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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
Mount Shasta in Winter.

In an account of his recent ascent OF
Mount Shasta, CAL, Mr.. John Muir, me
State Geologist of California, says;
watched the way with great caution, Ior
it was easy to see that storm was ap7
preaching. Mount Shasta rises !O,UOO
feet above the general level, in blank ex-
posure to the deep gulf streams OF air ana
have never been in labyrinth OF peaks
and CANYONS where the dangers OF storm
seemed so formidable as here. L was,
therefore, in constant readiness to retreat
into the timber. However, by lO:3O O'CLOCK
[ reached the utmost summit. L spent a
couple of hours tracing the outlines OF lts
ancient lava streams. extending 1ar lhto
the surrounding plains, and the pathways
of its ancient glaciers, but the wind con-
stantly increased in violence, raising the
snow in magnificent drifts, and forming IL
into long, waving banners, that gloWed In
the sun. A succession of small storm
clouds struck against the summit pima
cles ike icebergs, darkening the alr as
they passed, and producing chill as den-
mite and sudden as if ice-water were
dashed in ones face. This is the kind OF
cloud in which snow-fowers grow, and l
was compelled to begin retreat, wnich,
after spending a few minutes upon tne
main Shasta glacier and the sides OF the
Crater Butte accomplished more than
an hour before dark, so that nao Iinle u
hollow a strip of ground for nest IN the
lee Of a block of red lava, where trewooo
was abundant.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
Ignoble End of an Eyentful Career.

Maximillian Humbracht, bOOk-keeper
in the employ of the Metropolitan Gas
Company, committed suicide yesterday
by taking a quantity of strychnine. Hum
bracht was a Prussian Count, and was
son of one of the oldest and most distIn-
ouished families in Germany. He came TO
the United States eight years ago from the
nrovince of Silesia. There he had been an
officer in King Williams Guards. After
he arrived in this country
he could find no work for a
long time, but at length found employ
ment as a common laborer in Dodgers
brewery. After he had worked there
short time his superior abilities became
known. and he was promoted to a respOn-
sihle pOsitiOn in the Office. But this life
aid not suit him, and he became swim
min o-teacher in Aliens swimming-school,
at the foot of Fifth street, East River.
There he remained until the breaking out
the Franco German war, when he went
hack TO Prussia. After he reached Prus-
sin he applied for position in the army,
and was made Captain. During the war
he served with marked distinction. In
one of the battles before Metz, Humbracht
was personally decorated by the Emperor
with the Iron Cross for personal bravery.
He especially distinguished hlmsell OeIore
Paris. and was then recommended by the
Crown Prince for promotion. Army llie
did not suit Humbracht, and he again
came to the United States. At first IN TINS
country he was unable to obtain work, out
after time he found employment as a
swimming teacher in Browns swimming
school. at the foot of SiXty-fifth street.
East River. Mr.. Brown took him as a
partner, and he afterwards married his
daughter. Humbracht subsequently OBJ
tanned empl"ymentas as tirst-assistant book
keeper in the Metropolitan Gas Compa-
ny's Works, where he remained until ms
death Yesterday. Humbracht was of i'm.
posing appearance, of good address, and
an accomplished linguist. The cause o.
his suicide is said to have been his over
sensitiyeness as to his position in life, anC
to his hard work in supporting his family
-Me.o York Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

"Next morning, breaking suddenly out
of profound sleep. my eyes opened upon
one of the most sublime scenes ever be-
held. A bOundless wilderneSS of storm
clouds of different age and ripeness were
congregated over all the landscape for
thousands of square miles, cOlored gray,
and purple. and pearl and glowing white.
among which | seemed to be floating,
while the cone of Shasta above and the
skv was tranquil and full Of the sun. 1t
seemed not so much an ocean as a land OF
clouds, unduating hill and dale, smooth
purple plains, and silvery mountains OF
cumuli, range over range, nobly dIversl-
fed with peaks and domes, with cool shad-
ows between, and with here and there
wide trunk canyon smooth and rounded as
if eroded by glaciers. gaZed enchanted,
but cold gray masses drifting hlther and
thither like rack on wind-swept plain
began to shut out the light, and it was
evident they would soon be marshaled for
storm. | gathered as much wood as pos
sible, and snugged it shelteringly around
my stOrm-nest. My blankets were ar
ranged. and the tOpmost fastened down
with stakes; and, my precious bread sack
tucked in at my head, was ready when
the first flakes fell. All kinds of clouds
began to fuse into one, the wind swept
past in Kissing floods, and the storm closed
down on all things, producing a wild ex-
hilaratiOn.
My fire blazed bravely, had weeks
wood, a sack full of bread, and a nest that
the widest wind could not dcmolish, and
had, moreover, plenty of material for the
making of snow-shOes, if the depth OF the
snow should render them necessary:
The storm lasted about a week, and L had
plenty to do listening to its tones and
watching the gestures of the fieXilis fine,
and in catching snOw-crystals and exam
lining them under a lens and observing the
methods of their deposition as summer
fountains y
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
An Indian Grass Dance.

