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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

THOMAS A. EDISON is forty-five years old.
THE Pope promises his aid to the Worlds
Fair.
LORD TENNYsoN is not very strong in his
spelling.
PRESIDENT DEPEw, of the New York Cen.
tral, has but 1000 namesakes.
Mrs. AMELIA Z. BARR, the popular novel.
'st, is the mother of fifteen childen.
The African explorer Junker, well known
as a friend of Gordon and Stanley, is dead.
HENRY CLAY's mother-in-law, Amelia
Seoul is dead at Washington, aged 10l years.
OSCAR WILDE is to give Chicago the honor
OF MS presence during the Worlds Fair
season.
The Emperor of Germany stands TWENTY
first in direct line of succession to the British
Throne.
EX-SENATOR EvARTs, of New York. has
just passed his seventy fourth birthday an
niversafy.
PATRICK EGAN, United States Minister TO
Chile. never uses tobacco or alcoholic liquors
In any form.
BARON ALBERT RoTHscHILD has donated
sou 700 toward building a consumption hos
pita In Vienna, Austria.
HE death of the late Khedive of Egypt
was hastened by the untimely administra.
zion of morphine by native doctors.
GENERAL BOOTH reviewed in Hyde Park,
London, England, a mile-long procession of
Salvation Army soldiers in his honor.
CRITICS in London, England, make bold
TO say that the new Lord Mayor of the CITY
has pronounced tendency to be ''fussy"
BARNES GREELEY, the only brother Of
Horace Greeley, lives quiet life on the old
Treeley farm in Chautauqua County, near
jamestown, N. Y.
1T was while preparing applications for
patients as a SIS a week clerk in LAWYERS
Office that Emil Berliner, the distinguished
electrician OF Washington, first got the idea
OF becoming an inventor The relation of
employer and clerk is now reversed.
ANTHONY j. DRExEI, the Philadelphia
banker, has had spider named after him.
This is fame of vicarious SORT but it is
somewhat more original than that gained
Dy having ones name perpetuated in a
chrysanthemum. notion that has been very
popular during the last few years.
CAPTAIN w. s. ScHLEY. the redoutable
commander OF the United States cruiser
Baltimore is a man OF about forty-dye
years. There are streaks OF gray in his
closely cropped Imperial beard, but his
HAIR IS brown and he wears it combed down
low over q broad forehead. His shoulders
are broad and he has the commanding pres
ence OF q typical naval officer.
The man who ought to suit YOU
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

NEW postal cards for ladies' use are
to be delicate shade of pearl-gray.
Men OF aesthetic tastes must content
themselves with the seal-brown taste
OF the mucilage on the stamps.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03
They Struck Gas,

A syndicate of Canadian and Penn
sylvania natural gas men have been
boring for gas for the past two weeks
at Mimico. a small place seven miles
from Toronto. 1t is reported that
they have been successful, and that
the we'll is now gushing at the rate of
Il, 000,000 feet per day. The gas is
said to be of excellent quality for
illuminating and fnel.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

Miss FLORENCE ST. JOHN, the act
ress, may have been roughly handled
by the English divorce courts, but an
attempt to compute the value of the
advertising she has received would
crowd the insane asylumns.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

WE are not so sure about the cor.
rectness of the code of ethics which
forbids lawyers and doctors to solicit
business or to advertise themselves as
specially well qualified to handle a
certain class of cases. If a man in
tends to build house and lets it be
known, contractors and builders can
call on him by the score and solicit
the job and nothing is thought of it.
And yet "they are all honorable men. !"
Merchants are, as class, men Of
brains and intelligence and stand
about as we'll in the community as do
their fellows who practice law and
medicine. Imagine, if you can, the
absurdity of merchants having a code
Of ethics which forbade them to insert
anything in the newspapers save the
simple announcement of name and
place of business. At this point, too,
it might be well enough to pause and
reflect on the effect such code would
have upon the newspapers themselves.
Inc builder VINO seeks the job OF
building your house points with pride
to such and such ediflces as samples OF
his handiwOrk. They stand as eloquent
witnesses to his assertions that he is
skilled and capable workman. Doc
tors and lawyers, however, cannot do
this, at least not openly, and if done
at all subjects them to professional
shame and disgrace. Seriously, we
have ~ sort Of sympathy with char
quacks y; pretenders in any
6ze1e callings Of HE; but we fail to
see wherein there is anything inher-
emily wrong In either doctors or law
pers advertising in i modest, sensible
way, nor il their soliciting patronage
HNa2e manner. The mere an
a., 49,, K
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

