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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
The Grape Cure.

Meran, in the Tyrol. has become famous
as the headquarters of what is known as
the Natur- -therapie. or grape cure, and the
medical journals contain long accounts OF
the mode of life and dietary habits there
pursued for various ailments. 1t appears
that invalids suffering from chest affec-
tions-bronchitis or consumption in its
pretubtrculsr stage-are the chief subjects
OF this grape treatment. Less than
three pounds of grapes a day is not
enough for efficacy. The patient begins
with one or two pounds per diem, divid-
ing the quantity into three pOrtions-one
taken an hour before breakfast, the next
before dinner, which comes off between
II or O'Clock, and he last in the after
noon or evening. The grapes are eat'n
sub Jous frIgtdo, ami after two or three
days the quantity is increased by half a
pound, until it reaches three or four
pounds. This amount often s1ffices the
patient. who finds. as rule. that he gains
in weight and in strength also. Chronic
liver complaints, especially when due 80
excess in wine drinking, are, it is said,
notably relieved by this means. the potash
salts in the fruit supplying the element.
which the wine loses in the process OF
manufacture. Hepatic dropsy has been
known to be mitigated in this way. One
special point mentioned in favor of the
. cure Is this, that no exclusive diet In
particular is preseribed-indeed the
grapes themselves become so satisfying
that indulgence in other food is hardly
necessary. Large numbers of German,
Russian. and Italian invalids visit Neran,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
Stenography by Machinery.

A curious apparatus has recently been
invented in France, by the aid of which
stenographic writing may be accomplish
ed at the rate of from 200 to $50 words per
minute, which is probably as fast as the
language can be spoken by the readiest
speaker. The device consists of key
board operated by the hand of the report
er, and composed of twelve black and an
equal number of white keys. On each
side of the instrument is large key
moved by a pressure of the wrist, and
serving to give supplementary signs which
simplify the reading of the characters
printed. All the keys, when operated,
produce indications in ink on roll of
paper, which is taken from reel in man.
ner similar to that on the Morse tele-
graphic apparatus. The black keys, how
ever, give long marks, while the white
ones cause simple dots to be transcribed.
At each pressure of the fingers on the
keyboard, the paper is automatically un-
rolled tor about 0.02 OF an inch, so that on
each line any combination of twelve
double signs may be i'm printed, and these
signs are arranged in three groups of four
each, and read from lett to right in the
ordinary manner. The number of char
acters which may be made on each divl-
sion OF four is more than Sutflclent 10 TT
quire single movement to form single
letter. In other words, with practice,
three letters or less can be written at once.
If the useless letters be suppressed, such
as double letters, mute, ETC., frequently
a single moveme mt will produce an entire
word. In case, however, the word is to
be continued to the next line, move
ment of one of the wrist keys makes a
character indicating the fact. The manip-
ulation of the keyboard requires great
skill. Learning to read the characters is
very easy, but at least six months prac-
tice is necessary for one to become an ex-
pert operator capable Of following every
word as it is uttered in large assembly.
The paper roll is of no great length.
About sixty or seventy feet, four inches
in width, is required for an hours con-
tinuous writing.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
Have Animals Souls I

A new work has recently been publish
ed entitled I" Man and Beast" in which
the author. the Rev. J. G.. Wood, seeks to
show that the lower animals possess those
mental and moral characteristics which in
human beings are supposed to pertain TO
the soul. In support of this theory he
narrates many stories, among them one
concerning duck whose mate was stolen.
The morning after her loss the duck COM
menced mourning for her drake. and re-
fused to be comfOrted, but nursed her sor-
row in silence and far away from the other
ducks and brakes. Some time elapsed.
but it did not mitigate her grief. One
day, a very y young drake, whose duck
had been killed, waddled up to the sup
posed widow and sought TO console her,
but she refused his consolaiiens. He
then sought to force them upon her,
whereupon she made it so hoi for him he
SUNK away. A few days after this, the
long-lost drake was discovered and
brought back, whereupon his duck was so
overcome with JOY that she did nothing
but quack for half day. After this per-
fermance, she and the drake retired to a
secluded spot where she informed him OF
the proposals which had been made re- her
by the other drake. The result was, that
they hunted him up and gave him the
severest kind Of chastisement for his con-
duct,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
"Playing Dead"

