The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-04
GENERAL BREyITTES.

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the corpse passes out"
For eleven months has James McClung
of Staunton, VT, been dumb. without any
eXplicable cause. Two Sundays ago.
however. he entered the sitting-room OF
his house and saluted his family with a
cheerful good morning." at the same
time nearly fainting. He has conversed
rs well as ever since that. He says that
just as he spoke Sunday, he experienced
convulsive movement of the muscles Of
the throat and a sense Of conclusion in the
head.
A HOUSE fun Of children composes as
powerful a group of motives as ever moved
heart or hand, and the secret of many a
struggle and triumph i'm the worlds battle
may be found throned in the mothers lap
at home, or done up i'm a little bundle OF
white flannel. A nations hope, before
now, has been found i'm a basket of bull
rushes. Get ready to be afraid of the
man that children are afraid of, and be
sure that he who hates them is not him
self worth loving.
In a case now pending i'm the Tennessee
Supreme Court, in which $1,000 is in
volved, the sole question to be determined
is whether a certain letter on a promis-
sorry note is ''I'' or - In type the diff
ference between the letters is plain enough,
but when written they are identical. Was
the note executed to !. Blanckensee or l.
Blanckensee-tO Julius Blanckensee or
Isaac Blanckensee? The representatives
of both parties claim the money.
A STRONG mind always hopes, because it
knows the mutability of human affairs, and
how slight a circumstance may change the
whole course of events. Such a spirit, too,
rests upon itself; it is not confined to par
ticular objects, and if. at last. all should be
lost, it has saved itself its own integrity
and worth. Hope awakens courage, while
dependency is the last of all evils it is the
abandonment of gOOd-the giving up ofthe
battle of life with dead nOthingness. He
who can implant courage in the human
soul is its best physician.
ABOUT thousand years ago a colony
of Icelanders was planted on the western
coast of Greenland. They were hardy
people. Injured to cold and meager living,
and there seemed to be no reason why they
should not take root i'm the frozen soil of
their new homes. They built a stone
church there and stone houses to live in,
ofwhich the ruins are still to be seen. But
what became of the builders is question
that has never been solved. and never will
be. They vanished from the face of the
earth, and that is all that is known.
Whether cold, or pestilence, or starvation
took them off, or whether wandering saw
ages killed them. no man can tell. Their
settlement is known in history as Lost
Greenland.
A GREAT variety of articles, including
grain bags, wagon covers, floor covers,
ropes. sails, etc, are made in Russia from
the inner bark of the Eastwood or linden
tree, a million trees being destroyed annu-
ally in the manufacture, and the value Of
the articles produced amounting TO s., 4O0,-
600. The bark is collected by the peasants
I'm May and June, when the ascent of the
sap renders peeling easy. That of the
lower part of the trunk. generally en-
plOyed for roofing, is obtained in pieces
about 81 by 3 feet, and is warmed and
pressed to prevent its curling. That ofthe
upper part of the trunk and the branches
is tied in bundles and rolled under water
until September. when it is dried by the aid
of heat and separated into thin. delicate
strips. suitable for weaving into mating,
and varying in weight according to the use
TO be made of it.
The San Francisco Post suggests that
the following additional sections be added
to the ordinance recently passed by the
Board of Supervisors of that city pro
hibiting cheating, or fraudulent or dishOn-
est practices at card-playing :" Section
3. In playing game of draw-pOker flush
sequence shall be deemed to be a better
hand than four cards Of a kind; and the
party holding the age may pass and
come in again: and every player when
raised beyond his means to respond, shall
be entitled to a sight for his money. Sec
ton 4. In the game of euchre, jack shall
be considered the highest card in cutting
for deal. and i'm case the dealer is ordered
up by his partner, said dealer shall have
the privilege of playing alone and scoring
four points-if he can. Section .. In the
game of pedro, the game shall be counted
high, low, jack, game, and pedro. Sec
ton 6. Any person declaring that he holds
nineteen at cribbage shall be deemed gull
ty of violation OF this ordinance"
THE EFFECT OF SHAKESPEARE TRANS
LATED Shakespeare's works." says
Berlin correspondent, - are admirably
given here, but the translation of words
often gives a most ludicrOuS impression,
and every one has experienced how at the
very moment he should be the most sober
and decOrOuS. an uncomfortable desire to
laugh cOnvulSes his whole body. In
Romeo and Juliet imagine lover wish
ing he were 'handSchuh' on the hand of
his fair lady, that he might touch her
'backe,' or 'wangc.' The tender parts in
this play are so excessively tender in Ger
man that. during a whole scene when all
the ladies around me were bathed in tears,
/ was biting my lips and almost choking
myself with my handkerchief in order to
drive back a laughter tiend who had taken
complete possession of me, but RonlcO'S
'liebe, suisse IUliah, and the nurses long
drawn out 'fraulien. fraulien,' came very
near running my reputation as a Sympa-
thetic, well-behaved woman
WHEN the anaconda was on exhibition
here. saws the san Francisco Alta, it was
customary to feed him with a rabbit every
few DAYS, and the reptile thrOve on his
diet. When the snake was taken to Sacra-
mentO for exhibition il was uncertain how
long the show would stay; but the patron
age of the ScramentanS was generous, and
the agentat once telegraphed for his snowy
posters to "bill the town" The dispatch
read: Send 200 cuts Immediately" but
when received it read: "Send 200 cats i'm
mediately." 1t was a little bit of a sur
prise to the agent in San Francisco when
he read the message, but he reasoned that
rabbits were scarce in Sacramento. and it
was necessary to substitute cats for the
regular proyender, so he started out an
army Of boys to catch all the stray cats.
BY the afternoon train he sent a crate of
- cats, with a letter saying: - | send 20
cats by this train, and will forward balance
tomorrow. but | am afraid that number of
cats will eat the snake, if they get loose,
instead of being eaten by him."
An audacious trick. says the Court Jour
nal, was lately played by a ''sneak thief"
at a London club. he entered the hall
without attracting the notice of the porter,
and proceeded to empty the pockets of the
great coats he found ranged in a corridor
While selecting a few of the best, he was
interrupted by a member, who in astOnish-
ment asked him what he was doing. "Oh.
this is my regular business he sad. Il
am employed to clean the gentlemen's
coats in several clubs. take all the grease
out of their collars" Indeed said the
gentleman, interested, thinking he had got
hold of one he could turn to account.
Chow long do you take:' "Why. | will
be back with these in an hour" If so
YOU may rs well take mine,' said the mas
ter. adding his coat to the heap, and es-
Il, n.