The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-10
GENERAL BREyITIEs.
FRANCE has $3.50, 900, 900 lynn

FRANCE has $3.50, 900 lying in
THE pontoon bridge to be erected
across the Missouri River at Omaha
will cost $50, 600 and be $3.50 feet long.
1t will be used by wagons and street.
cars.
In Java a fruit tree is planted on the
birth of each child; in Biscay a land
owner is obliged to put down two plants
for every tree he fells; in Japan every
tree cut down must be replaced by. an
other. eifE ~ go q
IFyou have money to invest don't
put il in New York real estate. Pro-
fessor Merriman states that by rever-
sion in polar conditions in 10000 years
from now. New York City viii be g25D
feet under water. Eff.B ST..
QUEEN VICTORIA has assumed the ex-
pense of constructing one of the gate
WAYS with which the old Notifications
of Quebec are to be pierced in the re-
modelling of the city. The gateway VIII
be named after the Duke of Kent.
A CoNsTANTISoPLE letter says that
Hassan, the murderer of the Turkish
Minister, was one of those Circassians
who are brought tosthe palace where
children are educated for the service.
It is said the mother of the late Sultan
was the real instigator of the murder.
Mrs. FANNY KEMBLE's old-age YER
dict upon the life of the stage is worth
quoting: ssIt is q business which is in
cessant excitement and Fictitious emo
ton, unworthy of q man; a business
which is public exhibition, unworthy of
a woman. Never have presented my
self before an audience without a shrink
ing feeling of reluctance, or withdrawn
from their presence without thinking
the excitement / had undergone un-
healthy, and the personal exhibition
odious."
THE Laramie (Wy. } SetRtnelsays Col.
Donnellan yesterday met with rather
unpleasant and risky adventure while
prospecting for soda. He was travelling
over one of the soda lakes, several rods
from his companions, when he stepped
upon soft place and went through the
crust of soda into the mud up to his
chin. He spread out his arms and
caught upon the crust, and sustained
himself until Boswell and Mr.. Siekles
rescued himfrom his dangerous position.
He has now found all the soda he wants.
WELLEsLY COLLEGE, Massachusetts,
has a female fire company. Twenty
hand-pumps are distributed throughout
the building, each supplemented by six
pals filed with water. Every pump
has its captain and company of six girls,
one of whom is lieutenant, and all the
companies areadrilled at convenient OPP
portunities in handling the pumps, in
forming lines and in passing the pals.
The whole organization is differed by
a superintendent and secretary. Hose
companies for the operating of the great
steam fire-pump are organized in sim
liar manner.
THE constitutional right of the Amer
lean citizen TO- 'grOwP' is in grave dan
ger of being trampled on. A hotel
keeper at Nantucket, embroidered, prob
ably, by the heated term which has
driven more custom than usual to his
doors, has posted in every guest-cham-
Der of his house the following instruc-
tons: =" If there is any thing that does
not suit you don't 90 about growing,
but come to me.n Fortunately the mat
ter has, as yet, gone no farther than
Nantucket, but there is no telling how
far the effect of this pernicious example
may spread in time.
A SOUTH CAROLINA Judge has dis
covered what he considers to be an ad-
mirable method of dealing with drunk
enness. He proposes that every person
shall sell as much liquor as he wishes
without tax or license, while those who
wish to drink in public or at saloons
shall be required TO apply for license,
and to give notice of such application
by publishing it for one month in the
official newspaper of the city or county.
If there be no objection made to grant
ing the license the applicant shall then
receive it upon entering into bonds for
his or her good behavior.
Miss ANTOINETTE STERLING, the con-
tralto, tells the following story of
Charles Kingsley: She was invited by
the Canon TO Eversley .Vicarage, and
while there sang his ballad, "The Three
Fishers. - /" He had never seen me be-
fore," she says, "but when came to
the part of the song which expresses
the suspense of the weeping women, /
heard him say, $50 on, that's right
And when the suspense was over, and
the bodies were lying on the sand, miss
ing his EXPLANATIONS, l looked up and
saw him sitting with his face in his
hands, crying at his own pathetic story"
MORAL Paris has taken high posi-
ton against horse-betting. Under the
new law, which prohibits the keeping
of gambling house, a lot of betters,
mainly prominent English "book-
Makers" were arrested at the Paris
races a couple of weeks ago, and were
found guilty of the offense, it being
proved that they occupied vehicles in
which to make up their books. The
Court held that under the circumstances
vehicle used in that way became a
gambling house. The fines ranged from
fifty to two hundred dollars apiece and
the fined promptly appealed. Puritan
New England, Notwithstanding its
transatlantic example, manages to get
along, however, without worrying pool
sellers or any other dealers in the favors
of chance.