IT remained for New York paper
to discover direct buggy road from
Detroit to Windsor. 1t tells of a
medical student who dressed skele-
ton in female attire and drove right
across the line with the3customs Off
GERS looking on.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

AND now all the work of the anti
corset people has to be done over
again. A Philadelphia woman was
saved from the bullet of her crazy
husband by her trusty corset steel.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

CHICAGO sends greeting to the Anti.
Lottery party of Louisiana and is
helping the cause to some extent
itself. See court records.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

A GOOD many artists who make
money in art and spend it in whisky
think the man who made his money
In whisky and spent it in art vulgar
Philistine.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

WHEN it is remembered that 81
900, 900 babies are born every year the
extraordinary discrimination of the
Astor baby in its choice of parents be-
comes more awe-inspiring.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

J A MOB in Iowa lynched Swede ac-
cused OF murder. The Sheriff of the
county recently died, and on his
death-bed confessed himself the MUIR
derer. "The best citizens" who COM
mitted this crime, should be brought
"a hook.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

THE step taken in Washington by
Mr.. Richard Mansfield, the actor, in
ordering his manager hereafter to
discontinue the use of Autograph and
printing displays in windows or on
walls and billboards, and to conflne
his advertising exclusively to the
newspapers, is as novel as it is radi-
cal. The amount Of money annually
expended for costly printing for open
air and window displays of theaters
is enormous. The expense has been
growing steadily greater as designs
have become more elaborate and con-
sequently more costly. 1t has be-
come SO great, indeed, that no COM
mensurate return is experienced from
it, and managers and stars have long
been talking about cutting it off.
Mr.. Mansfield is the first to take a
positive stand in the matter, and his
reason for his action is summed up in
this one caustic sentence: "a man
who does not read the newspapers
never attends the theater."
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

You occasionally hear of a young
girl who is too proud to wear patches
on her shoes, but did you ever hear
OF one who was too proud to wear
patches on her face?
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

merous "cat farms" near our back
yard, where million cats nightly
WOO the moon or stars and each other
with an Internal chorus tit to wake
the dead.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

SEVENTY babies are born every
minute. Oh, Nautilus, where Is thy
sting? Oh, Bradlaugh and Besant,
where is thy victory?
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

The case Of Edward M. Field,
diagnosed at this distance, seems to
be one that will yield readily to the
proper treatment. He is just about
Insane enough to be sent to the peni-
4fontiorv
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

MEssRs. SLAvIN AND MITCHELL
evidently belong to the peripatetic
school of pugilists, because they do
nothing but walk around and talk.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

WHEN your family skeleton gets
out and dances for the amusement of
your neighbors, you will always find
1t was your intimate friend who I'M
locked the door and is pulling the
string.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

TIE admission Of Jay Gould to the
3our hundred seems to put watered
stock on parity with aristocratie
family stocks.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

THE strike Of Philadelphia com
positors serves to remind the world
that there Ere newspapers published
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

IA Rhode Island man made net profit
d $2700 in six months by raising skunks
& market. lie sells the pelts Of the
2 orous animals at good figures, and
Manufacturers skunk oil, which be dis
loses Of to the druggists for rheumatic
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

A AN old story credits Daniel Web
Bter with having declared upon the
stump, In momentof yinous effusion,
chat as to the national debt he'd pay
that himself. ThESP Prince of Wales
lnaan equally uT ded moment an
bounced his Ron Of providing
Tor bis son koung mans pros
pective brf world knows
That Alber quite as in
capable Of carr ANY such in
tention as was tz Daniel OF
paying bis country's de8$
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

The Yankee mind is quick to seize
on means of supplying new want
and we are not surprised, therefore,
to learn that an able Boston mechanic
has perfected plan for an assassin
proof Office" which he will soon have
on the market. He expects to sell
one to each of the 1000 real million
aires in the country, and the 1000, 600
or more reputed millionaires also.
Among other ingenious devices, his
plan comprises flexible walls, carpets
foot thick, and various things calcu-
lated to make bombs useless. But the
great scheme is an apparatus for caus-
ing the millionaire, while seated in
his chair and talking with a visitor,
to disappear through the floor in the
twinkling of lambs tail, if he thinks
there is danger. Rates for these "fln
de steele" office fittings will soon be
quoted to everybody worth over $780,
900.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

REPUTABLE Chicago florists have
adopted and published a resolution
denouncing persons in their trade who
visit homes afflicted by death and So
llcit orders for flowers. 1t is doubt
full whether this commendable action
will be effectual for decency. A fam
lily that will listen to solicitor for
anything at such time will not listen
at another time to condemnation of
what they are too insensible to resent.
The rejecting are falling more and
more into the habit not only of re-.
questing that flowers be not sent to
funerals but of not using any. The
ract that the most beautiful of ma.
lures products soonest decay and that
the speedy change is vermicious makes
lowers inside coffin repulsive. Out
side they serve to rob death of some
thing OF its horror; but refined senti-
ment restricts their use even there.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-03

IHE man who ought to suit you
Well-your tailor, 81
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
4 DocToRED ELEPHANT.
Queen Jumbo Has the "Thumps" and
Ia rlastcrcd Accordingly.

