The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-08
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London.
THE good people Of Lancaster, Pa,
are moving in a scheme for the conse-
Grafton of park and colossal statue
in their midst to the memory Of Robert
Fulton. Lancaster was the birthplace
of Fulton, and bis fame is dear to the
inhabitants of that village.
THE orchestra at theater in China
is composed as follows: Gongs, iddles,
glass trumpets, bamboo flutes, casti-
nets and tambourines. When all these
get started, the music begins. On the
stage, men invariably play all the parts,
including those of women, the absence
of breeches and beard enabling them to
de so with entire IMMUNITY.
A MOST atroeious plot has Just been
blocked by the arrest OF Newton Ho-
yer, a well known resident of Livings-
ton, N. Y, who had deliberately
planned to murder the entire family of
his uncle, Abram Post, and burn up
their house, containing evidences of his
indebtedness to Post. Hover's arrest
was made By a detective. who assumed
the role of tramp and pretended to
join a gang of roughs that Hover had
engaged to assist him.
The meanest man in America lives
in Lodi, Ohio. He is a well-to-do
farmer, and his mother lives alone in a
small house near his farm. He sup
plies her with fresh milk from his dairy
and makes her pay for it. She does
not require much milk-only enough to
dilute her tea morning and evenings
few tablespoonfuls a day. He has as
certained how many spoonfuls a quart
measure contains, and keeps count of
the number which she receives daily.
When the quantity consumed approx
mates q quart he presents his bill.
Milk sells for three cents a quart in the
town.
One day recently two young ladies
named Ruby were driving on the road
between Waukesha and Brookfeld
junction, Wis, and while crossing the
railway track about two miles west of
the latter place, the horse stopped di-
rectly in front of an approaching train.
The occupants of the cutter, perceiving
their perilous position, lost no time in
unloading themselves, and had barely
succeeded in doing so when the engine
struck the balky animal, throwing him
some distance in front, squarely across
the track. Immediately the cow-catch-
er again struck him, throwing the car
cass 10 feet to one side.
THE other evening, while j. w.
Wright of Bristol, Penn, was enjoying
the society of his family, the front door
burst open, and horse made frantic
effort to drag sleigh after him into
the hallway. A gentleman and lady
were riding down the street opposite
the house, when a train of cars dashed
by and frightened the horse. The
sleigh was overturned, and the Occu-
pants were dumped into a snow-bank.
The horse made q break for the door,
and after swapping the harness in the
hall was corraled in the dining-room.
ONE Machand, in 1872, was con-
demned in Paris to years imprison-
ment for swindling; he left France,
wandered, did the Centennial, returned
to his native land, well dressed and ac-
complished. He not only solicited, I'M
der an assumed name, employment in
a shop, but succeeded by his elegant
manners in winning the proprietor's
daughters hand. A few days ago the
wedding guests were assembled, the
bride in tulle, orange flowers, youth,
innocence, and smiles; the party was
preparing to set out for the Mayors
Office, when two detectives arrived,
handcuffed the bridegroom, and led
him off to purge his contempt in the
Mazas prison.
A CORRESPONDENT of the English
Mechanic insists that musical sounds
stimulate the growth Of plants. He
gives an instance in point. In barren
section of Portugal he built a small
conservatory, and endeavored to culti-
vate roses and other flowers under shell
ter, but in spite of his precautions and
industry, they did not flourish. One
day he took a harmonium into the
greenhouse, and played for several
hours. The practice ne maintained for
several months, and was surprised to
see a gradual but rapid recovery of
health on the part of his plants. He
attributes their improvement to the in
fuenee of music, aad unfolds the theo-
ry that the singing Of birds is conducive
to vegetable life.
THE toilet of Japanese damsel IS
matter of no light consideration, and to
be in good time for the fair she must be
up and dressing long before the sun
rises from behind the great sacred
mountain, Fuji. The long, coarse
tresses of raven black hair must be
washed, combed and creased till the
head shines like knob of polished
blackmarble; the cheeks must be rouged
to the proper tint; the throat, neck
and bosom powdered, carefully leaving,
however, on the nape of the neck three
lines of the original brown skin OF the
owner, in accordance with the rules OF
the Japanese cosmetic art; the eye
brows must be carefully rounded and
touched with black; the lips REDEEMED
with cherrY-paste, with patch of gid
ing in the center.
THERE seems at last reasonable
probability that Cieopatra's Needle,
which was given by Mehemet Ali TO the
British Government, and which has re-
NAMED 50 long on the shore at Alex