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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

summer the good gray poet" went
through the hospitals, closing the
eyes of the dying, carrying cooling
drinks to the wounded, and sitting by
their beds and speaking words OF
cheer. At the close of the war Whit
man received a clerkship in the Gov
eminent office, Washington, but soon
afterward he was stricken with paral-
ysis. In 1873 he sustained several
severe shocks, and his trouble was
further aggravated by grief over the
death of his mother and sister. On
his way to the Jersey coast, whittier
medical men advised him to go, he
was again stricken at Camden, and
his home from that time until his
death was in that New Jersey city.
In 1888 paralysis again afflicted him,
depriving him of effective locomotive
power and leaving him the full use
only of his right arm. Since then
there have been many heightened
periods during which the invalid
could not quit his room.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

branching out as a carpenter and
builder. In 1865, Leaves of Grass, "
upon which the fame of Whitman as
poet rests, and which has been va
riously criticised, was published. The
gifted Emerson was the first to rec
ognize the genius of the author and
the many beautiful gems the work
contained; the State Attorney of
Massachusetts was the first to. reveal
what he and many others have Termed
lndecencies, and since then Whitman
has passed through a generation of
abuse and praise.
Seven editions Of Leaves of Grass"
have been published since the first
issue, each enlarged and containing
new pieces, and translations have
been made into French, German, and
Russian. During the civil war Whit
man acted as relief agent in the army
hospitals at Washington and Vir-
ginia, and at the amputation of the
gangrened limb of a Virginia Union
soldier he received poisoned wound
In the hand, to which he attributed
his paralytic attacks. We are told
that during the hottest days of mid
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

TO purchase aluminium to be used In
making canteens, cartridge shells and
the metal trimmings Of his soldiers
accouterments.
The chief reason why aluminium is
sought for such purposes Is its light
ness. 1t weighs only one-third as
much as iron. Hence if it were as
strong as steel it would be the ideal
metal for making ships. Perhaps
ships will yet be made of it.
Aluminium Is good conductor of
electricity, and one Of the uses to
which it has recently been put is the
manufacture Of telephone and tele-
graph wires. Within the past year it
has begun largely to replace German
silver and fine brass in small instru.
ments and light machinery.
A correspondent of the Companion
has a gyroscope made with an alu-
mlnium ring which is a wonderful
| spinner on account of the Gghtness
of the ring Surgical instruments
and many household utensils are now
made of aluminium.
The history of this remarkable
metal is, we may hope, but an indica-
| tion of the still more complete mas
| terry that man Is to attain over the
resources and energies of the wonder.
| full planet on which he dwells.-
| Youths Companion.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
The African Pumpkin.

The "African pumpkin" or gamhen,
is very different from the we'll known
American fruit of that name, being tree
with short but abnormally thick trunk,
but it is of the poupion family, to which
belong the melons. The trunk grows to
about fourteen feet high, with a diameter
of from three to six feet. The rind is
white as chalk and perfectly smooth, and
the clumsy trunks among the green shrub,
berry look more like marble columns than
anything else. These plants attain d
wonderful age. Wellstedt reports hav,
ing found Kadhub, not far from
Tamarid, in the bark OF a gamhen trunk.
an Arabian inscription bearing the date
of 1640. The wood is not solid and
compact like that Of the trees we know,
but full of sap and cuts like o turnip, A
penknife is sufficient to cut stairway
into the trunk of a gamhen, over which
the flowers on the top can be reached. -
New Orleans Picayune.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
Aluminium.

During tile past year great deal
has been learned about what may be
called the practical qualities of that
curious and useful metal, aluminium.
Not long ago the public prints were
Tiled with extravaganza predictions of
the wonders that we should see when
the art of extracting aluminium from
rocks and clay had been perfected.
One might have been led to believe
that iron and steel would be forgotten
when aluminium had once come into
general use.
But as the processes of obtaining
the metal have been improved and
cheapened, the public has learned
more of its peculiarities, and it is now
known that the introduction of alu-
minimum, valuable as it is destined to
be, will not quite abolish the use of
the older metals which have served
the purposes Of mankind so long and
so well.
Aluminium is exceedingly tough,
but 1t is not as strong as steel, and SO
cannot take its place. 1t is very
bright and clean, but its surface will
oxidize little, so that it is not as
incorruptible as gold Still the uses
OF aluminium are legion and al
most every day we see it employed
Tor some new purpose. We have
beard within the past few months
aow the warlike German Emperor
aas been sending his agents abroad
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
WALT WITHIN AN.
a Brief Sketch of the Good Gray Poets
Career.

