Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-10-23
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.

Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth is
Stranger than Fiction.
MISS SAUNDERS, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, is young lady of 81 years of
age. She resides on Central avenue, be-
tween Fourth aud Fifth. When she was
little girl years of age, while playing
with some children, she swallowed
piece of window glass about half an inch
long. 1t occasioned Miss Saunders no
annoyance until week ago, when her
night foot gave her considerable pain at
the instep, between the foot proper and
the ankle. Aswelling followed, and the
pain grew more intense. Dr. Maley was
called, and at once decided that there
was foreign body of some sort in one of
the large veins. Making an 'incision
about an inch and half long and half
an inch deep, he picked out with his
forceps the identical piece of glass swal-
lowed when Miss Saunders was a girl.
The glass must have entered the stomach,
passed through the large intestines, and
worked through some of the smaller
ones out into vein, and then, gradually
working downward, after Ia years Of
travel at last makes its exit.
A GOOD story is told on Judge II. g.
6truve, one of the prominent citizens of
Seattle. While the great fire was raging.
he rushed up into his office to save some
OF his most valuable books. 1t is well
known that he had accumulated vast
amount of material which he purposed
working up into history of Washing
ton. This material and some of his
books were very precious to him. So as
the hire came sweeping down towards his
office he rushed upstairs and began to Sc
lect the books most valuable. "Ah,
this one will save. No, guess this one
is more valuable" Thus he hesitated,
and among his many books, all of which
were dear to him, he was unable to de-
eide which ones to save. Just then the
cries of firemen were raised, and the
Judge was urged to come down and save
his life. Being thoroughly alarmed and
still undecided he turned and grabbed
the first book in reach and rushed out of
the building. Reaching the pavement
he found he had saved-the city direc-
tory.
The ladies who propose to establish a
home for vagabond cats on the banks of
the Harlem river may find some hints for
the post-mortem culture of the deceased
Thomas and Maria of their happy family
through an examination of the mummied
cats in the Museum of Art in Central
Park, says the New York Sun. There
are two of these mummies, each carefully
swathed in linen, presenting as to their
heads all the characteristics of the cat,
but rather human than otherwise as to
their bodies. The specimens of mummied
ibis, in their folds of herring bone and
Grecian patterns, might be bodies of
babes in the woods by their external APP
pearance, but the cat is unmistakable.
The two feline mummies are from Bu-
bastis, the sacred city of the cat-hcaded
goddess, Bast, and this suggests the pro-
priety of borrowing the ancient name to
designate the new sanctuary for stray
cats which is to make music for sleepless
Harlemites.
| MADE some passing remarks the
other day on the kola nut and other
vegetables of magic, says writer in the
London Times. But, if possible, even
more desirable and delightful is this
'laughing plant" Not that the veget-
able itself laughs 1T does not even
smile-but its seeds, If eaten, incite to
immoderate mirthfulness. 1t is de-
scribed as bearing flowers of bright
yellow, and soft and woolly seed-pods,
in which are inclosed small, black beans.
The natives Of 'sthat part of Arabia in
which the plant grow dry and pulver-
ize these beans, and if this powder is adj
ministered "it makes the soberest person
behave like circus clown, for he will
laugh, dance, sing and cut the most fan
tastic capers. The effect lasts about an
hour at the end of which the patient
RECEIVERS his normal gravity, and is alto
gether oblivious of his extraordinary
conduct when under the influence of the
powder"
FROM Clignancourt, Paris, the famous
ward which returned General Boulanger,
there was reported the other day a ter,
rlble case of cruelty to a boy of twelve.
The parents of the child it is said, hac
4 shnt him up in a wardrobe for two year.
and q half and had starved him. The DO
lice, on going to the house, found the
& boy, who looked like living skeleton
The. parents were Immediately arrested
and were hooted vigorously by larg
crowd as they were being conveyed t,
the station. The Inflated child died OF
its way to the hospital. The parents ar
we'll of, and no explanation Of their in
human conduct has been forthcoming
The mother Of the boy was sent back t
her dwelling, where she tried to jun,
out Of q window during the day, but wa
prevented from carrying out her suicida
Intention.
A RAT got caught by the leg in
store and squealed loudly for mercy, say
Maine exchange. The proprietor o
the store watched the rat, which con
tinued to squeal. Finally another ra
crept cautiously out and walked up t,
bis unfortunate companion and evident
" took the Situation in, for they seemed
70 talk with each other and arrived a
the conclusion that the captured rat
chances were desperate, for the secont
one began to gnaw the unfortunate rat
leg %, allowing it to escape, which i
did, on three legs, the other LEI
YAM Z, n IN Tho tran II almost enov,, a.