The FairmoDt (Neb.) Bulletin tells this
funny little story: During a noOntime
play-spell at one of our schools, short
time since, some little girls conceived the
idea of playing dead. One of them as
sumed the rol of corpse, and suffered her
self to be " laid out /" on one of the benches,
be viewed remarked upon, accord
ing to the manner of their elders. Their
teacher had laid himslef out on one OF the
benches in the schOol-roOm pretending TO
be asleep, but was really enjoying the frol-
les of the children, when one Hsplng D.
year-old discovered him, and straightway
exclaimed to her mates, 90, teacherth
deadr'
They were all Immediately Interested,
and began their remarks, which ma e him
also feel anxious to hear the opinions OF
the several pupils. They passed around
him laying their little hands upon his fore
head, shaking their pretty heads in all SOL
emnity, each one making her own little
remark. such as HE makes a pretty
corpse - s'How his mother must feel :"
"It's pity he died 90 voung;" etc. Then
came little 5-year-oid. who, with earnest
conntenance and subdued voice, said !:
'Yeth, he lookth natural but he smellth
bad" The fun had reached its climax
the teacher rolled off the bench in lit Of
laughter, and the children ran away,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
A Strange Premonition.

Our readers will remember the fearful
ocean disaster a few weeks since: the
sinking of the steamer Schiller. Among
the victims were Mr.. John Suppiger and
family of Highland, in This county. Just
prior to his departure Mr.. Suppiger added
strange codicil to his will, leaving his
property to his brothers and sisters. The
last sentence of the codlcil reads as fol-
lows:
The above codicil shall have full force
and validity in case myself. nv wife
Catharine, my daughter Adeline and my
son John should have the misfortune. all
and every one of us named, of being lost
and meet with death on the ocean, on our
Trip to Europe, now about to be under
taken"
The will, with this codicil attached, has
been filed for probate. No other conclu-
sion can be drawn from the language of
TINS document than that Mr. SupSiger,
before his departure, had a presentiment
tnat the voyage would prove fatal both to
himself and family. Many strange in
stances are on record of persons of per-
feet health having vivid premonitions of
death, but the premonition evidently felt
Dy Mr.: Suppiger concerning not only
himself but his whole family. ranks as one
OF the most startling instances of present.
iment ever related. 1t furnishes an inter-
es1ng incident for the investigation of
psychologists.-AttoH lHLs.) Telegraph.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
Music Without Hands.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the
New Y ork Tribune writes to that journal !:
The acme of machine-music appears to
have been attained in an ingenious inven-
ton Just perfected by Messrs. Schmoele,
OF this city, which was exhibited last even
ing in Horticultural Hall to a few invited
guests. The apparatus reads notes and
plays upon an organ with absolute cor
rectness of time and touch, the only assist
ance given ii by the operator being to feed
in the end of roll of music and start the
machinery in motion. Organs have been
played by electricity before, but the only
part performed by the electric fluid has
been to transmit the power from distant
bank of keys to open the valves of the in
strument. Such an electrical organ has
been exhibited in London for some time
past. In the Schmoele instrument the
electric current is endued with seeming
intelligence, and distinguishes the notes
in the same way that blind man does
by feeling. Marvellous as this appears at
first thought, it Is simple enough. The
score is written on long roll of stout pa
per by cutting holes through it in the
form of squares or parallelograms. The
reading instrument, which is about as
large as sewing machine, is provided
with a multitude of small brass fingers,
each of which is connected by a wire with
the pipe of the organ which it operates.
The roll of music is fed in over brass
tube. When the fingers rest on the paper
no electric current is transmitted, because
paper is a non-conductor; but whenever
they fall into the holes cut in it they touch
the brass below, the current is transmit
ted, and the sound produced.
The length of the note is governed by
the length of the slit in the paper. A
noiseless beIlows-machine, run by wind
conducted through pipe from the organ,
works the feeding apparatus. To ald IN
producing orcestral effects, drums. Gym
balls, bells, &C.. are added to the ORDINARY
pipe organ, and oderated by electricity IN
the same manner as the pipes. greaLiy
increased volume of sound and much rich
or harmonic combir ations can be made by
this instrument than it is possible for q
single performer to produce upon an Or
gan in consequence of the fact that the
performer has only his ten fingers, while
the electrical machine has 200, and can
strike as many notes at once as desired.
All the notes on the organ that can be
combined on chord can be brought out
together. The overtures TO "Semir-
amide" and Z" William Tell' were per-
formed last evening with pleasing effect
As the reading instrument is mechanical
ly accurate, and the score correctly writ
ren. there were of course no false notes.
It was obviously machine music. howev-
er, but machine music Of the highest or
der, and might readily have been mis-
taken for the performance Of well-drill-
ed but rather spiritless orchestra. The
inventors hope soon to apply their device
to piano.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
From Poverty to Wealth and Back
Again.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writing from Des Moines, Iowa, says
The country is familiar with the petroleum
bubble of years ago; how men rose in the
morning beggars, and retired at night mil
liOnaires; how nabobs became mendi-
cants in the breath of a wind. One of the
heroes of those notable days is Johnny
Steele, or " "Coal-Oil Johnny" as he is
now familiarly called. His history is
known to all newspaper readers, and they
will remember how he went to bed one
night a laborer at $40 month and awoke
in the morning the heir of the richest oil
well in VenangO County. He didn't know
what to do with the money which lowed
from his well. He it was who purchased
a hotel in Philadelphia at extrsvagant fig
ures, and gave it away the next day ; who
would buy up dance-hOuse at big price,
for the privilege of running it, one
night who would purchase fancy team,
use it once, and give it away who bought
a minstrel troupe, and run it a whole sea-
son for the fun of it; who never refused to
lend money, nor asked its return. He
stepped from penury, through one million
and half of dollars, back to penury again,
in sixteen short months. Then he came
West; and now he is at work with gang
of bridge-bHilders in Shelby County, on
the Rock Island Road, at salary of one
hundred and seventy-five cents day. He
is just as happy and contented with his
frugal fare and lowly lot as when he bask-
ed in the smiles of Fortunes favOrs. His
wife clings to him in adversely with true
hearted love, and accepts the situation
with all the grace which characterizes a
noble woman. She Joined his fortunes
when sunshine gilded his path; she now
seeks to make his pathway bright beneath
the shadows of adversity. Their home is
at Dunlap. Johnny says many of the
stories of his wasteful extravaganza are
false. His reverses came from loans made
to friends, who failed to repay them. A
broken bank carried down S120,000 at one
swOop, and another bank took $40, 600.
Out of the wreck of the latter he hopes to
get enough to get his good wife beauti-
full dress and a nice new house.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
t. What has a sore finger got to do with


