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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
The HOlleriDg Woman.

There is, says the Burlington HaoOb-
eye, one "hOllering woman" in every
street. A woman who never goes after
any body, but always calls across the
street. Who never looks for her chill
dren, but rushes to the front gate and
shrieks for them until, in the pauses of
her shouting, she hears them answer
ing from the room she has Just left.
Every street has one "hollering wom-
an" No street has more, for as soon
as two "hollering women" are thrown
by pitiless fate upon one street, the
neighbors vacate and emigrate until
rents come down, or, as it often hap
pens, one of the "hollering women"
pulls up stakes and goes elsewhere, for
they can not brook opposition. The
''hollering woman" generally manages
to keep her street in a lively state of
elocutionary excitement,a and if you hap
pen to live within understanding dis
lance your diurnal serenade is some
thing ike this: "Tommyi Tom-mee!
Tommy! On, Tom! You Tom! Come
right along here and break up some of
this dry wood, or I'll break your back!
Mary! You, Mar-ee! You get right
down off that tree-box this mint, you
great tom-boy, or III skin you
within an inch of your life!
Ma-reei Oh, Miss Pinkhardi Miss
Pinkhard! Oh-h-h! Miss Pinkhard!
Won't you tell your milkman, when he
comes, to stop at my gate? Mine come
this morning before we was up. E-ras-
mus! Erasmus! E-e-e-rasmusi E-e-
e-raS mus! Come right home and take
this pail of molasses back to the grocery
and tell him if he can't send what l
ordered don't want any. Erasmus,
sayi Oh, Miss HARRISON! How's the
baby's measles? Did you try that tea
l sent over last night? Who cut your
new polonaise? Ma-ree! Mary!
Where's Emeline gone to, I'd like to
know? Didn't | tell you not to let her
get out of your sight minute? Now,
you hunt her up and bring her right
home. Good-morning, Miss Barnaby.
Did you know they was burglars over
TO Throopses last night? Got in at the
kitchen winder, and took pair of Mr.
TROOPS pants, with dollar and a half
in 'em, and Miss TROOPS big jet breast
pin! Where you going? Tommy!
Tommeei oh, Tom! Mary, l say!
Erasmus Oh, Miss Pinkhard!" The
serenade continues at random all day
long, and is familiar to every one who
has lived within gunshot of the "hol-
lering woman"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
Partisan Beggafs.

The slang of /" bettandier " as name
for a beggar (Diendican0 seems TO be
| purely arbitrary-as entirely SO as the
English "cheese it p" for abe silent. !"
The 80 bettandier " is beggar who fol-
lows the business as his regular occu-
nation. There can be no question that
ninety-nine out of every one hundred
beggars in Paris are such because they
find the business profitable one. A
creature in that grade of blousard life
where a choice of occupation lies be-
tween such employments, as rag pick
ing, street sweeping, petty thieving and
the like, has no pride to govern his
course, and he turns to beggary as q
business quite as willingly as any other,
if he can see his way to success in it.
There is necessity of talent involved
in the occupation of beggar, however.
A stupid person setting up as a beggar
will not be likely to earn enough to eat.
But, if one has some histrionic ability,
it can be turned to good purpose in this
business. A talent for getting oneself
up picturesquely is of immense value.
Mental qualities of high order bring
their own exceptional rewards in. this
field as in others. An old beggar whose
post was, and for aught know still is,
at the entrance of the Passage Vero
Dodat, was reputed to be q man of
wealth. He was certainly man of
talent. In moment of communicative
ness this old bettGndier gave his " code,"
as he called it, which is worth printing.
1t is as follows:
Never ask aims from
l. A man who is coming from din
ner; roast beef renders one selfish.
2. A gentleman who is following a
lady.
8. Men who are too fat; it annoys
them to stop.
4. A lady who is alone and unob-
served.
5. Gentlemen who are putting on
their gloves.
But ask always from
1. A man who is going to dinner; he
sympathizes with the empty stomach.
2. A lady who knows she is being fol-
lowed. .ra #
3. People who are walking two by
two; their amour pr0pre makes them
give.
4. Officers in full dress uniform.
5. Office-seekers going into Cabinet
ministers bureaus they give, IN hope
that it will bring them luck.
A hideous-loOking beggar was ar
rested recently in the Rue DIES Boulets,
sinister street in the Faubourg st.
Antoine, between whom and the police
commissary the following conversation
ensued: ....
"Your name?"
"Pontron Jacques-nicknamed Eyes
for Every Thing"
Your profession?"
Witness"
"Witness? What do you mean by
witness?"
GAS l have eyes for every thing, |
know every thing that occurs in the
neighborhood, and am called up every
time there is row or any thing"
In answer to further questioning the
man stated that he belonged in the
Quarter Ste. Marguerite, and that by
his profession he netted about 40 francs
a month, his pay being two francs a
time. This information, if accurate,
would indicate with precision the num-
Der of rows per month INDUCED in by
the scoundrels of the quarter. In the
intervals between rows, Pontron Jacques
practiced ON the sympathies of strangers
as beggar.-Wirt Stkes, in AppLetoH'S
Journal
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
A Remarkable Case of HydrOphObia.

