The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-09-03
GENERAL BREVITIES.

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apple of the eye.
A PRAYER-RooM in private houses. fitted
up enthusiastically, is the latest fashionable
novelty.
ONE mode of churning butter in Chill Is
70 put the milk in skin, usually dogs
skin, tie il on a donkey, mount boy on
him with rowels in his spurs about the
length of the animals ears, and then run
him four-mile heat.
WE are ruined not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do; there
fore never 90 abroad in search OF your
wants. If they be real wants they VIII
come home in search of you, for ne tlat
buys what he does not want VIII soon
want what he cannotbuy.
AMONG the visitors at Santa Cruz IA
California watering-place) is a San Fran
cisco lady, the wife Of a stock-broker, who
has made herself conspicuous by wearing
a demonstrating mask of chamois leather.
IL is said she envelopes herself in leather to
save a singularly beautiful complexion.
She is alluded TO in town as "the woman
In the yellow mask"
A MOVEMENT is now being made to in
troduce the prairie-chicken, or pennated
grouse, into various waste tracts In
Europe and America, and with probable
success. Ii is stated that a few years ago
several pairs were transferred 10 district
in Maryland, and that in consequence of
proper protection the progeny amount to
several thousands.
THE Supreme Court of Minnesota late
" decided that railroad companies must
pay for injuries to those who travel on free
passes the same as for accidents happening
TO passengers who pay their fares. The
numerous class of deadheads will rejoice
TO hear it. They can now travel for moth
ing in Minnesota, lose a leg or an arm with
smiling face, and make comfortable sum
by the operation.
THAT was shrewd advice of a learned
lawyer to a pupil: When the facts are
in your favor, but the law opposed to you,
come out strong on the facts and when
the law is in your favor and the facts OPP
posed to you, come out strong on the
law.' But" inquired the student,
"when the law and the facts are both
against me, what shall | dO?'' ''Why,
theH,n said the lawyer, " talk around it."
THE ways of women are past finding
out. 1t is said that the ladies of Hartford,
Conn, have fashion of tying up their
taper fingers when young gentlemen are
expected to call, and when they very nat
urally ask the cause they blushingly re-
mark: Il burnt them broiling steak this
morning" The result is that several
young gentlemen have burned their fin
gers believing the story.
In heating, ventilation, lighting, clean
illness, attendance. and luXuries, says the
Philadelphia american, the hotel in Amer
lea, when of the highest type has nothing
to desire. And yet invention can antici-
pate or create wants and desires. We
have hotels with billiard-roOms and smok-
ing-rOOms. We may yet have them with
chapels, schools. and children's play
rooms, as well as attending clergymen,
physicians, and instructors.
AN extraordinary marriage took place
at lexington, England, the other day. the
ceremony being performed by the Very
Rev. Archdeacon Philpott in the presence
of a large congregation. The married
couple both belong of the parish of Jeving
ton, but the singular part is the fact that
the bride has no arms, and the ring had
to be placed on the third toe of the left
foot. At the conclusion of the marriage
ceremony she signed the register, holding
the pen in her toes, in very decent
"hand."
1T may seem strange, but it is neverthe-
less true, that alcohol, regularly applied
to a thrifty farmers stomach, will remove
the boards from the fence, let cattle into
his crops, kill his fruit trees, mortgage his
farm, and SOW his fields with wild oats
and thistles. 1t will take the paint of his
building, break the glass out of the Win
dows, and fill them with rags. 1t will
take the gloss from his clothes and polish
from his manners, subdue his reason,
arouse his passion, bring sorrow and dis
grace upon his family, and topple himin
a drunkard's grave. 1t will do this to the
artisan and the capitalist, the matrOn and
the maiden, as well as to the farmer for
IN its deadly ennity to the human race,
alcohol is no respecter of persOns.-SGni-
tartan.
WHERE does all the opium 90 to? Are
We becoming a nation of ODium-eaterS?
The increase of its use i'm this country is
truly alarming. The importation of opium
now amounts to nearly 250,000 pounds
annually, ten times more than thirty years
ago; and it is the opinion of physicians
and druggists that not more than one
third of the quantity is used for medicinal
purposes. In other words, more than
100000 pounds of this drug are now used
for stimulating purposes in this country.
If the refOrmerS could get rid of the
opium. it is question whether some other
stimulant would not be found to supply
its place. The influence of this drug on
the human system is fearful to contem-
plate.
A GOOD example of muscular Christian
ity is recorded of Father Lynch, an Irish
priest, formerly attached to the Roman
Catholic College below Niagara Falls, and
who was afterward Bishop of Toronto.
Returning home one dark night on horse
back, Father Lynch was accOsted by a
footpad with bludgeon, who ordered him
TO dismount and surrender his horse and
purse. The reverend father did as he was
ordered, and in so doing sprang on his as
sailant and laid him flat on his back. Are
you an Irishman?' 81 am sir" "A
Catholic?' "Sure that | am" swell, |
am Father Lynch. and shall take your
punishment out of the hands of the law"
saying which he laid his riding whip upon
the back of the astOnished offender with
such vigor that the latter probably regis
tered a vow that his next assault should be
on a layman.