Queen Jumbo Has the "Thumps" and
Ia rlaHtcrcd Accordingly.
Queen Jumbo and Baldy, the Gle.
plants, attracted several thousands Of
people, old aud young, 70 the park in
San Francisco the other day.
The day was cold and lowering over
head, while the earth was damp, but
the children fondled their big friends
as enthusiastically ms ever, and ex-
pended all the small change to be had
In corn and peanuts with as much
abandon as though the sun had been
shining
Queen Jumbo had a bad time little
while ago with the 'thumps." When
a child suffers from chills and then be-
comes fevered and has lung trouble, IL
Is pneumonia, but when an elephant
suffers in the same way the trouble is
''thumps"
Queens huge bulk shivered and
shook, and she whincd complainingly
until Keeper PETIT began TO give her
medicine. The first dose was two gal
Ions of whisky with five ounces of
quininc, and he had much trouble in
getting Queen TO take H. The dose
did little good, and Queen grew worse
until "thumps" were plainly 10 be de-
tected.
Then II was case Of life and death,
and the keeper set to work In hurry.
He built big fire in the elephant
house and hung blankets 10 IL until
they were red-hot and then wrapped
them around Queen.
Another man put 100 pounds OF
strong English mustard into barrel
and mixed IL with water, like any other
mustard plaster is made. The mustard
was then spread on cloth and the mon
strous plasters applied TO Queens
| sides
Soon her ladyship showed signs OF
uneasiness. She felt along her sides
with her trunk, stepped about con
stantly, and seemed 70 wonder what
was the matter As the mustard tool
hold more severely Queen tried TO teal
away the baudages, and when iabbet
by the keepers hook she begat
screaming like steam whistle.
The plasters were left in position fol
! three hours and then removed, ant
Queen again wrapped in hot blanket
and dosed with whisky and quininc. AT
ter awhile she began TO perspire, as Gle
plants always do through the trunk
and her keeper knew she was saved.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
not care to. Perhaps since writing Il

not care TO. Perhaps since writing it
he has settled down.
London's immediate acquiescence in
the pretentions of 'sTa-ra-ra Boom-de-
ay'' still remains remarkable enough
IL is as great hit as THE Bogie Man."
which was immensely its superior-but
the manner of its transmission to Eng
land was very simple. Miss Lottie Col
Inns, who was seen and liked here
couple of seasons ago as skin dancer
and ballad singer, was sent the song by
her husband. She made few slight
alterations in Mr.. Savers words,
changed the spelling of the refrain to
that now generally accepted, and upon
presenting it TO the attention of the
British public, became music hall
star at once. She is said to be now in
receipt of emoluments amounting to
the trifing sum of a150 weekly.
The success of the song in London
increased its popularity here, but it did
not diminish its abject- cheerful. unr
| disguised inanity.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09

