Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-03-14
SELECT SlFTINGS.

"@h 10 hihOVJ POI toht. Wutcis
The waltz has entered upon Its 1o2d
season.
A spring OF natural cologne has
broken forth in Algiers.
A meteoric stone which lately fell in
Russia contained several diamonds.
The first settlement of the English in
Bengal and British India was at Calcutta
in 1852,
Mrs. Sarah Barnett, OF Lafayette, Va,
took to her bed forty years age and has
not left it since.
An artesian we'll at Tripoli, Iowa.
spouts water twelve feet above the sur
face OF the ground.
In the year 1859 persons who feasted
or were idle on Christmas Day in Massa-
chusetts were fined five shillings.
Some of the handso NEST shops in Paris
are now devoted 10 the sale of Japanese
wares, and are wholly conducted BY
Japs.
There is not a blonde clerk in Jay
Gould's employ, and it is said that he
dislikes to do business with men with
fair hair.
A porker in Otoe County, Neb,
emerged from an attack Of cholera with
its bristles, formerly black, a very pro.
nounced gray.
The mummiied remains of Santa
Tonga, or big Heart" one of the old
chiefs of the Utes, are in a cave near old
Fort Casper, in Wyoming.
A Hindoo god, over a thousand years
old, largely composed of gold and
precious stones, was sold at auction the
other day in London, for $12, $50.
Steel pens were not SO called from the
material used in manufacture but from
the name Of the first manufacturer, q Mr..
Steele. who began business In England
In 1903
A law in Prussia provides that any per.
son carrying stick or an umbrella in
such way as to be dangerous to other
travellers may be punished by fine or Inn
prisonment.
Word comes from Wheeling, w. Va,
that live bat has been found there i'm.
bedded in solid rock in crevice Just
big enough to contain it and utterly
shut away from the outside world.
Only four gowns Of American silk
have ever been made Of these Mrs.
Garfield was given one, Mrs. Tom Thumb
bought another, and Mrs. J. T. Higgins,
OF Middleboro, MASS, is now having one
made from material furnished by silk
worms of her own raising.
Fed pepper is obtained from sort Of
capsicum, and sometimes called chilleA
the seed of which is the most pungent,
and is ground up fine with the skins. II
comes from Cayenne, anzibar and other
parts of Afri a. Tho plant can be
grown about the same as our peppers,
and is sometimes grown with them.
A new sect has been formed at Monaco,
France, called the brotherhood of the
Sons of cod" 1t resembles in some
features the Essences, its members ab-
staining from tobacco, flesh, intoxicants,
and favoring an ascetic life It's sym
Dol is "533 its badge 20 d, green and
purple ribbon; its missionary language
Voiapuk.
Yep, the hermit SHERMAN who
| lived a lonely life near Stonington.
| Conn, has amassed fortune of $50, 600
| from an annual income of from 5000 to
| $40, which he has made from his fish
ing boat during the vast forty years.
He started with capital of $40, which
he invested in a dory, and his annual
expenses, food and all, have rarely been
more than So.
A black loon was shot in Washoe
Lake, Cal, recently. Such bird had
never been seen there before, and it IL
supposed to have been driven out of its
course by storm while migrating south
from the Arctic regions. The bird
measured eight feet six inches from tip
to tip Of its expanded wings, and six
feet and three inches from the point of
its bill to the end of its tail. The bill
was nearly foot in length.
The tallest building used tor dwelling
purposes in New York city. is the one
known as the Osborne lats, at Fifty
seventh street and Broad way, which IL
III feet in height; the akota Flats,
| Eighth avenue and Seventy second
street, 1865 feet; unro Flats, Fifty
ninth street, 100 feet east Of Sixth ave-
nue., los feet; Navarro Flats, Seventh
avenue and Fifty ninth street, 142 s
feet. The measurement is from the
/ curb level to roof