The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
GENERAL BREyTTIES.

are reputed to be exceedingly rich.'
In pamphlet by DR.. Carter Blake. it is
said that the lakes in the northeast of Ice
land are surrounded by primrose-colored
mountains of pure sulphur.
HIPPoCRATEs taught that the heat of the
body was inmate and caused life, appetite,
etc., instead of what is true, the reverse.
For l,500 years this false doctrine pre-
vailed.
SEWARD is about the only man of much :
consequence whose grave is not neglect |
ed. a monument with ale was Faithful !
on it marks the place where he lies in the 1
cemetery at Auburn.
OLIVER DOWNING, a well-known Bos- !
ton architect, has just died on the day of
the funeral of his wife, he being 80 years
old and she 81, and they having lived to-
gether 67 years. /
SIXTEEN and half million pounds of
crude bullion have been shipped from
Eureka. Nevada, in the last twelve months.
Some of il has been sent TO San Francisco,
some to Omaha, and some further east.
THE losses of the Gloucester Mass
fishing squadron for the last year sum up
as follows: Vessels, 9; value, $40, 100;
insurance, SIS, 10; lives, 6S. The loss is
the smallest in the number of vessels and
tonnage of any year since 1865, and the
loss of properly valuation and life is con-
sidered below the average of the last ten
years.
A CASE Of sickening cruelty on the part
of the Sheriff of San Antonio, Texas, to
ward prisoner confined in Jail, is report
ed. The prisoner was held for murder,
and when a circus came to town the other
day the Sheriff refused to allow the man
to attend. Public indignation at San An
tonic is naturally aroused by this barbarous
and heartleSS innovation.
Mrs. CoRNELIA JONES, of New Haven,
was divorced from her husband last spring,
the Court giving the mother the possession
of her little boy. In November the father
took the boy out for a walk. but went
with him to Minnesota, whittier the moth
err followed him. Then reconciliation
was effected and the divorced pair were
again married few days ago.
Col. JEROME BoNAPARTE and wife are
about TO return to Baltimore, after two
years residence in Europe. Nine. Bona
parte was a Miss Appleton, of Boston,
and at the time of her marriage to Col.
Bonaparte, the widow of NewbOlt Edgar,
of New York. She is granddaughter OF
Daniel Webster, and her husband is
grandson of jerome BOnaparte, youngest
brother of Napoleon [.
In Sacramento one day the people were
puzzled and amused at seeing the police
compel every Chinaman TO stop and show
the bottoms of his feet. The officers would
held up the foot, after the manner OF
horseshoer, and critically examine the sole
of the shoe. The explanation was that a
shoe store had been robbed by Chinese
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all of the stolen goods.
Mrs. KENNIsToN, who had been mar
ried only year and was only seventeen
years old, was left by her husband in No
| bleboro. Maine, while he went on a bust
ness visit TO England. The other day she
received news of his death, and her grief
was intense. She had bottle of compO-
sition for removing freckles, one of the in
gradients of which was an acid, and of this
| she drank enough to kill herself.
A LEADING Paris authority in fashiona-
| Bile matters says there is nothing more diff
| ficult for a woman to do than to sit grace
| fully in carriage. The lOrette lies down
at full length; the strong-minded woman
crosses her legs; the bourgeois sticks up
her knee; the waiting-maid leans. over the
side; and the high-bred lady only holds
herself as she ought to do without either
| CareleSsness or stiffness, and looking as
| though she had been born in carriage.
4 CORRESPONDENT writing from Fort
| Klamath saws: II strOlled over to the
westward of the guard-hOuse to where
four mounds of earth. rising above their
sister soil, cover the mortal remains OF
Captain Jack, ShOnvhin Black Jim and
Boston Charley. A plain white board at
the head Of each grave, with the name OF
its occupant and date of execution (0ct.
80, 1879 lettered thereon, tells who lies
beneath. A short distance away stands
the scaffOld from which they swung from
time into eternity"
The Glasgow Citizen says that a most
extraordinary case of mistaken identity
occurred the other day at st. RollOx Pc
lice Station. a man named Nicholas No
Ian carried home a drunken woman
whom he supposed was his wife. Inside
the house the woman died. and it was ther
discovered that she was a total stranger
The missing wife afterward turned up al
the Central Police Station, where she haC
been locked up on charge of drunken
ness.
A BOY in Lancaster, Pa, II years old.
broke his arm in curious way, a day OF
two ago. He was snOw-balling with Othel
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throw a SNOWFALL over the top of bell
tower. He made several uHsuccC ssfUl at
tempts, and in making final good eff
fort'' the bone of his right arm wa;
broken square off between the elbow ant
shoulder. He was standing in the middle
of the street at the time, and had no OPP
pOrtunity of striking it against any out
side obstacle, and there seems to be ne
doubt that the bone was fractured by al
unusual eXertiOnpOf muscular force. The
other boys say that - his arm cracked like
pistol
The Healdsburg (Cal. } Flag of Dec
24th says: 1.-The famous petritied flores
of Napa County is eighteen miles from
Healdsburg, by way of Windsor, and lie
: Just across the county line. The trees ar,
: all PROSTATE and lie scattered quite thickly
over a" extent of fifty acres. The proprie
tor of the forest has lately been engaged
in digging away the soil and lavafrOm tn,
: partially buried trees. Lewis Face, of Gov
ington, Ohio, and L. r. Giles, of Heads
burg. visited the place this week, and re
port that the trees that have been un
: earthed far surpass in size any that hav
heretofore been discovered. One fragmen
that appears to have been redwood mea
sures eleven feet in diameter, and is sixty
SCNtll lCSl lOliS. IHC Lltt luuSG OllS HAL
: have been 200 feet in length. Numerou
other specimens ranged from eight +
eleven feet in diameter
In an inland town of California is al
: individual who claims to have Sc
3 cret cure for diphtheria, to the sale O
which he devotes his energies. The maj
has lately become religious (0. AT
church meeting heis reported to have mad
a speech as follows; 81 have made VI
my mind to give nay property to the ser
vice of the Lord. | have several thousan,
: dollars in money, all of which bestow OF
the church. l have some fine bloode,
stock, especially some Black Hawk horses
all of which give to the church. hav
also a lot of grain and farm produce
which in like manner [ bestow on tn
church. There is but one thing in all m,
: possessions which l reserve for myself
and that is my celebrated medicine for tn
cure of diphtheria, which | will continu
; to sell as heretofore for the moderate pric
of 81 a bottle"
: Little Johnny ON the Owl.
When YOU come to see owl clOce it ha
Offle big eyes, and when you come to fee
it with your fingers, witch it bites, you fin