The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-12-24
GENERAL BREYIrIEs.


BRoTHERs-IN-LAw- judges.
The ehildren's kingdom-Lap-laDd.
COMMON scents-Musk and verbena.
THE greatest army contractor-Peace.
THE rock that topcrs split on-Quartz.
The table of interest-The dinner-iable.
CASE of kidnapping young goat
asleep.
FORCED politeness-Bowing to circum-
stances.
Morro for grocers-IIonest tea is the
best policy.
The worst thing 'under the canopy
a mosquito.
ALL flesh may not be grass, but buffalo
meat Is indian meal.
IT was reserved for Barnum to discover
a new Indian race-the Snow-Shoe-raee.
WrrH regard to Venus it was sic transit
gloria Tuesday this time.
THE spire of new church in Cincin-
natl will be three hundred feet high.
THE latest Custom House cheater signed
the name ChiZZola but wasn't she chis-
eller?
WHEN they put Mana Sahib in the dun
geOn they smoothed matters by ironing
him.
BALTIMORE claims Miss Annette Mon
tagu, pupil of Bellari's and native OF
that city, as the foremost of the many
aspirants for the title of American prima
donna"
A YOUNG girl at Boston accused OF re-
ceiving a stolen shawl worth SO, fort
night ago. deposited $50 with man who
became her bail, and on Thursday she was
proved innocent. but her bondsman re-
turned her but $50, charging her $50 for
the use of his name for two weeks, and
her lawyer brought in bill of $40.
RISE with the lark. That is, during
cold weather, as soon as the lark rises
waken your wife and tell her that it is time
10 build the fire. II she makes any objec-
tons, you can refer her to dozen or more
works on the benefit of early rising. Any
man whe cares a cent for his wife's health
will take pride in hearing her around the
house at daylight of a winter morning
getting up red-hOt stove and warming
his socks and boots.
HERE is a poet who says: " I'm sitting
sadly on the strand, That stretches to the
waters brink; And rs the day slips slowly
bv, | idly fold my hands and think. y
Whilst he is sitting on the strand with idly
folded hands. his family at home may be
suffering for the necesSaries OF life. dc
should skirmish around before the day
slips slowly by, and secure job at dig
ging cellar.
AN Indianapolis night policeman has
been presented with neat little jeweled
alarm-clocb, to wear IN his coat pocket and
wake up by when the hour for going of
duty arrives .-C,y7'ent Item. The Indian
apoliS policeman is easier to wake than the
Milwaukee one. When the milwaukee,
policeman gets fairly on his beat and be
gins TO get in his work, a foundry whistle
wouldn't wake him.-MiIt0askee Sentinel.
MoLTKE does not like "improvised
armies " that is TO say, he does not like
an armed people, and no professional sol
der ever did. Here are his views, which he
presents with humanitarian aspect Ii
is bad enough when armies must laceratt
one another. Let not the people be sci
against one another; that is no progress
of civilization. bat re-return to barbar'
ism. A regular war is like thunder.
storm, which in great blows devastates
tracts of land. but also fertiliZes. A strug.
gle, however, such as goes on now in
Spain, is like lasting thick fog, which de-
HllbN : tlllllN I'LL NtoiS. DlONloNN al hiiNs
can, however, not carry on any other kino
of struggle"
DELAWARE has been represented in the
Senate at different times by four of The
Bayards. James A. Bayard, tie elder
served for nine years; was a descendant
of the Chevalier Bayard, sans peatr Ell
sans reprochs." His two sons, Richard III
and James A.. served, respectively, The
former for nine years, and the latter fol
thirteen years. Richard III. was one of tht
nine Southern Wing Senators who had tht
firmness and independence TO vote agains
the annexation of Texas. Thomas +
Bayard, one of the present Senators, ha'
served for nearly six years, and is son o.
the second James a. This case is without
precedent in the annals of Senatorial cleo
tons.
ABOUT sixteen years ago, a young man
named Milton b. Gushing came 10 thi.
town from Fredonia n. Y, and was EN-
ployed in the drug store of the late james
B. Lane, Esq. Soon after the commence
ment of the late Rebellion, through th'
influence of his cousin, Commodore Smith
Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks
he was appointed to a clerkship in one o
the Departments at Washington. Abou
ten years since he was appointed Assistan
Paymaster in the United States Navy, and
being man of estimable character
through the influence of Mr.. Lane. wh'
was then living-ten of our prominen
young men became his bondsmen. Sew
eral of them have since died, and thos
living had almost forgotten the circum
stances, until reminded last week by pc
lite note from the Department, requirin;
them without delay TO deposit to the cred
it of the Auditor of the Treasury $4,000
on account of the delinquency of said Mil
ton b. Cushing.-Fitehb'Tg (Mass.) Seat'
net.
AT Fray Bentos, on the Uruguay River
is great factory for the preparation OF cX
tract of beef The industry is so eXten
sive that population of about five thou
sand live by il. Droves of wild cattle arr
confined in yards adjoining the slaughter
house, and laSsoed one by one. stabbed
with large dirk knife, and dressed will
celebrity equal TO the operations of Chi
cago pOrk-packing establishment. TIT
meat is separated from the bones and ruI
between groOved rollers, which tear ant
press it into coarse shreds. The next ope
ration is to make the meat into soup b.
boiling it thoroughly in shallow pans
The fat is skinned of. and the soup, wheI
boiled to a thick, brownish paste, is filter
ed and further reduced by evaporation to
jelly. II is then ready to be canned 70
expectation. The apparatus for this pro
cess is quite elaborate, and great care an,
skill are required in the manipulation
The hides of the cattle are roughly tame,
and exported. The fat is also canned anC
sent abroad. The bones are ground 70
the soil. Scarcelya bit of the animal i
wasted.
THE Montpelier W.T. Waterman tells tn
following: Zone of our insurance cOmpan
les had heavy insurance upon a certain
dwelling-house in this State. Recently,
lady living in the house 1.-THE owner bein:
Temporal ly absentl dreamed that Their
was a hole in the chimney in the attic
with kindling piled about it, apparentlyfO
the purpose of firing the house. So mucl
did the dream trouble her that she coul
only be satisfied by personal inspection
of the spot-when, to the surprise of all
she found every thing just as she ha
dreamed a hole broken through the chin
ney aud filled with matches, paper, an
wood kindings, the whole carefully Gov
cred up with board, and the board he'll
in place by a stone; all ingeniously al
ranged for very mysterious conflagrs