The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-29
evyERiL BREyrTrEs.

vErus have been Constructed with nose
pockets TO allow the wells % be pinned
back closely and yet set well on the lace
In giving orders for the article length O
nose Is te5e stated.
TIE New York city authorities, who
once peremptorily refused 70 allow the
American Telegraph Company to lay ID
wires underground, are now seeking tc
compel all the companies TO bury theil
wires. - - = - :
Tine FIRST piece of gold found which
raised such a revolution on the Pacifi,
coast, is still to be seen, Its value is be
tween four and five dollars. Ii resembles
piece of spruce gum lust out Of tn
mouth ola schoolgirl. ffrFH "a N
IRE Providence ycrTTsal publishes the
names Of the Rhode Island poets. Their
are twenty-five OF them, and it is doubt
ful II there Is another fsrm In the whoIt
country which car show an equal number
OF bards to the acre. ELz-N ak
On the morning of March % the mercu.
~ fell tc lac below zero at Ithaca. New
York. At Etna, eight miles east of Itha
Ca, il was 20o below. In many places
along the Hudson River the Thermometer
ranged from g. to I4o below zero on the
same day.
KEROSENE oil is not yet understood, and
probably ages viii pass before II is under
stood--by. some persons. An Indiana
druggist, while handling some kerosene
not long ago, spilled considerable on his
Clothes Presently he opened the stove
door TO throw something into it, when his
saturated pantaloons caught fire, ana he
was instantly wrapped in sheet of fame
Fortunately some friends were present
and fortunately also there was a snow.
bank out-of-deors. He was rolled in the
snow, and thus his life was saved.
AN English country paper the other
day contained the following announcement
of the death of Lord Clifden: We re
greet to record the death of Lord Clifden
announced in the London papers of yes
terday. His LOrdship has been ailing fol
some time. We understand, so that bis de
cease was not altogether unexpected. The
noble Lord WIS much regretted among q
large circle of attached friends, and his
loss will be seriously felt in the society OF
which he was so bright an ornament
The Lord Clif1en whose obituary is thus
glowingly written was the famous race
horse, and not the nobleman of that name.
PROFESSOR EsMARcH, of Kiel, has in
vented new ana ingenious design for
preventing hemorThage in amputations.
His mode of operating consists in wrap
ping closely around the limb elastic bands
made of silk and india-rubber, from below
upwards, to few inches above the place
where amputation or excelsior is to be per-
formed. There an india-rubber cord is
tightly drawn around. The compression
obtained by the bands empties the blood
vessels on which they are brought to bear,
and the circular ligature prevents the
blood which has been driven back from
resuming its downward course The
bands are then removed, the ligature is
left in its place, and the parts on which
the surgeon is to use his instrument are
as blo0dless as if belonging TO dead
body.
A CURIOUS tour is proposed by Mark
Grayson, "author, actor, and pedestrian, y
for the purpose of testing his abilities as
"walkist." He is going around the
world on foot, at least so much OF the dis
lance As il is possible 10 accomplish on
foot The programme is something as
follows: Starting from the New York
City Hall, the entire route covers a dis.
lance of 10, 256 miles, and by the terms OF
the challenge and agreement GOO days are
allowed in which to make 1t, the daily av-
erage being over thirty-two miles. The
route selected necessitates Il, 935 miles OF
ocean travelling, during which the daily
average must be made by walking on
shipboard. Should seasickness or other
cause interfere, the deficiency is to be made
up on land. --r- .-a-F--l=
LAST summer Thomas G. Jones was
elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals in
Kentucky by majority of over sc, 600
but what is called C0ntesting Board, in
stituted under the laws of that State, de
cided that he was Ineligible for office I'm.
der the Constitution because he had &C
cepted challenge to fight duel. Jones
declined to surrender the place into which
he had been installed, and suit wa:
brought against him for usurpation of of
flee. The suit having been carried to the
highest State court has been decided in ia
yor of Jones on the ground that the Con.
testing Board had no jurisdiction in the
case, as the deprivation of the right to
hold Office is punishment which can be
inflicted only by court after trial by ju.
~, and in this case the defendant had never
been legally convicted of being concerned
in duel.
A MOST cruel and dastardly outrage was
perpetrated the other day upon James
Bradshaw, employed at the hammers al
the Crewe Steel Works, England. After
leaving his work Bradshaw entered beer.
house, where he found man who goes
by the sobriquet of Flunkey, and who was
a laborer in the works. 1t so happened
that Bradshaw had occasion to find fault
with him at his work, and Flunkey deter
mined to have his revenge. Bradshaw
being fine, powerful fellow, and Flunkey
rather dimunitive. the latter dare not at
tack him openly; but as Bradshaw, UNI
concernedly, had his back toward Flunkey
the latter suddenly took his greasy cap
saturated with the oil accumulations o
years, from his head, and placed it on The
fire. The cap blazed up fiercely, and witt
the burning oil and grease streaming from
it, he clapped it on Bradshaw's head, and
held it there for some moments, setting
his hair on fire, burning his head anC
face in terrible manner, and rendering
him nearly blind. Bradshaw gave a vel
of agony, and leaped forward, dazed, upoI
which the ruffian effected his escape.
The Allgenssi1le ZeitaSlg gives deplora
BILE account of the condition of Persia
The revenue is $1,000 tomans, or CO 900,
900; while the expenditure, including tht
lavish outlay of the Shah and his numer
Gus harem, is 10000 tomans. A certain
sum in gold is yearly deposited in gi
gantic vault, where since the times of th,
early kings chests of gold have beeI
placed and lie unproductivc, thus gradu
ally exhausting the wealth of the country
The Shah cannot be iRduced to spend am
clifton railways, canals or mines. The pro
viSienal Governors are mostly the Shah
relatives, and are devoid of any admins
trative capacity. Their tenure of offic
mainly depends on the sum they forwar
to the central treasury. They are some
times superseded by men who offer to fun
nish a large amount. Considering tn
diamonds possessed by the Shah and hi
wives, ne is personally the richest SOY
ereign in the world, but his country is tn
poorest that can be found. The 5000
persons who yearly make a pilgrimag
probably expend 5000, 900 rupees out {
the country, and all imports have 10
paid for IN cash, so that gold has almoS
disappeared. The water supply is yer
unequally distributed, and is not econC
mized. Dams and canals would fertile
hundreds of miles of barren soil. tn
tolls levied on kilograms passing throug
the Persian portion of the line amount I
about 81 laos of rupees year; but thel
is no other source of revenue beside Ii
crown rents