The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-17
GENERAL BREy1TrEs.

FRS the fashion In Florida to wear
gloves worn out at the tips Of the fingers.
It's more convenient Tor corraling the
fieas.
ENGLAND, having failed In all her at
tempts TO wipe out the Green Isle, has be-
come desperate, and now proposes, as a
last resort, to prohibit the sale Of whisky
in Ireland.
AUSTRIA complains that the monks ex-
PEELED by Bismarck take refuge in her do
minions, increasing the number OF her
needy, and adding to the enemies Of lib
orsi Institutions.
A PROJECT is under way at San Fran
cisco TO furnish that city with water from
Lake Tahoe, the estimated cost of the
water works being S3,500,000. The tax
PAYERS have but little faith in the feast
bility OF the plan, however, since they
cannot see where the money is to come
from.
PICKED I'D somewhere In Utah and
awaiting G claimant at the Office of the
Salt Lake TRIBUNE. a small gold locket
having the inscription: ''Dame Frances
Hardres, OBJ. % Feb. 1888, et. S." On
the opposite side is braid OF gray hair,
inclosed in glass, AMI there should be
story about il all somewhere.
Az international Congress of silk Gull
turists is to be held at Milan during 1876,
and circulars have been distributed invit-
ing a series of experiments to be made
during 1875, and report on the results.
This has reference TO various points con-
nected with the keeping of silk worms,
the prevention of injurious diseases, par
NJ hni ixrff ri
which has produced great injury of late
years.
A WRITER in Scri5ner's Magazine for
June says the farmers Of Holland, as
though eager to recognize the all-import-
ant aid they derive from their cows, fire.
queRtly cover them in summer with linen
blankets, tied in place, TO guard them from
the attacks of insects, and TO shelter
them from the frequent raw sea-winds. 1t
is usual, too, to set upin the pasture-felds
convenient scratching-poles against which
the cattle may rub their sides and necks
with evident advantage.
CLEAN, n. Y, has a clothes-pin manu-
factory, of which the Olean Times says
Monday of this week they turned out at
this factory 50 bushels Of pins. They mea-
sure 600 To the bushel, making a total of
5000 clothes-pins in ten hours. Mr.. Lat
inner ran COO pins through the lathe in five
minutes, and he doesn't consider it much
of day for making clothes-pins either.
Some may wonder where all these clothes
pins go TO and where sold. They are as
saleable as -four. Every pin made at this
factory is shipped to one firm in New
York. They are worth between one and
two cents a dozen at wholesale, and retail
throughout the country at five cents
Dozen"
A YOUNG lady of Portland, Me-, not long
since met handsome Boston commercial
drummer on the cars, struck up an ac-
quaintance, allowed him to visit her, and
finally consented to be his wife. She az
forwards repented of her hasty promise,
and wrote him to release her, but he
wouldn't. She has now received letter
from a Boston lawyer, stating that her
was-to-be husband had retained him as
counsel and that unless the marriage takes
place at the time set, suit will be COM
menced against her for breach of promise.
As the young lady is worth a handsome
property, she is afraid the tenacious drum
mer's motives are not sincere and that she
has been very foolish TO allow herself to
get into all this middle. And so she has
been.
A CURIOUS instance of the contagious |
ness of fear was shown on a large scale in |
Strauss corset factory at New Haven, the |
other day. A number of the girls en-
ployed began talking about the frequency |
of sudden deaths, and became quite sober /
in their conversation, when one of them, |
more lively than the rest, to change the |
subject, placed small land turtle, which |
she had found somewhere, upon the bench |
of her neighbor, who, seeing 1t, was so
startled that she tainted away. This cir
coupled with their former con-
versatioD, had such an effect upon the |
girls that, one after another. they fell into |
a death-like stupor, until seven of them |
were stretched upon the floor. One of the |
men, too, though evidently struggling |
against the contagion, also succumbed, |
and the foreman, becoming alarmed, sent |
all hands from the room and shut down
work for the day.
ACCORDING to scientific estimate, the
following interesting data concerning the
Mississippi River are considered as ap-
proXimately established: l. Quantity of
water discharged by the river, Annually,
II, $50. 1860. 636, $50 cubic feet; 2. Quantity |
of sediment discharged annually, % 1885,
OS3, S92 cubic feet; 3. Area of the delta of |
the river, according to Prof. Lyell, 1900 |
square miles; 4. Denth of the delta, ac-
cording to Prof. RiddelI, ], 056 feet; 3. The
delta, therefore, according to 3 and 4. as |
above, contains 400, 37S, 429, 44O, 900 cubic
feet, or 2,720 cubic miles; 6. According to
,, it would require for the formation of |
one cubic mile of delta, five years and |
eighty-one days; z. For the formation of
one square mile, of the depth of l,O56 feet,
one year and sixteen and one-fifth DAYS:
s. For the formation of the delta, accord |
ing to 2. 3, 4, time required IA POS 4-5 |
years; 8. The valley of the Mississippi, |
from Cape Girardeau to the delta, is esti- |
mated TO contain 10000 square miles of |
$50 feet depth. 1t therefore contains &C.,
sos, lG0, 100000 cubic feet, or 454I cubic |
miles.