The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-06
GENERAL BREyITIES,

IN Ihlcago. WHICH, bne girls are popped
to, the return question is. Whose ,hus-
band are you just now, aEd for how many
daysy"
MOUNT NESUVIUs is to have a railroad to
the top costing S40O0O0O. The upper
station will be guarded by pent house,
SO as TO protect il i'm case of eruption, and
the line is to be constructed in sach way
that the utmost danger to be apprehended
Is the loss of a few hundred feet of rails.
LIST of drinks offered at the bar of a
Bethlehem pa temperance house soda
water, Congress water, Lehigh water, Del
aware water, spring water. Bushkill water,
eye water, rose water, salt water, cucum-
Der pump water, rain water, courthouse
roof water, Jail roof water, and water"
A LADY writer points out the fact as
worthy of notice that, "while the men who
commit suicide are almost always unmar-
ried. the women are married or widowed. T"
This leads to the Inference that, while men
cannot live without women, women find
life unbearable with them.
IL san Francisco recently, at the funeral
of girl thirteen years old, the pall-bear-
ers were all girls of her age. They were
dressed in white, each holding white
band which was attached 10 the hearse,
and they walked at the sides and rear OF
that vehicle.
A BosToN physician thinks that the pro-
cess of kneading bread is decidedly objec-
tiOnable at any time, but il warm weather,
when the perspiration is in constant few,
it is the undoubted means of introducing
into bread impurities and the seeds of pos
tive disease. The cleaner the skin the
more copious the perspiratiOn. The ply
stefan does not suggest any other method
of bread-making. IE
IL Brooklyn infant class there is a pre-
MUM for good behavior, the excellence of
the behavior consisting largely in absti-
hence from wriggling. At the close Of a
recent session, the amiable and accomplish
ed teacher said TO a small girl: ''Beckie.
my dear, you were very good little girl
to-day" Yes'm. ] couldn't help bein'
good. got tiff neck, A" the youthful Beck
lie replied with perfect seriousness.
IN some parts of California squirrels are
so destructive that farmers suffer a loss
equal TO the profit of the crop nearly every
year. Asa Anderson of Nisalia recently
added a small can of thoroughly pulveriz-
ed strychnine, sweetened with fine sugar,
20 two gallons of wet wheat, and diStribu-
ted it in the morning near the squirrel
burrows. That day he found about seven
ty-five dead squirrels, and hardly a squirrel
has been seen on his place since.
A LONG BRANCH observer writes
+" Youthful charms, when clothed in white
muslin and pearls. offer attractions to the
most adamantine heart. But take those
same seductive curves and dimples and
eXtinguish them with a straw hat, and
swathe them in bag of blue or red flan-
mel, termed per courtesy bathing dress,
and defy the most susceptible OF Angus
fuses or Adolphuses to feel any vibration
of the treble strings of his heart.
IT is said that am Indian native woman,
with her fingers and spindle alone, will
spin a thread and finish a piece of muslin
which cannot. by the application of the
most delicate machinery, be produced out
side Of India. There is one quality of
Dacca muslin, for example, which is
termed "woven air." 1t is made only for
kings daughters. So short is the staple
of the raw material, and so brittle are its
fibres, that it must be spun by woman
under twenty-five. and before the dew has
left the grass in the morning. AS a sub
stitute for natural moisture, the evapOra-
ton of water from a shallow pan is some
times used; but the quality of work in
that case is inferior. A piece four yards
weighs less than one ounce avoirdupois.
The muslin is very durable, and will
wash.
DURING the last week Henry Jackson
was sent for six months to the pcniten-
tiary from this city for sleeping in church.
1t is to be hoped that this summary pun
ishment will do something to check the
prevalent evil. 1t is true that JacksOn's
case was an aggravated one. He broke
into a church at night for the purpose,
as he alleged, of sleeping there. But
those who indulge themselves in this per-
nicious practice on Sunday, when the
church is open, are very likely to end, as
jackson did, by adding to somnOlence flat
burglary. Total abstinence from sleep in
church is the only safe rule.-N. J. hide
pendent.
THESE July evenings" says the Pitts
burgh Commercial, as Claude and Pau
line stand gazing up into the breathless
heavens, after they have grown tired of
guessing what star shall be their home
when love becomes immortal, they turn
their fond eyes upon the comet, and then,
mid her eXclamations of delight and won
der, he incidentally whispers into her raw
ished ear, Each particle of matter which
cOmpOseS the tail is supposed to move in
hyperbolic orbit, with the sun in the focus
of the opposite branch, under the in
fluence ola repulsive force emanating from
the sun. and decreasing by the law of the
inverse square Of the distance.
News comes from Tennessee that the
peanut crop will be very large this year.
For this let thanks be returned: at least
one luxury is saved to us. Satisfying but
not intoxicating, the gentle gOober has
much in its favor. Note the numbers of
our citizens who gain a livelihood by
traffic i'm the peanut line. They toll not,
neither do they pay rent; but on the
small profits of their stands live frugal,
happy, transformations lives. Who ever
heard of peanut merchant being a MUIR
derer. cOnspiratOr? On the contrary,
how many rustic hearts have they glad
dened; how many SchOol-bOys nave they
started on their way rejOicing.-bater-
Ocean.
Mr.. L. SHEERAN, Collector of Customs
at Kodiak. Alaska. has in his possession
an Alentian mummy, procured from a
cave on Kodiak Island. The mummy is
described by a correspondent Ofthe Alaska
Herald as ''simply skin and bones" He
Is now. and was when found sitting i'm a
crOuching position. his head turned to the
right, his face directly on line with his
right shoulder. When tie skin is touched
it sounds like drum. Part of his hair is
on and his moustache is perfect. POr-
tons fhiS skin remain. and his tarbasauX
(boOts) are nearly perfect. 1t is worthy
of mention that, although the mummy
has been exposed for over year, there is
no change perceptible. The implements
found with him denote that many years
have elapsed since tie gentleman was de-
posted in the cave.
How TO KEEP COOL.-Never 90 in the
sun: il heats the blood. Food is fuel. and
furnishes heat: eat no food. Clothes pre-
vent the escape of heat from the body
wear none. or only a loose shirt and draw
ers. Work heats the system: do nothing.
Sit in a draft. Reading, talking and think
ing generate heat; do neither. Battle
every hour OF the day, and take a shower
bath between. Wear a cap with ice in il.
Sit with your feet in a tub of ice-water.
Call your wife or daughters when you
want anything; it is a cool operation.
Drink iced tea, lemonade, plain soda and
such; have a cool stream running in all
the while. By observing these simple di-
rections one can get along without going
away, unless the effect sends him off,
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