The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-07
GENERAL BREyITIES.
FROGS live from - to Is years.

3,6OO,OOO eggs at a spawn.
The Australian dog and the shepherd
dog of Egypt never bark.
~ YOU dislike TO say potato bug. II is
perfectly proper to refer to the insect as
the decemlineata.
hockPoRT, Mass, appropriates the
proceeds of her tax on dogs to the pur-
chase of books for her public library.
ANOTHER mammoth hotel is to be
erected at Saratoga for the entertain
iHent of guests Of moderate means.
In 1852 the English Parliament voted
for education, art and science an appro-
priation of S2,353,Sl0. This year the
amount was SIG, $780, 1875.
ONE of the best velocipedists in the
world is Chicago letter-carrier. He
does all his travelling on the back of a
bicycle ''just as easy"
MASSACHUSETTS is paying about
three-quarters of million annually for
interest on the debt incurred in the
construction of the Hoosaic tunnel
The King of the Belgians has invited
all the Governments to send delegates
to an International Congress of Geog-
raphy, to be held at Brussels, Sept. II.
The wings of some insects are so
thin that $4,000 placed one upon
another would not form heap of more
than quarter of an inch in height.
A HOLYoKE (Mass.) boy, whose
spine has been weakened by illness,
runs on all fours like dog. His health
is good, and he hops over the ground
at lively rate.
THERE is one committee at the Gen.
tennial Exposition that has not had a
vacancy since that opening. 1t is the
jurors on wines, and they have sam
pied over 800 different varieties.
THE round, smooth-faced, fat, pig
tailed Chinaman that sits in the Chinese
department of the Exhibition has cap
tured the affections of a young and
handsome American girl of a romantic
turn of mind, and the wedding is to
come off this winter.
THREE thousand stars only are visi-
bic to the naked eye. Countless mil
lions are revealed by the telescope
some so remote that their light, travel
ing at the rate of 100000 miles a sec
ond, can not ARRIVE at our little planet
in less than 1900 years.
A VERY mean storekeeper of Eddy
stone, Ont, recently charged one of his
female clerks, who had ridden into Co
bourg with him, 80 cents for the use of
his buggy and 80 cents for lost time,
but the young lady had him fined $50
and costs for carrying passengers with
out license.
SUSAN A. KING, who came from the
same town in Maine that Annie Louise
Cary did, is now one of the most sue
ceesful real-estate operators in New
York City. She boasts that when she
first came to New York she often had
not as much money as would pay her
street-car fare.
MARY CLEMMER says of Senator
Booth of California: 90 No man shall
display within sight of the gallery every
day such exquisite silken hose without
my doing them ample justice. The
world shall know what lovely stockings
he wears. No Senator shall sit in the
middle aisle with one foot alOft, dis
playing a faultless ankle, faultlessly at
tired in hose with cerulean stripes, and
i not say there is such a Senator, if but
one"
THE Greenup (Ky.) Independent re-
lates the following almost incredible
story. After telling of the burial of an
old man it says: "But hardly had the
crowd dispersed and left alone the last
resting place of old age, when a son of
the deceased appeared on the ground,
armed with a shovel and mattOck, and
ut once set to work opening the grave.
He got down TO the coffin, opened it,
and then stripped his dead father of his
new clothes, again shut the coffin, filled
in the earth and left, dressed in his
fathers funeral clothes. Though posi-
lively informed of the truthfulness of
this horrible feat, we would hardly be-
lieve it, were it not stated as a fact that
the son of the deceased still wears the
same suit, and even brags on his doing
So"
OUR civilization is full of such stories
as this, which is from Oshkosh: ga
man in the town of Rushford killed an
other mans dog. The son of the man
whose dog was killed, therefore, pro-
ceeded to whip the man who killed the
dog of the man he was son of. The
man who was son of the man whose dog
was killed was arrested by the man who
was assaulted by the son of the man
whose dog the man assaulted and killed.
The man who was arrested by the man
who killed the dog of the man whom the
man arrested was son of, for assaulting
the man who killed the dog, finally set
tied the case up with the man who had
arrested the son of the man who owned
the dog for assaulting the man who
killed the dog of the mans father who
had been arrested. And still we are
not happy"
THE drift of northern icebergs is with
the great polar currents which meet
near the coast of Labrador. They are
from thence floated with the current
past Newfoundland, frequently striking
the coast, and usually dissolving in the
gulf stream, which they meet near the
Great Bank, they disappear at about
latitude ~ degrees. The extreme limit
r. reported in any authentic publication is
latitude 40 degrees north. The southern
icebergs, not meeting a similar dis
solvent, approach nearer TO the equator,
being frequently seen Off the Cape of
Good Hope, in latitude "a degrees south.
The weight, sometimes, is hundreds of
millions of tons in their frozen mass.
Only about one-eighth of their bulk is
above the water. Capt. Ross found one
aground in Baffin Bay, in water 1880
foot deep
This doubtful story comes from Ala
nance County, North Carolina: A DIR. |
Hooper, dentist, living in the north |
crn part of the county, went to the
breakfast table prepared to poison his
wife, for what reasons is not stated. |
They were seated alone at the table. |
After pouring out the coffee, Mrs. |
Hooper was dispatched out of the room
on some preteXt, and in her absence
her husband poured into her cup a
deadly mixture. She returned, and it |
happened that the doctor himself was
called from the room for a moment.
In his absence fly fell into his cup,
and Mrs. Hooper, wife-like, exchanged
cups. The doctor returned and drank
is coffee almost at one swallow. He
at once detected the singular taste of
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