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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Mr.. DAMMIT is the awfully proianc name
n n Mer.,,.-.t-,

Mr.. DAMMIT is the awfully proianc name
OF a Minnesota divine.
An observing man has discovered SIM
uarlty between young ladies' seminary
and sugar factory, as both refine what Is
already sweet.
The Quakers of New York number
eighty less than two years ago. and they've
got to throw away their single bedsteads
or become an extinct sect.--DetrOit Press.
Now, after lapse of ninety odd years,
it has been discovered that splitting on the
bait doesn't help in the least TO catch the
fish. Is there any one in America who
isn't as mad as blaZeS?
THE proper way for lady to direct
letter this fall is to run the direction from
corner to corner, scatter three One-cent
stamps over the envelope, and write, "im-
pOrtaut" on any vacant space left.
THAT wasa beautiful thought of the poet
that '.NOman clings to man like the ivy"
But is it always true? How many bald
headed men can testify that no woman
ever c,ung to them like the ivy but what
she let go like a grappling-iron.-Brook-
I'm Argus.
"OF course" says returned summer
tourist, "One in the country sees, among
other things, 'bare-fOOted maidens trip
ping DER the dewy grass but then most
of 'cm have sore heels, and the romance
fades away like washing left out over
night"
The Rev. !. II. Todd. of Sioux City,
played a rather neat little joke on his wife
the other dav. While she was unsuspect-
ingly engaged in half-soling his winter
trousers, he quietly slipped out at the
back gate and eloped with a milliner.
Brother Todd. no donbt'enioyed the joke
but, looking at the matter from a purely
Christian standpoint, we are little in
cmed to think that he ought TO have left
such frivolous amusemcnts to the unan-
ointed and Observation-Disclosures
HERE is specimen extract from the
proceedings of the "Dress Reformers" who
met in convention laStweek at Painesville,
Ohio. Mrs. DIR. Chase said IL used to
wear a corset. | took it Oft and felt as if
would fall to pieces. Then | got short
dress and some trousers. Oh, how delic-
iOus to climb fence. You could put one
foot upon the fence and then put your leg
over the top rail, and then Jump. That
was emancipation. say that pantaloons
are the badge of independence, they are
the salvation. These skirts are the badge
of dependence, dragging us down to ruin
and miSCrY.'
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
California Honey.

Among the other numerous products
for which California seems destined to be-
come famous, honey ranks as by no means
the least valuable item. 1t has already
found its way into the Eastern markets,
though so far in limited supply, and is
much admired for its purity and delicacy of
flavor. Its production is not limited to
any part of the State, but at present it is
chiefly made speciality in San Diego
county, near the Mexican border. The
honey crop of that county for 1873 was
10000 pounds, and it is expected it will
this year equal 100000 pounds.
The bees commence working in that
county about the first of February, and the
season for storing honey lasts from June to
September. The finest honey is made from
the flowers of the sage plant, which grows
there in such abundance. This is the true
sage, and must not be confounded with
the ''sage brush of Nevada and the
northern counties. The flat tOpor ''buck
wheat greasewoOd" also affords excellent
honey. The bloom of this plant closely
resembles that of buckwheat, hence the
name. The flower of the sumac is anOth-
er source, and the ice plant which covers
so much of the country is likewise sought
by the bees. This latter plant makes
very white honey, but it is liable to the
objection that it turns very quickly TO su-
gar, or candies" as the honey men term
it. The bee keepers therefore try to avoid
it.
The bulk of the honey finds market in
the East. Several car loads were shipped
from San Diego East last year and found a
paying and appreciative market, and much
more will be shipped this year. The
honey made in San Diego is exceedingly
white and handsome, and of fine flavor,
and commands a good price and ready
market wherever offered. Little or no
strained honey can be sold during the pre-
valence of the green fruit season, and IL
will not be until next fall that any great
amount can be moved. The total crop In
California this yeaE-ls- variopsly estimated
AT from coz, 900 70 200, 600 pounds,. !. =
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
Living Thirty Years in a Cave.

