The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-08-16
HERE AND THERE.

advertised for sale.
THE ssdeadly upas tree" is all sham.
It's Just as poisonous as the soft maple,
and no more.
THINNEss is an objectionable fault in
Turkish women, and is considered as
good ground for divorce.
In British India statistics recently col
lected 90 to show that the number of
suicides in the hot season is immensely
more than at other times.
THE census gave Paris, in 1876, $780,
SOC inhabitants The number by De-
cember, 1877, will reach two millions.
The next census viii be in 1880.
OWING to depredations by sharks off
Melbourne, Australia, the Government
offered reward for their capture, and
5000 were caught in the first week.
"TwINs to let,'' is a sign on hall
door of an East-side tenement in New
York. These babies are hired by the
women who grind organs attached to
perambulators.
A PARTY of painters have started
westward across the continent, under
contracts with patent medicine manu-
facturers and other advertisers, to cover
all the picturesque rocks and big trees
with inscriptions.
A LARGE burial plot in Mount Hope
Cemetery, near Boston, is completely
covered with flowers, so arranged as to
represent book lying open on the
ground, with an inscription referring to
Scriptural text.
A FRIGHTFUL storm broke over the
Department of the Drome in France on
July II, utterly destroying crops over a
vast district, tearing up huge trees and
setting fire to farm buildings. Hun
dreds of thousands worth of property
was injured.
THE site of the ancient city of Sybaris,
Catania, Southern Italy, famous for its
habits of luxury, is to be explored by
the Italian Government. Excavations
will begin during the coming autumn.
Sybaris was destroyed by the Cretans
about $40 b. c..
OF % persons who left New Haven,
Connecticut, for the Black Hills, all but
three have returned and those three
have gone to Texas. Some of the adj
venturers had to tramp it home and all
spent the capital they started with.
ALARGE order has been received by a
mica concern in New York City for
plates of mica to 90 to China. The Chi
nese use these plates, which are about Z
inches square, for idolatrous purposes.
They paint upon them the likeness of
their divinities, and reverently adore the
same. These particular ones are to be
used for household decorations and de-
votion. They are considered quite
stylish among the better class of Chi
nese.
In that part of the Black Forest be-
longing to the Grand Duchy of Baden
lies the petty district of Koenigsfeld, con-
tanning 40 inhabitants. During 90
years there have been in it no crimes or
misdemeanors of any sort-neither
transgressions of the police regulations,
nor Sheriff's sales, nor illegitimate
births, nor divorces, nor lawsuits of any
kind. Moreover, in these last 30 years
at Koenigsfeld no one has ever got
drunk or stretched out hand to beg.
A NEW method of preserving the bod
les of the dead has just been exhibited
in Berlin. 1t is the invention of Mr..
Tominetti of Hamburg, and consists in
a thorough drying of the tissues by
means of an injected gas, which absorbs
the moisture and drives it out through
the pores. Prepared in this way, an an
imal preserves its form and color in per-
lection. Mr. Tominetti exhibited a
bear which had thus been treated after
its death four months previously. Slices
were cut from the body to show that the
tissues were not destroyed, but, except
for their desiccation, were preserved in
excellent condition. .
In lecture upon hydrophobia, lately
delivered by DR.. Mcleod, Professor of
Surgery in Glasgow University, the
speaker remarked that, " If mad dog
was to bite through the clothes, he
would not care, because the animals
teeth would be cleaned from poison by
rubbing through the cloth, and there
would be no fear of bad results. If per-
sons were bitten by a dog, twas foolish
to destroy the animal there and then,
for more than once he knew of eases
where men had recovered from what
was thought to be hydrophobia merely
by being shown the dog that had bitten
them, all sound and clothed in its right
mind"
LUzERNE COUNTY, Penn, rejoices in
the possession of worthy Judge of
Probate, who has set his face resolutely
against costly funerals. The admins
rator of an estate amounting to 1881,
recently brought in bill for a S139
funeral, large one for rural district.
In disallowing this item the Judge
declared that "pompous professions of
great length, glistening silver-plated
caskets and carved marble monuments"
were unnecessary for Christian burial,
and that though the vanity of the living
might be gratifed by fine funerals, no
respect for the dead demanded them.
He further said that "when decedent's
estate is limited, and his debts are not
paid, or where he leaves family of
helpless children, the expenses OF such
burials will not be allowed out of his
estate. Those who contract for and en-
Joy such luxuries must pay for them
themselves" Words so rational as