The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-27
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hours.
THERE hasn't really been very much
prophet in the whaling business since
Jonah died.
ASA HOWELL, of Wilson, n. c., aged
80, has just married his fifth wife,
modest maiden of &c. He went over
the hill to the Poor-house to get her.
JACKSON COUNTY, Iowa, has an old
oak tree on which, during the past IS
years, no less than seven men have been
hanged by vigilance committees.
THE belief that baptism ought to be
administered by immersion, with the
face downward, has spread among the
Southern negroes, and in Raleigh, re-
Gently, 81 chose that mode.
A VESSEL left Scotch port recently
with 500 hogsheads of wine on board.
1t is intended to take twelve months
voyage, the object being to improve the
wine by passage through the tropics.
Two young adventures made the de-
scent of the Long Sault rapids, in the
st. Lawrence, in a rowboat-four miles
mas many minutes. The feat had been
accomplished twice.
THE Potter journal says that the
farmers in that part of Pennsylvania
have discovered that the thrush will not
only eat the potato-bugs, but that it
soon succeeds in exterminating that
pest.
A FRENCHNIAN recently paid $4,000
for collection of old postage-stamps ;
another collection sold in London for
$4,000, and 81, 800 has lately been refused
for third. -. .i-
THE greatest achievement in the mat
ter of railroad speed on record in Amer
lea was that of train on the Canada.
Southern Railroad, which accomplish
ed continuous run of Ill miles in 100
minutes.
Mr.. DANIEL WARD, of Stickleyville,
Virginia, has just died, at the age of
10. He was a wealthy farmer, and
himself superintendent his business dur
ing part of every day up to the time
of his death.
A REQUEST of $4,000 has been left
by w. L. j. Kederien, to the Protestant
Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, for
the benefit of sick and destitute natives
of the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, and
next to them, other natives of Germ any.
THE force of the wind is easily meas
ured by an thermometer. Seven miles
an hour is a gentle air; IA miles light
breeze; 81 miles a good steady breeze;
40 miles a gale; 60 miles a heavy storm,
and so to 100 miles sweeping hurri
cane
THE discovery of the satellite of Mars
is owing to the fact that this planet is
many millions of miles nearer the earth
at present than for nearly so years.
Take a good look at Mars now; you will
not see him so big and bright again for
nearly century to come-and it is
trifle doubtful if you will then.
On the summit of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, in passing over to Silver
Lake, is seen the name of Kit Carson,
carved by himself on hemlock tree in
1874. He shaved off the rough outside
bark with butcher-knife, then cut his
name and the date so deep in the bark
underneath that both are perfectly dis
tinct to this day.
SENATOR BooTH said in a recent
stump-speech: "My friend, you must
remember that, outside of yourself and
myself, and your friends and my friends,
and your wife and the woman | hope to
marry, there is not absolute, entire, and
immaculate perfection in more than
5000 or 10000 people, even in this very
virtuous town."
THE Natal Mercury says that eight
additional wives of Nosingela, King of
the Maputa River, had decamped, but
that five of them were caught in the
bush. He ordered them to be strangled
in the following manner: A noosed
rope was placed round the neck of each,
and while a negro pulled at each end,
another struck it violently with heavy
stick, in order still further to tighten it.
IT is said at Suffolk, Va, that the
wife of Alfred Davis, who was recently
drowned with his two sons, was once
saved from death by a pet cat. The
family were sick and in dire poverty
the wife apparently dying, when the
cat brought in from the field young
hare, which was made into soup. The
next day the cat brought in plump
partridge, which restored the woman to
comparative health.
AT last a practical and sensible idea
has received Endorsement at the Iowa
State Agricultural College, for the ben
eft of young women. 1t is kitchen,
where the girls are daily taught the in
of cooking, under the super
vision of Mrs. Welch, wife of the Presi-
dent, a very worthy and sensible wom-
an, who has a just appreciation of wom-
ans wants in practical life. The girls
are divided into classes, and each day
the forenoon is spent in the kitchen, and
the cooking for the college is done by
students. The surplus of cake and fancy
pastry is sold to the masculine students
The girls seem to be delighted with this
new departure, and enter into the work
with energy and interest. The range
Of study will embrace every thing
known to the art, and the girl who does
not learn to make good bread and pastry
and cook meals properly will be poor
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A CORRESPONDENTS writing from Bonn
pay, says: g The children seldom have
any thing on them but little red cord
led around their waists. One of my
shoes strings would make suit of