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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.

PAUL MoRPHY declines to play a
chess match in Philadelphia during the
Centennial Exhibition.
THE Egyptian Court has a somber,
prison-like exterior, but the interior,
with its brilliant display, presents a de-
cidedly cheerful appearance.
THE British Minister, Sir Edward
Thornton, has been appointed special
commissioner on behalf of Great Britain
to attend the opening ceremonies.
THE Centennial Committee, of the
Philadelphia Councils have decided not
to have the crack in the old Inde-
pendence Bell repaired, believing that
1t is too precious relic to be meddled
with.
SEVEN hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in fifty-cent notes have been sent
to Philadelphia on account of the Cen
tennial Board of Finance, and to be
used as tickets of admission to the Ex-
hibition.
AN aerolite weighing about five tons,
discovered by Professor Nordendskirld,
of Norway, while on a scientific expe-
dition to the Arctic regions, has arrived.
1t is composed principally of iron and
nickel.
THE Queen of England's paintings
which will be exhibited at the Centen-
nial will be guarded constantly by a
squad of policemen. The pictures have
been heavily insured in eight different
English companies.
A LARGE collection of silver ore made
by the State of Nevada, and to be pre-
sented to the Smithsonian Institution
after the close of the Exposition, will
be unpacked in day or two in the Gov
ernment building.
PRESIDENT SCOTT, of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, and Senator
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, have invited
the widow of Ex-President Polk to visit
the Centennial Exhibition. Should she
accept the invitation, a sleeping-car
will be sent to take her to Philadelphia,
where she will be Hospitality enter
tanned.
SOME of the most attractive structures
on the grounds are the English model
cottages. One of these, with its red
roof and plastered exterior walls re-
lieved by the framework painted in
correspond ~ tones, forms a really
tasteful object in the landscape. The
japanese cottage is finished, and the
busy workmeA were making a tour of
the buildings on Saturday and appar-
emily attentively studying the various
objects which are already in the eXhibi-
ton. One of the neatest and most sub
stantial structures on the grounds is
the Swedish schoOlhOuse. 1t is con-
structed of dressed pine lumber and
oiled after the " Eastlake" style of fin
ish, as applied to household furniture.
THERE are thousands of persons in
distant places who are anxious to visit
the exhibition who will be compelled to
stay at home unless a greater reduction
than has vet been promised is made in
the cost of travelling. The railroad
companies have reduced their rates
one-quarter; they ought to reduce them
at least one-half. Unless this is done
the thousands can not be secured, and
without the thousands the exhibition
will be failure. The managers of the
companies will yet see their error and
no doubt will correct it in the course of
the summer. 1t may then be too late.
1t would be better for them and for the
exhibition to correct it nOw.-NeW
York EUening Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

The American watch has now OBJ
tanned an almost universal reputation
for superiority over the English watch,
and this, in great part, because OF the
less number of pieces of which it is
composed. Thus the former, of the
key winder class, contains 143 pieces,
and the stem winder 155 pieces. The
English watch. on the other hand, is
composed of 638 more pieces than the
American, the excess being found IN
the fusee and chain. According to the
length and fineness of the chain, the
English manufacture contains from "a
to 20 pieces to the inch, the fusee and
its attachments about 48 pieces, and
this accounts for the greater number Of
pieces comprised in the English article.
So well are the advantages Of the Amer
ican principle in this respect now un-
derstood by the English makers that
the manufacturers of the celebrated
Frodsham watches have for some time
past done away with the fusee and
chain, thus reducing the number OF
pieces.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

"METHRALToN, the astrologer, "well
known to the British public, whom he
easily gulled, has been arrested and i'm
prisoned. For ten years he has been
advertising to "reveal futures and
supply "lOve talismaus. In his house
10000 letters were found, many of them
being from people of rank.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

THE rapid and emphatic recital Of the
following is sud to be an infalliole cure
for lisping: Hobbs meets Snobbs and
Nobbs; Hobbs bobs to SnObbs and
Nobbs: Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and
robs Nobbs fobs. "This is" says
Nobbs, "the worse for Hobbs's jobs"
and Snobbs sobs,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

"A manufacturing company, with
capital of 100000, has been organized
at Red Wing, Mimi, for the purpose of
manufacturing agriculturalim implements
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Young.

