The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22
GENERAL BREVITIES.

GENERAL BREFITIES.
THE California vintage this season is es-
timated at 10, 0O0, 900 gallons, against 4, O0O,-
900 last year.
PTTTsBURG is threatened with disaster
through the existence Of fire in vein Of
coal underlying the city.
AUTHORITY I'm France attends to very
small matters. Now il is selling the por-
traits of Bazaine in the shop windows.
NOTWITHSTANDING the great crowd of
visitors and the high prices al Saratoga this
summer, the great hotels lost money.
CHRISTIAN BAKER lives in McMinn coun-
tv. Tenn. BE is Jos years old, and has
been a member OF the Methodist Episco-
pal Church for seventy years. He reads
without glasses.
WITHOUT any desire 10 brag, the Detroit
Free Press points to a Michigan sunfiower
nineteen feet high and respectfully inquiries
after the health of other sunflOwers around
the country.
A DAY or so ago the daughter Of Ger
man grocer in Rochester was married.
Her father placed placard in the window,
bearing this device: This store is closed
on account of some fun in the family"
THERE lives in Watsonville, Cal, a
Spanish woman who is the mother OF
twenty children, none of whom are twins,
and in the Pajaro Valley an American
who has brought up a family OF twenty
one.
The young ladies of the city have lapsed
into the horrid fashion Of wearing stock
ings with broad white and brown stripes.
This Is the more intolerable as the windy
and sloppy weather will soon be upon
Washington Chronicle.
SYLVESTER KEITH, of Hadley, Mass,
found fifty old Spanish mill dollars in his
cOrnfield about a fortnight ago. They
had apparently been buried in a bag, as
the remains of piece of old checked linen
were with them. The coins are of the
reign Of Ferdinand, and have an old, dead
appearance, which indicates long burial.
"TABLE D'HoTE, table d'hote, what kind
of a meal is thatg' asked Mrs. Spriggins,
from Squedunckville, of the hOusenIaid at
the Fifth Avenue, upon her first visit to
the hotel. "Sure it's dinner, ma'am, II
is" replied Bridget. Yeas all sit down
together and ate your five dollars worth,
bedad."
A RECENTLY-MADE Benedict writes as
follows concerning his young wife's hab-
its: "If there was a bedroom mile
long, and her entire wardrobe could be
packed in a handbook, still you'd find por-
lions Of that wardrobe scattered along the
whole mile of dressing room. She's nice
thing to look at when put together, but
this wonderful creation is evolved from 8
chaos interminable of pins, ribbons, rags
powder, thread, brushes, combs and laces
IL there were seven thousand drawers IL
your room, and you asked for but one {
be kept sacred and inviolate for your owl
private use, that particular one would h'
full of hair-pins, ribbons and soiled cuffs
Some provision, some protection In TIM
matter should be inserted in the marriage
service"
THERE is a religious sect called Winnie
brennarians, and they have society IL
Pittsburg. Washing the feet they re
gard as a sacrament, and at their Sunday
services a large number of persons taxi
part i'm this rite. On recent service thert
were about thirty of them. The pasto
fills two basins with water, and a man ant
woman, each wearing an apron in imita
ton of the girdle worn by Christ, washe
one by one the feet Of those of their owl
sex, the shoes and stockings having BEEF
previously removed. Both feet are place.
in the basin, and after having been washed
are wiped with the apron worn by thu
each other. During the performance o
this ceremony the congregation sing ;
hymn:
This is the way long have sought,
And moumed because l found It not.
Ii is an interesting fact that there is The
same authority for this rite as there is fol
the sacrament of the Lords Supper, anC
vet il is not observed by Christians gen
orally.
PARALYSIS is becoming prime disease
1t is not confined TO the tieShy, the pie
thOric. nor to the aged. The fast life O
our business young men tells on them. i
is very common thing to see men o
thirty and thirty-tive bald-headed, feeble
gated, and walking about with canes
their underpinning knocked out, witt
other signs of premature age. Thes'
signs of early weakness develop in paraly
sis. Sudden deaths from this cause arr
very common. Several have occurred il
railroad trains, the vibration seeming e
prediSpose persons to the disease. No
long since a gentleman died in one of on
churches. lie was interested in a case O
discipline. He made a report to the churcl
on the case sat down, laid his head on thu
back of the seat, and instantly expired
In another case man not accustomed e
public speaking arose to relate his religious
experience. He was so excited that h
could scarcely speak. I'm the midst of hi
remarks he was seized with paralysis, anC
carried 10 his home. Our young men vii
have 10 tone down. their style of living
they amount toanything.