The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-24
GENERAL BREvTIIES.

GENERAL BREvTIES.
SIX colored novices took the veil in Sa-
Sannah, Ga, recently. OF course, 1t was
a white one.
] ''JUMP-UP-AND-RUN-A-w SIT
| DOWN AGAIN." is the name OF an Indian
chief who has just taken the war path.
| IT'S bad yearfo expensive cattle. The
Duke of Geneva has just died in Ken
lucky, valued at $4,000 shortly before this
occurrence. II 80 - ~
/ A MAN who knows seven languages has
! been ruined by New York faro bank.
| And yet there are those who insist upon
] compulsory system OF education!
1T Is said to be the intention of the per-
sons in charge of the census now being
taken of New York City to make out a
total of ], 250, 900 In the enumeration.
The animacules in Baltimore's drinking
water are so large as to be visible to the
naked eye. A fastidious citizen counted
10 skipping about in tumbler of water.
I FRANCIS S. STREET. of the New York
| Weekly, is the youngest millionaire In
! Brooklyn. He has made his money bv
spending it-that is, by liberal advertis-
ing. g
| The famous class of '25 of Bowdoin Col
/ lege-in which were Longfeilow, Haw-
thorne, j. S. G. Abbott, aud other noted
j persOns--wiIi have semi-centennial cele-
bration at the College about Jtdy 3D.
OREGON papers are Dragging because
a vessel built In that State has made
| the quickest run of the season from San
Francisco TO Liverpool with a cargo of
wheat. Outstripping the crack ships OF
several nations.
| New YORK CITY has new city directo-
ry. IL is book of 1850 pages, contains
The names of 253 631 persons-24, 600 more
than have ever before been published
and has been corrected, bound and printed
since the May mOvings.
! TIE fund for the erection of a bronze
| equestrian statue of General Meade now
amounts to Sl.490.E. 1t is necessary to
raise 81, COO more, in order to secure the
So 600 promised conditionally by the Fair
mount Park Art Association of Phila-
delphia.
| COLONEL d. f. BOYD, Superintendent
of the Louisiana State University, has de-
finitely accepted the appointment Of Su-
periniendent of the Government of the
military college, near Cairo, Egypt, with
The rank and pay Of Brigadier General
N the regular army OF the khedive.
| A PIoUs minister in South Carolina, but
great believer in certain weather signs,
was asked TO petition thu Throne of Grace
| for refrt shing showers. He replied: (" My
friends. L will do so, but it is not going to
rain till the moon changesr'
An "old relic" was found in Jersey
! City not long since. Old relies are very
| fashionable nowadays. This was bound
volume of the New York Evening Post, a
Ito fn, &c
existence. 1t contained the first issue,
dated November l6, 1901. with prospect
us written by the editor. This volume
contains many matters of historical inter-
| est.
The construction of the railway from
Alexandria to Rosetta, in Egypt, Is adj
vancing rapidly. The earthwOrks as far
as Aboukir and Ramleh, cutting across
sandy track where the work is easy,
promises to be soon finished. The most
difficult portion of the route is near the
Khedive's palace at Ramleh, where gum
powder and the pickaX are freely used to
cut through the hard calcareous rock.
The people of Greece have raised by
private subscription a considerable sum
for the erection of a monument in honor
of Lord Byron, as a recognition of his SER
vices in the cause of Greek liberation. 1t
will be placed at Missolonghi where
Byron died, and where, out of his own
means, he almost wholly fed, clothed and
armed the garrison during the siege which
made them famous.
THE following is from the London So
Eicitors' Journal: 1.-THE English law pre-
sents an extraordinary contrast. On the
one side it is held that the negligence of a
person having charge of young child is
the negligence of the child and imputable
to the child, and that there is no redress if
the child is negligently run over. On the
other side, it is held that, though oysters
are negligently placed in river-bed, it is
an injury redressible by damages for a
vessel TO negligently disturb them. The
child, were he an oyster, would be pro-
tected but as child, under analogous
circumstances of neglect, he is without re-
dress
The New York Tribune announces that
Collector S. w. Macy of Newport has for
warded 10 Prof. Baird of the Smithsonian
Institution five curiOsities secured by him.
self while in the whaling business. The
first is a war-club from the island of Rora-
tongo, in the Pacific Ocean the second an
implement of war used by the natives of
the Kings Mills group of islands ia the
Pacific Ocean. Ii has a sharp, pointed
end, inserted into a socket and placed in
the end of a long pole. The third is a
piece of sheathing. perforated by worms,
which was taken from a ship commanded
by Capt. Macy in 1881. Number four is
an adj from the island of Mangeer, in the
Pacific Ocean. Number five is piece of
wood from the samson-post of the ship
Endeavor, commanded by James Cook in
his voyage around the world in 1863 to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus over the SUMS
disk, which was successfully done at
Tahiti, in the Pacific Ocean. The ship
was, years aft rward, condemned and
broken up on the eastern side of Newport
| Harhor