The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-11
GENERAL BREvTTIEs.


New York by actual count
DIR. JOHN BUCHANAN, of Philadel-
phia, is in jail for issuing bogus medi-
cal diplomas.
A BRICKLAYER recently died in Lon
don who was found to have the heaviest
brain on record it weighed IS ounces.
The man could neither read nor write.
PITTsFIELD, Massachusetts, boasts of
r girl who poisoned her two aunts in a
neat and expeditions manner, and she
was young cOlored girl without style
or education.
CHINESE hotels have raised their
rates and it costs % cents a day to stop
around first-class hotel. of course
commercial travellers are given the usu-
al discount.
A Boiling lake. two miles in circum-
ference, has been found in the island OF
Dominica. 1t is on top of a wooded
mountain, and is 1900 feet above the
level of the sea.
CALIFORNIA Cinnamon have discov-
ed way of drying and preserving oys-
tiers so that the bivalves taste better
than sweet cake and give more satisfac-
ton than Saratoga fried potatoes.
HERBERT SPENCER says that the gold
ring now worn by married women is
the sign of the iron ring that was worn
about the neck or ankle in olden times,
and indicates the submission of the
wearer.
Mrs. SARAH BONHEY, of Sterling,
Mass, has shot and stuffed twenty-five
choice birds of all varieties, and will
send them to the Centennial mounted
on an Imitation of laurel Branch.
A RUSSIAN paper announces that q
belief in the approaching end OF the
world has seized the Cossacks of the
Don. Many, especially aged people, are
giving up worldly affairs, wearing a
shroud and ordering their collins.
THE Massachusetts man who was i'm
prisoned for eight years for a crime he
never committed hasn't been able to- get
a shilling's recompense. The Legisla-
ture decided that he was even owing
the State for board.
The New York ladies who are en-
deavoring to secure for shop-women
the privilege of sitting down when their
duties do not require them to stand,
patronizing only those shop-keepers who
comply with it.
THE ancient Egyptians never gave a
feast without placing skeleton in full
view of the que SITS. Let US not follow
their barbarous example. Every body
has troubles, but what is the use of al
ways holding them up to view? Is 1t
not better to be cheerful, and show the
sunny side, not merely to visitors, but
within the family circle?
AT the Division Court in Toronto a
witness was under examination in the
case of an unpaid account. Judge Boyd
but the question to him, "What is your
occupation?' ' The witness did not seem
to understand the meaning of the word
occupation" and answered with
CHI" The Judge" What do you do
for living?r Witness-"0h, my wife s
a dress-makeri'
OLD Uncle Ben Greer, aged 113
years, was married recently in Mar
shall County, Ky, to Mary Harrison,
aged 81 years. Uncle Ben was born
according TO the sale bill found among
the property of his old master, James
Greer, deceased) in 1868. He was a
servant in the War of 1912, under Gen.
Jackson. The old man can cut and
split one hundred rails day.
A RECENT French writer reasons that
the progress Of civilization, if it dimin-
ishes the oppression of woman, will re-
suit in propOrtionate diminution of
her social influence. Civilization, he
claims, is steadily narrowing the do
main of sentiment to enlarge that of in
terest. All that reason gains passion
must lose, and in proportion as the role
of science increases, that of love must
diminish.
THE French Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Society has taken advantage of
the schoolboy desire to kill something,
by offering prizes for the destruction of
vermin of all sorts and for the preserva-
ton of useful birds. The method has
already begun to produce satisfactory
results. Eleven scholars in one school
destroyed each 1866 insects of various
sorts, beside AZ nests of caterpillars;
and they protected p nests of useful
birds, sheltering l4S young.
In Photographic gallery at Wash
ington is chair which has story at
tached. Abraham Lincoln went there
to have his picture taken, but was not sat
isfied with his "pose." So he sent to the
Capitol for a large oak chair with cush-
toned seat. On its arrival the picture
was taken, and the President was salts
fed. He told the Photographer to keep
the chair for long-legged men to keep
comfortable in, when having their
"phizzes" taken. '.-
A DEED of unparalleled audacity has
been committed by young woman in
Dresden. On night when she knew
the aged proprietor of a fancy store
would be alone, she asked for pair of
cuffs. As the old man turned TO look
for them, she took Ratchet from I'M
der her apron, and dealt him terrible
blow on the head. The wounded man
was, however, able to cry for help,
which speedily came. The girl tries to
palliate her crime by saying she wanted
money for her wedding.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
sold communication ticket, which emit
tied the purchaser to ride upon its cars
a certain number of times within a given
period, for a price below the usual rate
of fare, which ticket specified upon its
lace that it was only good during such
period, the purchaser, having failed to
ride the specified number of times with
in the period named, is not entitled to
ride upon such ticket after the expira-
ton of the period.
THEY have pleasant practice of
planting birthday trees in England
There is now on the grounds of Osborne
House, on the Isle of Wight, a Picea
pinsapo spruce, IS feet high, that was
planted by Queen Victoria on May "A,
1s49, when she was thirty years old.
Some of our young girls might hesitate
to do this. as il might lead to the dis