The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
HOME AND FoREIGN GOSSIP.

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Two centuries ago not one person In a
hundred wore stockings.
Az Iowa Justice the other day accepted
two bushels Of onions as marriage fee.
A BosroN girl wants the new un6ergar-
ment called 'tprima, because 1t is the first
10 put on.
A NEW YORK swell swindled dentist
out of set of false teeth for a Christmas
present to his WIFE
A BRONZE statue, costing about twelve
thousand dollars, will soon be erected in
Central Park, New York, in honor Of the
poet Burns.
DURING several years II has been the
prevailing sentiment at Orleans, VT. that
il is cheaper TO buy Western corn than to
raise it.
A NORTH CAROLINA ghost halts In front
of negrO's cabin and demands fifty cents,
and in this way picks up five or six dollars
per night.
WILLIAM GoRHAM, of Iowa, put Grape on
his door when his COW died, and when the
BOYS laughed at him he shot some shot
into their little legs.
Miss FAY, of Baltimore, who with thin
slippers on her feet walked block to at
tend New Years Eve hop, made leap
into eternity in four days thereafter.
In Liverpool, England, recently. q
woman sued a man she had never seen for
breach of promise of marriage. The par
ties had corresponded and had exchanged
photographs, but had never met.
APARIs newspaper contains the follow
ing announcement: /" An orphan, aged
nineteen, possessing fourteen millions.
wishes TO marry a French Prince. Ad-
dress by letter, postpaid, inclosinga stamp
for reply" etc. .--
1T is stated in the Italian newspaper:
that the festival of st. Januarius was cele-
brated according TO custom, at Naples. but
this year the blood of the saint remained
firm in its vial and showed no signs OF
liquefactiOn.
1T has been decided by majority of the
Edinburgh Town Council to memorabilia
Government to grant power TO Sheriff:
and higher Judges to order the inf1iction
of the lash in the case of criminals convict
ed of personal violence. Ga. VA.
In Elk. Penn. a farmer raised five
hundred bushels of corn from two acres Of
land which had received good coat OF
lime. This has 8 turned the heads of hall
the farmers in the Eeighborhood. Bush.
els of ears are doubtless meant.
1T is understood that the Pope's golden
rose will be bestowed this year on Queer
Marie, the mother of King Louis H., o.
Bavaria. whose recent conversion to the
Roman Catholic faith created so much ex
element in the religious world.
THE Government of British Columbis
is about TO construct dock at Esquimauit
big enough TO hold the largest iron-clad
and when constructed the Imperial anC
Dominion Governments will, it Is said
give G50,000 each.
The London Observer is informed that
the Wesleyan body intend to take legal
proceedings to have tie right of theiI
ministers to be described ON tombstones
in parish churchyards by the title OF g rev.
erend," established by law.
The cattle pest continHes to rage In
Russia, not less than 300, 900 animals hav-
ing persisted from it last year. The last
opinion seems to be that the railroads are
among the causes of harm, and thai
veterinary inspection is not to be re-
lied on.
AT Plymouth, Mass, the farmers plant
less grain every wear. One may ride
several miles without seeing a single acre
of Indian corn. More attention TO milk
productions, vegetables, and fruit, is given.
WIDOW PHILA LAMBERT of West
Georgia. VT, 56 years old. has for fifteen
years supported eight children by laying
stone wall, harvesting and other heavy
farm work, and has not only made herself
owner of house and a few acres of land,
but has given her children good educa-
ton.
The Prairie Farmer tells us that the
project of establishing herd-book for the
registry of Berkshire swine has at last
been set on foot. At meeting of Berk-
shire breeders, held at Springfield, ILL.,,
recently, measures were adopted TO carry
out the enterprise.
In writing to a friend in Manchester
Mr.. John Ruskin adds the following as a
postscript to his letter: 90 | wish it were
known more generally that, for the last
twenty years at least, have been contend,
ing against all hope of reconciling art with
the smoke of manufacture"
A LETTER from Alexandria says that
Col. Gordon is TO be raised 10 the dignity
ofPasha, with the Medjidie of the SECOND
class. The Khedive has expressed the
utmost satisfaction at the progress he ii
making. and at his wise administration
The most loyal support is being aforde(
him by the Government.
MIR. ROBERT PERRNE, Patterson''
Mills, Washington County, Penn, ha
sold to Samuel Archer, Kansas City, Mo.
his entire lot of thoroughbred Merin'
lambs, thirty head. at fifty dollars PEE
head, making 81 500 for the flock. Thi
is said to be one of the largest sales o
spring lambs ever made west of tn
mountains.
IL 1874 there were 5S,0SS persons il
Great Britain who paid the tax for usin
armori9l bearings-of whom 3S,2 pai
the lower duty, which does not confer tn
privilege of wearing them on a carriage
and 1861 paid the higher duty, whic
does confer that privilege. The respectiv
duties are one guinea and two guineas.
ONE of our young men, remarks
Bloomfield Comm correspondent, wh
earned. as clerk in a Hartford store, at til
rate of six hundred dollars in 1873, cult
waited last summer on shares eight acres {
tobacco. receiving for his half about thrt
thousand dollars. He naturally thinl
that this kind of farming is more lucratiN
than clerking.
A PAISLEY correspondent informs
Glasgow journal that at a meeting of
ceaJaln EalsleY OluD, recently, II was pr
posed as rule that members of the clu
should each not have more than two chi
dren, for the reason that such a measul
would tend ultimately to create scarcil
in the labor market, and consequently be-
fit the working man."
A PARIS teleo ram says that the broth
of Lieut.. Bellot, the Arctic explorer, wi
fell victim to his devotion at an ear
age, has obtained permission from Il
French Government to volunteer for Il
approaching English expedition to Il
Arctic regions. NJ. Bellot is Second Lie
tenant in the French Navy, and hopes a
expressed that the British Admiralty wi
accept his services.
Mark Twain's Early Home.
A correspondent writing from Ham