The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-22
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

REMARKABLE natural curiosity
woman's.
A NEW HAMPsnIRE woman, when
dying made her husband swear, on tne
Bible, he'd never marry woman with q
sharp nose. And yet a sharp nose Is not
nalf so bad as sharp tongue.
| VERONICA Adelonica Caledonia NORA
t0rcus Flosanna Amandosa Amandona
Coralintha Ann Green and her sister have
just been admitted to the Knoxville In
dustrial Home.-LouisviIle Cost7ier-Jos0'-
nai.
AUGUSTUS, DEAR" said she, tenderiy
pushing him from her as the moonlight
| Hooded the bay window where they were
standing, 81 think you had better try
some other hair-dye-your mustache
tastes like turpentine. ."-Brookty' Argus.
As boy was going down Porter Street
Yesterday q woman opened the front door
of a house and called, "John! John J
,Johnp, As the boy paid no attention to
the calls, pedestrian said to him: Here,
bub, YOUR mother is calling to you." mo
she isn't,n replied the lad, as he turned the
corner "she's only fathers second wife,
and she wants to understand that she can't
run me i''-Detrcit Free Press.
Col. MACARTHUR Of the Troy Budget
saws that while in Nashville recently he
went into a barber shop, and that in an
swer to an inquiry as to whether negroes
was shaved there, the colored proprietor
said - No, sab. fodder day one o. dem
fanatic niggahs came into dis shop, and
he demand a sibbil rites shabe, an t1le
him to go right away, and not bodder me,
for dat dis was a white mans shaboin
shop, an he hab de good sense to leave
,1;r~Afx, Ot,;olr Cnl Mac ArfbAr aIlS that
the negro BARRIERS in the Southern cities
are compelled to choose between refusing
to shave black faces and getting only black
ones to shave, and that in many instances
they have published cards announcing
their choice of the former alternative.
AN Irishman went into a butchers shop
and asked, "Have you any sleeps heads,
mashter?' "Oh, yes" was the reply.
Pat, after good deal of higgling, bought
one, and then wished to know how to
make it ready. The shopman began to
to tell him, but Pat, not being blessed with
good memory, asked him to "write it
down on an a piece of paper" and mean
time laid down his purchase at the shop
door. A dog, seeing good chance, seized
the head and bolted down the street. Pat
Immediately gave chase, bawling at the
top of his voice, "COme back wild me
sleeps head, ye robber, yei' but after
stiff run had to give in dead beat, when he
consoled himself with the remark, "Niver
mind he hasn't the resate how to make it
ready"
WHEN Rachel presented herself at the
Theater Francais, after passing two or
three years at the COnservatOire, she first
applied to Provost, another comedian of
this theater. You are not made for the
stage" said he; "you had better go on
the Boulevards and sell bouquets" When
she reached Samson there was some en-
couragement. " If had your organ, said
he" ~ would work miracles"
Then put your genius into my voice."
returned she; "be my master" Later,
when she was the favorite tragedienne OF
Paris, at the close of one of her brilliant
victories, she carried an armful of flowers
from the stage and deposited them in the
lap of Provost, saying: won't you buy
| some9 You recollect you advised me to
sell them" "Come," answered the come
dian, I" forget the advice, and embrace
the false prophet"