$50, DOC, 900; Cornelius Vanderbilt. New |
York, $50, 600, 600; Fred w. Vanderbilt
New York, S35, 900. 600; William Aston,
New York, S35, 900, 600: John Mont
gomery Sears, Boston, $40, 100000
Louis c. Tiffany, New York, S3h, 900, 600;
G. r. Huntington. New York. 830, 900, 90
JohnI Blair, Balyertown, N. j., $780,.
600. 600; William Rockefeller, New
York. $40, 900, 900; Mrs. Elliott r.
Shepard, New York, $50, 000, 600: Leland
Stanford, California, 10000, 900; Mrs
Hetty Green, $40. 900, 600; A. Pae-
Ter estate, $4,000. 900; Moses Tay-
lor estate, $4,000, 900; +. A.
Stevens, New York, $50, OO0. 900;
Brown & Ives. Providence, r. J., $780,
DOC, 600; T.. ID. Armour, Chicago, ILL.,,
SIC, O0c 600; p. Goelet estate, New York,
$40, 600, 900; Il. A. Scott estate, New
York. s35, 0O0, 600; j. w. Garrett estate,
s35, OO0, 600: G. b. Roberts, Philadelphia,
Pa, $50, OOO, 900: Ross Winans, $50. 000,
4 600; Il. i. Coke, 100000, 600; Claus
1 SpreclSles, San Francisco, $4,000, 900;
| X. j. Livingston, New York, $40, 0G0,-
600; Mrs. Hoplsins-Searles estate, 800.
600, 900; s. v. Hardness estate. $40, 000,-
900; r. w. Coleman estate, $40, 100000;
]. NJ. Singer estate, $40, 600, 900; Percy
Pyne. New York. $40, 1000. 900; A. j.
Drexel, New York, S25, 200, 900; j. s..
Morgan, New York, s25, 900, 900; j. p.
Morgan, New York, 5000, 900; Mar.
shall Field, Chicago, S25, COG, 900; J. g..
Fair estate, California, SOS, 900, 900: r.
4. Gerry, New York, S25, 600, 600; Gov.
Fairbanks estate. New York. s25, 0O0..
0fs0; "A. Schermerhorn estate, New York,
S25. OO0, 600; o. II. Payne. New York,
$25 900, 600; John i. Davis, st. Louis,
S25, 900, 900: Il. A. Drexel estate, Phila-
delphia, see, 600, 900; ]. v. Williamson
estate, see 900. 900; w. i. Weld
estate, So, OO0, 900; Jabez A. Bost.
wick, New York. $50, 1000, 600;
Theodore Havemeyer, New York, $780,
O0O, 900; II. o Hayemeyer, New York
$40, 900, GOO; w. g. Warden, New York
$40, 600, 900; w. p. Thompson, $4,000,
600: Mrs. Schenley, $50, 600, 900; j. Il
Haggin, SEQ, 600. 900: ii. A. Hutchins
SEQ, 600, 900; w. Sloan estate, New York
s20, 900, 600; f. S. Higgins estate, SEQ,
: 0O0, 600; G. Tower estate, $50, 600, 900
William Thaw estate, so, 600, 600; DIR
Hostetter estate. SEQ, 900, 600: William
: Sharon estate, California, SEQ, 600, 0oo
Peter Donohue estate. SEQ, 900, O0o
Henry Hilton. New York, $50, 600, 900
Andrew Carnegie, New York, SEQ, 600,
J 900; II. Victor Newcombe, New York
500. GOO. 900: John Jacob Aston, Jr.
New York, SEQ, 900, 600; Mrs. II. Mex
Twombley, New York, 500. 900, 0O0
! William G Whitney, New York, SEQ
? 100000: The Misses Furness, New York
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09

Mckinley, then prominent lawyer
of Canton. and January 25, 1871, the
the couple were married in the Canton
Presbyterian church, of which Miss
Saxton was a member. Major and
Mrs. Mckinley made Canton their
home, and their first child was born on
Christmas day, 1871. The death of
Mrs. McKinley's mother caused the
family to remove to the house of her
father, where they remained until the
Majors election to Congress in
1877, since which they have
spent most of the time in Wash
inpton. Mrs. McKinley's delicate
health prevented her from partieipat-
ing in the gayeties of Washington. but
her ''at homes" at the Ebbitt house
We're always enjoyed by her circle of
friends. Mrs. Mckinley shares her hus-
bands political views and has always
sacrificed her personal comfort and
pleasure to the advancement of his
public interests. She is of medium
height, and slight, graceful figure, with
a sensitive face that grows wonderfully
sweet and animated as she becomes in
terested in conversation. Though an
invalid for so many years, ill-health
has not affected her bright and sunny
temperament, and the domestic life of
Gov. Mckinley and his estimable wife
is one of unalloycd happiness.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
FLYINo RIFLE guLLETs
Soldiers VIII Need Protecting From the
Far-Reaching Missiles.

Far-Reaehing Missiles.
Commenting on the penetrative
powers of the small arms lately intro
duced into the armies of all the great
powers, Col. Lonsdale Hale states that
the minimum thickness of ordinary
soil affording protection is thirty
inches, while single brick walls, after
being struck a few times, no longer
afford any cover. The new German
rife ranges up to 1000 yards, and at
900 yards the bullet will penetrate ten
inches of fir or pine and fourteen inches
of sand. At $50 yards the bullet can
pierce three or four ranks, and at 1900
yards a man may no longer consider
himself safe, even if the bullet has
already penetrated two of his COM
rades.
With regard to ''smokeless powder, "
the same authority observes that,
though the report of the rifles when
fired is heard, it is very difficult to see
whence the rifles are fired Under GER
tain conditions no trace of smoke can
be distinguished. Minor acts of sur
prise, he considers, will be more fire.
uuent in the future, and will often par
take of the nature of ambuscades.
Very small bodies of cavalry, init
mateiy connected with infantry, form
ing in action patrols of the latter viii,
therefore, be necessary, and it will nc
longer be possible TO discover well
posted batteries
On the whole, Col. Hale considers
that only war can absolutely decide
what the effects of the improvement il
| small arms will be. One thing, how
ever, is certain-that is, that the diff
Guilty of leading troops has considerably
/ increased.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
how DO rhcy spank Him.

