The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-08-19
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THERE is an unusual demand for old
fashioned grain-cradles i'm Iowa this year.
the copiOus gains having made the ground
too softfoS Gle psehines. -, 80
"BIdTrsH ihstice.s, Al little English
girl was recently sentenced to imprison-
ment fortnight and to a reformatOry for
four years for plucking a geranium
flower.
TIE Pelics Court Jadge in Cincinnati
couldn't tel chemise from a white skirt
when cS.se Of stealing was before him the
othrr jisy.
TIE hydrographic Office Of the Navy
Dep3rht entt gfrtq uelted by singing mice.
Their notes are said TO be as fine and clear
as those of a mocking bird which il
rather hard on the bird.
EUsTACB LOVE-, son of negro clergy
man in Savannah, seized daughter OF q
wealthy white citizen in a crowded street,
shouted " Hurrah for civil rights!" and
kissed her.
The trade of the Fiji Islands is already
showinga marked Improvement, notwith.
standing several reverSes. The yearly in.
crease is estimated at $4,000.
RENTS have experienced tumble al
Newport. Mrs. George Francis Trains
vii a. which formerly brought 81 500, ha.
Just been leased for Sl.5O0, and othel
hOusehelders have reduced their prices
accordingly.
RATTLEsSAKEs arc abundant on tn,
plains, but axe unknown on the noun
tains, ,vlIere the climate is too cold fol
them. They, together with the prairi,
dogs and burrowing owls, are the princi
pal denizens of the plain, with It's mon
strous flora of sage brush and cactus.
A PROFESSIONAL baseball player hai
succeeded in marrying Brooklyn cir
who has half a million of dollars. 1t doe
look as In baseball players and prodiga
sons have things made oasy for them il
this world !, or at least in Brooklyn.-Cou
77GeT-.JOi<T7sat.
A YOUNG lady in the country, .incensed
at an eR0istical young man from the city,
said eff the butcher down in thepiIlags
could b,sy YOU AZ the price 'vour acouai. I.
ance hold you at, and sell you at your ewn
estimation ofyourself. he could retire from
business on what he'd make on that single
speculationfnve aI." = -. n p ~
AT Atlanta, Ga, last autumn, a negro
built coop. six feet BY seven, into which
he put dozen partridges, the ground be.
ing first covered by grass. During the
winter they thrivet, in-the spring they
mated, laid eggs, and Matched out several
broodsof young, and the negro now has
ao utastysy yourg partridges, all doing
wei. They are tame, healthy, and seem
10 re cOntented. -
The Sultan OF Zanzibar presented the
Lord Mayor Of london, before his depart
ure, with very handsome cimeter, shield,
dagger, and belt of African workmanship,
accompanying the gift by a portrait OF
himself. with his autograph appended.
The Lord Mayors Secretary was also the
recipient Of his dusky highness's portrait.
A woMAN visiting a large dry-goods
store in Boston stated that she had lost her
wallet in the establishment, but, as it
could not De found, she consulted a clair
voyant, whOlocated it in the pocket of a
clerk. The latter, when cornered by the
seereSs, denied the charge, and just then
tne woman came in from another store,
which she had previously visited. with the
wallet in her hand, much TO the disgust OF
the clairvoyant.
A VIRGINIA horse committed suicide in
the James River at Petersburg recently.
he walked cut TO the pier-head Of wharf,
and looked around as if choosing a spot,
jumped mig the river at point where the
water was deepest. Persons on the wharf
seeing that he was drowning, got a rope
around him and drew him into shallow
water, but as soon as he touched bottom
he got loose again. and wading out some
yards further in the stream, put his head
beneath the surface, and kept it thele until
he drowned.
A LADY OF this city has in her flower
yard tree, somewhat remarkable for its
history as vel as for its size, symmetry
and the beauty of its fruit. 1t is a Capr
myrtle, forty six years old, and was sent
as present from Athens. Georgia. i'm 1929
by Professor Jackson. of the State Univer-
sity, BY the hands of his sOn--the latter
being then on his way to the city of Mont
gomery. 1t was a mere shrub, six TO
eight inches in height when received and
transplanted here; but now a stately tree,
and presenting, when in full bloom. a
most lovely Observation-Disclosures (Gd.)
Times.
WIN HAY" Is the name given by the
Swissto hay made from the grass grow
ing on strips of soil to be found on the
Alps, at height of from 5000 to 5000
feet, in places so difficult of access that
even the goatherd and his flock forbear to
visit them. This hay is so valuable, from
its excellent quality and delicious aroma,
that a regular hay harvest is yearly under
taken ON these almost inaccessible places,
in spite Of the danger to life and limb
The haymakers are shod with iron, and
secure themselves with ropes TO some sure
hold when in especially dangerous places,
but fatal accidents occur every year.
In the summer of 1888, when General
Jackson's unpopularity was at its height
i'm Boston, the old frigate Constitution,
which BY order of the Navy Department
is TO be repaired for exhibition at the CeS-
tennial, was at the navy yard at Charles
town, Massachusetts. A registering set,
whose headquarters were at the fremont
House in Boston, were making merry on
the evening of the Sd of July, VIII one
of their comrades arrived with huge
package rolled in flag and protected by
sail cloth. II was unrolled, when out came,
not the head of Holofernes, but the head
of General -Jackson'S wooden statue, the
figurehead of the Constitution The
daring thief went in boat at night and
sawed it off right under the very tread OF
the officer who guarded the deck. Oneof
the ears was sent as gift TO NJ. NJ. Noah
of New York city.
AT recent dinner, given by the Dub
lin corporation to Alderman Cole of New
York City, Mr.. Joynt, solicitor of the
Crown and Treasury, made speech in
which, amid continued applause, he DEM
onstTated an intimate knowledge and re-
markable appreciation of American poe
try. Speaking of the number ofprominent
literary men who are connected with the
press of tits country. he paid an eloquent
tribute 10 Mr.. James Cullen Bryant as a
newspaper man, who "was lately crown
ed in the capital of his country, as his
country S laureate, with honors which re-
minded one of the times of Petrarch" ire
ierring to the reception given Mr.. Bryant
Dy the New York Legislature at Albany
Iast winter); and also spoke In terms of
sympathy and approximation of "the in
Irritable author of the Heather Chinee,'
Mr.. John Gres'sLeaf Waiter" who, he
said, was " the editor of an American Jour
nal" Mr.Joynt, further continuing his
Ingenious remarks. dwelt upon the fact
that {" the name of Longfellow, itself a
household word in this country, was as
ISOLATED with the American press" The
American people can never be sufficiently
grateful for the enlightened interest
which the scholars of Great Britain take
in its literary progress.
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