In the wilderness eight miles northwest
of Dingman's Ferry, Pike county, Pa,
underneath huge rock in small cave.
six by eight feet, has lived for upward OF
thirty years human being named Austin
Sheldon. He was born in Wales, and emf
grated to this country about the year 1910.
When he landed in New York he had a
small sum of money. with which he came
afoOt to Pike county and purchased sin
gle acre of wild, uncultivated, scrub-Oak
land, situated in Lehman township, amid
dense and dismal forest, several miles
from any habitatiOn.
At the western end of this small strip OF
land is a small cave only about six by
eight feet. In this cave, without any al
teratiOns or improvements, this hermit
has for more than thirty years made his
home.
The hermit is nearly seventy years of
age. His face has not been shaven for
forty years. The sides of his face, and chin,
and neck are covered with coarse gray
hair, while his beard is several feet in
length, and white as snow. He wears the
same suit of clothes he wore twenty years
ago, which are so badly rent as to render
it necessary to fasten them together by
means of twisted hickory withes. HeneveT
works, and unless obliged to 90 to the
nearest store for ammunition, never leaves
sight of his cave.
His mode of living is peculiar. His diet
consists principally of berries and fruit
during their season, while in the winter he
subsists on various kinds of wild game.
His education was not neglected during
his bOyhood, for he is well read and re-
markably intelligent. He is firm believer
in religion, and devotes most of his time
reading the Bible and other sacred works.
He is deaf, and has been so for several
years, rendering it necessary to communi-
cate with him by means Of writing. He
has the faculty of charming birds, many
Of which he has secured in this way and
reared.
He has never used lamp nor candle in
his cave. His bed is composed of straw
scattered upon a solid rock. Sheldon en-
joys his peculiar mode of living, and says
he expects to make this cave his final rest
ing place.-N. 7. Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
Aboriginal Surgery.

In a paper read before the Canadian
Medical Association lately, DIR. Kingston
argued that the aborigines of America had
their surgery-simple but effective-and TO
which even the usurpers We're sometimes
forced to resort. Confused wounds and
bruises were treated by cold douches from
springs and running streams; and sup
purating wounds with the bark of the
mucilaginous slippery elm and Eastwood,
and the resinOus bark of the tamarack-all
valuable emolhent and stimulant cata-
plasms and ulcers were stimulated to
granulation by the inner wood and berry
of the juniper. They reduced dislOcatons
by main force, and also, it would appear,
by certain rotary method. Fractures,
which rarely occurred among them, were
carefully set, and splints of cedar or broom,
ingeniously padded by the squaws with
leaves of grass, were bound upon the
limb with withes of young birch. Ampu-
tatioRs were performed at the joints with
knives of flint or jasper, and in some in
stdnces of copper polished and keen as
steel.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
SURPRISING the NiOlets.

In a recent letter from Paris to the
Philadelphia Press, Mrs. Hooper says ::
i" forgot in nay account of the fete of the
18th of August to, mention an odd circum-
stance. which proves the vigilance of the
authorities here A large number of vio-
lets had been grown for sale on that day,
the gardeners knowing that as it was the
day sacred to the NapOleons and to i'm
perialism, there would be considerable
demand for the imperial flowers. But the
police were on the alert, and early on the
morning of the 18th they made a raid on
the flower markets, and captured every
violet. exposed there for. sale, besides
which orders were given to cOnfscate at
the barriers all the violets which might be
brought into Paris from the country. So
the Bonapartists were minus their SYM
bOlical flower ON the consecrated 10Th OF
August --- .. --
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

IN the terrible collision which took place
at Thorpe, near Norwich, on the Great
Eastern Railway, in England the other
day, out of 220 passengers on both trains
p were killed and 80 injured. Just before
the accident occurred a young lady who
was coming from Yarmouth asked a Mr..
Wonack to change places with her as she
did not like riding with her back to the
engine; he complied and was killed on the
SDOt
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
HE6RTSE6sE.

