The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-28
GENERAL BREyITIES.

AhE cauets AZ the Alrglnla Military
Institute, at Lexington, win visit the
Centennial on the LIST Of October.
The Boston Transcript has hea, Of
a servant girl who inquired on the first
morning after her arrival: And does
girls that lives out have 10 make their
own beds, mum?'
FIVE new life-savinz stations have
just been completed on the coast OF
Florida. The main purpose is TO save
the lives of shipwrecked sailors and
others who reach land in destitute and
starving condition.
Pooh old Uncle Daniel Drew hadn't
the faintest intention of joking when,
in response to a reporters query as TO
his opinion of Nanderbit's chances of
life, he replied: 81 have no hope of his
recovery. | know his physician very
we'll"
ONLY about two-thirds of the Russian
serfs have accepted the terms of the
ukase Of freedom. Many are so wretch
edly posr that the Government has to
aid them with money and food TO ena-
BILE them to till the land which has been
given them.
Mrs. WILHELMINA GILES, one of the
few women who were present at Water
loo, has Just died in England, aged 81
She was there with her husband, q
quartermaster, and had been through
the siege of Dantzic, when the French
bombarded it in 1907.
SOME villain sent a neatly done up
paper box full of wasps to the editor of
the Milton IN. CO. Chronicle, and the
little pests actually cleaned out the en-
tire establishment, and delayed the
paper whole day. When it did APP
pear, there was singing editorial
in il.
LEOPOLD LIcHTENBURG, a San Fran
cisco boy, who went to Europe some
time ago to pursue his studies on the
violin, has taken the first prize, with
distinction, at the st. Petersburg Con-
servatoire. He played the seventeenth
concerto of Viotti and the third con-
certo of Nieuxtemps.
IT is said that the Servian officers
are so deeply impressed with the re-
ports they have heard of the Turkish
atrocities that they always endeavor to
reserve one ball in their revolver SO as
to blow their own brains out rs soon as
they fall into the hands of the enemy.
THE subscription fund for the relief
of the widows and orphans of the men
who died with Custer, started six weeks
ago by Col. VIC. Church; of the Aynag
and Macy Journal, amounts to "a, S96. 25.
In one week over 81, 200 was received,
principally from officers and enlisted
men in the army and navy.
HERE is a hint to careless letter writ
ers to invariably put at least the address
of the party addressed in the body of
the letter as well as on the envelope.
Six thousand persons are daily writing
letters which do not reach their destina-
ton because they fail to observe certain
simple rules - a.
THE pianista is what they call the new
automatic arrangement for playing the
piano or organ. Place it in position,
turn a crank. and you can grind out
sonatas from Beethoven or airs from
Madame Angot-sacred or profane mu-
sic-according TO your taste. Any body
with sufficient musical genius to en-
gineer coffee-mill can now become an
accomplished s'instrumentalist."
In Colborne, Canada, the wife of a
German farmer last fall plowed II acres
of land. This season she moved with
a grass scythe for six days, and with a
horse-rake she also raked 10 acres of
hay, using a three-year-old colt broken
by herself. She also has loaded and
unloaded and teamed all the lime and
sand required for a new house; loaded
and unloaded all the grain, and MIXED
and cared for seven cows. Her name,
we grieve to state, is not given.
The cotton year of 1876, which
closed September l, is one of the most
remarkable in our history. The total
receipts at the eleven principal South
ern ports amounted to 4, JOY, 1875 bales,
against ,, ASP, 1929 bales in 1875, $685.
151 in 1874, 3,617, $50 in 1873, and 3
1866 in 1872. 3,230,319 bales were
exported from all sources, against 3
O7G, 794 bales last year. The indica-
tions are that the growing crop viii
yield harvest as great as its predeceS-
sor.
THIS year at Sorbonne, France, a
young fellow named Reinach carried
off eight prizes. Among these was one
for rhetoric, and it was the boys first
year of rhetoric. But he beat all the
other old ones. As the last prize was
named with the boys name attached to
it, the whole assembly arose and ap-
plauded, as if favorite actor had APP
peared. His music master declares he
would astonish the world as q COM
poser, and his drawing master predicts
a second Michael Angelo in him.
The following tribute to Mrs. Ellen
j. Foster, temperance lecturer, APP
pears in Davenport Qowa) paper:
"If you see her you will know her by
her
"CompleNi0n az clear as polished wax;
Her tongue as sharp as carpet taCks;
Her eyes a dark, bewitching hue;
Her voice is pure and high toned too;
Her neck, like Annie Laurie's swan;
Her words you'd love TO dwell upon;
Her teeth so pearly, clear and white,
You almost wish your ear she'd bite"
AN Englishman at Saratoga says that
every body has a weakness, and his
weakness is for dress. Every spring
and autumn Poole, of London, sends
him box of samples, and he devotes
his evenings TO making a selection. 1t
takes him two months to make 4 choice
for six suits. lie always purchases six
new suits spring and fall, and, as he
keeps them all, of course they accumu-
late. His bootmaker in Paris has his
last, and regularly sends him full sup
ply of slippers, boots and shoes, suita-
BILE for every occasion.
A GROCER at Morecamba, England,
was charged with selling tea that con-
tanned five per cent. more of mineral
coloring, sand and magnetized iron
particles than the maximum of such
deleterious substances usually found in
that article. The grocer urged that it
was only a remnant left in stock, as he
had not bought tea of this kind for over
two years. The bench fined him, on
August 18th, Is and costs, or in de-
fault sentenced him to twenty-one days
Imprisonment, the penalty imposed be-
ing under the Food and Drug act of
1873.
Mrs. Z. p. STEVENS, of San Francis