The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-30
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sculptors, $500 actors and Jugglers,
and 1000 snake charmers.
THE summer visitors to Mount YER
non cut away four sets of dimity hang
ings from the bed on which the great
First died. The upper room to which
Mrs. Washington moved, after the death
of her husband, has been elegantly fit
ted up by Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the
Wisconsin railroad king.
GEN. CUsTER'S camp pet during the
last Yellowstone campaign was a fam
Gus dog which had been given to him
by Bismarck Judge. Ten days after
the massacre on the Little Big Horn
the dog returned to Fort LincolA, q
distance of 500 miles, in search of his
master.
A SAN FRANCISCO young lady had her
jewelry all spread out on dressing
case when a sneak-thief entered. Be-
ing en- dishabille, she didn't dare
scream, as that would draw somebody
into the room, so she did the only other
proper thing, she tainted, and of course
the thief escaped.
AN important discovery of ancient re-
mains has been made at Hexham, En-
gland. In one week 81 affairs have
been laid bare and a vast accumulation
of copper coins, several thousand in
number, found by workmeR. The coins
chiefly belong to the reigns of Diocle-
tian and Constantine the Great, extend
ing from 284 to 80 AID.
A GAY youth of IS at Leavenworth,
Kan, contrived to open a correspond
ence with lady of 81 years in another
State, but they both concealed their
ages and became engaged without see
ing each other. When they met, there
was mutual disappointment; he want
ed the ceremony proceeded with, how
ever, but she was disguised at the de-
ceitfulness of men, packed up her things
and went home happy.
IT seems probable that the elephant
will soon become extinct. According
to a statement made at a recent meet,
ing of the Paris Geographical Society,
England imports annually twelve hun
dred thousand pounds of ivory, to OBJ,
tain which it is necessary to kill thirty
thousand elephants year. The total
annual destruction of these animals is
estimated at one hundred thousand.
AN earnest effort is about to be made
by Canadian ship-builder, f. w. Sew.
ell, to keep open the st. Lawrence below
Quebec, so as to maintain the commerce
of that port through the winter. The
Canadian Government has offered a
small subsidy, in consideration of which
Mr.. Sewell has constructed powerful
iron-clad propeller, by which he hopes
to break the accumulation of foes and
keep a channel open.
RENOWNED as the Egyptian ladies
are for the richness of their attire, they
would regard it as highly indecorous
to display upon the street the magnif-
cence of their dress. When they go
about the streets of Cairo on shopping
expeditions, they cover themselves with
a dismal robe of black. As q general
rule, whatever they are compelled to
exhibit to the public gaze is simplicity
itself, while what they reserve for pri-
vate inspection is gorgeous in the ex-
IRENE.
OF the many diseases which af1iict
mankind the following fifteen causes OF
death take the lead in England, accord
ing to the REGISTRAR Generals returns
Bronchitis carries off the largest num-
bers, then comes phthisis, next debility,
then old age, then heart disease (mOst-
ly striking down the adults), next con-
WILSON'S principally affecting chill
dren), then pneumonia, scarlet fever,
diarrbGa, apoplexy and paralysis,
measles, cancer, premature birth, and
whooping-cough.
The fall of Juggernaut is being wide
ly prophesied among the Hindoos.
The falling of stone last year from
the tower of the temple of Pooree pro-
duced a powerful sensation. The I'M
preston is widely spread that it be-
tokened the end of Juggernaut, his
temple, and worship. Those who have
examined the temple say that it must
soon fall, the walls being already in
terlaced with the fibers and branches
of trees, which in course of time mast
cause the whole structure to collapse.
A WELSH exhibition, recently held at
Wrexham, displayed the precious peb-
BILE of Owen Gwynedd, Prince and
Sovereign Of all Wales. This is de-
scribed as a smooth, translucent ball,
like the white of an egg. Above it was
placed a card, with the following in
SCIIpIlOH 1ulS pOuO4O las DOOH PlO-
served ever since his prince Gwyn-
edd's) time in the families of Rhewae-
dog and Rhiwlas, who are lineally
descended from him, and before the
death of the head of the family the
crack is said to widen perceptibly."
THE weather returns collected from
various parts of the world in the Euro
pean journals of meteorology show that
the spring and summer of the present
year have been characterized by unus-
ual weather in widely separated re-
gions. In China, England, India and
Eastern North America, there has been
intense heat, while in Rus
STA the cold of the spring was so great
that it is described as almost unheard
of. A portion of the summer was ex-
dry in many parts of the
United States and England, at the same
time that Switzerland was suffering
from heavy rainfall and floods.