The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-01
GENERAL BREvITlEs.

A SEPARATE prison for women, with q
seformatory for girls, has been establish
ed at Indianapolis, Ind.
REMEMBER TO oil your washing-ma 1
chine and wringer every week. You /
will be surprised with the delightful re-
suit.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that a railroad company cannot be
held responsible for baggage left uncalled
for by the owner.
A TIN of beer, which had been prepared
for the soldiers In the Crimea in 1856, was
recently opened in England, and its con-
tents found perfectly sound and whole
some.
LAMBS WOOL" was once famous II
quor with the common people OF the
South. 1t was made of ale and roasted
apples, the pulp Of the apples being work
ed UP with the ale till the whole drank
smoothly.
OF an Auraueanian cacique who lately
died. Peruvian paper says: Quillapan
lived and died like savage, but he had
the intelligence of a grand soul" Spect-
fication-" He was never known TO go
back on his word"
DoN Francisco D'AssIssEs. the nus
band of Isabella and putative father OF Al
fonso, gave a dinner party in Paris lately,
at which he said he should stay IN
Paris and not make any effort TO take
charge of the Spanish nation.
IENTEN dinners are becoming fashiona-
bic. the aim being TO give as great variety as
possible in the kinds and cookery of fish.
A printed bill of fare on one of these occa-
sions mentioned fifteen different fish served
in a multiplicity of ways.
THE State game-laws will be enforced
BY the New Y Ork Association for the Pro-
lection OF Game. Until the LIST of next
September partridges and prairie-chickens
are to be protected from all assaults, and
quails are not TO be molested until after
the Goth of October.
AN English scientist, by way Of expert
ment, injected absnthe into the veins OF
some dogs, for which he was lined by an
English magistrate for cruelty TO animals.
Shortly af,erward the French Acadeny Of
Sciences awarded him prize of $500 for
his scientific researches.
The Benedict Arnold house at New
Haven is being demolished to make room
foT a neighboring store. Ii was built be-
tween 1850 and lGG0, of brick brought
from Holland, and was net only the lodg-
ing place of Benedict Arnold, but the scene
of his marriage.
EW Ultn DdNt 50 NDilStidH COl-
sideration as certain London minister,
who, having been taken i'll of smallpox in
his pulpit, insisted on being carried to the
hospital in a passing hearse, rather than a
cab, lest thereby the loathsome disease
should be communicated TO Others.
IT is stated that GARNER, the architect of
the new opera house in Paris, was paid
SI3S, 400 for his services In connection with
that superb edifice. He devoted himself
entirely to the work for fifteen years, and
paid ont of his own pocket $4,000 for his
travelling expenses while in search of mod.
els, marbles, etc.
PROFESSOR AGAssIz is to have very
fitting monument. 1t is a huge block of
granite taken from the lower glacier OF the
Aar in Switzerland, close to the spot where
the eminent teacher pursued his investiga-
tons on the subject of glaciers. The only
change that will be made in the stone will
be the cutting of the name "AgassiZ" on
one side of it.
ROGERS, the poet, was so astonished and
charmed atthe wonderful information OF
Lord Brougham that one day, after the de-
parture of the Lord Chancellor, he said:
This morning Scion, Lycurgus, Demos
themes, Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton,
Lord Chesterfield, and a great many more
went away in one pOst-chaise."
The Salt Lake Tribune tells how game
of cards saved ten miners from destruc-
ton by recent avalanche in Cottonwood
Canyon. They were going up to the
mines. and left the trail and entered an I'M
occupied cabin to play game of cards,
and had barely got seated when the
avalanche slid down the trail which they
had left, carry ing every thing before it.
The demand for East Indian opium has
largely decreased in China owing to the
Government allowing the drug to be pro-
duced at home This is done, it is said, in
fulfillment of the threat held out by Prince
Kung to Sir Richard Alcock, the British
Minister, that he would put an end to the
foreign opium trade by encouraging the
manufacture of the native drug.
The India famine reports and the Vice
rows minute thereon have been published.
The estimated total cost will not exceed
e3.500,000. About 100000 tons OF rice re-
manned after relief operations were con-
cluded. The total quantity of grain car
Tied to the distressed districts was about
100000 tons. Trade statistics vindicate
the policy of not prohibiting the export of
rice.
ONR Mrs. Moore, of Mountain Hill
Harris County, Georgia, last year raised
by her own labor one bale of cotton. She
plowed the land, hoed the cotton, picked
it, carried it TO market, and with the
money for which she sold it purchased
such goods as she needed. Mrs. Moore is
seUenty-fye years old, and, as a local news
paper says, she sis better man than
thousands of youngsters in Georgia, who
curse lazy negroes, and would not pillow
an acre of land or make a bale of cotton if
the land and material for so doing were fur
nished gratis"
AMONG the latest industries established
in Maine is that of collecting and drying
sea moss, which is followed in the town OF
kittery. This moss is collected in dOries
in the neighbUrhOod of White Island and
Whales Back. Two men go in each boat
and with rakes made for the purpose tear
the moss from the rocks ut nalf tide. Its
taken then to the beaches, where large
beds are constructed by taking up all the
large rocks and leaving only surface Of
small pebble stones. These beds contain
from ten to three hundred barrels. If
there is no rain, sea water has to be thrown
on the moss, and the SUI beaches it from
the dark green color, first to a beautiful
pink and then to a clear white. 1t has to
be turned occasionally, and made the same
rs hay. After il is thoroughly dried il is
packed in barrels and shipped to Boston,
where il finds a ready sale at six cents a
pound. Immense quantities arc used by
brewers in settling ale.
Interfering Horses.