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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

A box II by 10 inches, p inches deep, contains
barrel.
A box Is by 16l5 inches, S deep, contains
peek.
box ( by inches. AZ deep, contains y peek.
The standard bushel Of the United States con-
tlins 2l50.4 cubic inches. The imperial buShel
is about is cubic inches. Any box or measure
the contents of which are equal TO 2l50.4 cubic
inches. will hold bushel Of grain. In meas
urng fruit, vegetables, coal and other sub
stances. One-ffth must be added. In other
words. a peck measure five times even full
makes one bushel. The usual practice is to
heap the measure.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
10 CRndiSInteA.

If You want to save money, buy
your goods from STONE & Mills.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
nissiNsippi Central Railroad.

1Hs''"HTs"H p z UT N IAsEEf VtlNts
NORTH.
Day Express, 500 A. ". s:3OA n.
Night Express, 6;00 r. N. 6:20 P. n.
sol I'll.
Day Express. 9:27 a. II. q:45 A. v.
Night Express, 1880 P. y. 1l:O0 p ~
p. II. HAWKS, Agent
Trains on either road. If necessary. wait half
an hour for trains on the Other.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
The Weather.

Ladies new style hats just received
at MRs. Z. A. DUFfY's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
Corn for Sale.

Stone q MILLS are selling their
new stock of goods very low for cash.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
GENERAL NEWS.

.Ruches, cOllarettes, etc, at Mrs. Z.
A. Duffy's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
REGISTER.

TLLTOTT.-We are authorized to announce
Il p. P. ELLIOTT. of Trenton, as candidate
for County Register at the August election.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
County Directory
RAILROAD TIMETABLE.
Louisville and Memphis Railroad.

TRAINS SOUTH
ARRIVES DEPARTS.
Day Express, ESQ 4. y. 1910 A. n.
Night Express, ll:25 P. n. ll.35 p. ~.
TRAINS NORTH.
Day Express, SIS A. ". s:53 A. n.
Night Express, 6:G ?. ". $50 p. n.
A W. LOVING, Agent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Parties wishing to rent houses or buy
property can get bargains by calling on
o. II. Hallstrom, Milan. Tenn LILY
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Pay us what you owe at once, and
save cest. STONE & Mills.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Mrs. Duffy has new STYLE sashes
and neck ribbons.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
Patrons of iTuSbandry.

The Changers of this county met
in Council last Friday in Trenton.
We understand there was good at
tendance, ard that business Of import
ance was transacted. Among other
things they endorsed the action of the
National and State Oranges in their
platform of principles. They also
recommended a full attendance at the
meeting of West Tennessee Oranges,
to be held in Milan the first day of
May next. We understand there will
I've representatives from all parts of
this section of the State on that occa-
sion, as a large number Of oranges
have already given notice of their in
tention to send delegates. Our people
will give them Il warm welcome.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16
DR.. VT. ". Yandell

OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL sERV-
~ ices 10 the citizens Of Milan and surround
ing country. in all It's various branches.
Office over Jordan's Drug Store. Residence
on Williamson street. mari2-6u
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Spring bomets at Mrs. Du1y's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Just received, a new stock of Cloth
ing, which we viii sell at the lowest
cash prices. STONE & MnIs.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

Milan Council. No. 7l-Mects every Friday
night NJ Odd Fellows Hail. Z.G. Jackson. D.
q. V. p. ". II. Algee, Secretary.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-16

SAEv.@ w. W. Wilkison is
#x selling guns, pistols,
asA2S revolvers and many
other things at cost. 5-tf
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Having just received from the msnufa tarers
an entir new oEftt Of tho
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
Concerning SunstrOkes.

