The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-06-15
GENERAL BREYITIES.

Matchmaking in Switzerland. one-third
are women.
THE dignifed Christian Witness
speaks of a burglary whose perpetrat-
ors t'pried the door openwith a James. ?
THE girl students ali over the coun-
try who graduate this year are resolv-
ing to dress for that occasion in ordina-
~ Calico nsr
The Maharajah, the rich young In
dian Prince who bought the Empress
Eugenie'> diamonds, has died Whisky
killed him. a. llaSs
AND now comes a Boston woman
who, to Guido her fashionable sisters
with their 20-button gloves, has invent
ed and wears 40-button stockings.
The displacement of the new British
man-of-war Infexible, when all her
weights are on board, will be no less
than IL ,407 tons-exceeding thatof any
ship ever built. -
PROFESSOR PARKER, of Iowa City,
has lost four out of five children by ac-
cidents. One was thrown by q horse,
one was burned to death, and two more
were recently drowned. z
An eminent Boston physician saws:
One of the cheapest and most efficient
chest protectors, when unexpectedly
exposed to cold, raw winds, is a folded
newspaper inside the vest. .tiuLtl h
A MINER on Indian Greek, Montana,
recently dug up chunk of gold which
he sold in Helena for the sum of $500,
Another had $500 chunk from the
same locality.
THE West Point Cadets, about 800 in
number, who are 20 visit Philadelphia,
will start on the 9th of June in Gov
eminent steamer. They will be accom-
panied by the Academy Band, and will
remain in Philadelphia 10 days. p -.
ONE of the attractions of the Paris
Exhibition of 1873 is to be the largest
balloon ever made. 1t will contain
$4,000 cubic meters of gas, and is to
be % to "a meters n diameter. The
car will hold so persons. fF,1 Ea-i 4 ~
THE Duke of Devonshire has sold
from the Helker short horn herd Grand
Duchess of0xford Twenty ninth, to the
Hon. G. Brown, of Canada, for $500
guineas, the highest priceever yet paid
for a female short-horn in England.
A Firth AVENUE, New York, lady,
on a visit to Europe, has left two
poodles in charge of a dog doctoress,
for the keeping of which she is TO pay
$500 yearly and to provide a carriage
once a month in which the pets are. to
be aired. .-ttt 81. "a zee, q Z
The Omaha Repn5iicd,1 says that an
old man fell asleep in a Council Bluffs
church on recent Sunday afternoon,
and his nose got wedged into book
rack so that he couldn't get It, out,
After he had thrashed about aud snort
ed a good deal, the sexton released him
by splitting open the rack, r.,
AT a recent fancy ball in Paris the
Duchess de Mouchy represented "the
fairy of diamonds" and was literally
covered with precious stonesa The
Princesse Troubetzkoi personifed the
Poetry of the North, clothed in frost
and icicles, while her daughter bore on
her shoulders the wings of butterfly.
RIGHTLY saith the Boston Globe:
"The descriptions of genuine fash
ion-writer are almost as difficult to de-
cipher as a Chaldaic inscription, and
might furnish severe study for one
trained in the mysteries of Egyptology.
Taking the matter and the method to-
gether, they are calculated to craze the
mind of a man of only ordinary accom-
plisRments.n
4 NOTICEABLE feature of the steam
ship departures from New York is the
large number of passengers going out,
especially in the Storage. The appli-
cations for passage weeks ahead are so
numerous at some of the company's
offices that they may have TO take into
consideration the expediency of putting
on the extra steamers which were with
drawn early in the season, in conse-
quence of falling off in business.
FISHING for shad is done on a large
scale at Gloucester, on the Delaware.
A net 475 fathoms in length and boat
rowed by thirty negroes are used, about
five hundred shad being taken at each.
haul. Some of the fish are sent to mar
ket, and some are served on the spot to
excursion parties from Philadelphia.
The latter are "planked, which means
roasting them on cedar planks before a
fire.
JOIN CLARK, of Franklin, KY, has
introduced a novel plan for exterminat-
ing rats, driving off snakes and purify
ing the malarious atmosphere about his
premises. Hecaptured poleeat.which
presented him in two DAYS afterward
with six kittens, all of them streaked
and ready for business in q few DAYS.
The wonderful sequel TO the affair is that
the rats and snakes have left his place,
the chills have also departed, and the
prospects tor an unprecedented crop of
wheat and corn are excellent.
ANUMBER of gentlemen lately from
the East were congregated on a street
corner in San Francisco the other day,
when they saw two-horse dray loaded
down with what they took to be lead
bars, stalled on Montgomery Street.
Great was their surprise when informed
that the lead bars were silver bricks
from the Bonanza mines, being taken to
Flood Il O'Brien's bank, and that over
hundred thousand dollars in value was
intrusted to the custody of one man, and
hauled around the streets like any other
merchandise. .... ..-..,. ..,.r
The Massachusetts house is of the
greatest interest as depository of relics
of the Pilgrims. 1t is genuine log
house, chinked with mud, a midland
stick chimney, old-fashiened cooking
utensils, pOrringers and pewter platter
dressers set off with the quaint croekery
of hundred years ago. The cradle
Peregrine White, the first white child
born in New England, was rocked in, a
clumsy, square-hooded thing with all
the oscillation taken out of its two CEN
turtles and half old joints. A brass
clock aged $50 years swings its pendu-
lum as true as any improved timekeep-
er, against the wall A patchwork
quilt by the youthful mother of the ven
cradle White infant is shown. A big
tankard that has had Miles Standish' S
lips on the brim and his nose inside
more times than it is best to enumerate,
and a queer old settle basks by the light
of corn cob fire. Two ladies Ia blue
stuff gowns, wide white aprons and kerr
chiefs pinned with decorous rigidity