Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-11-14


Decatur, Ga, has night blooming
eereus that has had more than fifty
blooms on 1t this season. The other
night 1t had twenty eight flowers in full
bloom. They began to open about sun
down and arc fully expanded bv nine
O'Clock. The corolla, or calyx, is from
seven to ten inches in diameter, the
outside OF which is brown and inside of
me straw-yellow color the petals are of
Inc pnrest white, with stamens sur
rounding the stile in the centre of the
flower, which add to its lustre. and
makes it appear like bright star. It's
scent is agreeable and Iserfumes the air
to considerable distance. but II is like
many other beautiful things in this life
II is OF but momentary duration. By
sunrise the flowers all fade and bano
down quite deca0ed and never oren
again. 1t is said the flowers NAV be
preserved if cut off when in perfection
and put In spirits of wine in q glass vase
made air tight.
YOUNG Mr.. MITCHELL, of CHICAGO.
had strange adventure, the other day'
Two men seized him in the subnrbs
threw him into hack, drove him to n
hotel where they locked him in a room.
Then they brought in minister and a
young women, stranger to him, and
forced him to marry. He tried to pro-
test, but the ceremony went on, and
then he was told to go his way. He left
the hotel and went home in bewildered
state of mind. Mr.. Mitchell saws that
he would not be able to recognize the
minister, the two men or the woman,
but he knows that he is married, and is
afraid that his wife is circu aiing about,
running up bills in his name. The
young men Of Chicago feel very nervous
over the affair, and many of them are
afraid to go out after dark.
ONE of the very interesting things
seen at the Paris Exposition are the
dwarf trees which the Japanese horti.
culturists are showing, and which are
attracting much attention. Pines, thu
ies and oedars, said to be 100 or $50
years old, are only eighteen inches high,
and with such specimens it would be
easy to have coniferous forest on a
balcony. These arboreal determines
are produced by great labor, and if the
truth is told about their ages this work
OF arrestng the trees development and
| forcing it into contorted forms must be
persisted in nv several ganerot;ons ~
foresters. An this na;nstak;no ;s bardl i,
paid for nv the beanty Of the res,lt;ny
abortions Init a. looL a. these treas viii
explain where the fantastic forms come
,,,ont. "n,on sew .I. i noueis 5ol ene
t,n an,a We on 30 ~ oi1 .aoqn1ieI Trays,
fu aonA Gsa anu enl'roi''eiies WHICH come
iio'A oapan'
| HENRY STIIIMAN, of Woodstock,
Conn, Windham county's weather pro-
phet, has made his annual forecast of
| winter by goose bone. He says the bone
shows clearly that we will have an open
winter. The yocse hone is accepted by
many Windham comfy people as a bet
| ter authority than Virgins, OF De Voc,
or even old DAVID A. Daboll, the Con-
necticut almanac maker. In many farm
houses it will be found hanging in the
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THE twelve-year-oid son OF George
Peacock, farmer living IN Wlnton
i county, Ala, was bitten by q rattle
snake the other morning. The boy ran
screaming TO the house, and told his
father what was the matter. Peacock
lmmedla ely placed ms lips TO the wound
and attempted TO suck out the poison:
There was . sore on one ct his lips, and
the poison took effect in it, and before
night ne was dead his effort to save
his sons me was frultiess. ne failed to
get out al me poison pefore II had taken
BEFORE h;s father >'
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! A BERLIN merchant named Gutmann
received recently an o fcial letter from