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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
The Great Brule Country.

The Chicago correspondent of the
Troy Times writes: /" If you will take
Government surveyors map and trace
the boundary line between the States of
Michigan and Wisconsin at the extreme
northerly part of those States, you will
see Boot Lake, which is near the source
of the Brule River, and located in what
is known as the trackless forests Of the
great Brule country. This morning
party of ladies and gentlemen, mostly
from this city, will leave here for that
wild country for months recreation.
1t is said to be one of the most inacceS-
sible portions of country in the center
of our Continent, and that the face OF
white woman has never been seen there.
To show the spirit of adventure which
animates the ladies of the party, it should
be known that after proceeding by reg
ular rail to Menominee, thence by
mining railroad to Bad Water, from that
point the entire party will be compelled
to walk twelve miles through the dense
forests before they strike the Brule Riv-
err Here they will be taken in charge
by Indians who are engaged as voy-
ageurs, guides, ETC., and in canoes will
proceed up the river some two hundred
miles. The forests along the route are
mostly composed of pine, very thickly
studded, and great fire having at some
time swept through the district covering
hundreds of square miles, the ground is
so strewn with fallen trees and entangled
debris that it is almost impossible to get
a beast of burden through, and much of
the way even an Indian finds it difficult
to proceed on foot. A more desolate
country it would be hard to find. But "a
long way up the Brule the country opens
and becomes more tenable, and it is here
the sportsman finds his paradise. Thou
sands and thousands of deer flock upon
the hills, so unused to danger that they
become easy prey to the rifle of the hunt
er. Myriads of trout, bass and salmon
inhabit the streams and small lakes,
while wolves, bears, foxes, and lynx
abound, some of them approaching at
times even to the tent opening of the adj
venturous explorer. The experiences
of the ladies will no doubt be exciting,
and afford romance enough for many a
coming winter evening"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Odds and Ends
From the Burlington Hawkeye. !

FROM the burlington IaWkeN6.
One of the walters at Dunbar's De-
pot Restaurant mas learned to play a
tune on the gong. Will Mr.. Edison
please hide himself or go away and
chew iron for awhile.
When we read that "Gen. Szapar-
itz is fighting at Doboi," we feel like
calling on merciful Heaven to stop this
cruel war while there is any of the al
phabet left.
1t was thought to be big thing in
ancient times when Ajax threw off his
ulster and defed the lightning, but now
almost any man raises thunder if his
dinner is cold, and the poets never say
a word about it.
There may be "land that is fair
er than this 1--WE do not deny it, we will
not controvert the statement, but we'll
bet thousand dollars there is no land
where a hackman can carry you a
shorter distance for more money.
-" why does lightning so rarely
strike twice in the same placer" Prof.
Workman asked the new boy in the
class in natural philosophy. "Huh,"
Sdlu Gue new DOyf III HGNeI u6SuS W.
And it is little singular that nobody
had thought of that reason before.
Some recently discovered inscrip-
lions on burned bricks bring to
light the astonishing revelation that
King Ahasuerus hanged Hannah because
he invented the ACCORDION and put the
price down. to one dollar and seventy
five cents, so that every young man
might have one.
We have just thought of plan for
paying off the national debt in six
weeks. Let the Government levy
light tax, not to exceed three mills on
the dollar, on all the poetry written in
the United States, and let every poet
name the value of his own poetry. That
will do it, and we won't change the
Government q cent for it either.
Richard Grant White is at last in
perfect harmony with all the rest of the
English-speaking world on one solitary
phrase. In common with the most cul-
tured and most illiterate of the land, he
says, 'ttMy baby is teething," and in
triumphant disdain asks for the man or
woman who would dare say, ''My baby
is being toothed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

