The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-24
GENERAL BREVITIES.

THE design for General Jeb. Stuart's
monument, executed by Colonel w. H.
johnson, is now on exhibition at Rich
mond, Va.
A SPIRIT medium showed a liilwau.
kee editor that he could raise him up on
table. This was while they were both
under the table.
TIE London Times is said TO be ne
gotiating for the exclusive use of the
Anglo-American cables on Sunday
nights during the Centennial.
LAST year the town of Winter, Cal,
was wheat field, and a crop was gath
cred from it. To-day it has 1,2O0 in
habitants, and town lots are worth 5000.
THERE is person living in Vineland,
n. j., by the name of Scott, who is the
youngest of seven living children whose
father fought in the Revolution and died
in 1912.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, the eminent
lawyer, signed his name recently to
legal document and sent it to the print
er. The signature appeared 1t print,
"Tried and duly filed"
THE Japanece Government has OBJ
tanned the temporary services of Presi-
dent Clark, of the Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural College, to superintend the
founding of similar Institution in that
country. Ample capital viii be furnish
ed, and he IS authorized to engage as
sistants, and TO conduct the undertaking
according TO his own methods.
IT appears that Mr.. Z. ID. Winslow,
the Boston forger, was not only pa
tron of cheap art, but great admirer
of fresh flowers His love of art was
turned to profitable account, for, hay
ing bought lot of pictures for two
hundred dollars, he got them insured
for $500, and then set them on fire,
and recovered the insurance.
THE SOULS HOPE.
BEHOLD we know not any thing;
can but trust that good shall fall
At last-far Od-at last, 10 all
And every winter change TO spring.
So runs my dream but what am /:
Aninfant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.
-Tennyson.
THE following suggestion, given in
Scrtbner'S Magazine, is worthy the con-
sideration of parents: Nervousness
with a child is almost always a matter
of the stomach. A crust of bread will
usually put an end to the most obstinate
perverseness. Children, for this reason,
should never be allowed to go to bed,
after a fit of crying, with an empty
stomach. A bit of bread and Jelly or a
cup of custard will bring back smiles
and happiness when all the moral law
fails, and for the soundest of reasons.
A SAN FRANCISCO undertaken was
tardy in keeping an engagement, and
when he arrived at the house with his
hearse and carriages rival had been
given the job of burial. He had the
official permit to inter the body, how
ever, and, hurrying to the cemetery, he
interrupted the religious services at the
grave by shouting, " You might as well
trot this corpse right home again" He
would not give up the permit, the GEM
etery authorities would not allow the
burial otherwise, and the body had to be
taken away and kept until new paper
could be procured.
THIS story comes from Middletown,
Orange County, n. Y: A four-year
old child, in a family named Fleming,
was recently taken i'll. A doctor was
called, who said the child must die. An
old woman named Morgan, who has the
reputation of being a fortune-teller and
clairvoyant, said she could cure the
child. She procured black cat, the
nose of which she held in the child's
mouth for some time, chanting words
in an unknown language. This lasted
for few seconds, when she put the cat
in a bag and buried it alive. The child
has recovered.
THE Cumberland Valley Railroad will
next summer run cOmmodious passen-
ger cars to the Centennial grounds, in
which the seats will be numbered, COW
cred, and locked, and key given each
passenger who purchases a ticket, to
which is attached a check correspond
ing to the seat he occupies. When the
excursion reaches Philadelphia, he can
lock up within the enclosure which con-
tains his seat, any food or clothing ne
cessary to his comfort, and if he does
not choose to put up at hotel, can have
his own private apartments in the car
which takes him to the Centennial
grounds.
AN enterprising lady is making a
novel appeal to the patriotism and van
ity of the citizens and strangers abiding
now at Washington. She has located
herself in one of the committee-roOms
at the Capitol, with large and elegant
ly bound blank-book. Each page is
ruled so as to divide it into small por-
tions, each large enough to contain an
autograph signature When the book
is filled it will be nailed up in box and
deposited in the Capitol, with an in
scription upon it to the effect that it is
not to be opened until 1876. Every one
inserting his name in this book must
pay ten dollars for the privilege of thus
transmitting his name to posterity.
JULIA II. THOMAS (Mrs. Irving),
winner of the Greek prize in the recent
intercollegiate contest, began her studies
in Antioch College, Ohio, and was for
two years classical teacher at Storkey
Seminary, Yates County, New York.
She is tall, slender, nervous, and active;
dresses for health, and in a style to suit
herself; is famous pedestrian, and
has always had desire to do Europe
on foot. Last summer she and few of
her Cornell companions took their skiff
at Ithaca and rowed down Cayuga Lake,
up the Seneca River to Geneva, thence
up Seneca Lake TO Watkins They
visited the famous glens and all the rO-
mantle scenery of those beautiful lakes,
tenting out all the time, and returned to
Cornell in the same manner.
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Tho Diary of an Exhausted Titigant.