The season is now at hand when divers
people will be volunteering information
as to how sunstrOke may be avoided.
Some of the ideas expressed are quite
amusing, If not useful, as witness the fol-
lowing: About year since l saw in a
newspaper an account of case of sun
stroke, written by the party himself.
After suffering a long time, and having
to considerable degree recovered, he ex-
perienced suffering even from the rays OF
the moon. This led him to the reflection
that it was not altogether the heat of the
sun that produced prostration. After
much research he discovered that the
injury came from the chemical ray, and
not from the heat ray. He was guided
to this by the fact that a photograph
could not be taken through hollow
glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with
two linings--one Of orange yellow to ar
rest the chemical ray, and one of green
to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared,
he went where the rays of the sun were
the most intense with perfect impunity.
1t Is well known that the negro is seldom
sunstruck. The color of his skin over
the skull being of an orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact. prac-
ticed upon this suggestion all last sum
mer, lined my hat with green and or
ange yellow paper and had confidence in
the truth Of the theory to neglect my
umbrella, which I had never done be-
fore. I mentioned this to many, who
tried il also, and in many cases that came
under my observation, they uniformly
asserted that the oppressive heat Of the
sun upon the head was much relieved.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
Healthfulness OF MIX.

If any one wishes TO grow feshy, a
pint of milk taken before retiring at
night, twill soon cover the scranniest bones.
Although nowadays we see great many
feshy females, there are many lean and
lank ones who sigh for the fashionable
measure of plumpness, and who would
be vastly improved i'm health and appear
ance, could their figures be rounded with
good, solid flesh. Nothing is more covet-
ed by thin women than full figure, and
nothing will rouse the ire and provoke
the scandal of the "clipper builds" as the
consciousness of plumpness in rival.
In cases of fever and summer complaint,
milk is now given with excellent results.
The idea that milk is "feverish," has ex-
ploded, and it is now the physicians
great reliance i'm bringing through ty-
phoid patients, or those i'm too low a
state to be nourished by solid food. II
is mistake to scrimpthc milk pitcher.
Take more milk and buy less meat. Look
to your milkman, pave large-sized, we'll
filled milk pitchers on the table each
meal, and you will also have sound flesh
and light doctors bills.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
Reliability.

There is not function nor position
in life in which reliability isnOt the most
valuable characteristic. Genius sends
scamped work as often as noble effort,
and is not to be trusted for time or pune
tuality; energies which are heroic on
one occasion, then sink below the meas
ure of child's strength on another;
love that burns like the sun to-day,
and is dead and cold as mere heap
of ashes to-morrow--who cares for such
gifts as these? Beautiful as they are
when they come, they are intrinsically
worthless, because so entirely unreliable;
and qualities which not half the show
and shine of these have twice thgir
value because always to hand when
wanted, always to be trusted in and re-
relied on when they have workto dOand
responsibilities to fill. Yes, it is a grand
quality; we know none grander. 1t is
the very crown, the gathering in of so
many notable virtues, which without it
are of no account, that we might part
with many a good gift bestowed by ma
ture upon man rather than with this
which gives vitality to all-this supreme
excellence of reliability. With it boOr
has his worth without it, demi-god
his dangers and his valuelessness. 1t
means everything that is solid, every
thing that is trustworthy, and no one is
so great that he can do without it, n91
one 80 humble that he is not ennOblel
and made of value with it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
A Gardeners Barometer.

The common camphor-bottle makes a
very cloudy index of atmospheric weight
and weather changes on which the fol-
lowing is an improvement. Dissolve
% drachms of camphor in IL fluid
drachms of alcohol. Put 38 grains of
nitrate of potash (saltpetre), and 38 grains
of muraite of ammonia (sal ammoniac),
into 9 fluid drachms of water; when all
are perfectly dissolved, mix the two solu-
tions. Shake them well in a two-ounce
or four-ounce white glass vial, cork very
loosely, or, better, tie over the mouth a
piece of linen or cotton cloth, and place
the instrument in good light out of the
sunshine, where it can be observed with
out handling. When the weather is fine
and clear, the fluid is also; but on the
least change, the chemicals, which lie
AZ sediment, rise i'm beautiful frond-like
crystals proportionately, and again duly
subside. BY watching these changes one
soon becomes able to predict the changes
of weather probable for few hours to
come, in any locality. This instrument
is also pretty philosophical toy showing
how sensitive some chemical solutions
are TO atmospheric influences. We saw
barometers of this kind for sale in London
several years ago, but do not recollect
meeting with them in this country, ex-
cept the homemade ones prepared ac-
cording to the above directions, which
have been several times published, but
may be new 10 some of our readers.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
Ben. Spinner's Vacation.