Brief Sketch of tho Good Gray Poets
Career.
Walt Whitman was born at West
Hills, Suffolk County, l.. L., May 81,
1919. He was descended on his
fathers side from good old Puritan
stock of farmers and from rugged
Dutch maternal ancestry. Early in
childhood he removed to Brooklyn,
where he was educated in the public
schools and from them he went into
printing Office. In succession he
became typesetter, reporter teach"
err editor, traveller, carpenter and
builder, thus penetrating many of the
shadows and depths of American
life. In 1S46-47 he edited the Brook
lyn Eagle. During 1S4S and 1S49 he
j0urneyed through the United States
and Canada, at the same time being
editor-in-chief of the New Orleans
| Ua.) Crescent. In 1850 he returned
TO Brooklyn and published newspa-
per, called the Freeman, at the same
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
Care of Fine china.

"One of the troubles of house.
keepers life, said practical woman
the other day, ''is the practice that
some servants persist in of pouring
boiling water over fine china. | went
into the kitchen the other day just
in time to see this done, and when l
spoke to the maid about it she imme.
diately turned about and deluged the
dishes with cold water from the hy-
drant. 1t seems impossible to i'm
press on the minds of these people
the fact that sudden changes Of tenn
perature will crack the glazing on al
most any earthenware, and that it is
practical ruin to fine grades of chinAA
and all argument on the subject seemd
wasted. They will take the dishesl
out of the pan, examine them with
the greatest care, and declare that
they are not injured a particle, and
they may not show at the moment
that they are, but soon afterward
they begin to craze, as the manu-
facturers say, and after time are
covered with tiny lines Of crackle.
There is but one safe way to wash
china and glassware and that is to
have the water of just sufficient
temperature so that the hands can be
put in it, Water that is too hot for
the hands is too hot for good dishes.
| used to insist on the servants pre-
pairing the dish-water before putting
the dishes in the pan. To do this
they must rub the soap on the cloth,
proper degree of heat should be. In
this same connection | may say that
| never allow dish-mops in my kitch-
en-. Servants are almost absolutely
certain to use boiling water, because
they do not realize the necessity for
cooling it when they use a NOR. Ii
the pieces are brushed out with a
mop the water may be actually at the
boiling point, and for this reason |
think that the dish-mop should be.
banished from every well-regulated
kitchen. New York Ledger
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
win Some one Object?

Twenty-Five robust, red checked, flax
en-haired Swedish and Norwegian girls
were among the 899 emigrants who
landed at Ellis island recently from
the steamship Norge. They blush
ingly,confessed that they had come here
under contract to marry twenty-five
young men of their own nationality.
Colonel Weber said the contract labor
law was not applicable to this sort of
contracts and the expectant maidens
went OH their way, which will take
them to little farms in Minnesota and
Wisconsin, titled by their lovers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
stories About Birds.

