The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
GENERAL BREYITIES.

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sumed in that town in dipping, chiefly by
women.
Mr.. ELIJAH THEN FoH LAIsId. native
of Shanghai. China, has been chosen class
poet Tor The class OF 1877 in the Sheffield
Scientific School at Yale.
SOME seed wheat brought to Colorado
from Germany, three years ago, has been
experimental with and found to yield 80
bushels to the acre, of an excellent grain.
CINCINNATI declines to recognize the eff
Tort made by some of her citizens to or
ganize rival Centennial Exposition for
1876.
LEMON juice used as gargle is said by
a French physician to be specific against
diphtheria and similar throat troubles,
which he has successfully used for eighteen
years.
A COOK trap in Nelson County, Ken
lucky, closed on dog that had just been
imported from the estate of the Duke OF
Argyle. The animal was worth Sl.OOO
when he had four legs, but now he runs
only on three.
THE Washington Star says that whisky
can be easily obtained at one of the Capt.
tol restaurants, providing one is willing
to drink il from c0fiee-cup set in saucer
and garnished with silver spoon. Can
these things be?
PIERRE PACHoUD, of Xenia. Ohio, aged
90, served under Napoleon in his Russian
campaign. He was present at the burning
of Moscow, and marched in snow waist
deep, more or less, during the famous re-
treat from that city.
THE toughest colored boy on record
halls from Norfolk, Va. A bale of cotton
was thrown from the third story of COM
mission house, the other day, and rolled
over the little fellow without so much as
unsettling his breakfast.
NOTWITHSTANDING the legal fiction that
man and wife are one, Brooklyn Court
has told a fair defendant that woman has
no right TO open her husbands letters.
The decision must infuriate many a wife
who complains but little of being deprived
of the right to vote.
The keeper of saloon in San Francisco,
German named Boch, has been convicted
of selling liquor to minors. The patrons
of the place were boys, to whom he sup
piled poor quality of diluted whisky by
the cents worth. Some of them were
only ten years old, and the pennies given
them by their parents, or begged in the
street, went into Boch's till.
1T is pleasant for brethren to dwell to-
gether in harmony. The editor of the
ODyhee Silver City, Idaho) Avalanche al
ludes TO the editor of the Idaho States
man in the following tender and concilia-
tory style: 'PooRMAN KELLY.-We have
publicaly branded Poorman Kelly, editor
and proprietor of the Idaho Statesman, as a
liar and thief, yea, and infinitely worse
than either of these terms can imply. We
are prepared TO stand by our statements.
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and let him take the consequences. He
dare not come to Silver City, and we shall
be in Boise City at no distant day."
The most prosecuted man In the world
lives at Oakland, Cal. He is paying teller
at the Union Savings Bank. A young
man deposited $3.50 at the bank about n
month ago. Every day since he made that
deposit he has presented himself like
clock work with his deposit book, and
drawn out six bits or a dollar. He gen.
orally goes an hour before the bank opens,
so as TO be on hand. The teller has used
up three books making entries, and has
offered to give the young man $40 to draw
out the balance. His offer was probably
rejected, as the young man was seen the
other morning at the usual hour waiting
for the bank TO open.
A VERY curious incident of a collision
between two wild ducks in full fight is re-
lated in Land and Water. Whilst recently
shooting on the dykes in Norfolk, five
ducks were flushed out of shot; and while
the gentleman who was on the lookout
for them was watching their flight, in the
hope that they would pitch again, two Of
them were observed TO come into violent
collision, one falling to the ground. 1t
was so completely stunned that it was
picked up be the gentleman in question,
who found il TO be fine mallard, which,
on examination, wss discovered TO have
lost one eye, it having been previously de-
stroyed by accident or disease. No doubt
the loss of this organ was the cause of the
very singular occurrence.
THOMAS DURFEE, who has Just been
elected Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island, makes of the Leg
islature the somewhat remarkable request
that, before he takes his seat, the salary of
the Office, which is now $1,000 year, or
81, 900 more than that of the Associate
Justices, may be reduced TO $500, be-
cause, he says, the Associate Justices
have almost as much work to do as the
Chief Justice, and he thinks that $500 is
difference enough between the two. He
has delayed taking his seat for the express
purpose of making this request, as the sal
airy of Judge cannot be changed during
his term ofUflice. The general sentiment,
however, seems to be in favor of raising
the salaries of the Associate Justices $500,
and bill has been introduced into the
Legislature for this purpose. One shud-
ders to think of the consequences that
would result from refusal on the part of
the Associate Justices to have their sala-
ries raised.
ANN MCREADY, a girl attending a
boarding-school at Folsom, KY, recently
was deeply impressed by a revival of re-
Ggion that was in progress in the village.
She attended the meetings nightly, and
was so alarmed by a reyivalist's vivid de-
scriptions of on actual flaming hell that
she wholly neglected her studies and gave
herself up to prayer. While she was in
this condition of mental excitement some
of her frolicSome schoOlmates conspired tC
scare her. One of them was dressed in
flowing white robes, spreading muslin
wings were fastened to her shoulders. anC
her face was whtened. Thus arrayed she
stole softly into Miss McReady's room in
the night. The victim awoke TO fine
what she did not doubt was an ange
standing by the side of tie bed. She
screamed in terror, and the other girls rar
into the room, expecting to end the eX
plot with laughter; but she had beer
frightened literally "out of her senses,
and had TO be taken to an insane asylum
A CERTAIN NJ. Pierre of Bazoche, il
France, invited six friends to beat his GOV
ers. They arrived, but what sport they
had the tale tells not. Returning home
with guns upon their shoulders a covey o.
birds rose beneath their feet. Five gentle
men had enough presence of mind to fire
No partridge fell, but human cry re
sounded, and one Besnard, workman oil
NJ. PieTe's estate, and beaten for the dav
rolled on the ground. shot terribly abou
the face. No one could tell who wounded
him. Being now cured, but paralyZeI
and idiotic, his friends bring an action TO
600 damages against all the sever
spOrtsmen. In the first instance Besnar'
gained his case. Since one among tn
shooters had certainly hit him, and il wa
impossible TO tell which, the Court hell
that he might make all the company re
sponsible, and with them it would rest 4
divide the amount due. That decision ha
Just been revised by the tribunal Of Cha
teaudun, and poor Besnard, paralytic an'
idiotic, being unable 10 say which gentle