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

On his arrival at Bachmut the broke,
VISITED every house of interest to him in
his special line, and was kindly received
everywhere. There are already many
happy brides and grooms in the city tc
whom ne points with pride as his Gus
toners. Bachmut is especially favorable
Tor operations of this nature, it is said, as
It contains many girls of good looks and
fair fortune.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcToR during his
visit to the Maharajah of Jeypore, was
entertained by q performance, some of
the features of which are thus described
1.-THE two elephants, on entering the
open space, chased away, it is said, the
thirty or forty spearmen who melted them
to the combat, and thereupon they
charged each other After fighting with
equal success for some time, they were
separated with charges of gunpowder
smoke directed toward them. The royal
party then went to another open court,
where the fights were carried on in sue
cession between pairs of quail, partridges,
cocks, black bucks, hogs, deer, rams.
sambhur, bears and buffaloes. The ami
mails were all in excellent condition and
fought with great fury, especially the
rams, sambhur and boars.n
Rev. STEPHEN CoLYER, of Mount Yer
non, Tenn, had dream several weeks
ago, in which he saw two men commit
murder near his home He was so i'm
pressed with the vision that he related it
to his family and friends. A few days
after the reverend gentleman was visit
ing in the neighboring county of Laurel.
In taking walk he approached a hill
which seemed familiar. On reaching the
brow he was Mortified to find the body of
a dead man, whom he at once recognized
as the one seen in his dream. The man
was tall, with gray mustache and hair,
and well dressed. Not a paper was
found about his clothing. Five dollars
in money was all he had in his pockets.
There was no clue as to his identity. The
scene where the corpse was found is the
one seen in the preachers dream.
THE village of Data, on the Island of
Lesbos, can boast of an old lady who
is thirty one years older than "the oldest
inhabitant of Austria" She is devout
daughter of Islam, and has the complete
use of all her senses. The Island of
Sappho must be favorable to longevity,
for it contains three other inhabitants
who have passed considerably beyond
the hundredth year. A certain Ishmael
Apa is 1870 years old. Khalil Apa is in
his one hundred and nineteenth year,
and Aschik Bahia has Just reached his
one hundred and fifteenth year. What
Is most remarkable in these three male
according to the cores
pondent of Berlin paper, is that they
are all obliged to work to earn their daily
bread.
A FEW days ago, says the London
Tid-Bits, by some unknown means a
young rat managed to get to the bottom
of barrel of oysters which was standing
in the shop of an oyster merchant. Not
being able to force its way out in an up
ward direction the rodent turned its at
tention to the sides and managed to
gnaw hole big enough to obtain free
forced itself through the passage its tail
rested on an open oyster, which immed-
lately closed on the prize. The rat was
thus left dangling on the side of the bar
rel, unable to return or escape, and was
discovered and killed by the owner of
the shop.
A MAN died in Baltimore, Nd, recent
", who had had the unusual experience
of having been buried alive for three days.
His name was Josiah w. Johns, and
at the time he was engaged with other
laborers in working an iron ore bank
in Baltimore County. The bank caved
in, burying the men. two of whom were
dug out within few hours. After three
days Johns was missed and search was
made for him. He was finally dug out,
and, strange to say, life was not extinct.
As result of his burial he contracted a
cold, which in course of time developed
into consumption, which finally caused
his death.
A QUEER old recluse died suddenly in
indianapolis. For fifteen years he lived
all alone in nice house which he had
built for himself Being afflicted with
asthma, he called in neighbor to adj
minister medicine to him, and in this
neighbours presence he shot and killed
himself. The strange part of it all is
that this loveless, lonely man, who had
for so many years Stunned the society of
his fellows, and the walls of whose house
had never echoed to the music Of baby IS
squeal or prattlc, left $35, 900 to an or
phans' home!
WHILE the bread was being issued the
other day to the inmates of a large and
well-known institution in Glasgow,
Scotland, it was discovered that one of
the loaves was little more than crust, an
ingenious mouse having nibbled out the
interior, and lined it with the soft, oozy
tibres from sacks near by. In this snug
nest lay five "blind MICE" which, but
for this timely notice, might have con
stituted part of the dinner of some
hungry soul in the building.
A New ZEALAND paper says: ssThc re
cent races at Head Of the Bay, Akaroa
terminated in a somewhat surprising
manner. The course lay across the sands
of the bay, and through some delay thu
race was not run until the tide was wei
in, with the result that the horses had tt
swim some distance in the sea before tn,
winning post was reached. Mr.. j. Dun
cans Spot, although not the best racer
managed to win by superior natatoria
powers"
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