"A new volume of Whittier's poems
will be issued the present month.
Miss Emily Faithful is lecturing in
London on the " Extravaganza of Mod
ern Life " and the nobility 90 to hear
her.
John Walter, proprietor of the Lon
don Times, is named among several
English gentlemen likely to become
peers.
DIR. Julius Auerbach, of Woods
burgh, L. L., brother of the German
novelist and to whom he dedicated
the Nights" died a few days since of
injuries received by being thrown from
his wagon.
Prof. Tyndall has been dwelling in
the heart of the Alps all summer,
whittier he was ordered by his London
physician. He has been compelled to
abandon his scientific researches for the
present.
=" Thomas Bentzon," the writer of
the ReUue de DeuT MondeS, who has
done so much to bring American litera-
ture to the notice of the French public,
is Nine. Blanc, the separated wife of
a wealthy banker.
The marriage of the late Queen
Christina, of Spain, to private soldier
and her rapid advancement of him from
the ranks to almost regal position, sug-
gested to Offenbach the characters of
the " Grande Duchesse," and Fritz"
Prof. Charles Crandall, of Cornell
University, has just been married to a
blind lady, Miss Jemima Robbins, at
Bridgewater, n. Y. They had been
playmates and schoolmates through
early life. Miss Robbins lost her sight
by excessive study.
Samuel r. Croker, the founder and
editor of the Literary World, died at
South Boston recently. He broke down
year and half ago from overwork,
which resulted in hopeless insanity and
paralysis, from the effects of which he
died. He was only AZ.
%. V. Shearer, city editor of the
New Orleans Times, who died of yellow
fever, was native of Alabama. He
was formerly connected with Mobile
paper and again with the Vicksburg
Herald. He began on the New Or
leans Times as news editor and after
wards became city editor.
Cardinal Nina, the new Pontifcal
Secretary of State, is &c years old.
From his earliest years he showed de-
cided ability. He is tall in figure, of
handsome presence, and of somewhat
forid complexion. In manner he is
courteous and unaffected, mild in dis
position, and frank in speech.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
FASHION NOTES.

-Beautiful evening dresses are made
of embroidered net.
-Loug loops of ribbons, called Louis
XIII. bows, are seen on lmPOr'eu
dresses.
Pearls set in onyx are IN oeau1hui
designs for light mourning.
New chatelaines consist OF pieces
of ivory bound with silver, ana hhAeu
together.
An odd design for a shawl-pin IS q
mermaid of mother-of- pearl, studded
with steel beads.
A thick rouleau of satin is now usea
to finish the edge of the flowing tram Oh
handsome dresses.
Among novelties in buttons are
those in polished bone, inlaid in quaint
designs with silver and gold.
A new style of bracelet is made OF
delicate flexible spirals of gold in one
continuous piece, made to tit any arm.
Beautiful silver combs of the most
elaborate filigree work are worn; others
have engraved bands of gold or silver.
The "Balsamo hat, named after
Dumas last play, is simply trimmed
with long veil caught with bunch OF
flowers.
A pretty bracelet for young girl
is a slender band of gold with a small
palm leaf on top, made OF diamonds
and torquoises.
The Trianon hat, with a large bow
in front, made with plain or striped ma
bob gauze, is worn in Paris with panler
costumes.
A charming pin for blonde is a
true-lover's knot closely set with tor
ouoise, diamonds in the center, and
fringe of dropping pearls.
-Handkerchiefs, with center of rose
colored or pale blue cambria, and hav-
ing white border scalloped to match,
are novelty.
-Monograms are in favor again, and
are embroidered on slippers, collars,
handkerchiefs, mitts and parasols in the
gayest colors.
-Glass-covered medallions, contain
ing Japanese scenes wrought IN gold
and enameled with high colors, are the
latest style of clasps on costly bracelets.
Some of the new French slippers
worn with mourning costumes, have
straps around the ankle, like children's
shoes, and black ribbons to tie the ends
of the straps together.
The brocaded materials are gradu-
ally reviving the stomacher, and in a
short time, it is predicted, we shall see
/ the waists of dresses as short as in the
| DAYS of our grandmothers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Five Children at One Birth.