If there is thing which mt first |
thought would be glad of and am now
dreadful sorry for, it is because school is
out for keeps till the next term. 1t is
most usually the way that when school
don't keep there is plenty of work studied
up for me to have to do. That's the way
it fits me every time. It's my kind of bad
luck to be raised to have industrious
ways. My father is everlastingly telling
me that idleness is the parents of vice, or
some Of that sort of disagree cable English
language that don't want to hear; and
that must keep busy at work at some
thing, and not CAD about with other in
dOlent boys, and not race the streets from
morning till night perpetual. Last vaca-
ton they put me into the garden, where,
they said, / could obtain some habits
which would do me some good when be-
came grown up into n useful citizen.
Well, to have to be n useful citizen is all
very fine silk, but, if could only have
my own way only just once, would
rather be peanuts on the railroad. But
they have gOtme into the same hardships
which | was into last summer, only it is
rougher because there is more of it. If
they think it's proper for me to have to
bug the potatoes, and weed the onions,
and thin out the rhubarb, and raise up a
lot of garden trash for to 60 to seed and
waste, why, then, suppose it's all right
if / could only see it; but when boy
has studied diligent all winter, / don't
think it's exactly the fair thing to keep
him too tenacious at work i'm vacation,
Anyhow, that's my opinion, which l
throw in. There amt a very great deal
of real pleasure in bugging potatoes
where the bugs is about barrel full to
the acre, and when boy has to bend his
back down to try to pull up weeds which
grow clear through and clinch OH the
other side, it's kind of miserable Oc-
cupation which would like to get a half
of good chance for to slip out Of To
have to wade into the garden early in the
morning when the dew is on in your bare
feet. and get smart weed up your trousers
leg, is worse thing than the Eriesipilis
or the fever and ague; but when you
have to do it; therei is no use for 70 try to
shirk out. went back on the job once,
but never went back on it twice, be-
cause once was enough. was roped in
and coaxed by some boys to go off on
the commons to play base ball for whole
day. Late in the evening when j came
home and went i'm the back way, and des-
perate hungry, the governor gave me an
abundance of stars and stripes, which /
have got them yet, and could show 'em If
l was only in a swimming. I found out
that it is bad habit for boy to get into,
to shake his work without permission,
and it's the best way always for to obey Or
ders if it almost breaks your back. But
have got awful sick of this vacation
business, and, if can find school next
year which will keep in the year round,
it's the one that want to 90 to.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
Modern Jerusalem.

The City of Jerusalem fills such large
space in the imagination on account of
the surprisingly wonderful events of
which it has been the theatre, that its in
significant size and population at the
present time strike one. with sort of sur
prise and incredulity. We learn from II
recent paragraph i'm the academy that
the population is only that of small
English town, namely $4,000, of whom
5000 are MOhammedans, 5000 Jews, and
the rest Christians. Considering that
large number of Christians, especially in
this country, believe that the Jews will
ultimately return to the Promised Land,
and considering that the Jews them
selves, at any rate nominally, maintain
the same conviction, it is singular that
nothing practicable has hitherto been at
tempted towards the furtherancc of this
object. In proportion to their numbers
the Hebrew community scattered over
the world are unrivalled i'm wealth and in
energy, while the Turkish Empire is
feeble and always in want of money.
Why should not the Jews make bid for
their ancient dominions? Palestine can
not be worth much to the Moslem, where
as if the Jew were established there with
full liberty to do as he pleased, he might,
Judging from his business capacity in
London, New York and Melbourne, re-
store the country within few years to
such state of prosperity as it has not EN-
joyed since the days of the Herods. Ii
such demand were made, with reason-
able conditions attached, the great
European Powers would probably sup
port the claim. But perhaps the modern
Jews do not want to 60 to Judea? Per-
haps the old fable of the sun and the
wind is verified in their case. When the
blasts of insult and persecution blew
kneenly, the Jew wrapped himself in his
cloak of national exclusiveness, and as he
sat by the waters of Babylon thought of
and wept over his native Zion; but now,
when the genial sun of liberation shines
forth, the prosperous Hebrew inclines to
reverse Lord Denbigh's formula by say
ing, "a Jew, if you please, but an
Englishman first ofall. "--Loadon Graphic.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
The Greatest River In the World.

