Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-05-22

on and killed him. Mrs. Smith is rated
ID this community as brave woman.
| IN Zurich, Switzerland, the other dav.
one OF the law courts closed novel case.
beggar who opened the garden gate in
| front OF a house where he intended to ask
1or relief was attacked by the watchdog
and bitten in the left arm Soon after
ward he commenced suit against the
owner OF the place, calling for heavy
damages, on the ground that the wound
he had received rendered him perman-
emily unable to earn his living. The de-
fence was that he could beg Just as well
as ever, and that the injury in question,
Tar from being a disadvantage, only in
creased his chances in his profession.
But the court held that the proprietor of
house is responsible for the security of
the people who come to visit him, even
when the object of his appearance is to
make an appeal to his generosity. So the
beggar won his suit.
RECENTLY in East Java band of con
traband opium dealers, passing through a
Jungle, saw two tigers following them
hard. They lost not moment in hasten.
ing their steps, but the least pimble of
them found the beasts of prey at his
heels, when he spied tiger trap. He
crept into it with the forbidden freight
on his back. The trap shut the closer
for the heavy weight, and when danger
no longer threatened, the fellow thought
ne could lift up the door of the trap, but
all his efforts proved unavailing. Next
day the settlers came to have q
look at the trap and rejoiced to
see it closed, in the hope OF
finding tiger caught. Their Joy know
no bounds when the prize proved to be
smuggler with forty pounds of opium.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Grant Monument Asso.
citation was held recently in New York,
to discuss the proper form of the memoir
lal for Gen. Grant in the event of invit.
ing competition. A resolution was offered
by ex-Mayor Grace that outlined the gen
eral idea of the proposed memorial at
Riverside Park. 1t proposed structure
OF such altitude and capacity as to pre-.
sent an attractive elevation and afford
ample room within it, not only for sepul-
chre for Gen. Grant and his widow, but
also for a memorial hall. The resolution
was adopted.
AT the Vienna General Hospital the
medical officers have been watching
curlousscase. The patient is man OF
about fifty four years of age, who was a
NAVY up till last year, when he hurt the
forefnger of his left hand. The finger had
to be amputated. Since then the left
hand has always been in motion, and now
the nervous affection has spread over the
whole body and the patient is obliged
always to turn to the left side. When
lying in bed he gives sudden Jumps into
the air like a fish when lying on dry
ground. A similar case attracted recently
the attention of medical men at Paris.
A STRANGE battle is reported to have
taken place in Toxic, Japan. A stream
runs through the compound of Tobukuji
Temple at Sugamo, and a few days ago
some hundreds of bullfrogs gathered on
either bank Then a terrific battle en-
sued, lasting from a. m. to A p. m, and
it is stated that when the combat was
finished the brook was blocked to such
an extent with the bodies of the slain
that the course of the water was almost
totally impeded. Large numbers of peo-
pie visited the place to witness the
strange spectacle.
WHILE Mrs. Belle Morty, of Blakes
Mills, Ohio, was in the garden gathering
flowers late this last fall, rose-bug flew
into her ear, and she has not vet been
able to dislodge the little insect. She
suffers constantly the most excruciating
pain and annoyance, and from the con.
tinued buzzing and moving about feel
ing she imagines that the bug is still
alive. A surgical operation failed to
bring any relief, and the woman contin.
ues to suffer the most intense pain.
A DEVOTED couple, husband and wife,
committed suicide recently at st.
Etienne, in France, because the husband
was attacked with fatal malady. They
took the usual suicidal precautions to stop
up all the chinks and crevices before
starting up the carbonic gas, but only the
husband got sufficient dose to take him
off, and his wife was resuscitated. On
recovering herself fully she remarked
that she felt as though she had just walked
up from deep and long sleep.
THE HUI Pao, Japanese paper, says a
gigantic fish was seen one day lately at
Snaoki Slang, floating there not far from
the beach. A bold boatman went of
with line, leaped on its head and made
the line fast, and the fish, not moving
while the end was taken ashore, the peo-
pie on shore began to haul on the rope,
thinking it was dead The fish, how
ever, suddenly cavorted round, and the
boatman was washed off and drowned.
The fish was hauled ashore.
THERE is a dog in st. Louis that is
regular funeral goer. While driving out
the road to the cemetery with funeral
he was seen to get up and trot along
beside the hearsc. No more was thought
of him until the grave was reached, and
there the big brindle was seen hanging
on the outskirts of the crowd, just as
much interested as anyone. From that
time on he has been regular mourner,
and he goes to every funeral that takes
place.
JOHN darcy, farm hand employed
by +. w. Stout, near New Brunswick,