The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-30
GENERAL BREVITIES.

A CIRCUS elephant took cold at Cincin-
matt, the other day, and the doctor pre-
scrlbed two gallons Of whisky.
Mr.. GREELEY did not invent the phrase
10 West, as is generally supposed.
Inc original of the remark was when Ruth
sad (many years b. c. Where thou go
West | will 60"
THERE was young wife at Chicago
Who 20 get divorce did TO law 20,
And she smiled sweet as honey
As she asked for alimOny,
This handsome grass widow Of Chicago.
GENERAL 5. b. HAzELTINE. a gentle
man eighty-three years old. was elected
town clerk Of Beiksfield, VT, this year,
Tor the fifty-f0urth time; in the town
meeting that elected him, by unanimous
vote, there was not a person who was
present when he was first chosen.
An old chap dying in Delaware the 9TH
er day said ''DOn't write any poetry
about me, and don't fool around about a
monument" On par with him was the
facetious Scot, who, when asked how he
wanted his funeral arranged, replied Il
want them a to dance the highland fling
on my coffin"
One jet of burning gas remarks an
exchange, destroys more air than half a,
dozen children Whether this is a
proved fact or merely a rough estimate, it
matters little. We all know how quickly
the air is vitiated in close gas. lighted
room. The knowledge should lead to spe-
cial care in nurseries, and general care
everywhere, in regard 10 ventilation.
IT takes six goats month to feed a
large boa constructor. They are swal-
lowed whole, the time for each being two
hours and twenty minutes, during which
the reptile makes terrific efforts and dis
gushing cOntOrtiOns. He then lies in a
torpid state till his food is dissolved, when
he makes known he is ready for another
meal.
DR.. BRowN-SEQUARD told his hearers in
a lecture recently delivered in New York.
that he had grated the tail of cat upon
the comb of a rooster, when il set about
growing, and would have become regu-
lar /" cocktail if the disgEsted bird had
not got into fright and displaced it. We
presume the learned doctor intended to
call his new discovery cat-a-comb,"
from the fact that it died natural death.
SOME one has recently published the fol-
lowing datG in regard to the growth of
men and women: Average weight of
boys at birth, 6I pounds; average weight
of girls at birth, Ct pounds; average
weight of males at twenty, l43 pounds
average weight of females at twenty. l20
pounds. Men acquire greatest weight, on
an average, at thirty-tive, weighing l52
pounds; women, at fifty, weighing lbs
pounds.
A FRENCH chemist is said to have con-
densed the body of his wife into the space
of an ordinary seal, and had her higly pol
ished and set in a ring. He made nice
income by betting, with lapidari and
others, that they could not tell the materi-
al of the set in three guesSes, and, after
pocketing the money, would burst
into tears, and say: 1t is my dear, dead
wife. 1 wear her on my finger to keep
alive pleasant remembrance of her.
In appearance and manner, | find the
average Partisan female all had expected.
The boots fit beautifully; the stockings
are the purest white. Her step. on the
street, is lively graceful trip. The bend
Is Grecian without eXaggeratiOn. She can
carry even an umbrella with such grace
that the awkward protective mechanism
in her hands becomes a symmetrical adj
Junct to her persOn.-PreHtice Milford. !
WHAT a nice thing it is to get caught and
skinned by fashion! Now we are told that
the seal-skins which every lady must wear
or be nobody, and which cost her husband |
anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a set. are |
composed of two or three pelts. which are |
worth out i'm Alaska Tour own territory, |
only about $3.50 each. Small comfort in |
that little revelation .for spurging fash |
iOnable and indulgent husbands. But such |
is life.
PROF. CHANDLER, in a recent lecture to |
the students of the School of Mines. said |
when gas was introduced into the House |
of Parliament the English commissioners F.
gave instructions that in no instances
should the pipes come less than six inches |
from the beams, fearing the pipes would be .
heated by the gas. This display Of know
ledge was supplemented when the first |
British vessels were placed on our lakes. |
Among their stores received were casks
for drinking water, suppOSing the water OF
the great lakes, like that of the ocean, salt,
and unfit to drink.
NEVADA furnishes a puzzle for the
scientists. A short distance from Gold
Hill there is to be seen a most wonderful
phenomenon. The ground, either from an
earthquake or some other cause, has re-
Gently been split open for at least a quarter
of mile. The crevice varies in width from
one to twenty inches, and in places ap-
pears to be bOttOmlesS. This crack was not
suddenly opened Its appearance was first
noticed about Christmas, and it has been
widening ever since.
PLUTARCH says, 1.-The eyes of the hog
are so formed and disposed of i'm the head,
that it is always looking upon the lowest
objects and can in no manner contemplate
things elevated and lofty. 1t cannot look
upward unless thrown back with its feet
upward. Although this animal is addicted
to the most diScordant squealing and
granting, yet as soon as tits laid on its back
1t Is Immediately silent, so great is its as
constituent at the heavens, TO the sight OF
which it is unaccustOmeda and which causes
such fear that il is unable to cry.''