The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
GENERAL BREyIrrEs.

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AT the burial of a Carmelite nun, in
Baltimore. a rough pine coffin with rope
handles was FUSED, and the bier was a
rude bench, Ii H tt
A MINNEAPOLIS woman found pack
age containing seventeen diamonds Sc
GREETED in a desk that once belonged TO
her great-grandfather - ......-
A TEK-YEAR old boy left Sacramento
on Sunday school excursion and
brought up in Boston. he wanted to
ride out his fifty cents worth. ..
THE weston is novelty in ladies
dress. II is made of the same material
as the dress, and cut exactly like a
gentleman's vest.
THE Burlington Hd,o5-Eye suggests
that modest young ladies who visit the
Centennial wear green speetacles to
look at the statuary through.
The Fitch diamonds, after verifica-
ton by General Sherman, have been
placed in the Treasurer's vault in
WASHINGTON for safe keeping. 6I
THE Professor of Medicine at Kings
College, London, recommends a total
change of diet without the aid of medi-
cine, as an effieacious method of treat
ing nervous diseases.
ACAPT. AHIsgRoM has swan down
the Danube from Vienna to Pesth, with
out any apparatus, remaining 80 hours
in the water, and scarcely stopping to
rest. ClE ErHlt Ir 5Ilt l..
A NEW YORK undertaken has card
in his window 'Ice couches for the de-
parted" Some of the living regret that
they can not afford such nice luxuries.
EVERY winter the Waterfront a spring
at Chittenden, VT, freezes and fills a
deep gorge with ice, and all summer
the residents in the neighbOrhood are
supplied from this source. l..
Mrs. BARBER of Ovid, Mich, was re-
Gently bitten-by rattlesnake. Her
mouth and back turned perfectly black
in few minutes, but a physician pack
ed her body in sailed mud and admins
tered autidotes in large quantities, and
she will recover. EHf II q
DEACON PARKINSON remarked in a
prayer-meeting in Carson, Nevada, that
he knew young boys who went to sa-
looms where their fathers had credit,
got bottles filled with whisky ostensibly
for the parents, and got drunk on the
liquor themselves. He suggested earn
est prayers for those boys.
A SAD incident occurred at the funer
al of a young girl near Berlin the other
day. Her mother, an old woman of 60,
who was standing on the edge of the
grave with head bowed down with
grief, suddenly uttered apiercing shrek
and fell headlong into the open pit.
She was raised at once but life had fed.
THE early Massachusetts fathers did
not believe in paint. The Rev. Thomas
Allen of Charlestown was brought up
in 1880 for "having paint about his
dwelling" and only escaped by show
ing that it was done before his time,
and that he disapproved of it. The first
Boston church was never painted, and
a list of Boston mechanics in 1870 does
not include painter. This abomina-
ton did not become common until after
the Revolution.
A CORRESPONDENT from Ems writes:
This little paradise of place is look
ing its lovliest; roses in profusion every
where, blackbirds, thrushes and other
songbirds caroling in all directions; or
chestral bands playing, gay company
promenading under the sweet-scented
lime trees, the Emperors of Germany
and Russia taking their walks abroad
like ordinary individuals, meeting with
respectful salutes, but not mobbed and
chivied about as is the fate of royalty
elsewhere.
NAPLES has embarked in an enter
prise which might well be copied in
some of the large cities in America. 1t
is the organization of a Pathological
Club, the aim of which is to give, at a
mere nominal price, lessons in various
languages. The courses of lessons are
held at night, and English and French
are the principal languages studied.
Lessons are given to all who attend at
the moderate sum of three francs per
month, and popular lectures are deliv-
cred in regard % the literature of what
ever language is taught.
THE other evening Maj. Schiller, re-
siding near Long Reach, not far from
Galena, H., was informed by trem-
bling and frightened man, who rushed
into his house, that he had just been
attacked by large she-welf, and bare
" escaped with the [" skin of his teeth"
This brought the gallant Major to his
feet, and, calling his dog and grasping
a dirk-knife, he sailed forth for the
wild animal. Soon the dog was up
with the wolf and engaged in furious
conflict. The latter got the former on
its back and was about ending matters
by throat operation, when the Major
interfered and slew the wolf by driving
the knife into its neck.
THE following is a list of the trades
represented by the delegation of thirty
French workingmen sent by the French
Government to inspect the mechanical
industries of this country: furniture
maker, chair-maker, furniture designer,
shoemaker, book binder, matchmaker,
artificial flower maker, tanner, jeweler,
mechanic, organ-builder, teacher, gun
maker, locksmith, carriage-builder,
linen and lace maker, tailor, tin plate
worker, printer, comb-maker, dyer,
halter, lead and zinc roof maker, sad
der, machine model maker, sculptor
on wood.
THERE was a celebration of the Cen
tennial Fourth at Virgil, n. Y, which
was remarkable for the fact that the
same orator, the same reader of the Dec
laration, the same Deacon who offered
prayer, and the same Marshal oficiated
who had conducted the ceremonies of
the celebration of the same day fifty
years before In this respect, the cele-
bration at Virgil had probablyno eoun-
terpart in the Union, and it is not likely
that it will ever be repeated. Mean
while, that location can scarcely fail to
commend itself as a desirable residence
for those who hope for long life.