The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-20
GENERAL BREYITIEs.

not allow any theatrical posters over
Is by u inches to be put up.
IT is claimed in New Orleans that 80
cents worth of coal oil will last as long
as nine dollars worth of gas.
Two large drapery firms in London
have private chaplains to whom they pay
salary each of S2,50c for attending
every morning TO offer prayer and give
addresses TO the young men and women
in their employ.
LONDON society has adopted a new
amusement. This Is found in dancing
quadrilles without the accompaniment
OF instrumental music--the dancers
themselves singing their own dance
music, which consists of simple nursery
rhymes.
CONRAD HOFFMAN, of Bay St. Louis,
has the largest orange tree on the coast.
1t measures three feet in diameter, and
the circle which compasses its boughs
is 60 feet in diameter. The yield of the
tree is said to be 5000 annually.
The following advertisement, taken
from late London journal, illustrates
the change that is gradually taking
place in social ideas: "Three lady
helps wanted, as cook, house-maid, and
nurse; private family; no servants
kept"
PROF. TYNDALL has recently discov-
cred that air can be rendered OFFICIALLY
pure by merely leaving it undisturbed
three or four days in a close chamber.
All the floating matter subsidies, and the
confined air will not transmit light. So
lutions placed therein remain unaltered,
though left for months, while similar
solutions open to the ordinary air swarm
with bacteria in twenty-four hours or
two days.
A HIGHLY respectable and wealthy
farmer in Connecticut gives the follow
ing as his experiences: When / first
came here to settle, forty years ago, /
told my wife / wanted to be rich. She
said she didn't want to be rich-all she
wanted was enough TO make her COM
Portable. went to work and cleared up
my land. I've worked hard ever since
and got rich-as rich as / want TO be.
Most of my children have settled about
me, and they have all got farms, but my
wife amt comfortable yet.
THE New York Postmaster received q
few days ago, as dead mail matter from
Rio de Janeiro, a package weighing IL
pounds, containing CAS- letters, largely
in women's handwriting, all addressed
to Don Santa Crabral, at Diamantina,
Brazil, the mythical diamond merchant,
of whose wedding fabulous stories were
told about a year ago, by some imagi-
native newspaper writer. The letters
60 to the Dead Letter Office, and the
dear, covetous creatures who have been
waiting so longfor the "rich Brazilian"
to send them a cargo of diamonds, will
have to die without them.
AN illustration of the value of timber
on waste lands is afforded by a sale of
wood which took place on the estate of
the Earl of Cawdor in Nairnshire the
other day. In 1920, two hills, about 800
acres in extent, were planted with fir
and other trees, and after successive
Trimmings, the sale of which realized
large sums, the remainder of
the wood has just been sold off for the
sum of f16,000. The sums realized for
the wood on this waste land during the
fifty years is stated to be equal per acre
to the return for the best arabic land in
the country.
HEPwoRTH Dixon tells a story of
brigandage in California twenty years
ago. Senati was the leader of preda-
tory band, and Moreno was his first
lieutenant. Los Angeles was the place
of their chief exploits, the most auda-
cious of which was to plumber several
houses, murder a marshal, and carry
off several Mexican girls. A reward Of
$1,000 was offered for Senati's body,
dead or alive, and that was enough to
make Moreno disloyal to his chief He
shot Senati, put his body in a cart, drew
it to Los Angeles, got the reward, and
claimed that he had been prisoner
with the bandits, not companion. The
truth came out, however, and Moreno
was sent to prison for fourteen years
SOME idea of the extent to. which the
determination of the buffalo is going on
at the present time may be learned from
the fact that the Wilcox Tanning Com
paHy, of Elk County, Pennsylvania, said
to be the largest of the kind in the
world, and which is especially engaged
in tanning buffalo skins, received in the
spring of 1875 120, 900 bull-buffalo hides.
These were all taken within few
months previous to the time of ship
ment, and constituted only small por-
ton of the entire number DESTROYED,
which may be safely estimated at half a
million. One thousand pounds of very
heavy bullets were picked out, partly
Embedded in the skin or matted hair of
this stock of hides. Several of these
bullets were sent to the Smithsonian In
stitution, and will be exhibited at the
Centennial display, illustrating the use
full products of the United States as de-
rived from the animal kingdom.
THE effect of light, regarded as the
revival of life in the vegetable world,
has just been illustrated by the observa-
lions near Athens of Prof. Hendreich
under very curious circumstances. The
mines at Laurium, concerning which of
late years there have been such active
diplomatic procedures, consist for the
most part Of the scori@ produced BY the
workings of the ancient Greeks. These
still contain great deal of silver, which
can be extracted by the superior appli-
ances of modern times. Beneath these
scorie have lain in a dormant state for
at least one thousand five hundred years
the seeds of a kind of poppy of the
genus Glaucium. But since the scoria |
have been removed to the furnaces this
plant has sprung up with its pretty yell
low petals over the whole space which
they covered. Unknown in modern |
times, it was described by Pliny and
Dioscorides, and had disappeared from
the face of the globe for fifteen or twen-
ty centuries.