The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-24
HERE AND THERE.

THE English last year drank nearly
Is, 600, 900 gallons of French and Span
ish wines, to say nothing of an occasion
al 90 of gin and glass of hold hale for
holidays.
ToLEDo people are proverbiaIly eco
A man who died in that city
the other day left word that the door
plate should be taken off and screwed on
the top of his coffin.
THE Journal de ST. Petersburg says
that the most northerly telegraph once
in the world has just been set up. III Is
at Norwegian fishing-statiOn named
Gjesvor, little above the seventy-iirst
parallel N.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE paper relates that
al Newton, in that State, mad dog,
after having been wounded, took refuge
in barn, where some of the hay became
soaked with his blood. The hay was
fed to a horse, which went mad.
A REGULAR legation viii be establish
ed in Washington by the Chinese in a
month or two. A considerable share of
its attention is to be devoted to the
large number of Mongols eolonized in
Cuba 1t may also look little after
the hoodlum element on the Pacific
Coast.
A REMARKABLE man has just died at
Grimesthorp, near Sheffield, England.
He was named John Carr, was SO years
old, and had followed the Fitzwilliam
hounds every year for so years. Hewa
a noted runner and walker, and walked
Is miles every day until shortly before
his death.
The latest thing out are ''mum' par
ties, where those assembled may nod,
wink, grimace, beckon, point, pinch,
motion, cough, sneeze, whistle, dance,
drink, go to sleep, or indulge in paEto-
mine, but whatsoever forgets, and speaks,
pays % cents to church fund.
ENGLISH people in humble life set
their superiors in position an excellent
example us regards simplicity in mar
rage. In Leeds, Derby, and other places,
the artisans often work up to breakfast
time, get married between breakfast
and dinner, and after their last-named
meal 90 back to their labor for the rest
of the day.
PROF. LEE Tom has opened a Con-
servatory of Music in San Francisco
with the design of training the Chinese
youth for the orchestra in the Chinese
theater. There are four instruments
the Chinese fiddle, the zung-fu, or devils
banjo, the tabor, and the tOm-tom. The
latter is like brass skillet turned over
and beaten with sticks.
COUNT ALEXANDER HUM, a Russian,
killed man in a fight, fled to the Unit
ed States, fell into abject poverty and
worked as waiter in saloon in Eure-
ka, Nevada. Lately he received inform
alton of his pardon and restoration to
his former position of Colonel in the
| army. He has started for home.
THREE years ago, says the Sacrament
to Bee, a man went to Tulare County
and invested $4,000, gold, in the sheep
business. A few days ago he left that
county with only $3.50. That man has
discovered that there is money in sheep.
In his case there was just S4,99S.50 in
| thapn and there IL Staved
ACCORDING to E ID. Potter, Fish
Commissioner of Ohio, the success of the
experiment of introducing the salmon of
California into the tributaries of Lake
Erie is beyond peradventure, as the
young fish are very frequently seen and
taken in the Maumee and Sandusky riv-
ers, where they were planted some time
ago.
AN ironclad war steamer for the Jap
anese Government has been launched
in London. The Japanese Minister was
present, and christened it FOu So, from
mountain in Japan. At the accom-
panying lunch the Chinese Minister pro-
posed toast to the success of the Jap
anese marine. The vessel is 220 feet
long, and has an armOr nine inches
thick.
! Tom NATO had a toothache while
prisoner in the San Francisco Jail. The
prison physician tried to pull out the
tooth, but the instrument was rusty, and
he gave up the effort, after several tugs,
remarking, 81 amt much of a dentist,
anyhow" Nato's jaw was permanently
disfgured, and now he sues the city for
$4,000 damages.
AN estimate has lately been made of
the number of camels in the world. Al
geria has 10000, Tunis, $4,000, of
which $4,000 belong to the Bey; Egypt
and Arabia are believed to have nearly
100000; Spain is credited with about
5000, most of them being in the Canary
Islands. The central portion of Asiatic
Russia has $50, 900; in the Punjaub, India,
there are 10000; 5000 are employed
in the caravans between Bokhara and
Russia; China and Mongolia have more
than 100000; and Persia and Turkey
nearly 100000. The latter, in common
with Egypt, uses camels and dromeda-
ries largely for military purposes.
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