The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
GENERAL BREVITIES.

The Brooklyn Argus says there Is a
woman in that city who refuses to listen
to idle tales. She is deaf.
Two thousand dollars is a pretty high
price TO pay for single rooster. That is
what Mr.. Davis, of Portland, has just CIV
en- TO Ira Batchelder for a black Spanish
cock considered the best game bird in the
country.
SOME animals-frogs, for instance-may
be frozen stiff, and still retain vitality. In
that condition respiration seems 10 be sus-
pended. and the animal may be placed
with impunity In irrespirable gases.
WHEN a colored man sits down on the
civil-rights bill and = seat at ''de fust Ia
ble'' on the Lake Michigan steamers, they
have neat way OF heading off his ENJOY
ment. The waiter comes around and
takes his order, and his plate, knife and
fork with it, and-dOn't come back again.
A THOMPSON, Conn.,. clock company has
shipped curious clock 10 San Francisco,
TO be placed in the tower of the greatest
hotel on the continent, where it will fur
niSh the time for 500 dials. which are 10 be
operated by compressed air carried in pipes
all over the building. The building has
500 rooms, and there is to be dialin every
room.
is the editor in?'' was the query of one
George Huntingdon, who called at the
office of the Middleburg (Vt.) Register,
with an open jack-knife TO settle a little
difficulty with the editor of that paper.
- Tie is replied the night of the scissors,
as he proceeded TO calm Huntingdon by
pouring over him three or four bottles of
ink, rubbing in the liquid with an office
stool. Huntingdon expressed his entire
satisfaction.
A REMARKABLE rose bush adOrns the
cottage of 5. A. Kendall, OF Santa Rosa,
California. 1t was planted in 1858, and is
of the Lamarque variety, the most beauti-
full of the white roses, twenty-five feet
high, twenty-five feet across. beautifully
rounded, witha blossoming surface offour
hundred square feet, with four thousand
full-blown roses and twenty thousand buds!
a LITTLE girl of twelve entered a New
Haven photographers place Of business
the other day, and behind her walked, hob
bled and shuffled an ancestral series seldom
seen in this unhealthy climate. There were
five generations of them-daughter. moth
er, grandmother, great grandmother, and
-great-grandmother, which the artist
thought must be the climax of greatness.
He "took EN- all, and the egg was as
clipper and pert as the twelve-year-Old.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL has written letter
in reply To Professor Goodwin Smiths re-
cent assertion that Americans hate the
English. He says that his experience
among the people of the United States
teaches him that: " Either they do not
hate US. rs alleged; or, if they do, the
manner in which they suppressed this feel
ing ont of consideration for guest, proves
them 10 be the most courteous of nations"
THERE are two things that Away pay
working and waiting. Either is useless
without the other. Both united are in
vincible and inevitably triumphant. He
who waits without working is simply
man yielding TO slOth and despair. He
who works without waiting is titful in
his StriyingS and misses results by imp;r-
thence. He who works steadily and waits
patiently, may have a long journey before
him, but at its close he will find his re-
ward.
THE Washington belle is a hard worker
during the season. She rises at noon be-
cause she was out late the night before.
She breakfasts in her room and dresses her
self for the afternoon round; she enters
her carriage and drives to reception after
reception. dancing at the last one until
night has fairly come, when she goes home.
dresses herself in evening toilet, and again
enters her carriage TO make a round OF
three balls and German, ending up at the
last somewhere about 3 a. N. Then she
goes 10 bed, sleeps till noon, and is up and
at it again.
A SENTIMENT worthy of analysis is the
strange disgust felt by the poor for ertain
articles of food. During the famine in
Ireland people would almost starve rather
than eat Indian meal" Australian pre-
served meat is an abominatiOn to the in
mates Of British pOOr-hOuses The female
paupers in the Cardiff work-hOuse, to
show their dislike for this kind of food,
lately rose up in revolt and assailed the
house officials. The visiting committee,
having partaken of a repaSt consisting OF
Australian mutton prepared as an Irish
stew, declared it was exceedingly palat-
able"
"MIss GRUNDY," in a Graphic letter
from Washington. has the following:
Mrs. Sprague tells this about her eldest
boy: One day lately at the breakfast Ia
bic Senator Sprague said to his eldest son,
: GOu must understand, my boy, that you
are the son of poor man, and will have
your own way to make in the world. l
have fifty cents in my pocket. not a cent
more. so after breakfast | think I'll take
you out and get boot-blacking apparatus
for you. You must learn to black your
own boots like a poor mans son, you
know The little fellow listened intently,
then said: We'll, papa, can't | black your
boots and save you something? oh, GER
tainly, if you wish his father answered.
After breakfast the investment was made.
The next morning the interesting young
Ster rose at daylight. and before anybody
was up and could interfere. had blackened
every boot and shoe in the Sprague man
sion. including a pair Of his mothers
which had been bought recently for nine
teen dollars, and which, of course, were
utterly ruined
\ CoUPLE in Chicago. willing and anX-
iOus TO be- married. applied to the rector
Of an Episcopal church to perform the
ceremony. The marriage service was
commenced, and the point reached where
the couple were about 10 be pronounced
husband and wife, when the officiating
clergyman suddenly paused, andaddressing
the almost married lady, said: Excuse
me-but. madam, should ike to ask you
a question. Are you a widow?' / am,
sir. replied the lady thus addressed. as
your husband deadE'' mo. sir. he is liv-
ing but | am legally and properly di-
yOrced from him. = Il am sorry to saw,
then" replied the rector, THAT can pro-
coed no further The surprise and con-
sternation Of the halfunited couple may
be imagined. The clergyman then stated
that the Episcopal Convention for the
Diocese Of Illinois a year or two ago passed
a resolution forbidding any clergyman Of
that denomination from performing the
marriage ceremony for a party who had
been divorced. and whose husband or wife
was still living. The candidates for we'd
lock sought another clergyman, who full
filed their desires: although the query
arises whether. if they had given their con-
sent. and clergyman No. had reached the
point OF pronouncing them man and wife,
they were not really then married, al
though they might prefer to have the fact
distinctly stated.