The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-06-01
GENERAL BREyTrIEs.

IN Nevada, when building falls and
kills two or three people, the jury first
hunt up the contractor and hang him,
and then bring in verdict that nobody
Is TO blame but the contractor, who
could not be found. 1IlEEL
Two Albany medical students went
out after a corpse for dissection. They
had dug open a grave, and were lifting
the coffin, when a watehman fired upon
them. The bullet hit a student and
tumbled him into the grave. He asd
his companion escaped, but without the
BODY.
Miss SMITH, of Reading, Pa, who
lost the use of her limbs through sick
ness when child, is now 20 years of
age, and has a'coach and twin goats,
with which she drives out nearly every
day. The little animals were trained
specially for her use, and she guides
them well with the reins.
A STARTLING rumor comes from Paris
that long gloves nearly reaching to the
elbow and requiring twenty buttons will
be essential to the peace of mind OF
every well dressed lady this year! Also
that without court-plaster patches no
true toilet will be complete. Twenty
buttons and patchesi And this is called
an era of reform!
A STRANGE custom has been preserv-
ed in Nottingham, England, from re-
mote times. One of the heads of the
family, previous to locking the street
door for the last time in the year, care
fully deposits gold coin in close
proximity to the door, where it is al
lowed TO remain until the new year has
been ushered in. This is belived to in
sure the supply of money for the years
necessities.
AYoUNG lady in New York, whose ia
Their has received Princes at his table
and is still enormously wealthy, gradu-
ated lately as a kindergarten teacher,
and is about to take a position in a Kin
dergarten school. She says she has no
notion of spending her time fluttering
her feathers on the sidewalk, and her
father would not make it an object for
her to become a cook.
A WAC, who had wrapped piece of
cloth having the word Centennial" on
it around an egg, and then boiled it so
that the word appeared plainly on the
shell, sadly deceived Connecticut
farmer, who took it out of nest where
it had been placed, and exhibited it at
the Office of local newspaper as won
derful manifestation of the hens init
mate knowledge of the history of the
United States.
AN Italian journal has the following
startling information in its American
news: "Aliss Anna Dickinson, who a
year ago caused the condemnation of an
English colonel for improper galiantries
in railway car, went to America to
lecture, and, afterward embracing the
dramatic career, is about to make her
debut in America"
ACCORDING to the indianapolis Her.
aid youth of that city, who under
stands French a little better than he
pronounces it, told a young lady few
evenings ago that he intended to give
her a gosh dammer gage d'GmOur.
Not understanding French, as he pro-
nOunced it, the young lady became en-
ragged at what she considered his mex
cusable profanity, and told him he
needn't cell any more.
A MANS horse baking and refusing
to move, he adopted the ingenious
method employed once by canal cap
tain-he built small fire uHderthe ami
NAL. As soon as the horse felt the heat
he moved at once. lie advanced suf1i-
GENTLY to bring the carriage over the
flame, and there he paused, to the edi-
tication of a crowd of observing citizens,
and to the great satisfaction of himself.
The fire was quenched without the aid
of the department.
BALTIMORE had a sensation last week,
in the marriage of DR.. William Wat
kins and Miss Agnes Watkins, who are
double first cousins, their parents hav-
ing married sisters. Miss Watkins, a
Catholic, desired to have the ceremony
performed in the Church, but, on ac-
count of the near relationship, Arch
bishop Bayley refused to grant a dis
pensation, and so they were married at
home. The parties move in the upper
classes of society, and the marriage
eXcites much surprise.
LAPLAND mothers are not in the hab-
it of staying at home with their babies.
The Lapps are very religious people,
and take long journeys to hear their
pastors. As soon as the family arrives
at the little wooden church, and the
reindeer are secured, the father shovels
a snug little bed in the snow, and the
mother wraps the baby in skins and de-
posts it therein. Then the father piles
the snow around ii, and the dog is set
on guard, while the parents 90 decor
Ously into the church. Often as many
rs thirty babies may be seen laid away
in the snow about church.
ONE of the citizens of Danbury, Conn,
says the NelCS, who had Just returned
from the West, was telling, in Merrill's
grocery store, of a narrow escape he
had from a terrible death. He was
crossing a long railroad bridge on foot,
when he was surprised to see a locomO-
tive coming around a curve, and tear
ing toward him at terrific speed. The
bridge was too narrow to allow of es-
cape at either side, and he did not dare
TO jump into the yawning abyss below.
In flash he took in the situation and
formed his plan of action. He started
on q swift run toward the on-coming
locomotive, and when within few feet
of 1t he concentrated all his nerve and
muscle into one effort, and leaped
straight up in the air. The fearful
monster shot under him, and he came
down on the bridge, saved from death,
but seriously shaken up by the descent.
There was a moment of deep silence
upon the close of this narration. Then
one of the company sighed, and shut
up his knife, and Unexpectedly said:
"What's the use of presence of mind