The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-27
GENERAL BREVITIEs.

In Germany the telegraph wires are
in future TO be carried Underground in
stead of being supported by posts. The
object of this change is to prevent the
interruption of communications which
regularly follows upon a great storm.
THE late Bishop Thirlwan of England
is said to have been perfect prodigy
of precocity. At three years of age he
read English so well that he was taught
Latin, and at four he read Greek with an
ease and fiuency that astonished all who
heard him.
A PORTION of the municipal record of
Maysville, Ky, including the period
between 1903 and 1888, which has been
missing for more than fifty years, has
been discovered in the possession of an
old citizen. 1t was promptly restored.
A CORRESPONDENT of the World,
writing from Shanghai, China, says that
the Chinese have nothing that can be
called a code or system of law, and a
wealthy or influential criminal, if con-
victed, can readily buy immunity from
punishment.
WHILE in Bowling Green few days
ago, says a Kentucky paper, we were
lodged in a room with a fellow from
Simpson County. We went TO our room
and turned the gas down to a small
blaze and were soon in dreamland. At
late hour our Simpsonite came in and
exclaimed: "Why don't you put some
more gas in that thing; it's about az
out, amt it?'
Mrs. STEWART, a spiritualist, gave a
sceance" in Terre Haute the other
night, and, seeing that it was the Cen
tennial year, produced the materialized
spirit of George Washington, in cooked
hat and high boots, and white hair. 1t
bowed, waved its hands in a graceful
manner as if blessing the audience, and
when they sung "My country" waved
its hand above its head three times as if
calling for three cheers.
DIR. FAYRER's opinion is that, if sys-
tematic returns were kept, the annual
number of deaths from snake bites Tex
elusive of all doubtful cases) in India
would be found to exceed twenty thous-
and. A larger proportion of women, it
seems, are bitten than men, showing
that the women, of the working classes
in India are buster than their lords in
the field and other places where snakes
are to be met with.
THE blind devotion with which the
late John Forster's servant, Henry, did
his service was illustrated on one occa-
sion when his master had a dinner par
ty. During the dinner Henry was
nervous, and made two or three blum
ders. His master chafed and fumed,
and cast angry Chances at his servant (;
but the poor man could not settle quiet
ly to his duty. At last, when the des-
sert and wine had been placed upon the
ter's chair and said: "Please, sir, can
you spare me nowP My house has been
on fire for the last hour and half"
A COUPLE of well known gentlemen
of Jackson, Tenn, were requested the
other day to keep house for merchant,
while he stepped out to ''see a mani
that is, to take a snip" They kept the
store well while the merchant was alb
sent by making heavy sales of goods to
each other on credit. When the mer-
chant returned he was informed of the
sales, and was very anxious to make a
joke of it. But the two gentlemen in
sisted that it was a veritable transac-
ton and that each for the time being
was the merchants agent, and that
hence he is responsible for-their acts.
There is a nice point of law in the mat
ter, and that merchant is nightly puz-
lied over it. In the meantime his two
"agents" are quite satisfied and await
future developments with calmness.
REV. S. LOCKWOOD describes the lit
tie reptile called the Florida chameleon
in the Naturalist. The specific Latin
name of this lizard is AnoliS principals,
and it is sometimes known as the green
Carolina lizard, as it is not met with
farther north than South Carolina. In
its ability to change color it resembles
the chameleon of the old world, from
which, however, it is structurally differ
ent. This creature lives principally on
flies and other insects, and spiders.
They make very interesting pets, if we
may believe the writer, who relates that
a lady once appeared with four of them
at the dining-table of hotel in Florida
"They were fastened to her headgear
by silken threads, and ran over her
head and neck, or nestled in the tresses
of her hair, as they saw fit"