The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-06-07
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SEVEN railway survey parties are pre-
pairing to leave Victoria, British Column
bia. Recent events point to the Frazer
River route as the choice for the Cana
dian-Pacific Railway.
A CoLoRED man, who, with party
of p, went from BERTHE, N. c., liz 1870
to Liberia, writes that he has an album
dant crop, as also his companions, and
that ne does not wish to return to the
United States.
LENA DALE wrote to a friend, before
jumping into the river in Louisville,
"When you receive this my body will
be floating peacefully in the water"
She was rescued, and in prison she said,
referring to the letter, ''And now to
think I'm only in the calaboose."
In the annual report of the Michigan
State Board of Health, Dr. Scott de-
scribes disease that he thinks is a re-
suit of using tobacco. The patient feels
a violent pain in the left side, and be-
lieyes that his heart is affected. The |
trouble is a rheumatic condition of the
wall of the chest. Abstinence from to-
bacco cures.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON was well !
coined at Dallas, Texas, by the compa-
MES of volunteers. In his speech to
them he said it was long question
which was the most efficient, regulars or
volunteers? but that the contest of four
years ago had settled it to the satisfac
ton of American military men. that the
volunteers were the ones to be depended
upon.
DIR. BARToL, of Boston, in his 10th
anniversary discourse, uttered Joshua's
challenge in the following emphatic
words: ''My only reply now is to adj
jure any man, woman, or child, in the
body or out, whom l ever in any way
have wronged or hurt, by their voice or
letter, by telegraph or telephone, through
any medium from earth, or heaven, or
hell, to speak"
THE hard-times business of trumping
up heirships to large estates thrives
apace. The latest claimants are the rel
atives of Elizabeth Shepherd, an English
girl who late in the last century made
runaway match with poor cousin to
America. Her brother in England died
in 1910, leaving a cool S5,000,000 in the
Bank of England to his sister. She,
however, never learned of the fact, and
now, after all these years, the descend
ants, living in Brooklyn and elsewhere,
are dwelling on the pleasing possibili-
ties of coming into this long-deferred in
heritance.
A DISTINGUISHED English physician,
in recent experiment, has furnished,
as he thinks, another proof of the sani-
tary influence of sunlight. The poison
of the cobra, which he received from
India on ivory points, was exposed in
glass bottle to the sunlight, portion of
them being wrapped in paper. He
found that on some of the points that
had been exposed to the light the poison
had become inert, while on those in the
same bottle that had been wrapped in
paper the poison still retained its fatal
activity. He argues from this that the
sunlight might in the same way destroy
the poison of smallpox, scarlet and
typhoid fevers.
JUSTICE is slow in Peru, but it may
be regarded as reasonably sure. In 1857
a poor Indian in Ayacucho killed man
in a street fight. He was promptly ar
rested and committed to prison, where
he remained until a few weeks since.
Then at last he was brought to trial,
convicted and sentenced to five years
hard labor on one of the guano islands.
There is but one advantage we can con-
ceive of in such extreme elaboration.
Public excitement dies away, and it is
comparatively easy to get an impartial
jury. In the case spoken of the delay
can'scarcely be regarded as an advan-
tage at all, inasmuch as the prisoner
got the extreme limit of the law after
being imprisoned a score of years await
ing trial. 1t is pleasant to know that
even in Peru the case is looked upon as
having some of the elements of hard
ship, and is to be inquired into by the
President.
WHEN Sir Samuel Baker, the African
traveller, was taking leave of Kamrasi,
King of Unyoro, that potentate asked
him, as particular favor, to leave Lady
Baker behind. This cool request raised
Sir Samuel's ire, and in high indigna-
ton he told the King that if ever he
made such request again he would
shoot him. Lady Baker, too, who over
heard and understood the offer, felt that
word from her would not be out of
place, and gave the monarch piece of
her mind in the strongest language she
could command His Majesty for q
while was greatly astonished, being I'M
conscious of having given any offense.
At last seeing that his guests were really
angry, he said, in deprecating tone,
Don't be angry. I did not mean to
offend you by asking for your wife. l
will give you wife if you want one,
and thought you would have no objec-
ton to give me yours. 1t is my custom
to give my visitors pretty wives, and 1
thought you would like to exchange.
Don't make fuss about it; if you don't
like to do as others do, there's an end of
it,
EDENBURG is new village-it calls
itself city-in the oil region of Penn
sylvania. The 5000 inhabitants live in
houses that have neither lath nor plas-
ter; and, altogether, the place is like
those that grow suddenly in Western
mining districts. There are five faro
banks, variety theater, and uncounted
liquor saloons. To offset them there is