The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18
HERE AND THERE.
A WOMAN of sOuthwick, Mass, dimes

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suits for breach of promise of marriage
brought by different women at the same
time.
A WILD BOAR weighing over 500
pounds and having tusks nine inches
long was killed near Healdsburg, Cal,
recently.
A NEWLY married couple got drunk
at Lexington, Mich, few hours after
their wedding, and the groom struck
his mother and father-in-law, and the
latter cracked the young mans head
with an ax-helve.
WHILE it has been generally claimed |
that Manitoba has an unusually mild |
climate, the published statistics of the |
Canadian Government show that it is |
one of the coolest inhabited portions of
British North America in winter, and
that the summer, although short, is very
warm.
THE Chinese Government has pub
lished the journal of its English Am
bassador. The object is to familiarize
the public mind with liberal views. The
Government is ahead of public senti-
ment, and desires railways, telegraphs,
ETC., but is compelled to hasten very
slowly in the prosecution of such
schemes. The journal evinces great in
telligence and power of observation.
Mrs. LUCY SPENCER, who died in
Boston a few days since at the age of 40,
was the largest woman in New England.
She weighed 400 pounds at the time Of
her death, and around her chest meas
ured 20 inches. Her coffin was 80
inches wide, IS inches deep, 6 feet long,
and it required 10 men to lift it on the
day of her funeral.
A SAN FRANCISCO maiden upon
whose head bloom the daisies, under
whose chin smile the buttercups, and
around whose eyes are the crow-tracks
of sixty-five passionate summers, has
sued a giddy boy who only escaped his
mothers apron-strings seventy tleeting
years ago for $4,000 for breach of
promise. Thus does the tedious mo-
notony of law sap the fire of youth.
AMONG the novelties of the coming
Paris exhibition will be youth of II
with feet shaped precisely like his hands.
He can use them for the same purposes,
and plays upon The piano with both
hands and feet, having peculiar chair,
which enables him to curl his body into
the necessary position. He is a very
good performer, and speaks both En-
glish and German. His French is ye'
imperfect.
THE Republic of Guatemala is the
first State which has made the trade il
wine and spirits Government monOpo
: ly. From the LIST of January, 1878
private individuals are prohibited, &C
cording to decree of the Government
recently promulgated, from importing
wine and spirits into that country; anC
from the LIST of July following the who'll
of the business passes into the hands o
the Government.
,, THE air-pump is the most dangerou
: tool employed by burglars. There is
small space between the outer and innel
sheets of metal on the safe doors, al
: ways lett by the manufacturer, and by
exhausting the air with the pump flint
!, powder may be forced into the cavity a
the rate of an inch in an hour. To pre-
=. vent this some manufacturers fill tn
space with q layer of rubber, which fit
. into the inequalities of the metal an
makes n solid door.
70 WHILE excavating a cellar at Hart Z
. Hensley's pork-packing establishment
y says the Nashville american, the work
men came across a densely crowded Ii
dian graveyard, where whole skeleton
were found, the heads lying toward th
east. With them were found the usu;
earthen pottery. The workmen save
=, the skulls, and at last accounts wen
70 peddling them out for nickel apiece
W Alas, poor Yorick!
es ABOUT a hundred students from I'll
y universities of Wurtemburg, Tubingel
~ Erlangen, and Heidelberg lately align
=? ed from a train at Konigshofen, ant
proceeding to hotel, took possessio
ee of the dining-room, and had series
It.. duels for the honor of their respecti'
ri corporations. Each university was r.
Sc presented by an equal number of con
n batants, and surgeons were on hand IL
at the wounded. The duels were with Il
IN customary rapiers, and the customal
n padding was used. The wounds wei
d. few and slight.
er THERE seems to be no reason
rs doubt the statement that an actual dew
fish, of enormous size, was recent
We driven ashore on the coast of New
Is foundland 1t is on, exhibition at S
IL Johns, and is described by the Nor
IL Star as apparently an enormous squi
)u 40 feet inches in length, rs measure
at by the editor himself. Ten arms, tv
r. of them so feet inches in length, ar
be each of them as thick as a mans LEI
ladiate from the head, thickly set wit
It, suckers over the entire length, vii
al which the creatures prey is clasped ar
s, Rugged close to the parrot-like bes
a; while it feeds. o'l isF-
i'll Mrs. ELIZABETH WEBER, who di'
of of hydrophobia in Boston the other da
was bitten through the nail of the Sc
es ond finger of the right hand, on Ju
he 81, by her own pet dog. Pains appea
ps in her arm on Sept. %, which she a
ny tributed to rheumatism; they increases
IN and the physician attributed it to :
10 bad cold" Even after she turned ava
tn from water with aversion, an
so her throat had swollen frightfull
lrl so that she gasped for BREATH III