The Amazon is the most vOluminOus
of rivers. At the narrows of AbydOs,
six hundred miles from the sea, half a
million cubic feet of water pass any
given point every second. Born in Lake
Lauricoaha, among the Andes of Peru,
the main trunk runs northerly for five
hundred miles in continuous series of
rapids, and then from the frontier of
hundred miles across the equatorial
plain of the continent. The average
current of the great river in its passage
through Brazil is three miles an hour.
At Tabotinga, two thousand miles from
its mouth, the width is a mile and a
half, with the depth of eleven fathoms !;
at the entrance of the Madeira, it is
three miles wide, and below Santaren it
is ten. The tributaries are in keeping
with this colossal trunk. In fact, the
Amazon is great river system rather
than one river. 1t has twelve affluents
over a thousand miles long, the largest,
the Madeira, equaling the Arkansas,
entering the Amazon nine hundred
miles from its mouth.
Besides these and host of minor
tributaries, there is wonderful net
work of natural canals alongside of the
main river and joining the tributaries,
called igdTupes, pdrunds and .turos.
These bypaths are of immense advan-
tage for REORGANIZATION.
They are characteristic as the country,
and are so numerous that Amazonia is
truly cluster of islands. Altogether,
this island of fresh-water sea drains ter
ritory of two million square miles, reach
ing from the Andes to the Atlantic and
throwing out its arms to the Orinoco and
Paraguay. On the lower Amazon the
annual rise reaches its maximum about
the middle of June, and its minimum in
December, the difference of level being
about three feet.
No other river runs in so deep chan
mel to so great distance. No other
river can furnish over six thousand miles
of continuous navigation for large YES
sels For two thousand miles from its
mouth the main stream has not less than
seven fathoms of water; and not a fall
interrupts navigation for twenty-five
hundred miles. The PongO de Maneri-
che is the western limit to navigation on
the Amazon proper. While the current
is ever east, there is a constant trade
wind westward, so that navigation up or
down has always something in its favor.
In August and September strong breeze
sweeps over the lower part of that main
trunk, so that schoOners often 60 from
Para to Obydos in ten days, or one third
of the ordinary time.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
A Hint IN Young Men.

In 1866 young gentleman registered
his name in the largest hotel in the city
of Louisville, Ky. He had pretty
good wardrobe, such as young men
usually have, including a gold watch and
chain. He was in search of occupation.
At the expiration of two weeks he took
an inventory of his personal effects: "Out
of work and no business" He had a
brief interview with the proprietor of the
hotel. His trunk was left IA security for
his board bill he hypothecated his
watch for the loan of ten dollars, and
having kissed the tip end of coral fingers
to kind and sympathetic landlord, he
went diving for the bottom" He
found the "bottom on Water Street,
where steamer was being discharged of
cotton by Dutchmen, negroes and Yam
KEGS. Having purchased pair of heavy
boots, blue shirt and overalls, he COM
menced rolling and piling at the rate of
five cents per bale. In three weeks he
was promoted to the position of mark
err" with salary of forty-five dollars
per month, and ut the expira ton of nine
months he had a right to grow mellow
over a salary of one hundred and twenty
five dollars per month. To-day this gen.
tleman Is one of the largest business oper-
ators in Bay Street.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
A Duke and his Dwelling.

