The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-12
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
A LADY missionary among the Chi
nese in San Francisco has married one
of them. Her name was Miss Selma FL
lott, buf now it is Mrs. How Kong
Whew.
JENNIE JUNE says the English wom-
en- always wear dress entirely out be-
fore getting new suit, and hence are
rarely dressed in the prevailing fashion.
Miss PARKE p PERKINS, who was
crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at
the Centennial Tournament last Sep
TENDER, was married at her residence in
Buckingham County, Virginia, last
week, to Maj. w. W. Bentley, of Pulas-
XII, in the same State.
IT is stated from Vienna, Austria, that
a man named Bernik, a groom of an
aristocratic house, during fit of re-
ligious fervor nailed both his feet and
his left hand to the floor of his bedroom,
and then with his knife cut his left side
open. During the entire operation he
gave no sign of pain.
THE Board of School Trustees in Bal
timore, in reviewing the list of teachers
for confirmation, changed all those des-
ignations which ended with the prevail
ing 90 lie :" to the names which they rep
resented. 1t isn't stated what the Bet
seys and Nancys thought of it.
Probably they were not pleased, but we
doubt not that dignity and common
sense were the gamers.
THE Egyptian ladies, as rule, are
not as good-looking as Cleopatra, but
travellers and connoisseurs of taste, who
were on the Nile last winter, report that
there are many handsome ones among
the modern lot The fairest of the fair,
in point of beauty, if not of complexion,
are the Copts in Cairo. Their tint is
the darkest prevalent, but the best ar
fists proclaim them to be admirably put
together in form and features. The
Egyptians are not much blacker than the
Italians.
THERE is a church in the quarter of
Berlin called the Burg, where the hearts
of deceased members of the Prussian
royal family are kept in silver urns.
They are behind a railing, and an in
scription is upon each urn, denoting the
name of the former possessor, his birth,
death, ETC. Bodies of royal individuals,
according to the Prussian custom, are
always opened, the heart being placed
in one church, the entrails in another
and the rest of the corpse in a third.
SOME kind-hearted women in Scott
County, Ky, thought agreeably to sur
prise a poor neighbor by setting her
house to rights during her temporary
absence, and among other operations
took up carpet, put the straw in the
fireplace and set it on fire. They then
went on with their cleaning until men
rushed in and told them that the upper
part of the house was in full blaze. The
house was soon destroyed with nearly
all the furniture.
A YOUNG lady in Albany went up
stairs to her room on Sunday night, and
before locking the door looked under
the bed to see if there was any one there.
There was somebody there. 1t was a
man. With remarkable presence of
mind she quietly walked down stairs to
give the alarm, and the intruder was ar
rested. Ever since the garden was
planted, gentle woman has made it
point to look every night for a man I'M
der her bed. Her discretion and pru-
dence have at last been indicated.
A MEDICAL restaurant has been lately
established in London, on the pinciple
that diseases can generally be cured by
a special system of diet, and that they
are caused chiefly by improper food.
On the entrance of visitor, a physician
asks him regarding his ailments. His
meal is then prescribed, and he is allow
ed to eat no more than is presented to
him. At the close he is dismissed to
smoke medicated cigar and to sip cof-
fee, camomile tea, or whatever other
beverage may be considered advisable.
DURING the fire of September, 1776,
which destroyed so large portion of
lower New York, including old Trinity
Church, the royal arms were taken from
the latter edifce and carried to a place
of safety. When the lcyalists subse-
quently emigrated to st. John, New
Brunswick, in 1888, they took these
arms with them and when Trinity
Church was built some five years later
they were hung up in the new edifice.
Here they remained until the fire of last
week destroyed the church and all its
contents.
THE eunuchs in Constantinople are
mostly from Abyssinia and Syria. Stolen
or bought in infancy in those countries
and secretly sold in the Stamboul mar
ket, only one out of three survive the
trip thither. In the streets of the Capt.
tai they are easily recognizable tall,
fat, beardless, short-bodied, long-leg-
ged, wearing the fez cap, black coat,
pants made in the European style, and
carrying staff made of hippopotamus
leather, which is the insignia of their
Office Their countenances express IN
bounded ennui. When freed and en-
riched they sometimes marry, and not
infrequently beat their wives.
Matrimonial Frauds.
The Sheffield (England) Telegraph
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