The registering on the hotel books at
the Arlington of plain Mr.. and Mrs.
Young would never excite very much
comment, but when other guests found
out that Mr.. Young was a son of the
prophet, and that Mrs. Young was wife
No. 3, why! that put a new face upon
the matter, and people felt much more
interest in the lady than in the gentle
man. About thirty, slender, graceful
and lady-Hke, faultlessly dressed, and
wearing a charming set of features, it
was difficult to imagine her sharing her
husband with any body else. She is a
Philadelphian, respectfully connected
and well educated. JOurneying across
the Plains seven years ago she met her
{" john" third son of Brigham. 1t was
an unmistakable case of affinity, both
were desperately in love, but John had
already two Mormon help-meets. In
her creed they were no wives at all,
and she wanted John; so, reaching
Utah. the conditions were made. Ii
John would put away the incompati-
bles, she would be Mrs. Young. JOnn
made provision for the females afore-
said; Miss - espOused the Mormon
faith and John at the same time, but
coming East again she was remarked
in orthodox fashion in Gentle church.
John is perfectly devoted to her, and
she is extremely happy. Washington
Letter to CleUelGnd PlGindeGler.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

SALT mackerel for breakfast at this
season of the year clears the complex
ion, invigorates the intellect, and i'm
parts flavor to the mustache that will
vanquish the most obstinate odor Of
hair dYe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-04

MADAME GAY-LUSSAC, who has Just
died at an advanced age, was the hero
inc of romance. In the year 1902 a
student of the Polytechnic School en-
tered a shop to buy some shirts. He
was surprised at beautiful young girl
devouring a book, and asking her what
was the title, was informed, "a Treatise
on Chemistry" The collegian did not
feel like himself at all that evening, but
was better next day when he called to
increase the order for shirts by another
half dozen. Then he lost his handker-
chiefs, and found an occasion to return
to the shop; and still again to purchase
cravats. To end the matter, he learned
the young girl-the eldest of three sis
ters-had cOurageOusly opened a shop to
make a living for her father and the
family, who had lost their property by
the Revolution. He proposed, and was
accepted; and for fortune he had only
twenty-eight years and membership OF
the Academy. He was not then either
a peer of France or a celebrity. They
were only married few months when
he was conveyed home, his eyes nearly
burned in his head from an explosion in
ais laboratory. For twelve months he
had to keep his room, and could sup
port only feeble night-light, by which
his wife read to him. She was not only
beautiful, but witty, and distinguished
in society. She was her husbands pri-
vate secretary, and her writing could
not be distinguished from his. Their
honeymoon lasted-forty years.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
The Chinese Coolies.

The first trading in Chinese coolies,
on any extended scale, was between
China and Cuba, and China aad the
Chincha islands. From the outset, and
up to the present day, q Chinaman,
either in Cuba or in Peru, is in all es-
sential matters o slave. In Cuba his
condition is really worse than that OF
the African slave, because by law the
Chinaman can never manumit himself.
Once landed, he is slave for lie.
Some twelve months ago the Chinese
government, after having received re-
norts of the manner in which its sub
!ects were treated in Cuba, sent COM
mission of investigation to that islaad.
The Spanish government tried Its ut
most to hoodwink the commissioners,
but in vain. The scandalous treatment
of their countrymen in Cuba was TOO
patent, and on the return OF the com
missioners to China their report led the
Tmperial government to put a;.stop to
the further immigration OF its subjects
to any Spanish colony. The justice OF
this determination is best proved blythe
rejection by Spain of a proposition
made by the Chinese authorities that
Chinese consuls should be permitted TO
reside in Cuba, to whom Cinnamon
might present claims OF redress Tor
wrongs. Adispatcb from San Francisco
announces the arrival in China OF a
Spanish ambassador Tho declares tnat
his government is determined that the
trade of coolies, which the Chinese gov
ernment has prohibited shall continue.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24

