The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-24

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THE fifty physicians recently appoint
ed in New York TO visit the tenements
and search out sick children, report that
after visiting in all $4,000 families they
found that very few children in the
tenements had cholera infantum, while
the disease was common in private
houses. Poor women nurse their own
children,1 ARhile the aFich' employ wet
nurses or use the bottle.
IT is the boast of Lydia Tettro of
Washington, Mass, that, in thirty-seven
years. of married life, she has given
birth 20 twenty-five children, ten boys
and ifteen girls, with but one pair Of
twins. Sixteen are living, two having
died in infancy and seven are getting
their growth. The grandchildren al
ready number thirty-three. Mrs Pettro
herself was one ora familyOf- sixteen,
and married at that age. Git.ti' Sd
THE Denverites are disguised al
ready with their new fire alarm tele-
graph. The air at that great altitude
is so charged with electricity, that the
telegraph is Continually turnirg on
alarms and calling out the people when
there are no fires. During one day
recently about a dozen Of these false
alarms occurred, and the citizens feel
that theymust either abandon the alarm
system or else get rid Of the lightning
in the air. $50. '.'
AN old lady in California refused to
allow railroad corporation to lay
rails through her property. The track
layers took advantage of Sunday
day on which she could not appeal to |
the Courts-and put down the rails |
She was outwitted, but not defeated I
When the locomotive came along over |
the branch line she took up a position |
on the track, and would not stir. The |
locomotive backed out and left her at
her post.
AN incident at murder trial in Glas-
gov is recalled by the London World. |
A medical expert was asked whether |
there was poison that would kill with
out leaving a trace, and he replied that
NJ could mention several; but he re-
fused TO name them, and the presiding
Judge sustained him. He afterward re-
ceived over hundred letters asking for
information on the subject, some of
them, he thought, from persons who
intended TO use the knowledge crimi-
nally.
LIEUT.. RUDIo, of TIE United States
Army, is one of the three conspirators
who attempted ia 1885 to take the life
of Napoleon III. by throwing band
grenades into his carriage. The COM
,,apipnc nf D,I;, MON, o,-o..,-4oI |
convicted, it is said, on evidence fur
nished by him, which was at the same
time the means of saving his life. He
has come into prominence in connec-
ton with the Indian war on our Yves
tern plains, having been separated from
his command for three days, at the i'm
minent peril of his life, as related IN the
newspapers not long ago.
The Princess Beaureau-C raon has Just
failed in fresh attempt to obtain legal
permission to shut up her stepdaughter
Isabeau in a lunatic asylum. The latter
is fabulouslY rich, and a little peculiar.
She resides lonelya and Simply near Cour-
bevoie, in the environs of Paris, associ-
ating only with NJ. Stube, wheel
wright and spirituaiist Eight years
ago ISabeau's relatives, anxious TO OBJ
tain the control of her money, dragged
her into court on the plea of insanity,
but she pleaded her own case so ration
ally and admirably that she emerged
victorious from the ordeal. She has
Just repeated the feat with equal sue
cess. She asked the Judge and the jury
whether there was a veStige of insanity
about her appearance, her words, or
her acts that justitied,the wicked pro-
ceedings of her friends, and the verdict
was unanimous in her favor.
MARY CLEMMER AMEs complains
thatsnoking is done in the Chamber
of the House of Representatives, and
that the splitting of tobacco juice on
the carpet is common. The pale
blue carpet" she says, in the Lqdepe1sd-
cHt, is about as soiled as a stable floor.
/ walked through it when it was empty,
he other morning, and was astonished,
not at the number of the spittoOns, but
that they had rarely been used; that
tobacco guilds stained the delicate tints
of the carpet, apd that the piles of de-
briS had been swept into the corners.
nastier place would be difficult TO i'm 4
agine Even the outside poricos and 4
steps are furnished with These detesta-
bic receptacles in vain, while the entire
surface OF the steps of The great marble
wings are 4 disgrace 70 Che nation. The
marble reeks with tobaecoexePescence
rom beginning to end, and is discolor- !
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