Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-06-27
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS on
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Ad-
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.

which is to be tn
model after which the Bowery institu
uon will be patterned. The poor womel
In the neighborhood will be invited +
vlsitthe institution, and there learn from
the fair tutors. something about the ar
and science Of making home attractive
even where there is little money to begin
certain well-accepted reforms in cooking
will also be introduced, and there vii
be kitchen supplied with all modern
appliances for making food eatable anc
digestible. The idea underlying this
project is that the refining influence o.
neat and attractive and clearly kept
home for the workingman will be the
best possible stimulent to his moral pro
gress. He will leave the dramshop
severely alone spend his nights at home,
and always aim to save his money. 1t is
said that the London institution is high
ly successful. OF course the girls, many
Of whom belong to the oldest families,
will take turns making trips over to New
York for missionary work among the
deserving women in the lower wards,
and this will become very fashionable.
There is an attempts to keep the purposes
OF the project as we'll as the identity of
the young ladies secret until the open
ing of the institution.
The keepers of lighthouses situated
upon rocks at some distance from the
mainland have not infrequently been
exposed to considerable privation, when
cut off by continuous bad weather from
all communication with the world: but
1t may be doubted whether such tale
as that of the keepers of the Bogskarew
lighthouse has ever before been told.
This lighthouse is situated in the Bal
tic, some forty miles from the nearest
land, and on the 14th of February the
greater portion of the building was car
ried away by terrible gale, and from
that time for a period of more than nine
weeks, the two men have been under
going terrible sufferings. 1t is said that
they have beeNN he whole time without
water or fuelAA Naming, of course, that
the stock of ~ er stored up for their
use was lost, a that they had to de-
pend entirely upon such rain and snow
as might fall. The cold in the Baltic is
very great; and an existence without
fire In a ruined lighthouse, exposed to
the fury Of the northern gales, must
have been almost insupportable. Rain
can have fallen but seldom, although
they may frequently have had snow, but
this, as they had no means Of melting
it, can have been but of little use to
them, for snow taken in the mouth ex-
cites rather than quenches thirst. The
detailed narrative OF nine weeks spent
in the ruined lighthouse would rival the
most exciting adventures Of fiction.
SHI1o Gull, one of Douglas County's
best and most prosperous farmers, lives
ON the banks of the Embarrac, in Him
OILS. Mr.. Gill has a dog, to which he is
greatly attached, which exhibits almost
as much intelligence as human being,
and is of great service on the farm. The
other day Shilo was strolling along the
banks of the stream with his favorite
dog Barney, when he came to rifle, in
which several large fish were laundering
in their efforts to pass up to reach deep
er water. The bodies of several of the
larger ones were partially above water.
Barney dashed in and in an instant had
dragged one to land, and his master
took possession of his catch. Again the
intelligent dog returned to the rifle and
another fish was landed, and this opera
ton was continued until Shilo found
that his string" contained thirteen as
fine fish as one would ask for. Every
morning and evening the fish attempt
to pass the rifle, and at these times Gill
and. old Barney are on hand to get
supply Of fish, and both enjoy the sport
hugely. The dog was struck by the fms
OF large catfish the other evening,
since which time he is little chary of
tack1ing that species.
OKLAHOMA settlers are complaining
that the new land Office is pulling the
ground from under their feet" but the
literal meaning of that phrase is at pres
emit illustrated on the Island of Heligo-
land, where stormy seq recently top
pied over a large cliff, together with its
top stratum of pastures and cottages,
and at the same time revealing the ex-
istence of cleft undermining at least
one third Of the remaining scant area,
which has now been reduced to little
less than one third Of an English square
mile. Year after year the sea encroaches
upon the rocks of the west shore, but
the full extent Of its depredations was
only lately revealed by the discovery OF
an old map, showing not less than
eighteen different villages, with castles,
forts and monasteries, where the water
now covers the submarine rocks to q
depth of half a hundred fathoms. Like
the Island Of St. Helena, the cliffs of
HeEgoland rise abruptly from an ocean
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