The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and LITERARY.

Mr.. Delane, late editor of the Lon
don Times, retires on a life pension of
$4,000 a year.
Mrs. Burnett, author of s'That Lass
o. Lowrie's," and her husband have
taken up their residence in Washing
ton.
The new Minister to England is a
fine-looking man. Though over 20
wears of age, he is straight as an arrow,
six feet high, spare and trim, and full OF
life and activity.
Mr.. William Black is about to be-
gin the publication of q new stsry-eyi-
IDENTIFY a Scotch one, for it is called
"Macleod of Dare" 1t will be honored
by illustrations drawn by Millais, Faed,
Boughton, and other distinguished art
lists.
Miss Gertrude Jackson is Deputy
City Clerk of New Albany, Ind, and her
Textbook is said to be one of the best
ever made in that city. The mass of
figures, names and descriptions is not
only thoroughly correct, but beautifully
executed, as regards caligraphy. The
city appears to be proud OF the lady and
her work.
Mr.. Habberton's unfortunate APP
pearance as a lecturer in Chicago, says
the Tribune, was partly the fault of his
agent. He had agreed to deliver GER
tain number of lectures, but had ex-
pected to break the ice in small country
| towns. Instead of this, he was forced
to make his debut in Chicago, and, be-
fore large and brilliant audience, was
overcome by stage fright.
Misses Hughes, Hurd, and,,Squires,
lady-teachers in public schools, went to-
gether to the polls, at Leland, H., and
insisted upon casting their votes for
| School Commissioner, their argument
being that if woman was intelligent
enough and had right to be School
Commissioner, she ought to be allowed
to express choice in the matter. Their
ballots were rejected.
-Farjeon, the novelist, fell in love
with his heroine in "Joshua Marvel. .
When she died, as became necessary in
the story, he tainted away and remained
unconscious for an hour. When he
awakened, he said to a brother, who
was standing beside him, 81 loved her. ,
This is said to be an evidence of keen
sympathy; it may be only evidence OF &
keen desire to advertise.
This is the quaint and tender in,
scription which Mr.. Ruskin placed on
his fathers tombstone in Croydon
churchyard: "Here rests from days
well sustained burden John James
Ruskin, born in Edinburg, May 30
1875 He died in his home in London
March 5, 1864. He was an entirely
honest merchant, and his memory is tc
all who kept 1t dear and helpful. Hi:
son, whom he loved to the uttermOst
and taught to speak truth, says this o
him."
Max Adeler takes his failure as 6
playwright good-naturedly, attributinG
it to his ignorance of the requirements
of the stage. He was unable to get thu
} characters into and out of the scenes
smoothly, and their movements wer'
ludicrous in way not intended. Hi
eliminating difficulty was in making al
end to the play, and he accomplished
) it by having all the characters ente
abruptly, when enough time had beef
consumed, and close the representation
! without any attempt to unravel the plot
at was all very funny" says Phila
delphia correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, "eXcept to the managers
who lost 81 900 by the experiment.