A Massachusetts druggist has a
diminutive pet in the shape of a hum
ming bird, which is so tame that it
feeds readily from it's masters hand,
always posing in the air and never
showing disposition to alight when
partaking of its food. Although very
fond of sweets it will not touch honey,
but eagerly sips rock candy syrup
from quill that is kept loaded for
that purpose. 1t is also fond of flies
and spiders and is very expert in
catching them.
The merry little hummer flew In
from the outside one chilly day, and
has since had the freedom OF the
store. It's favorite perch is on the
branch of the gas-pipe over the soda
fountain, from which vantage point
it frequently surprises customer by
darting down and dipping it's slender
beak into the glass from which he is
drinking. In many other ways the
bird shows its sociability, particularly
when the store is first entered in the
morning.
AS a Pennsylvania farmer was
passing through patch of woods
last summer, a hen partridge fluttered
up and ran between his feet. 1t was
such a strange thing for so wild
bird to do that the farmer Thought it
was blind. So he stopped over to
pick her up, and then he found that
she wasn't blind at all; for, just as
he was about to grasp her, she darted
toward the brush heap from which
he had seen her emerge, stopped at
the edge of it and looked back.
Presently she ran at the man again,
with her wings down, clucking con-
stantly, and appearing to be in great
distress about something. The farmer
walked to the edge of the copse and
the partridge flew ahead and alighted
ON the ground two or three rods beyond.
winging her way back again when
she saw he was not moving. She re.
peated these maneuvers until she led
him to a hemlock tree, and there in
little curve made by the roots, he
saw nest full of eggs. At the Same
time he saw black snake in the act
OF swallowing one Of the eggs, and
understood the reason For the par
tridge's actions.
He hunted up club and killed the
snake. AS soon as the partridge saw
that the snake was motionless, she
ceased her noise and hid In the
bushes. The man went away, and In
half an hour crept near enough to the
tree to see the partridge sitting on
her nest as though nothing had
happened.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
Several New Postomces.

The official bulletin of the postoffice
department makes several announce
ments of local interest, as follows:
New postotfices have been estab-
lished at Warren's Bluff, Henderson
county, Tenn; Epworth, Barbour
county, and Pilot, Walker county,
Ala; and Edsville, Holmes county,
Miss
The office at Condo, Clark county,
Miss, has been discontinued.
Alfred j. Cody has been appointed
postmaster at Wilton, Ala; John
Robbins, at Yellow Sulphur, Tenn. j.
A. Adams, at Epworth, Ala; Absa-
lom Sanford, at Pilot. Ala; E. q.
Matthews, at Edsville, Miss; and W.
f. Stubblefeld, at Warren's Bluff,
Tenn.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
The Bohemian Horror.

A special from Prague says it will
be fully two weeks before all the
bodies are recovered from the Birken-
burg silver mine, and it will be fif-
teen months before the shaft can be
In the meantime the
miners will be out of work. The
fragments of the bodies that have
been brought to the surface
filed three wagons Only thir-
teen of the rescued survived,
while twenty-seven of the men who
volunteered for the rescue work were
killed by falling timbers OF were suf-
ticated to death. The damage to the
mine will be 1900, 900 fiorins.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
Fatal Lightning.

A special frem GAINESVILLE, Ca, says
three men were Instantly killed and
two others hurt by lightning Saturday
afternoon. Jim Sweatman, with his
three sons, Reeves, Tillman and Wal
ter, and Zach Sweatnan, went to the
river Fish. A heavy rain came up
and the men stepped under beach
tree for shelter. Suddenly flash of
lightning came and knocked the en-
tire party down, killing Walter and
the two old men and stunning Reeves
and Tnlman. The injured men are
burned considerably, and are doing
well.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

1T took four electric shocks to xii
Jeremiah Cato in the death cham
Der at Sing Sing, and all who were
present agree that it was revolving
spectacle. Yet it does not seem
wholly impertinent to recall that it
required fourteen stabs with a butch
er's knife for Mr.. Cato to murder the
man whose wife he coveted and for
the slaughter of whom he has paid
the penalty.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

ALMOST everybody eats too much
and is the better for a little absti-
nence. Men have lived healthy lives
on one-half what our idlers consume.
Soldiers have made long marches and
fought desperate battles on regimen
which dry goods clerk would con-
slider inadequate. The stomach can
handle so much heterogeneous matter,
80 much fat and so much of one of
the various carbohydrates. More is
surplusage, clogs the machine and
embarrasses the excretory organs.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

The hero who goes to a foreign
country, and becomes rich, and re.
turns with money fin his pockets in
time to rescue his family from starry
alton, never lived outside of novel.
In real life his father has to send
money for him to come home on, and
he brings a wife and half a dozen
children with him for the old father
to support.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

