The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-04-26
HERE AND THERE.

The San Ffancisco Mail believes that
twenfvnihe lashes on the bare back will
tone an offender up much quicker than
three months in Jail
THE GrandA Jury Of Caroline County,
Nd, has been unable to find any indict
ment against Fred May or James Cor
don Bennett relative to their duel.
VICTOR HUGO has been hoaxed by
somebody claiming to BIZ the grandson
of the Breton chief, John Chouan, who
sent him a letterof Observation-Disclosures
of that worthy. Hugo rushed the letter
into print, as usual, and, after a grand
discharge of fire-rockets, finds there IS
no such person as the pretended writer
of the letter in existence. nj aua 80
=; iSEvENrY-FIvEl trains an hour pass
Chaplain Junction, about four miles
from London, during the busiest part OF
the dav, while taking the whole "a
hours, 912 pass. Thirteen, lines there
converge, and the Southwestern Rail-
road alone has 95'sets of points and 80
signals worked from one signal box,
from which four distinct sets of traffic
are controlled. .,..;s4 av
The latest dodge OF. the whisky thieves
to cheat the Government is to place
glvcerine in the barrels, the effect of
which is to reduce the proof from 4 to
5 per cent? .Molasses has heretofore
been used for this PURPOSE but it dis.
colors the liquor and leaves taste,
which glycerine does not. BY simple
process of distillation the glyceripe can
be thrown off, and no traces of it left. I
THE increase of the population of
Berlin is very remarkable. On the
2Sth of February last a census gave the
whole number of inhabitants at l,0OO,-
500. Berlin is now the fourth city in
Europe in point of population and the
ninth in the world. twenty-five years
aeo Berlin was the ninth most populous
city in Europe and twenty-seventh i'll
the world. iaiqOm.1i1m ri.
R.H. GREENE of Hoosac, n. Y, was
thought to be dead, and his body was
placed in a vault. AS he had narrowly
escaped burial while in a trance several
wears since, his wife was requested to
visit his body until no doubt of death
existed. It. is stated that two weeks
later signs of life were noticed, and the
body was removed from the vault, At
tending physicians pronounced the case
one of suspended animation. % . .'''-l
THEY attempted to take one of Bar
NUNS new giraffes across Rhode Island
last week, according to the Boston Her.
aid, but Just as it was on the Massachu-
sets line it reached over and ate up half
| of haystack in farm-yard in Con-
necticut, and when the farmer came out
with club and attacked the JConnecti-
cut end, the Massachusetts end got mad
and kicked aman in Boston and nearly
killed him. 1t created good deal OF
excitement at the time in Rhode Island,
and most of the people stepped out Of
| the State until it was over. 5EE
IN 1855 Napoleon III. proposed a
prize of $4,000 francs for the most i'm
portant Improvement made in the use
of voltaic electricity during the previous
ten years Theprize was last awarded
to NJ! Ruhmk orif, who, it is known, is d
German physicist established in Paris.
| The Minister of Public Instruction, NJ.
Waddington, has recently appointed a
iurv to award the prize for the third
time The prize is open to the whole
world, and any improvement in any in
dustry using voltaic electricity comes
within the range of competition, 1t
would be gratifying to citizens of this
country should Mr.. Graham Bell, of
Boston, receive the award for his won
derful invention of the telephone. -'
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have planned to mark the exact
hour of noon in New York, by dropping
a large time-ball from its staff high over
their building, and in a position to be
seen from the shipping in the harbor.
The exact moment of noon will be indi-
Gated in New York by telegraph from
the United States Naval Observatory at
Washington, while the movement of the
ball will be recorded by an electrical APP
paratus to serve for comparisons which
NAV secure exactness. The apparatus
is particularly valuable in sea-ports, and
the company are prepared to Introduce
4 it and also to distribute the noon sig
nal wherever the necessary expenses are
paid. i5t i..ai sil ra gn.so1r m4uI d.
PROGRESS is reported at the Green
witch, Observatory in reducing the OBJ
servations made on the last transit of
Venus. Two of the most recent calcu-
lations required the use of 100000
figures. The French attempts at OBJ
tanning new figures for the SUMS distance
by the study of the photographs taken
during the transit have been reported as
. turning out badly. 1t is even doubted
whether the photographs can be used at
all for this calculation. Better results
| are hoped for at Washington from the
| photographs taken by the American ex-
petitions; but the work proceeds very
slowly, because the appropriations by
Congress were much smaller than had
been iexnected GG 9-G7i4N 40 sH
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