Spanish Court etiquette is fearful
and wonderful thing. II allows GER
tain of the grandees TO put on their
hats IN the presence of their sovereign,
while it forbids anyone to touch the
person of the sovereign under all sorts
OF penalties, and, In consequence, there
is a good deal of difficulty about chas-
Using the present very Juvenile
monarch when he shall deserve 1t, The
Queen Of Spain, we know, has no
legs" " and for practical purposes the
King of Spain has no -- birchable
surface.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
NAUGHTY COWS.
They Get Drunk ON Apples aud Dance
the Cnn-Can.

They yet Drunk on Appleh anu 1fAhNS
the Can-Can.
Whenever there is big apple crop
tie Connecticut COW is apt 10 get on
big drunk II Is easy for her TO gallop
over the pasture wall into the on chard.
She fills herself with fruit, then takes
spin through the town, kicking up
her heels, shaking her horns and TIP
ping over things. Finally she tumbles
In a heap ana rolls over on her back,
with her hoofs waving wildly IN the
air. 1t takes COW about three hours
10 recover from the primary symptoms
of intoxieation. There are plenty OF
apples In the State this fall, and sew
eral cows have been drunk.
j. p. Treadwell, who dwells in fine
house at South NorMalIf, never saw a
cow tipsy until a few days ago. Then,
10 the middle of the afternoon. he saw
his handsome Jersey, that had been
pasturing in lot in the rear OF his
residence, cutting up extraor-
binary pranlks. She swaggard
about the lot, tossing her head.
kicking up her heels, went
down on her knees once or twice, and
finally stopped prancing and gazed
fxedly at her owner In q blear-eyed
style. Mr.. Treadwell was alarmed, for
he thought some strange disease had
attacked her, so he sent for the South
| Norwalk veterinary surgeon. The
doctor gazed at the cow for a moment
sprawilng about on the ground, and
said sententiously: 'tShe's drunk
Where did she get her jng?"
Then Mr.. Treadwell remembered
there was big apple tree in his lot,
most OF whose fruit had been blown "a
the ground that day. That's what's
the matter. commented the veterinary
man. You just let her alone and She
come round all right in few hours. :
The Jersey came 10 before night, bat
she had a griyed and wondering lool
all next day.
Al Hartford the other night eight
cows pranced down woodland stree
into the crowded Kingsley street, wher,
they got mixed up with all the city trai
dc. Police Officer Reed arrested an'
ran them into Lawyer Chaseland's yar'
on Sigourney street. They stayed Their
until after midnight, and then severn
persons from the Deaf and Dunn
asylum came. correlled the animals an
drove them back 20 the asylum quai
tcrs. where the deaf and dumb men r.
ported they belonged. They had bee
eating apples
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-09
NEWSPAPERS PRoHIRIrgp.
One of the Pleasures Ordinary People
Have Above Queen Victoria.

One of the Pleasures Ordinary People
Have Above Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria isn't allowed 10 ham
die a newspaper of any kind, nor
magazine, nor letter from any person
except from her own family, and no
member of the royal family or house
hold is allowed to speak to her of any
piece of news in any publication.
All the information the Queen is per-
rnitted to have must first be strained
through the intellect of man whose
business it is to cut out from the papers
each day what he thinks she would
like to know.
These scraps he fastens on silk
sheet, with a gold fringe all about it,
and presents to her unfortunate ma
jesty.
The silken sheet with gold fringe is
imperative for all communications to
the Queen.
Anyone who wishes to ssend the
Queen a personal poem or communi-
cation Of any kind except u personal
letter, which the poor lady is not al
lowed to have Mt all, must have it
printed in gilt letters on one of these
silk sheets with gold fringe, just SO
many. inches wide and no wider, all
about l..
These gold trimmings will be re-
turned to him in time, as they are ex-
pensive, and the Queen Is kindly and
thrifty, but for the Queens presence
they are Imperative.