The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

A BosToS beggar can solicit in fifteen
languages, but be can't say saw-horse in
one.
The steamer Schiller was lost on Nav 9.
1873. just seventy years sfGer the death OF
her illustrious namesake.
The American and Foreign Bible Socj-
ETY. and the American Bible Union. two
important societies, are shortly 10 he rom
solidated. The new society viii take the
title of the American and Foreign Bible
Union.
A MICHIGAN CRY man bought a bsna-
ma ana patiently and pluckily chewed
away al u, peehng and all, until it was all
devoured, when he drily remarked that
the earned balogna would taste better il
It had been cooked clean through.
The Director of the Mint has made a
purchase Of large amount of silver coin
IN Carson City at l07 per standard ounce.
which is two cents lower than the late
low quotations in the British market.
This i one of the cheapest purchases ever
made in this country.
WE agree entirely in the sentiment ex-
pressed in an exchange: "That the per-
son rs pr nouneed philsnthropist who
by pedal percussion persistenfly propels
pomological prelings from the precincts
of the public promenade" But what
about the person who persistently precip-
itates pomological Feelings pom public
promenades?
A MURDERER in Georgia, named Hoop
er. was recently condemned to death
When he was taken to prison after the
sentence his hair was perfectly black. The
next morning the keeper of the prison
observed that part of his hair, that on the
crown of his head, was changed TO asnowy
white-the effect of one nights agony.
1T is curious fact that tract of coun-
try which includes the popular seaside
resort, Long Branch, was once sold for a
barrel of cider! In 1870 this section
then nameless-which also includes
Shrewsbury and Eatontown, was in pos
session ofthe Indians. but was purchased
of them by one Lewis Morris for the salts
factory consideration above mentioned.
A SEAL weighing 81 pounds was recently
caught in Chaumont Bay, Lake Ontario.
The fishermen who captured it had never
seen such an animal before, and had no
idea at the time what it was. The ques-
ton is, How did it come there? This is
the third seal caught in Chaumont Bay
one about five years ago, and another ten
years ago.
In the acclimatizatiOn gardens in the
Bots de Boulogne, Paris, tbereis on ex-
hibition a rare collection of artificially
colored plants from China. One of the
most curious things in the collection is a
dwarf oak that is nearly 100 years old. 1t
is about 20 inches in height, its trunk is
about an inch ia diameter, and its roots
will hardly fill the hollow of a mans
hand.
How to make glass that is not brittle,
recently discovered for the second time,
was discovered for the first time when
Tiberius was Roman Emperor, as record
ed by Pliny; but Tiberius feared the in
vention would deprive gold and silver
of their value, and having learned that the
inventor was the sole depository of the
secret, he caused him TO be decapitated.
CAPT. WILLIAM Il. BROWN. of the Fifth
Cavalry, cut bis throat in New York the
other day, having become insane through
dissipation. An attempt was made to
save him by the TRANSMISSION of blood.
Two ounces were taken from q young
mans arm and injected. Brown rallied
fora few minutes, was then seized with
commissions, and then died.
THE only autograph letter of Lucretia
Borgia known to be in existence is in
rare collection of autograph letters soon
to be sold in London. Another curiosity
in the same collection is described as the
oldest royal letter in Europe, that of John,
King of France, who was led captive into
England by Edward the Black Prince. 1t
is dated from Windsor, November &c, 1865,
and addressed to his son, the Duke of
Normandy.
A YOUNG scamp named William Bill
ings, of Minneapolis, went into Wisconsin
to sell goods for firm in St Paul, and he
soon afterward caused notice to be sent
10 his family from Eau Claire that he had
been fatally crushed in a saw-mill. His
father, poor man, went to his assistance
and found him uniniured, and that his OBJ
ject had been TO escape the payment OF
$50 which he owed to his employers. The
fathers means were wholly exhausted in
the search for his worthless son.
The people of San Francisco are infleXi-
bly, bent upon having a strictly secular
system of educatiOn-the last proof of
which is that their Board of Education has
pronounced the Lords Prayer sectarian,
and forbidden its rehearsal in school. They
are bound, they say. to have it so that ''nO
parent, parson or priest-HindO, China
man, Atheist or Jew-shall have 9ny reli-
gious excuse tor preventing the child learn
ing to read, and keeping it in ignorance
and Darkness
The Pittsburg (Va.) Bader-Appeal says
that Washington Jones, an industrious
colored citizen of Dinwiddie, made on his
farm in that county last year the following
fine crop. with the assistance of one man,
a girl and boy, and only one mule to
pillow:
5,575 MS tobacco, which netted him. IS 65s Is
. bales cotton. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 10 90