A cOrrespOndent Of the Louisville COu'i-
writes from Fort Sully, Dakota
Territory: = indoors was impossible,
without an invitation to the Indian grass
dance. The something to breathe, SEEM
inglv beyond the usual in Dakota delicious
ness, called all but the hardened in laZI-
ness to early walks. Immediately after
guard-mOunting the walkers JeyOnd the
ravines saw the gay cOlOrs of the alter
dancers. coming in two and threes up the
valley, winding through the ravines and
hurrying across the plain on both sides OF
the fort, wrapped in blankets. with
bundles of what afterwards proved to have
been the lighter cOquetries of adOrnment.
1t was spring-like suggestion the num-
Der of green blankets gave. 1t was about
noon when the whole party had collected
under the windows of the headquarters
Just outside the stockade, on the sunny SIDE
of the fort. The ladies of the post had
seats in the windows looking down on the
bright, sunny, changing scene. Ihere
were thirty dancers and a drum. The SIT
ting circle or the moving group were par
ticHIarly pretty in the variety of light
cOlors wOrn-there was almost too much
grace of color and too careful arrangement
of effect to answer the usual notion OF
wild Indians. Whenever one Is looking
at a number of people who are striving
for his entertainment, he singles out
one or two who answer to him Tor
the greater part of the interest
he NAV find-he bets on one. Swift
Wing held the first place in the admira-
ton of the white-faeed audience. A buck,
a dandy of the first rank, of the grave
kind. The dandyism was in his cOlOrs
and the disposition of them; the gravity
i1 his demPanOr. Swift Wings legs were
hare. but for the bright yellow paint that
covered them thus far, he seemed goi-
den god. He wore less color on his face
than any other dancer. merely rosy lilu-
minatiOn on his upper face. His tune was
purple-in pleasant harmony with his
yellow legs. Ages ago. Mime. Anna mil
lon wore purple and yellow. The arrange
ment, the variety, and the qualty OF tne
feathers worn by Swift Wing were In
character with his pretensiOns to the star
shin in the morning entertainment. A
neat. light, graceful form, and face that
was remarkable for the beauty OF its nose,
and singular for the white-man expression
of countenance of looking OH-not to see
ar.y thing, but because his thoughts were
far Off-beyOnd the time of his people,
mast or future. All that he did was with
certain air of unconsciOusness. lie sat
more than he danced. but when be danced,
no one looked at any one else in the move
ment. The second in interest IN THIS Da-
kota morning merry-making was 10 me
unnamed. but he was indetatigable-at
every drum call he was on his feet. TOO
eager to be esteemed. He was interesting
in his gIadiatorially developed physique !;
and his legs were bare, covered by stove
backing, / think, his face a mask Of green
paint, with a black stripe across the eyes.
He was eccentric where all was abundantly
strange"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
The Trouble Doctor Took to Find Out
About Winking,

