Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-10-16
turhed by the crash OF heavy monkey
coming precipitately down to the ground

turted by the crash OF a heavy monke
coming precipitately down to the groun
to die"
The preparation of the Kombe poiso
is one of the important industries of Cen
trail Africa. The poison is contained in tn
seed of Strophanthus Kombe, strong
climbing plant which is always found il
the vicinity of high trees, on which i
supports itself The native method o.
/ preparing the poison Is very simple Tn,
seeds are first cleaned of their hairy an
pendages, and then pounded in mortal
until they are reduced to pulp; little
water is then added and gummy sub
stance obtained from the bark of tree
which helps to keep the poison on the
arrow. Game wounded by arrows thus
poisoned die quickly. The flesh is said
to be eaten without any injurious effects.
The seeds form an article of export.
A QUEER sect of religlonists has been
discovered at Jacksonville, Ind. 1t re-
fuses to employ a minister or to adopt a
name. Baptisms and the Lords supper
and rite of marriage are administered by
any member. They take the Bible as
their sole guide and enforce assistance in
illness or need Meetings are held on
the Lord's-day twice a month at private
houses, the sect refusing to build churches.
At the meeting all take part and all are
fed comfortably at love feast. The
members here are all Germans. The
leader, Rev. John George Weber, for
mcrly of the united brethren, states that
small membership exists throughout
the Union and Germany.
A CHICAGO shoe salesman SAYS. GA
majority Of people who buy shoes in this
house leave their old ones. / presume
this Is true of other shoe houses. | have
noticed that the sole of the right shoe
mean the old shoes worn down very
thin on that point where the ball of the
foot rests. / have seen so many such
that l got to thinking about it and have
come to this conclusion: Nearly every
body gets off his or her car on the right
hand side of the car, and in alighting
the right foot Is first 30 strike the stone
paving, or whatever the paving may be,
and 1t strikes on the ball of the foot.
This in time wears down the sole of the
right shoe at that point.n
HERE's an odd thing told about the
meat supply Of Denver, Col In winter
time, owing to the scarcity of corn and
hay on which to g stall feed cattle, the
best beef in Denver is brought from
Chicago. It may have been raised on the
plains about the city, sent to Chicago to
be fed, fattened, killed and returned in
refrigerator cars, or it may be Kansas or
Nebraska beef, but owing to the peculiar
facilities Tor treating and handling cattle
at the great cattle center. it is recognized
as being infinitely better than any local
supply. The cattle growers often threaten
to change this order of things, but they
haven't done it up to date.
A STRANGE and, from a scientific point
of view, an interesting discovery has been
made at Hermannstadt, in Hungary. The
bodies of several Honveds, proved to
have fought in 184S. were found in dis
used salt mine. How the soldiers got
there is a mystery. The salt had so
thoroughly penetrated the bodies that
they were as well preserved as if they had
been kept in spirits. In consequence of
this discovery experiments will be made
in the medical schools of Vienna, Buda
Pest and Berlin for testing the value of a
concentrated solution of salt in preserva-
ton of corpses.
THERE Is queer kind of angling going
on in New York City. 1t Is in the city
streets. On streets which are over big
sewers boys often let hook and line
down the opening in the sewer cover
into the sewer The upper end of the
line is fastened to long stick, which is
placed at some distance from the hole.
Trucks and wagons drive over the place
and the boy on the curb watches the
stick. When it darts toward the hole
the boy runs and clutches the stick and
hauls up an eel. Eels abound in sewers.
THE so called Georgetown s'Ioop. says
a Colorado letter, is a m irvel of engineer
ing skill. The railroad, In seeking pas
sage up the mountains, passes around
and around the valley, over its way once
by bridge, and finally finds itself upward
by the most precipitous grades known to
this region. In order to cover distance
of one and thrce-cighths miles, cas- the
crow flies" the circuitous road measures
three and one-half miles of track. This
is fair example of what engineering
genius has accomplished in this region.
ARANcHMAN living on the Satsop, Col,
missed three head of cattle, and noticing
a congregation Of buzzards short dis
lance away proceeded to make an in
vestigation, and found all three of the
animals lying dead, their bones all broken,
their horns Knocked off, scarcely any hair
left on them and the ground around them
all torn up with elk tracks. Apparently
a band OF elk had come up and attacked
them in an opening, and hooked and
butted them down and paved and
them to death.
'sWHILE In Mexico on my last trip, !"
says o correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, chad my breath taken
away when l saw what / think is the
most magniicently constructed railroad
in the world. refer to the Mexican
Gulf Road, where ties are made out of
the finest mahogany and bridges built Of
marble. The waste seems criminal, but
the builders are actuated by motives of
economy, as they find the mahogany and
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