heard a deep, agonizing groan, had a
sense of suffocation, and lost all con-
sciousness. When she revived, she was
on the bank of the river, her husband
bending over her clasping her hands,
pressing her wildly to his teart, and
with every tender and endearing term
entreating her to look up and speak to
him again but she could not. She felt
deathly faint and relapsed into sort OF
half stupor and heard his agonized cries,
his vain appeals for help, with naught
but the wind and leaves to hear his wild,
desperate misery, and with that deathly
sickness yet upon her, Fanny had a de-
icious sensation at her heart. He loved
her, there was no doubt about it now,
loved her madly, devotedly, and even If
she had died in the cold river, she would
not have exchanged for her life that mo-
ment's bliss.
"But, my dear Fannie, how could
YOU think I did not love you?" exclaimed
Mr.. James Taylor, no longer cold, dull
and silent, but as enthusiastic and can
did as his wife could desire.
"How could think otherwise ?" re-
Piled Fanny, smiling family, for she was
vet very weak. "You never told me
that you did,"
"Told you9" exclaimed Mr.. Taylor,
and the tone was sufficient. "It shall
entirely be the burden, of my song for
the rest of my life," he continued. 'and
you must be content to hear it for your
abominable suspicious.
81 certainly shall be, James Taylor,
replied his wife.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
A Child'S Adventure.

Six months ago a ch Id OF 8. 8.
Prouty, of Topeka, Kan, aged two and
a half years, swallowed a metal top OF
a small mucilage bottle. The child was
Immediately examined by physician,
and after thorough inspection the doc
tor gave it as his opinion that the metal
had gone into the child's stomach, and
that it would eventually be dissolved by
the gastric juice and pass off. On the
same day the child gave symptoms Of
catarrhal affection, and the physician
prescribed for it treatment for ca
tarrh, which has been administered
constantly ever since, but without ap-
parent benefit. Mucus of an offensive
odor ran from the nose, and the breath
was intolerable. In other respects the
child seemed to be we'll. 1t was seized
with vomiting spell lately, and during
the retching the top dropped out, as
sound as it was the day it was swallow
ed. The doctor in now of the opinion
that the metal obtained a lodgment be.
hind the palate, where it remained until
vomited up. It was filled with and en-
veloped by the same offensive mucus
matter, when found, as had been dis
charged from the nose. The catarrhal
symptoms are now rapidly disappear
ing.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
The Wear and Cost Of Bank Notes.

During the period of two years and
ten days, from June 20, 1874, to July l.,
1876, the comptroller of the currency
of the United States received from the
engravers new bank notes to the amount
of S272, ,376, ,512 and he issued for re-
placement of notes redeemed aud the
supply of new banks, or banks increas-
ing their circulation, to the amount OF
S21S, ,O5O,s74. During the twelve nonths
ending June 30th he received $ll2, 232,-
625, and issued $50, 720, ,565. The total
amount of mutilated currency received
by the comptroller and destroyed as un-
fit for circulation was $238, 1896, ,022 dur
ing the two years and ten days, and
S1O6, ,473, 100 during the last twelve
months. These figures indicate that IN
order to keep the bank note circulation
in good condition it is necessary to re-
new them once in about three years and
three months. The whole expense OF
paper, printing, redemption, reissues,
and probably engraving the entire issue
of some 1881, 900, 900, or about A, 600,
600 of separate notes, has to be incurred
regularly about once in three and one
fourth years. The greenbacks have t.
be renewed oftener, because the proper
ton of small notes to the whole issue is
greater, and the small notes wear out
faster. The ones and twos constitute
about two and one-half per cent. OF the
amount of bank issues, while they con.
stitute more than fourteen and one halt
per cent. of the amount of greenbacks.
The difference will be more clearly seen
when it is stated, with respect to the
number of notes, that forty-two green
backs oIt of every sixty five are ones
and twos, while only twenty-five out OF
every eighty bank notes are ones and
twos; or. approximately, sixty.four
greenbacks and only twenty-seven bank
notes in every one hundred are ones and
twos. It is fair to assume, therefore,
that the greenbacks and bank notes
taken together have to be renewed as
often as once in three years. Coin money
will last from seven to ten times as long,
and then it can be renewed at COM
paratively trifling cost, and the loss by
wear during the whole life of the coin
will seldom exceed one per cent.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
them tropical appearance that reminds
US that we are not far from the African
Sagacity of Circus Elephants.

