The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-27
GENERAL BREVTTIES.

GENEKAI DhENlIiESe
"HERoNE" is perhaps as peculiar
word as any in our language; the two first
letters Of it are male, the three first female,
the four first brave man, and the whole
word brave woman.
NOTES OF the storm still come in. 4
visitor from Louisville was struck by the
wind. and as he flew up Wisconsin street
with his ears unfolded, gentleman re-
marked, Z" knew that the wind would
fetch the circus tent. "-MLloaUkee Senti-
net.
The Gdsette, of Lexington, n.y., tells
story of the Rev. Nelson Grayson, negro
clergyman in that town thirty years ago,
who was accused of great imprOprietles.
The investigating committee reported that
as Brother GTayson had kept entirely
within his own church, and had not gone
out TO follow after strangers, he should
be honorably acquitted.
ONE for those who use tobacco. In a
recent number of the Medical Times we
find the following: "A young girl suf-
fering from severe and uncomfortable
vomiting, under DIR. BeaumetZ's care at
the Hotel-Dieu, was, after the Intellectual
trial of various remedies, ordered TO smoke
a cigarette after each meal. This, so long
check the vomiting entirely"
A GLASGOW cabinet-maker, named New
ton, has, during his leisure hours for the
past twenty-one years, been engaged upon
large model, just completed, Of Solo,
mons Temple, constructed of many kinds
of fancy wood, with strict adherence to
the description of it to be found in the
Scriptures. There are separate models,
in the same style, of the Tabernacle and
the Holy of HOLES.
a TOLEDO man has a dog that under
stands the English language. His master
talks to him as though he were human
being, and Tray understands him. For
instance, there will be a dozen drays NOV
ing up the street. Chunk" says How
ard, Ego and get on the seat of the red
dray !" Chunk looks over the drays, and
trots off to the red dray, and takes his seat
by the driver.
In the post mortem examination of a
man % years of age, Professor Klob, of
Vienna, lately found all the muscles of the
body studded with thousands of trichin9,
mostly calcified, but some still alive. The
man died of maraSmuS. He had not left
Vienna for ten years, but had previously
epent some time in Germany. DIR. KlOb
believes that the invasion of the trichin9
must have occurred at least fifteen or
twenty years ago.
liz we view the human body in regard to
Its maladies and the season of the year,
says an English observer, we shall find
that summer is divided from winter by a
line drawn from somewhere by the third
button of the waistcoat. AS the mercury
in the thermometer goes up, our ailments
90 down, In cold weather the respira-
tory organs, in hot weather the digestive
organs. are severally the places in which
we go wrong.
The smallest steam-engine on record
was made by a Scotchman, named Craw-
ford. IL is perfect in every part and so
small that it can be covered by lady's
thimble. 1t can be worked by steam, but
he usually works it by atmospheric pres
sure, through flexible t'Ibe, with rubber
air receiver. The pet engine was made
as an amusement, and TO show what could
be done. 1t is undoubtedly the smallest
working machine ever made.
COLONEL HASKELL, of the Boston Tran
script, a man of general experience and
tact, says that the form of tender confess
sion in Boston is something like this ::
dearest, believe me, | do love you with
my whole nervous organism. You share
with no other being the emotions which
pervade my undivided gray matter, and if
were conscious of a gangliOn that thrOb-
bed but for thee, be sure | would not sleep
till had procured its neurOtOmy." 1t is
all owing to the recent visit Of DIR. Brown
Sequard.
A NOVEL bridge has been built to con-
meet st. Servan and st. Malo, in France.
They are divided by large basin, through
which the River Rance finds its way to the
sea. The tide at its lowest leaves the bot
tom of the basin dry. Advantage has been
taken OF the daily subsistence of the water,
and rails have been laid across the basin,
upon which a bridge or platform, raised
above the highest tide, runs backward and
forward. The boat which runs upon the
submerged rails is pulled to and fro by
horses.
Mrs. MARGARET MIDDLETON, who died
lately in Simsbury, Connecticut, at the
great age of one hundred and six years,
seven months, and sixteen days, was the
oldest person in that State. She had never
worn glasses, and was always able, until
shortly before her death, TO thread the
finest needle. She never had physician
TO attend her professionally but once be-
fore her last sickness, neither had she at
the time of her death, nor during her life,
a gray hair in her head.
TIE pursuit of knowledge under diff
culties, and the triumph, are illustrated in
the career of Michael Leahy. who recently
graduated at the Pittsfield massachusetts,
High School, at the age of twenty-one.
When a child, while playing on the rail-
road track, he was run over by a train,
and was obliged to have both arms ampu-
tated so close to the shoulders that no
perceptible stumps are left. But he has
persevered in his studies, has not been alb
sent or tardy once in his four years
course, and has become proficient in all
the branches taught, turning the leaves OF
his book with his tongue. He has also ac-
Quired legible and handsome penman-
ship, which he executes with his mouth.
A NORTH CAROLINA belle. according to
a local journal, recently started for a
horseback ride near Morgantown, in that
State. She was riding rapidly with gen.
tleman down long slope, when the gen.
tleman's horse stumbled and fell. The
lady's horse cleared both him and rider al
one leap, and then became quite unman-
ageable. Two hundred yards further on
a narrow lane was blOckaded by negro,
mule. and cart square across it. Her horse
was careering at full speed. To pass
round was impossible, to stop equally so
but the agile animal at one furious bound
cleared negro, mule, and cart The
charming equeStrienne never for a mo-
ment lost her balance, and was laughing
gayly when her horse was checked two
miles further on.