 1000 inhabitants, the princi-
pal streets are paved with cedar blocks,
there is complete fire apparatus.
$4, 900 town hall, an cleo rio light plant,
five churches, three school buildings,
two bank buildings, three hotels, six
manufactures, one weekly newspaper,
and fifty business houses, representing
the various branches of trade.
Fox hunters in West Chester, Pa,
freed fox the other day, and when dis
covered he was perched among the
branches forty feet from the ground. A
boy was sent up to get him down, and
he jumped at him and over him and
made off. He was finally run down by
the hounds and killed 1t is proposed
n ctr, fr tho skin and rrasarva II nc that