The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-31
GENERAL BRByITTEs.

pint Of miIk, heated a little, but not
boiled, taken every four hours, will
check the most violent diarrhea, stom-
ach ache, incipient cholera and dysen-
terry.
Mr.. AND Mis-. GEORGE WASHINGTON
BAssETT, of Hanover County, Virginia,
celebrated their golden wedding last
week. Mr.. Bassett is a granddaughter
of Martha Washington, and Mrs. Bas-
sett a grand-niece of Gen. Washington.
They are probably the oldest living
relatives of the Father of his Country,
and are aged respectively 76 and 69
years. " H
The Glasgow (Ky.) Times says that
Dero Chambers, a son of a citizen OF
Barren County, who will be five years
old next month, weighs within a few
pounds Of 200. When less than two
years old he weighed 120 pounds. His
actual weight last Christmas was 1924
pounds. Should he continue TO grow
at this rate few years longer he will
be one of the wonders of the world.
A JusTIcE of the Peace at Underhill,
VT, was recently called on by an old
man in his last sickness TO marry him
to the woman who had been his COM
panion from his youth. He then di-
vulged the fact that at the time of his
ostensible marriage to her years ago he
had a young wife living in Canada. His
marriage was none too soon, as it has
been followed by his death.
A FEMALE wildcat, accompanied by
six well grown kittens, recently attack
ed a family consisting of blind man,
a woman and five small children, in
their own house, in the middle of the
day, near Edna, Roscommon County,
Mich. BY closing the doors and win
dows, and remaining for several hours
immured, the family escaped injury,
and her feline ladyship left for other
quarters.
LIEUT.. HEYL, of the 29d Infantry,
recently arrived in Omaha, having with
him young Apache Indian, six years
old, who has an interesting history.
He was captured in Arizona about two
wears ago. All his family were killed,
and the soldiers picked him up naked
and carried him with them. Lieut..
Heyl, who was in command, prevented
his being killed by the scouts, and is
now taking him East to have him edu-
Gated at his own expense. He is bright,
talks English fluently, and is neatly
dressed in army blue, sailor style.
IT is not the American alone who be-
comes the victim of the sharpers' wiles
and who incloses money TO a given adj
dress in the expectation of receiving
requests from deceased relatives.
From a complaint recently made by the
Austrian Consul Resident at New York
to the police, it appears that there is an
organized gang of swindlers in that city
who operate upon a" innocents" in Ger
many by writing them that relatives of
theirs have died in this country, leaving
jewelry and personal property, which
can be had on application to the writer's,
with $50 to pay expenses. The amount
realized in this way is said to be very
large. r.|rEr- -a
A DETROIT sanitary officer, in max
ing his rounds through the city, called
at Chinese laundry. Two Celestials
were perspiring over fiat-irons and
shining linen. A not unpleasant odor
of boiling tea pervaded the room. In
one corner was pile of unwashed
clothes; in another, rice, old shoes, and
pipes; while promiscu0usly scattered
about the room were dead rats, large
and small, fat and lean, all headless.
"Do YOU use these for soup?" asked
the officer. =" No, no." cried Hop Sing,
"him vely good fol pie" Hop Sing
was requested to keep his fresh meat in
less exposed location for the future.
EX-PREsIDENT CAswELL, of Brown
University, in addition to his many 9TH
er accomplishments, has an established
reputation as an accurate observer of
the weather. He writes to the PrOvi-
dence Journal that, with the exception
of July, 1888, when the mean tempera-
ture was IS degrees, last month was the
hottest July for As years, the mean tenn
perature being "a degrees. The cold
est July in that period was in 1882, when
the mean temperature was but GA de-
grees.- He says the mean temperature
of the late heated term from June "a to
July 20, was 1853 degrees, and adds,
"There is no % consecutive days upon
my list which giveso high a record"
4 "MANY years ago" said Gen. Eli II.
Murray to a Louisville Ledger reporter,
"Judge Sites had Circuit Court down
in Southern Kentucky. Once little
country tavern was full to overlooking,
so that four of five persons had to oc-
cupy the same room. The Judge and
four or five of the big lawyers INDUCED
in draw-poker until a late hour. Then
they went to bed, and left the candle
burning The fire had gone out, the
weather was cold, the floor not clean,
and none of them liked to get out of his
warm place to blow out the candle
After fruitless efforts to induce some
one to get up, the Judge proposed that
they should put it out by splitting at it
q can beat you, said one. Money says
you can't answered the Judge. The
cold weather and the dirty floor were
forgotten, as the rivals sprang from
their warm places. Money was put up,
a mark made, and the contest was sc
exciting that the others were so or
drawn, and there, in the chill, freless
dreariness of the best room of coun,
try tavern, the Judge and four or five
of the highest lights of the circuit stood
up in their shirts and spit at a mark fol
five dollars apiece"
THE police of a French town arrested
woman because, having on different
occasions sold wax to grocers, she re-
fused TO say where she obtained it. Al
last she declared that she had procured
it from stone. A professor of chemistry
happened to be in the office of the eX-
amining magistrate, who laughingly re-
lated the fact ado not smile" said
the savant, "for in several localities of
Galicia and MOldavia there is found an
oleaginouS stone which resembles wax
and which meltS with the heat of the
sun. Chemists call it ozocerite.r The
magistrate at once ordered that the wo-
man should be again brought before
him, and she declared that the facts
were precisely rs the professor had sup
posed. "But why" asked the func-
tionary, did You refuse to tell where
you had obtained the waxP" "Because
the Government would have soon de-
prived me of that source of gain" she
replied; "the piece of land, however,
where this precious article is found is