The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-22
GENERAL BREyIrIEs.

GENERAL BREyITIES.
THR cigar shop of the Connecticut
State Prison has turned out half a mil
lion cigars since last October. They sell
at SIS TO SIC per thousand.
In an 'iDternational match, ;, lust before
our team reached ireland, the English
BE- at the Irish and the Scotch beat the
English.
LITTLE drops of water" A lady in
England has Incorporated in her viii
provision for an annual income of about
Sll 300 for the reduction OF the English
debs.
LATELY they had tremendous thunder
storms in France, and it was motto, that
the wild animals on exhibition were un-
commonly intractable and dangerous.
The appointment Of physician to the
harem of the Sultan of Turkey has been
given to Madan Bres, who, in the first
we X in June. read thesis before the
Paris facslty Of medicine and obtained a
doctors degree.
WHEN a Peruvian editor writes truth
FIJI little paragraph about one Of the Peru
Wan gntat men. the authorities capture
him, and make him swallow the paper IN
which the paragraph appears. BE Is then
taken out and shot.
THE almighty prob EN- Is 10 make Nv
ing without working, as the man sad
when he shouldered a stereOptcon and
started for the rural districts. la addition
to his moral show and lectures he circu-
lated CROOKED " five cent pieces. The
Government feeds him now at the cost OF
his freedom 7SttsUitLe Herald.
Ar Bergamo a square tin box. in which
DOniZntti's manuscripts for years have lain
under seal. has just been opened and found
to contain several unpub ished pi ces OF
music written by that celebrated com
poser. The notes are very illegibly writ
ten, and the musicians have not yet deter
mined their value.
A BosToN woman was so me n that she
wouldn't pay her grocer. The grocer,
therefore, got the Sheriff 10 attach her
poodle. The Bottom Neaos says: ''The
means of capturing was by a cord, which
was suddenly tied 10 the nt ok ofthe canine.
The lady grabbed the beloved poodle To
her arms and refused to let him go. The
Sheriff pulled, and the dog and lady were
obliged to go to his Office. where she can
celed the debt and went her way mad as
thunder"
The Chinese authorities openly declare
a determination TO eXterminate the abo-
rhymes OF FOrmosa. The latest plan OF in-
vasion adopted is destroying interior for
ests by igniting bales of cotton saturated
with oil. Many valuable camphor groves
have already been DESTROYED. 1t is pro-
posed to build walled towns in the cap
tured country as fast as practicable. In
direct encounters with the savages the
Chinese thus far have been wOrsted.
AN unsophisticated magazine-writer
says: when young girl reaches the
age of 10 or l6 years, she begins to think
OF the mysterious subject of matrimonv, a
STATE, the delights OF which her youthful
imagination shadows forth IN the most
captivating FORMS" Whereupon the Lou
isvIle Colr1er-JournaL observes that III
this writer were to sit down on the curb
stone and listen, Just after school is dis
missed, h. would not only hear girls ess
than nine years old talking about matr =
mOny. but he would actually hear them
discussing the day of the week most aus
picious for putting their absurd little
heads into the yoke. There never was a
time in the history of the world when
well-cOBdueted converts were so neces-
cessary as now, and very large proper
ton OF all the female babies should be put
into them three weeks after birth.'
ANOTHER victim of ..s. .,
Hair turning white
In a single night
is Ike Hooper, who was sentenced to
death recently in Augusta, Ca, for muir
der. The morning after the sentence was
imposed Mr.. Bridges, keeper Of the Jail,
nOtic.d on entering the condo mined mans
cell, that portion of his head was per-
fectly white. De asked him where he OBJ
tanned flour to put on his head. Hooper
was surprised, and said he knew nothing
about it. Mr.. Bridges then went up to
him and discovered that large part of
his hair, Immediately on the crown
of his head, had actually changed from a
deep black TO snowy white during the
night. rrF sa.r saa.
A TRAVELLER gives the following as the
only correct mode of eating oranges : You
must cut the yellow skin off carefully at
night, leaving the white pocket inside
whole. Cut off the head of the orange,
leaving a small raw spot exposed. Set the
oranges out of doors, so that tn dew may
fall on them, and in the morning the white
skin will be tough and juice tight At
the breakfast table grasp your orange
with napkin as you would a newly-bOil-
ed egg, and as you eat an egg through its
broken shell, so press the juice of your
orange through its outer rind. SqueeZe
every drop into the mouth. Serve anOth-
er orange, and still another, in the same
way. And so keep on squeezing and
sucking. and sucking and squeezing. The
more orange juice you swallow the better
for the stomach, the blood, and the entire
man. No one need be afraid to thus dis
pose of a dozen oranges before breakfast.
NJ. d. CONWAY writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial: Somehow London seems 10
have got tired of dancing. When the Shah
was here, no rem rk he made was more
relished than his question TO the Prince of
Wales while the dance was going on,
"Why do you not employ servants to do
this for you?' The perspiring Prince
could hardly explain. but society gener-
ally seems inclined to relegate dancing TO
the corps dc ballet. This has been espe-
cially the case this season when the new
fashionable skirts have gone to an eXtrems
from the liberation of the ballet. A lady
was recently heard 10 say, with a sigh,
''What with being tied around above and
tied around below, haven't had a good
square sit down for three months" When
large ball is given there is an apology
for dancing, a few mincing steps are taken,
but presently the company falls to admir-
ing each others d es>es, and it all ends In
music and talk. Dancing bids fair to be-
come a survival" as the antiquarians
say.
A Suicide and a Broken Heart.
nur reodore will rnneD,her that O favv