The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-17
GENERAL BREvIrrEs.

ever since his accession
A GIRL in Medina, Ohio, has a head
just the size Of Daniel Webster's, OF
three inches larger in circumference
than the average of men.
BONNER is called horse-collector
and his atable horse He hai
a passion for buying great racers, and
shutting them up in luxurious retire.
ment.
A CITIZEN of Somerville, Mass, was
surprised by the delivery of coffin al
his house; and later hearse and eight
carriages came. 1t was the joke of In
matte.
ANOTHER deadly explosive has been
discovered in the shape of barreled
saurkraut. A Reg of it went of the
other day making a terrible noise, and
smashing things generally.
PROF. TouRY, of Baltimore, bought
samples of the kerosene sold in the
stores, and found by experiment that
more than half of the stuff was very
dangerous, giving off inflammable va
por at very low temperature.
A SALT LAKE Mormon has written to
the Centennial Committee proposing to
exhibit his nine wives at Philadelphia,
''to illustrate one okthe social phases OF
American life" He adds that his wives
are anxious to go.
A BURLY Briton, maddened by some
stage reflections on John Bull III a Mil
waukee theater, a few nights ago,
charged upon the actors, revolver in
hand, and cleared the stage in a jiffy.
And yet they cali this the glorious Cen
tennial year.
A LETTER from Fayal, one of the
Azore Islands, holds out this incentive
to immigration: Here you get bottle
of wine fer six cents, a meal for eight
cents, board by the day twenty-five
cents, while fifty cents will buy rs much
As s. in the United States.
LOUISA HosFoRD, of Clarendon, Vt,
died a few days ago, after an illness of
GO years, caused by internal injuries
produced by fall when she was nine
years old. During this time she suffered
intensely, and could never digest food
without the aid of medicine.
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES once said
that if his patients would make prac-
lice of eating a couple OF good oranges
every morning before breakfast from
February till June, his practice would
be gone. The medicinal effect of pure
fruit acids is excellent upon the physi-
cal system.
A MAN at Des Moines, Iowa, is pre-
pairing box, to contain full informa-
ton concerning the past history and
present condition of that city, which
viii be Theoretically sealed and address
ed to the Mayor of Des Moines, 1876.
Precautions will be taken to preserve it
carefully and insure its delivery.
IT is estimated that every time train
of cars of the average length stops, it
costs, in wear and tear of material and
loss of power, fully rs cents. This is
what makes a conductor always look so
cheerful when he hauls up at flag-sta-
ton, in the middle of snow storm, to
take on string of onions and a man
with dead-head pass.
A HOSPITAL surgeon writes that the
digestion is mainly governed by the
nervous system, and the nervous sys-
TEN is soon shattered by broken
rest. To deprive man of con-
siderable portion of his sleep, and
then to expose him to cold, is simply TO
exhaust his reserve of vital force, and to
push him half way toward the goal of a
complete breakdown.
THE cold weather which has prevail
ed all over France to an unusual degree
has driven a great number of wolves out
of the woods. Some serious depreda-
ton have recently occurred among flocks
of sheep. The Minister of the Interior
calls attention to these attacks, and sug-
gests that regular wolf hunts would be
beneficial. Premiums are given for the
destruction of these ravenous animals.
WHEN Lieutenant Bergman was
sounding the Atlantic, preparatory to
laying the ocean cable, the quill at the
end of the sounding line brought up
mud, which, on being dried, became a
powder so fine that on rubbing it be-
tween the thumb and finger it disap-
peared in the creyices of the skin. On
placing this dust under the microscope
il was discovered TO consist of millions
of shells, each of which had a living
animal.
The Staked Plains of Texas have just
been explored and found TO abound in
fertile lands and sparkling waters, where
only a sterile waste was supposed to ex-
list. Thus disappears from the map the
I,
some travelling romancer, and adopted
by the credulous geographer, it will
soon exist only in the Imagination of
the immature mind that feeds on dime
novels and delights in the absurdities of
the buckskin drama.
A REMARKABLE feature in the case
of Winslow, the Boston forger, is that
he was not skillful penman. Yet the
Post says: 4" Some of the alleged bogus
signatures, when compared with ac-
knowledged autographs, are so near
alike that experts are Pdzzled, and their
testimony when cases come to trial will
puzzle the best of juries. That Wins
low perpetrated with his own hand all
the forgeries appears impossible, if all
that is said regarding his powers of Chi
Biography be true.
STRANGE facts were elected at re-
cent inquest in Plymouth, England,
concerning the death of one Frances
BeSley, young woman who lived with
her father and two brothers in well fur
niShed lodgings in a respectable part of
the town. The family were comfortably
off, and the deceased had an annuity of
$50. Two years ago she withdrew her.
self from all society, shutting herself up
in her bedroom, into which she would
admit no one. She took but very
slight amount of food, and gradually
wasted away, dying of sheer starvation.
When found she was perfectly naked,
and covered with vermin.
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