advertisingg'
Every thing, my dear sir, every thing
| There are over a million sere fingers IN
! America every year. At a very moderate
! expense an advertising firm in Philadel.
phia prints my cards on rags like these and
furnishes them TO victims of sore fingers
free of charge, so they will use them In
preference 10 all others. A million OF
these rags are sent to all parts of the Uni
ted States, and am only required to pay
one hundred and fifty dollars for the priv
ilege of having my name on them"
- And you paid it p
'tCertainly did. | had to, in orler to
prevent any other man from getting the
chance ahead OF me.' --,s
"a sore finger, then, you consider a
better advertising medium than an estab-
iished and popular newspaper
B /" Well, yes, in this case. Been travel
ing lately ?''
"Yes; made a trip to Minnesota and
Iowa not long ago."
"Then you must have seen my busi-
ness card painted in black letters on a
white board and nailed to the telegraph
poles?'s
We hadn't seen any thing of the kind.
Singular if you didn't. A man came
along last fall and collected one hundred
dollars of me for mailing such board on
every telegraph pole in the United States.
That was his contract, and paid him the
money on his affidavit that the work was
done. But perhaps you wasn't noticing
telegraph poles. No, don't believe l win
put any advertisement in your paper this
week. You seeI am advertising a good
deal now"
just then a man came in and collected
bill for sticking Punkinhead's card on
every balloon that went up during 1874,
and effected a new contract for 1875, with
what he called the "diving-bell supple
ment," agreeing to attach a card to all
diving-bells that go down in 1875 without
extra charge, acompliment, as he said, to
their regular advertisers. When we left
another advertising agent was laying be-
fore Punkinhead the great advantage OF
investing in patent stamp to be attached
to the seats Of boys pants when they 60
skating. When they get fall his name
and business will be neatly stamped upon
the ice, so that all who skate may read.
When it comes to judicious advertising
the race of Punkinheads is very numer-
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

