The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-23
GENERAL BREYITIES.

an individual Of clerk al Post-Office
window. "No letters for any body's
cow
TENNESSEE has been a State seventy
nine years, and the western section has
never produced a United States Sena-
tor.
IT was only difference of ten dollars
a hogshead, it se6ns, that caused the
recent failure of that Baltimore sugar
firm. But then there were forty thou
sand hogsheads.
ANAisbama negro hung himself be-
cause one of his mules died, and his
wife sold the other, gave the old man q
second-class burial and bought her six
teen pairs of kid gloves.
Miss LIZZIE Goss, of Harrisburg, Of
fers 70 COMP in balloon with any man
who will take her. She has sued three
parties for breach of promise, and this
THERE have been curious names pub
lished before now, but il strikes us that
j. Confucius McGilicuddy, glazier, of
1884 California Avenue, can rather PIN
nacle al previously known appellations.
Chicdgo Inter OcedH. q ..
THE promptness with which they
hang their criminals in Arkansas, says
an exchange, puts Massachusetts, with
all her boosted intellectual superiority,
10 the blush. Here is the public graft
fed by the killing of six men in Arkan-
sas in one day, while MASSACHUSETTS has
been months and months tantaliZing the
-, hot
Pomeroy case-and Pomeroy such lit
tie fellow, too. .-...s...
A MAN can't say "damn" in the
streets Of San Francisco without danger
of arrest and fine for <'using vulgar Ian
guage.n One of the Police Justices in
that city has paid many times his own
salary into the city treasury in the shape
of fines imposed for this 0ffense. But
the amount of vulgar language and pro-
family heard in private has been largely
increased by his efforts to suppress it in
public.
THE Rev. DIR. Newman, ex-chaplain
of the Senate, and Mrs. Newman, gave
novel entertainment recently at Cape
May. A complete Japanese tea-set was
spread on the floor, and the guests sat
around in the japanese custom. Four
ladies were attired in elaborate Japan
csc costumes, and tea of the superior
quality that is only usedby the Emperor
and mandarins was served in dainty
Japanese cups. The tea. had been
brought from Japan by DIR. Newman.
In eXcavating the site of the new
opera house on the Thames embark
ment in London, the wOrkmen found a
sword encrusted with rust, but with a
pommel of solid gold. The weapon has
been pronounced by antiquaries to be
probably of the age of Edward /. or III.
1t is supposed that the sword was either
lost or thrown overheard in a scufile, or
in an attempt at rescue in a boat, the
place where the weapon was found cor
responding exactly to the line usually
taken by boats conveying prisoners from
the palace at Westminster to the Tower.
A CERTAIN steamship, while rapidly
approaching the town of Belleville, On
tario, last week, blew her whistle, when
large dog on the street began to give
short, sharp, joyous barks, and to
prance around as if he was highly
pleased with something The owner of
the dog was a mate on the steamship,
and the animal was preparing to meet
his master. Other boats might come
and 90, and whistle as they pleased, but
at whatever hour his masters boat ar
rived the animal always recognized the
sound of the whistle and ran to greet
his master.
THE Council of the Social Science
Association have awarded the $500
prizes offered by his EXcellency Don
Arturo de Marcoartu for the-best essays
on the question: "In what way ought
an international assembly to be consti-
tuted for the formation of a code of
public international law, and what
ought to be the leading principles on
which such acode should be framed?''-
first to Mr. A. b. Sprague, of Troy,
State of New York, and second to Mr..
Paul Lacombe, dU0cdt, of Laurante.
The prizes will be presented during the
congress at Brighton, in October.
The celebrated house Plantin-More-
tus at Antwerp has been finally pur-
chased by the town of Antwerp for
l,20O, OO0f., to which the Government
contributes 200,00Of., to be maintained
as museum Ii contains inestimable
art treasures and curiosities; among
them paintings of the Dutch and Flem-
ish schools, engravinSS, manuscripts,
and books. 1t will take years to CLASH
fy the manuscripts, which are expected
to-be of great historical value. The
Pantins were printers to Philip H., and
published for him the famous "pOlvglot
Bible.'' Rubens was the painter of the
Plantin family, and Justus Lipsius
worked in the printing Office as proof
correcter. The low purchase price of
1.2OO,OOOf. is explained by the desire of
the present wealthy proprietors of the
house to have it maintained as monu-
ment and museum.
AN American Plimsoll has been
brought TO new notice by the Chicago
Tribune. His name was Sidney s. Bur-
ton. and in the era of restless steam
90 boating on the Mississippi and the Ohio
a be lived in Cleveland. He noticed, in
reading newspaper reports of wrecks,
that an undue number of vessels valua-
bly, laden were burned in lonely spots
and sunk in deep water At length the
well-remembercd burning of the Martha
Washington occurred, causing "A terri
bile loss of life. He hurried to Cinein-
matt 'and-ealked with the officials of the
companies which had insured the cargo.
Incited by-his representations, Il thor
ough examination of the sunken boat
was made by divers. 1t was found that
boxes described in the manifest as filed
with silk held only sawdust, that wine
hotties contained polpra1 yvafnr and
that in like ways sham cargo had
been prepared. The owners were tried,
and although they escaped conviction,
the murderous practice was stopped.