The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-11-25
A joyial swain may rack his brain
And tax his fancy's nights H.
To quiz in vain, for 'tis most plain
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A VOLUNTEER New Orleans reporter,
who wanted "just to try his hand, p he
said, son the grave-yards,m brought in
the following: + Near the entrance of
the cemetery stood the Grecian mauso-
leum of ~, its gorgeous and brilliant
decorations showing that the gallant
boys DO not forget that their departed
comrades are still .braYely battling the
fiery elements IN smother world. y The
young man was not engaged.
In a Boston street-ear the other after
noon-the Globe tells the storY-the seats
on onegside were well flied; On the 9th
er seven ladies were seated, and they con-
trivedl 20 spread over the entire space.
Presently a tired, pale, and feeble-lOok
ing woman entered, and the ladies,
glancing az her. settled back and let her
stand.EThe only gentleman in the car,
one of Boston's best fSnown authors,
moved by righteous Indignation, rose
and sdd n Ladies, how .canyou ex-
pect any eeatleman to give Won seats in
a car when YOU treat one of your own
sex with such unfeeling crueltyP'' Then
turning 10 the poor woman, he said:
Madam, my seat is at your service. ="
REPFRRnsG to the pufI-baeks, etc.
one of the sex says; " Now, woman
in this condition is in a straight Jacket.
She has no power of loeomotion left
worth having " She has naturally the
gait of Venus she can only move on
with that painful wriggle which we see
in place of the free motion, aud the
crumpled mass Of shirred RIFLES, knife
pleatings and French folds, which we
call an overskirf, flaps after her ike the
tail of a whipped Newfoundland dog on
a drizzIy day. She cannot step across
a wet spot on a street because her
clothes are too narrOw-she is tied back
too tight. She stumbles. into car and
out of carriage, and an observer can
not help thinking of Fourth of July
bag race. when he sees half n dozen
women in fashionable costume hurry
ing to catch a train or hail a passing
omnibus. = 4.H. t.r' I'D
PHILADELPHIA is naturalizing a new
form of dissipation, known as pigeon
flying, or the training and flying of car
rier-pigeons. AL the citizens of Phila-
delphia enroll themselves into what are
called "fiying associations, - rs the
Fairmaunt Flying Ass0ciaion,' etc.
The other day, party of Quaker sports
repaired 10 Baltimore, where they
tossed their rival birds, at intervals
of half an hour, 20. test their speed back
TO Philadelphia, an even hundred miles
The first prize Of $50 was won by bird
which made the distance in > hours and
81 minutes, marvellous speed. One of
the happy features of this kind of rae
ing is that the brute is urged forward
by no driver but its own instinct and
strength. On the following day, the
races at Pimlieo, s miles from Balti-
more, were reported in that city by bird
in from 81 to 9 minutes. Baltimore is
about to enter the lists OF pigeon rivalry
with Philadelphia, and in that section
the hOming'' Of pigeons promises to
become quite a profession and their fly
ing quite3a sport. In Belgium, the
number of pigeons "homingn is said
to be over a million, and their value
some millions of dollars. though what
in theworld they are for, except for
fun, when there is no Paris in a state of
siege, we are not informed.