The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-08-26
GENERAL BREVITIES.

opment of feminine grammar as applied
TO the presiding "Officeress" of the
Arkansas Women's Centennial Execu-
tive Committee.
ToJETTI, an artist, is said to have
fooled San Francisco into enthusiasm
over an oil-painted copy of a drawing
by Dore, representing it as an Origina
picture.
ONE of the lady teachers in Detroit
school is named Mecca, but she has ;
pilgrim who worships at her shrine, anC
is presently expected to Mecca chang'
her name.
The butchers of Montreal are going
10 start newspaper with $50, 900 cap
ital, and have steaked their all upon thu
venture. There is great rush forposl
tons as compositors, owing to the an
ticipated amount Of ''fat. "
A JOKER at Rockport, Ind, recently
sowed some corn in mortar prepared
for plastering. 1t was put on, and th'
corn has since sprouted ana Is doln2
finely, thus verifying the old adage,
that s'even the walls have ears.
JEFFERSON Davis, Alexander III.
Stephens, and all the eX-otiicers anc
soldiers and sailors of the Confederate
army and navy have been given a gen
eral invitation 70 attend a national re-
union of ex-Federal soldiers soon to be
held at Caldwell, Ohio.
THE Freemasons of Iowa are very
much excited over a recent decision OF
the Grand Master that dancing in the
: IA.
good Of the craft. Two subordinate
officers have been deprived of their pc
sitions for acting in violation Of this de-
cision.
MIR. GwYNN of Virginia is dead. Hi;
last memorandum provided that he
should be buried with his head eighteen
inches higher than his feet; that his
cane and sheepskin should be
placed in the coffin with him, and thai
the coein should be carefully wrapped
in blanket.
The Maharaia of Cashmere, India,
has ordered two state carriages to be
built in anticipation of the visit of the
Prince of Wales. The attentions anC
courtesy paid him during his recent Wis
II TO the Viceroy so pleased him that ht
proposes to spend portion OF the mex
cold season in Calcutta.
GENERAL DYE, of Mansfield, Ohio
the Adiutant-G General of the khedive OF
Egypt, is now at his old place of resi-
dence on n visit. He speaks in high
terms of the aims and purposes of the
Khedive in relation to the valley of the
Nile and its inhabitants. The troops
in that part of Africa are mostly com
manded 10y Americans.
THE following advertisement appear
ed in an English newspaper: "Wanted
Immediately, for spring planting, 10,
900 dock and 10 900 thistle seeds, tC
enable me to leave my farm as | would
wish. and according to the provisions OF
the new Tenant Right bill, as drawn W
by the Chamber of Agriculture, to ena-
bic tenant farmers to do justice to theil
landlords ."
'sHER Majesty is dead-the Empress
has finally succumbed to old age, and
her carcass was last night in the hand,
of the disarticulators =" This new,
comes from Philadelphia. The Empire
of this dead Empress was the Zoology
cal Garden. She was 50 years of age,
and native of Ceylon; only an ele
phant, TO be sure, but whole city /:
mourning for her.
UNLESS the proposed route Of the
Prince of Wales through India Is made
widely known throughout that country
many native dignitaries in district
which he does not mean to visit vii
seize the occasion to levy blackmail OF
the people in the shape of all sorts o
supplies. Some years ago il western
India an impostor levied a war tax II
the out-of-the-way villages in the name
and on account of the Queen. His ere
dentials were simple, but effective, anC
consisted of an empty Crosse u Black
well pickle jar, with the royal arms OF
the label, and a paper scrawled over II
imitation of English writing, to which
was affixed a seal, which was simpl,
the impression of the bung of mustard
lar. And vet with these credentials h.
succeeded in levying a good deal of mo
nev until he ventured into some yillag
where the people were more advanced
WELMAN, after reducing the hourl
observations made at Berne, SwitzeI
land, for years, and deducing there
from the laws of diurnal change of ten
perature, has investigated the effect c
cloudiness on the daily variation
especially at night. He finds. that tn
radiating power of the earth's surface
everywhere and at all times the same
The temperature in the morning is, h
finds, in cloudy weather, or degree
higher than in clear weather. An
again, that the simple atmosphere {
the earth surrounds it like a protectin
layer of clouds, and that without tn
the earth would experience daily a
enormous variation in temperature
Even the clear sky, or rather the mois
ure present, as an invisible vapor, pre-
tects the earth with an efficiency equ;
10 about one-third of that eXerted by
LAYER of clouds, against too strong
daily change of temperature.
A CELEBRITY of the galleys, MART
Foissemolle, died recently in France
He left a fortune of over 200 900 franc:
On June Is, 1912, Foissemolle was col
demned to the galleys for life, for ha
ing assassinated a priest, the Able q
lens. whom he had believed to be t.
intimate with his wife. He was sent
the galleys at Brest, but having h;
some education, Foissemolle was 500
found to be quite useful. In the chole
epidemic of 1S49 he showed such ra
courage and self-forgetfulness that ef1or
were afteTward madeto obtain comm
tation of his sentence. The Emperor n
poleon III. pardoned him in 1852.
yz-o,,+ To Persia and bacOD,inu = nbyS
clan there, amassed quite a fortuna
Four years ago he returned to Fran
and settled in the village of Ycrres. I
never concealed the fact that he h;
been in the gaueys, and used to sho
an old patched pair Of trousers he h;
worn at Brest. He died exactly thirt
three years to a day after the date of /
condemnation.
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