Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-11-10
cURrorA FACTS.
West India peoplseat alligator eggs

| West India people cat alligator eggs.
Tobacco consumption is increasing in
Great Britain.
A salmon with ntwo tails" was lately
caught by fisherman in Coas Bay, Ore
gou.
There are in the United States ninety
seven religious denominations; III Great
Britain there are 257.
Paper from rags was made in 1000 A.
D., the first linen paper in 1919 and
paper from straw in 1900.
At the castle of Simonetta, Italy, there
is an angle in the building which re-
echoes pistol shot sixty one times.
Among Sir William Harcourt's Parlia.
mentary supporters at Derby, England,
were two voters 102 and 103 years of
age.
The FIRST carpets made in Europe were
manufactured in France in 1864, in imi-
tation of some which had been brought
from Turkey.
A postal card was recently sold in
Paris for $50. It had gone around the
world after the person to whom it was
addressed, and bore seventy-two post.
marks.
Vulcan, the British ironclad, is pro-
vided with a rudder weighing twenty
two tons, or something like six tons
heavier than the rudder used on the
Great Eastern.
There is a certain hill in the South Of
Bohemia on whose top, if an equinoctial
sundial be duly erected, man that is
stone blind may know the hour OF the
day by the same if the sun shines.
At New Orleans there is co,ored
woman who was grandmother at the
age of twenty five, and a French woman
who was great grandmother three
months before her thirty -sixth birthday.
A bundle of spiderwebs, not larger
than buckshot, and weighing less than
one-half a dram, would, if untangled,
make a line long enough to reach from
Philadelphia to Boston and back again.
Llanfairfechan, Wales, is one of those
seaside resorts where, according to the
decree of the Local Board, ladies and
gentlemen must under no circumstances
battle within fifty yards of one another.
A painful story comes from Pekin,
China, of young lady who, overcome
with grief at the death of her husband,
dressed herself in her marriage robes and
swallowed fatal dose Of powdered gold
and lead.
A portable sundial is not an uncom.
mon object in Spanish shops, and it is
still in current use in Spain. At Bur-
gos no less than three different kinds are
offered for sale, at prices warning from
pine to seventeen cents.
Three-quarters of a second is the time
occupied Dy the fall of the knife in the
guillotine. The knife is weighted by
120 pounds of lead, falls nine feet, and
cuts through flesh aud bone as easily as
through bar of soap.
AS lad in Newcastle, Ind, was div
ing, two stones were struck together un-
der the water by another boy. When
the diver arose he complained that his
ear panied him. Since then he cannot
hear except when spoken to in very loud
tones.
While the Duchess of Albany was dis.
tributing prizes at the annual show of
the Cottage Garden Society at Sandown
Park, England, fox terrier ran from
the spectators, mounted the royal dais,
and standing on its hind legs, begged
for prize, too.
In Bellavista, near Portici, Italy,
small colony includes more than twenty
people who are more than ninety years
old, headed by farmer aged 105, who
still works in the fields. They are all
natives, and have lived VITA hardly any
meat in their dict and drinking only
rain water from cistern.