The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-04
HERE AND THERE.


hollow ranging from six to nine inches
in diameter.
ELIJAH A. MORSE, of Morse Bros.s
the 90 Rising Sun Stove POLISH man,
has been nominated for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts by the Tenn
perance party.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ, on trial in Corpus
Christi, Texas, was set upon in court
and choked almost to death by the moth
err of the man whom he was accused of
numbering.
ONE pound of rice goes as far to sat
isfying hunger and in nutriment as eight
pounds of flour; and two pounds of po-
tatoes are equal to one pound of flour.
Mr.. MONTGOMERY SEARS, the wealthy
young Bostonian, who was married the
other day TO Miss Choate, gave his bride
wedding present of a residence cost
ing $4,000.
E. S. JAFFRAY, the well known dry
goods merchant of New York, goes and
comes from his summer residence at
Irvington, on the Hudson, every day in
a steam yacht, which is one of the fastest
ever built.
AN old army engineer recommends
for the mosquitoes an application to the
person of a mixture of coal-tar oil five
ounces, glycerine two ounces, and oil of
pennyroyal one ounce. 1t washes of
readily, and is not disagreeable.
THE owners of the Mammoth Cave
now search visitors, to be sure that no
instruments are taken in by which the
bearings of the cavity can be ascertain
ed. They fear that an entrance may be
made on somebody else's land, and the
profit of the cave be thus divided.
A LIFE-sIzE bust of Pongo, the Lon
don gorilla, has been made by Picca-
dilly firm. The London daily Neo0s
commends it, but thinks the full render
ing of the soft and playful expression of
the eye, which is so remarkable in Mas
ter Pongo, is probably beyond the reach
of the modeler's art. .-.... ......... .
Two English barristers, William Ar
mold Lewis and Noel Paterson, with
their three guides, lost their lives in the
Alps recently. They fell distance of
several thousand feet, the apparent
cause of the fall being thatan overhang-
ing snow cornice had given way as the
party passed over it. -..r
THE old physicians used to Insist upon
the dangers of plunging into the water
for swim when the system is heated
and the perspiration free. At present
the best English doctors, such as For
dyce, Currie, Parsons, and Sir Charles
Blagdon, say that then is the very best
possible time to take bath.
A CORRESPONDENT from the seat of
war on the Russian side, writes to a
London paper: "Put Turk in q
ditch, give him gun, a sackful of
cartridges, loaf of bread, and a jug of
water, and he will remain there week
or month under the most dreadful ar
, tillery fire that can be directed against
him, without fiinching."
A Moscow letter gives q melancholy
picture of the amount of household
goods thrown on the market there by
the breaking up of peasant families,
whose heads have been drafted into the
army. Thousands of mattresses and
tea-urns are offered for sale, the prices
of provisions are rising, and the quarter
settling day for rent and all bills were
looked forward to with apprehension.
In the Royal Academy, London, this
year, is an admired illustration of a
somewhat ancient event, in which a
waste of waters, dove and a piece of
timber are the principal features. This
remark of lady bystander was over
heard: "How l dislike these perpleX-
ing pictures in which one never knows
what is intended! A pigeon in a tree
by the seaside suggests absolutely moth
ing"
ONE hundred little brown jugs, each
about the size of a pint cup, and having
slit in the top to admit money, were
distributed TO members of Baltimore
Methodist congregation. Money was
collected in them, and one evening, after
a supper, the jugs were returned rat
Ting with coin. When all was ready
the jugs were broken one by one and
the contents counted. Prizes of Bibles
were awarded to those who had been
the most successful in their collections.
A GAINESVILLE CIV. Va.) signer of
the Murphy pledge went to Wheeling a
few days, and after transacting his bust
ness, and while waiting for the train to
take him home, was induced to forget
his pledge to such an extent as to get
drunk. He fell asleep as soon as the
cars started, and the conductor had no
easy task to awaken him. After he
was aroused, instead of presenting his
ticket he handed the Conductor his
Murphy pledge. The Conductor punch
ed the pledge and wrote on it, zone
drunk The GAINESVILLE gentleman's
dismay may be imagined when the next
day he exhibited his pledge to prove he
was a Murphy man.
Mr.. ALFRED SIMPSON has given an
interesting account of the manners and
customs of the Zaporas of Ecuador. The
mode of courtship presents some sug-
gestive features. The enamored swain
goes to the woods and hunts game;
when he has procured it, he presents it
to the maiden of his choice. This con-
stitutes the proposal, if she accepts, she
cooks the meat. Hence, before enter
ing upon the bonds of matrimony, the
Zapora sutton has the great advantage
over civilized wooers of being assured
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