The matrimonial fever wave has
struck the doddering old ladies hard
this spring. One of 80 has married
man OF 35iin Maine; another of 10
bought up a youthful husband in
Michigan, and another of rs got hold
OF youngster in Detroit few days
ago, and all the coy old girls had big
fortunes in control. Verify the maid
ems are being distanced in the leap.
year race by the maturer heads.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

THERE are to-day 10000 families
zach living in a single room in this
city, said a woman orator in Central
Music Hall, Chicago. 1Air, sunshine,
and water are the common property
Of all men, but the greed OF men has
made their equal enjoyment by all
impossible. Day by day our million
aires dying endow charitable institu-
tions to be filed with sick paupers
they had helped to make" The pic
ture Is an accurate one; the condem-
nation deserved. But when the
speaker came to suggest remedy,
what was II? Free bathsI Oh, lame
md impotent conclusion.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

The stories about those German
balloons that sail out across the Rus
sian frontier, remain stationary long
enough to enable the occupants to
take accurate military observations,
and then sail back again, indicate
I that star has arisen in Germany
destined to outshine our own Joe
Mulhatton.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

One Of the questions which are agi-
Eating Paris at present is whether a
druggist is justified in declining to
Ill the prescription of a physician
which he believes to have been made
In ignorance of the dangerous char
acter OF the drug prescribed, OF in
which a mistake has been made as to
the proper dose. The doctors hold
that it is the druggists duty to fill
the prescription and permit the pa
tient to be killed, secundum artem,
leaving the responsibility with the
prescribing physician. The druggists
are In doubt.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
DUN'S WEEKLY REPORT
ON THE CONDITION AND PROS
PEcrS OF TRADE.


of trade says that the tone of the COM
mercial reports from the various parts
of the country indicates that business
has, to some extent, improved. More
favorable weather has helped both the
retail and the wholesale trade in many
quarters, and has materially improved
crop prospects at the west, while a
little improvement in the price of cot
ton has operated as stimulus to
business at the south.
There has been no difficulty or dis
turbance in the money market, and
the volume of the currency in circula-
ton has increared during the month
of May about 5000 900, amounting to
Sl,620, 200, 900 on June 1.
Collections throughout the coun try
are, on the whole, better than of late
and fairly satisfactory, and excepting
speculative corner at Chicago there
has been no especial excitement of
any kind, and business is compare
lively tame.
Wheat has declined half a cent,
western receipts being unusually
large.
The exports il. cotton and the belief
that the acreage will be much dimin-
ished has helped spectators to advance
the price quarter of cent and
transactions have been moderately
light. Nevertheless, the stock of
cotton in the country continues far
beyond the record of previous years,
and there is every reason to believe
that even a great reduction in the
yield will scarcely reduce the aggre-
gate supply for the year below the
quantity usually required for con-
sumption.
THE IRON BUSINESS.
The iron business shows a consid-
cradle increase in transactions, though
there is as much complaint as ever of
low prices, Both at Pittsburg and
Philadelphia pig iron is weaker and
there are doubts whether the bottom
has been reached, though at Chicago
the market is considerably stronger
and the authorities hold that the stocks
of pig iron in the country are now
considerably lower than they lave
been. The market for bar iron is
weak at the lowest figures ever known,
and the new demand for structu al
iron is not quite as large as has been
expected. AT Philadelphia there is an
increase in the sales of iron and hard
ware is quite active. AT Pittsburg
The finished products of iron and steel
are in good demand, though the prices
are the lowest ever known, and the
glass trade is fairly active.
Business is retarded by bad weather
at Little Rock and Memphis, has i'm
proved somewhat at Nashville, but is
very dull at Savannah. Cotton
strengthens at New Orleans, and there
is better feeling in business gener-
ally, while sugar is in fair demand
and rice steady.
Business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days, as reported to r. 6. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 175,
and Canada 80.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
A Wonderful Invention.

