The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-11-11
GENERAL BREVITIES.

SAUBLE settlement in Manistee Coun-
", Mich, is greatly excited over the
appearance of a black bear with white
face.
OLD lace is the object of the latest
fashionable mania, and the factories are
running double time to supply the de-
mand.
The deepening of the water in
Charleston harbor is going on. The
plan Of the United States Engineer is 70
excavate a channel to the sea at least
$50 feet wide and Is feet deep at high
water.
They did have dron thing at the
late town fair of Guilford, Connecticut.
1T was a drum-corps of fifty veteran
drummers, led by Major Page, IS years
old, who commanded the Tenth Con-
necticut Militia fifty years ago. An
other feature was the appearance of
about one hundred ladies and gentle
men, riding double on horseback, the
ladies on billions in the style of one hun
dred years ago.
WHILE a San Francisco undertaken
was drawing his tape-line over the
corpse of a Chinese woman, he was sur
prised to see her roll her eyes up at him.
The surrounding friends showed no sur
prise, but simply said, "She be deadee
by u O'clock The official advised
them not to appoint the hour until at
ter "she be deadee.n Except in cases
of wealthy Cinnamon, who can afford
the expense of a funeral spread of var
nished hog and other Orientalisms, the
Chinese almost invariably hurry off
their dead before they are fairly cold.
BULL-FIGHTING in Spain has its
statistics of mortality, as well as other
kinds of fighting in that belligerent
country. The year 1874 was no excep-
ton to the years that have preceded it
on the score of lives sacrificed in this
brutal sport, nineteen tOrrcrOS, or bull
fighters-included among whom were
mGtadorcS, espaCaS, bandilIerOS and plea
dorcS-having been killed in combats
with bulls. In any civilized country
but Spain this excessive loss of life
would probably induce the passage of
a law RELOCATING the diversion" of
bull-fghting to its proper place among
dead and extinct barbarisms.
SEEDS OF WEEDs.-It has been csti-
mated that one plant of the red poppy
bears 80, 900 seeds; one sow-thistle, 49,
600; one corn-cockle, 1880: the char
lock, 1900; a grounded, 800, and the
black mustard, 1,200. Old gardening
books recommend any person who en-
tered a garden to pull up whatever
weed he saw near him. If he is bene-
factor of his race who causes two blades
of grass to grow where but one former
" loUrished, the man who pulls up on
" one weed has at least equal claims
on our respect He sets free a large
space of land for useful cultivation.
PSYCHOLOGISTS maintain that scent
is very delicate in most insects, and re-
ly on plausible conjectures on this sub
ject, but they do not as vet know what
the seat of the sense of smell in insects
is. If meat is exposed to the air, in a
few moments flies will make their APP
pearance in a place where none had be-
fore been seen. If refuse matter and
bodies of animals are left on the ground,
insects flock to them ut once, feeding
on such substances, and depositing their
eggs in them. Scent alone seems to
guide them, exclusive of sight even;
for, if the object of their desire is hid
den, they easily manage to find it.
A FEW days ago, says the Manchester
On. " Bullctin, Butcher Robinson's
large Newfoundland dog cooled himself
in the canal, and after swimming far
away from his point of entrance, he
tried to get out where the wall was high
up from the water. He made many in
eflectual attempts to do it and failed.
Governor Smyth's shepherd dog saw
his difficulty, ran about to get assist
ance, but none coming, when the big
water-dog put up his paw to make one
more effort to get out, the knowing
Scotch coolly grabbed him by the neck
rs one grabs a brother by the hand TO
help him out or over difficult place,
and he was landed high, if not dry,
much to the Joy of both.
WHEN a gentleman in China feels de-
sirous of taking unto himself a wife he
sends to the paternal head of some
family containing daughters for speci-
mems Of the size of Their feet, with prices
attached. One foot is valued at per-
haps =, 900, the next smallest at IS, 1000,
and so on, according to the market
After the foot, or the lady to whom it
belongs, is chosen, she is sent in a sedan
chair to the intended husbands house.
He meets her at the door, looks into the
vehicle to take view of the fair one,
and if she suits his taste he admits her.
As soon as she passes his threshold she
becomes his lawful wife; but if he likes
the lady not, he shuts the door and she
is carried whence she came.