The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-06
GENERAL BREYITIES.

THE British War Department has had
the German history of the campaign OF
1901 translated for the benefit OF the
service, and will treat the forthcoming
Russian official story of the Crimean
War in the same way.
GREAT BRITAIN has now five iron
clads under construction: the lntiexible,
to carry four guns of the heaviest cali
Der; the Shannon, a nine-gun screw ship;
the Nelson and Northampton, double
screw ships of twelve guns each, and
the Temeraire, an eight-gun ship.
A BosToN clergyman has advanced
the idea in sermon that striped stock
ings are destructive to female modesty.
"But a little while ago." said he,
s'young ladies refused to 90 up stairs in
advance of gentlemen. Now they seem
anxious to do sol"
THE current mum Der of Nature tells
of a deluded hen who Matched and
reared a peacock. As that mother-hen
gazed upon the budding tail of her in
FAINT offspring, it must have occurred to
her, in moments of depression and anX-
iety, that possibly she had the jim-Jams.
MANY British manufacturers and 9TH
er employers have lately changed pay
day from Saturday to Monday for the
sake of the workmen, many of whom
have been in the habit of squandering
their wages in dissipation on Sunday.
A similar change is talked of in New
England.
A RHYME for " month " is now in de-
mand. Here is one that is very old,
but the best we know of:
''I've tried hundred times, guess,
To find a rhyme for month;
I've failed a hundred times, know,
But succeeded in the hundred and one-th.
THERE is a man now serving out a
years Imprisonment in the Jail at Lex
ington, Ky, who was convicted of steal
inc cotton umbrella worth IS cents.
As his board costs 60 cents per diem,
the authorities will be out S2l9 at the
time of his release. But then, he will
have been punished and the majesty Of
the law upheld.
JUDGE MYRICK, of San Francisco,
has admitted to probate a will in pencil
on two pages of memorandum book,
to which the testatriX had attached no
signature, holding that the fact of its
| being written in such a book was pre-
sumptive evidence of its being the draft
of will intended to be executed in a
more regular form.
BASEBALL playing as a business is
something comparatively new, but that
| it paws in some instances is shown by
the report of the Treasurer of the Bos-
| ton Association. 1t shows balance in
cash of 3,261, the profits of last sea
sons business on total expenditure of
S34, SOC. OF this expenditure the item
of players salaries is S20,685, an aver
age of 81, 230 for each player.
A FAMILY who moved on to Beaubien
Street a few weeks ago attempted to
give party the other night, but it was
a failure. The head of the family met
the guests at the gate and explained 1:
"I've got into mighty bad neighbor-
hood. We can't borrow chairs or dishes,
or sugar or butter, and the party is off.
III get out of this as soon as l can find
a hOusein -DetrOH Free Press.
THE remarkable discovery of boil
ing lake in the island of Dominica has
excited much scientific interest, and in
vestigations of the phenomenon are to
be made by biologists. 1t appears that
a company exploring the steep and for
est covered mountain behind the town
of Rosseau came upon the boiling lake,
about $500 feet above the sea level, and
two miles in circumference. On the
wind clearing away for moment the
clouds Of sulphurOus steam with which
the lake was covered, a mound of water
was seen ten feet higher than the gener-
al level of the surface, caused by ebulli-
ton. The margin of the lake consists
of beds of sulphur, and its Overflowing
found exit by a waterfall of great
height.
A PIUTE squaw is a study of patience
and cheerfulness under adverse circum-
stances. The happiest face in town this
morning, says the Virginia (Nev.)
Chronicle, was probably that of an old
leather-colored female sitting on pile
of stiff mortar before a building going
up in the burnt district. The lower end
of the board upon which her youngest
was strapped was stuck into the mortar
so that she was released of that care.
Her next, a red-faced shaver of three
years, warm and dirty in coat of squir-
rel skins, gnawed the undecayed side OF
an apple, and the old lady herself sat
with her lap full of garbage, picking
out and enjoying the tid-bits, while the
family cur renewed the work at her feet
on the well-polished bones thrown to it.
A MAN named Renton-a native OF
the Orkneys-has been discovered in
the Island of Malayta, where he had
passed eight years as slave of the
chief man of the island. His story was
that he was kidnapped at San Francis
co and carried by an American ship to
the Guano Islands. Escaping from
thence in an open boat with some com.
panions he drifted to Malaysia; his com
panions died from want and exposure,
but he was rescued. The natives, al
first inimical to him, grew to like him
and seemed grieved to part with him
Renton has sometimes difficulty in eX'
pressing himself in English and en-
ploys Malaytan words occasionally. The
Bobtail Nag, the ship that rescued him
| has taken him tO Queensland