The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-12-23
GENERAL BREYITIES.

men milliners in Boston. That city, he
saws, rs also wei supplied with men
dressmakers.
Ex-Goy. CLIFFORD, President of the
Boston and Providence Railroad Com
pany, has requested the Directors to
cut down his salary one-half rather than
reduce the pay of the employees.
SALLY WETHERBEE, who recently
died at Harvard, Mass, on the edge OF
100 wears of age, passed the last two
years Of her life in knitting a pair OF
white stockings for each of her living
descendants, who were more than fifty
in number. -
AT Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa,
lives man named Singly, lO4 years old,
healthy and strong, walking easily three
to five miles at 4 stretch. Last week he
married Widow Mclaughlin, 80 years
of age, and the twain are renewing their
youth.
A FIRE broke out in the school at Hol-
land, Mich, the other day, during
school-hours. About 80 scholars were
in the building at the time, but owing
TO the presence of mind of Miss Allen,
the teacher, they were dismissed with
out accident.
THE oldest lady in California, proba-
bly,, is Dona Lulalie CULLEN, who is now
supposed to be $40 years of age, who re-
Gently removed to the San Jose Valley.
near Pomona, for her health. 1t is
thought that the Pomona climate viii
enable her to live to good old age.
THERE is at Winston, Ala, an, aged
couple, Buckner Walker and his wife
Seliva, the former being 1914 and the lat
ter 1O3 years old. The man runs a flour
mill and the wife does her own cooking.
They have lO2 living descendants; II
childreu, @62 grandchildren and 2S
great-grand-children.
MARSHALL CorNTY, Iowa, is defend
ant in an action brought in the name OF
Samuel Stricken, 1year old, by his
next friend, for damages sustained IN
centre Sa mere (before BIRTH, by his
mother falling through a broken bridge,
the result Of which was scrotal hernia
a permanent disability.
The Farmers Union Road of Iowa is
now completed FIVE miles out from Lis
comb, and is laid with wooden rails
made of hard maple set into the ties,
which are notched to receive them, and
made fast by wooden keys The rails
are about four by six inches, and are
spliced with lap joint, held fast by two
bolts.
The West-End Passenger Railway
Company is making a circuit of the
Centennial bindings aud grounds with
a double narrow-gauge railroad track,
which already extends along Belmont
Avenue for half mile, and upon which
it is expected several dummies will be
kept busy drawing carloads of visitors
from building to building.
WOMEN are beginning to obtain new
privileges in Minnesota. At the late
election, a large majority was given for
"A constitutional amendment, providing
that any woman of twenty-one years of
age and older may vote at any election
for officers of schools, or on any meas
ures relating to schools, or may be eli
gible to any office pertaining to the
management of schools.
FEMALE members of the histrionic
profession in Germany will hereafter
be compelled to curb their propensity
for low-necks, pull-backs, striped stock
ings, and other eXtravagances of dress
on the stage. The Berlin critics, wholly
inSensible TO the value of these adjuncts
TO high art, and having, it may be sup
posed, an intense antipathy to gorgeous
millinery, have succeeded in procuring
an order from the Government directed
against both the dry goods and the no.
goods drama in Berlin.
a CORRESPONDENT writing from Mex
leo describes the condition of affairs as
vastly improved under the Presidency
of Lerdo. Ten years ago all was an
archy and confusion. Now all is peace
and progress. Since the DAYS of Mon
tezuma Mexico has not enjoyed such
general quiet and prosperity. Rail
roads have been constructed, highways
repaired, marshes and lakes drained,
canals dug, and manufactures encour-
aged. A railroad is opening rapid tran
sit between the city of Mexico and some
of the most populous towns and districts
of the valley. 1t is purely a Mexican
affair, and built with the proceeds of a
lottery, combined with the contributions
of stockholders. The street car lines
of the city of Mexico are also in a pros
porous condition, and the visitor can
ride on a tramway to the famed tree of
the "Noche Triste, - where Cortez three
hundred years ago wept as the rem
nant of his defeated forces filed sorrow
fully before him.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS at one time
thought himself near enough to the
Presidency TO promise his friends offices.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
gives an account of a dinner where
there was generous distribution of
this kind. When the list had been near
ly exhausted Mr.. Douglas noticed that
one of the guests, Beverly Tucker, had
not asked for an office Turning to him
he requested him TO state what position
he desired. The man replied he had no
wish for office, but only a request to
make, which he disclosed as follows:
- 1t is simple. / have Christian
mime. My mother baptized me Bever-
ly. Some call me 'Bev.' Now, when
you are elected President, ] want YOU
upon every occasion when we meet in
pubilC ~ StiN IlOAAOd, DDN.. As LDdl
you? How are YOU, old fellow?"
want YOU to slap me on the shoulder,
and talk with me confdentially. If you
will always treat me ike that when we
meet, l will ask no more"
THE stupidity of the old colonial who
went to the mill with his bag of wheat
on one side of his horse, and large
stone on the other to balance it, is only
equaled by the prevalent abSurditv
known as the wheelbarrow. It's bal
anced 50 rs TO bring the load on the
shoulders, but, nevertheless, the whole
civilized world as patiently submits to
ii aS though it were a necessary tooth
ache. 1tis good deal worse than tax
on tea. The Chinese have out-Yankeed
the Yankee on wheelbarrows. There is
but one wheel, like Leonardo'S, but it is
large and is placed in the center of the
load so that gravity furnishes its own
shoulders. In Shanghai, thousands of
these are seen on the streetS-sort of
wheelbarrow eXpress-wagons or hacks,
the usual load being two persons rest
inc one arm on a frame that covers the