The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-18
HERE AND THERE.

ion OF 1878 are looked upon as gloomy
IN presence of the existing European
TIE statistics of the National Grange
show that there are in the United States
10, 699 oranges, with membership OF
5S2, 400. Last year there were $50 new
oranges established.
THE Egyptian pilgrim caravan start
ed from Cairo for Mecca on Nov. -.
On account of the epidemic prevailing
among horses, the entire caravan was |
mounted upon camels and donkeys.
THE champion dancing master, or
mistress, rather, of America, is q Wis
consin woman who gives lessons in
WATERFOWL, Jefferson, Waupun, White
water and GAINESVILLE. She must waltz
around rather lively.
ACINcINNATI physician sued another
man simply for calling him, on postal=
card, ''A liar, duack, thief, MUIR
derer, a rascal, ruffian, a yillaitl, a
-. nerjurer, an ignoramus, pre-
tender, and general beat"
THr sexton of st. SsaniSlaus's Polish
Church, Milwaukee, was beset With ah
appetite for alcohol, and the trustees
agreed with him that 81 should be de.
Quoted from his wages every time he
got drunk. In one month these fines
equaled his salary, and as the trustees
heid Him I'd tie bafgain he hes sued
them for his regular pay.
EtH Horn; the negro minstrel per-
former who died in New York Jan. 8,
was one of the Oldest persons in the
profession, and in his day great favor
tie. He invented special features such
as the sold darkey'' sentiment and tic
banjo exhibitions, which are now par;
of the stock-in-trade of every COM
pany. .t
TtF Bishop Of Manchester says that
dancing is not mortal sin; he danced
himself when he was a young man.
But he thinks dancing among the lower
classes is attended with many evils be-
cause the mothers in that station OF So
eiety can not afford the time to aceompa-
nv their daughters to the dancing-halls
end protect them as they should be
protected.
A LADY short time back presented
a telegram at a London office. The
message was enclosed in an envelope.
| On receiving it the Official proceeded
to open it. "What are you aboutP
exclaimed the lady. The clerk explain
ed that he could not send a message
without fret seeing it. "Then," OBJ
served the lady, angrily, "do you sup
pose I'm going to let you read my pri-
vate affairsP. 1 won't send it at ALL"
And forthwith she founced out of the
Office in disgust.
THIRTY years ago Texas entered the
Union as a State, with $4,000 popula-
tion-white, black, and Mexican. To
day she has /, 10000 population. Al
the rate of increase, she would have IL
80 years hence half as many people as
are now in the United States. The State
contains 274,000 square miles-largel
than France, Belgium, Holland, Switzer
land and Portugal combined, and better
capable of supporting seventy millions
Of peoplg than are those countries, fol
her soil is richer and her climate better
THE hair-producing countries par ex
cellence are Normandy and Picardy il
France, Bohemia, Voralberg, and Tyr
oil. French hair ranks first, then Swe
dish and German, and lastly Italian
and English. Hair purchasers gener
ally hunt ia couples, the typical ole
woman and decoy. They claim that
the more stupid the population of
district, the finer will be the hair of thu
women. Cutting the hair right OF
spoils the market, so it is only thinne'
out at intervals. Thus several crop
are gathered from one head.
THE officers of the British ship-of
wsr volags visited in the early part o
this year the Welsh colony of Chupat
on the east coast of Patagonia, abou
40 miles inland. 1t was founded SOM
ten years ago, and has now popula
ton of over 700. Their health is goo'
on the whole, especially among tn
children, but dyspepsia was rather ire
quent, circumstance attributed partl..
to sameness of diet, tea and bread ant
butter being often nearly the sole foo
for weeks, though from time to tim
guanaco and ostrich meat, hares, ducks
snipe, and cartridges are brought in b.
hunters. The climate is excessivel
dry. As rule the heat is not Cypress
i've, and frost and snow in winter ar
usually thawed by the midday sun
There is good fuel. Produce to tn
value of $4,000 was shipped from tn
colony in 1875.
CATcH-PENNY humbugs are so ridiC
ulous in themselves, that even thei
victims, after their first flush of anger
|, must laugh at the grim humor OF tn
, affair, and mere statement OF them
, sufficient warning to others. For e1
ample, one of these funny rascals &C
, vertised that he would, on the receipt
25 cents, inform the sender how t
write without pen or ink. Those VIII
{ were foolish enough to invest receive
, in reply: " Write with a pencil" Al
other of this style advertised that an
e one sending 81 could have "corret
likeness of himself, and his forum
told" OF course, vain and weak mint
E ed youths caught at this; but when II
package supposed to contain the Co
rect likeness was opened, there We
found fve-cent looking-glass, and th
information that the victim could te