The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
GENERAL BREvITIES.

HE sound portions of the old Elm OF
Boston Common viii be made into FUR
niture for the City Hall of Boston, and |
specimens viii be sent TO the various |
historical societies of the country.
A CHILD one and a-half years old |
died in vergennes recently which
weighed at its birth eight pounds, and
never weighed more than that. For the
last year it weighed only six pounds.
LINCoLN's monument can hardly be |
looked at in the light of an assured sue |
cess any more than Washington's
The estimated cost is $500, 200, Of which !
but $50, 900 has been raised.
NEW YORK fashionables are going to |
introduce the practice of "rinkingn on
roller-skates from London. 1t was a
favorite amusement in this country
many years ago, and was introduced in
to England by Americans.
The Hartford City Government has
named park in that city Bushnell
Park, 3" in honor of the Rev. DIR. Bush |
nell, who, 80 years ago, conceived the
project of making the park out Of what |
was then one of the most unsightly spots
in the city.
d. ID. hlLLlfS, VI vi Ntlls OulOs j /
making a cheese which will not be COM
pleted until the 20th of May, when il IS !
expected to weigh $4,000 pounds 1t |
is, perhaps, needless to say that it is
destined to astUnish the natives as well
as the foreigners at the Centennial.
THE mammoth telescope just erected
in Paris has occupied twenty years in
making and mounting. The tube is %
feet 3 inches long and weighs 1921
pounds, and the mirror is 40, 264 inches
in diameter. For strength and nicely
the machinery and other appurtenances
are unrivaled.
WOoD is more durable than iron. In
1868 an auger was droppedin the bay
at Belfast, Victoria, by one OF the work
men employed on the jetty. Last
Christmas the tool was picked up on the
beach near the mouth of the Moyne.
The iron auger was incrusted with rust,
sand, ETC., and the iron partly destroyed,
but the wooden handle (blackwood) was
perfectly sound.
SOME youngladies of Whitmore Lake,
Mich, undertook to get up donation
for the Rev. T. L. Pierce by retailing
kisses, and succeeded in disposing of
ninety, for which the aggregate receipts
were $3.50. But the investors complain
that the girls pinched up their lips and
skimped the measure to such a degree
that they made profit of 1000 per
cent.
A CHILD who was being educated on
the moral suasion plan refused TO get
out of bed and be washed one cold morn
ing. Her aunt argued the matter with
her, but she finally succumbed, when
the infant logician said: "Aunt Mary,
you do as you like, and let me do as
like. You like to be clean and cold;
like to be warm and dirty"
In July last horse was sent by rail
from his former home to Avon Springs,
n. Y, arriving at IL D. m, and the next
day was sent twelve miles to pasture
After three weeks he broke from the
pasture and returned to the Springs,
went to the freight depot, and attempt
ed to get into freight car, apparently
with the idea of visiting his old home
This statement is vouched for.
BROOKLYN is a great place for novel |
ties. Its latest is breach of promise |
suit, in which the defendant pleaded |
that he was under age at the time the |
promise was made and could not, there
fore, make valid contract. As he had |
made valid contract shortly thereaf-
ter with another girl, the court decided |
that the plea was not good one, and |
the jury made it $1,000, throwing off |
800 from the plaintiff S claim.
In Ceylon large apes are regularly
employed to pull cOcOanuts. These an
patches, and let out on hire. A line is |
first attached to each of these peculiar
laborers, and he is then sent up tree,
where he is said to select suitable fruit |
with great discrimination, and to twist
the nut round and round until it falls to
the ground. Each successive fall of
nut is hailed by the hairy worker above
with Il jump and chuckle of satisfac-
ton.
TIE Paris police, while searching
lately a very old house in the Rue Saint
Honore for some stolen property, came
upon door which apparently had not
been opened for many years. The door
opened on to a staircase, at the foot of
which was found an empty coffin,
which had almost crumbled to dust.
From inquiries which have since been
made, it has been ascertained that this
secret chamber was hiding place for
several Huguenots during the massacre
of st. Bartholomew, and that Henry
". took refuge during that terrible
night in the house, which is close to the
entrance to the old Louvre.
TRAMPs have their own Jokes, as well
as other people. Two of them recent
ly went from New Britain to White
Cakes, Ct, at every house getting some
thing to eat, which they threw away as
soon as well out of the yard. Another,
who pretended to sell spectacles, went
TO the house of Isaac Epson, in Ken
sington, and told Mrs. Epson that he
was DR.. Clark, of Hartford, and that
her husband, who was in Hartford, had
sent him out to see her. She happened |
TO be i'll, and he prescribed for her, de-
handing and receiving SO. He was
caught by Mr.. Epson before night and
compelled to refund.