The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-12-10
GENERAL BRETITEES.

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AMHERsr, Mass, exhults in having,
relatively TO population, more churches
than any other place in New England.
liz also has the greatest proportion, OF
drinking places, which il does not con-
slider matter for 50 much exultation.
In South Boston building four stories
high, and covering an area of four thou
sand square feet, was raised five feet from
the foundation. The tenants were not dis
turbed, and no machinery or merchandise
had been removed. Forty men working
with four hundred powerful screws did
the job. zl-,-i
THE dog Of Capt. Williams OF North
Berwick, Maine, bOwled so mournfully at
his masters funeral that he had TO be
chained in the barn. When released he
searched the premises for his master, and
tracked the body TO the graveyard, whith-
er ne goes daily and mourns for his lost
owner.
AN unknown tramp was recently found
hanging head downward, on the fence ola
cemetery in UXbridge, Mass. His foot
had caught between the pickets. and he
had been unable 70 extricate himself. The
horrors of such a death, at such time and
place, are UNPLEASANT TO contemplate
On many of the routes in California, OPP
position lines of stages are run, one only
having the contract for carrying Wells,
Fargo 81 Co.'s money boxes. The con-
tract pays well, yet is adetriment TO pas
senger patronage, because the highway
men select the reasure-laden stages for
robbery.
TIE promoters of the project for tan
mel under the Dover Straits. il is said. are
displaying some, energy in view, of the
meeting of the English Cabinet and the re-
assembling of the French Cabinet early in
December. The matter will be brought
before the Versailles Assembly within q
few days after its meeting. ELEt
PURE soft water is the best Of all puri-
fiers. 1t dissolves almost every impurity
that may find its way into the blood, and
passes il of through the skin. lungs, and
kidneys, thus washing out the blood with
out any irritation in passing through the
system and without those chemical
changes and deposits which are likely to
arise from the action of drugs. Why then
use doubtful, dangerous. and often inju-
rious drugs for purifying the blood when
pure, simple. safe. pleasant, and far more
efiectual water may be had without money
and without price? les . ri r..ra
A sTRANGE potato was found at Nunda
n. Y, recently, which the Evansville I'D
Uerti9er describes as follows: . 1t was dug
in that town, weighed about three pounds
and contained within itself a very singular
thing. A stem ike something protruding
from one end was seen to move as II 1t had
life. The potato was cut open, and the
stem was found 10 be the tail of a some
thing inside which seemed TO be half potato
and half animal. ItAyas- about rs large as
a mouse, with a brown color, was shaped
like potato, with indentatiOns like potato
eyes, and yet seemed to be composed 81
animal flesh, andlmd life and motion No
one had seen any thing at all resembling
it. Itwas lobe taken 90 Rochester and
shown to scientists"
ONE hundred and ten wears ago there
was not a single white man in what is now
Kentucky, Ohio,z Indiana, or Illinois
Then, what is now the most tlOurishing
part of the United States, was as little
known as the country in the heart OF
Africa itself. 1t was not till l776 that
Boone left his home in North Caroline tc
become the first settler in Kentucky. And
the first pioneer of OhfoSlid not settle till
twenty years later. A hundred years ago
Canada belonged to France, and Washing
ton was amOdest YirgiRian Colonel, and
the United States the most LOYAL part OF
the British Empire, and scarcely a speck
on the political horizon indicated the
struggled that in few years was to lay the
foundation of the greatest republic of the
world. .sl. r To f."al itIH4
Mr.. +. WOODRUFF. Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has published pamphlet, in which
he says information has been cOmmuni-
l. Hf,f
changes to take place on the earth fiireen
years hence. He declares that during
twenty one days. commencing January
26, 1889, a new planet will be formed from
a belt OF matter thrown off from the sun,
and anew moon from a belt of matter
now surrounding the earth, and that our
present moon will then be pushed further
of. That the earth's atmosphere will be
purified by the change, and that sickness
from natural causes win thenceforth be
unknown. The chances are that all of us
who can manage to pr0lOBg our existence
until 1889 will be in a position to live for
ever.
THE following old English poem is said
to have been the first English song ever
set to music. 1t was written about the
year 1900, and first discovered in one of
the Ilarleian manuscripts, TOW in the Brit
iSh Museum: 49,
APPROACH OF SUMNER.
sumner is comen in, a -.
Lhude sing cuccn;
Graweth fed and bloweth med,
And springeth the VIDE nu,
Sing cuccu.f Hha u
Awe bleateth after lomb,
Ihouth after calve Gu;
bullock sterteth, buck verteth;- --
MITr'e sing, cuccu, "a ~
Cuccu, cuccu;
Wei singes thu cuccu;
Ne swik thOw nawer nu, ..H-..
Sing cuccu nu,
Sing cuccu. I'D
The following is literal modern prose
version: Summer is coming. Loudly
sing cuckoo. Groweth feed, and bloweth
mead, and springeth the wood now. Eve
bleateth after lamb, loweth COW after calf,
bullock starteth. buck verteth-i e har-
boreth among the ferns; meriily sing
cuckoo. Well, singest thou, cuckoo.
Nor cease to sing now. Sing cuckoo, now.
sing cuckoo. ~
The economical fuel recently invented
10y Belgian workman is composed as fol-
lows Two and quarter pounds Of coal
dust, SIX and hall pounds of vegetable
earth, and five and a half ounceSof saltS'of
soda, the whole of which is. well mixed
with one pound of water. a shovel ftill
of this mixture thrown upon an ardent
fire causesit TO burn with great brillianey
and emit strong degree Of heat. The
fire thus fed has the advantage of burning
slowly as well as brilliantly. According
10 a communication recently made to the
French Academy of Sciences. by the Rev.
5. j. Edel, a missionary IN China. It ap-
pears that a similar mixture for economiz-
ing fuel has been employed by the Chinese
from time immemOrial. Our cooks -
writes the missionary, "every Saturday
make a, IniXtire OF small, broken coal.
vegetable earth, containing proper proper
tons o. salts of soda and water. This
mixture, when dried, is cut I'm the form of
bricks, which burn slowly, emitting a
strong degree OF heati' The coincidence
of the manufacture of this fuel in Pechee.
Ice and the invention of the Belgian work.
man is curious.
Changing the Color Of Flowers.
rEef so u 80 M rFs =
AR essayist writes ssFloweIs of a violet
color when eXposedto the fumes of cigar
assume green tint, all the more decided
in proportion to their original BRIGHTNESS