The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-02
GENERAL BREVITIES.

In towns ON the Rhine, where Dutch
girls are often sent 10 school, they en-
JOY among their German companions
special reputation for beauty.
A RECENTLY published English book
is said to have cost ego, 900. There are
only $50 copies, at Is apiece, printed.
The author is getting rich slowly, slow
ly.
For lust "a hours New Orleans gasp
ed and trembled and hurrahed and
strutted over chicken with four legs
and five wings. Then it died-the
chicken died.
ANEW YORK rowdy was shot through
both cavities of the heart and lived 80
hours after the wound had been in
flicted. The case is without precedent.
THEY have new barrel-making ma
chine at Wells, Mimi, that makes a
barrel with but a. single stave, and
heads and hoops it.
THE Cahawba River, Alabama, runs
for miles through a bed of rich coal
from eleven to thirteen feet in thick
ness, which of itself forms the river
banks.
A GLASS cylindrical shade or cover
for statue, which is to be exhibited at
the Centennial, was recently made at
Somerville, Mass. 1t measures five feet
in length and seventy-four inches IN
diameter.
JOHN C. COVERT, in a lecture deliv
cred at St. Louis upon his travels in
France, stated that upon fifty cents a
day a man can live comfortably in that
country, and that there are districts in
the south of France where men can live
upon fifteen TO twenty.
NEAR Export, on Turkey River,
Iowa, a walnut tree has recently been
cut down for lumber, which measured
seven feet in diameter at the cut and
seventy-eight feet 20 the first limbs.
The owner has refused $4,000 for the
tree as it lies in the woods.
THE Medical Superintendent of a
Montreal Insane Asylum, one DR.. How
ard, says it is impossible to cure luna
tics without spirituous liquor, and, as
proof that it is possible to effect cure
Herewith, shows that of l57 patients
treated at the Asylum during the six
weeks it has been open, thirty-two have
been discharged cured.
YEARS ago Reverdy johnson lost the
sight of one of his eyes while training
Edward Stanley TO fight Henry A. Wise,
after row about racing. Stanley was
practicing for the duel when his bullet,
striking tree, glanced back and lodged
in his instructors eye. The "meeting"
was, thereupon, prevented, and nothing
but Johnson's iron frame saved his life.
A SAD illustration of Cartoons beau
tiful poem, "0ver the Hills to the Poor
house," occurred the other evening in
Brooklyn. A poor old woman named
Margaret Howard, upwards of 80 years
of age, was found dying in the hallway
of tenement house. She had been
turned out of doors by family named
McLeah,s and had several married
daughters in comfortable circumstances,
none of whom were willing to provide
for their mothers support.
THE procurator or abbot of the ia
nous monastery of La Grande Char
treuse, in France, died recently. From
business point of view, the name of Gar
nier was a worldwide known trade
mark. Without his autograph no bottle
of the renowned liqueur known as Char
treuse-green, white, or yellow-could
be deemed genuine; and by the sale OF
this same cordial the brotherhood of
La Grande Chartreuse have con-
trived, it is said, to realize for long
time past net income of ESQ, 900 ayear.
The Post-office Department has Sc
lected the design for three-cent stamp
ed envelope, to be used during the Cen
tennial Exhibition. The stamp will be
in the form of shield, having at the
top and bottom the dates 11TG and 1876.
Beneath the upper figure will be the
words, "U. S. Postage" and at the bot
tom of the shield will be the words,
"Three Cents" Upon the face of the
shield will be post boy and net work
of telegraph poles and wires, and be-
meath, an engine and postal car.
ONE of Brigham Young's grand
daughters has been getting up a ro-
nance of her own. She clandestinely
married Mr.. Charles Il. Hopkins, an I'M
sanctified Gentle of Salt Lake City, one
day last week, but in day or two re-
turned to her parents, who Influenced
her to remain with them. The hus-
band attempted to regain his bride by
law, but there being no forciblG deten-
ton, he was unable to do so. Now he
languishes alone, while his giddy Nor
mon wife waits for a Church divorce,
and marriage with some " Saint" Oh,
this Young family-what a tribe they
are for marrying.
EZRA w. WSsLow, the Boston forg-
er, comes from family of disSolute
characters and law breakers, who were
well known years ago in and around
Barre, Mass. Thomas WinslOw was re-
peatedly arrested for counterfeiting,
and at last a box of bad bills was found
in his cellar. His brother Mark was one
of the most noted counterfeiters in the
State, and ended his life by suicide rath-
er than serve out a sentence of twelve
years. Edward, another brother, fol-
lowed the same trade, and spent about
half his life in Jail. Lucretia, a sister,
was in the gang, and signed the bills.
Afterwards, removing to Pennsylvania,
she became the reputed wife of a man
who was presently hanged for murder,
and had herself a narrow escape from
conviction as an accomplish. Still later
she joined a strolling theatrical COM
pany, and died at the South. She was
a person of talent and winning manners,
but of no principle. Two other sisters
of the Winslows married well known
counterfeiters.