Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-01-16
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thril,;rc AL
ventures Which Show that Truth
10 Stranger than Fiction

Il
one womans hunt, which prevails anon .
some OF the aboriginal tribes If Cboto
Nagpore, India. 1t is observed When
ever any calamity falls upon the com
- as, perhaps, visitation
u cnoiera. The women put on mems
clothes, take up arms, and go a-hunting
-rnot IN the jungles, but in the nearest
vinage east OF them. They chase pios
ana fowls, take as their own everything
.ney XII, and levy black mail from the
neaus OF the villages for the purchase of
hquor, OF else they allow themselves to
pe bought OIL for small some of money
ana q Pig. Toward evening the hunt
ing party retire to stream, cook and
eau Their meal, drink their liquor and
tllen return home, having acquitted
themselves during the day in a thor
oughly masculine and boisterous man
ner. Then the village that has been
visited goes on similar excursion to
tne village east of it, and SO on to tbe
eastern border of the district. By this
series of excursions it is supposed that
the evil spirit is safely conducted out of
the district without offending its dignity.
AN Irish woman went into Jeremiah
hellys emlgrant office, in Fall River.
Mass, few weeks ago and asked for a
draft for G2, directing that it be sent to
an address which she left with Mr..
Kelly. The woman said that she had
been servant in well TODD family in
Ireland forty years ago, at the time of a
famine. She gave food to the suffering
poor from the larder of the household
without the knowledge of her mistress.
The fact that she had given away what
did not belong to her preyed upon the
servants mind, aud she resolved to paw
back the vaue OF the goods whenever
she became able. Later, she removed
to this country and began to save what
little money she could spare until she
had $40. This she took to Mr. Kelly
with the request that he should forward
Tito her old mistress, and not to tell her
whence 1t came. In the forty years con
ditlons have greatly changed, and the
mistress was no longer rich. She wrote
that the money was indeed a treasure
to her in her present circumstances, and
she was deeply touched at her old ser
wants honesty.
AT Brunswick, Ga.s James T. Lam
bright's cook had quite all experience
vath hawk. His hawkship had grown
hungry from the mornings fasting, and
suddenly determined to enjoy passing
pigeon, so at him he went. The pigeon
flew for dear life, and recognizing that
man was its best friend, darted into the
Kitchen through an open door and hid
andes a table. The hawk was In hot
pursuit, and as he entered the door he
saw a window beyond, and surprising
his prey had gone that way darted for
the aperture, but, to his horror, found
an invisible pane of glass, through
which his momentum elrried him and
TO the ground beyond, where he lay for
some time. sfWho trow dat brick p
sang oast The cook. Mr.. Lambright
arrived en- the scene just in time to dis
cover that s'dat brick was hawk, and
TO see him disappear alter Recovering
from his encounter With tue window
pane.
The Choyt Sinbun, native paper of
Yokohama, relates the circumstances Of
n deed as revolving as those of human
blood baths sometimes taken as an anti
dote for poison. Recently body was
exhumei from the GENE cry at kami-
yan1as anti the head carried of. While
an Investigation was in progress the
authorities heard that two men named
Fusakichi and Ziutaro had been heard
speaking of Che beneficial effects of
human FISH for certain diseases. On
October 16, the house OF Fusakichi was
entered, when horrible discovery WAS
made. A bath had been made, from
which disagIeeabe smell arose. The
police discovered in this human flesh
bath tooth and portions of the hair of
che head Which had been stolen from
the cemetery by these ghouls.
bedfellows, in India. A first-class pass
enger, by slow passenger train run
ming between Howrah and Assensole,
was disagleeably surprised to find on
waking from sound sleep that some
ching cold had come in contact with his
hand. On looking at the hand. what
was his horror to lind that underneath
it was a cobra. As the snake was asleep,
and had not coiled itself around the
hand, the gentleman sprang up, and
managed to evade its bite. How it got
into the carriage is one of those mys
teries no one can unlavel. 1t may have
effected an entrance while the carriage
was in the siding at Howrah, and quietly
ensconced itself behind the cushions OF
the carriage seat.
Two Hallowell (Me.) sportsmen saw
an interesting family in Maine Stream.
They suddenly found their boat sur
rounded by young muskrats. which were
as playful as kittens, diving and com
mo to the surface again, swimming
Ground the boat and looking up to 1t
with eyes that did not betray the least
susnicion of danger. For some minutes
the men watched the manGuvres, until
two old musklats made theiraprearance.;
The latter came out from the shore and
dove with a splash that seemed to be the
SIGNAL for the younger ones to follow,
which they quickly did.
4 NOVEL contest between birds was
witnessed recently at Fishkill, N. \;
4 small gray eagle had been notlced
ar;ng 70 and from the mountains, and
~ Iris occasion, while the bird was
soaring in lofty majesty over some heids'
s p nos attacked by half dozen crows.
ms n m'l hattie lasted half an hour or more,
AZ crows finally driving the eagle on 70