The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-09
HERE AND THERE.

AMURDERER escaped from the jail
at Somerset, Ky, by clipping with the
Sheriff's daughter.
ANOTHER English estate is seeking
American heirs This time the Evans
family is in luck.
A NEW Chinese theater Is 10 be erected
on Washington Street, San Francisco,
at a cost of $4,000.
THE Georgia Constitutional Convene
ton has voted by o. great majority not
10 abolish the death penalty, Il
A PLATA (Florida) preacher was
driven out Of his pulpit recently, during
a sermon, by mosquitoes.
THE carriage that was given to Daniel
Webster, and afterwards to President
Pierce, is owned in Laconia, N. III.
A MEMBER of the British Association
exhibited tame wasp, at recent meet
ing, which eats sugar from his hand and
allows him to stroke it.
AFTER his recent visit to the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, the Emperor of Brazil
left amid the cheers of the students,
who sang: "For he's a jolly good fell
low"
A METEORIC stone as large as wine
glass was recently found embedded two
inches in the trunk of a tree in Wheel
ing, W. Va, which had been struck by
lightning. .- .1--
TOXIC, Japan, has ten theaters-the
largest accommodating 5000 people.
The plays are quite short in compari-
son to the Chinese-only occupying a
day in representation. 1"
A NEGRO girl fell from a bridge 60
feet high in Milledgeville, Ga, and
struck the earth with very little injury,
an umbrella which she was carrying
acting as parachute.
ONE of the prettiest and newest de-
vices for fastening the fan to the CO.'S
tune is gold hand, studded with jew
els, holding a strong, light chain. This
elegant triie costs only $50. n.
THE Great Leather" oil-well neal
Millerstown, Pa, is flowing at the rate
of 24O barrels per day, and the owners
have refused $4,000. Another in the
same vicinity yields $50, and still an
other 100. ',s... t... ...rf..-
|. A MADISON Qnd. man has a Jewish
shekel supposed to be 1000 years old,
1t is about the size of a quarter, has
Hebrew inscription on one side, and the
altar for burnt offerings on the other.
APAIR of twins in Rochester, n. Y
Isaac B. Chesley and Jacob A. Chesley
will be 80 years old in October. They
are natives of the town, and have Away
lived there together, and both are il
good health.
On the island of Orkney, lately, ont
of a flock of sheep took shelter from thu
wind, after having been sheared, upol
a ledge overhanging the sea. The res
of the sheep, about 20 in number, fancy
ing that the leader had taken a leap
| plunged into the sea and were drowned
JOHN L. MoArs, of Beavertown, Ohio
while attempting in sport to steal chick
ems Saturday night, at the residence o
his mother, was shot by his brother,
part of the charge of the shot enterin!
his head, producing dangerous, thOugI
not fatal, wound.
THE old silver cup which Washing
ton drank wine from at Portsmouth, n
H., and the armchair that he then sa
in, are still preserved as relics by hi
grandson. Still, the wine-cup and chat
do not form as good material frOr
which to draw moral for the young q
the story of the % little Ratchet" ..t
JOHN TExTER, who farms l, 900 acre
in Berks, Lebanon and Lancaster Cour
ties, Penn, with extensive crops to ha1
vest, does not own moving and reaE
ing-machine, but cuts his grass with
scythe, and grain with the sickle an
cradle. He and his son are old-faShior
ed in every respect.
AN English Methodist preacher r,
Gently caused sensation by pausing a
ter he announced his text and then saI
, inc that he had thought of it all th
, week without finding any Interpretation
and that his last resort, the inspiratio
of the pulpit, having also failed him, /
could not preach. ,. r .N
JOURNAL, in Belgium, has just lost
noted character in Francois Baisieul
: who had received 100 sentences frol
various courts-the first at the age {
! 16. His punishments were always fC
/ assault-never for theft or swindlins
He died of cramp while bathing in I'll
river in violation of city ordinance.
THE remarkable spectacle of tOrni
do in mid-air was witnessed at Genese'
t NY, the other day. The blacklist
A black clouds, torn and rugged, wei
driven through the air toward the soutl
east. They rolled and tumbled as oeea
tornadoes will disport with the wave
and were evidently flung like feather
: bv a terrific tornado which passed owe
the center of the village, but too high u
, to disturb objects upon the earth.
An engineer of train coming int
Paterson, n. j., the other day was no
rifed to see boy deliberately take o
his coat, turn down his. collar and |
down on the track with his neck acro'
the rail. The scared man screamed o
his whistle, shut down the brakes, r.
versed the engine and stopped the trai
Just in time to see the boy rise and II
treat, executing Masonic signs wit
fingers to his nose. The train will nc
be stopped next time.