Mr.. Cassidy, an employee of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, living be-
tween the Highlands and the ancient
City of Bladensburg, has just attained
his immortality, and the newspapers
throughout the country will speak of
his virtues. All the people living in his
vicinity, especially the women, are
greatly excited over an event which sell
dom happens in this world, not even in
the houses of Kings, and many man,
married for years but still heirless, will
wonder what sort of man Cassidy is,
and "upon what meat does this our
Caesar feed?" Mrs. Cassidy has Just
given birth to five ehildren-three girls
and two boys-and all of them remark
ably well. They are very small, but
still perfect in their organism, and may
live. The mother is, happily, out of all
danger, and able to receive the congrat-
ulations of the neighboring friends.
This is one of the most remarkable cases
in modern times Washington Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12

of Bedford, Ind, fell into an open els
tern and was drowned.
Pierre Bohman had both legs torn
off BY falling into threshing-machlne
at st. Clair, Mich.
George McGrath, railroad man,
accidentally shot and killed himself
while out cunning near Alliance, o. 81
Mrs. Mabel Hosmer, aged rs, Of
Bloomville, o., was burned to death
from her clothes being ignited by q spark
from her pipe while smoking.
Marshall Jones, aged 40, was in
stantly- killed at Pittsburg, Pa, while
placing machinery in the Exposition
Building, by an iron fly-wheel, weighing
5000 pounds, falling on him.
John Sauer, aged %, of Merely,
Mich went to sleep on the track of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
while intoxicated, and was run over by
freight train and instantly killed.
"A boy named Larry Haberodt, while
playing in a wheat bin at Gilead Sta
ton, o., got into the spout, and, being
unable to get out, was covered with the
grain and smothered to death.
Mitchell Jackson, son of Esquire
Jackson, of Chesterville, Knox County,
o., was thrown from his horse, on
which he was carrying cross-cut saw.
He struck his head against stump and
landed with his stomach on the saw
teeth, receiving injuries from which he
died within five or six hours. ..E
The vitriol vat of the National Guano
Company's Works at Spring Gardens,
Md, caused the fearful death of George
Rush and John j. Bailey last week
They were standing on plank over it,
to make repairs on pipe, when the
plank broke, plunging them into its
liquid fire. Bailey was completely sub
merged and died at once, but Rush clune
to the sides of the tank, and lived til
the next morning.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
FOREIGN.

On the LIST of September Mexican edict
went into effect abolishing the coma libre,
except as to Matamoras and New Laredo.
The edict also prohibits commercial inter-
course at other points. The people on the
Mexican side are much eIasperated, es-
pecially at Camargo and Mier, and have sent
a violent and threatening protest to the Gen.
trail Government.
most appalling disaster occurred on the
evening Of the Sd, on the River Thames.
The excursion steamer Princess Alice, re-
turning from Grayesend with some 500 per-
sons on board, a large proportion of whom
were women and children, was run down
off Barking by the Bywell Castle, screw
collier, and in less than five minutes went
down bow foremost. The number of lives
lost is variously estimated at from 800 to
100, although the precise number
will probably never be ascertain
ed. A survivor describes the scene
as the most terrible that can be imagined.
Some small boats and another excursion
steamer rendered what assistance they could,
but of the hundreds of shrieking victims
who remained floating in the water after the
slcdlllcI odlhy Dub III COlu
were saved.
There was an impressive funeral ceremo-
ny at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris,
on the Sd, in celebration of the death of NJ.
Theirs. Populations were present from all
parts OF France. Nine. Theirs spent f20,-
600 in preparation of the ceremony. The
music was rendered by $500 performers.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 4th says that
$4,000 Austrians, with a fiotilla, are advance
ing to relieve Gen. Szapary. They can not
reach Daboj before the end of the week. 1t
is thought the insurgents meanwhile will
make desperate attempt to capture the
place.
The release has been ordered by the Brit
ish Government of the Fenian convicts,
Condor and Melody. 1t is understood that
both have signitied their intentions to take
up their residence in the United States.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
CYRUS BUSY,
President n. o. Chamber of Commerce.

-Gustave Dore's great vase, execut-
ed for the Paris Exhibition, is regarded
by an English paper as s'the most orig
inal design which can be found in mod
ern sculpture. As an example of the
picturesque in sculpture, and the execu-
ton, in solid material, of the ightest
and widest sketches, hitherto confined
to the pencil or the etching-needle for
their production, this vase stands
alone"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12

"A recent number of the Repu6ltque
Francaise gives an account of the great
publishing house Of Hachette & Co.
According to the writer, this firm has
the largest book-selling business in the
world, turns over some 100000
francs, publishes book day, employs
5000 persons, and exports yearly 200,-
900 packages.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12

Rice Pudding.-Take eupful of rice,
l cupful of sugar, ! cupful of raisins,
and l teaspoonful of salt; put tLis in
2-quart basin, and fill up with sweet
milk. Bake in slow oven.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-12
Haps and Mishaps.

