The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-07-27
GENERAL BREVITIES.

| the Turks and the Christians upon the
walls OF his palace, and to depict the
Turks as victorious in each case.
THE New York Board Of Health has
decided that it is unsafe to have church
or public funeral in the case of any per.
son dying from smallpox, scarlet fever
or whooping cough.
PUNCH has a cartoon representing
Jonathan and John Bull tearing tC
pieces the Extradition Treaty, and
Justice interposing with the words,
"StOp, gentlemen! You've both Of
you too many rogues loose to do with
out that!"
GEN. SHERMAN said, at recent army
reunion, that he would rather march
six times from Atlanta to the sea than
encounter once the unspeakable horrors
of campaign against the savages or
the frontier. The fall force of his re.
marks is now appreciated.
THE Paris fashion inventors are de.
termined to make woman's life burden
to her. One of the journals of that city
says that no glove will be tolerated this
season with less than twenty buttons,
while another declares that in less than
five years knee-breeches and siX-inch
skirts will be the fashionable street dress
for ladies.
FRENCH statistics show that woman
is six times less criminal against per
son, four times less criminal against
property, and twice less hardened a
criminal than man. The recently pub
lished record also proves that maternity
is better shield than paternity against
bad life. OF 1000 female criminals POI
are mothers, and of 1000 male Grim
inals 324 are fathers.
THE Canadian courts have decided
that speculationS on the rise or fall of
grain or stocks, without any real inten-
ton of delivering on one side or receiv-
ing on the other, fall under the prohi-
bitiOn of the code, which provides (ar-
ticle 1920 that there is no right of ac-
ton for the recovery of money or any
other thing claimed under a gaming
contract or bet.
THE Herald of Springfield, Ky, says
Mr.. Ed. Sutton, living near Willisburg,
in this county, says that, while chop
ping into a tree which was hollow, he
observed on the inside piece of miner
al, which, after being taken out, proved
to be sOapstone, with the name of Dan
iel Boone written upon it, together with
the date 1776. We understand this fact
is vouched for, and that the strange
relic was shown at the celebration on
the Fourth OF July.
THE Clear Lake QOwa) Observer of
July 3 says Mr.. 6. Il. Tanning, of the
Mason City Republican, had the misfor-
tune to get two false teeth with plate
attached into his throat at the dinner
table. Physicians did all in their pow
er to extract them, but falling and his
condition becoming critical, they push
ed them downward into his stomach,
which gave him temporary relief. He
was soon after seized with pains and
spasms in the stomach, and at times has
been in a very dangerous condition,
some of the time not being expected to
survive.
THE daughters of the first families in
Vermont and New Hampshire are learn
ing to make themselves useful and
ornamental by waiting on the tables at
the summer resorts in those States and
entertaining the guests in the drawing
room in the evening. 1t is not stated
whether their opportunity for acquiring
knowledge and husbands is regarded as
a sufficient compensation for. their
services; but the rates charged for
board at the resorts would indicate that
some pecuniary consideration is paid.
MAN as a clothes-wedrihg animal has
some rights, it appears, which tailors
are bound to respect. At all events he
has such rights in Brooklyn. A wise
magistrate of that city has recently de-
cided that is a perfectly good answer to
a suit for the price OF making a suit of
clothes that the latter did not fit. He
declined, however, to give judgment
for damages, which the mistitted one
demanded to the extent of 800. He
probably thought one nonsuit fair
offset for another.
CAPT EADs, the engineer in charge
of the work on the Mississippi jetties,
has settled the suit brought by him
some time since against the East River
On. " Bridge Co. for unauthorized
use of his patented method of sinking
bridge piers. The method was that so
successfully employed by Capt. Eads
in the construction of the bridge over
the Mississippi at St. Louis. In the
settlement he received an acknowledge
ment of his rights as inventor and
$4,000 damages
THE "tramp nuisance" which has
given New England so much annoyance,
is beginning to make itself felt in the
West. Iowa is particularly favored, sew
eral hundred of the species having put
in an appearance at Davenport and in
the vicinity, with the evident intention
of quartering on the populace. They
should be gathered together and for
warded to the frontier, where they can
at least earn army rations by stopping
Indian bullets, and furnishing the blood
thirsty Sioux With less valuable scalps
than they have been taking of late.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., has a bright
young girl of eighteen years whose
fondness for masculine attire and ad-
venture has made her life thus far a
notable one. She has been to sea sew
eral voyages, and is as familiar with
the ropes and rigging as any old salt.
She has also driven a coal-cart in Prov
idence. She calls herself Susan Holmes,
but her real name is not known. She
was arrested on Sunday for being dis
orderly. The Journal thus describes
her: "She is of medium height and
rather feshy. Her dark hair is cut
short aRd parted on one side, and he1
features, without being especially coarse,
bear a great resemblance to those of
boy OF her own age, a resemblance
heightened by a short and thick neck
Her eyes are frank and merry, and
there is look and bearing about her
not of vice and degradation, but OF free
and easy self-confdence, pluck and en-
ergy, ike any uReducated sailor boy
All her nature and instincts are those o.
boy"
TIGHT-RoPE walking at Niagara Fall:
interferes with the legitimate attrac'
/ tions of the place, and the authoritie;