OF all the bonny buds that blow
In bright or cloudy weather,
o. all the flowers that come and go
The whole twelve moons tpEetheri
Inls little purple pansy brinfs 80,
Iaoaghts Of The sweetest, sadaest tAlaes-
! had little lover once,
Whe Esed % give me ifoslfs
HIS eyes were blue as hyacinihsf
His lips were red rs ruses
Aud every body loved 20 praise
Hts pretty looks and winsome ways.
The girls that went TO school with me
Made little jealous speeches;
Because he brought me- royalty
His biggest plums aud peaches;
And always az the door would wait
To carry bone my books and slate.
-" They could no; see''-wifh pout and fling
- he mighty fascination
About tnat little shub-nGsed thing
To win snch admiration;
As Il there weren'i q dozen girls
With nicer eyes aRd longer cJIlsi"
And this knew az well as they,
And never could see clearly
Why, more than Marian or MaV,
should be loved so dearly.
So once asked him, why was this2
He only answered with a kiss,
Until toased him-''TeI me why:
! wanttO know the reason, -
Nnen from the garden-bed close by
lihe pausies were ia Fcgsan)
he pluckcd and gave fioSer 10 me,
With sweet and simple gravity.
''Ihe garden is in bloom, - he said,
With lilies pale and Cender,
With roses and verbenas red.
And iuchsias' purple splendOr;
BUt over and above the rest,
This little heartsease suits me best. -
"Am 7 your little hsartsra=e, then?'
l asked Wth blushing pleasure.
lie answered Yes aud Yes again
Heartseasc and dgares' treasure
Anc the round world ant all the 90
Held nothing halt SO sweet 10 me!
] listened with a proud delight
Too rare for words 10 capture,
Nor ever dreamed what sudden bli.ht
Would come 10 chill my rapture.
Could fOresee the tender bluOm
Ofpansies round little tOmb2
Lille holds some stern experience,
As most Of rs discover,
And I've had other lessons since
lost my little lover:
But still this purple pansy brings
Thoughts Of the saddest, sweetest things.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

THE State of Maine sold large lot of its
timber lands at auction the other day.
About 10000 acres were disposed of at
prices ranging from 80 cents to 81 30 per
acre, and the right to cut timber and grass
upon about 100000 acres more was sold at
from q cents to Sl.75 per acre. The total
amount realized was about S150,000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

VULGARITY means the exhibition of
those peeuliarities of speech and manner
which offend refinement. 1t makes a
naked display of coarse and uneducated
human impulses. 1t mostly lies in the
absence of consideration for the feelings of
others, in narrow minded self-assertion,
and in a selfish want of control over anti
social prOpensities.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

Iris asserted that 800 pounds of frogs
are daily consumed in New York. They
are chiefly caught in Canada, and are sent
there in salt sacks laid flat on the floor of
the freight car, and containing each about
one hundred frogs. An average of five
per cent. die i'm the train. Each female
frog is said 10 spawn over a thousand at a
time, but not more than fifty Of that num-
Der live 10, attain full growth. They are
Often eaten by their own species or by
birds and snakes. They are usually taken
with the hook, but bite at it only when
their heads are above water. "A bait is Of
ten unnecessary. A Afrog-catcher frequently
brings his hook under the, Jaw of the frog
! ysithodt creating alarm, and Jerks its peint
intoIthe:desh, He Is thah easiIE lifted Into
the bGaf,- ;-&;is = s. = 'Iss--s-s 80 :
sx %
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

A LONG BRANCH beauty was recently
weighed in her promenade costume, and
turned the scales at l65 pounds. In her
bathing dress she weighed l05 pounds, -.,.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

BRET HARIE is said to be constantly
hard up. Such, however is genius.-Er-
chFags. If being hard up constitutes gen
ius. We hase kofae spells of remarkable
,hilliancy &s4t5nstI--- a as.-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

RzAt brain work-psrting ones hair in
the middle, 49,. - So - '..,'- r ~
, 1874-03-19

DAILY D1spATCH.-With the present
number commences tie fourth volume
of the DAILY DISPATCH, which is sufi-
cfent to demonstrate the fact that the
paper has become one of the permanent
institutions of Seattle. We cannot say
that the experiment has been pecunia-
nv success, but it has come as near to it
as we could reasonably expect under the
circumstances. While it has cost us.
out of our own earnings from other
sources, every dollar we have paid for
telegraphie dispatches, we have the
satisfaction of knowing that it is the
only newspaper in Washington Territory
that can pay for the dispatches. and that
we have contributed over fifteen hum
dred dollars in coin to the general pros
perity of our town. With our very lin
tied means, this has only been made up
by hard labor and the closest economy,
allowing us meager time or means to
devote to the local news or other needed
additions to our columns; being under
the necessity of putting all our editorial
matters in type without committing them
to writing. We have the expectation,
under arrangements now negotiating. to
very soon enlarge the paper, and i'm
prove all its departments to the standard
of first class city daily. Whether our
expectations in this respect are realized
or not, we shall not surrender so long
as incessant toll will command the
means to sustain our DAILY DISPATCH.
, 1874-03-19