A letter from Branford, Conn, Sept.
>, contains the following: In the year
1860 Mr.. Joseph EvartS carried on the
business of a butcher in the town of
Guilford, few miles distant from this
town. 1t was successful business, and
earned for him wide reputation. One
morning during the summer of the year
referred to Mr.. Evarts was making his
usual round with meat cart, when, on
approaching a citizens residence, he
was attacked by savage dog of the
mastiff species. During the encounter
the dog bit Mr.. Evarts in the left leg,
inficting a serious flesh wound. Soon
after tine attending surgeons learned
that their patient had been in contact
with an animal suffering from the worst
form of hydrophobia. All that skill
and medicine could do was brought into
requisition to drive the poisoned virus
from Mr.. Evarts's system. He ulti-
mately recovered, declared he felt no
inconvenience from the bite and
went on attending to his business as US
ual. A few years later he removed to
Branford and engaged in the meat
business, where he has been ever since.
The adventure with the dog was forgot
ten and never alluded to, from the fact
that the condition of his body and mind
was so uniformly natural until about six
weeks ago, during the heated term,
when his friends noticed peculiarities
in his actions. He would suddenly APP
pear agitated and moan as if suffering
bodily pain. Again he would growl
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
The Potato Bug Abroad.

The London Farmer announces as
startling news the fact that ga living
specimen of the Doryphoro decernIineGte,
the dreaded Colorado beetle, or potato
bug, has been met with in the docks at
Bremen, where it was found in a bag of
maize, forming part of cargo just
imported from New York" 1t seems
that the case was investigated by Adam
Muller, General Secretary of the Bava-
rian Agricultural Association, who cor
roborates the statement. The Farmer
says: ..
1t is difficult to overestimate the i'm
portance of this untoward event. The
not unreasonable panic that was preva-
lent among us when the first reports of
this beetles ravages reached us some
years ago, has given place to a yet
more dreaded apathy, our long immu-
nifty from the pest having encouraged a
dangerous sense of false security from
its attack.
No remedy has yet been found, and
we must put our trust in preventive
measures. Our hopes of escape from
visitation of the dreaded Colorado
beetle to our shores, have been based
chiefly on two assumptions-that it
could not be imported alive, and that, if
by some chance it should arrive among
us, it still could not propagate its spe-
cies. An examination of these assump-
tiOns is hardly reassuring.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
Settling q KnOtty Account.

A merchant once had dispute with
a Quaker respecting the settlement OF
an account. The merchant was deter
mined to bring the matter into court, a
proceeding which the Quaker very earn
estly deprecated, using every argument
in his power to convince him of his er-
ror; but he was inflexible. DESTROYS to
make last effort, the Quaker called
at his house one morning, and inquired
of the servant if his master was at home.
The merchant hearing the inquiry and
knowing the voice, called out from the
top of the stairs: "Tell the rascal am
not at home" The Quaker, quietly
looking up at him, calmly said, "Wel,
friend, the Lord put thee in better
mind.n
The merchant, afterwards struck
with the meekness of the reply, and
having more deliberately Investigated
the matter, became convinced that the
Quaker was right and himself wrong.
He requested to see him, and after ac-
knowledging his error, he said, "l
have one question to ask you-how
were you able, with such patience, on
various occasions, to bear my abuse?"
" Friend" replied the Quaker, 1" 1 will
tell thee. was naturally as hot and
violent as thou art. knew that to in
dulge that temper was sinful, and l also
found it was improbable. L observed
that men in passion always speak
loud; and l thought that if l could
control my voice, 1 should repress my
passion. / have, therefore, made it a
rule never to let my voice rise above a
certain key, and by a careful observ-
ance of this rule have, by the blessing
of God, entirely mastered my natural
tongue"
Such good, frank philosophy was not
lost upon the merchant in many years.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
Florida Sea-C0ws.