Hiram Spencer, of Geneva, Wis,
was fatally gored by bull on his farm.
Walter Kestring's 2-year-old son,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19
A Newark "BlOwhard" ON Church
Decorators.

"Summum Bonum Blowhard" thus
relieves his feelings on this subject
through the columns of the Newark Ad-
vertiser: / wish Mr.. Edison would make
us a patent anti-church desecrator," !"
to act ON the principle of that new pat
ent alarm bedstead, that upsets its occu-
pant into the middle of the floor at the
given time, or of the coin detector, that
Of itself filings coins aside that are too
light. | would have. them scattered
around the church and made to act with
more or less promtness: for instance,
that young fellow, COTTON up regardless
who takes his girl to church and talks
and giggles all through the service. l
would have it arranged SO as to fling
him out of one window and his girl out
of the other, and for the old curmud-
geon who shakes his head like Chinese
mandarin when the plate is passed for
the collection, would have the spring
set so it would grip him by the back of
the neck, push his hand into his pocket
and pull out dollar. Another with a
stiff spring, 1 would put at the back of
the sleepy hearer," and one with a
trap-door attachment, to the man who
defles the church by splitting tobacco
juice, and let him slide down to the
sewer with it. I would fasten another
to the seat of the chorister with pulley,
and hoist him through the ceiling, when
he tries to worship the Lord with the
devils tunes. Another with a balloon
attached, fastened to the pulpit, the gas
to be furnished by the preacher, and the
thing to 60 up when full, and bear him
away and drop him at the door of the
BROOKLYN Tabernacle.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19
FaRM OF sUBCRr.0H. .
THE PRESS.
WRITTEN M THE Oovsrar.

No suns have reached me with the morn since here
Myself I have secluded, and fear
Returning night viii bring no eveRiag star.
How can know If stocks are more than par
With no Commercially 7gM.s are here unknown,
And World" but meaps this globe we live upon,
leaders are common--but they feed them oats.
Asrdlds (of dawn-confcuud their noisy hreatsi)
ConTfers--but spelled slightly different way
Who use comb and brush or wisp of hay.
The Tribune is unheard OF. but by some
Who In their youths read histories Of Rome.
~ News" is quite common; but the journal Melps
u one were here, to print it would refuse
The presses here, know, are very free
And very ommon, but publicity
ror mem ends with the presser aud the pressed;
Though odce'tisers, it must be confessed
Are not found waiting. Chroaicls. I ween,
Outside the Scriptures, are not often seen.
Gay sets are commoner than are Gdeeftes.
RepooltoGEs are u any, are bets
With De1oc, dte. Their billy tens are not
80 "bully - but they leak ~hen first they re
bought.
Where grow accounts, as else Fhsre, one soons
finds;
Snd ., ;'eas ,,I. are much larger than for cash.
Here Sunday PisitoTs bring much delight,
While Morning Gals are mostly made AT night
Their registers are kept in vo umes bound
The teachers desks are " re .hey may be found.
Their narseries are fu Of api lie trees,
Or peach or plumb, or some such fruit as these.
Their advocates are few aud far between"
More 50 than p.ttiioggers are mean.
Posls they use only when they build fence.
4ats-and females--their numbers are immense.
They have their travsiers; but they call them
tfampsn
As tallow " dips are commoner than lamps
Exchanges are than boza-fde sales.
W no searches for iateRigeace, sir, fails,
Their only local, are their :. local pains"
Observers throng, in fact scarce one remains
OF men or women il we count them out.
Reporters get the name OF 'tattlers" here abo, t.
Well, well; this sectiol is no lace for one
Who enjoys day ubl IS he sees the sun.
Back to the town my lonely way I'll tread,
Aad be once more happy press dead-head.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19
"ghe QigM baore Gl1sfmas."
The Very Latest From Edison.

