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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
How Gas-Iight Affects the Eye.

In report recently before the Ger
man minister for education by the sci
entific committee for medical affairs,
the conclusions arrived at are that gas
light has no prejudieial effect upon the
eyes provided they are protected from
its direct action. For this purpose the
committee recommend shades and bell
glasses of translucent glass porcelain.
They disapproye of Opaque metallic
shades, since when these are used the
eyes, though themselves in shade, gaze
upon strongly illuminated surface, and
become dazzled and over-stimulated.
On account of the large quantity of
heat evolved by gas, the burner should
not be too near the head of the person;
the heat is liable to cause headache and
even congestion of the brain. Care
should also be taken to prevent the flame
from Pickering. The use of dark-blue
glass is also suggested in cases of irrita-
ton. With these precautions the COM
mittee believe that gas-light may be
used without mischief.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
Hard Times the Best for Young Men
Just Starting.

Young men coming upon the stage of
active business life during the present
hard times are more likely to become
permanently successful than those who
made their advent in business during
the period of initiation, of high prices
and of fabulous nominal profits. The
great reason of this is that young men
who begin now, form their business
management and personal habits, from
necessity, on principals of rigid econO-
my. These in the long run tell so pow
erfully as to make, in many cases, the
difference between failure and success.
Men who began when every thing was
at the top find it very embarrassing to
come down and adapt themselves and
their business to the times that try
mems purses, as war is said to try their
souls; whereas, those who commence
when economy is the order of the day,
find no difficulty whatever in starting
upon an economical basis, and, once
started, it will be easyto adhere to it. So
that, for young men inst embarking for
themselves, we may almost assert the
paradox that hard times are the best.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
Wanted a Man to g Sit with SAL"

Yesterday afternoon green-looking
couple, evidently newly married, called
at the photograph gallery of Beals &
Waterhouse, and wanted their pictures
taken. Just as Mr.. Beals had got his
plate ready the man called him aside
and said he wanted to ask favor. 81
was told in Carson you took the best
pictures in the State. Now, you see, Sal
and l got hitched down there last Mon
day; now, her folks go a good deal on
style, and they live in the States. They
never saw me, and if l send my mug
back East they'll be dead agin me sure
I'm darned sight better than look,
and when people come to know me they
vote me brick. Now, what l want is
to some good-lookin' man to sit with
Sal for picture. VIII you sand in?
She's within. Them big whiskers of
yours IL catch 'em sure and create har-
mony. You look like solid capitalist,
and they take me for petty larceny
thief" Mr.. Beals enjoyed the idea i'm
mensely, and sat with SO al' for the
picture, which will doubtless carry joy
into the household of the Eastern rela-
tives in a week or So Virginia City
(NeC.0 Chronicle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
Science and Industry.

"A hens egg is / per cent. fat.
Butter does not improve as cheese
does, by age, therefore the sooner it is
sold the better.
Exhibitors of butter at British dairy
shows decorate their rolls with sprays
of maiden-hair fern and parsley.
The famous Neufchatel cheese re-
sembles some of the fine Stiltons; the
cheese is spread on the bread like but
ter.
The value of milk and its products
last year was six hundred million dollars.
One hundred and fifty million pounds
of our cheese was marketed in Europe.
The subject of fencing material is
becoming serious one in the older
States and in the treeless ones of the
West. The time is at hand to abolish
every fence possible, and save expense
in this direction. ,a.t
One single house at Neufchatel for
wards annually to Paris 100000
cheeses, the value of which is estimated
at 1, 200,0 900 francs. The manufacture
of these cheeses requires the milk of 81
600 or 5000 cows.
The Manufacturer and Builder
makes minute calculation of the ex-
pense and advantages of the electric
light, as compared with other methods
of illumination, aud concludes that it is
seven times cheaper than gas, motive
power not included; and four times
cheaper, taking into account the cost of
driving. .-..
-Tantalite, mineral, has been found
in Coosa County, Alabama, and ana
lived by DIR. Smith, of Louisville, Ky.
Scientific men from various quarters are
seeking specimens. DIR. Smith esti-
mates the value OF tantalite from one to
two dollars per ounce in weight for
good sized pieces, and at increased val
ues for good large Jumps. Small frag-
ments about 80 cents per ounce.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
Odds and Ends.

