The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-08-05
GENERAL BREyTuES.

. THE misery felt by the child who couldn't
60 TO the Iicnic. Is nothing TO that Of the
one who has been to il.
TIE American steamship Company of
Philadelphia will carry peaches to Europe
this season in refrigerators.
The city of Richmond has been indicted
for allowing the refuse of the gas-works
TO pass into the James River.
A RHODE ISLAND man has invented a
new lawn game. Thirteen girls kiss a
man thirteen times each during the play.
"Sx feet in his stockings exclaimed
Mrs. Darlington. why, Ike has only
two in his, and ! can never keep 'em
darned at that p
A CALIFORNIA paper says: "The milk
men OF San Francisco have formed a mu-
tual aid association. One holds the can
wnlle another pumps"
RHODE ISLAND has really found some
potato-bugs within her borders. and wants
half barrel of Paris green with which 10
sprinkle the State.
TwENTY-NINE trademarks have already
been secured in the Patent-Office Tor ihe
word Centennial" as applied to various
articles of manufacture.
AMONG the latestlsbor-saving Inventions
is a patent painting machine, which IS sald
to paint 600 laths Of ordinary size Tor We
netian blinds i'm an hour.
QUEEN VICTORIA has placed at the dis
posal Of Mrs. Kingsley, the widow OF the
late CaRon Kingsley, the first suite OF
APARTMENTS that may become vacant in
Hampton Court Palace.
A NEW YORK census enumerator STUN
bled upon jones' family whose chill
dren claim the alliterative names of John,
Jonathan, josiah, James, Job, Jane, Julia,
Jerusha and Jedediah.
PROF. WARD, of Syracuse University,
has come into possession of what is pro
nounced verftable American crocodile,
an animal whose existence in this country
has long been in dispute. The specimen
was shot In Florida last winter, and is
fourteen feet long.
A WOODEN soldier in front of Troy CT
gar store is armed with an old army mus
ket. A few days ago the owner loaded
the gun, and the boy who next playfully
snapped the lock had never been so scared
before in all his life.
TIE Rttral CaToliaian saws 1t looks
a little risky to immerse growing plant
in water at one hundred and twenty de-
grees for the purpose of Kidding 1t OF lice
or other insects, but we have tried it with
the best results and with no damage to
the plants. though it is possible that some
very tender-leaved plants may not bear
this treatment"
THE Paterson Guardian says that q
neighboring farmer recklessly ventures
the following challenge: Il will bet
S42 % that my hired man can take longer
TO get 10 the corn field get back TO dinner
quicker, eat more, do less, and bear down
harder on panel of fence than any other
hired man within ten miles of the City,
hall of Paterson"
A MASSACHUSETTS woman was recently
struck by lightning, and the electric cur
rent melted a string of gold beads she
wore about her neck. She recovered from
the shock, but the prejudice she now en-
tertains against melted gold beads rum
ming down the back and into the shoes is
said to be even grand in its vigor.
ANOTHER attempt has been made to de-
stroy FOley's statue of Prince Albert in
Dublin. Two men were arrested at mid
night while preparing to injure it. They
had covered it with a canvas shroud satu-
rated with paraffine oil, which was TO be
set on fire, and were in the act of forcing
tin can down upon the head of the statue,
which had painted on it in large red let
tiers, "No residence for Royal Princes"
The San Francisco Bulletin represents
the effect of opium eating upon the Chi
nese in that city as worse than the popu-
lar estimate of il. The victim, when de-
prived of the drug, is in a more pitiable
condition than the drunkard with delirium
tremens. His complexion becomes ghast-
ly, and his stomach will not retain food.
1t Ia believed that nine-tenths of the thiev-
ing done by Chinese is to get money for
opium.
A SOLEMN Salamander III. e., a stu
dents toast, executed not by force of lung,
but by grasp OF glasses-in honor of con-
cord. was given by the German students
at Bonn to DR.. Falck, the Prussian Minis
ter identified with the new ecclesiastical
legislation, as the highest honor they could
bestow upon him, on the occasion of his
recent visit to their university.
SOLOMON HAGAR was a lazy drunkard
who lived with his industrious brother at
Harvard. Mass. He went home drunk
and the brother threatened him with eX-
pulsion from the premises if he did not re-
form. "YOu viii be sorry for that, +" said
the sot; and thereupon he went to the
barn, set fire to a NOW of hay, and was
burned to death in the cOnfagration.
A BOTANICAL critic has pointed out re-
markable errors in many pictures at the
ROYAL Academy exhibition. Mr.. Bedford S
1" Hermione," for example, is a subject
taken from ancient Grecian life, and the
matron is represented as standing between
a lemon and an orange tree. But, says
DIR. George BirdwoOd, the Greeks and
Romans knew neither the orange nor the
lemon, and even Shakespeare probably
never saw an orange or lemon tree.
AT Buel, the Utah mining camp, they
do not waste words. Last week fellow
known as "Frencny' entered restau
rant and ordered some hot cakes. The
cakes were brought out steaming hot, bu
" Frenchy" found fly in one of them
and flung the dish on the floor. The pro
prietor, j. d. Andrews, rushed into al
adjoining room, got a double-barreleC
shotgun, and MORALLY wounded the fas
tidiOus customer.
AT a hosiery in Lancashire, not long
since, several men were assembled, and
among them a sinker named Roscoe
During the evening the conversation turn
ed upon what is called "crucifiXion, ,
which means mailing mans ears to the
door fer some such consideration as a DO
of beer. Roscoe, who was in the humol
for amusement, consented TO have his ear
nailed to the door, with the additions
provisios that he was to drink a pot of all
while in that situation. He said that tn
ordeal was nothing TO him, but be wantet
to know whether it wasn't hard to ge
all the beer out Of the Jug" He succeeds
in drinking it all, however, and his ear
were then usnailed.