Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-11-06
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

LII
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
lures Which Show that Truth il
Stranger than Fiction.
IT is expected that the number o.
bodies created in Milan will soon aver
age one day, as nearly two thousand
bodies have been cremated there during
the last thirteen years.
A CLARION Qll.) man has unearthed ,
cabbage that weighed eighteen pounds,
measured three feet six id circumference
and one foot two inches in diameter. |,
is OF the flat Dutch variety.
A New HAVEN gentleman has a couple
OF tame wasps. They have built nest
in his parlor and live undistnrbed and
understanding, This is the third season
the insects have occupied the same quar-
tiers.
On the occasion of the recent fete at
the country seat of wealthy woman all
the cows on the estate wore necklaces of
wide, yellow satin ribbon and had their
horns tied with narrower ribbon of the
same color.
AN ordinance in Sterling, Conn, ex-
empts blind persons from taxation Far
mer Barbour claims exemption under the
law, and proved to the satisfaction of an
intelligent Judge and jury that, though
he could NOV, hoe and load hay on q
cart, he was stone blind.
JACQUES PINOT, drum major in the
army of the first Napoleon, died recently
In the French town Of La Suze at the age
OF lOl. He was in nearly all the battles
OF the great Emperor, and was wounded
thlrty-two times. Though mere piece
OF surgical patchwork, he was always in
good humor and good health.
THERE are certainly few 'cyclers any,
where older than Bewicke Blackburn. of
Calverley Park, England. In commit
nication to the Pail Mall Gazette he gives
his age as 70, adding: 81 have been rid
ing tricycle. daily for many years, win
ter and summer, wet or dry, being advised
that 1t would stave off govt, which it has
done"
A sHREwD New Highlander has invent
ed an apparatus for timing horses. A
clock with three hands-minutes, sec
onds and quarter seconds-is started by
the official timer. When the winning
horse touches the wire the clock is
stopped by electricity. The same instant
the current opens a camera, which pho
tographs the horse on the clock face.
CHARLES RECTOR, of Parboro, Nova
Scotia, has four uncles living who are all
In good health and are of the following
ages; Robert Rector, 90 years; George
Rector, 81 years; Thomas Rector, So
years; Reuben Rector, 81 years. He has
three aunts, two of whom are twins, AGED
% years, the other, Mrs. Minard. beino
81 years, and his mother, who is still
living, is 9S years, making total of 1888
years for eight persons.
A ooLoRED chiropodist, who calls him
self Professor E. James, and boastinclv
proclaims that he ''has removed corns
and bunlons from the crowned heads of
Europe" now ventures into the realms
OF prophecy. In the last few weeks he
has been reading the language of the
stars, and boldly asserts that the heaven
iy bodies unerringly proclaim that this
world is to be knocked into smithcreens
on the 21st of August, 1891.
THERE is in South Hampton, N. H. n
peculiar old genius, who goes to the TOP
OF the Bald Head Mountain every clear
night and gazes up at the sky until he
sees very bright star He looks at it
awhile and then returns to his home. He
believes this star to be an electric lioht
suspended from a balloon over the CITY
OF New York, so that vessels on the sea
can steer toward it, In everything but
this the man is perfectly rational and an
intellectual talker.
J. PRICE, of Savannah, Ga, has curl
osity in the shape of young mockine
bird entirely white. Price purchased
the bird from negro trapper on the
Waters road, who brought it into town
the other day. From the appearance of
the birds bill it cannot be oversix weeks
old. There is no doubt of the bird
being hooking bird, as it has all the
marks OF the species except the color.
and has the peculiar chirp of the Young
hooking bird. A white hooking bird
is great rarity.
The figure seems to have PLAYED an
important part in the career of Prince
Bismarck. An exchange saws: "He has
three children, Herbert, Wilhelm and
Marie. He owns three estates. Fried
rlchsruhe, Varzin and Schoenhausen. He
was in three wars. He signed three
treaties of peace. He brought about the
meeting of the three Empcrors. He
made the triple alliance. He con-
tended against three political parties, the
Conservatives, the National Liberals and
the Ultramontanes. He served under
three Emperors
AT farm in the district of Forest
Hall, Penn, one of brood of chickens
was famed. Unable to follow the hen in
search of food, it was soon half starved
The chick was recently missed, and next
day was found lying with three kittens,
The mother of which gave the fiedgelinr
every attention. Every day the cat has
carried the bird in its mouth into the
farm- yard, where it has obtained food.
md as regularly conveyed it in the same
manner back to lie with the kittens.
Through the care of puss the injured
limb is growing stronger and the chicken
s thriving. The conduct of the cat has
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