The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-23
HERE AND THERE.

In two recent attempts to sound the
Northern Ocean witt lines one mile and
d half in length, no bottom could be
found,
Ia cover and protect valuable ear
rings when travelling, -ladies-buy little
balls of Roman gold, which opens with
hinges and clasp, and conceal the val
liable stones.
FINDING after so years Of married hfe
that they still can not agree Massa-
shusetts pair have divided their proper
ty and separated, Neither of them is
under IS years of age.
IT is widely asserted that peaches In
this country are very inferior to what
they used to be. Some attribute this TO
the fact that the original trees which
were imported bsrs died ont, and that
the gratis from these yield an inferior
fruit. t-..f ...r fem. ....
THE police in San Francisco have re-
ceived orders to arrest on sight all boys
and Young men who are known to be-
long to the class denominated " hood-
lums," and to take them to the city
prison where they will be charged with
vagrancy. maJ Inl ODD
In the Cemetery of Pers la Chaise, in
Paris, there is grave from which rises
a woman's arm, beautifully chiseled in
marble, The hand is clasped by an
other, evidently > msn's, that comes
from an adjoining grave. 1t was the
fancy of young husband who did not
long survive his bride. .oS-
LEAkk1Ne that the crops of mem
Der, whose entire family vas Frustrated
by sickness, were likely to be lost for
want of gathering, the Good Templars,
male and female, of Starrsville, S. c.,
to the number of 80, turned out, and by
working hard an entire day saved the
| product. lu@ a-a..l
THREE yeats ago Great Britain abol-
ished the customs duties oil sugar, and
lsince them her customs revenue has been
raised almost exclusively from tobacco,
spirits, tea, and wine. Yet her receipts
for the last six months show an increase
of 100000 over the receipts of the
same period in 1876. -.tF "a
CoNsTANTIS0FLn has 4 cireumfer-
enee of about IS miles. It's harbor, the
&c Golden Horn" is a long capaeious in
let of the Bosphorus running along the
northeast side of the city, with sufficient
depth for the largest vessels and capa
bic of receiving 200 sail of the line.
The Indian Brahmins neither eat no
kill any sort of animals, and it is Ger
tain they have not done it for NOR
than 1900 years. Their Pagoda is ;
[ Brahminical temple, built very massive
ly and elevated, but has a very small in
, terror. Near the door is block used TO
r beheading criminals. .-r .. .....4.
AMONG some of the Indian tribes
, when wife dies the husband is obige'
5 to marry the sister, or in her stead tn
5 woman whom the family of the decease
t wife shall choose for him. A widow
} also obliged to marry one of the broth
e ers of the deceased husband, if he ha
died without children. t1 re.
BRANT, the famous Mohawk chic
Z (who, by the way, fought 1T 0riskany)
is to have $4,000 monument at Brnnt
, ford, Ont. The Council of the Six Ma
! ton Indians has just voted $1,000 to tn
fund. Brant's name is commemorate
, in Ontario by one county, Brant, til
flourishing city of Brantford, and til
pleasant town of Tyendinaga.. .1oJi
The two-feet gauge railroad betwee
Billerica and Bedford, Mass, is maxim
good progress, and viii soon be finisl
ed. The passenger cars, now buildin
n at Laconia, N. H., will be decided no
! glty; as they will have row of sing
\ seats on each SIDE. The road is eigl
. and one-half miles long, and viii co
. about $4,000, or less than $4,000 p'
= mile, being only one-eighth the cost
o. the ordinary railways. 49,
d They have different standard fl
good girls in China. There is Wan
to whom VicerOy Ii Hung Chang wan
monument erected because of her u
precedented filial devotion. She r
;, peatedly refused marriages in order
!, devote herself to the service of her pa
- ents; drew her own blood to 'syarnlsf
j tbs coffin of her father when he die
=, cut pieces OF flesh from her thighs al
burned morsels of her arms to give
=. her mother as medicines; abstain'
: from food for three days when this pa
= ent died, and performed several toilson
piIgrimages to the ancestral tOmbs.
III THE London TVorIH tells this stol
ID from the memoirs of Laferriere: g
ID young attache of embassy, who no
K occupies prominent position in diplor
t. acy, was invited by Count DemidO
Ig When taking coffee he inadvertent
III took piece of sugar with his finge
g when footmanpresented the tray. t
ne Count, shocked by what he consider
Q. a want of bienSea'Iee, made sign to t
W servant to throw the basin out of t
r, window. The attache, although he to-
ly the lesson as an affront, would not allC
is himself to appear disconnected.
Nv drank his coffee SLOWLY. and then, loo