The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-29
GENERAL BREyuTIEs.

0ENE1kAL BhEFAIlESs
The people of Munich average five
quarts OF beer per day.
TKNDERLoIN .steak can be bought IL
some parts Of Texas for five cents per
pound. q
LNsEED oil dropped on a lump of supa,
Is now spoken of as a remedy for con.
sumption.
A SET Of chimes, consisting Of ten bells
Is being put up in st. Peters charch. AN.
ourn, n. u. at cost of 5000.
sAN FRANCISCO has a pedestrian club,
Ihe members of which recently walked 10
SAn Jose, distance OF 50 miles. Two did
tne task within IL hours, and the rest
Were IA to 20 hours about it.
LORD WALTER CAMPBELL. now a men,
Der OF the London Stock Exchange, served
as clerk In Beaver Street brokers' Of
nee, in New York city. On Sundays he
used TO sit In Mr.. Henry q. Bowen's pew
In Plymouth Church.
NEAR Creston, Iowa, recently, muir
derer, being pursued and surrounded by
borsemen, coOlly drew a razor from bis
pocket. and remaTking, - suppose you
think YOU We got me now" cut his throat
from ear 70 ear.
For the past year the San Francisco
mint has coined S30,527 900. beng the
largest amount it has coined for 20 years,
The silver amounted TO 81 1927 900, more
half Of which is intended TO take the place
of shinplasters.
The United States Marine Hospital in
Savai. nah has been turned over 10 the en-
tire care and charge of the Sisters of Mer-
CIV. Three OF the sisters are now located
at the hospital, and the number i'm attend
ancc will be increased TO five in few days.
MRS HESNEssY, of Boston, allowed her
husband 10 squander her fortune as he
pleased, until he paid thousand dollars
for monument 10 put over his first wife E
grave. Then Mrs. Hennessy was the Oc
casion of a row.
AN English newspaper has an advertise
men from "a Clergyman: Violet vel
vet sermon case. large size. with gold em-
broidered monogram on the cover lined
with watered silk, very handsome, never
been used, cost 81 guineas infants new
short under clothing desired in exchange"
FROZEN peaches will be shipped to Eu-
rope tins summer in large quantities. A
successful experiment was made last year.
ami 1t was demonstrated that fruit kept
frozen curing the ocean voyage thawed
out fresh and fine of flavor upon arrival in
England, where it was sold at enormous
prices.
MRS. Lutte, female lawyer of Tiffin,
Ohio, has retired from the bar in const,-
quence of the birth unto her of bow
The Instinct OF maternity turns her pride
in ''Wuman's Rights" out of doors, and
leads her 20 exchange the clamor of the
courtroom for he music Of a little Lutte
BrookI0n Argus.
GABRIEL MAX has painted a head of the
Savior wh.c has a remarkable character
istic. The eyes appear to be CLOSED at
distance, bat Sc M 20 open as one adj
vaIlc.s, AID t. b nd over the spectator
Ia hetic gaze. The effect when quite near
the painting is again as when seen from
distance-theeyes app, ar closed.
The oldest convict in the Ohio Peni.
Tertiary is dead. He had be an inmate
OF that Institution for SO airs, under life
seniencf, VIII oh was literally carried out.
de went there cOmpaI atively young.
Nearly all his adult life, reaching through
two generations. WAS spent ia rigorous
confinement. His off nse was mu der in
the paroxysm of passion aud for II he
made this prUdigiouS atonement Of suffer
ing.
A MAN was hanged at Atlanta, Ca last
month. A few days before his execution,
a Catholic priest, two Baptist ministers.
and Methodist called on him at the same
lime. They commenceu discussing re-
lgiOn, and Who had the Surest means OF
saving HIM, and they became so noisy and
violent toward each other that the jailer
had 10 interfere and order them ali ou' of
jail, and the wretch had to get along with
out any preacher.
Col. II. w. RowELL. of Rockford, ILL.,, !
a rtformtd man, has undertaken the drill
of a COld-water Army of about 300 boys.
He had Them out on the Sd on grand re-
view and dress-parade, and they made
very fine appearance. These boys are
pledged against Intoxicating drinks and
tobacco. The girls have form 4 an aid So
ciety called Sisters of the r. giment.
A NEwBURYPoRT mass. man was the
victim of a singular incident the other |
night. While passing along the street a |
boy exploded a common cracker just be- |
hind him while at the same instant rot |
ten banana, thrown from a neighboring |
fruit store, struck him on the back of the |
head. He at once screamed, "l'm shot ! |
Pm shot!' and taking portion of the de-
cayed trait from his head, exhibited il to
horror stricken bystander as a specimen
Of his brains.
The experiment of destroying the body
of a dead horse by cremation has been
made at Milan in the presence of several
doctors and scientists. The carcass was
placed in huge oven, through the lateral
openings of which 400 Jets of lighted gas
were directed upon il, and 3 Jets of gas nd
air applied to the most difficult points
of combustien. The operation lasted
little over hours. There was no residue
from the combustion, and twas unattend-
ed by bad odors.
A PARIS correspondent of the Amateur
writes: {" Auber died rich, covered w tn
years and with glory; Mozart at 36. poor
and neglected. Auher will soon possess
a tombstone; but Mozart will never have
one, for this reason: He died in the morn
ing of a gloomy winters day; the same
evening his body was carried 10 a common
vault, accompanied by few persons
only. In the following night there was
a terrible storm, the cemetery was mum
dated, devastated. Aud since then no one |
has ever been able to discover the spot |
where he was inferred"
A FIST FIGHT took place fhe other day |
near tire arm Springs, Panaca, says the |
Vi gina New Enterprise. between body |
of twenty-five or thirty Indians for the |
possession ola squaw. A party of Indians |
are encamped there, and a party went |
from Phoebe TO obtain possession of the |
squaw. After considerable knocking. |
broken noses, etc, the Phoebe p ,rty were |
victorious and bore away the woman.
Daring the melee all the squaws were
seat,d on the hillside, and as every knock |
down occurred they exhibited their intense |
delight by yelling, laughing and screech-
ny.
In Philadelphia, for carrying prisoners,
they use vehicles which are ike omni- |
buses without windows or other means of
Filled with passengers and
the door closed tight, there is no access for
light or air. A few days ago a number of
cOnvicts we're crowded into one of them
for long ride from a police court to
prison in the suburb. The heat in the |
open air was 50 in the shade. The ride |
lasted for hours. TIE tempe AZURE with
in the van must have been LIS, and the air