The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-12-14
HERE AND THERE.

SAID, AFTER Drlef me0ltatlOn, men
the black folks are made out of coal
dust, amt they?"-Bruns'0ick Ne10s.
Mr.. ROBERT MICKLE, Cashier of the
Union Bank Of Baltimore, has probably
been bank officer for a longer time
than any other man in the United States.
He entered the service of that bank in
1919, and since 1880 has been its Cash
Ter.
A YOUNG Chinaman has been ad-
mitted to. the collegiate institute at
Napa, California, without opposition
from the students, who treat him as
well as though he was of their own race.
He has parted with his qseue, and
dresses like an American.
A RECENT census of India shows that
CSC of the natives are authors and po-
cts, $50 astronomers, $4,000 fortune
tellers and pedigree-makers, $4,000 re-
ligious mendicants, 5000 painters and
sculptors, $500 actors and iugglers,
and 1000 snake charmers.
A MAN bet so to 81 that Tilden
would be elected, and then, DESTROYS to
hedge, bet $40 to 81 with the same per-
son that Hayes would be elected. At a
glance this looks as though he would
come out even, but an examination
shows that he would in any case lose
80.
SAM SING, Celestial nabob of Elko,
Cal, is about planting a colony of Chi
nese in Chicago, starting with IS and
having $50 others awaiting his order.
California papers indulge in fervent
hopes that the Chinese will become SO
enamored of the new climate as torelieve
the Pacific shores of their presence.
THE first patent taken out in Eng
land was an exclusive privilege for
drawing, engraving, and publishing
maps of London, Westminster, Bristol,
Norwich, Canterbury, Bath, Oxford
and Cambridge. The next was for the
privilege of publishing portraits Of
"His Sacred Majesty" James 1. The
third was for an unexplained group of
wonderful inventions, blowing land
without horses or oxen, making barren
land fertile, raising water, and con-
structing swift boats.
THE medical journals last spring pub
lished repeatedly the formula for DIR.
Terriers new remedy for cold in the
head. As the season for that distress
ing malady is at hand, we print the
recipe, which is: Trisnitrate of bis
muth drains, pulverized gum-arabic
drains, and hydrochlorate of NOR
phia grains. This is used as a snuff,
creates no pain, and causes, says the
London Lancet, the entire disappear
ance of the symptoms in few hours.
HERMAN OFT, of Omaha, could not
get living as a carpenter, and cOnse-
quently became a grave-digger. This
employment made him melancholy, and
he says that he was unable to repel the
idea that he ought to bury himself. So
he dug a grave, shot himself at the
brink of it, and fell in. He had ar
ranged several bushels of dirt to fall on
him when his body knocked out a prop,
but the continuance did not work, nor
did the bullet kill him. His physician
advises change of employment.
A BEAUTIFUL young lady who had
allowed the tendrils of her heart to
Irvine fondly around a strapping great
conductor on horse-car, had her af
fectionate nature crushed by the dis
covery that he was taking fare from
her, and dead-heading another girl who
lived in the same street. She did not
eat pickles and pine away, but wrote
him an affecting epistle, which read:
"You want to knock down enuff stamps
to buy me paisler shawl & a dolley
vardin before Sunday, or 1 will put an
awning over that girls Eye the next
time meet her in Society. You heer
me-"
AN English correspondent writes of
the Presidential building: q" In the
White House there is not single room
which can be associated by the greatest
stretch of imagination with the idea of
'home.' One might as well set up ones
household goods in huge barn. The
rooms are like naked, gaping vaults,
with not one snug corner to be found
through the whole length and breadth
of them. They are intended only to look
big and to provide space for the
crowds of persons whom the President
is expected to entertain, for the credit
of the country, at his own expense"
WITH reference to blindness, or
the lack of power to distinguish colors,
it is stated that very few of the persons
so affected are conscious of the defect
in their vision. Many railroad acct
dents are caused by the color-blindness
u runway GluplOJCOoJ ebAAU IhO O"ONloh
Railway Direction has recently ordered
an examination to be made by Oculists
of all the men in its employ, so as to
guard all danger. Professor Holingren,
who has just examined the employees
of the Upsala Gefe Railway, found that,
out of 266 persons examined, eighteen
were color-blind, and so utterly untitled
for the railway service.
A NEW Prison Chaplain was recently
appointed in a certain town. He was
a man who greatly magnifed his office,
and, entering one of the cells on his
first round of inspection, he with much
pomposity thus addressed the prisoner
who occupied it: "Well, sir; do you
know who 1 amp" "No; nor dinna
care,'' was the nonchalant reply.
"WeI, I'm your new Chaplain" go,
ye are? Weel, 1 hae heard o'ye be-