The purely refleXive part of the act OF
winking has been ingeniously timed by
DIR. Sigismund EXner, who chose this
act as the one best adapted to enable him
to determine the time required for COM
plete reflex action. His apparatus con-
sisted of a very light lever of straw, ter
minated at one end by a bristle, which was
applied TO the eyelid, the other end being
connected with the usual cOntrivance for
exactly registering the beginning of mus
cular contraction. The stimulus was an
electric spark, applied in two ways. by
passing in front of the eye, and thus oper-
ating on the optic nerve, or by exciting the
nerve of sensation by striking directly on
the cOrnea. He found the interval be-
tween the spark and the beginning OF mo-
ton, that is, the time occupied in the
transmission and reflection IF the sensa-
ton. with the period of latent excitation
in the muscle, to vary with the intensity
of the stimulus, from about outOne-eighteenth
to one twenty-fifth of a second, the
stronger the spark the quicker the action.
The period of latent eXcitatiOn of muscle
in man has never been precisely deter
mined. DIR. EXner estimated it about a
hundredth part of second, which would
reduce the time required for the purely
refeXive part of the act of winking TO
about I-22d of a second for a weak i'm
preston, and 1-27th of a second for a
stronger stimulus.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
Justice Not Blind to q Kiss.

A Berlin paper says: SIN Freiburg
Justice is administered with gratifying in
flexib:ity. Two young girls entered
bakery there TO pay bill, but their money
falling little short of the required sum
they supplied the deficit by giving the
Young baker a kiss. On returning home
the Youngest related the affair in quite
innocent way, as if wholly unconscious of
the enOrmity of her Offense. The stern
father, however, did not cOuntenance the
proceedings and took the family priest into
council, who in the spirit Of rigid aseetism
regarded the affair as peche mortst and
communicated it to the Syndicus. The lat
ter, alarmed at the progress of immortality
among the lambs of the flock, called the
Common Council together, which, after a
grave deliberatiOn, entered complaint for
attempted seduction before the project.
Meanwhile the young baker, almost out of
his wits at the fate which seemed to threat
en- him, fled to Geneva. HereupOn the
police OF Freiburg demanded that the cul-
prit be eXtradited, with which demand the
authorities of Geneva complied, and the
young man was thrown into prison. In
the meantime the bakery had been closed.
and the business was about TO go to ruin.
After the prisoner had languished eighteen
days in confinement the case was finally
brought before the Supreme Court, which
after careful examination of the facts de-
cided there was ne ground for action"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Why was Robinson Crusoe unable to &C
up an oyster. stews Because he hadn't the
skill-it required.
A STREET gamin being asked If he would
go fishing. said be couldn't catch any thing,
as he had just been vaecinated.
THIS world would be a sandy desert OF
Consequences if women were not PRIV
legged to attend auction sales andpay more
for an old bureau than a new chamber set
would cost.
THEEE Is still another point in favor OF
narrow gauge railroads. When the loco
motive runs over a man, twO-thirls of
the body Is left in good condition for iden-
titication.
GIRLS should be warned of the danger
they run in marrying railroad br3kemen.
An enthusiastic member Of that fraternity,
on being awakened the other night from
dream of an impending crash by train,
found himself sitting up in bed, holding
his wife by the earsshaving nearly twisted
her head of in his frantic efforts 10 ''down
brakes
MOTHER" said little shaver the 9th
er day, - ] know what / would DO II was
at sea. and the men were all starving. and
they should draw lots 10 see who should
be killed and eaten, and it should be me
1
his mother, "they would fish you up
- All! but wouldn't bitel"
A MAN from Howell had his boots
BACKED in front of the POst-Ofiee Satur-
day. and gave the boy fifty cents to get
changed. The lad didn't return, and
while wandering around about two hours
after the event the Howell man thought
he saw the dishonest little rascal and
grabbed him and shouted: "Here, you
young villain, give me back my money!!
The lad denied that he was the one, and
when the man insisted Jack struck an atti-
tude and exclaimed: " Be careful, mister,
what you say | know a boy no bigger n
me who got $4,000 damages from u man
who injured his business character"
Howell was blutfed otf.-Detroit Free
Press.
MANY curious stories are told of the
strange work types will make with what
a man says or writes. DIR. Bethune once
introduced into sermon the sentence,
"While men slept the devil SOtCed tdreS."
Judge of his surprise when he found him
self reported in religious journal as say
ing, 1.-THE devil Sdl1ed trees An editor
wrote of the burial of a young man,
- DiscOnsolate friends stood TIveted to the
spOt;" but his own cOmPositOrs made him
say, DiscOnsOlate fs1ads stood riveted to
the sport" In the manuscript OF his SUI
Hour, Professor Phelps wrote, . a dead
calm at sea-" but in the book it reads,
"A dead clam at sea- William Jay, of
Bath, once preached a sermon from the
text, "All that a man hath will he give
for his lifr." 1t was printed. and when
the prOOf-sheets came to him for cOrrec-
ton, he found the text reading, "All that
man hath will he give for his rife" In
stead of correcting the error in the usual
way. he wrote on the margin, "That de
nendS on circumstances -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
A WOman's Bad Luck.

