Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-07-03
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.


Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
A wELL-To-Do and eccentric bachelor
named Micalowski died in Warsaw in the
spring Of 1883. He left his will in O
sealed envelope bearing the direction in
MS handwriting that it should not be
opened until one year from the date OF
his death. The Micalowski family. after
considerable consultation with lawyers
and friends, resolved to obey the instruc-
lions. On the first anniversary of the
bachelors death they gathered at his
mousse, and watched lawyer open the
envelope. 1t contained another envelope
exactly like the first, even to the last
word Of the dead Micalowski's singular
injunction on the outside Another wear
passed and the relations again assembled,
and the second envelope was opened with
the same result. In 1886, 1887, 1888 and
1889 tho relations and the lawyer repeated
the anniversary scene without single
variation. Recently they assembled for
the seventh time. The envelope was
opened, and the long desired will was re-
vealed. Itgave but $15, 900 to the anx-
ious relations; $4,000 was left to the
children of the dead Micalowski's old
nurse, $40, 900 to the executor of the will,
and $50, 900 it stipulated must lie in a
Warsaw bank accommodating compound
interest till 1910, when it must be given
To f0a MIaa1nuyclyi bA chn,,l1 hox I,a.1
the largest number of children. As the
will is perfectly executed legal instru-
ment, and the testator had all his wits
about him up to his last moments, his dis
contented relations have decided to let it
go uncontested.
AT the last meeting Of the Scottish
Antiquarian Society in Edinburgh Rev.
DR.. Stewart of Neither Lochaber read a
paper on fire superstitions, in which he
mentioned that correspondent, while in
aremote glen in Wigtownshire last March,
saw slight smoke rising from a hollow
On proceeding to bank above he saw
five women passing a sick child through
fire. Two of the women standing OPP
posite each other held blazing hoop YER
tically between them, and two others
standing on either side of the hoop were
engaged in passing the child backward
and forward through the opening of the
hoop. The fifth woman, who was the
mother of the child, stood at a little dis
lance earnestly looking on. After the
child had been eighteen times passed and
repassed through the fiery circle it was
returned to its mother and the burning
hoop was thrown into pool of water
close by. The child, which was about
18 months old, was weakling, and was
supposed to have come under the baleful
influence of an evil eye. The hoop had
been twisted round with straw rope, in
which few drops of oil were scattered
to make it burn all round at the same
time. The child was passed through the
hoop once for each month of its age.
When the child was taken home bunch
OF bog myrtle was suspended over its
bed.
AN act of heroism, performed while
the hero was in imminent peril of his life,
occasioned general talk at Pittston,
Penn. The little four ear-old child of
Walter G.. Custer, of Dorrancetown, wan
dered from home while wheeling wheel
barrow loaded with toys and got beyond
the Bennett Station and upon the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
tracks, The little fellow was innocently
amusing himself there when the 6: 10
passenger train, one of the speediest
trains ON the Bloomsbury branch, hove
in sight around curve. The engineer
sighted the child, reversed the engine,
but soon saw that the train was going too
fast to save the child unless heroic meas
ures were adopted. Leaving the throttle,
he rushed out to the pilot, stopped far
out in front of the flying engine, and
waited with outstretched arms until the
child was reached, when the engineer
caught him and threw him off the track.
As he did so the wheelbarrow was splin-
tered into a thousand pieces by the
drivers and the toys scattered on all sides
by the pilot bars. Before the parents
could learn of their child's escape the
train had sped on.
THERE is an old cat in Cobbham, a sub
orb of Athens, Ga, that lately called
forth much interest from its owners by its
mysterious behavior Since the late de-
structive cyclone at Louisville and other
Western cities, carrying in its mouth
death and destruction, this Cobbham cat
has grown quite curiosity in the feline
tribe. Every time it thunders and dark
clouds roll over the canopy of heaven in
manner that threatens a storm, the cat
begins to tremble piteously, and screams
in the most weird and frightful accents
of its tale of woe When the hghtnings
fash from cloud to cloud the cats agony
seems to know no limit, and it rolls over
and over, yelling in the widest way pos
slblc. Even at the dead hour of night
this mysterious cat will rush frantically
into the room Of its mistress when clouds
appear, and will scream in such terror
that the lady oftentimes has to arise and
nurse it in its fright. The cat is large
black animal, and has one eye, the other
having suddenly disappeared recently.
The cat is the property of one of the lead
ing families of Cobbham.
"A RELATED snipe was standing in the
mud on the bank of the Passaic River,
opposite Belleville, NJ j., looking fol-
small fish. A kingfsher, fifty yards away
On the Dough Of tree, was similarly en-
gagged. Both birds saw sunfish in the
shallow water at the same moment. and