Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-12-21

EIGHT cars loaded with human halr
arrived in Paris recently, consigned to
dealers in that merchandise. The hair
came from India and China, whence
thousands of pounds are annually sent
to England and France This traffic, a
foreign medical journal says, is the cause
of the introduction of many diseases to
Europe. The hair is cut from persons
after death in China, and although it is
disinfected upon arrival in France, it
often carries the germs of disease.
Asiatio hair, owing in part to its coarse
ness, can be purchased cheaply, it sell
ing often as low as a franc a kilogram.
The hair of Europeans, however, aver
ages about 100 francs for the same
amount.
For some years there has been carried
on an agitation among the trustees Of the
University Of Alabama in favor of accord
ing the privileges of the institution to fe-
male students. Last June the resolution
went through the board admitting young
ladies to the university. 1t appears, how
ever, that the young ladies of Alabama
do not appreciate the great favor done
them, and up to date not single girl has
applied for admission. That does not
show that the Alabrma girls are indiffer
ent to educational advantages, for all the
young ladies' seminaries of the State re-
port larger attendance than ever before.
1t is thought that many may be deferred
from entering by the fact that the qniver-
sity is semi-miitary Institution, and
has discipline almost as rigid as that of
West Point.
THE story of the life of the new Lord
Mayor of London C. r Tyler calls to
mind the story of "Dick" Wilmington,
sometime the incumbent of the same
office. He started in life very poor boy,
and when fourteen years old was en-
ployed as messenger in the great paper
making house of William Venables, the
partners in which furnished it is said, to
Charles Dickens the originals of the
Cheeryble Brothers, the philanthropists,
in "Nicholas Niokleby." The boy adj
vanced in position slowly, but surely, and
he is now the head of this great manu-
featuring concern He is noted for his
extensive charities, and he has given
many a boy, poor as he himself once was,
an opportunity to better his condition.
He is member of several of the city
guilds, aud his wealth, despite his large
gifts to charity, is reckoned atupward of
CO, 100000.
Ir 10 reported that the natural gas
wells in the northwestern part of Ohio
are failing fast, and as a consequence the
coal dealers and wood choppers are
happy. Upper Sandusky, which for
long time past has been supplied with
natural gas, to the almost entire exclu-
sion of all other sorts OF fuel, he's been
cut off from the pipe line, and is natu-
raj gas town no more. The people have
been compelled to return to their coal
and wood stoves. The event was antic
ipated and has taken nobody, unawares,s so
there will be no suffering, as would have
been the case if the cessation of gas had
come suddenly. A company has been
organized there to manufacture arti-
nifty, that people may continue to use
their gas-burning fixtures.
The cruiser San Francisco has found
out new and very practical use for the
formidable ram with which she is armed.
The other day in her voyage from New
York to Key West she encountered dan
gerous derelict in the shape of the wreck
of the lumber laden schooner Drisko.
Captain Watson at first undertook to
tow the schooner to Key West, but find
ing that impracticable he tried to blow
it up with dynamite. Two attempts were
made without success. and then he de-
termined to ram it. Taking a good start,
he went ahead at full speed and struck
wreck amidships, cutting it entirely in
two. The lumber poured out of the two
halves, and the derelict soon settled be-
meath the waves. This seems to be the
most practicable and expeditions method
of disposing Of the dangerous floating
wrecks.
JUDGE STEWART, of the United States
district court of the Indian territory, has
rendered decision, the only logical in en-
probation of which is that the Indian
territory is n state of the union. Two
citizens of the Cherokee nation were sen
fenced to hang for murder and applied to
Judge Stewart for writ, of habeas
corpus, claiming that they were not con
victed by ''due course OF law The Judge
decided that the constitution of the
United States were supreme over the five
nations, as elsewhere in the union, and
that Indians could invoke its protection.
He ordered the condemned men to be
discharged from custody on account OF
some informaIity in the organization of
the grand jury, which indicted them.
The Cherokee nation will carry the case
to the supreme court of the United States,
and the relation of the Indian nations to
the union is likely to be clearly defined.
The white City" is being dismantled,
and will soon be obliterated. But the
influence of the great exposition, says
Frank Leslie's Weekly, will remain in
the impulse given to the industrial, COM
mercial and intellectual forces of the
world. PROFESSIONALLY it has greatly
enhanced the worlds conception of
American resources and enterprise and
the possibilities of our future.
1t has quickened, too, the sense of uni
versal brotherhood, and no other expos-
tion has ever brought the ends of the
earth so close together and so forcibly
illustrated the kinship Of the race. The
on Of ha fo,r