EVEN the LATEST boy can sometimes
catch q whipping.
"THrs hot weather Is good for nix," re-
marked facetious young man yesterday
10 horse-car.~ {" Yes, for pic-nix" re-
Piled his companion.
AM having myself taken In OIL" snd
wei[known physician, complacently
looking round. aCod-liver. / suppose, !"
growied an experienced patient.
JOSH BILLINGS defines n "a thurrer-bred
dizziness man" as Z" wun that knows enuff
about stealin' so that there kant ennybody
steal from him, and enough about law SO
that he can do his stealin' fegally.r
A GEORGIA Granger editor saws he
knows how to get ahead of these potato
bugs-just tie a string &c their hind legs,
and it win beetle doomsday afore the
darned creeters get loose again.
IT never pays to fret and growl when
fortune seems our foe; the better bred
will push ahead and strike braver blow.
For luck is work, and those who shirk
should not lament their doom, but yield
men have room.
THE prevalence of the baseball fever
was observable the other day in one OF
our best families, where, at the breakfast
table, the eldest boy had occasion to ask
for another biscuit. ''Give me hot one,
MOTHER he said, sand send it with a
twist" His father Immediately batted
him out and scored one on his back.
JONES went to a theater the other eve
ming. The play was bad, the acting
worse. On all sides Jones's friends were
Kissing both. You take it cOmfOrta-
bly," said friend 10 Jones. i came in
with an order, and don't feel at liberty
to express an adverse opinion" was the
reply. Presently, however, Jones rose,
hurriedly, indignation marked in every
line Of his face. BY Jove, must go out
and pay J" he exclaimed.
A FULL-GRowN man carries pound and
three-fourths of phosphorus about in his
body.-PhiLadsJphia North ABlerieaA.
Here is an item worth the consideration Of
matchmaking mammas.-Nst0 York Com
neTetal Advertiser. The mammas know
thence the fuss-fOr-us.- Cincinnati
Times. Delightful idan, and don't they
bring us to the scratch.-ISt. LolsiS Repu6-
Liean. Never mind, you old brimstones.
Matches are made in heaven, and your raw
material is to be used in another factory.
-EHter-Oeean.
"GEN. SHERIDAN was married In his
spurs" This was grave error on his
part, for now he will go the rounds of the
funny paragraphists, somewhat after this
sort: The Boston Advertiser will remark
that it was proper he should have his
spurs at bridal. The Chicago Tribune
will probably contradict the rumor, as
serting that 1t has net bit of truth. The
Detroit Free Press will hope that the Cen
eral will curb his temper better than when
he was sir-single and pommel any of his
wife's relations. The Rochester Democrat
viii insist that these remarks are caleu-
lated to make the groom feel saddlely.
But the Boston Post will exclaim-What
boots itp Why stirrup such eommo-
ton? And then the lesser wits will
buckle into the work and use up the en-
tire harness.-Hartford ColrGnt.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
Confessing Their Faults.

