The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-23
GENERAL BREYITIES.


messed TO a woOden-tOothed rake, which
thus answers in lieu of harrow where the
ground is too wet TO use the latter. Ovel
thousand acres have been treated in this
manner in Contra Costa county.
II you wish TO drown yourself, kick and
splash about as violently as you can, and
you will soon 90 to the bottom. But il
you remember that you are lighter than
water, and if you calmly and steadily re-
frain from drawing your breath while UNI
der water, keep your head raised, and your
arms under, you will soon learn to float
and swim like a duck.
Miss MAGGIE Z. EDRNGToN, of Lex
ingtOn, KY, has cast rosy hue over a
breach-of-prOmise case which she had in
stituted against Mr.. George Lewis, OF
Monroe, Mich, by summarily marrying
him. Broken hearts - and "blighted
life" slipped quietly into the background,
and the fees were for the clergyman, not
the lawyer.
a LEARNED professor on going to house
keeping went to a store and told the clerk
his wife wanted some rice. "How
much?" asked the clerk. ooh. not
much; | suppose three or four bushels
would do for the present" The clerk
was very sorry they had not so much on
hand, but sent him twenty pounds, which
he persuaded the learned gentleman would
serve for a few days.
THERE is no place on earth that can ex-
Gel San Francisco in fleas. They are very
large and healthy, and they are done up
In thicker crust than those of any other
section. One way TO kill 'em is to drill
holes into their backs, blow 'em up five or
six times with nitro-glycerine until they
become little faint, then lay them on a
railroad track, letting the freight trains
run over them for a week or two. BY this
time they are likely TO be dead, and can be
used for cOal-hole covers.
THE smallest post-oflice in the world is
kept in barrel which swings from the
outermost rock of the mountains over
hanging the Straits of Magellan, opposite
Terre del Fuego. Every passing ship
opens it to place letters in or take them
ont. Every ship undertakes to forward
all the letters in it that it can possibly
transmit. 1t hangs there by its iron chain,
beaten and battered by the winds and
storms; but no locked and barred office on
land is more secure. It is not in the track
of mail robbers.
WASHINGTON IRVING has been the occa-
SiOll vi Il IlOJ III DDUlDdN. Ills
" Life of MOhammed has lately been
translated under Parsee auspices into ORR
entail dialects, and some portions of it
aroused the more fanatical sects of the
Mohammedans to great rage. The trans
latOr withdrew the edition, but this did not
appease the MusSulmans, who suddenly
attacked the Parsees in the streets of Bonn
bay and in their houses. Before the police
could quell the assault, AN immense amount
of damage had been done to the property
OF Parsee residents by plumber and destruc-
ton, though, so far as known, no lives were
lost.
IT appears that the public eXchequer in
France is beginning to groan under the
ever increasing burden of official pensions
of all sorts. Every government that comes
into power makes it point to pension off
its poor supporters, and, as governments
succeed each other very rapidly in France,
the list Of pensions lengtheH accordingly.
II matters little whether the pensioners
die or not, for their families invariably sue
coed in taking their places. The total
amount now paid out of the eXchequer for
pensions is 1908, 375 francs. or nearly five
millions sterling per annum. The Gov
eminent has resolved to put a stop to the
abuse and irregularities which exist in this
wholesale system of persioning, and a
searching examination is to be made in
every case.
JOHN STUART Mills juvenile precocitv
in learning, as mOdestly celebrated in the
departed philosophers pOsthumous auto
biography, was once surpassed by a
member of the opposite sex. At the cele-
brati0n of the fiftieth anniversary of the
famous university of GOettingen," in
l7S7. the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
was conferred upon DOrthea SchlOeZer, a
daughter of the professor and historian of
that name, and only seven years of age,
who was at that time an accomplished
scientist and linguiSt. The intellectual
little monster subsequently talked people
to death in ten different languages, revel.
ed in endless statistical tables, wrote. in
hand, in astudent's album
Tirtus est femi1iHi geneTis-and then.
lass married rich burgomaSter.
4 REQUISITE FOR SCHoOL-KEEPING.-
Mr.. Weiss, in a lecture upon Theodore
Parker, tells this anecdOte, showing the
qualifications necessary for a village school !
master less than half century ago. Mr..
Parker went TO Lincoln to apply for the
district school. The old chairman of the
to whom grammars were I'M
known. said gruffly. What's your
name?'' Theodore Parker" "Where do
you belOng?' Lexington" "Be YOU the |
son of Captain Parker who fit the battle of
Lexington p mo, am his grandson
What! be you Captin Parker's grand !
son who fit that battle? Well. then, !
guess you'll do to keep our school,"
EMANUEL DEUTsCH, who wrote so inter-
estingly and learnedly on the Talmud, |
gives the following explanation of the way
the Koran was made: 1.-The Koran is a !
wonderful book in many respects, but !
chiefly in this-that it has no real begin |
ming, middle, or end. From date |
leaves and tablets of white stone. from |
and bits of parchment |
thrown prOmiscuOusly in a box, and from |
the breasts of men, was the first edition |
Of the Koran prepared, one year after the |
prophets death, and the single chapters |
were arranged according to their respec-
i've lengths, organ-pipe fashion, and not |
even that accurately
The Uses OF THE ToNGUE.-To taste |
and talk. of course. 1t does neither. An
liberated tongue was lately cut entirely |
out at the Royal Free Hospital in London. |
Within a week the man was heard distinct
Y TO say, Il should like some beef tea. - |
a imam, ask him to open his mouth |
vide and keep it open, put salt on his |
tongue or drop of NORWOOD oil 4: he /
an not tell the difference. Take half a |
of ice water, pour it into the CEN
er of dose of castor oil i: open the mouth, |
put the rim of the cup far back on the |
ongue, toss up the cup, down goes the /
)il without taste of it, as long as YOU
Keep your mouth open. or do not allow
he oil to touch the lips. Is taste then in
he lips! To produce the sensation of
aste, the tongue, the lips and the sub
stance must all come in COntactat the same
ime, as in the process of smacking the
fps.
CINCINNATI has had a physiological phe-
lomenOn, which excited great interest
mong the physicians. An embankment
ell upon Patrick Fannon and crushed him.
lie was taken to the hospital insensible.
tut alive. Two physicians, DR.. c. s. Mus
raft and DR.. Rutledge, were in attendance.
The man was bleeding from the head and
mouth. The wound on the head mad not
ractured the skull. The patient lay in a
condition. breathing heavily.
he doctors found that his neck was diSlo-
ated, and finally that the spinal cord was
severed; and vet the man lived.
he dislocation of the neck was reduced,