The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-31
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land, who has been los years ON tn
road, and is peddling still. He lives oil
sugar and beer. -
A FRESCHMAN has invented it'll
machine, which, being wound up once
month and attached to the tail feather
of hen, records the number of egg
which she lays
Il Mrs. MARTHA CURRENT, near Jack
sonville, Florida, is using tow-liner
towel made by herself 81 years ago. 1
has been in constant use ever since i
was made.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON, a Scottish
mason, is said to have rescued 56 per
sons from drowning in the Tay, Clyde
4 Dee, Mersey, Tyne, Ayr, and Other
4 streams, and to have SWAN Is miles in
\ seven hours.
A SANTA BERBARA, Cal, saloon
keeper offers to every one who takes q
drink numbered ticket. Every time q
drink is taken new number is given
/ At the end of the month the numbers
are put into lottery wheel, and the
lucky number draws S25. OF course
the topper who has the largest number Of
tickets is supposed to have the best
chance for the S25.
A USEFUL suggestion for preventing
suffocation by smoke is. commended to
the traveller who sojourns in the many
storied hosiery. A pillow-case, well
saturated with water, and having a
small hole torn in it to look through,
placed loosely over the head, will be
found an admirable impromptu repira-
tor in the densest smoke.
PARIS has set up new restaurant.
Price six cents. Bill of fare: ragout in
in the morning, soup in the afternoon I;
no bread; water colored with wine to
drink Payment for meal on entrance.
No customer is allowed more than 10
minutes for eating. Spoons and plates
are of iron, and chained to the table. 1t
is said that the proprietor of this choice
restaurant makes great deal of money.
A CURIOUS experiment with the mag
net was recently tried in London. A boy
had broken needle in. the calf of his
leg, and before resOrting to surgical in
struments it was decided to try the eff
feet of powerful magnet in withdraw
ing the steel. After a number of expert
ments in different positions the needle
was drawn near the surface ON the OPP
posite side of the leg from which it en-
tered and was easily withdrawn.
This marriage may be said to have
been Matched out of an egg. A young
grocer in Newark, while looking over a
barrel of eggs, found written on one the
following verse:
If this you see, young man,
Write just as soon as you can,
And let me hear frommy favorite egg;
This great boon humbly beg.
The signature of Julia Brierson, West
field, o., was attached. The grocer
wrote to her, she replied, they exchang-
ed photographs, they became mutually
interested, and recently they were mar
ried.
DION BoUCICAULT tells this story of a
brother actor: "a great many years
ago, longer than like to remember,
went to Philadelphia to try one of my
pieces, Jessie BrOWp, at one of the thea
tiers. A small actor was cast for a very
small part, that of Achnet, l believe
He had only six lines to speak, and he
took the stage and spoke them ike a
tragedian. called him down and said:
See here, young man, you're not play
ing OthelIOr L know | amt he re-
piled, but | will some day. and then
walked off muttering something about
punching my head. His prediction
has come true. The bad Achmet but
good Otbello was John Mccullough"
A REMARKABLE case of mistaken
identity occurred in Newly ork last week
A woman collared man in the street
who, she asserted, was her husband, and
who had deserted her two years ago.
The man emphatically. denied the soft
impeachment, and, quarrel resulting,
the police arrested both. In court, the
woman proved her charge by two wit
nesses. The defendant, on the other
hand, proved by his employer, who had
known him for seven years, that he was
not the husband of the plaintiff, but that
he was the husband of another woman
and the father of five children. The
weight of the evidence was so strongly
in favor of the defendant that the court
declared the case one of mistaken iden-
tity, and dismissed it.
THE late John B. FELTON, of Califor-
MIA was the EvartS of the Pacific slope.
Many important lawsuits were intrusted
to him, and in most cases his fees were
enormous. He won for the City of San
Francisco what was known as the city
slip suit, and received for his services a
quarter of million dollars. He was
one of the counsel in the famous Mari
posa suit, and was paid in land and
money over 81 100000. In several 9TH
er suits his fees ranged between $4,000
and $4,000. He was attorney for the
late James Lick, and managed the
change which that philanthropist made
short time before his death in the trus-
tees of his property. For his tact and
skill in bringing this delicate task to a
successful issue Mr.. Lick is said to have
paid him 100000. During the past 20
years it is believed that he received
nearly s2,0o0,00o in fees for professional
services.
RUSSIAN railroads date back to 1888.
The first line opened was from St.
Petersburg to Zarskoe-Selo and Paw
losk. The road from Warsaw to the
Austrian frontier was built Immediately
afterward, and then the line from St.
PETERSBURG to MOSCOW In the bepin-