Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-08-29

farmer, and owned two well-stocked
farms In the vicinity of Parsons. He is
80 years of age and wanted a good look
ing young woman between the age of
~ ana 81 years. She must be educated
and know something about housekeep.
ing. The officers of the department
nave mad many inquiries for relics, but
inns Is the first time, they say, that any
pody has asked for living one. The
man preferred woman who had been
rescued from the flood, and said he
would marry her within three months.
FORTY miles above New Orleans is the
old bed OF the Bonnet Care creyasse. Fiji
Teen years ago the Father. of Waters
ourst his bonds and swept through there
10 Lake Pontchartrain. Five wears 400
the State of Louisiana, with the assist
ahce OF the Mississippi Valley Railroad,
rebuilt the Bonnet Care levee, but it
could not restore altogether the condit-
ions prevailing antecedent to the Gre
vase. The river in the ten wears it
passed through the swamp piled up its
SANDS against the big cypress forests
there. It has left behind a buried for
est. The piled up sand has deadened
nearly all the trees, and shingle mill
Is now at work there manufacturing
them into single with all the rapidity
with which that machine works.
PROF: VIRcHow recently expressed a
conviction that mot one of twenty al
legged centenarians are in reality over
ninety years old, there being a strong
disposition in old men, as we'll as in old
women, to understate their age up to
seventy, and overstate it afterward. :"
Still that rule admits of occasional ex-
ception. A white haired old Spaniard.
who died in hospital at Bordeaux the
other day, stated that he was "a hun
dred years old or more" and native of
little village in the French Pryenees.
Official investigation established the fact
that his age was just 11S years and 6
months.
u. A MADRID SPAIN dispatch tells the
story OF old Bocanegra, a bull-fghter,
who was MORALLY wounded while in the
act of casting his red cloak before an
lnfurlated bull to save his own nephew.
The old man had been famous in his
day for his agility and daring in bull
lighting, which is not regarded as par
ticularly brutal sport in Spain. Pressed
by poverty the old man continued his
avocation, though his growing weakness
and failing eyesight exposed him to
many dangers. When told to take care,
because bulls horns were often wont to
give a hard punch, he replied, "Ah.
friend, hunger pinches hardest.
New Bngssx.a2. J. had repro,
duction of ~ story of the bull
in the china shop. James Mensen
was driving on Hiram street, when
his horse ran away and dashed at full
speed into the crockery store of r. M.
Adds. The horse threw himself against
one Of the large windows, which broke
into a thousand pieces, and then break
ing loose from the buggy the animal
rushed into the store and dashed
through to the rear, tossing the fragile
wares in all directions. He ran into the
living apartments, where he was caught.
Considerable damage was done to the
stock.
The sensation of Berlin is just now a
young Cossack giantess. The girl, who
is eleven years old, is nearly three yards
high; she weighs twenty stone, and is
still growing rapidly. She is very pref
by, with large dark eyes and a pleasant
face, and in the national costume of
the Don Cossacks, which consists of q
red skirt, blue jacket, long apron en-
broidered in gold, and necklaces of
many colors, she captures everybody's
heart. But since she is. still chiefly in
terested in her dolls and toys, she can
not be said to return the compliments OF
her admirers.
A SHORT time ago Aaron Smith left
for Swanton, Ohio, to sup
his fathers estate. Shortly af-
ter arriving he became i'll and died a
few days later. A post norton examin-
alton was held. The result of the inves-
tigation was singular. A largo artery
had grown between the heart and lungs,
and the lungs were as hard as stone,
it was supposed by the physic-
ians, from inhaling iron dust at the safe
works where he was employed. In the
heart was an opening of about half an
inch, caused by his severe efforts made
to breathe.
IT is claimed that persons addicted to
the use of alcoholic liquors can be en-
tirely cured by the new French method
of hypnotism. The patient is hypnotic
ed, and then told by the doctor that he
never want to drink again, but
must feel disgust for liquor. This meth
cd of treatment is said to be successful
in every instance. Mrs. Hannah Whit
all Smith writes to Miss Willard that
the cases are wonderful, and have excit-
ed SO much attention that French
now have hospital devoted
to the treatment, and publish review.
A KINGSTON IN. W teacher says she
has pupil who is an anomaly. He is
a boy who studies hard. He can COM
nit his lesson SO that he can repeat il
with the book closed any time during
the day, but if he goes to sleep, when
he awakes he has entirely forgotten all
that he learned. This has occurred
many times, so that the teacher is al
most discouraged in her efforts to in
struct him. There seems to be but one
way to give him an education, and that
is not to allow him to sleep.
STOCKHOLDERS and others interested
in the Monte Carlo gambling rooms are
in a state of unusual glee over the sea-