The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
HERE AND THERE.

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A WOMAN butcher and man milliner
occupy adjoining stalls in Washington
Market, New York.
If you don't want to be robbed of
your good name, don't have it painted
on your umbrella.
A WOMAN may not be able to sharpen
a pencil or hold an umbrella, but she
can pack more articles into q trunk l
than man can into a one-horse wagon |
WHOEVER expects more of this life |
than victuals and clothes, with little |
spare change for the circus, is doomed
to broken-hearted old age-if he does
not die sooner as a martyr to his feel
ings.
WEALTHY Cinnamon of San Francisco
are suspected of Gripping the feet OF
their little girls, after the fashion IN
their own country. All Moon is under
arrest for having removed the bones
from his daughters feet, so that they
could be compressed.
The Sunday-school at Tilton, n.y.,
passed a resolution last spring that any
scholar attending the circus should pay
cents to the treasury, any teacher %
cents, and the superintendent So. A
nice crisp V was put in the box last Sun
day, and the superintendent still wears
his summer hat.
FIFTEEN thousand dollars in gold was
paid for a watch chain and locket to a
ieweler in Manchester, England. They
contain $40 diamonds, and in the center
of the hook is a stone of IL karats.
There are 20 links to the chain, all of
which are studded with diamonds, and
the locket contains the monogram of
the owner.
THERE is a new sect in Russia called
the Purifiers, belonging to the Greek
Church. Their leading doctrines are
that all must marry on coming of age,
that the husband must be subordinate to
the wife, and recognize her as the head
of the family, and that once week he
2 must confess his sins to his wife.
l TURKISH women do all their shop
ping at the doors of the stores in Pera,
and the generally a Greek
or an Armenian who speaks Turkish
must 90 to the carriage window with
: the things they wish to purchase. An
ordinance of the Minister of Police pro
o hibits a Turkish woman from entering
u any store in the Frank quarter.
y THE hospice on the Great st. Bernard
!, was founded in this famous pass of the
Alps over 900 years ago by Bernard dc
. Mention, q Savoyard nObleman. 1t is
said to be the highest habitation il
Europe, and is occupied by about
. dozen st. Augustine monks and theil
dogs, who annually rescue many human
u lives.
U SATsUMA, the well known japanese
. statesman, and Saigo, the great Japan
u csc soldier, who some time since organ
e lied a rebellion against the young Mi
u kado because he had introduced gov
II ernmental reforms in sympathy with
IL Western civilization, have been defeat
=" ed. and, in accordance with the cheer
!. full practice of that country, have com
. mitted " hari-kari."
THE Russian Gen. SkobelOf is Onl,
. SO years old, and the very beau ideal o
a soldier; handsome, shapely in limb
- resolute yet refined in countenance
elegant in dress and department;
superb horseman, and a man daring be
: yond description. Nothing suits hir
better than some expedition which ha
- almost the character of fOrlOrn hope
= he is at his best when, galloping at tn
head of his cavalry, he runs imminen
!. risk of being cut or shot down within
few minutes.
} ACCORDING to the French papers i
I Canada q wonderful miracle occurre
at La Bonnie St. AIMS on Sunday, whe
ho A French Canadian woman in Quebec
" who has been lame for years and had
use crutches, was, Immediately afte
w. partaking of communion, cured OF he
lameness, and returned home withor
her crutches. A French Canadian who
" Is years ago, joined the Baptist Churcl
was, on witnessing this, reconverted
:" the Catholic faith.
- A WRITER in Nature describes a sill
nj gular dream phenomenon which latel
o,, occurred to him. He had not slept fC
bo Al hours, and while writing in his diar,
was overcome by slumber. The dreal
re woven during this sleep was entirely +
ID mote from his previous waking thought
to When reused from the spell of uncol
id seriousness, which had lasted scarcely
,o- minute, he discovered that the act
, a writing had been uninterrupted, and
re- much of the dream had been recordt
yer as time had allowed.
ne- MR.. SAMUEL PAGE, of Boston, HI
it been working for nearly three years
q induce horse owners to take the bin
nv ers off from the brides. Mr.. Pa!
,rv claims that horse requires less to ke'
ots him, is healthier every way, can {
nd more work, and is in much better conc
ton when not forced to wear binder
not Some of the horse-railroad compani
Id. have accepted his view of the case, al
be- find that 10 horses without binders W
use do the work of 20 with. The refor
Id will probably go on successfully.
IN In the Globe Theater, Boston, Cla
Ich Butler, the wife of Frank Frayne, viii
nd shooting at an apple in her husband
hand, took off the two first fingers of
.he left hand. Frayne took it so quiet
.he that no one in the audience was enable
he to perceive the accident that lad TAX
ort place. The same afternoon, the woun
lad ed man, after losing great deal
ng blood, had the fingers amputated at Il
lse middle Joint 1t is curious that MI