A correspondent of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, describing the expert
ence of menagerie after the late storm
in Iowa, speaks as follows of the sagacity
of the trained elephants
Assistant Superintendent Royce sent
large force to repair damages and re-
ieve the circus train, and the task was
great-every bridge gone and miles OF
track under water and washed out.
The road was put in temporary repair,
aud the train started in three sections.
When about ten miles out trestle
sunk, and five cars of the third section
capsized in the soft mud. The first
car contained horses, the second an
elk and camel, the other three the five
performing elephants. The roofs were
cut away and the first two cars easily
emptied, but the elephants were all In
a heap and giving emphatic expression
of their discontinue. To get them out
was not SO easy, yet with the intelli-
gence and sagacity which characterizes
the semi-human brute it was accom-
plished and they received not scratch.
They obeyed every instruction, kneel-
ing down, putting out one leg, then
another, turning and twisting with all
the intelligence of child, ecipsing in
marvelousness anything performed in
the ring. When relieved from their
perilous situations they gave expressions
of Joy which were emphatic and unmis-
taxable. They fairly laughed all over.
The rema nder of the trip was made
overland, and this the animals enjoyed
hugely, as the night was cool and the
moon bright. The missing bridges on
the route gave the elephants repeated
opportunity for indulging in sport.
They arrived here before the train; cars
had to be provided for them, but ordi-
nary cars were too low. Finally two
were found which were about an inch
higher than the largest elephants
back. "Jack," the largest, was called
first to mount the platform. He noticed
the strange CIR, and gave a careful
scrutiny, seized the doorpost with his
trunk and gave the Car a powerful
shake, mounted the platform and eau
tiously walked in, headed to the front,
rocked the car sideways, and then
bumped his back. His back struck the
roof limbs, when he crouched and
marched out of the car in iiffy. The
keeper remarked "He won't 60 back
there again" It was decided to remove
the roof limbs, which was done, the five
elephants closely watching the operation.
When this was done, "Jack" was
again invited to take ride. He prompt
ly assented, entered the Car, rocked it
and swayed it and then bumped his
back. Finding it all right, he trumpeted
his assent, marched around it few
tines, and went to eating hay. Each
elephant tested the car himself.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
A Useful Invention.

Mr.. Woillez, who last year gave the
French Academy of Sciences descrip-
tion of the spiroscope, an instrument
for the auscultation of the lungs, has
now communicated to the same learned
body paper on another apparatus which
he calls spirophore, and which, IN his
opinion, will render great services In ca
ses of asphyxia by drowning. 1t con-
sists of q cylinder of sheet iron closed
at one end and open at the other. 1t is
large enough to receive the whole body
of the patient, which is brought in up
to the neck, the head remaining outside
exposed to the air: diaphragm closes
the opening round the neck. A power
full pair of bellows, situated outside the
cylinder, communicates with it by q
tube, and is set in motion by a lever,
the lowering of which causes the aspira-
ton, by the bellows, of the air that is
confined round the body. A translucid
glass plate fixed in front of the cylinder
enables the practitioner to see the pa
TENTS breast and abdomen, while yer.
tical rod, sliding up and down in tube,
and resting on the sternum, reveals the
motions of the latter. The apparatus is
worked as follows: When human body
has been introduced into it and secured
as described, the operator briskly pulls
the lever downward the air inside the
cylinder rushes into the bellows, pro-
ducing vacuum round the body. The
consequence is a simultaneous tendelcy
of the breast to heave and of the outer
air to penetrate into the lungs through
the nostrils and mouth. The sternum is
thus seen to rise, as in the action OF
breathing, to the amount of centimeter
and more, which is shown by the rod.
Moreover, the epigasrium and even the
abdomen move upward, proving that the
capacity of the breast increases, not only
by the upheaval of the ribs and sternum,
but also by the depression of the dia-
phragm. These respiratory motions may
be repeated from fifteen to eighteen
times per minute, and the air thus ad-
mitted each time measures liter (near-
ly two pints), whereas the physiological
average is only half that amount: This
apparatus may therefore be useful, not
only in cases of drowning, but also in
asphyxia of infants, in that caused by
chloroform, etc.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
Diving by Thousands.

