The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-09

DIR. GUTTER says tnat steamlng
should take the place of boiling in cook
ing, in order to preserve the salts in
food.
SANTA ANNA, warned by the fate Of
Washington, has bought monument.
He is resolved Co be Tnourned over, if be
has to do it himself
In Cashmere, India, it may require
thirty men for year, or many months,
according to the fineness of the texture,
TO produce a dozen shawls.
HUMANITY.
Your conquered foe do not despise,
But treat him nobly while you can;
In every bone some marrow iles, So
In every jacket there's man.-lh~to~-I
DIR. HkYFoRp. of Laramie, who drew
up the Woman Suffrage law for the
Wyoming Legislature, says there are
not twenty-five people in the Territory
who would now vote for its repeal;
Fights at the polls, street brawls and
barroom rows never occur.
THE habit Of opium-smoking in the
Chinese dens at Virginia City Is becom-
ing so common among the white people,
that many of the older pupils in the
public schools are beginning to frequent
these places, and loud call IS made To
have them closed by law. A# ~
ACAsE of chess-playing extraordinary
is mentioned in the London SpectGOr by
Mr.. s. b. James, who says that some
years ago his brother and the late DR..
Pears, of Repton, played a game of
chess on the top of Dorsetshire coach
on a dark night and without a board be-
fore them.
UNCLE SANS VALENTINE TO COLUMBIA.
When first we welded, peerless dame,
Few people TO the spousals came,
And dad forbade the wedding;
10, but our hundredth nuptial feast,
And all the time-wOrB nations haste
To dance here at our bidding. Graphic.
THE London Lancet SAYS that sleep
produced bv narcotics or so-called Sc
datives is poisoned, that their use gives
the persons employing them an attack
of cerebral congestion, only differing in
amount, not IL kind, from the cOndi-
ton which naturally issues in death.
AN artesian well has been bored at
Prairie du Chen which discharges
more water than any other known well
in the world. 1t is bored to a depth of
900 feet, which is 357 feet below the
level of the ocean. The water from it
rises to height of 900 feet above the
hill where the well is situated, and is
1000 feet above the level of the Missis
sippi. The flow of water amounts to
S69,616 gallons in "a hours.
HUGH COURTNEY, who claims TO be a
son of the Earl of Devon, living in the
south of England, was arrested at Buff
falo, late Saturday night, for attempts
ing to defraud the proprietor of the lift
House of his board for the last month,
amounting to 1925. The young MAJ,
sent for help to some of the first famil-
les of Buffalo, where he had been huge
ly entertained; but they declined to as
sist the young nobleman.
Two doctors at Holyoke, Mass, are
having extraordinary success in renew
ing the scalp of Miss Roberts burned at
the French Church fire. About three
weeks since they put on three pieces of
skin, each three-eighths of an inch
square, and they have each grown about
three-fourths of an inch, an uncommon
occurrence, as it is very rarely that
more than one piece will grow at time.
They expect to havethe whole scalp re-
stored by the first of June.
CLARENCE HURLEY is the name of a
six-year old lad residing with his par
ents at Lincoln, Nebraska, who has ex-
cited the wonder of the people and
caused his name to appear in the pa
pers as a very prodigy of a whistler
This lad, so the papers say, can whistle
any tune after hearing it sung or play
ed, in the most faultless manner, both
as to time and the scale. In fact whis-
Ting seems natural to him, and he is
accustomed TO whistle an accompani-
ment to his sister when she plays the
piano.
AFTER all we are to have specimen
of European royalty on exhibition at the
Centennial Fair. Herr Castan, of Ber-
lin, has succeeded in making a wax
efiigv of William /. so true to life that
the Emperor could not withhold his APP
probation when il was a few days ago
brought to the palace and exhibited to
the imperial family. The figure is
clothed in every particular like the EN-
peror on state occasions, the dress hav-
ipg been made by the Emperor's tailor,
the originals, and some of them are of
nearly equal value. ......-
A SIMPLE method of guarding against
losses by the robbery of coupon bonds
is to cut the entire sheet of coupons off
and place it in one depository, while the
body of the bond is kept in another.
The bond without the coupons being
unstable, and the coupons being col
lectable only one by one as they ma
ture, the thief who fails to secure both
gains comparatively little by his crime,
while the true owner, by proving title
to the part which remains in his posses
sion, has good ground for demanding
from the company issuing the security
a duplicate of the other. The plan is
followed by numbers of capitalists al
ready, and, if we have many more such
robberies as that of the Northampton
Bank, it viii probably be still more
generally adopted.
THE North Adams Mass Transcript
mentions the death at the POor-house in
that town Of "Uncle 0bed" Harring-
ton, who was born in Smithield, in that
State, Oct. l., 1889. For 80 years he
lived in cave on the side of Hoosae
Mountain, and although twas said that
he never did days work in his life, he
had made mendicancy fine art. II
seems that the old vagabond led not alb
solutely useless life. He (Obed) was
something of a marrying man, having
had three wives, and his marrying pro-
cliviues were turned to profitable ac-
count by the Selectmen of a neighbor-
ing town, who married off two of their
paupers to him, thus making them wards
of Adams, and forcing the town where
he lived to support them.
A Dogs Funeral.
Reuben Cook, Of Meriden, thought