The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-10

Mas. JOHN PALMER, wife of Steuben-
vile 20 printer, has given birth to five
children inside of sixteen months-which
is pretty hard run on Johns "small-capr
case, we should say.
A KIND-HEARTED baker in Charlestown,
Mass, who regularly flledsa basket with
broken bread Ton asfemaie beggatseyerg
morning. was somewhat sirpfisea the
other day, to ascertain that she was a board-
ing-house keeper, and that ten people dali
ly sat at her table.
The Jrdin d. Aeelimatation. Paris. has
chimpanZee which measures four feet in
height, lis perfeotly tame and extremely
gentle. While its master lives at Sierra
Leone it performed in the house the func-
lions of a servant. saluting visitors, OPEN
! ing the door for them, escortiilg them out
and Offering them their hats. - e ~ q
The manufacture of percussion powder
is one of the most dangerous occupations
in the world. Its usually made in some
isolated building, removed good distance
from all other buildings. Recently John
Donahue. anployed TO make this powder
| for the Winchester Arms Company in New
Haven, was blown into shreds. In aweek
or two there we're ten applicants for his
place. 2HA q ~ Ne
In a recent lecture to some law stu
dents, the Hon. James p. Root admon-
ished them, on becoming practitioners. to
charge we'll for their services. If among
| his auditors was a single student who
hadn't mastered that principle of the law
yer before he mastered any principle, of
the Law, he might as well exchange his
Blackstone for handsaw. Nature never
designed him for the PROFESSIONALS
Times. -.t .fe3
ACCORDING to Hearth and Home, l.n-
| gevity is the rule among literary women.
Says that Journal: +" Mss Martineau, Miss
Bremen. Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Strickland and
Mrs. Browning-all either living or not
very long deceased-were born almost at
the beginning of the century. Nine. De
Stael lived to be fifty.one, Mrs. Bradstreet
fifty-nine, Ida Pfeiier sixty-one, Miss Mil
ford siXty-nine, Lady WOrtley Montagu
seventy-two, Miss Edgeworth eighty-two,
Miss 0pie eighty-four, Nine. d ArbIay
eighty-tive, Miss Somerville ninety-one,
and Nine. de Gentle ninety-six.'
The Chicago H1ter-O Ocean of May 81,
containing the delinquent tax list, is pro-
badly the largest daily paper ever issued.
1t covers Is full sheets, IA pages. S04 col
umns. and at the ordinary price per sheet
would amount to 60 cents per copy. 1t
was, however, sold at the regular price.
The manuscript copy of the tax list weigh
ed 275 pounds, and occupied 1880 pages.
Thirty compositors were employed sc
days working l03 hours day in putting
it in type. Five proof-readers were en-
| ployed. Twenty wagons were employed
to deliver the papers in the city Friday
morning, 81. zs-..r-. ...r =
In the days when rouge -et-noir flour
ished at Baden Baden, the Prusian Off
GERS were strictly forbidden to play. One
of them, however, dressed as civilian,
ventured to place 10 Napoleons ona color
| The color came up twice and the officer
was just about to take up the money when
his eye fell upon the King of Prussia, who
| was watching the game with
/ interest. In his fright, the Of
ficer did not dare to remove his
Napoleons, The play continued and the
same color came up third, fourth, a
fifth time, and 5000 francs were added to
his pile, but the winner stood motionless,
erect as if on parade, expecting the next
instant to see all his winnings wiped out.
The King put an end to his suspense by
approaching and saying in a kindly mood (:
=" | advise YOU to draw in your winnings
and to be quick about it, before notice
you; your luck cannot continue so favor
able.'