The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-25
GENERAL BREYITIEs.

1T is suggested in an English paper that
smoking be allowed during divine service,
'sas means Of increasing the attendance
at church."
For intercepting a telegram and reading
IL, a scboOlmaster In Manchester Eng
landl has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
"REsoLvED, That negro minstrel shows
tend TO degrade our race" has been unani-
mously adopted by the Kansas City coll
Ored population.
DISEASE and death linger in the wallsof
hospitals. A New York doctor urges that
such institutions be built Of wood and
burned every year or two.
A CHINESE description Of an American
court: Zone man Is silent, another talks
all the time. and twelve wise men condemn
the man who has not said word
New YORK spends annually S9,000,0O0
on newspapers, S7,0OO,OOO on theaters,
S3.000.00 for religious purposes, and 500
000.OO0 on liquor and liquor establish
ments.
A GERMAN chemist is said to have eX-
tracted from 800 pounds of sawdust 81
quarts of brandy Of 30 per cent, at 50 de-
grees, perfectly free from Odor or taste OF
turpentine, and of very agreeable flavor.
A NOVELTY is the handsome $3.50 field
Croquet Set that the Excelsior Magazine
is giving to new subscribers for 20 cents,
through a special arrangement with
large manufacturing company. They fur
nish sample copies of the Magazine for 20
cents, from their office, Room 50, No. l5I
La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill.
A MAN in the Philadelphia Insane Asy-
lum imagines himself a woman. lie
dresses himself i'm female attire and parts
his hair In the middle. During the day he
associates with the females, and does
sewing and embroidery of the finest
kind. He has been reserved for the Cen
tennial.
A SLY old boy, aged eighty, was before
London court for breach of promise lately.
The only thing that saved him was the
economical method of his spelling in his
letters. When he wanted to say May
God bless you and KISSES" he only wrote,
an. G. B. u. and K" IN. D." in his let
tiers signified "my dear" and III. T."
"little pet"
THERE was case of locking out at
Tifin, Ohio, not long ago. The authorl-
ties enacted the removal of all the slaugh-
ter-houses to point beyond the city linn
Its. So some of the butchers closed their
shops and the rest put up the price of
beef to famine figure. But man doesn't
live by meat alone, and so the lockout
didn't work.
REST, content. peace, such words as
these belong not in our vocabulary; we
re, ain them, indeed, in our dictionaries as
memenUoes of what were once the posses
sion of our fathers on the far side of the
water; but the sweet thoughts for which
they stand, like some timerOus bird that
has wandered from its native zone, tlutter-
ed and startled by our fretful turmoil, have
spread their pinions and flown back to their
original seats.
DIR. SCHUBERT, of New Orleans, pro-
poses the following ingenious and appar
entity practical method for eXtinguishing
fires on shipboard. At given points in the
hold are located boxes containing marble
dust and carbonate of lime. From the
deck lead pipe communicates with these
boxes. When the fife is discovered in the
hold, diluted sulphuric acid is poured into
the pipes, and coming in contact with the
lime and marble dust, creates a large vol
ume of carbOnic acid gas, which is fatal to
fire. AS this gas is heavier than air it
would remain i'm the hold and effectually
smother the flames.
IF the " seven-year locusts" are son
time" they will put in their appearance
this summer in this section of the country.
They appeared in 1860 and again in 1867.
They first appear in the form of a slug
gish and unsightly brown beetle, and
emerge from the ground through small
holes, the ground in some places being so
thickly perforated as to resemble honey
comb. When they have emerged from
these holes, they crawl up and attach them
selves to weeds or trunks of trees, and
there remain basking in the sun until the
perfect locust is formed.-DarenpoTt (Iotoa)
Democrat.
BOYS USING ToBACCo.-A strong, sen
sible writer says a good sharp thing, and
a true one, too, for boys who use tobacco:
"Itha utterlyspoiled and ruined thousands
of boys. 1t tends to the sOftening and
weakening of the bones, and it greatly in
lures the brain, the spinal marrow, and the
whole nervous fluid. A boy who smokes
early and frequently, or in any way uses
large quantities of tobacco, is never, never
known TO make man of energy, and gen
orally lacks muscular and physical as well
as mental,power. We would particularly
warn boys who want to be anything in
the world, to shun tobacco as a most bane-
full poison"
ATTENTION TO THE OLD.-A little
thoughtful attention, how happy it makes
the old. They have outlived most of the
friends of their early youth. How lonely
their hoursi Often their partners in life
have long filed silent graves; often their
children they have followed to the tomb.
They stand solitary, bending on their staff,
waiting till the call shall reach them. How
often they must think of absent, lamented
faces; of the love which cherished them,
and the tears of sympathy which fell with
theirs, now all gone. Why should not the
young cling around and comfort them,
cheering their gloom with songs and hap
py smiles?
THE immense trade in Australian can
ned meats, now carried on, has had the eff
feet OF causing a great accumulation OF
bones in Melbourne, where the putting up
is done. The sale of the bones is now
growing into remunerative branch of
export trade as bOne-dust manure, and an
Australian paper, speaking of the subject,
gives an account of the manner of its eX-
poTtation. 1t says that a recent vessel,
bound for London, had on a shipment OF
100 tons of bone-dust, prepared for cXpor-
tation in an altogether novel manner, and
one which promises to come into extern
sive use To facilitate this trade. an APP
paratus has been contrived for compress
ing the bOne-dust into half its original
compass, reducing it at the same time into
form convenient for shipment. BY
means OF strong pressure the
bones are nodded into cakes 6inches square
and inches thick, something like flooring
tiles, each cake weighing a little over TBS.
These bonc-dust tiles are just adhesive
enough to admit their being handled free
ly-thrown about like bricks, if necessary
and are vet firm, and when required for use
they can readily be crushed or melted by
the application of a little hot water. A
ton weight of manure measures 26 cubic
feet, and contains 252 of the cakes.