The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-09-10
GENERAL BREVITIES.

when the mother threw herself upon the
coffin, declaring that she had heard the
child speak. The coffin was opened and
the child found TO be alive.
In the English Postmaster-Ge re-
port il is stated that about 1890 letters
were posted last year without any address
whatever, and that nearly 500 of the let
tiers contained cash, checks, or bills of ex-
change, TO the value Of more than el3,OOO.
A New YORK chap who expected 10 be
appointed an official dog-catcher began 10
collect the animals. and presently had
sixty in his cellar. His appointment not
appearing, he sat down the other day and
wrote to the Mayor that if the document
was not forthcoming he should turn the
dogs loose-and he intimated his belief that
some of them had the hydrOphobia. He
was requested to step right up to the City
Hall and qualify.
A JOLLY crowd of porpoises came to
grief recently while humping and splash
ing off the bay at Willett's Point near New
York, while General Abbott and his as
sistants were engaged in torpedo practice.
Seeing the school approaching, the Gene
raj waited until they dived near the torpe-
does, and then let on the current of cleo
tricity. The explosion which followed
brought to the surface three dead pOrpOis-
es. each about eight feet in length, which
were secured for their Oil. Two or three
Others were stunned, but were allowed to
escape. One of the dead ones had
swallowed a large eel and a number of
small fish.
How is it that girls can always tell a
married man from a single one? The fact
is indisputable. Blackwood SAYS that the
''fact of matrimOny or dictatorship is
written so legibly in mans appearance
that no ingenuity can conceal it. Every
where there is some ineXplicable instinct
that tells us whether an individual (whOse
name, fortune and circumstances are tOta-
tally unknown) be or be not a married
man. Whether il is a certain subdued
look, such as that which characteriZes the
lions in menageric, and distinguishes
them from the lords of the desert, we
cannot tell but the truth is so, we posi-
lively Affirm
IT'S bad thing to have a toothache,
and it's equally bad to have the pain-mak-
er extracted. A French paper tells of a
woman who, mad with the pain from an
aching mOlar, rushed TO the dentist and
begged him to remove the cause of her
misery. Several attempts were made to
extract the tooth, but they were unavail-
ing, and the woman nearly frantic started
on run for pond, intending TO lose the
pain and her life by drowning. Meeting
an archer, she cOntided her trouble to him,
and he, being a good fellow, essayed TO
aid her. Tying one end of a thong to the
tooth and making the other end fast to an
arrow. he drew his bow to its utmost and
let it fly. But the tooth was true to its
place, and the wOman-a little, withered
old body-follOwed the arrow and ended
her flight by being dropped into neigh
boring canal, from which she was tished
by bOatman. Moral: Don't believe
everything you read.
The Berkshire Life Insurance Company
has an odd case in court. 5. NJ. Cooper,
farmer of Stockbridge, Me-, died under
peculiar circumstances. His father and
grandfather had died at the age of forty
one, and he foretold that he should die at
the same age. Although apparently in
sound health, he prepared to meet his fate
as the date drew near, and, few days be-
fore the time when he expected to die, he
went to Pittsfield, had his will made, and
stepping into the insurance Office, applied
for a $4,000 policy. He was pronounced
sound by the cOmpany's doctors, paid his
premium, and took his policy. The next
day he was taken sick with some kind of
fits, and being taken home, died soon after
in his forty-first year, as he had predicted.
His administrators applied to the insur-
ance company for the amount of the pol
icy, but payment being refused. they have
brought suit.
A NAUGHTY tone, a rude address,
bruises no muscles, causes no physical
pain, like the pangs of hunger or the
misery of drought; but it hurts all the
same; and if. as the prOverb says, hard
words break no bones, they none the less
wound that self-eSteem which lies at the
root of half our sentimental grievances.
Subordinates feel this domineering inso-
lence of manner a great grievance when
they are subject to it; so do superiOrs
when they have to encounter the pertness
of those whom they consider their in
feriOrs. But the grievance in either case
is based on exactly the same sentimental
grounds. and to those who regard the
physical as the sole real thing in life ought
to count for nothing. Magazine.
THE absence of mind incidental to nerv-
business or fright was nicely illustrated the
other night, when a kerosene lamp eX-
plOded in a barber shop on MalOtt avenue.
The lamp was directly under mirror, and
on its upward flight shattered it into frag-
ments and set fire to the shop. The pro
prietor, in his haste, took up a peach box
and filled it with water. 1t all leaked out
He then took up peck measure, and
pumped into it very theoretically for SEINE
time before discovering that it had no bot
tom. Mr.. Wright, preacher. rushed in
at this moment, and Selling wood bucket
went to the hitching-post and attempted tC
draw water from it. Another well mean
ing person followed suit. Then stranger
rushed in and said: why don't YOU
swab' it Out:" Suiting the action to tn,
words, he pulled down curtain, and sOOr
eXtinguiShed the flames. The damage was
slight, but the fright was great enough fol
a Chicago conflagration. - HldianapoLj,
(b'd.) Sentinel.
A LONDON Times correspondent SAYS
The other day at Sakhara | saw nine cam
els pacing down from the mummy pits tC
the bank of river laden with nets, il
which were femOra, tibia and other bOny
bits of the human form, some two hun
dred weight in each net on each side of the
camel. Among the pits there were PEG
pie busily engaged in searching out, sift
ing and sorting out the bones which al
most crust the ground. On inquiry
learned that the cargOeS with which the
camels were laden would be sent to Alex
andria, and thence be shipped to Eng
lloll uldlluEC IlduuidCluTeTS. IL lCN Uldkt
excellent manure, ! am told, partic
ularly for Swedes and other turnips. TIL,
trade is brisk, and has been going on fol
years, and may go on for many more.
is a strange fate to preserve ones skeleton
for thousands of years in order that there
may be fine SOuthdOwnS and cheviOts in
distant land! Egypt is always a place o
wonders.
SOME Of the most delicate and costly
perfumes are now made by chemical arti
flee, and not, as formerly, by distillins
them from tiowers-the perfume of thu
latter often consisting of oils and others
such as the chemist can compound artif
cially in his laboratory. Commercial en-
terprise has availed itself of this new ave
nue. to trade and profits but the mos
singular fact is that these delightfully."- fra
grant products are most generally derived
from substances of intensely disgusting
odor. Thus, the peculiarly fetid oil
termed fusel oil, is formedin making bran
dy and whisky; this fusel oil. distilled
with sulphuric acid and acetate of potash
gives the beautiful oil of pears. The oil o.
apples is made from the same fusel oil. by
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