The manatees, or sea-cows,r which
were shipped from Florida to New
York last week, belonged to Mr.. Estis,
one of the oldest settlers on the Indian
River, who, with the assistance Of two
or three others, had caught them and
was seeking a market for their sale,
having chartered a schooner for that
purpose as far as this city. The man
atuS is evidently near relative of the
seal family, resembling it in appear
ance very closely, although growing to
an enormous size, approximating in
the largest specimens to nearly or quite
a ton in weight. 1t lives wholly in the
water, feeding exclusively Oh what is
known as manatee grass, which grows
under water and is abundant in the
Indian River, near the mouth of the st.
Lucie and St. Sebastian, where large
droves of these animals are occasion
ally seen. They pass in and out of the
ocean at the inlet at Capron, and occa-
sionally one is killed A few years
since one was captured alive and sold
fer 81, 200 for a New York show, and a
schooner chartered to take it there at
cost Of about $500, but it died on the
passage. One killed by Mr.. Payne last
summer was skeletonized and shipped
to the Smithsonian Institution, which
paid $50 for the skeleton. The bones
are remarkably hard and fine, being
used as substitute for ivory in the
manufacture of billiard balls and for
many other purposes. Mr.. Estis, at an
e Ga10n ,,,o,11,fa
very large and strong nets, and placed
them at the mouth of the st. Lucie
River, and was rewarded by obtaining
the specimens now in his possession,
which are q great curiosity, few per-
sorfs ever having seen them. OF course
no regular price attaches to them, and
their value for show purposes is much
lessened by the danger of their decease,
which is very great when removed from
their native haunts. The region of
Indian River, where these animals
came from, has furnished very many
rare specimens for the naturalist, some
of which may be found in the cabinet
collections of various institutions in the
country. Among them saw-fish, which
measure 10 feet in length, with saw
of feet; alligators 16 to % feet, and
fish of mammoth size and rare birds of
various kinds, and many visitors from
the North make a speciality of camping
there for time in the winter season,
to fish and hunt and get fat on oysters
and hominy. In the summer season
sand-flies and mosquitoes abound too
much for comfort or pleaSure.-FI0rjda
Letter 70 Ne LoMisutLLe CO1trier-J0l4rMaL.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28

and snap like a surly dispositioned dog
and run wildly about as dogs do when
first overtaken with rabies. These
manifestations lasted half hour or so
when they passed off, and Mr.. Eyarts
would be himself again. But they in
creased in violence with each repetition,
and ere long his friends were compelled
10 accept the terrible reality that Mr..
Evarts was raving maniac. He grew
worse and worse and soon had to be
tied TO his bed to prevent his biting
those in attendance. Even then
he would break loose, so great was
the muscular power which the disease
enabled him to exert, and at times the
united strength of six men was INSULT
cient to hold him. During aspasm he
would tear the bedclothes and gnaw the
bedstead in a manner frightful to be-
hold. At the present writing he is well
cared for at the house of his mother,
but he is hourly growing weaker, and
will be likely TO continue but short
time longer. The affliction is undoubt-
eddy the result of the bite 16 years ago,
and the attendant physicians, DR.. NIB.
Hall, of this place, and DIR. Jewett, OF
New Haven, are of the opinion that it's
a case of fully developed hydrophobia.
The unfortunate man is 50 years of age,
unmarried, and in his sane moments
speaks of his wretched physical condi-
ton, gives directions as to his personal
affairs, and expresses himself as con-
scious that the end of all things, for
him, draws near.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
The Story Of a Philanfhronist.

