Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-12-11

chat of a man Of Chillicothe, Ohio. Al
ne was STOPPING to pick up some kind
iing-wood game rooster GATED him II
the wrist, cutting an artery, which
disabled him for some time.
/ AT a recent meeting Of the Geological
Society the photograph Of peculiar
form OF birds nest was exhibited by
Professor Flower. The nest was that Of
q hornbill from South Africa, which bird
lays its eggs in hole in a tree trunk.
| After the female bird has begun to sit
her companion walls her in by filing up
the aperture in the tree with clay, leav-
ing asmall opening, through which he
passes to her daily supply Of food.
In an outlying suburb of the Austrian
capital, there was recently Z gathering
of married couples for the pnrposs 81
seeing who would dispose Of the gr6ote1i
quantity of plum tart within stated
period. No fewer than 4, $50 plum tarts
had been made and baked for this inter
estlng experiment, the prize for the
male competitors being pipe Of consid-
cradle value, and for the women an ex-
pensive purse, inlaid with gold.
amusing complaint has come before
an English local board. A chimney
sweeper complained that people in The
town deprived him OF living BIZ Sweep
ing their own chimneys. Their method
was to get up early and set fire to their
chimneys. AS complainant paid a
license, he considered the board ought
not to allow this kind of thing to con-
tinue. The board promised to consider
the complaint
a WOMAN was at the depot at Decatur,
Ill, the other day who was on her way
to Nebraska. She had seventeen chill
dren with her. She had been married
only ten years. The first three years she
had triplets. Then she had twins for
two years. After that they came singly,
but regularly, for four years
The death of Register Poydras, col
ored man, 103 years old, formerly the
slave of Julian Poydras, took place near
Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish,
La, last week. He was a grown man
when Jackson won the battle of New Or
leans, and "often related tales of LATTE
and the old pirates of the gulf" 1t is
refreshing to chronicle new feature
about the oldest inhabitant.
AT the sale of Lord Tollemache's fur
niture in St. James's square, among other
lots put up was mahogany bedstead at
five shillings. No further offering was
apparently forthcoming, until it tran
spired that Mr.. Gladstone had slept in it
for over seven months, when it became
an object of the most spirited compe,
tition and was sold for large sum.
AT the public land sale at the State
House in Augusta, Me-, not single
person appeared to bid. BY telegraph
and letter, however, five bids were re-
ceived and twenty lots were sold. This
absence of bidders in person rendered the
sale the most novel in the annals of the
State.
In Habersham Park, Ca, is curious
grapevine. About five feet from the
ground, from a large live oak, there pro-
trudes grapevine about an inch in di-
ameter. The tree is perfectly solid, and
no roots to the grapevine can be seen.
THE oldest man in the world is prob
ably Osman of Cavallovit, Turkey He
has lived 100 years, and has documents
to prove it. He is an Arabian widower,
and is supported by small pension from
the Sultan.
THFRe is fiourishing japanese club
in New York, of which nearly every ma
tive of Japan in the city is member.
The president is the present vice consul,
Teijiro Kito, who is so years old and
married.
The building into which no woman
has entered, so it is said, for 1, 400 years,
is the Monastery of St. Honorat, near
Gaines, France. 1t is built upon the ISL
and of that name.
THE new baby hippopotamus, born in
the Central Park, New York City, has a
mouth seventeen inches wide.