The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-06-29
GENERAL BREyITIES.


THE foot-and-mouth disease has brok
en- out with great violence among the
hogs at Outremont, Canada. Hundreds
are dead and dying.
APARIs paper says: "a prominent
American professor of botany is much
laughed at on account Of his name-Dr.
Mary Walker" --..... ..........
TIE Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they number BOG. 900.
rank higher than the natives, and are
generally Weather than the Dutch col
Onists. F-- ur q
A tA1FoRNIAN has designed a new
and gigantic seal for that State, four
feet and half high, a foot. thick, and
made of Al varieties of wood, all grown
in California. ...... an
BRYAET's new history of the United
States proves Capt. John Smith a pre-
varicatOr, PocOhontas being only y
years old when Powhattan failed to DO
his duty.
CoMMoDoRE VANDERBILT is said to
be worth over $50, 00O, 900, and 10 have
more available resources than any
other MN in America. And yet he is
50 years of age and in feeble health.
THE father of eight daughters in
Grand Haven, Michigan, has made a
musical band of them, and he has
bought twelve brass Instruments, be-
cause he expects to add 70 the member
ship.
A FAMILY of eight negroes was .pois-.
oned, TO death in Lenoir, N. c., By
strychniae which farmer had put into
pork. He had lost meat several times,
ard took that way of Furnishing the
thieves.
THE New Haven Palladium imposes
on a contiding world the statement that
a WestpOrt cat has h2tched six chick
ems from eggs that a hen had abandon
ed, and now goes about scratching up
worms for them in her humble way.
a SEvREs vase given by Louis XVI.
TO Hppoo Sahib was sold in London
recently for over 81, 295. II was taken
ut the siege of Seringapatam by Ensign
Gordon, afterward Adjutant- General of
Bombay. 1t is urn-shaped, with
tuted neck, stands about lSinches high.
and is richly ornanented.
The Chinese are opposing Christien-
lty with Spirituaism. At Shanghai na-
tive mediums" go about representing
the spirits of deceased converts as hoy
ering miserably around the earth, not
being able to get into heaven, and they
Implore their friends TO take warning
by their fate and turn deaf ear TO the |
missionary channers
CLARA HUBBARD, a young woman,
nnpnpopoF,aa1 ID N~,,, Il Ctl-
cago pedestrian, for 267 miles on his 4
recent waiking-match in PhiladelpIlia,
She fell twice on the track, and was only |
kept going towards tie close by the use |
of stimulants. Finally she was removed |
from the hall, and is now lying in a |
critical condition. She had more pluck /
than physical power. s1-tfF tIcl
a SELFISH man counts up in the Gin |
clnnat Commercial his expenditures for |
forty-five years, as follows: Night lnnch- |
es, $3.50; theatricals, 1928; billiards, |
$3.50; tobacco, 81, l25; cigars, Sc ,57O;
bar bills, $3.50; champagne, 81, 750,
carriage hire, 81, $50. And vet he met /
the slightest request for little pleas
ure made by his family with the reply:
You must practice economy
THE death OF woman in Louisville,
really caused by heart disease, was at
tributed for while TO poison, as she
died Immediately after drinking some
ale that her husband had bought, and
he had habitually ill.treated her. An
inquest made the truth clear, and her
husband then said al amt no dcraed
fool. a doctor told me that she had
the heart disease, and couldn't live
more than year-so L wouldn't run
my neck into a moose by pis'ning her
when tne year was most up, would I?''
AN extraordinary incident of a coal
oil accident is reported at Newport,
Ky. A young lady dropped lamp,
which exploded and burned her badly.
The account says: "After Miss Jones
injuries had been dressed in oil, and
cotton, and most of the persons had
left, Mr.. Ben Britton picked up what he
supposed was her gloves. As they were
very stiff, they were examined and
found to be the skins of her hands and
wrists, with the nails, which she had
rubbed of in her frantic attempts to
quench the flame''
WILLIAM w. WILCOX, who has lust
returned to Middletown, Conn, from
California, brought from Sherman,
Colorado, on the line of the Rocky
Mountains-S,200 feet above the level
of the sea-2, 200 miles, in a tin pail,
two fish of q species called by the boys
out there the walking fish. 1t has four
legs, which it uses when on land, and
its skin is as smooth as an cells. When
in the water the legs double up, and a
ring of fins around the neck stands out
like ruflie, and is used by thu Ii in
swimming.