Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-11-23
SOMEWHAT STRANG
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
lures Which Show That Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction.

Stranger Than Fiction
The proprietor of cigar shop in
Philadelphia, died of black diphtheria a
few days ago, and that the danger of con
tagion might be avoided, his body, in its
coffin, was placed in the show window of
his store during the funeral services,
that his friends might pass by on the out
side. All the neighbors ilocked to see
the somewhat uncanny spectacle
IT may not be generally known that
Pnrls is the greatest postage stamp mar
ket in the world. There is regular
bourse held every Thursday and Sunday
in corner Of the Chamls Elysees, where
hundreds OF men, women and BOYS con
gregate with their postage stamp albums
and packages of stamps for sale and cx-
change 1t is said that thousands of
francs change hands there every market
day.
The town of Hart, Ca, boasts a
notable specimen of the albino negro.
The man was once pure black, but for
years his skin has been changing until
now he is white all over with for the ex-
ception of few dark spots Not only
is he white, but much whittier than most
white men, his changed skin being of n
clear, milky whiteness The transforma-
ton has been natural and unattended by
any pain or Inconvenience
PosT OFFICE officials in Portland, Me-,
were surprised to have among the mail
deposited there day or two ago
registered letter that would have gone
g. . H., al
but bore stamp of the four dollar de-
nomination. The stamp collecting fad
was suggested as an explanation, the
stamp that had been used being regarded
by it's enthusiasts as more valuable than
an uncanceled one.
FARMER CUsHMAN, of Chenango
County, N. Y, thinks we are going to
have very severe winter, for the fol
lowing reasons: Corn husks are very
thick; hogs melt runs jagged, the
breastbone of a May goose shows spots
resembling the canals of Mars; the ducks
are flying in Ushaped instead of v
shaped flocks, and green frogs are chang
ing their skins and seeking springs for
winter quarters.
A FAMILY residing in Washington, Ga,
was considerably shocked during an cleo
trical storm Il short time ago by the
lightning striking the telegraph and cleo
trio light wires which pass the house.
After the storm had subsidized it was as
certained that Il large fig bush in the
garden had been struck, and a hen and
three chickens, which had sought shelter
under tue broad leaves, killed. The
chickens were found under the hen, which
was sitting in a natural position, with not
feather rutfled.
How Frenchp' was probably the ex-
clamation OF most people when they read
of the dramatic suicide of the young
woman at Clichy, France, the other day.
While the train conveying the Russian
visitors to Versailles was crossing tie
Seine she stood on a PARALLEL bridge
waving French and Russian flags, and,
shouting, :" / see and | die Long live
Russia!' she jumped into the river and
was drowned. When her body was re
covered it was found that she was clothed
only in garments made out of French
and Russian flags.
BALTIMORE has blind boatman. His
boat was stolen by some worthless fell
lows the other day, and subsequently
abandoned and picked up. He claimed
it, and when told that he must identify
it did so, not by telling its color and
model, as a man with good eyes might
do, but by giving the positions of all the
nails and the chinks in the boat, where
splinters had been knocked off, aud so
on. Then, being admitted, he went all
over it with his careful touch. finally
said: "Yes, it is mine,n and rowed
away, successfully avoiding the dozens
of other boats, tugs, ETC., that were NOV
ing around.
A TERRIBLE ballooning accident is re-
ported from Piedmont. An aeronaut
named Charbonnet, who was married on
a Wednes lay, subsequently assembled in
balloon with his bride, with the inten-
tion of making wedding trip in this
manner across the Alps. The pair were
accompanied by another aeronaut to
assist in the navigation of the balloon,
and the start was made under favorable
circumstances, but in the evening, when
in the vicinity of Ceres. north of Turin,
something went wrong with the balloon.
1t descended with great velocity, and
finally struck the ground with terrible
force. Charbonnet was killed. and his
wife and the assistant were both serious
ly injured.
UP till five or six years ago it was an
unusual thing to find a woman who
smoked cigarette of an evening. Now
it is SO common, 50 the English papers
assure us, that nearly all women count
among their acquaintance one or two
women who smoke either Internationally
OF regularly. Advanced clubs find it
necessary to set apart ladies' smoking
room. The report that one of the rail-
way companies has found it expedient
to reserve a smoking carriage for the
benefit of lady smokers is premature but
| it is believed that before many years it
will be no more extraordinary to see a
woman smoke than to see woman play
golf or tennis.
A MYSTERIOUS affair is reported from
Chillicothe, Mo. Judge johnson died
at that place the other day, at the age of
SS years, He was one of the pioneer
citizens, and man OF great influence in
the community. Before his death he