ANOTHER CREDIT MoBILIER.-
very funny paper called the Tacoma
Tribune, which is printed only few
miles from the present railroad terminus
and therefore assumes to represent the
interests of that uninhabite6 town plat,
has long article to prove that the Di-
rectors of the Northern Pacific Railroad
are identical with the managers of thu
Tacoma Land Company. If this is
true which we do not believe-it is
all the worse for the Railroad Directors.
The thing differs in no particular from
the Credit Mobilier, of infamous notori-
ETY., or from the Lake Superior and
Puget Sound Land Company, of like
infamous intent, which the Railroad
Company was forced to buy out to save
its own organization from ignominious
ruin. A ring of that kind inside of any
corporation existing by subsidy from
the Government can have only fraudu-
lent objects in view. and is bound to
end in disastrous failure to all engaged
in it. No good business man, with o
knowledge of the facts, will ever invest
a dollar in permanent improvements In
a town founded in fraud, without a sim
gle natural advantage in its favor as q
commercial city. With all the power
that the Railroad Company can CONS
mand in its favor, Tacoma can only be
a repetition of the failures of Duluth
aud Kalama.
, 1874-03-19

INnEpENpExcE IN PoLTTIcs.
Standard, in some rather equivocal COM
ments upon our political position, says:
"As it is impossible to contemplate such
a thing as Mr.. Brown going in the ene-
mv's camp, we should not be surprised
from the signs to see the Republicans all
coming over to him before the next
campaign"
Our military friend is most indubita-
bly correct in his first proposition, and
it is not impossibly that his anticipations
NAV likewise prove true. Most assuredly
we shall not go into aIy enemy's
camp" or do battle under the banner Of
any party, In casting off the shackles
of q party to which the best aspirations
and energies of our life had been devo-
ted, we certainly had no purpose OF
accepting service under any other mas
ter; but thenceforth to act upon our
own independent convictions OF public
duty, without submitting our opinions
to any caucus test, or permit them to be
BIASED or directed by any considerations
ofparty patronage.
If, in maintail ing this position, we
should happen upon such course that
, 1874-03-19

COMMERCE. OF PUGET SoUND.--The
Port Townsend Argus, which has access
to the Custom House records, gives the
statistics of foreign exports and imports
for the year 1878. Exports, in American
vessels. $365, 416; in foreign vessels,
1929, 1874. Total, $594, 600. Imports
S31, ,725.
The foregoing does not exhibit the
expectation of lumber from Puget Sound
to San Francisco and other domestic
ports, as it is mainly transported in IL
censed vessels which do not enter and
clear. 1t is estimated that between for
ty and fifty vessels are so employed,
carrying from Puget Sound, during each
year, 15O, ,O00. 900 feet of lumber, valued
at about $2,0OO,OOO.
No mention is made of the exports of
ccal, which were not less than $4,000
tons, valued at $500, 900.
The importations from San Francisco
by vessels, nearly all of which are Ii
censed, is estimated to exceed $500: 900
per annum.
We may mention the additional fact.
that more than one Lalf of the imports
to Puget Sound, both foreign and do-
nestle, are for the Seattle trade.
, 1874-03-19

AWARDS OF Mail CoNrRAcrs.-The
Washington correspondent of the Stand
ard reports the following awards, many
of which we have not had before:
The award of contract for the Olyn-
pia and Victoria route has not been
made. The present pay is SIG, ,235 per
annum, and the lowest bid for the next
four years service is by Geo. S Wright.
at $26, 600 per annum.
The contract from Olympia to Month
cello, is to be given to the railroad, al
the usual rates.
The route froIa Olympia to Astoria,
via Oysteryille, has been awarded to j.
S. Stout, at S4,750. The present pay
is $5.s7S.
Olympia to Yelm, to Gilbert Bates,
for $29s.
Olympia 10 Skokomish, Id. W. and
L. T. Shelton, $49S.
Steilacoom to Elhi. Henry E. Light,
$411. Al
Seattle to sehome. Samuel Coulter,
So, 1900.
Seattle to Franklin, John Webster.
$500. IS
Seattle to Snoqualmie. E. NJ. Cud-
worth, $500.
q seattle to Blakely, offered to N. L.
Bartlett, at $50.
Port Gamble to Seabeck, lowest bid,
s1 oeO; offered to Ad. Edgar at $500.
, 1874-03-19

TA A story has been told of graceless
scamp who gained access to the Claren-
don printing Office in Oxford, England.
where the forms of a new addition OF
the Episcopal Prayer Book had just been
made up and were ready for the press.
In that part of the form containing the
marriage service he substituted the let
ter k for . in the word live.and thus the
vow to ''love, honor, comfort. etc., as
long as ye both shall live," was made to
read, so long as ye both shall hke!-
The change was not discovered until
the whole edition was printed of. II
the sheets thus rendered useless in En-
gland be still preserved. it would be a
good speculation to have them neatly
bound and forwarded to Indiana, Con-
necticut and Chicago.
, 1874-03-19
Marine Int.lligenc..

