The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-28
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

FLORIDA guarantees 1,OOO,OOO PINE
apples this season.
LAST year I,746 wives and 4,492 chill
dren of British soldiers were compelled
to petition the State for bread.
ANEW one-hundred-ton steam ham
mer is TO be set up at krupp's Works at
Essen, costing one million dollars.
AT Thunder Bay, Canada, is publish
ed a newspaper called KaBliniStiQittd
PeramJUlatOr and Thunder Bay PrOto-
type!
TWENTY cigars a head is the number
annually n1anufsctured for every man,
woman and child in the bnited States.
Forty years ago two was the allowance.
IN consequence Of the destruction OF
forests in southern Russia, the climate
of the empire IS becoming colder irwin
ter and drier in summer every year.
THE sword surrendered by Napoleon
III. to Emperor William At Sedan was
delivered, a Strasburg paper states, TO
Gen. Castlenau by Prince Bismarck IN
1871.
The Dominion Government promises
that the new Welland canal shah be
finished in time for the navigation sea-
son of 1877. The whole line of the
canal will have Is feet Of water, and
the locks viii be $50 feet long and 46
wide. -
THE Roman Catholic Church in Mica
ragua observes eighty-two feast days.
Estimating the laboring population at
1900, and wages at thirty cents per
day, the country sustains an annual loss
Of at least S3.6O0,o0e, besides a vast.
diminutioh in IFS agricultural products.
Mr.. JOHN GAyEIl in removing the
old roof Of the Nelson House, in Wells
vile, Ohio, found under the shingles
ten five-dOllar bills OF the State Bank of
Ohio in good preservation. This money
Is supposed to have been stolen and hid
den and fOrgottona years ago. as the
roof has been on some twenty years.
A wORHNGMAN's excursion from
England to America next year is pro
posed-leaying LiSerpeol early in june,
visiting New York, Washington. Balti-
more, PhiladelPhia, Chicago, Niagara
Falls, and the chief cities of Canada,
and embarking nj Quebec for Europe
about the middle of August. s..
OK the farm of Stephen Belts, Jr., in
Upper Wakefield, Bucks County, Penn,
there is Darn capped with a roof that
has stood the storms for 50 years. a
few weeks ago, when the barn was be-
ing repaired. the roof wasfound in such
a good state of preservation that the
necessity of reshingling it was obviated.
In Baltimore police court, hus-
band complained that he had been swim
died by his wife, allotted by "a nurse.
The fraud consisted of making him be-
ieye that.a baby procured from a foun-
ding asylum was his own offspring.
The Justice told him that the law could
give him no redress, but that of course
he need not support the child. FEsI
PRINCE LEO, boy performer on the
tight rope, whose real name is Stevens,
has been the subject of a lawsuit in
Philadelphia. Ills mother says that she
answered an advertisement of Willard
Leonard for n child to adopt, he prom
Using to educate the boy and teach him
n trade, and that she did not know that
he vas to be brought up as an athlete.
She has regained possession Of the boy.
AFTER nearly two centuries a very
curious relic has been discovered of the
residence in London of Peter the Great.
In the house in Tower Street in which
he worked as alock-smith and woOd-car-
yer sideboard and wrou@ht-iron chest
have come to light, undoubtedly the
Cars own handiwork, since they are
described rs such with great minUteneSs
in the London Gazette of 1898. They
were disinterred from the lumbeT-rOom
in which they have so long reposed by
Mr.. Stanislaus, Pole, and have been
purchased by a Russian nobleman for
presentation to the Emperor, who Will
doubtless place them with the other rel
les of Peter the Great ut Moscow.
THE Collector of the port at Sitka,
Alaska, receatly reported to the Treas
Ury Department that a silver mine has
been discovered in Alaska by prac-
teal miner, whose description Of the
character and location of the mine was
forwarded to the Department. Since
furnishing this information to the De-
partment the Collector has reported that
a party of Canadians, hearing of the eX-
iStence of the mine, have located and
erected a colony in its vicinity, and
claiming that ii is on British territory,
have applied to the Dominion authori-
ties for an act of incorporation. The
mine is represented to be very valuable,
and the Collector believes it to be clear
ly within the territory of the United
States. The matter is to be investi-
gated.
OLD beliefs and superstitions die
hard in England. 1t is not sovery long
ago since an Ignorant Yorkshire yokel
would offer up, along with his ordinary
prayer, the following petition: "From
witches and wizards, and long-tailed
buzzards, and creeping things that run
in hedge-bottoms, good Lord deliver
US" A Coroner's jury have returned 4
verdict of wilful murder against one
Haywood, a labOrer gof Little Compton
South Warwickshire, who, few days
ago, attacked an old woman, aged
eighty, named Ann Tenant, and stuck
a two-pronged fork into her, because
as he told the Court, she twas the
properest witch | ever knowed.n The
aged portion of the female population OF
Little Compton have. every reason tC
congratulate Themselves on Mr.. Hay.
woo d temporary removal to a more
circumseribed theatero action; for he
cOnfided to the Coroner that "therC
were sixteen more in the parish wht
should be done away with" and thai
there were also a good many villagers