A short time ago Deacon Grimes and
his wife were sitting together one evening,
and they got to talking about their mar
ried life and their past troubles until both
of them grew quite sympathetic and affec-
tionate. At last Mrs. Grimes suggested
that it might help to kindle afresh the fire
of love in their hearts If they would freely
confess their faults to each other, and pro-
mise to amend them. The deacon said it
struck him as being good idea. For his
part he was willing 70 make clean breast
of 1t, but he suggested that perhaps his
wife had better begin. She thought for a
moment, and this conversation ensued:
Mrs Grimes-Well, then, William, l
am willing to acknowl, dge that am the
worst-tempered woman in the world.
Deacon turning and looking at herr
Louisa. that's about the only time you
ever told the square-toed truth IN your
life!
Mrs. G. Gndignantly)-Mr. Grimes,
that's perfectly outrageous. You ought
to be ashamed Of yourself.
Deacon-Well, you know it's go. You
haze got the worst temper Of any woman
1 ever saw.
Mrs. G.-No haven't either. Pm just
as good-tempered as you are.
Deacon-That's not so. You're as cross
as a bear with a bilious attack. IL you
were married to a craven image you'd spat
with it till You s0ured on it.
Mrs. G.-That's an outrageous false
hood! There isn't any woman about this
neighborhood that puts up with as much
as do without getting mad. You're
perfect brute.
Deacon-It's you that are the brute.
Mrs. G.-No it isn'tl
Deacon-Yes it is. You're as snapplsn
as a mad dog. It's few men that could
stand the likes Of you.
Mrs. G.-If you say that again I'll
scratch your eyes outi
Deacon dare you to lay your hands
on me, you vixen.
Mrs. G.-You de. ehI Well, take that !!
and thatI (cuffing him on the head.)
Deaeon-You let go of my hair or III
smash you in to pieces.
Mrs. G. Il will, and III leave this house
this very night. / won't live any longer
with such monster.
Deacon-well. skip, quit, git out. The
sooner the better. Good riddance 10
bad rubbish, and take your duds with
you.
Mrs. G.-I'm sorry I ever married you.
You ain't fit to be yoked with any decent
woman.
Dracon-well, you amt halt as sorry
as l am. Goodbye. Don't come back
soon.
Then Mrs. Grimes put on her bonnet
and went around to her mothers. The
deacon hasn't yetconfessed what his prin-
cipal falling is.-Maz AdeLer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
Probable Murder OF Two IllinOisans
In Kansas.

A correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean writes from Boston, Kansas, June
z:
Some time since young man came to
this place from the State of Illinois, by the
name of Frank Sinner, and was looking
for his father, who left home some months
before, for the purpose of locking up a
home in Southern Kansas, and had not
been heard of since. Young Stimer was
about "A years old, and of good appear
ance, and stated to me that his father had,
when he left home, about l,5U0, and in
tended TO purchase a farm in Howard
County, md that he could get no trace of
him until ne arrived at Kansas City, Mo-,
and there he learned that his father had
been some time before in company with
citizen of this (Howard) county, and that
he examined the hotel registers and found
his fathers name, and that this man from
Howard County registered with him, and
that they both left Kansas City for this
county together, as he learned from the
landlord. He then came on to this C unity,
and on examining the records at the Re
corder's Office at Elk Falls, he found the
name of the party the same as registered
at the hotel, and that he lived in the south
east part of the county. He then came on
to this town and told the above story and
wanted me to assist him to find his father.
He stayed over night at the hotel, and left
next morning for the southeast part of the
county, to see the man whse left Kansas
City with his father, and learn of his
whereabouts If possible. We heard no
more about the young man until about a
week ago, when his body was found in
Hickory Creek, in the southeast corner of
this county. His head was cayed in and
other marks of violence indicated that a
most foul murder had been committed.
While at this place he wrote to his home
in Illinois the Information he had received,
and the name Of the party last with his
father. Now, If POSSIBLE, desire copy
of that letter, to find the name of the man.
1 don't knew in what part of the State his
mother lives, and if you will publish this
or so much of it as will lead to the dis
covery of the whereabouts of said family,
it will aid me to decipher amost foul muir
der
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-01
TRUST

searching for strawberries ready to eat;
nlnolng them crimson and large and sweet;
what 90 you think found at my feet
Deep In the green hili-side7
-Four brown sparrows, the cunzinS thin0s.
feathered on back and breast and wings
froud with the dignity plnmage brings,
Opening their four mouths wide.
STOPPING lower to scan my prize.
watching the motions with curious eyes;
dropping my berries in glad surprise,
n plaintive sound heard.
And looking up at the mournful call
spied ON branch near the old stone WIN
Trembling and twittering, ready TO fan
The poor little mother bird.
With grief and terror her heart was vrunq
Ana while 70 the slender bOuRh she clun0
she Ieit mat the lives of her birding hung
On still more slender thread.
All, birdiei said, il you only knew
MY heart was tender and warm and truei
but Ihe thought that loved her birdlinrs. too
Never entered her small brown head.
And so through this world Of ours we 20.
bearing our burdens Of needless woe
Many heart beating heavy and slow
Under Its load Of care.
But o. If we only, only knew
That God was tender, warm and true
And that he loved us through and through.
Our hearts would be lighter than air
Springfield Republican.