The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15


a thank-ofIering for the recovery of a sick
child.
He who tells a lie is not sensible how
great task he undertakes, for he must be
forced TO invent twenty more to sustain
that one.
A CHELSEA, Mass, man has AN UNI
brella seventy-two years old, but still
sound. IL was in constant use till with
IN seven years, but the owner has now
reveiently laid it aside as an heirloom.
PENNSYLVANIA claims to have given the
United States the first turnpike road, rail
road, water-works, locomotive, hospital,
law school, public museum, music hall and
free library. E
a KENTUCKY cBns9l has sent two lady
missionaries to tbesKiii Esiasas.s Tbs As
very cOnsiderate. Ne doubt the canni-
balls will prefer this sort 10 the tough old
gentlemen who are usually thrust upon
that market.
The little forest town Of Snohomish.
Washington Territory, has library of sew
eral hundred volumes. a scientific cOllec-
ton that is constantly increasing. and a
lyceum before which there is lecture de-
liyered every week.
A RUSSIAN in London committed suicide
because he couldn't learn English. IL
every Englishman committed suicide who
didn't speak it correctly. there would hard
ly be enough left for the Queens body
guard, says the Boston Post.
IN one of the gYiTcyartls at Truro, Cape
Cod, Is a marble column bearing the names
OF fifty-seven men and boys belonging to
that place, who with seven vessels, were
lost on the banks in a single storm.
EACH ant i'm an ant-hill knows his COM
panions. Darwin several times carried
ants from one hill to another, inhabited
apparently by tens of thousands of ants !;
but the strangers were invariably detected
and killed.
THE next largest bells to "Big Ben" in
England, are Peter of York, and big
Tom," Of Oxford. The former weighs
over u tons, and gives the note + sharp !;
the latter weighs over tons, and is gen
orally considered TO give the note A.
AT an eating-hOuse in Fort Howard, on
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad,
the following sign is hung up: "All meals
taken in this hall will be seventy i've cents,
regardless of age, business, Sex, rationale
ty, politics. religion, or previous condition
of servitude."
4 NOVEL arrangement has been inserted
in all the cabin berths of the steamship
State of Nevada. Ii is a liie-preserving
mattress with spring bottom, which can
float under the weight-of q heavy man for
an indefinite time Without dangeraof cap
sizing.
ONE of the wretched lunatics confined
in the poor-house of Milwaukee is a tele-
graphic operator, and she spends her
time ''telegraphing'' to her husband in
Ireland. The knuckles of her fingers
are worn down to the bone by her cease
less tapping against The, wall, in the .'diS-
patching" OF her ndsSages- y - n -
The Chinese rebel against the sewing
machine, because, they say, it cheapens
labor and heprives their tailors of work.
At Hong Kong several Chinese tailors,
who lately undertook to use machines,
were assaulted and expelled from the ma
tive community. In America, Chinese
cheap labor is opposed and ridiculed. In
China. American cheap labeFy by -Hachin-
cry, is equally repudiated.
BUNYAN, the author of " Pilgrims Pro-
grcss," on being cast into prison, made a
flute Of one of the rails of the stool be-
longing TO his cell. The keeper often
heard sweet music, but could not trace it,
as Bunyan on his approach always re-
placed the rail in the stool. The officers
searched in vain fUTrtffe mysterious sounds,
but Bunyan kept his secret, and the bafiled
men were forced to believe them superna-
tural.
GIVE man the nccesSaries of life and
he wants the cOnveniences. Give him the
cOnveniences and he Graves for the luXu-
ries. Grant him the luXuries and he signs
for the elegancEs,y- I1et him have, the7ete-
gances and heSycarns TOR the follies.. Give
him all together and he complains that he
has been cheated both in price and quality
of the articles.
ANIMALS are now slaughtered scientifi-
cally in Paris and Vienna. The instru-
ment used is simply a very convenient
form of AK. with hollow cylinder like
gun-wad punch) about six inches long and
one inch in diameter, with its edge ground
sharp on the end opposite the blade. A
single blow with this end cuts around hole
in the forehead, ami produces instant
death. Under the old method it required
ten or more blows to produce death.
THE Herald Of Health is of opinion that
the simple color of ones surroundings has
marked influence on his health. 1t says :
yellow on the walls of our rooms has a
very depressing effect on the mind. Violet
is worse. a man wosIid go mad ina little
while in violet prepared or painted room.
Black rooms, or rooms heavily draped in
morning, produce gloom and forebOdng
Never wear mourning long, unless you
wish to become sad and sorrowful beyond
what nature ever intended
SAN Francisco is agitaed, by the rques-
ton whether twiepty-two unmarried Chi
nese women recently landed there shall be
allowed to remain. The Supreme Court
of California has decided that the State
authorities can send the women back, but
the steamship company has appealed to the
limited States l'irpuit 'OIlrt and If is nm
derstOod that the case will be carried if
necessary to the Supreme Court of the
United States. In lS70,a bilkswasl passed
by Congress prohibiting the transportation
of any Chinse woman not accompanied by
bar buShan1 or f,tbar