The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
GENERAL BREVITIES.

Dery; but ne has behaved admirably
since his release. -
A CoNPANY Ct self. styled American
indians are giving exhibitions in Brus-
sells TO large audiences. They are of
the kind that speak with q brogue.
"THE Centennial boot - is the latest
wrinkle for the ladies. 1t is especially
adapted for the exposure of the exqui-
sitely embroidered white and colored
silk stockings now selling for S25 pair.
JUDGE LINDEMAN, of Cincinnati, SEN
fenced little boy to two years impris-
onment for stealing newspaper from
a doorstep. The lads mother was
thereby made insane, and the magis-
trate is the object of public indignation.
A YOUNG girl, who formerly resided
in St. Peter, MINI, has been, until
about a month since, performing the
part of brakeman on the Wells Rail-
road, running into Mankato. She
dressed in male attire, and had her hair
clipped, but she has given it up as
bad job, though she rather liked the
business.
Mr.. RICHARD TEN BROCK, who
started his equine namesake at the re-
cent unparalleled race in Louisville,
was the first person to take American
horses TO England and win with them
on the English turf. Since his notable
career abroad he has lived quietly at
his country place near Louisville.
ANNIE SAMPSON has just been unani-
mOusly brought in guiltless by Lon
don jury for stealing an umbrella, and
for the same offense w. s. Moore has
been held in 5000 by Justice Clarke, of
the Philadelphia Centennial Police
Court. Truly this is not free coun-
try where umbrellas are not public
property.
MEMPHIS has had one of the hardest
nuts yet cracked. A frog was found in
a paving-stone which had been Is years
down in one of the principal streets.
The block was blue limestone, from The
Ohio River quarries originally. In or
der TO fit it TO a new place the bowlder
was broken, and loi live frog hoped
out of little pool of water.
AT London inquest on the death of
a cab-driver, who had fallen through a
trap-door in his stable, the remarkable
intelligence of a horse was described
The beast was heard paving and neigh
ing and a man offered it water and oats :;
but it continued its strange actions, en-
deavoring to attract attention to the
door. The man comprehended at last,
and discovered the body.
A YOUNG Quaker has been sentenced
TO two months Imprisonment at Mar
settles for refusing to join the army of
reserve. He declared that it was OPP
posed to his religious principles to bear
arms, and replied to the President Of
the Court Martial, who asked whether
he would not seize weapon if his
father was threatened with murder, that
he should not even then offer violence,
but allow ''God's will to be done"
IT has been the custom of sharpers in
New York, Immediately upon the death
of some prominent citizen, or the
bankruptcy of some wealthy merchant,
TO advertise sales of horses, carriages,
fancy stock, etc, giving out that they
were the property of the prominent
men aforesaid. In this way broken
down horses and secondhand equi-
pages are auctioned off at big prices.
DIR. CARPENTER says: Medical men
are perfectly familiar with the extraor-
binary tendency of all sorts of people
TO deception, and especially young wo-
men. Every doctor knows that, for the
sake of becoming objects of interest
and acquiring sort of romantic dis
tinction, young ladies invent or manu-
facture illnesses, and take delight in
deceiving people. The truth is that the
passion both for humbugging and being
humbugged is a very widespread one in
human nature, and there is no impOs-
tor, however vulgar and clumsy, who
can not muster round him fair circle
of weak-minded dupes or confederates
whose vanity or interest leads them to
cultivate distinction this way.
WHEN Desmoulins, the celebrated
French physician, was dying, he was
surrounded by the most distinguished
medical men of Paris, who lamented the
great loss about to be sustained by the
profession. But Desmoulins cheerfully
assured them that he left behind three
physicians much greater than himself.
Each anxiously inquired to whom he re-
ferred, hoping TO hear his own name
mentioned. The dying man replied:
They are Water, Exercise and Diet.
Call in the service of the first freely, of
the second regularly, and the third
moderately. Follow this advice, and
you may well dispense with my aid.
Living, / could do nothing without
them; and, dying, shall not be missed
if you make friends of these, my faith
full CONDUCTORS"
In the vicinity of Modesto, says the
Stockton Independent, it is known that
the tarantula abounds. The sand is.his
native element, and on the sand plains
he thrives and increases with prolific
energy. The tarantula has fierce and
violent disposition and ungovernable
temper, that makes him quarrelsome
and given to fighting. Knowing this,
the sports of Modesto, when all other
amusements fail, capture these insect
gladiators and place them in an arena,
where by irritation they are driven to
attack each other. The combat is usu
ally long, fierce and exciting, and is
witnessed by scores of eager spectators,
VINO D6I NEWLY on the result. lneSe
fights take place nearly every Sunday,
and we have heard of one man who
recently won $50 on his favorite taran-
tula. Away with your horse-races and
chicken-fghts!
ONE of the curiosities Of the Emperor
Russia's palace at Tsarskoe SelO is the
Horse Asylum, where the imperial
chargers live in snug quarters when they
are no longer fit for use. Near the COM
Portable stables is the cemetery, where
the history of many famous steed may
be read in the inscriptions on the tomb
stones. The rooms which present the
greatest historical interest are those
which were occupied by Emperor Alex
ander l., and which are shown exactly
as he left hem; and the chamber which
is considered the greatest curiosity is
the room in which all the walls are of
amber. Beyond the garden, in front of
that part of the palace occupied by their
majesties, is little island in which
there is Russian cottage, garden, a
cow-house-in short, complete estab-
liShment on a diminutive scale, ar