In referring to the fact of the terrible
fatality among the children in New YORK
city, the Herald says: Rings control
the city. TO please one ring rapid
transit is postponed; to please another
SOAP factories are permitted to pollute
the atmosphere; to please a third the
Harlem fats and other nuisances are al
lowed to generate malaria; to please q
fourth we give up one of our downtown
parks TO a railway and propose to throw
in the Battery; to please others we GLOW
our streets to be paved with wood and
tar. which rot slowly away. We have
sewers which generate diphtheria; We
have sidewalks burdened with death.
There is not one of the gentle, suter
ing. innocent souls of the two thousana
children who have died within month
from the want of fresh air who is not
martyr to the system which sways TINS
CITY. If ever there was time when tlo
people of New York should look TO their
lives and homes, the lives and happl-
ness of their children, it is now, when
the children of the poor are dying by
thousands.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
The Peasants Of Herzegovina.

Saws 8 correspondent: AS we got
higher, The number of people coming
down the mountain increased. The
women we're all dressed in the long
white Dalmatian jacket; while the men
wore the round scarlet Montenegrin
hat, with the initials of the prince, N.
I. (Nicholas T. embroidered in gold on
the crown, and black silk band round
the edge, put on as mourning for the
occupation of Servia by the Turks.
In their belts cleaned daggers and
silver mounted pistols, while all had on
the "opanche, or sandals made OF OK
hide, which we, in our stiff soled civi-
hzed boots, could not help envying
when we saw the ease with which they
enable their wearers to climb. The
agility displayed by them was astonish-
ing. They quite disdained the winding
path we followed, and went straight
down the side of the mountain, those at
the summit holding long conversation
with their friends far below.
Gazing at the silver buckles and neck,
laces these Herzegovinian women wore,
we wanted to purchase some Of them;
but it is curious how loath they are to
part with their finery. They will GO
about in rags, and yet keep their caps
covered with silver chains and coins.
Our old hostess, seeing 1 had fancy
for these gewgaws, beckoned me to fol
low her; and, taking me up ladder into
garret, the dirt and dilapidation OF
which it would be hazardous to describe,
she unlocked a wooden box, in which
was stored fnery that might have made
duchess envious. She had one belt
for which, she said, sho gave $40. Il
was of massive silver, with ever so many
chains and ornaments hanging to it
Beside this, she had at least forty OF
fifty shirts, embroidered in colored silks
for festal days.. I particularly wanted
one of these, and offered her handsome
price, but she would not sell. "No,
She said, CT am keeping them all fol
my daughter, when she marries," point
ing to the pretty little girl who held
lamp for us to exa1ine the family splen
dors; "and she can read" she added
$50 she ought to make good match"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-24
A Horse Race Decision.

Judge Wilkes, of Toronto, has render
ed q decision of interest to turfmen, at
least in the Dominion. Proceedings
had been instituted against the managers
of the race meeting at Oehawa for re-
covery of purse claimed to have been
won in the two-mile dash by Passion.
The horses were started by flags, but
the Judge 1ung the bell for recall.
The rider of Passion, knowing it to have
been the case, went over the course and
claimed the money, maintaining that the
starters having dropped the flags the
iudees had no right to interfere. Judge
Wilkes gave his decision in favor OF
Passion.