The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-08-14
ODD BITS OF NEWS.

Winder, Ga The Mckleduff
sisters hold the record OF TINS
state for stay-at- homes. with
their father they settled on the
land which is now part OF W'ndef
in 1888, and have never been ten
miles from the place nor nave
either of them ever been inside
a railroad coach.
Muskogee. Okla.-Frankie Lily,
20 years old, is making small
fortune teamipg in the oil fields.
The heavy lifting is done by
cranes, but the girl drives her
team and il said to be one or the
best "horsemen" in this section
Of the country.
San Francisco. Gal The Pan
American Medical Congress IL
made mp of physicians who are
brave men They are trying 60
stop kissing DR.. e F. OTIS, OF
Santa Domingo, the tuberculosis
expert, says it would be far bet
ter for sweetbearts TO great each
other with a gentle slap on the
cheek instead of an embrace ana
kiss. The doctors accepted the
hand slap kiss a. their future
rule aud il is believed they VIII
be alone in their misery.
Towanda, Pa-Mrs. Luella D.
Packard, Ga years old, swallowed
a stick nearly 10 inches long emo
il dead She had no recollection
Of swallowing the wood. but II
was found when doctors operated
for appendicitis.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Joseph Gil
lett is the coolest scbOOlboy !"
He has just turned seventy two
aud is one of the best scholars in
the engineering course OF the
continuation school.
Bessemer, ich--Wben An
drew Lappi and his family return
ed nome from call at one OF
their neighbours, they found a
huge hole in the ground where
their home ought to have been
The ground had given way and
the house had dropped into an
old shaft 200 feet deep.
Altoona, Pa Rocco Masta,
7-years, playing hide and seek
crawled into big ice-cream
freezer IN front of u store. Roc
co was wedged in so tightly he
could not escape, and when res.
cued was almost frozen as the
freezer Was surrounded with ice
and brine.
Plattsburgh, N. Y.--StudeDts
studying The effect of alcohol on
longevity, have brought to light
the case OF Thomas Wilmington,
who died at Ellington, Middle
sex, in 1904, aged 104, who for
years drank a pint and half of
gin as his minimum daily allow
ance. lie retained his faculties
to the last and walked three
miles the day before his death.
Another was George Klrtno OF
Oxcrop Hall, Yorks, who drank
abnormally all his days, yet
hunted in his Tooth year and died
IN 1862, aged 125 years.
, New York, N. Y.--Huan Schuen
Mel, A. b LII. b, has been ad
mitted to the Federal bar In the
United States District court
! New York. He is the fret China
. man to win the privilege Of Prac
ticlpg in The federal courts a.
, New York. He is an American
: citizen, having been born in Sar
!, Francisco.
Camden, N. J.--William A
: Kortum. who died in the ineaD'
|. asylum recently, il said to have
lost his mind as result OF visi
to Billy Sundays tabernacle il
philadelphia last February. Mrs
Jessie Kortum, the mother, de
clares the youth became a reliGl
GUS fanatic after he had heart
Sunday preach. He wandered
about the streets mumbliDi
prayers aud praising Sunday
He kept a large diary filled will
we'll known Sunday sayings.
! Eureka, Cal---Angus Olafson
a homesteader Of South Hum
I boldt county, when he wende'
+ his way out of his lonely cam
. recently, heard for the first tim
I Of the European war.
: Chicago, Ill--Thomas McNall
. and Charles Kerth, sentenced 70
Q life to Joliet in 1898, have bee
q paroled under the new lllinoi
!? law. They had. never seen a.
/ aeroplane or a movie or ridden i
9 an automobile or on an elevated
They went into Il theater, blu
! came out in pop eyed amazement
: "Beat 1t quick" sad Thomas
! "the chorus girlr are not wearin
q stockings In here"
" Chicago, Ill. If chubby" Is II
t ritable, distant, addicted to stay
ing out nights or talking abou