Bad fortune has overtaken one Des
Noines nerson's Christmas. The wife OF
one of the prisoners sent to Fort Madison
for safe keeping in the penitentiary was
bewailing her bad luck yesterday. She
thought her husband would have his trial
at the late term, and she was sure he
would be convicted and sent to the peni-
Tertiary, which would divorce her. She
had already hunted up another husband.
and Christmas Day was set for the mar
riage-and all was going on merrily as
marriage-bells could go two weeks ahead
of time. But it so happened the trial did
not come of, court sdjOurning before It was
reached-and this of course stopped the
divorce, and that of course stopped the
wedding. The keenly disappointed
woman is lamenting the slow machinery
of the courts in this cold countrywide
Moines Register,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
HAND IN HAND.

The path of true love, is it clear
And easy to be found?
Leads 1t to wildernesses drear,
Or into garden ground:
In winters cold and summers heat
] only know tits sweet
When we care naught for weather,
You and together,
To wander hand in hand
Into Loves land.
Who would not love? Though cynics say
That all the world grows old,
That hearts so passionate to day
Tomorrow may be cold,
Oh, never heed the biting tongue;
Ionly know we're young,
And that with love untiring,
The one thing worth desiring,
We wander hand in hand
Into Loves land.
-TinSle3fS lTd1dzine
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

ly as you have done. She must have been
fearfully disgusted with your powers of
endurance, your forbearance and your in
fernal good nature !"
| saw it all. That very day found new
quarters. A fortnight after, | met Petard
and asked him how he liked 8 Marier's
room."
40, blow Marier's roomr cried he,
" do you know that"
But knew it all. My
friend Abijah Clayton now has "Marier's
roepl :" he moved into it only two days
ago and is very happy among all those
"broHges" and Z" terra incogaitas. ."-Vir-
ginia City (Neu.) Enterprise.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

WHEN Elisha Parker, of Parker, Pa,
died the other day, he left an estate worth
81 600 600, with a will accompanied with a
provision that if any one OF the children
should ''grumble' thereat, the portion OF
that one should be distributed in equal
shares among the others,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

APARrY of gentlemen went, few days
AGO. on hunting expedition to the hills
in the southern part of Kentucky, on the
hanks of the Cumberland River, and killed,
between Monday and Thursday, twenty
one deer, in addition to making large bags
of mail
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

LONDON has practical instructor in
beggary'' in the person of Professor"
Rosnov, who furnishes dogs taught to lead
the blind, twin children of unhealthy ap-
pearance, and other accessories OF the sort.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07
HALF Av HoUR REFoRE sUpPER.

SO she's here, your unknown Dulcinea-
The lady you met on the train,
You were TO meet her again."
"Of course 4. ne replied. 'sshe would know me;
There never was womankind yet
Forgot the effect she inspired; she excuses,
But does not forget"
''Tllen YOU told her your lover" asked the elder;
The younger looked up with a smile;
81 sat by her side half an hour-what
Was doing the while:
''whati sit by the side Of woman as fair as
The sun in the sky,
And look somewhere else lest the dazzle fash
From your own to her eye:
''No hold that the speech Of the tongue be
As frank and as bold as the look:
And yield up myself 10 herself-that was
More than she got from her book"
"Young blood" laughed the elder; "no doub
You are vOicing the mode Of To- Dav;
But then we old Fogies at least give the lady
Some chance for delay.
There's my wife-tyou must know)-we first
On the journey from Florence 10 Rome;
It took me three weeks TO discover who was
She and where was her home;
Three more 70 be duly presented; three more
And a year erenny romance began where yours
Ended that day on the train"
ooh that was the style Of the stage coach;
We travel to-day by express.
Forty miles to the hour, he answered
Won't admit Of passion that's less"
But what if you make a mistake?" quOth the
Elder. The younger half sighed;
''What happens when signals are wrong, or
Switches misplaoed: p" he replied.
'Nhy, you do not, at best, know her name;
And what If l try your ideal
With something, if not quite so fair,
At least more ca regle and real?
Let me find you partner. Nay, come;
lnsist-yOu shall foow-this way.
Ny dear, viii you not add your grace to
Entreat Mr.. Rapid 10 stay:
''My wife, Mr.. Rapid. Eh? What; Why, he's
Gonei Yet he said he would come;
How rudei don't wonder, my dear,
You are properly crimson and dumbi"
-Bret Harfe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

