The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-05
GENERAL BREyTTIES.

Hindoo in religion.
A WEALTHY San Francisco widow
has pleased herself and shocked her
friends by marrying her coachman.
THE work of repairing the tomb of
Abelard and Heloise; the two heroic
lovers whom sentimentalists dote on,
has stopped on account of lack OF
funds. The tomb is in the Partisan
cemetery of Pere Ia CbGise, and much of
its dilapidation is no doubt due the
hands of relic seekers.
A HARMLESS duel was fought on Sep
TENDER / by two ex-officers of the En-
glish army in Belgium. The principals
in the affair will shortly appear in the
Divorce Court-One, a baronet's only
son, as plaintiff, and the other as CO.
respondent. The arms were pistols,
and the distance twelve PAGES, but both
missed, and the seconds declined to al
low a second shot.
AT St. Ave, France, two farmers and
a workman of Vannes found an unex-
ploded shell. In order TO prevent it
from doing any damage, they them
selves set TO work to take out the pow
der by the orifce, and partially sue
ceeded. Finding the difficulty to in
crease as they proceeded, one of them
struck it against stone, when it burst,
blowing two of the men to pieces.
Two ladies of Norwich, New York,
who had been buying handmade
lace" from a Gypsy woman at 81 per
yard, were somewhat taken aback at
discovering that the article came from
the store kept by the husband of one of
their number, and that he was willing
TO sell them all they wanted at a quar-
ter the price they had paid the Gypsy.
THEY have inaugurated a new amuse-
ment for juveniles in New York. At a
swimming school for ladies and chill
dren, kept by Mrs. Bennett, there was a
match few days since between two
little ones aged four years each. They
were very equally matched and plunged
into the water with perfect fearlessness,
swimming beyond their depth with as
much ease as experienced adult SWIM
mers.
New YORK proposes TO organize a
cheap cab company, with a capital of
Sl,000,000. twill be conducted in the
same manner as those in European
cities, and each cab will be large
enough TO accommodate four persons
inside, with room for baggage on top.
Their rates will be fifty cents an hour,
and stands will be assigned in different
parts of the city where cabs may be
found night and day.
THE steamship Wampoa, of the Co
lonial line of Australian packets, has
recently made the fastest time ever
known between Liverpool and Mel
bourne, around the Cape of Good Hope.
The time, including stoppages, was AZ
days, and, if eveL an approximation TO
this speed can be continued, the line
will be powerful rival to that across
the American Continent or the Isthmus
of Panama.
THE Japanese editors are having a
hard time. Mr.. HigO, of the Kobat
Shtmpo, has been sentenced to one year
and half's Imprisonment for having
transgressed the press regulations; Ho-
kiyama of the Nichi Nichi Shinl6u'l,
has Just served out three months i'm
prisonment; and the editor of the Sam
pal Shim6un has Just taken his place
for a similar term. There are now six
teen editors in confinement where Mr..
Higo has gone.
A NEW paper-making machine, prob
ably the largest ever made in the United
States, has Just been completed at the
Gavit Machine Works in Philadelphia,
the total length of which is 80 feet and
weighing over so tons. The machine
is what is termed 9S-inch Fourdrinier
machine, capable of making a sheet of
paper 90 inches wide, at the rate of 125
feet per minute. The machine was
built within eight weeks from the time
of commencement, and is intended for
the Public Ledger mills, near Elkton,
Maryland.
A MOURNING Reform Association has
been formed in London and is rapidly
gaining in numbers and popularity, I'M
der a special impetus given by the
clergy. The members are asked to sub
scribe to a declaration that the present
mode of sepulture is unsatisfactory,
and that double collins and brick graves
should be discouraged as far as posi-
BILE. They are also asked to put in
practice, or at least recommend, the
dispensing with scarfs, hat bands,
mourning coaches, pals, and other os-
tentatious adjuncts to funerals.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Chroni-
Gle says: Things have changed greatly
with the Piutes since the first settle
ment of this place by the whites. Then
the squaws were seen coming down the
sides of the mountains with large bun
dies of wood on their backs, which they
sold to the settlers; now the squaws
come into the city and pick up, beg or
steal wood, which they pack off into the
mountains. The whites, and after them
the Chinese, have so completely
stripped the hills of every thing in the
shape of fuel that the Piutes can not
collect sufficient to broil a shank OF
beef.
Two tramps, giving the names OF
George Williams and wife, claiming to
hail from North Adams, Mass, were
arrested at Nashua, n. H., recently for
obtaining goods under false pretenses.
Their 1lOduS OperGndi was as follows
On reaching town they proceeded to the
residence of the Methodist clergyman,
claiming to be communicates of that
denomination. From him they received
a letter recommending them to the
charitable consideration of the faithful
and the public. Armed with this pass
port they would 90 from door to door
soliciting assistance. When arrested
they had large supply of cast-off gar
ments sufficient to supply jews shop.
The woman had Bible, and when re-
Heved of it by the officers cursed like a
pirate.
DIR. MANN read paper at the Science
Conference at South kensingtOn, whose
purpose was to show how unimportant
is the form of lightning conductors,
whether rods, ropes or pipes; and that
the real desideratum is that they shall
be of sufficient size TO afford an unOb-
structed path for the passage of the
electric fluid He insisted on the neces-
sity of a goodly number of points, and
above ali upon the indispensability of
large earth contact, saying that light
ming discharge passing through large
rod with an ample earth contact is only