The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-01
HERE AND THERE.

$50, 100000.
ONE of the most dangerous practices
of the times, says DIR. Maury,is drinking
from a vessel used for public drinking
in hotel, railroad car or depot.
A WOMAN in Wareham, Mass, being
distrustful of savings banks, has hidden
away in her house 500 silver half dimes, 4
the result of many years of saving. She
has two bank accounts, but says she
keeps reserve in case Of the banks
failure. lsir Z. tts
A MAN whose manner did not indicate
insanity ordered steak ia Sacramento
restaurant. He deliberately cut off a
piece of the meat, four inches by two in
size. and tried to swallow it whele. 1t
stuck in his throat and choked him to
death. -
ArLANrA's offer to Georgia is, If she
is selected as the permanent capital, to
give the State any ten acres OF unoccu-
pied ground in or near the city, or the
City Hall lot of five acres in the heart of
the city, and to build Capitol as fine as
the one at Milledgeyille.
THOMAS T. PRENTIs, United States
Consul to the Seychelle Islands, made
Miss Thayer, of Waitsfield, VT, believe
for six years that he intended to marry
her. Recently he returned to Waitsfeld
with a wife and two children. Miss
Thayer has brought a suit for damages.
IT is said, in an article in Harper's
Monthly, by writer who has lived ten
years in Alaska, that the land there is
worthless, and the seal fisheries likely
to soon be exhausted. There are, ac-
cording to this authority, only 100 white
persons in the country.
If you belong to the " tonies,' you
must give up note paper, and use large
elegant cards, about four inches by
three. You are at. liberty to write on
both sides of the cardboard. $50 The
envelope fits closely oyer the card, and
has monogram in color on the back.
THE Davenport Democrat says an
other outrageous swindle is working its
way into Iowa. The plan is to give a
farmer so rods of new fence, if he will
put it up along the road where it will
be seen and serve as an advertisement,
get him to sign an order, etc.
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WHILE breaking an egg the other
day, Mrs. John w. Kinney, of Alden,
Iowa, found within the shell living
snake about four inches long, which
lived several days, until Mr., Kinney
threw the little varmint into the fire.
1t was colorless, like the white of the
egg from which it came. ... alf
A CONVICT named Camp, who es'
capped from Vermont State prison Ii
years ago by tunneling under the wall
and was caught only last year, has Just
been discovered digging away in the
same place. He was within one foot OF
liberty, and had somehow managed tc
stuff his haversack with provisions anc
clothing. n5H - .ifa.
Thus far the dramatic season
throughout the country has been finan
cially bad. Out of 40 travelling com
panies that started from New York IL
September, the Sun says that sever
have already collapsed, while many
more are struggling along on the verge
of going to pieces, and veryfew Of then
are doing well.
IT is related of a young man en-
gagged temporarily to act as private sec
rotary to a certain railroad official ii
Pittsburg, that he made a special effor
to be early the first morning. reaching
the Office at O'Clock. To his surpris'
he found his chief there, about to Ugh
his second cigar, having finished hi
mail and read the morning papers
swell, young man" said Mr.. -, ~
like to know where you have been spend
ing the forenoon" 4 p 0la ~
A SECRET drawer in an old bureau il
New Orleans was found TO contain al
explosive machine, intended to demol
ish any body, but the owner attempte
an opening Age had destroyed tn
effectiveness of the device, however, S
that when the drawer was pulled on
! there was no explosion. The content
consisted of old papers, of no value o
interest, and it is supposed that the al
rangement was result of somebody
insanity.
WHERE there are reasons to suspec
that water is contaminated by sewag
impurities a convenient test, known a
the sugar test" may be applied. !
half pint of the water should be place
in clear, coIorless, glass-stoppere
bottle. Put in few grains of the be'
white lump-sugar, and expose the botd
to the daylight in the window of war;
, room. 1t the water is pure it shout
not become .turbid even after week
t exposure. If it becomes cloudy an
; turbid there is reason to believe you
2 suspicious are correct! i.i i'
4 l. AN ingenious use of carrier-pigeor
5 is on record. They were employed
/, Belgium to smuggle tobacco into France
F., Each bird carried from ten to fiftee
grammes of the weed, and two doze
4 pigeons per day were regularly di
e patched. How long the new industr
: had been established is not stated; bt
1 one day it came to grief. A. bird w'
too heavily loaded, and he dropped wit
: his burden, exhausted, into the Sem
4 A police inquiry resulted, and the who
/, business was exposed. ~ .n
/, FERNANDINA, Florida, has a larg
s sea-bull, Manatee, or Lamantin. Itwf
4 captured near St. Lueie, on Indian Ri
b err, is 10 feet in length, and is estimate
q to weigh about 1000 pounds, III
a Manatee, or sea-cow, once numerous
e South Florida, is now comparatively
, rare animal. Its food consists of m;
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