A SPANISH woman's nantilla is held
sacred by the laws of Spain, and cannot oe
sold for debt.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

MISS EMILY FAITHFUL declares the par
adise of unmarried women to be New Zea-
land. In lecture delivered in London
the other night. she stated that housemalds
and cooks can in that colony get from tSo
to ESQ year of wages while needlewo,-
men, who in England toll hard through
long hours for Is. 3d., may, with great
ease, earn IS. Cd. Well brought up girls
of the middle class would find in New Lea.
land field of pleasant and Independent
industry which no other country at present
offers to them,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-07

NV irleDu lauSutu IOtlS anu htoAeAig "
fore proceeding to explain that he, too, at
one time reveled in the possession OF
/" Marier's room." He then went on to
tell me. that "Maria'' was a myth at
least as painted by Mrs. Smiley. !" The
only daughter she ever had, SAID my
friend. " was a grass-widow when she first
struck the Comstock range, and she was
not here a month before she ran away to
Montana with a faro-dealer. Mrs. Smi-
lew proceeded he, - has about three sets
of decent furniture in her whole house, ana
these, or the component parts thereof, she
is constantly moving from room to room,
i'm order to catch anywhere from S25 to $40
in the shape of rent in advance: Her 9TH
er rooms-those not Marier's'-only
bring her in from Sl2 TO SIS per month.
L have known her TO get $40 three time IN
one month for Marier's roOm,' just by
parties raising row and leaving when the
work of stripping began. Few persons
have ever stuck TO the old lady as Ialthiul-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-17
TWO POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP.

EXPLOSION AT THE AUSTIN POWDER CoMPANYs
MI.Is-TREE MEN BLOWN UP-GREAr DAM
AGE TO PROPERTY
CLEVELAND. Ohio March 10, 1878.
TIE Austin Powder Company's mills, located
the canal, i've miles south OF this city, blew
up this afternoon with series OF terrific ex-
plosions. The works, which consisted OF ten or
twelve buildings, were completely demolished.
large fragments or timber and heavy machinery
being thrown . considerable distance. There
were eight or ten men at work in and about the
mills at the time OF the explosion, three OF whom
were killed. the others escaping with q fe slight
bruises. The names OF the killed are Fred Put
nam. aged thirty-three years. who leaves q wile
and two children; David Lawson, aged forty
years, VINO leaves wife and four chill
years. and unmarried. The two magazines.
IN which is stored large quantity OF powder, are
situated about forty and eighty rods iro the near
est exploded MILL and did not explode, although
TIE roofand wall OF the nearest one was badly torn
by the concession. The loss TO the powder COM.
be heavy. The buildings. win the exception
OF the engine house. were OF little value. The ex-
tent OF the damage TO the machinery is NOS
known. The cause OF the explosion will probably
never be known, as the man AZ the coming mill,
where the first explosion occurred was Killed.
houses were badly damaged, windows being.
broken and plasrerng torn or In this city the.
detonatlons were caused by an earthquake. Houses
rocked and shook snd people ran into tho
streets. Horses became frightened, adding TO tho
alarm by their irantic piunglng. Much damage
was done TO windows. The large plate glass fronts
IN Ryder's photograph rooms, Baldwins dry
goods store the new City Hall. Cushing's block,
the Standard block and several other places were.
shattered. The damage in the city Il estimated
AZ rom SIS, 900 to $50, 900.
An explosion occurred ct these mills three years
ago. but little damage was done to property ex-
cept that owned by the Powder Company.