The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-08
GENERAL RREYITIES.

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The DutchR Gremafionl Society now
numbers abouEepe thoiand numbers.
In Dixon, Cai., they report the growing
grain as harffGA Te2bea4 HE height of
twenty-five inches. - - 49,. -
IRIS proposed TO erect in Paris, on the
site of the Palace Of the Tuileries, an edi-
flee suitable forthe National Assembly
a capitol, in fact.
THE fences IN the. United States are said
TO be valued at upwards of 81, 100000 600
and II costs every year more than SOS Co.,
OUO to keep them in repair.
A LAZY schoolboy who spelled Andrew
jackson I" Cru Jaxon'' has been equalled
by a student who marked the first of a
half dozen shirts ''John Johnson" and
the rest do"
The Oldest man in California, Justinia-
no ROxos Of Santa Cruz. an Indian, aged
l23, came near being suffocated the other
night by his cabin taking fire, but he was
rescued without any serious injury.
There is another old Indian in the same
town named Mariana Hoblilas, but he is
only 90.
INGENUITY and good jack-knife will
work wonders, rs was seen IN The late
Connecticut State Fair. where the aged
!.
drew the first prize for his case of minia-
ture household furniture and mechanical
implements. all carved out of the wood of
the famous Charter Oak. The articles at
tracted considerable attention, and wereIe-
garded as first-class curiosities.
WONDERFUL things have been wrought
at Niagara by the zero temperature of the
last winter. One special feature is the ice
mounds which always form to some eX-
tent below the falls; but this year they are
mountains. The largest of these towers is
alongside the precipice over which the
American Fall rolls, and is estimated to be
notices. than one hundred and fifty ct in
height from the river level-and at last ac-
counts was still growing.
A PLASTER model of the statue of the
late George ID. Prentice, which is to be
placed over the entrance of the new build
ing Of the Louisville Courier Journal, has
been completed and is pronounced an eX-
cellent likeness. The Inquire represents
him in a sitting posture, Ibis left hand rest
ing upon a closed volume and his right
holding aquill pen. The estimated cost
of the statue-which it win require some
months TO completes $4,000. 1t is to
be eight feet in height.
COLORADO, recently admitted as a State
into the Union, had a population OF 39,S64,
according TO the census of 1870. Since
that time about 735 miles of finished rail-
road have given facilities for rapid in
crease of population by immigration. Dur
ing the discussion in Congress which pre-
ceded the admission Of Colorado as State
il was alleged that the present population
is $50, 900, according TO careful estimates.
The new State has a variety of valuable in
industrial resources, agriculture and min
ing being among the chief.
A GENTLEMAN who had INDUCED in an
evenings recreation at the Boston Museum
found. on dressing the next morning, a
gold watch hanging to the button of his
frOck-cOat. He then remembered that
when he stopped to put on his overshoes
as he was leaving the Museum, he felt a
sudden pull at his coat. Evidently the
chain had caught in the button at that
time, as he afterward put on his over
coat, and passed out. A paragraph in the
newspapers relating the circumstances
brought the owner of the watch, who had
felt the jerk as he was leaving the Mu-
scum, and afterward, missing his watch,
supposed it was stolen.
A CURIOUS cemetery exists in Paris.
Nothing human is Inferred therein, yet it
has its tonlbstones, its dead celebrities, its
graves, sought by the multitude that re-
member the occupants-the YOricks who
have delighted them IN life. This is the
official cemetery of the Jardin des Plants.
Over seven hundred bodies of animals that
have died are buried in it. The favorite
elephant Chevrette, the first giraffe ever
seen in Paris, and the huge rhinoceros
which died quite recently are all there.
This rhinoceroS was one of the best known
of all the animals in the Jardin 6es Plants,
having been in captivity nearly thirty
years.
RUSSIAN journals announce that four
teen women, trained as assistant surgeons
under the charge of the Ladies' Committee
of st. Petersburg, completed the three
years course OF prescribed studies last
December, and are prepared for practice.
The Society for Aiding Sick and Wounded
Soldiers also gives notice to the various
localities which may have need of the as
sistance of these medical women TO make
application to its central office at st. Pc
tersburg, stating the terms they are pre-
pared to offer for their services. The So
ciety believes that henceforth there will
be steady supply from year TO year of
these practitioners. The subsequent ca
reer of these medical women will be
watched with much interest.
"a LITTLE over year ago." remarks
the TeXarkana (Texas) Ne10S, % tall, stately
pines stood upon the spot where our
bright and prosperous little city now
stands; deer and other game stalked
about heedlessly, little fearing the ap-
proach of man. The iron horse APP
. preached, and all changed as if bya magic
spell. The place is no longer a One-hOrse
town, but railroad center on the line of
Texas and Arkansas. The sound of the
church-going bell is heard; the children
go 10 school goods are sold at wholesale;
two printiDg-Offiees are in operation sew
eral large and cOmmodious saw and plan
ing mills are working successfully; cotton
comes in freely. The city now contains
no less than :, 800 souls, and its population
is rapidly increasing" 49,. .-.