The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-20

"A veteran aged rs has been fined
$50 and sent to jail for month for as
serting that Marshal MacMahon is ad
dicted to absinthe, and was under its
baneful influence when he resolved to
make coup d'etdt.
When the Empress Eugenia first
visited Queen Victoria after her flight
from France, she threw herself in the
Queens arms and cried, amid tears and
sobS, go! it was all my fault-Louis
did not want the war, but | would have
it,"
One of Lydia Thompson'S burlesque
actresses, Camille Dubois, who journey
ed all over America, dancing clog
dances and singing nursery rhymes, has
had the good fortune to win the affec-
ton of the Hon. Wyndam Stanhope,
who has welded her.
The spread of fever has lately been
directly traced to attending wakes, and
the medical papers in England are ask
ing the Roman Catholic clergy to use
their influence against them. The cler-
gy have long tried to abolish wakes, but
hitherto with little success either in Ire
land or America.
Some little excitement has been
created in Paris by the publication of
1.-The Legend of Magenta" in which
the author aims to prove, by the aid of
official documents, that MacNlahOn is
not entitled to the credit which he re-
ceived for exploits in the Italian cam
paign.
1t is a curious fact that, nOtwith-
standing the sure destruction of houses
built near the base of Mount Vesuyius,
sooner or later, still the Italians do not
cease to build there. The town OF
Terre del Greco, containing nearly ten
thousand inhabitants, is built entirely
upon the lava streams of 1851.
Ten mammoth cheeses from HeTki-
mer County, New York, have been
shipped to England for exhibition dur
ing the holiday season. Five were man
ufactured at the Newport factory, and
weigh 600 pounds each, and five at the
White Greek factOry-weight, 500
pounds each.
-Pongo, the gorilla, died so suddenly
and Unexpectedly at Berlin, that the
most lively curiosity has been excited
on the subject Distinguished anato-
mists presided at the post-mortem ex-
aminatiOn-Profs VirchOw and Hart
man; and there was gathering of emf
sent doctors at the dissecting-table.
POngO's death, it was ascertained, re-
suited from acute Inflammation of the
bowels one of the commonest diseases,
ard one of the most fatal of childhood.
In his stomach there were found a
glove-button, piece of wire, and some
pins; whether these things had any
thing 10 do with the Inflammation, the
doctors do not say.
-" As Wedgwood ware is so much in
present request, it may be of interest to
ceramic collectors" says the London
World, ''to know that there exists large
trouratIIe of the finest plaques, the 10
cality of which is perfectly asce1tained,
and vet, even to the most ardent of
china hunters, it is inaccessible. In the
suburbs of Birmingham is an old man
sion known as Heathfield Hall. This
was formerly the house OF James Watt,
the engineer. In one OF the upper
stories Watt had his workshop, and by
his will it was enjcined that the room /
and its contents should not be disturbed. I
So the room remains to this day as Watt |
left it; and in it are various cabinets and
drawers filed, not only with the finest /
examples of Wedgwood's p1Gques, but |
with priceless designs and molds, many |
of which are by Flaxman, who was one |
of Wedgwood's friends, and helped es-
seutially in the models from which /
worked. From a merely /
mercantile point of view, the value of |
these finished and unfinished works |
must be immense.