The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-05-06
GENERAL BREYITIES.

| n PHILADELPHIA paper speaks OF "a
| glaZier 5000 feet long," The truth of the
statement is not doubted, but we would
ike to see him putting a pane of glass in
basement window
| TALMAGE says Brooklyn to-day eats
scandal, drinks scandal, talks scandal,
swears scandal. lies scandal, sleeps scan
dal-to which may be added: mOlds can
die, sells candle, buys candle, lights can
die, snuffs candle and blows candle out
st. Louis Globe.
liz Aylmer, Canada, few days ago, an
act was performed by girl IL years old
which was as heroic as its result was
mournful. Her little brother, who was
left in her care during the absence of their
mother, fell through the ice into deep
creek. near the shore of which he was play
ing. She plunged in after him, and get
ting him to the surface, thrust him by main
strength into position of safety, although
by so doing she knew that she was losing
her own only chance of escape. When his
hands had grasped something on the bank
by which he could draw himself out, she
calmly babe him brace his feet against her
and Chamber up. The frightened boy did
so, and the pressure thus brought to bear
upon his sister pushed her underneath the
ice, where her body was afterward found.
THE German Minister of War has Just
issued an order that gives some idea of the
thorough and systematic plan and the eX
tensive scale on which the strengthening
of the fortresses of the Empire is now be-
ing pushed forward. The order is to the
effect that if the land necessary for the ex-
tension of certain fortresses cannot be ac-
quired by friendly purchase, it must be at
once compulsorily acquired in virtue of
the law of Military appropriation
The fortresses affected by the order IN
question are Cologne, COblentz, Spandau,
kustrin, Posen, Thorn, Danzig, Konigs-
berg, Glogan, Neisse, Memel. Pillau, Col
bern, Smineunde, Stralsund, Frederichsort,
Sonderburg, Duppel, Wilhelmshaven, and
the strong places on the Lower Wesel and
The Lower Elbe.
A BREACH of promise case lately tried at
Shrewsbury, England, was the outcome of
a disagreement about total abstinence.
Mr.. Hurst, the defendant, is the son of a
clergyman, and has been taught TO abhor
alcohol. Miss Wynne, the plaintiff, is the
daughter of a rollicking squire, and has
been accustomed to drink wine and ale
habitually. They became matrimonially
engaged, and every thing was got ready
for the wedding. Miss Wynne had prom
ised TO give up intoxicating beverages
after her marriage, but just before the time
set for that event she wrote to Mr.. Hurst:
"Dear Tom: About the drink, and your
not allowing it to come into your house.
My mother has always let me have little
at dinner and balls. / do not think | could
promise you to do without a little, but |
will try to do without it if you wish me-"
That did not satisfy Dear Tom, ana he de-
manded an unequivOcal pledge of total alb
stinence. The young woman refused to
promise, and when he would not marry
her, she sued him for breach of promise.
Dear Tom will pay EDS and costs.
The late Mr.. J. Lane, of Frescombe.
AshelwOrth Parish, Worcestershire, Eng
land, on his returning home one day.
turned his horse into a field in which it
had been accustomed to Craze. A few
days before this, the horse had been shod,
and unfortunately had been ''pinched" in
the shoeing of one foot. The morning
following Mr.. Lane missed the horse, and
caused an active search to be made in the
neighbOrhood, when the following cir
cumstances TRANSFERRED: The animal, it is
supposed, feeling the foot to be uncOm-
Portable. made his way out of the field by
lifting the gate off the hinges with his
teeth, and went straight to the same far
lance of a mile and a half. The farrier
had no sooner opened his shed, than the
horse (which had evidently been standing
there some time), advanced up to the
forge and held up his ailing foot. The
tarrier Immediately began to examine the
hoof, discovered the injury, took off the
shoe, and replaced it more carefully, on
which the horse calmly turned about, and
set off at merry pace for his well-known
pasture. Shortly after, Mr.. Lanes SER
wants, who were in search of the horse,
happening to pass the fdrrier's shop, men
toned their supposed loss, when the far
rier replied: ''Oh, he, has been here and
got reshod, and gone home again =" This,
when they returned, they found to be ac-
tually the case.
PEOPLE do some very funny things at
fires. The Pierrepont House, in Brook
Ign, caught fire lately, and, though the
flames were eXtinguished before much
harm was done, the guests of the hotel
improved the time to display a great deal
of ridiculous human nature. The build
ing was well provided with fire-escapes.
but the frightened occupants of the rooms
didn't remember it,. One excited young
gentleman clambered up into the cupola
of the structure and there ensconsed him
self; another capered down the stairwa,
and out into public view, clad deliberately
in night-gown and Ovcrcoat. One man
pitched out on a neighboring roof an iron
bound trunk which required three men to
lift after the scare was gone, and the
Adonis of the hotel dashed down stairs
almost undressed, but with button-hole
bouquet in his hand, while lady rushed
frantically from the neighborhood of dam
ger with handbook in one hand and her
back-hair in the other. The funniest case,
however, was that of a guest, stranger
in the hotel. This man leaped wildly out
of bed and mistook the door of closet for
the door opening into the corridor. The
door was locked, but the man resolved TO
make desperate struggle for his life; he
wrapped his head in a pillow and bonn
barded the door, after the style of bat
tering-ram. The pillow split open. and it
rained feathers in that room long after the
fire was put out. A hotel confiagration is
magnificent test of character, certainly.
"Who'u Cover Thaty,
In one of the colored churches of this
city, on last Sunday, the preacher adopted