The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-13
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arms and legs facing the wrong way,
and its palate entirely omitted.
A soDA-FoUNTAIN blew up in an Al
bany drugstore, very recently, with
noise as loud as cannon. Damages
are estimated at 81 900.
SIxTY-oNE sheep which had congre-
gated under tree during a storm were
struck by lightning and killed in Cali
fornia the other day.
CIRCAssIAN women are selling their /
glorious hair in order to provide funds /
for the wounded soldiers. Some OF
their tresses, four feet two inches long,
are sold in London.
THE absolutely latest mammoth es-
tate in Europe awaiting American heirs
is the Van Fleet estate, left by an hon
est Dutchman hundred years ago to
be divided among his descendants OF
the third and fourth generation. Amount
s12, 900, 900. Heirs settled in New York
Ohio. Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and Cali
| fornia.
THE Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald pub
fishes the following: "There live with
in hailing distance of each other, near
Shop Spring, this county, four families.
The total number of children in the four
families is 80, three of the families pos
sessing IS children each, and the fourth
II. Thirty-nine of the children are
grandchildren of one man"
THE old Hospital Hotel Dieu at Paris
will soon be demolished, and the place
where it has so long stood-a dark, din
gy pile-will be laid out an elegant gar
den. Trees and flowers will be planted
therein. and the beautiful editice OF
Notre Dame will stand out in all its
beauty. unmarried by the neighborhood
of the old hospital.
Much has been written about the
freaks of nature this season in Southern
California, particularly fruit trees, but
fig tree in garden caps the climax
for eccentricity. This tree is OF the
white Smyrna variety. The first crop
ripened in June. The fruit was white
skinned and very large and most excel
lent. The tree put forth very full
second crop, and the figs are now ripe,
but the fruit is blue.
Two boys named bingham, residing
in the Township of Elk, Michigan, met
with a remarkably close escape from
death by lightning recently. They were
both in bed and the fluid came down the
stove-pipe, setting the bed-clothes on
| fire and giving both boys severe
shock. One of them was burned from
his head to his feet, and the blood flowed
out of his ear for some time afterward
He has since recovered.
Miss CHARLOTTE THORNTON, o
Woodford, KY, has an old black hors'
which goes straight to the blacksmith
> shop and deliberately walks in, unat
: tended, every time he loses a shoe. I
: negro boy usually rides him to driy'
:, COWS to and from the pasture. III
- other day the darby didn't come t.
time, and the intelligent horse drove tn
COWS to the pasture. At another time IA
went to the pasture alone and drove tn
! cows home.
: NOTWITHSTANDING the drought an
n ordinary crops below the average
grapes promise to be more abundant l
:. California this year than ever before
=. There are more than can be sold fo
! wine, and it is something of a prOblel
!. to know what to do with the super;
[e bundance A large San Francisco win
S. firm suggests to vineyardists that the
le 90 into brandy distilling as the mo-
G. compact and profitable disposition the
is can make of their grapes.
rs AYOUNG man in Rochester went, NJ
n long ago, to call upon some ladies. h
lie sent in his card, was kindly received
I'd and passed pleasant evening. II
ly next day one of the young ladies hal
he pened to pick up the card again, and c
Y. the back she found the following: "Ol
o. game of billiards, 10 cents; drinks,
IS cents; two games of pool, 40 cent
Id drinks, 20 cents; three games FrenC
m with Joe, 45 cents; drinks, 60 cents
V. The card was returned, with a note te
lie ING the young man he had lost his mel
IN Orandum.
IT, TIE ground of acquittal from murd
On upon which a young colored man G
Ill capped at Rockport, Ind, recently, w
that he believed his victim to be a ghos
, He was passing through the woods
night with gun, when suddenly
white object appeared in his pathwa
Terror-stricken, he mechanically raiS'
le: his weapon and fired, bringing the gho
al down MORALLY wounded-which, hO'
o. ever, turned out to be a colored neig
Dor walking home with a sheet wra
ped around him.
THE case of Mrs. Angelina Smith
:. Marlboro, Mass, who was 50 near
murdered by her nephew with an AK
1874, is exciting interest among medic
" men. Her skull was cut open to t
~ brain in three places, but she has grad
~ ally improved until now she is in vigo
W Gus health, although the wounds ha
NC never healed. The brain is exposed
Ia that its pulsations can be watche
no pieces of bone, shattered by the AK, a
still working out, and suppuratio
which has always been supposed to
an inevitable cause of death, goes
constantly.
90 In the State geological room at A
- lanta, Ga, may be seen a large fos
10 turtle shell, embedded in limestone al
~ shells and well preserved. 1t was I