The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-20
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iCASn NdhOhaA ASSOhloll was iOuulJ
laughed at.
RUSSIA in Europe, at the last census
taken there, had lao, 4S2 inhabitants,
belonging to 81 different races and ma
tionalities.
IT is estimated that Germany has from
5,500to 6,OO0 lawyers. In that country,
on an average, about 5000 persons sus-
tain one lawyer.
TIE carbonic oxide given off by char
coal causes peculiar phase of insanity
among cooks in France, where char
coal is largely used in cooking. The
symptoms are oppression, vertigo, hal
fluctuations of sight and hearing, and
syncope.
THE Colorado beetle (potato-bug) is
engaging the attention of both Parlia-
ment and of the public authorities in
England. Efficient measures are plan
ming for avoiding its importation from
America into the British Isles and its
spread there. at a5 la.
A SAD case of kleptomania has been
discovered at Tiverton, Il. L., ON the
part of wealthy and highly connected
lady, who stole some valuable rings
from Fall River (Mass.) jewelry store
day or two since. She attributes her
tendency to recent sickness.
THE Turkish Government has sea-
fenced Redif Pasha, Abdul Kerim Pasha,
the ex-commandants of Scutari, Sistova,
and Shipka Pass, and 10 other unsuc-
cessful officers to be banished to Lemnos
until the war is. over, when they will be
tried for incapacity.
THROUGH the arrest of one Crawford
for horse stealing the police of Fort
Wayne, Ind, have discovered the exist
ence of an organized society of horse
thieves, with officers, signs, grips, and
passwords, who have been stealing fine
animals in western Ohio for a long time
and selling them in Fort Wayne.
PRESIDENT CLARK, of the Massachu-
sets State Agricultural College, who re-
Gently returned from Japan, says: 'sThe
japanese are people able and willing
to do right. L never saw quarrel in
Japan, and never saw nor heard of a
Japanese student in America or Japan
accused of immortality"
A RHODE ISLAND woman who died
recently expressed dying wish that she
should not be buried or placed in q
tomb. Her husband consequently built
a stone cottage on the shore of the bay,
exactly like an ordinary dwelling ex
ternally, in the cellar of which her body
is kept. The building has but one
room, which is fitted up with the furni
ture they had in their parlor when frs
married, and the surviving members o.
the family spend an hour or SO there ii
devotions every Sunday. 49,
THE greenhouses of Mr.. John Hoey
at Long Branch, cost him $50, 900, one
of them having been brought from the
Vienna Exposition at an expense OF SIS,
600. One greenhouse contains II sec
tons, each IS feet long; and another il
400 feet by 80. There are over 1000,
900 plants, and 40 or so men are EN-
, ployed about the gardens, etc. The cos
of the plants was something enormous
Mr. Hoey imported single specimen
/, rare Chinese plant at cost of $500.
AN Italian named Bertaccini is giyin!
: marvellous exhibitions of speed and en-
durance in running foot-races in differ
ent parts of Europe. He claims t.
have run from Valence to Lyons an
back, about 125 miles, in II hours, an,
, at Paris, December %, 1876, at tn
skating palace, to have made 16 miles il
5 an hour and 20 minutes. At Marseille
he beat h0se in a race 40 times tn
circuit of the hippOdrome, and at Rom
was successful in similar match, tn
course being 60 times round the plac
= of Siena. t"H o..
: AN extraordinary reason for betray
y ing a high trust was given by Meikle
John, one of the Scotland-Yard Uor
dom detectives recently convicted G
completely with forgers and counter
= feiters. As he counted over bride {
: $500 in the presence of a confederate o
one occasion, he remarked: " 1 shout
a not be so exacting were it not that m
$ children are growing up, and want
n educate them properly"
= LYMAN BRADLEY, of Naugatucl
. Conn, is dead. He made the first pocE
: ct cutlery ever made in America. II
was born in 1898. At the outset of h
career in Waterbury he advertised in
Sheffield newspaper for some cutters
paid their fare to this country and ST
d them at work. The enterprise was 81
e cessful from the beginning, thong
n some of Mr.. Bradley's friends advise
y him against going into the enterprls'
: arguing that he could not sell knife /
o the United States that had not the She
e field stamp on it.
= THE Bulgarians show. remarkably
\ powers at many sorts of handicraft.
h the towns almost every well-to-do ian
,e lily has its loom, and with the rude
l. treadles and heckles, fabrics of gre;
beauty are made. A gentleman latel
d in the country saw dress fabrics wit
Is patterns raised, or worked out in WOO
n which would, he said, do credit to I'll
n best draughtsmen of Bradford. III
p Turkish policy has, however, discou
n aged manufacture, with the view of ge
st ting revenue from import duties. III
h Bulgarians also excel in filigTee wOrl
= A LINE of steamers has been esta'
lished between Marseilles, France, an
the River Platte, South America,
convey fresh meat from the latter loca
ity in frozen condition. On one
r the steamers the Pellier process is use
for producing cold, by the volatilizatic