tFrom Interview in Saturdays N. Y. worldl
"I tell you what it is" said he; I've
got this thing down fine now, and Pm
getting it down finer every day. At the
beginning there were two problems to
be solved. One was the practicability
of the subdivision of the electric light,
the other was its economical adaptation
for household and general purposes.
Now, I've got my lamp and I've got my
subdivision. That is entirely settled.
1t was necessary to subdivide the current
without any hitch, and I've done it.
Pm calculating at present on the cost of
the light. Now, just within day or
two I've found way to concentrate the
light so that Pve made an immense saw
ing. And this is entirely independent
of the amount of current supplied. I've
laid over the whole deck ON that"
"Give me your calculations on the
light" said the reporter.
My eighty-horse power engine will
give four hundred and eighty lights. I
intended at first to have them of fifteen
candle power each, but now | can have
each one equal to twenty candles with
out extra cost. The engine will be rum
ming every hour in the twenty-four, but
slowly when the lamps are not lighted
it is an automatic cutoff engine, you
know-and then when one lamp after
another is lighted, the old engine goes
faster until, buzzl she's off at her high
est rate of speed. And, mark you, there
is to be no waste of my current, for the
apoina 10 co orropuod thaf it WI III sunni "
Just the amount of current called for by
each lamp, and when all the lights are
turned out the current stops of itself.
Oh, it's all plain enough and simple
enough. Then each one of these lights
is going to cost $1.95 year, and gas
burner, giving about the same liz ght,
costs $15 year. That's what I'm work.
ing on now-the economy of the thing
for if the electric light isn't cheap it's Of
no value"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19
Buried Alive for Six Hours.
fst. Joseph CMo.) Herald


Last Saturday one of the most mirac-
culous escapes we have heralded for a
long time occurred on the farm of the
Ferbush brothers, eight or nine miles
northeast of the city, between the two
Savannah roads. A we'll was being dug
on the above mentioned farm and had
reached depth of forty-five feet. A
man named Gal Heenan, engaged in the
work. was being lowered into the we'll,
and, when about half way to the bottom,
the sides suddenly caved in upon him,
completely burying the helpless man
beneath the falling earth. Efforts were
Immediately made to relieve Heenan
from his living grave. The men went
to work with a will, digging with all
their might aud main. For six long
hours they labored, and at last came
upon what they supposed would be the
crushed and lifeless body of Heenan.
But in this they were most happily mis-
taken, for when the prisoner was re-
leased, although very much exhausted
and sufocated from his long confinement,
he soon revived, aud was not injured in
any other way than some severe bruises
on his leg. 1t was indeed wonderful
escape from living tomb, and Heenan
is now going about thankful that he is
still in the land of the living.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19

THE color of the blue ribbon of the
Order of the Garter was originally pale
blue, but at the accession of the House
of Hanover it was thought improper
that the King and the Pretender, and
they whom they respectively chose to
honor, should appear in the insignia of
the Garter without distinctive marks be-
tween the real and spurious knights. In
England, therefore, thenceforward, the
color was changed to dark blue. Lord
Poulett, however, who had been gartered
by Queen Anne, came up to town from
his retirement in pale blue ribbon,
and wouldn't change it, which greatly
offended George l.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-19
Great Britain's Railroad Speed.

The following facts taken from the
London Week, will give those of our
readers now acquainted with English
travelling an idea of the high rate of
speed maintained by some of the British
railroads: The fastest train run by the
Northwestern Railroad does the distance
from Euston to Rugby in one hour and
fifty minutes-but this speed is equaled
by the Southeastern mail, which runs
to Dover, seventy-six and half miles,
in one hundred and two minutes. Both
these are far exceeded by the Great
Northern Scotch express, which only
takes one hundred and twenty-nine min
utes to run one hundred and five and a
half miles to Gantham from London;
and by the Great Western Flying
Dutchman," which reaches Swindon,
seventy-sevenmiles, in eighty-seven min
utes. These trains run at fifty and fifty
three miles an hour respectively, and the
last named remains, as for many years
past, the fastest train in the world.