Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-12-17

Two HUNDRED THOUSAND oil holes
in the world.
ELECTION booths are to be made in
Toledo, Ohio.
SHIRTS made for ten cents each in
San Francisco.
CoNNECTcUT's. tobacco crop i:
worth $50, 000,0 900,
J A S75O,0OO tunnel is to be con.
| structed at Leadyille.
THE Labor party polls 6s, 600 votes
in New South Wales.
IRON is to be made at Chattanooga
by an electrical process.
OVER 1000 compositors are out OF
employment in London.
NEBRASKA is to send an exhibition
car through the country.
BUFFALO has forty-eight public
schools and 1856 churches.
KANSAS Cry is to be entirely
lighted by 500, 600 plant.
A NEW railroad is to be built be-
tween Chicago and Omaha.
OVER 1900 men at work on the
Chicago Worlds Fair Park.
LOG cutters on the west branch of
the Susquehanna are organizing.
WILLIAMSBURG, PA, VIII saw
270, 900, 900 feetspf logs this year,
AMERICAN Car Company, capital
500, 900, is to start at st. Louis.
MANSION House str eet, London, is
traversed by %, 900 vehicles daily.
ENGLISH syndicate took SO, 900, 900
in stock in South Dakota tin mine.
CAICAGo is to have $500, 900 rail
road station built by the Illinois Cen
trail.
A SYNDICATE has offered to buy the
Washington monument for shot
tower.
THE Standard Oil Company's coon
erage shops at East St. Louis employ
$50 men.
CITIZENS of Charlottesville, Ind.
subscribed $3.50, 900 to pipe gas from
Sheridan.
THE Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators has 246 unions and 16, 3s4
members.
A VINEGAR vat as been constructed
in Tuckerton, Pa, which WIN hold
1000 barrels.
LAKE ERIE produces more; fish
the square mile than any
water in the world -, 10y tons of
Two HuNRE This season from
I s;ssSl [Mch in Washington.
TIE Tennessee Legislature has
passed bill to prohibit payments to
workmen in store orders or scrip.
A FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND dollar
sale OF whisky recently took place at
Lexington, KY, the largest Un'record.
The man who happens to dig a
cellar in Helena, Mont, is apt to
strike enough gold to build house
over it,
IN Corea sheets of paper pass for
money One sheet brings one quart
Of rice, or twenty sheets piece of
hemp cloth.
METEORs Of various sizes reach the
earth in many places. The largest
known is that which fell on the
plains of Incuman in South America,
which weighed about fifteen tons. A
recent calculation shows that the in
crease OF the earth's weight annu-
ally from meteoric cources is about
80, 900 tons.
BEssEMER, Ala, is to be found only
on the newest maps. In 1888 the SPOT
which the town of 40, 900 inhabitants
now marks was overrun by prini-
tive forest The accidental discovery
OF all the materials-eoal ore and
llme-necessary to the establishments
ola great iron producing and manu-
featuring center, led to this sudden
thrush OF population. To-day the town
counts over 900 coke ovens and num-
erous mighty rolling mills, which are
IN full swing day and night.
| AMERICAN navel officers are men of
many clothes, and the official eti-
quette OF dress aboard ship is apnalinp
to a landsman. Every officer n,St
have four or five styles of hats and
caps, atleast as many different kinds
OF coats, and even prescribed STYLES of
neckties IN considerable variety. The
captain ordinarily prescribes the mi
FORM OF the day, but when flaoshin;s
IN signaling distance Of another man
oi-war the admiral is the authority IN
ciotnes as on other things.
PRESIDENT ANDREW LAprNp o. ~
new York Society OF Marble Cntters
Ieearos convict labor as a positivo
curse His views are as follows ~
look upon convict labor as ahont ~