Iuka reporter., 1890-04-17
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.

Stranger than Fiction
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Globe Dem
scrat from kosciusko. Miss, saws: One OF
the most eccentric men who ever lived ir
the State Of Mississippi is Frank o., OF
This place. He is now 95 years of age,
and his ecceutlicities, always great, have
increased with his years. Seventy year.
ago he was young lawyer and stood
high at the bar as a man Of wonderful
attsinmeuts. He was engaged to be
married 80 a wautiful girl who died q
short time before the wedding was to
have taken place. After the death OF
his aifianced be developed number ei
! peculiarities. He kept up his studies,
but instead of devotins his attention to
the practice Of law. he went into any.
thing and everything by which money
| could be made. His hair and beard were
allowed to grow, his clothes became rag.
| ged, his shoes worn out and tied on b,
means of twine. Soon he refused to buy
clothes and walked the streets with =
blanket wrapped around him in Indian
fashion. He built houts without doors,
the entrance being from underneath,
like that Of turkey pen. Yet with all
his cccentricities and miserly habits be
was respected on account Of his great in.
| tellect, which seemed TO be stiil' unim-
paired. A few years ago he married p
| widow with several grown children, Civ
ing each of the children a farm on his
wedding day, but the marriage did not
effect any change in his mode OF life. He
still occupies his hut, while his wife lives
in another house. Even at his great are
he retains his faculties, and there is no
sharper trader than he in the State, his
wealth being probably greater than that
OF any other man in northern Aiissis-
sippi.
A CERTAIN Young man Of Louisville,
Ky, who is very prominent in social
circles, and whose name is withheld, a.
he Is very sensitive on the subject. has
upon his neck most curious formation.
1t hes just below the band OF his shirt
collar, which he wears high to conceal it,
and is a hump of flesh that is an exact
copy, Of large blackberry. Nothing
could be more faithful representation
OF the fruit, the tiny globules being pres
ent, with even the barely perceptible fila
ments between, and only the color being
lacking. But the most remarkable
feature of this mark is that it is small and
habby all the year until the season when
blackberries ripen, when it swells and
grows firE1er, keeping pace in its enlarge
ment with the ripening of the fruit. This
growth is attended with no pain, but
occasions an intense itching sensation.
He has consulted many of the most emf
nent of physicians both in America and
abroad about it, but all unite in warning
him not to interfere with it. as he suffers
no real inconvenience from it's presence.
An English physician, who has recently
been knighted, told him that he had met
with similar case in lady of rank, who
had upon her facesa large, pendent piece
OF flesh resembling mulberry. She was
anxious to get rid OF it, deeming it de-
formity, but the doctor in question re-
fused to remove it, upon which she ap-
piled to another physician, who cut it
off. But she only survived the opera
ton few days, dying, however, from no
apparent cause. gM
REssLEE y. DAYTON, of Speonk, l.. I.
is Interested in chickens, and recently had
hen setting which, through .perversity
or other cause, did not hatch out the
eggs which were put under her, a. q duti
ful hen should. Believing that the eggs
had been brought far along toward cor
dition when they might he expected TO
hatch, the young man taxed his brain 10
produce something which would take the
place of the hen, and after series of
pynnrir,1 70 ha tr~,....
ordinary tin pan, he put the eggs in it,
and then placed this in another ban con-
tanning water. Then the two, pans, one
inside the other, and covered with an old
quilt, were placed in standard or frame,
which suspended them over a kerosene
lamp, the chimney coming within about
an inch Of the bottom of the pan. The
lamp heated the water in the pan, and
thus the eggs were warmed. A thermo-
meter was placed in the pan with the
eggs, and in this way the heat was regu-
lated until tais primitive hatcher had
done its work, and out Of twelve eggs all
but one had produced chicken.
GEORGE SPARRs, a Young man from
Kittcy Township, Canada, became en-
gagged to the Youngest daughter Of Chas.
Smith, of Whitehurston, after a brief
couitship. The day was set, the clothes
were bought, likewise the ring, when il
suddenly occurred to the trusting couple
that it might be as well to tell the young
lady's old folks. This the lovesick swain
did after the'most approved fashion, but
great was his CONSERVATION and chagrin
when the old man declared that the cere
mony could not take place, at llcast in the
way it had been arranged. He said his
eldest daughter must be wed first, his
second next, and so on 0d scrioti,n, and
that If the young man was anxious to
Join his family circle he could marry his
eldest daughter, but under no considcra-
ton would he allow his Granddaughter to
go while two older remained. The young
man, after some thought, signifed his
Willingness to the. change Of brides, the
bride expcctaut handed over her trousseau
to her elder sister, and in three DAYS the
wedding took place.
A FRENCH millionaire named Ra-
moulding, spending the winter at Nice,
few weeks ago ordered coffin Of
special pattern, and purchased ground in
q cemetery upon which he had vault
built under his personal supervision with
room for three coffins. II want room
enOurh to he uliife at aasa - he a6;1 g., /.