A London correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean says: The Duke OF West
minister, who is one of the wealthiest
nOblemen in England, his yearly income
being upwards of two million and half
dollars, recently threw open his palatial
mansiOn----'G rosvenor House'--tO the
members of the Society for the En-
enlargement Of the Fine Arts that they
might view his superb collection of pic
lures and other art treasures. Through
the kindness of George Browning, ESQ.,
Secretary of the society, was favored
with a card of invitation, and I gladly
availed myself of this opportunity of
seeing the London residence of a real
duke. GrOsvenOr House contains large
halls and suites of drawing-roOms
which make even the largest apartments
in an ordinary house look small in COM
parison. A hundred persons might dine
with comfort in the dining-hall, while
two thousand guests would scarcely crowd
the richly decorated bathrooms and re-
ception-rOOms. AS we passed through
the ballroom several French workmen
were busily engaged regilding the magnifi-
cent chandelier (Which holds 200 candles)
preparatory to the grand ball given by
the Duke and Duchess in honor of the
Emperor of Russia. will observe just
here that the English aristOcracy never
have their bathrooms or drawing-rO0ms
lighted with gas, the light of wax candles
being considered much softer and more
effective. The pictures, which number
several hundred, are distributed through
the halls and principal rooms. The Duke
is not only most munificent patron OF
art, but is ever ready to give both time
and money to the advancement of any
good cause. The Duchess is spoken of as
being as amiable and lovely as she is
wealthy; both she and her husband de-
lights in display of almost feudal hOspi-
tality. Though in the heart of the West
End, there is a beautiful garden attached
to GrOsvenOr House and lawn planted
with fine old trees. The Duke travelled
through the United States several years
ago, when his title was Lord GrosvenOr-
his father being then living. A good
story is told apropos of his stay at the
house of an old farmer in Illinois, where
he went for the purpose Of shooting
prairie chickens, bringing with him
numerous suite, several dogs and large
quantity of hunting accOutrements. The
farmer, an excellent man in every respect
(but one whose ideas of dukes were
rather vague and undefned), seemed to
think that his guest was spending great
deal of money foolishly, and inquired of
him one evening, as they all sat around a
blazing log fire, Young man, what do
you do for living when you're at homer
Lord G. answered very pleasantly
that he lived upon an allowance from his
father. But suppose the old man was to
bust upp was his hosts next inquiry, to
which Lord G. replied that he did not
think there was any immediate danger OF
such al event taking place.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-07-09
4 POnderOus Hammer.

The London Telegraph says of the
visit of the Gar and his suit to Wool
wich:
"The party made their longest halt
i'm the factory where the Nasmyth ham,
mer, the largest in the world-fitted
with top steam is worked. Adding to
the forty tons dead falling weight of the
hammer, the fifty one tons added by a
full pressure of steam above, blow
equivalent to weight of ninety one
tons can be given by it with as much
control as child may exercise over a
toy mallet The Imperial party oc-
cupied specially-erected platform to
witness the welding of the trunnion coil
of thirty eight ton gun. The Caro-
witch last year witnessed similar pro-
cess with the trunnion coil of thirty
five ton gun. The massive door of the
furnace was raised, and in fire
terrible from the fierceness of its
golden glow stood the white-hOt-coil-a
cylinder weighing twenty-three tons and
half. The trunnion coil consists of two
thicknesses of bar iron, coiled upon the
other, and the work of the steam ham,
mer was to weld them into homOgen-
eous cylindrical mass. The powerful
crane was set i'm motion, and the swarthy
smiths sprang to the beautifully-adjusted
machinery by which the fiery mass was
seized by giant tongs, swung glowing
and Kissing out of. the fire, and placed
under the hammer. Blasts of hot air
rushed across toward the spectators, but
the vast size of. the building rendered
eye protectors unnecessary. The coil, it
is needless to say, was welded efiectually
the very floor, although its founda-
tions are on rock, vibrating with the
tremendous blows. The force welded
by but dozen men at the lever of the
crane was astounding; yet the hammer
was subject to a steam power more form
liable than itself