The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-20
GENERAL BREVITIES.

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A LITTLE girl in Reading, Pa. recently
saw an old drunken man lying on door
step, the perspiIation pouring off his face
and crowd OF children preparing 10 make
fun of him. She took her little apron and
wiped his face, and then looked up so pitt
fully 10 the rest and made the remark
"0h, say, don't hurt him; he is some
body's grandpa.H FR -
The Buffalo Common Council has made
an ordinance coRtainingthe following pro-
visions: And each and every dog so 60
ing at large shall have securcfyput on
good, strong, substantial, and safe muzZle,
so 70 efiectually prevent said dog from
biting or swapping, and the owner OF any
dog found running at large contrary to
the provisions of this section shall forfeit
and pay the sum Of S. for each and every
offense.' attL. ~
HUSBAND and wife who have fought the
world side by side, who have made COM
mon stock with joy or sorrow, and grow
aged together, are not unfrequently found
curiously alike in personal Appearance,
and in pitch and tone Of voice. He has
gained something feminine which brings
his manhood into full relief; she has
gained something masculine which acts as
fol- TO her womanhood.
SOMETHING, nobody knows what, has
killed all the fish in Washoe Lake. The
shore is piled with the bodies, and the sur
face of the water is covered with them.
The Lake is described as looking clear and
pure, and no mills poison it. The peli-
cans, gulls, and other fish-eating fowls
which have abOunded thereabOut have left.
The only explanation advanced by the set
tiers is that there has been an eruption of
some kind of deleterious gas from the bot
tom of the lake.
WARNING TO Young LADIEs.-A young
miss wearing a handsome white polonaise
was assisted into the cars at a Pennsylva-
ma railroad depot by gallant brakeman,
who unfortunately left the clear and I'M
mistakable imprint of his fingers on the
pOlonaise just below the young lady s
right shoulder. To people in the train
who surmised how the marks came there
the matter was amusing, of course.
The bark Adventure, one of the two
vessels commanded by Capt. James Cook
at the time of his second voyage around
the world, is still afloat and sailing between
London, England, and Georgetown, De
merara. She is more than one hundred
years old, is staunch and full built for
ward and carries good cargo. In beat
ing up and down the Demerara River she
not unfrequently OutSails her modern RI
walls, Notwithstanding her inelegant lines.
The students of Bates College, Bap-
fist institution at Lewiston, Me-, pay their
way by working during the summer sea
son as hotel walters at the Glen House, in
the White Mountains. The four classes
of the college number together about one
hundred young fellows, and forty of them
have found work at the Glen House this
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pleased with their honest, manly bearing,
that on going away he left $500 to be di-
yided among them.
AN able and conscientious reporter on a
Chicago paper does the courteous thing
for his toOthist as follows e" DIR. -. the
well-knOwn and popular dentist, whose
fame as an operator upon the human tooth
is as widespread as the heavens above, is
about to leave his immense practice for q
few days shooting in Indiana, where the
steady arm which has so often torn the
stubborn molar from its resting-place will
direct the fatal pellet upon the gentle
woodcock and fast-fying snipe.o
THE oppressed tobaccO-chewers OF
Wooster, Ohio, can't have any peace, even
in church. A preacher there has now be-
gun war upon them. In a recent Sun
day discourse, he spoke Of the "hOggish-
ness" of chewing in church. and after
painting the Offense in all its enormity,
proving cOncluSively that every man who
chewed the weed in church was hog, a
villain, rascal, and a knave, he paused in
his sermon, looked his hearers steadfastly
in the face, and said: Now, | want no
more such dirty practices here. If any
man chews tobacco i'm the house of the
Lord next Sunday, | shall call him by
name in open church."
THE Alexandria (Va.) Gazette says the
Presbytery of Chesapeake met in Balti-
more, recently, to try the case of the Rev.
ii. +. G. Baskerville, of Laurel, charged
with whipping his wife. The specifica-
ton is that one Sunday, short time since,
the reverend gentleman, who is the pro-
wider for the household, having failed 20
procure anything for breakfast except
bread and butter, was surprised to find
some eggs on the table, and being inform
ed by his wife, i'm response to an inquiry,
that she had borrowed them from a neigh
Dor, told her he would teach her how to
break the Sabbath" and did so by slapping
her jaws-one of the slaps striking her on
the eye and "blacking'' that orb into
which he had so often fondly gazed.
Miss LYDIA BYREs' father of OskalOosa,
Iowa, lately wrote letter to one of his
daughters lady friends i'm Bloomington,
ILL.,, stating that LYDIA was dead. She had
been seized with illness soon after return
ing home from the Normal School at
Bloomington, and died suddenly. Itmade
much grief among the companions of the
young lady's Normal School course. Sew
eral days after letter came addressed to
the same young lady of Bloomington, ap-
parently by the hands of her dead friend.
Opening the letter she found that her sup
posed dead friend had both written the let
ter and signed il. The letter stated that
she had been struck down by illness, was
pronounced dead, put in a coffin, her
grave dug, and the hour for the funeral
appointed; but she was luckily ot-buried.
for the very good reason that she woke up
in time te render the last ceremony quite
unnecessary. She was very glad of it, and
was quite well again. She SuppoSeS it was
trance that looked like death.
IT having been found impossible in Ger
many TO suppress dueling among army
officers, it is to be legaliZed in this unique
and original manner: Councils of Hon
or" are to be formed to consider any per-
Sonal difficulties that may arise among ar
my officers. In case a council is unable to
reconcile a quarrel, then the officers may
go out TO the field of honor and settle il
with swords or pistols. In case of fight
under such circumstances, the parties en-
gagged are to be free from prosecution,
whatever the result to either. This course
will doubt tend greatly to abridge the
practice of dueling, for most councils
would withhold their consent to a duel,
except under circumstances of a marked or
eXtradinary character. While ii looks like
licensing or tolerating a very pernicious
practice, we are of the opinion that this
practical innovation will tend to bring the
dUello into still greater disrepute.
A Good Word for Trousers.