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

Ii the village of Sheridan, Oregon, they
utilize the church on week days by taking
out the seats and using the fioor for a GRO
quet ground.
AMONG recent applicants for charity
turkeys in Boston, was a-woman who kept
hoarders, and a man with diamond studs
who wanted lone for his brother"
EDWARD ALFRED WARREN. of the Brit
ish Museum, has just died. Although
only thirty-eight, he had been twenty
years in the Museum, employed on the
catalogue.
A TRAVELLER in Russia speaks of the
serfs as seeming hopelessly ignorant.
Their faces have a vacant look; many of
those in cities have no homes, but sleep
wherever they can find resting-place,
and 90 half clad.
Mr.. w. II. GURNEY. a lawyerat Buffalo,
n. Y, has been awarded Sl,500 in suit
against the Erie Railway for forcibly eject
ing him (Gurney) from their cars between
Forestville and Perrysburg. The case
will probably be appealed by the railroad
company.
A SERIES of experiments has lately been
made by the Russian Government With
reference to the use of electricity for the
headlight of locomotives, battery OF
fortv-eight elements making every thing
distinct on the railway track to distance
OF over ], 300 feet.
COLONEL CHARLES CAREY LONG, an
American in the employ of the Khedive,
was attacked, while on an. expedition, by
four hundred armed men, and with only
two soldiers he resisted the attack Of the
entire troop, and inflicted on it a loss of
eighty-two men at least, that is what the
Minister Of War saws I'm his Off
cial report.
PETERS, a hotel-keeper of Annville,
Lebanon County, Pa, gave himself up to
the Sheriff recently, after the last of sew
eral attempts at committing suicide, and
confessed TO having murdered his first
wife sixteen years ago. Her body was
found in the hotel barn with the skull
broken, and it was thought that she had
been kicked by horse.
IL England a clergyman had had the
smallpox, but was so as to be about,
and-iHvited a friend to breakfast. His
friend caught the malady and communi-
Gated it to his wife, who died. Thereupon
the friend sued the parson for inviting him
to breakfast. and recovered damages III 81
and the amount of the funeral expenses.
IT is estimated that the damages done
TO sheep by worthless ours in the State OF
Ohio amounted TO Sl50,000 annually for
the last ten years, which makes a startling
aggregate for the period named. Add to
this the cost of food for the dogs, and we
have pretty sum. With the hope of re-
ducing the number of mongrels, it is pro-
posed to place tax upon all dogs owned
in the State.
AN elevator company of Toledo, Ohio,
use no other fuel for their steam engines
than corn-cobs. Immense loads of corn
on the ear are shipped to them daily and
shelled by machinery. tits said that this
fuel is better for their purposes than coal.
On the prairies of Illinois when the price
of corn is very low the farmer uses for
fuel cobs, corn and all.
AT the Paris Observatory there is tel
Escape in the course of construction that
will be the largest ever yet made. The
tube will be fifty feet in length and six
feet sight inches in diameter. 1t was be-
gun by Leon Foucault in 1865, but the
construction was interrupted by his death.
In the troubles of 1901 no Frenchman
had a heart for science. Now, however,
the completion of this great instrument
has been undertaken by the astronomer
Wolf.
GUIzoT' sheirs have discontinued the suit
which was the last expression of GuiZOt's
pride. His idea was that neither himself
nor his family should be indebted to the
Empire, which he hated. One of his fam
ily was thus indebted, and had accepted
assistance from the Emperor. and the suit
was that the Emperor's heirs should be
compelled TO accept repayment from Gui-
got. In this material time it is rare TO see
a suit maintained on one side to compel
the acceptance of $4,000 and on the other
upholding the right to refuse the sum.
In Kansas and Colorado parties of men
make handsome sums of money by gath
ering the hides and bones of the slain buff
falo and hauling them to market. 1t is
estimated that the shipments of hides for
the closing year over the AtchisOn, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad, and the Kan
sas Pacific, will aggregate l25,OOO
skins. When we take into consideration
that these lides represent only portion
of the animals killed in the great West
every year. the question quickly suggests
itself, How long will it be before the buff
falo is rendered extinct? 1t is sad to re-
fleet that the majority of the animals are
killed in wantOnnesS, and their flesh Is
left to rot on the Plains.
AMONG objects of interest lately received
at the National Museum in Washington
dlt IlN-SiA SlOnC hlllNNss Win ltdiiNitcs
obtained by Major Powell from the Pal
Utes. The blades are oblong-triangular,
and oblong-tohgue-shaped, acute, two or
three inches in length, and so much re-
sembe many of the so-called lance and
arrow-heads in collections, that it becomes
necessary to modify our views as to the
latter articles. The handles are three to
five inches long, and a notch half an inch
deep at one end receives the stone, which
is held in place by a tough pitch melted
into the slit and around the joint, sinew
being sometimes wrapped round i'll addi-
ton.
TIE whole number of Signal Service
stations in the United States appears to be
125, to which are to be added five in the
Hudson Bay Territory. established with
the assistance of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, at Fort Chippewayan, Cumberland
House, York Factory, Fort Macpherson
Ton Peel's River, and Fort Simpson Ton
the MackenZie). The West Indian stations
are at Havana and Santiago de Cuba lin
Cuba), Kingston (Jamaica), ST. Thomas,
Guadeloupe and Barbados. Besides the
stations in Hudson Bay Territory, there
are others at Brockville, Ottawa and Stay
ner, in Ontario at Charlotte-tOwn. Prince
Edward Island; Father Point, Quebec :;
and at Sydney, Cape Breton. There are
also some twenty river stations in the Mis-
sissippi Valley for the purpose of record
ing the varying height of the water. The
total force connected with the service at
present is composed of 247 sergeants,
corporals and privates. The entire num-
Der of sheets of publications for the year,
consisting of maps, bulletins, different
kinds of press reports, weekly and month
ly weather chronicles, etc., amounted to
4,494, 800.