Less than twenty years ago Mr..
Henry F. Durant was the most distin-
guished lawyer in miscellaneous prae-
tice in Boston. He had succeeded to
very much of the business of Rufus
Choate, then recently deceased, and,
though by no means the eloquent man
that was Mr.. Choate, he was more fer
tile in expedients for gaining cases, and
was more seldom defeated. Many great
cases and hard cases were put into his
hands to conduct, and his reputation in
the management of the most desperate
criminal trials was great. His income
was enormous, and in the midst of this
flush of prosperity he CHANGED upon
suit in which he made colossal for
tune at one stroke. 1t was q case in
which was involved some patent or APP
pliance connected with the manufac-
ture Of India-rubber blankets. He
gained the case, and took his pay in In
dia-rubber stock. 1t was plain this was
to be good property, and Mr.. Durant
was so convinced of it that, in connection
with few other gentlemen, he pur-
chased all the rubber blanket stock in
the country, and held in his hands the
patent essential to the manufacture.
Besides, right on the heels of this the
war broke out, and brought with it a
call for India-rubber blankets for the
army that was almost without limit.
But now occurred an event which
wrought a complete revolution in the
man, and changed the entire course of
his life. His son, an interesting young
man, to whom he was devotedly
attached, suddenly died. The father
was deeply affected, and with the oc-
currence the world seemed to have lost
all its attractions to him. He left his
old course of life, united with the or
thodox Congregationalist Church of his
neighborhood, and began himself the
life of an evangelist. Never was a man
more earnest or more devoted. Adam
dOning the law for ever, and retaining
his connection with business only to
obtain money for Christian ends, he has
labored early and late since that period
for now several years-in Christian
work. He lectures and breaches when
ever there is call for him, and he gives
his time to missionary effort often when
HOG Speaklng. n lew years eSO Nc PRIV
jected Wellesley College. 1t has cost
an immense sum of money, more than
million, all of which has come from
Mr.. Durant's private purse. The edu-
cational feature for women was sug-
gested by his wife, who is one of the
most intelligent and philanthropic ladies
in the State, and has held office on COM
missions by appointment from the Gov
ernor. 1t is meant that the institution
will be equal to any college in the
State. -HarDer'S BGz1r.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
Why We IRE Our Right Hand.

The habit of using the right hand in
preference to the left among those peo-
pies whose monuments date from the
remotest antiquity appears to be uni
versal fact, and this is accounted for by
the anatomical mechanism of the human
body. 1t is known that the right lung,
liver lobe, and limbs exceed in size those
of the left side, involving, of course, a
greater amount of tissue structure and
a larger supply of nerves and blood-ves-
sells for their nutrition. A person walk
ing in dense fog figures with his feet
the segment of a circle, and, if he is
right-handed, he takes a direction to
the left, because the right leg naturally
takes longer stride. The left side Of
the brain is larger than the right, and,
as it appears that the power of verbal
articulation in the right-handed is con-
fined to a certain convolution on the
left side, the conclusion is arrived at
that, in speaking and thinking, the left
side of the brain is used, this being the
result of dextral education. The opin-
ion has also been expressed by some
medical writers that amnesia and apha-
STA in right-handed men indicate disease
of the left brain, and that hammer-palsy
and writer's cramp show the results OF
excessive working of the left brain,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
Invalid Wives.

