The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-05-27
GENERAL BREvITIES.

TIE miners strike in North Wales has
ended. and there are favorable symptoms
in South Wales.
A CITIZEN of York County, Penn, kill
ed 94 crows last winter, for which he
drew from the County Treasury S72.52.
FIVE industrial schools have been estab-
lished in Buffalo this year under the aus
pices OF the Wsmen's Christian Assoeia-
ton.
A NEw quarter is to be added to the city
of Berlin. in which all the streets are to be
named after Germany's musical ceieori-
ties.
To dissuade people from marrying
Send them to the seaside, and they viii
be always hearing the moaning OF The
tied.
TBFRE are rumors of German spies tax
ing plans of the new Notifications OF Paris
with newly invented aud almost micro
SCOPE Photographic apparatus.
THERE is an elm tree in Paris that was
planted IN 1905, during the reign OF Henry
iV., which still puts forth ITS leaves as
early rs those offs younger neighbors.
THE new American team Of crack ride
men. 10 shoot at Dublin, Is believed 20 be
much poorer than the victorious one pitted
against the Irish team IN this country last
year.
a RECENT obituary ofthe London Times
contained notices of the death OF thirteen
persons whose united ages amounted TO
1,126 years. The Oldest of the number
was 93 years Of age.
Miss ID sends us a poem entitled =
Cannot Make Him Smile" We cannot
publish il unless she gives Us the name OF
the young man. All the young men We
know smile. '-Riekmond EaqWirer.
A MAN in Jersey City recently went to
enter a complaint against his wifes but
when the magistrate came 10 oil up the
warrant the man could not give his wife'S
first name, and stated that he had never
known it.
FRESH gold aud silver discoveries are
being made in New England, daily. Mas
sachusetts is leaving its spindles for min
ing, and who knows but that gold under
lies the whole Atlantic as well as the Pa
cific slope?
The spectacle of party of men coming
from California to Vermont TO work gold
and silver mine would be something
strange indeed; but there is a story that
some Caiifornians, having tested guam
tity of the ore from the Nottingham, VT,
mine, are going for it.
An offensive Englishman, in whose head
an ordinary-siztd idea would have diff
Guilty in turning around, has been award
ed by a London court one shilling against
Moody and Sanky, he proving technically
that he was damaged by attending her
Majesty's Opera-house and getting re-
ligiOus exercises instead Of opera.
\ CARPENTER who was repairing a barn
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any human habitation, was so unfOrtu-
nate as to throw his ladder to the ground.
Being stout man and not young, he
dared not jump; so he sat on the ragged
edge of that barn the rest of the day and
all the night, until he was rescued by
tramp, who for once in his life was made
useful.
In Denver, Col, a furniture dealer
whose store had been frequently visited
by thief, or thieves, who had distracted
sums of money and stolen articles from
his stock, rugged dOuble-barreled shot
gun so that it would be discharged if any
one should open rear window which was
deemed insecure. The thing worked adj
mirably. and blew the check ofhis brother
in-law all to pieces the first night.
a MOVEMENT has been started in Eng
land to secure the erection of a new tablet
over the grave of Byron, in the little
parish church at Hucknall. Among the
supporters of the project are Messrs. Ten
nysOn, Disraeli, Wilkie Collins, and Muir
ray, the publisher. 1t is objected to the
scheme that the space is too cramped, and
nothing short of a public statue in Lon
don is deserving of much consideration.
THE French Customs Administration
has adopted a measure for long time de-
manded by the commercial world. Hence
forth cases of merchandise coming from
abroad will no longer be opened at the
frontier, but only on arrival at their desti-
nation, ana in the presence of the con-
signee, duly advised. In order TO obtain
the benefit of the regulation it will suffice
TO make an accurate declaration according
10 printed form.
THE best result ever attained with any
gun in existence is said to have been ar
rived at few days ago with 3S-tOnWool-
witch gun, at the proof butts in the Gov
eminent marshes, adjoining the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich. The gun was being
fired to determine the proper proof charge
for guns of its class, and when discharged
with 100 pounds of gunpOwder and an
500 pound proiectile il recorded the extra
ordinary velocity of l,506 feet per second,
the pressure on the inner surface of the
gun at the same time remaining moderate.
This result is due to the use ofthe newly
designed cubic i gunpOwder.
CERTAINLY the oldest place in the
world for a mouse TO thrust his head into
was chosen by a little prOwler at Angmer-
ing, England, the other day. Some Oys-
tiers were lying Open-mOuthed, Oh the
kitchen table, when mOusic, attracted by
the prospect Of savory morsel, inserted
his head between the jaws of one OF them.
Together sp~ang the shells with a snap,
and mou,ie was caught in wise as strong
and a close as a steel trap. His death
was instantaneous, and several persons
in the room at the time will testify to the
strange manner OF his tragical demise.
\ CORRESPONDENT writing from Rome
gives some interesting facts about our
cOuntryman. W. W. Story, the sculptor
who has made double reputation as an
auth0r and an artist The correspondent
in question says that Story snubs his coun-
trymen in Rome generally, and reserves
himselff0r his personal friends, who find
him the most genial and delightful of men.
lie l. said To be half believer in the old
Paganism whose deities he has sculptured,
and declares il as reasonable to have hum
dreds OF deities as TO have three. He has
81 late hecOme a Spiri,ualist; while Home,
the SpiritUalist has become Catholic.
But NJ. story was a graduate Of Harvard
and a Unitarian. and, as he never did be-
lievc IN the Trinity. his half willingness to
believe in a hundred dcities il not so very
strange.
Mr.. MATHEW. a cousin of Lord Hough-
ton OR. MOncton Milnes). aud late Bri.
fish Minister 10 Brazil, i in New York on
his way home. IL is supposed that he has
been recalled with view 10 re-entering
the House OF Commons or assuming some
responsible position under the home Gov
ernment. Mr.. Mathew was member of
the House over thirty years ago, when
Benjamin Disraeli delivered the famous
speech in which he broke down. He sat
beside Mr.. Disraeli and held the notes
from which he was speaking, and which
he finally abandoned. as the hoojing and
ieeTing Of the House deafened his voice,
only TO eXclaim at last, when he succeed
ed again in gaining their ears: - You will
not listen to me now, but the time will
come when / shall make you hear me.'
II. Grant Watson, for some time attached