The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-12-21
HERE AND THERE.

copper IN the INK.
AN Indianapolis mechanic lost q
finger In some machinery, one after
noon, and his employer "docked" his
pay for a quarter of . day.
A MAN who had cncs been wealthy
and candidate for Mayor was recent
~ in Boston police court, ragged and
bloated, as a common drunkard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kapp were divorced in
Hartford on the 10th. At noon on the
2Sd Mr.. Kapp remarked, and on the
same evening Mrs. Kapp married Mr..
Kapp's brother.
Mr.. WILLIAM EMERSON BAKER, the
eccentric millionaire of Wellesley,
Mass, has bought the American
Restaurant, the Egyptian structure in
the Main Building, and the Syrian Pa
vilion at the Fairmouut Park, and in
tends to erect them on his farm.
JAMES d. WALLACE, of Mississippi,
has just recovered a verdict of $4,000
against the New Orleans, St. Louis and
Chicago Railroad, for the loss of his
leg by collision st Ponehatoula in
1862. There have been three jury trials
of the case, the plaintiff gaining in
damages with each.
WITHtN a few days the first INSTALL
ment of colonists from Western Massa-
chusetts, numbering 20 families, will
leave for Berks County, n. G., and be-
gin the work of building village about
seven miles east of Morgantown. The
colonists have q refusal of $4,000 acres
in body, of which 1900 is of heavy
white pine timber.
WITH a view to ascertain the time
that would be occupied in bringing an
ironclad into action, the Admiral COM
maHGing the British fleet in Biska Bay
recently had the "Turn Out" sounded
in the middle of the night, without any
previous warning to officers or men.
The whole ship was cleared, and the
first gun fired within seven minutes
after the alarm.
THE Shah of Persia is studying the
French and English languages, so as to
be able to converse without interpreters
at.the Paris Exhibition in 1878, whittier
he will travel incognito as " Beglerbeg-
i-Iran," or the Lord of Lords of Persia.
He is building a railroad six miles long
from his capital, Teheran, to Shah Alb
dull Aim, q place of pilgrimage.
VISITORS to the Main Building of
the Centennial Exhibition had an OPP
portunity to examine skeleton of the
Moa, the gigantic extinct bird of New
Zealand, which was the most remarka-
BILE animal of the prehistoric age of
that colony. The latest mails brings
details of cave explorations-in the Mid
die Island, resulting in the discovery
OF numerous Moa bones, so situated
&ad in such condition as to indicate
that these birds were hunted and eaten
by the natives at a period long proceed
ing the European occupation Of New
Zealand. 1t is believed that the brain
of the Moa must have been esteemed
great delicacy by the ancient savages,
as only few fragments of the skulls
are to be found, and these very small.
The dog appears also to have been a
favorite dish of the MOa hunters, but
at that time probably had not been do
mesticated.
MONCURE d. CONWAY sticks to it that
the Juggernaut suicides are the fiction
of missionary imagination. Jugger-
naut himself, as represented in Sunday
school literature, is fictitious. The word
is corruption of Jaganath, "the Lord
of Life," title ascribed formerly to
Yishnu-now to Krishna; and to either
of these deities death was abominable,
and not acceptable. That deaths occur
in the immense throngs of devotees is
not doubted; but Mr.. Conway observes
that when the Prince of Wales visited
St. Paul's, after his recovery from his
desperate illness, some years ago, sew
eral persons were crushed to death, land
fancies this fact, reaching some distant
island Sin such a shape as to leave
there tradition that it is usual to sac
rifce human victims in England on the
recovery of a Prince, as a part of
thanksgiving service. Especially might
this be the case if the sentence were re-
ported and interpreted by priests, anx-
ious to place Christianity in its worst
light"
A POVERTY STRICKEN tramp came to
the parsonage of a well known clergy
man, not far from New York, and ask
ed for aid. Knowing that he was not
very likely to get money, he told the
parson of his distress in the matter of
shirts. The result was that the tramp
left the house few minutes later, the
happy possessor of a tolOrably good
shirt. As he departed he expressed his
thanks to his benefactor, and told him
what comfort the shirt would be to
him. And, true enough, the garment
did afford warmth to the suffering
tramp, but not exactly in the way his
reverend benefactor had intended. |
Toward evening one of the elders drop
ped in at the parsons house, and asked |
him how it came to pass that one of his
was in a neighboring
on exhibition to crowd of
oafers. The parson saw it all in mo-
ment. The tramp had traded off the
shirt for two drinks of whisky and q
Hereafter, when that parson
oestows shirts on a wandering sheep of
his kind, he will take the precaution to
cut off the part marked with his name.
Ar a certain hour every afternoon
loungers on suburban
irives meet an old gentleman jogging
llong on a very trusty, sure-footed ami
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