The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-26
GENERAL BREYITIEs.

en-, are in the habit Of getting Italian art.
lists TO make statuary and then selling
them as original to Americans.
EASTERN papers have some way received
the impression that the hotel rates at Sar-
atoga will be considerably reduced this
summer. This bit of news will carry Joy
70 the hearts Of every poor family in the
West.
''PRoFEsseR.'' said a student in pur-
suit of knowledge concerning animals,
why does a cat, while eating, turn her
head first one way and then anotherE
For the reason" replied the. Professor,
that she cannot tnrn il both ways az
once"
The girls belonging 10 one Of the schools
in Pittsburg were recently out for walk,
two and two. As they approached street
where saloons abound a sudden fen dc .jOie
was executed, by the sudden claPping of
the window-shutters i'm the vicinity. They
were taken for woman's temperance move
ments
The influence of forests i'm drawing
moisture from the heavens may be Judged
from the experience of san Diego, CalifOr-
mia. Previous to 1865 there was yearly a
rainy season, which made the soil nourish-
ing and productive. In 1868 destructive
fire swept over the greater part Of the
county, cutting down the luXuriant chap
parel. and blackening the hills. Since then
there has been no rainy season at San Di-
ego.
OUR readers who are tired Of short names,
such as plain John, or James, will be
pleased 10 learn that the Siamese Twins
were called Iiphopages of the class of
Recommendation or briefly Omphc-
lophagds Ziph0didymus. Mothers in
search OF originality in the nomenclature
Of their infants cannot do better than hang
on TO one of these classical titles They
can be easily abbreviated into Didyma, .
or " Pages" or Hagus," and even be
shortened in cases of affection to Did, =
Pag," or IIag." -
ONB-SIDEDNEss. - The famous DR..
Brown-Sequard deprecates the one-sided-
ness OF physical education. Brains. lungs.
hands, and feet, he urges, are all double in
their functional capacities, and should be-
equally educated and exercised en- both
sides. To train children to use the right
hand more than the left, sleep upon par
ticular side. ETC.. is to allow it also to use
only one side Of the brain. Then if the
right hand or the right foot is injured,
the left is not efficient, as it should be:
and so, when one side of the brain is dis
eased, the other is not in working order.
SHALL we burn or bury - is one of the
revolutionary questions now agitating the
public. For our part. we are not in favor
OF going back on the old plan. 1t was
good enough for our fathers. and it will
suit us as well. The fact is, we expect to
die some time, and prefer to be laidaway in
the shady receSses of sepulchre, with the
screws in the casket loose. and. in case of
termination, TO be able TO kick the lid off.
rather than to be thrown into the furnace
Of locomotive and have no chance of es-
gaping through the smOke-stack.-Cou Courier
Journal.
LONDON papers are cOngratulating the
country that there is little danger of their
being talked to death by the new House of
Commons. 1t is essentially an assembly of
safe men, and probably shade older.
balder, and, if put in the scales,a few stones
heavier than its predecessor. 1t may be
expected to be rather less fuSSy, diScurSive
and loquacious, and less given to turning
itself into a priggish debating club. A
considerable number of the members NAV
be trusted TO vote better than they can
speak, and to support the constitution by a
noble reticence, and this is considered so
far hopeful for public business.
EDUCATIONAL HEALTH.-The oldphysio-
logical apothegm identifying a sound mind
with a sound body is deXterOusly reasoned
conversely by recent writer. Ii appears
thatin any large body of people within
the same circumstances army. for in
stance-a better average of health is MAIN
tanned by those who can read and write
than by those who cannot. Thence it is !
argued that the minds resources of educa- !
ton, aside from their more intelligent di-
rectiOn of all sanitary instincts. afford the
brain most wholesome distraction from a
turgidity or monotOny of concentration
undoubtedly Oppressive of physical vital
ity. The average length of life is great
er with educated than with uneducated
people.
RECENT returns show that the city of |
Paris is, next to London, the healtbest in |
Europe, the proportion of deaths being |
2l9 per 1000. Among the best sanitary |
arrangements of this capital, remarks the |
London Echo, are those affecting the meat |
supply, which gives employment to what |
was formerly a corporation having the |
monopoly of the sale of this necessary,
but is now a ilourishing industry, open to
all corners, and subject to no government
supervision but that required by regard |
for the public health. Every person wish
ing to carry on the trade of butchery in
Paris must inform the municipal authori-
ties of his name, and the place where he
intends TO set up in business. and must
give similar notice in case of removal.
Private slaughter-houSes are not allowed.
and all meat is inspected in public abat-
TORS, and on its entrance into the town be-
fore being delivered to the public. The
number of butchers in Paris who employ
from two to ten wOrkmen is S04, and that
OF butchers employing one workman
only or working alone is 32S; total.
LISP. These l,l32 butchers carry on
a business amounting TO figure Of l55,-
100000 francs.
An English botanist has recently ac-
counted for the climate changes in Great
Britain by the dying out of certain vege-
table growths, which once flOurished in
some parts of the United Kingdom. Pri-
or TO 1885, the gardens and pleasure
grounds of Scotland abOundcd in hydran-
& cas-, the sweot-scented yerbena, and 9TH
er ornamental shrubbeTy plants. which are
now quite lost. The catalpa. the fIlchsia.
the acacia, the cypress. and the almond
seem also TO have fallen under the same
spell. Equally marked is the decadence
OF the magnolia grandiilOra-the pride of
the Southern States, which, till 1887. flow
cred protuSely in Scotland. Even the
larch, the yew, the evergreen woods have
fallen into decay. The same authority
also suggests that the failure of vegetation
during the last fifty years is due to the
of the wood from lack of sun
heat. A New York paper suggests that
il is probable the rainfall has diminished
by extensive de-forSstin@. and that the
of latent heat liberated from the
clouds has been consequently leSsened.
The same results are likely to follow. if
they have not already followed, the de-for-
eSting of the American continent.
The story of BERTHE Winkler. the Phila-
dclphia waif, eXcites great deal ofinterest
both in that city and in New York. She
left her home TO relieve the wants of an
aged mother, dressed herself in boys
clothes, and in the midst of poverty, and
want, and misery, preserved her position
and her virtue. and the brightness and
good nature Of her disposition. So much
romance is entwined round the story of
he poor, triendless child, that many benev-
Dlent persons have come forward an6eub-
ctrfifaiaYst l,a,