The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-19
GENERAL BREyITIES.

as bad as regular gambler? Because he
Is no better?
A MAN viii die for want of air in five
minutes, for want of sleep in ten DAYS, for
want Of water In a week. for want of food
at varying intervals, depending on cOnsti-
tuition, habits of life, and the circumstan-
ces of the occasion.
The business of liquor-selling is uncer-
tain in Vermont. State constables are at
any time liable TO cOnfiscate the stock, and
consequently very small quantities are usu-
ally keptCn hand. Rutland, however, has
been so long free from interference that
when raid was lately made the dealers
We're badly caught. Two wholesalers lost
$4,000 each, and the hotels from $1,000 to
$4,000.
WE find the following touching verse in
the Baltimore american:
The train that brought bis wife came down
And then went sweeping on.
But. woe 20 him, his wife had brought
His mOthcr-in-laW along.
He lived, for life may well be borne
Ere sorrow break It's chain.
But. this last streak just settled him
He never smiled again.
Boston raises extraordinary infants. A
four-year-Old of that city. being gifted
with an inquiring mind. desired to know
whether his baby sisters head would fit
into the family bean-pOt. The experiment
was successfully performed-the head
piece was a perfect fit; but, alas! it
wouldn't come off. An immediate ope-
ration was necessary in order TO effect a
separation. The baby recovered there
from, though the bean-pot did not; and
now a strict surveillance is kept over the
dangerous four-year-old.
Now comes up a knotty problem for
be-at-rest Siamesc Twins. Surprising
they had been evil-minded. disorderly citi-
Zens. and one of them had committed
some crime or misdemeanor. what could
have been done about il? Chang could
not easily have been imprisoned for steal
ing, or hung for murder, without great in
justice to Eng. We suppose this must be
one of the important questions the physi-
clans at Philadelphia have been labOring
to solve. And if the world were likely 10
be peopled by twins of the Siamesc type,
the question would become of practical
value. But we scarcely think the danger
is imminent.
JUST now, when the plan of burning in
stead of burying the dead is under discuss
ion, il is a wonder that somebody does not
advocate the policy of selling the bodies
for medical dissection. After the students
were done with them incremation could
be carried out just as well. Indeed, late
precedents are not lacking. The wives of
Chang and Eng have received a goOdprice
for their curious pair Of husbands, and al
though they are fOtunate in having an eX-
ceptionally desirable article, the most or
binary body would bring twenty or thirty
dollars into the purse of an afflicted wild
ow. The son of Evans, who was hanged
i'm al nd
the money i'm clothes for himself and wife,
and defends the procedure on the ground
that the wicked old man was Of no use in
life, and it was only fair to make some
thing out Of him at last.
ACCORDING to Pliny. fire was a long
time unknown to some of the ancient
Egyptians, and when celebrated astrOnO-
mer showed it to them, they were absO-
lutely in rapuures. The PersianS, Pheni-
clans, Greeks and several other nations
acknowledged that their ancestors We're
once without the use of fire, and the Chi
nese confess the same of their prOgeni-
tors. Pompanion, MOla, Plutarch, and
other ancient writers speak of nations
which. at the time when they wrote, knew
not the use of fire, or had Just learned it.
Facts of the same kind are also attested by
modern nations. The inhabitants of the
Marian Islands, which were discovered in
1851, had no idea Of fire. Never was as
constituent greater than theirs when they
saw il on the desert in one of their islands.
At first they believed it was some kind of
animal that fixed 10 and fed upon the
wood.
A SENSIBLE mother writing of children'S
clothing says: II see many children
whose legs are too much exposed for
ffaVt z - miro f.,.f
that in the statistics laid by teachers o
public and private schools of this city be-
fore the ladies who have recently lectured
on the subject of dress, it was proved that
the children of a mission school in the
lower part of the city wore more under
wear and were more comfortably dressed
than those Of an uptown private school.
The wife of the Scotch and German me-
chanic, and even the Woodworking
Irish washwOman. will cOntrive to get
hoods, leggings, and mittens to keep her
darlings warm. while poor little Miss Cen
tility will be beautifully supplied with
sashes and beads, though shivering with
the cold for want Of proper winter cloth
lug.
DIR. CONGDoN, Superintendent of the
New York State Inebriate Asylum. treats
drunkenness as a disease. He SAYS that in
the incipiency of intemperance men are
free moral agents. morally accountable.
but a stage is reached in which the con-
science and will power are rendered mac
tive-the tissues of the brain become so
thoroughly diseased that it ceases to per-
form its functions. After the physician
has brought the patient out of the first
paroXysm of the disease, physical recon-
structiOn goes on, and As the bodily
strength increases. the faculties approach
their normal condition, and conscience and
will begin to assume control. The majori-
" of the patients are professional men, in
Guiding lawyers, physicians and clergy
men.
\ PROMINENT Oculist says that the cOnta-
giouS Egyptian or granular inflammation
of the eyes is spreading rapidly through
out the country, and adds: u have in
many, and may say in the majority of
cases. beer able To trace the disease TO the
use of the so-called rolling towels. Such
towels are generally found in our country
hotels and the sleeping apartments Of the
working classes, and, being thus used by
nearly every one, are made the carriers of
one of the most dangerous. and. As regard
its symptoms. most troublesome disease to
the eye. / therefore would strongly rec
ommcnd that the use of the rolling towel
be abolished, for thereby we will discard
one of the great instruments for the spread
of such Il dangerous disease Of the eve. by
which thousands of workingmen are annu-
ally deprived OF their means of support.
Brilliant Success.
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