The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-22
HERE AND THERE.

VIRGINIA has a law subjecting per-
son to arrest and fine for profane swear
ing. ~
The Galveston Common Council
passed an ordinance ordering the clos
ing of saloons at midnight. Then four
of their number went to a saloon, and
drank and played billiards until morn
ing.
MAX STRAKosCH is already arrang-
ing to utilize the new telephone dis
eoVery in a concert, actually given at
Philadelphia, but with the audience
seated in the New York Academy of
Music. s.-.s 49,, --..st-4f
ELDER EVANS, the leader of the Leb-
anon Shakers, has started graveyard
on new plan. The graves are to be
20 feet apart, with a tree planted over
each, so that in time there will be a
handsome grove. ioll.l- A
AN Indianapolis woman, having
presentiment that she would die on her
birthday, summoned all her relations
to her side. The day came, and, Curl
ously enough, shelves on.
The senior partner of Coutts's Bank,
London, died the other day, aged s..
He is succeeded by the junior partner,
a raw youth of 80, who has had only 60
years. experience. r ff
THE poet who wanted to be Grang-
er, and wrote " Beneath the tall toma-
to-tree I'd swing the glittering hoe,"
was not so badly informed as he SEEM
ed. Mr.. Scott, of Los Angeles, Cal,
has tomato vine 25 feet high.
A ARCH church near Ithaca, N. Y,
is scandalized. A man had preached
for them most acceptably several times.
The officials held meeting to draw up
call, when the promising candidate
reeled it too drunk to stand up.
THERE were two precincts in the
United States where Cooper's vote was
larger than that of Tilden and Hayes
combined. At Morgantown, Ky, the
vote was: Cooper, III; Tilden, SO /;
Hayes, 70; and in the Fifth Precinct of
the adjoining county, Cooper received
121; Hayes 81, and Tilden 10.
AN aged female of Saratoga County,
N. Y, has just completed silk album
quilt upon which she has labored 80
years. 1t contains II, 900 pieces, each
piece representing a silk garment worn
by some friend or acquaintance. Her
name is Jerome, and she is now in her
seventy-sixth year. DR.
ONE day recently, as the men were
about descending to work in the Rising
Sun Mine, at Colfax, Cal, John Eddy
stepped into the tub, when the wire
rope parted, and he was precipitated
to the 700-foot level. His remains,
when found, were q shapeless mass.
Seven men at the bottom of the shaft
narrowly escaped death from the fall
ing bucket. '1f --
ACCORDING to the latest published
returns at the Office of the Adjutant-
Genaral at Washington the militia force
of the United States consists of 115
general officers, S95 general staff Of
ficers, 1,175 regimental, field and staff
officers, 1856 company officers, making
a total of 6,541 commissioned officers.
The number of non-commissioned Of
ficers, musicians, privates, etc, is 49,
S26, and the whole number of men
available for military duty, now I'M
organized, is 1915, 469.
II THE eucalyptus globulus, or fever
tree, which was to do away with South
ern plaques, is curiously enough sue
cumbing to fever's chief enemy, Frost
himself. The New Orleans Democrat
says: Every one of these trees planted
in the Lafourche country is dead
killed by our late cold winter; and
their late friends and admirers are con-
vinced that whatever be the virtues of
the tree, it will not exactly do for the
climate of Louisiana. ........ .....
A PARIS letter says young man of
good family, but scapegrace, named
Debouges, who had studied chemistry
to bad purpose, invented tube for
ejecting prussic acid, and with his ma
chine he poisoned in a railway train
going from Cassis to La Ciotat a fellow
traveller alone with him, named De
sales. He admits the deed, but says
he did it from hatred to mankind gen.
orally. The contents of the deceased's
portmanteau transferred to his own
negatives this pretext, and, an attempt
to set up insanity failing, Debouges
was condemned to 20years' penal servi-
tude. ....-..s ....-....r .... ....
BETHEL WALROND, OF Devonshire,
England, formerly member of Parlia-
ment for Saltash, has just died, aged
"A, leaving property, the contest for
which brings to light some remarkable
eecentricities. His house was secluded,
and he allowed rabbits to overrun the
grounds and even his dwelling. He
was passionately fond OF dogs, too, and
he kept the body of one that died in
Italy and his only daughter in lead
cofins under his bed. One provision
of his will directs that Fl, 900 be spent
in buying an annuity for his "dear
friend and dog, Dickey." These things
his friends, with all of whom he was at
enmity, think should prevent his money
going, as the will provides, to strangers.
ONE of those interminable arithmetic
fellows has been figuring on the natur-
al increase of quail, and makes the de-
scendants of each quail in five years
1875, making no allowance
for death from any cause, The calcu-
lations are based on each pair hatch
ing ten young quail at a brood, and
one brood year, though they often ex-
ceed these figures, and frequently raise
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