Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-05-15

~ Pacific recently by one OF
the biggest tobacco dealers
In New York. "Come into the cigar
store, he went on, sand YOU will notice
that two out Of three men will cough
X while lighting cigars" The first person
who set fire to cigar coughed quite vio-
lently Didn't tell you2 . exclaimed
the lecturer. 1.-TWO out of three will do
that. IN It's caused by the smoke !,
A Never. When you are about to smoke
cut OIL the mouth end of the cigar put
the smoke end in the mouth and then
# blow. This expels all the fine particles
OF tobacco and dust inside the cigar.
When you have done this reverse the
torch, and you won't cough when light
ing it. Those little bits Of tobacco get
down your throat and are injurious
# More people have been injured by swal-
~ ## lowing those little specks than you have
~ & any idea Of yet they think they were
H nurt by inhaing the smoke"
N4 DR.. RANKIN, at Muncy, Penn, uses
hypnotism in his professional work 1t
Is good substitute for chloroform or
ether in performing surgical operations
and DR.. Rankin resorts to his power Of
hypnotism quite frequently. TO put
subject under his control is but the work
OF minute, and even less in some cases.
lie lays his hand upon the temporal veins
OF his subject speaks few words to get
the patients mind running in the same
channel as his own, and in
remarkably short time the pa
tlent is in state similar to
#f that produced by chlorofOrm, except
when hypnotized the subject can under
stand the words of the physician and
will answer him if question is put.
&XE The process of hypnotism says DR.. Ran
kin, puts to sleep all the voluntary
muscles with that part of the brain which
directs them, leaving the body in the
control Of the involuntary muscles Just
as it is in natural sleep. The breathing
and heart-beats go on, but no thnkingis
= done of voluntary nature DR. Rankin
uuRas one patient whom he has been at
IL uh0sc arm Vas snnsted Tie
~ cculd " pnotized and the ~ Sician
Fk2' just a brk with the dislocated member
ga issers chloroform had been admin
2poI He says that the process is based
purest scientific principles and
learned by almost anybody, and
by person, except a confirmed
can be successfully hypnotized
RMER JAMES FITZPATRICK, of Wy
M 1ng County, Penn, had exciting
dventure with giant eagle not long
ago. His attention attracted to his
pgsty by the noise of some unusual dis
turbance. Thinking that perhaps bear
L. or catamount, which animals quite
A numerous in the wilds of Wyoming
NY County, had attacked his pigs, he hastily
6s3 ss 2ized his shotgun and started to investi-
2s4e Instead of bear wildcat he
NJ big eagle lowering the pen.
balancing itself upon its out
wings, attempting to make off
he of the pigs, which it had seized
talons. Taking aim, Fitzpatrick
at the eagle The shots took effect
zdropping the squeaing porker the
|. !. .
"a, after circling away few yards
= - dropped to the ground. The farmer en-
dcavored to pick up his prize when sud-
denly it showed signs of fife and attacked
" him fiercely Though Fitzpatrick backed
of, the eagle followed him and severely
wounded him on the with its beak
49, The man brought the butt of his gun into
= MAY and soon dubbed the fight out of
the big bird. After it subdued it
"a s found to measure feet 9 inches IRON
II wing tip to wing tip.
FN HUMpBAcK whale seventy feet long,
followed a St. John, N. b., coasting
81 Ell sE3 schooner from o'clock on recent
Tuesday morning till the same hour on
~ wednesday, so closely that it bumped its
~ nose occasionally against the schooners
stern. The sailors were so frightened
W#s< that they didn't have wink OF sleep all
W the time and the skipper, thinking to
en- rid them of the unwelcome escort took
IN out 82-calibre revolver and shot at the
I'D monster The cetacean took further
~ notice of the shot, which hit him on the
head than to lash the water with his tail
III -. into waves high enough almost to swamp
the schooner The skipper dropped that
n line Of treatment, and let the brute fol-
$500 L k low peaceably in the wake of the vessel
ez 80 t1nNl she neared the harbor of Musquash,
H. Id whittier she was bound, when the whale
II ISL IL NJ go,lietly dropped astern and more
sss: ~ SEEN The adventure created fearful
VIII *ss3 panic among the small fishing luggers
& ss6 S and other diminutive craft plying in the
@ neirhborhood of the Bay Of Fundy as
they looked forward with dread to a visit
A2 from the ANIMAL and to possible
|s-~1 49, cspsize from playful stroke Of his tail.
q CATHERINE REED an old widow, who
z lived with her at Seacombe, England
|& passed an evening in public house
drinking and leaving alta late hour to
gohome, did not reach there The next
E day her son identified as hers body that
was washed up on the shore near the
%E n town. The coroners jury rendered a
|. ~ verdict that the old had fallen
into the water while on her way home in
\toxicated, and her son collected without
AM trouble policy she had upon her life. A
| iM \eek or two ago he receiveda letter from
N woman in the Liverpool workhouse
|sA nix be his mother, and asking