PoRr GAMBLE, March 16.-Arlived,
ship Portena. from Calloa.
15.-Arrived Rainier.
PoRT Discovery, March 13.-Sailed,
bark Mary Glover, ship Revere.
14.-Arrived, War Hawk. a
PoRr TOWNSEND, March 15.-Arrived.
Caroline Reed, Onward, Aurela, Porte
ma, Rainier. and Modoc.
PoRr MADISON, March 14.-Arriyed,
Coquimbo. a
VICTORIA, March 15.-Arrived at Ma.
naimo, the 14th. Roswell sprague.
Sailed, Commodore and Union.
SAN Francisco, March 16.-Arrived
yesterday, Coloma from Columbia river;
German bark Esther. Hamburg; bark
Shooting Star. Mexico; Enterprise. Low
EFT Pea cock, Ivannoe, Concordia from
Coos Bay. Sailed. ship sarah Grace for
Liverpool; brig Orient, Astoria; Flying
Mast, Honolulu. Arrived to-day, Gen.
Cobb, Seabeck.
SEATTLE, March 16.-Arrived, barken-
tine Eureka and barkentiue Modoc,
Capt. johnson, which left San Francisco
on the 9Th, arrived in Port Townsend
on the 14th, days ranning time. She
following is the freight list: s'aT
Seattle-Wa Chung, A pkgs.; s. P.
Andrews, 8; NJ r Maddocks. IL; PUN
phrey & Young. AID Ross. 8; VIM De
Shaw, 8; Frank Guttenburg, A: r Low,
10; J F Morrill, & Co, .1S; Crawford &
Harrington. 504; A S Pinkham. Q; H S.
2; I F Roberts. 2; J s Maggs. 1; schwa-
bacher Bros & Go. 1O1; Waddell &
Miles, 10; J Sullivan. IA; J Il Carney
IA; L Reinig. s; R g Graves, /; J A
Woodward, 5;JWP P.2.
Olympia-L & B Bsttman, 43; T Mao
leary & Co. 81; Tom Loey. l; r A Par
ker, 62; S Williams, 24O; j G Horr, 8;
Harris, /; A Harker, lis w Percival,
26; B Morrell. 1; s S, 48; T G Lowe, 6.
Tacoaa-L W. 80; B & K, l; K & B,
/; Levine & Co, 1; L Wolff, 2.
Steilacom-McCaw & Rogers, Us G,
Mitchell, 4. .,.-
Port GAMBLE G, Sc. ...,...-
Tumwater &C Crosby & Son. 1.
Port Townsend-287. ..ss...
Utsalady-445.
, 1874-03-19
THEY ARE CONG TO BUILD THAT Ran

THEY ARE GONG TO BUILD THAT RAM
ROAD. SUREl The people of Olympia
have determined to have a railroadsto
connect with the Northern Pacific at
Tenino, and they will have it. The last
reported movement in that direction is
eonclusive-the women have taken have
taken hold cf it. At recent meeting
several ladies agreed to go into their
Kitchens and do their own house work
for month, and send their Cinnamon
on the grade for months work." The
following named ladies each subscribed
a months work. Mrs. Governor Ferry,
Mrs. Frazer, Mrs. Lawson. Mrs. Perci-
val, Mrs. Wingard, and Mrs. Rebecca
Howard. The men present at the same
time subscribed twenty-three months
labor. The lands heretofore subscribed
aggregates 1900 acres, together with 200
town lots. This is sufficient, at low
valuation. to grade and lay the super
structure of the fifteen miles of road
contemplated. u
Cannot the citizens of Seattle, with
much mora abundant means and greater
resources, build fifteen miles of the
Seattle and Walla Walla railroad during
the present season without any foreign
aid? Nothing is necessary but unity of
purpose and the will to do it. With
fifteen miles of the road completed and
in running order, which is certain to
pay large dividends upon its cost in the
transportation of coal. basis would be
established which would ensure the ex-
tension of the road, and gaining strength
by each advance, would finally accom-
plish the whole project. No great un-
dertaking ever succseded without the
courage to dare united with the energy
to do. i3 Cd