The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-19
HERE AND THERE.

fees.
BILLY WHITE, Georgia's strong ne
gro, kills steer by throwing it over his
head, and lifts 200-pound man by the
belt With his teeth.
DURING the first three months of the
year 268 persons were killed and 500 in
jured on the railways of the United
Kingdom.
THE water of Deep Spring Valley
Lake in California is so strongly charged |
with borax that ducks become loaded !
down with its .crystalhzations, and thus
are easily taken by the Indians.
A CHINESE murderer in the Jail at
Austin, New, falls on his knees and be-
gins to repeat the Lords Prayer when
ever he hears any body near his cell.
He hopes in that way to enlist sympathy,
it is supposed.
THE beauties of litigation are well
illustrated in case tried before Geo. j.
Earle, a Justice of the Peace in Lexing-
ton, Minnesota. The contest was about
sheep valued at So. Costs of suit S34,
attorneys fees $50, making S64, or
eight times the price of the sheep. The
contestants ought to feel sheepish.
THERE is prisoner in the California
Penitentirry who was once severely bit
ten by catamount, and who now, as a
supposed result, has terrible spasms,
during which he is animated by the
most savage of feline instincts. The
spasms do not at all resemble those pro-
duced by hydrophobia, and do not in
jure his general health.
DIR. VALENTINE Mort, New York
physician, testified recently that his in
come was 800 per day and that he is
by no means a prominent physician.
Imagine the size of the charges of a
leading medical man in New York.
THERE is cave in Schoharie County,
n. Y, accidentally discovered by Lester
Howe, 80 years ago, whose air is said to
have beneficial effect upon pulmonary
diseases. 1t also contains lake, the
water of which is remarkably pure and
refreshing.
THE birthday of the Prophet was eel
ebrated at Cairo this year with the ira
ditional passage of the mounted imaum
over the bodies of the faithful. These
were mainly from the lowest classes
camel and donkey drivers, grooms, etc.
and numbered some 800, over whose
PROSTATE forms the imaum rode for a
quarter of an hour. There were the
usual casualties, broken arms and ribs
and fractured skulls, while some 10 OF
the fanatics have already died or are
likely to do so.
A MOST fatal affair took place in the
Parish of st. Martin, says the Abbeville
Oa.) MeridionGl, in the shape of q
duel, which was the result of a difficulty
at a ball a day or two previous. The
difficulty occurred between two young
men, both of excellent families, the one
by the name of Babin and the other by
the name of Ducrest; the arms selected
were pistols, distance rs yards. At the
first shot we are informed young Du-
crest was shot to the heart and died in
stantly.
GANDER-PULLING was the chief spor
: at a recent church festival at Waco
: Texas. The Sunday-school Superin
tendent succeeded in catching the birt
and dragging off its head. The gam
consists in riding on horseback undo
the gander, which is securely tied b,
the legs at such height as to requir
considerable dexterity in the person VIII
reaches for the squirming head of tn
poor creature. The more the gande
writhes and wriggles, the greater tn
shout which the church people send u
when the Superintendent or any othe
man carries off the prize.
SEVERAL dozen canary birds, in gid
; ed cages, made Trinity Methods
Church, Chicago, vocal with the singini
on the recent Sunday which was appro
priated to the children. The birds mad
such a noise that they really took tn
lead in the services. The music of tn
organ and the singing of the congrega
ton had an unexpected effect on tn
: feathered songsters, who pitched thei
little pipes and screamed as if to try t
> drown all music but their own. TIL
children laughed, the big people wer
disturbed, and it was generally agree
4 that the celebration of the next "Chi
dren's Day. should take place withOu
J, the assistance of canaries.
THE one vegetable which serves a
, purposes, and seems to be absolutely in
dispensable to every Japanese, whethe
high or low, is the radish. They hav
developed it to gigantic proportions, tn
roots being often three feet long an
three inches in diameter. The color
always white. They eat it raw wit
salt; they boil and serve it as we d
turnips; they pickle it in brine, top
and roots, and consume the result i
:, vast quantities; they dry the tops an
roots and feed upon them, and, worst {
: all, they hang them on poles in tn
fields to freeze and thaw all winter, an
t then consider the shriveled remain
worth eating.
GEN. SICKLEs's daughter, Laura, ha
only lately heard of the blot on he
} mothers name, and the poor girl ha
taken it so much to heart that she ha
y entered French convent, where she
now expiating her mothers sin. Laur
/ was mere child at the time of tn
. tragedy, and never knew her mother
disgrace. She was carefully educated
} and, when her father was appOinte
; minister at Madrid, Laura went wit
U him and did the honors of her father
q house. She is very lovely woman
IS almost the image of her mother. Ger
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