The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


joaquin Miller is again in England,
and few honrsafter his reappearaRee
in London recessed cordial letter of
welcome from Mr. Gladstone
-Poe's sweetheart, the late ssFah
Helen Whitman, -lAaysa. a yolume Of
poems that will shortly be published,
along with revision of her essay, ''POe
and His Critics.
Mrs Francis Hodgson Burnett has
written a lancashire story called Ha-
worth's, which is said bythose who
have seen the manuscript to be as good
as That LassU' Hewfie's. -'as- :. % -. -
The Cassells, the, English, publish
ers, have set apart for the Year 1873
$4,000 out of their profits, and propose
to do the same every year, for q tanq Tor
workmen who remain long IN their
/ service. ~ nTs krsf HoIlVi sfi
They say Beh Tngersoll made more
money by lecturing last season than any
other lecturer, beating Beecher, and Joe
Cook both. His Tees as a lawyer are
also said to lie ENORMOUS, Inthe goods
of this world Bob is getting rich, .,,
Bryant remarked to a young man
some years since. st0he of the first OBJ
jects of literary man should be TO ac-
quire an independence his genius never
does its best so long as it Is a mere
drudge of his necessities ~ o. 'lft'
=" Mark Twain" has sent for his pas
tor, the Rev. Jos, H. Twiehell, Of Hart
ford, Conn, to go over to Europe and
spend some weeks with him in a Pc
destrian tour through Germany and
Switzerland. 1t. is not to cost Mr..
Twichell cent.
1t is striking proof of the world
wide interest felt in Mr.. SANKEY'S dis
coveries that the English edition of his
Through the Dark Continent APP
pears simultaneously in the United
States, Canada, France, Germany, Nor
way, Italy, Denmark, and other coun-
tries. 10 --'-+
Mr.. Forbes, the war correspondent
of the Daily Nes0s, is in a fair way of
making a fortune. He is clearing $500
a week by his lectures, and all the while
is in receipt of a handsome salary as a
kind of half pay from the DAILY NeUs-
no small one it may be imagined, when
his present on returning from a success
full campaign is s5,50e. 8 Is y
Eight years ago there worked as
"devil " in the office of the Wytheville
| (Va) Dispatch boy apparently Is
years of age. He was shoeless, penni-
less and trouserless when be entered.
Now he is a Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition, chief editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, and one of the best known
humorists in the country. His name is
S. w. Small, or "Old ST..
By way of monument to Thack-
cray, London is to get out superb
edition of his works 1t viii be limited
to 600 copies Tire undertaking at
tracts much attention in English literary
circles, as nothing like it in cost or ex-
cellence of workmanship has ever been.
attempted. The, paper used will be
made expressly for this edition, real
China paper will be used for the steel
and copper plates, and the very best
artists, engravers and printers will ler&
their aid in producing the finest set of
books ever published in any country.
Science and Industry G.
The New Orleans mint will be used
to coin money for South American
countries. E.i. ....i.i p 30.
Farmers in Soulful Georgia think
they have discovered a. bonanza in the
cultivation of the Chinese sand-pear.
Ice is regarded as alprime necessi-
ty at Bombay land the supply is received
from this country, being shipped chief
" from Boston.
"A big deposit of ice has been found
in the Olympic Mountains, in Washing
ton Territory, and it can be brought to
Seattle at cost of IS ton. Ice now
costs $50 ton there.
"A new enemy to the. potato has
appeared in West Virginia. 1t resem-
bles a small grasshopper, and destroys
whole patches in single night by sting
ing the plant near the ground. :.
Three of the largest tobacco .facto-,
ries in Key West have closed, and the
Cubans employed in them are going
back to Havana Cause, strike and in
reference of United States revenue Off
GERS. fr 1850. T. tgr8i @
-Parsnips contain almost twice as
much dry matter or real food as tur-
nips, and this of superior quality.
Carrots, again, contain about as much
dry substance as mangolds,, but are
richer in sugar and of better feeding
quality. -
Salt is very important for animals.
Large pieces of rock salt put into the
hangers and feeding-troughs are rec
commended. One-haff the ash of ami
NAL blood consists of salt; without the
latter the blood can not be in a natural
or healthy state. e foA u sRs
The railroads of the United States
have in use $500, zoe car-wheels. Those
on fast passenger trains are renewed
every 10 months; but freight cars use
the same wheels sometimes 10 years.
The average life of a wheel is $4,000 |
miles, and at that rate it takes 100000 |
year at a cost, less the old wheels, of !
S6,000,000. t,tf r,g,
Strawberries contain $50 per cent.
of their weight of glucose, or grape !
sugar, cherries 10, white currants $40,
and hot-house grape 1887; pineapples,
on the other hand, contain II. So per |
cent. of cane sugar, apricots, 6, and /
oranges 4. The sugar cahe, when per-
fectly ripe, contains Is per cent. of
sugar; beet contains about IA per cent.
of sugar. 8 strt4 50 ss
School and Church.
Cornell graduates class of 20 this
year, of whom seven are women.
The Disciples generally called
Complexities, have just opened their
first chapel in Paris.
Rev. DIR. J. H.. Vincent, the great
American Sunday-school man, who has
Just gone abroad, will hold a Sunday
school Congress at, Rome. 1t win be the
first ever held ON the continent of
Europe. ;ti 'a''1A
A college has been organized at
- - J.. asHs a..