Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-12-12
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<ranger than Fiction.

<ranger than Fiction.
Gus WoLF, well known in the
River country, is around Gotta
Col, with his head and face
ID with bandages and plasters.
xause Of this is terrible contest
he had with very large bear. 1t
rs he was up the Knickllnick
about seven miles after deer.
IA shot deer, when, on looking
sssaI. he saw bear following him.
box shot at him and rushed down
Hill upon him. Gus shot tive times
he bear without stopping his pro-
After he had discharged all his
ridges and the bear had come into
Is contact with him, he used his gun
club until it was knocked from him.
lore his hand to-hand combat began
8 bear had his left shoulder broken by
Is Of the shots, part of which passed
rough the lungs. This left the bear
I'm only one paw to fight with, but
~ was enough to enable him to tear
Fay the flesh from the cheek of Mr..
Volt. and let all the flesh of his lower
Nv hang down over his throat to his
reast. Gus, in describing the fight.
Bills Of how he first tried to run away
Rom the bear after the animal was SO
Founded as to have but three legs. He
lesoribes how the bear caught his right
hand in his Jaw, holding it till Gus
gouged the bear in the eve with his left
forefnger, making the brute Let go, and
Ethen how the bear grasped his left wrist
Gus finally reached out with his right
hand and got rock, with which he beat
the bear over the head, and then they
rolled down the hill together, the bear
falling into the creek. Gus then man
) aged to get loose and ran, soon reaching
Vamp, and his associates at once went
ipr o surgeon, who sewed up his face.
making eighteen stitches, and using
lots OF plaster and bandage cotton. The
next day some men went out to the
scene of the contest and found the bear
dead, but still warm, lying about forty
yards from where the fight took place.
The bear weighed about 400 pounds.
WHEN boy is born in Persia SER
vent runs to the father of the infant and
announces the news by saying ''Praise
be to God the most merciful, you are
the father Of boy5' "Mashallah +"
replies the father, "praise is indeed due
to the one God, great and merciful !"
1t may be observed here that the same
fervent gratitude is not exhibited on the
birth Of q girl, but the afflicted father
calculates instead in resigned tone,
sis that. So then we shall do the best
we can for her. He has an eve on the
future years when he will be forced TO
cast about to place MORTGAGE on his
house or chattels in order to pay off her
dnrvy Ac %h> l,,a4
lad is launched into the troublous world
he is firmly bound in swaddling bands
which are kept tightly swathed until he
is six months old. He resembles q piece
OF wood rather than anything else until
he is six months old, when his tiny arms
are released and he may lie on his back
in the cradle and play with the trinkets
hanging from the cross-bar of the richly
carved and painted cradle to which
cord is attached The mother OF nurse,
sitting and knitting in the doorway shad-
ed by great palm trees, tugs on his cord
and thus rocks her boy to sleep.
THE sub.erranean river recently dis
covered in France in Miers district
of the Department of Lot, has beer.
traced distance of seven miles tc =
point beyond which the three d. .r;n .
explorers who undertook the t. .sl, d;3
not dare to venture, as the r; yer there
takes an abrupt plunge into the bowels
Of the earth to depth .mpossible to
fathom. It took three 4ays and nights
miles and return, T. .,e greater portion
being done in + ,lding boat made Of
sa.i.cioth. Mlers. is in the heart of