An inventor in Vienna, Austria, ha;
produced new material that combines
some of the properties of glass and cellu.
loid. 1t Is made by dissolving four to
eight parts of collodion wool (gun cot.
tom in about 100 parts by weight o.
ether or alcohol, adding two to four pei
cent. of castor oil and four to ten pei
cent. of rosin or Canadian balsam. The
mixture is then dried on glass plate q,
Temperature of 100 degrees Fair.
The compound soon solidifes into a
transparent sheet, having substantially
the properties of glass. 1t resists the
action OF salts, alkalies and dilute acids,
and is flexible, says the Philadelphia
Record.
The addition of magnesium chloride
reduces its inhammability and zinc white
gives it the appearance of ivory. BY in-
creasing the relative proportions of castor
oil and rosin the toughness and pliabiity
of leather is impaired to the material,
and it may even be made into driving
belts.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

IHE young woman who brought suit
against the authorities of Cambridge,
England, for locking her up because
she was walking with University
man has lost her case. The court was
evidently impressed with the necessi-
ty OF protecting University men.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

THE electIic-light trust, that de.
manded $3.50 per arc lamp for il.
Illuminating the Worlds Fair grounds,
admits that it made a mistake. What
1t meant to demand was 500. There
is a general suspicion that all it could
get was about the size of the figure
that the trust was after.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

IT seems little hard to sue a mes
slah for $50, 600 damages, but it is
comforting to remember that
Schweinfurth, the messiah in cues.
ton, is abundantly able to pay it.
There is one thing about the modern
messlahs-they are always pretty
well fixed.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

The idea Of Yale authorities In
admitting women to postgraduate
courses only is probably founded up
on desire to let the young gentle
men who knocked down an actress
with a hard SNOWFALL finish their
course before ladies are invited to
enter.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

WHILE Chicago people are raving
against their Doodle Aldermen let
them just recall who elected these
lawless lawmakers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

A GREEK scholar has discovered
that a woman wrote Homer's "Odys.
sey. 1t was undoubtedly Mrs.
Bacon, was it not, Ignatius?
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

A MAN who has Investigated the
question says that most women pre-
fer to kiss man who wears a mus
tache.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09

Never whip your horse for becoming
frightened at any object by the roadside,
for if he sees stump, a log or heap of
tan-bark in the road, and while he is eye
ing it carefully and about to pass it, you
strike him with the whip, it is the log,
or stump, or the tan bark that is hurting
him, in his way of reasoning, aud the
next time he will be more frightened.
Give him time to smell all these objects
and use the bride to assist you in bring
ing him near then. Detroit Free. Pzsss.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-06-09
dbt 1nka Reporter,
-Pahhshea livery Thursday a.
IUKA, MISS

EDWARD EMMoNs, the ossined man,
Is dead. He died hard.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26
Hypnotic Effect of Warm Bandages.

Warm baths, as is well known, produce
calming effect and tend to bring on sleep.
Popular Science News notes the attempt of
foreign physician to apply such a method
in patients where a sedative effect is de-
sired and yet where bath is inapplicable.
His method consists in wrapping the lum-
bar region and belly with linen cloths
soaked in warm water, and then covering
them with oiled silk or rubber cloth, so as
to prevent evaporation, while the whole is
kept in place and loss of heat prevented by
flannel cloth.
This procedure is of ready perform nee,
and the author says that by this simple
means he has obtained the most astonish-
ings results in the treatment of insomnia.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26
Queer Things in Science.

Fourteen years ago Professor Pic
tet, of Geneva, reduced hydrogen
for the first time to a liquid 1t was
regarded as nothing more than a
freak of scientific luxury. But the
professor, established now with com
plete laboratories in Berlin, has not
only produced almost incredible cold,
but has turned his powers to practical
purposes. Mercury, for instance, has
been frozen hard enough to be cast
into the form of a tuning fork, and
so have its elasticity measured.
And if the commercial must come
in, to make a thing practical, glyc-
erin has been crystallized and brandy
frozen-with the effect in the latter
case of impafting a "mellowness
only obtainable hitherto by long
keeping. Most important of all, by
this means it is found that chloro-
form can be thoroughly purified-a
result almost impossible by other
means. Young Man.