Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-07-26
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.

Than Fiction.
ST FoRMAN, the Florida rattle
snake charmer, collected crowd
in the stfeets of Jacksonville the
other day with q diamond back rat
tier, which he had caught near
Springfield. 1t was five feet eight
inches long. He extracted it's fangs
without assistance in the presence
of the crowd.
A STORY comes from Harrisburg,
Neb., of cyclone that picked up u
log Ia feet long and Is inches
thick and carried it sixty rods. After
this warming-up heat the wind gath
cred up Rufus Woody and his horse,
and carried them through the open
roof of shed and landed them 300
feet away. Neither man nor horse
was much hurt, although Woody's
clothes were blown off.
IT has been discovered, through
agricultural meetings in New Eng
land, that certain farmers have been
feeding sawdust to sheir horses. At
first blush this sounds absurd but
every one knows how fond horses and
cattle are of small shrubs, and may
not sawdust be regarded as prepared
grown up shrub? 1t is claimed, by
those who have tried it, that saw
dust heeps the horses in good condi-
ton. One farmer fed his horses with
q mixture of equal proportions of
crushed oats, fine cut straw, little
hay and fresh elm sawdust.
THE Henderson (Ky.) Courier says
of remarkable woman in Webster
county: 1.-The oldest grandmother in
Kentucky; the Oldest great-grand-
mother in the history of the State OF
Kentucky; the oldest great-great-
grandmother in the history of the
United States is Betsy Shelton, who is
the mother of fourteen children, the
grandmother of III children, and the
great-grandmother of 2S2 children,
and the Observation-Disclosures OF
nineteen children. She was born in
North Carolina in 1898. She moved
to Kentucky in 1867. She is still
living and in moderate health"
| Two extraordinary cases of bullet
wounds becoming active after lapse
! of twenty-four years are reported by
German medical paper. One is that
of matchmaker named Kleeman
living at Dusseldorf, who was wound
ed in the Franco-German war. Three
years ago he had bullet success
fully extracted from his right shoul
der, and Week ago, after q month:
illness, a second bullet was extracted
from his left side. The second cas-
is that of a station master who few
days ago was operated upon at Bonr
and had French bullet, which
pierced his right shoulder in the war
cut from his right side.
In the town of Ratibor, province o
Silesia, Prussia, on the left bank o
the Oder River, stands maple tire,
which is wonderful combination o
nature and mans patience and inge
nuity. 1t is said to be more than
century old, and has been turned int,
kind of temple of two stories, eacl
! of it's compartments being lighted b,
eight windows, and capable of con
tanning twenty people with ease. TIL
floors are constructed of boughs skill
fully woven together, of which TIL
leaves make a sort of natural carpet
The walls are formed of thick LEAKAGE
in which innumerable birds bulk
their nests.
PROBABLY the Oldest man in Madi
son County, Ky, lives in the Bi!
Hill neighborhood. He does no
know his exact age, but from the rec
objections of old residents in tina
neighborhood he is not far from 12(
years old. He is a white man
with one-quarter Cherokee Indian
and of the Indian blood he is as prout
as if he were the owner of broad blue
grass acres. His name is Jehl
Vaughn, father Of William Vaughn
the Madison County skeleton, VIII
was with Barnum for years. Mr.
Vaughn hasn't tooth in his head
but never suffered one pang of tooth
ache. He saved oil his teeth, ant
guards them with as jealous care Al
does the miser his gold, and want
them buried with him.
| In treatise on the subject of al
cohol, Mr.. Lawson TAFT exonerate
the human race from the imputa
ton of being the only creatures tina
naturally take to drink. Wasps, h
says, have the same proclivity. Mr.
TAFT has watched the wasps eagerly
attacking over-ripe fruits, when tn,
sugar had had in some degree beer
coverted into alcohol. Around sucl
fruits, especially rotten plums anC
grapes, the wasps may be seen fight
ing and struggling for precedence
and afterwards, when they are abso
lutely drunk with the spirit, they
crawl away III torpid condition ant
hide themselves in the grass till they
have slept off the orgie. The wasp i.
even more quarrelsome than usual il
his cups, and will sting most venom
ously on the slightest provocation.
did you ever hear of dog having
wooden leg?" inquired S. P. Ord
way, Of Logansport, Ind. II know
man near where ! live who has
small dog one of whose front legs wa,
crushed some time ago by wager