The alarming decline in the health of
American women which has marked
the last decade and which threatens to
sap the very foundations of our future
well-being as people, is at last attract
ing the attention it deserves. Philan-
thropists, medical practitioners, scien-
lists, clergymen, and thinking, reflect
ing men in every department of life are
coming to be fully aware Of the most
startling fact that our wives and daugh-
tiers bear no comparison in physical
health to our mothers. And the con-
viction, forced upon US by the facts
which are every day presenting them
selves and demanding recognition, that
this wasting of vigor and consequent
suffering is increasing by regular stages,
unveils to our startled view the impend
ing doom which hangs like pail over
our homes, threatening our dearest in
terests, and which, if not speedily avert
ed, will eliminate in untold misery.
1t is fruitlessto close our eyes to these
most lamentable truths. The manly
part is to meet them squarely in the
face, and, if possible, by ascertaining
the cause, correct the evil in so far as
we may be able, Notwithstanding the
valuable time and opportunities already
sqrandered, and the almost fatal faults
and errors of the past. .
1t can not be denied that tho foolish
and fippant habits of our fashionable
ladies and their abject slavery to the
reigning "style" accounts in a great
measure for the fact that they are, as a
rule, inUGlidS. But for the equally
patent fact that the health and strength
of the great middle classes have so rap
idly and sadly deteriorated, we must
look for another explanation.
Many of the so-called labor-saving In
ventions of the past thirty years have
proved in actual use sadly destructive
of health. No invention of the nine
teenth century can boast so many vic
tins as the Sewing Machine. The con-
slant, racking noise attending their OPP
Grafton, the nervous tension required IN
keen ing them up to the work and con-
stantly guarding against their freaks
and spasms, the great exertiOn required
to operate them, the fatiguing motion
across the loins and pelvic organs,
caused Dy Gn6 UlOJlOll Oh DOGu leu db Vic
same time upon the treadle, all com
bined require more strength and endur-
ance than the average lady, especially
the mother of children, possesses.
Of all machines yet invented, one
only-the ''New Automatic''-can be
said to be at all adapted to use in the
family. ..-
Free from the defects which distin-
guish all others-simple, noiseless, al
ways ready and never out of order, with
no tension, shuttle or bobbin, having
but one-fourth the number of parts
possessed by the complicated contriv-
ances which have so long been inflicted
on our wives and mothers, it is really a
boon which never can be too highly
appreciated. The trade mark of the
company is imbedded in each machine
to prevent deception by imitatOrs. For
further information address Wilcox &
Gibbs Sewing Machine Co., Lindell
Hotel Building, cog N. Sixth Street, st.
Louis, Mo. t- @r
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
HOME INTERESTS.

APPLE CUsTARD FOR PIES eggs,
2 cups OF stewed apples, cup each Of
butter and sugar, juice of lemon.
CREAM PIE.-The yelks of eggs, l
teacup of butter, pint of sugar, l ta-
blespoonful of flour, l pint of rich
cream; will make two pies; bake in
paste.sl aiC- So OF aue yurr
+ SWEET CAKEs.-1 pound butter, II
pounds sugar, teaspoonful each of
cinnamon and soda, cup of cream, 8
eggs beaten separately, flour enough to
make a soft dough. f..,.
SPONGE CAKE.-25 tumblers sugar,
2 tumblers of flour, teaspoonfuls
cream-tartar, whites of eggs; mix
sugar, flour and cream-tartar well to-
gether before adding the eggs, and bake
in a quick oven.
FINE ICING.-1! cups of sugar, 3 cup
of warm water; boil to thick strip,
then stir in the whites of eggs; stir
well all the time; add 3 teaspoonful of
citric acid. After the icing gets solid
stir in the vanilla.
HOP OR BEER YEAsT.-Put handful
of hops into your yeast-iar and large
tablespoonful, each, of dark-brown sug-
ar, white flour, and salt. Pour over
these l quart of boiling water. Stir,
and when luke-warm, put in ! teacup
of yeast. teaeup of this yeast, strain
ed, will make ordinary loaves of bread.
A GOOD LINIMENT.-The best lini-
ment for cuts, gall, SPAWN, poll-evil,
fstula, or any other of the external dis
eases that animals are liable to, is
made by dissolving l ounce of pulver-
lied corrosive sublimate and l ounce
gum camphor and 1 pint of spirits tur-
pentine put in strong bottle. Apply
with a swab. ...l .......
CoCoANUT BREAD.-To 8 half pintS
of Graham flour and 8 tablespoonful of
cocoanut, add ] pint of cold water !;
when well mixed, knead on board un-
til little -four is left on the board, say
fifteen minutes; make into rolls inch
es thick and 8 long; bake from 80 to 40
minutes in moderate oven; when quite
cold cut and serve in thin slices.
OUNCE WINE.-Grate the best and
ripest ounces just as for marmalade;
strain the juice through muslin bag,
then carefully through flannel one,
and to every gallon of juice allow 3
pounds of loaf sugar; if liked very
sweet, allow 4; stir well after adding
the sugar; let it stand in jugs or kegs,
filling up from another as it froths over !;
when quiet bottle it; the longer it stands
the more sparkling it becomes.