The Times has a department head
ed Pearls" which it casts before the
people of Observation-Disclosures.
=" Hennery the VIII,'' as the tramp
said when he paused at the last hem
roost he visited before daybreak.-
Hd10keye.
Scene in a railway carriage: Fond
wife-Let me see your paper moment,
dear? Yes, dear, as soon as we get to
the tunnel. .ls
Suicides are more frequent in
springtime, sbut true inwardness comes
only with the green apple season.-Pic-
ayttne.
We are at q loss to know why news
paper men should trouble themselves
about the tax on incomes. 1t is GER
calmly none of their funeral .-Derri"E.
An Irishman, who lived in an attic,
being asked what part of the house he
occupied, answered: "If the house was
turned topsyturvy I'd be living on the
first fiurelp s.-
The proud claim of the Coney Island
Herald: /" We can safely say that our
paper has now the largest circulation Of
any Ccney Island newspaper in the
world" n Il
One Adam Kehr, of Bloomington,
H., contracted to furnish a Chicago
firm with $4,000 dozen eggs for Easter,
but fell short 5000 dozen; and now he
won't speak to hen.-ChicGgo Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
GENERAL.

1t is reported that three companies of
Fenians are armed and equipped at Buffalo,
and other achievements are being held in
readiness elsewhere, to make an invasion of
Canada as soon as war is declared between
Russia and England. The Government has
no official information Of any proposed Fe-
MAN movement, and the report is discredited
at Washington.
The transit of Mercury, which occurred on
the 9th, was successfully observed
from the various observatories through
out the United States. Prof. Peters, of
Hamilton College, is Of the opinion he dis
covered indications of atmosphere on the
planet.
Chief Gall, with 80 warriors from Sit
ting-BulPs camp, has surrendered to Lieu
tenant Baldwin, in camp on Poplar River.
Gall was one of Sitting BULBS most sanguin-
AIRY adherents, and his surrender is consid-
cred by Gen. Miles as Of no little importance.
The Treasury Department gives notice that
4 dangerous counterfeit note Of the denom-
ination of 500, on the Merchants National
Bank, Of New Bedford, Mass, has been put
in circulation in the Western States.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
He dropped from a side window, and
escaped with many bruises.

He dropped from a side window, and
escaped with many bruises.
OF THE DEAD,
Charles Henning, aged 80, leaves a
widow and one child.
Fred Merritt, aged %, single, was q
Minneapolis baseball umpire last year.
Clark WILDER, aged IS, leaves widow
and two children in Vermont.
Aug. Smith, aged 45, leaves wife
and one child.
William Leslie, aged 20, leaves wife
and one child.
Cyrus Ewing, aged 81, was single.
Ole G.. Lee leaves q wife and one
child.
Walter Savage, aged %, leaves q wife
and two children.
Patrick Judd, aged %, leaves wife
and two children.
Ed Mew-itt, aged 20, was single. He
was brother of Fred.
Charles Kimball was single.
II. Hicks, aged 2S, divorced.
Z. w. Burbank, aged 60, leaves wife
and two daughters.
John Rosiennus, aged 26, leaves wife
and an infant child.
John Boyer, aged %, leaves q wife.
Peter Halberg, aged 25, leaves a wife
and one child.
Two other men are reported missing.
Peter Tund, first reported as having
persisted in the Humboldt, was outside,
and escaped unframed. He asserts that
the explosion occurred only in the
I Washburn Mill, and that the Humboldt
and Diamond Mills were blown down
by conclusion. Per contra, Alex Brad
| ley and George Hind, who were twice
FRUSTRATED by explosions, when walking
from the vicinity of the mills, being
twice laid on their backs and a second
time showered with stones, say the second
explosion occurred in the Diamond
Mill, Just behind them, but the weight
of evidence is that all the explosions
were in the Washburn Mill.
The total loss of property is estinat-
ed to-day at $1,000,000. The burned
mills and four small manufacturing es-
Establishments destroyed will be rebuilt.
| The city has temporarily lost 81 run of
! Touring stone, but has 1870 left, although
several mills are so shattered by the ex-
plosion as to need repairs.
As to the
CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION,
the most positive are the millers.
Their theory is that fine wheat and
four-dust which is thrown out in vari-
Gus processes of Touring is highly in
flammable, and at the touch of flame
developes a powerful explosive gas
more forcible than the explosive gases
of mines, or than steam. In one nOta-
BILE instance, in the destruction of the
Trade-Stone Mill at Glasgow, Scotland,
a few years ago, this theory seemed con-
firmed by all the circumstances. That
some sort of an explosive vapor or I'M
palpable powder is created in Touring,
especially in the high grinding of the
patent process, is an undoubted fact
which has had numerous illustrations
in small explosions, but that an explo-
sion strong enough, or in quantity suffi
cient, to rend and level massive walls,
and throw stones and timbers as if they
had been propelled by nitro-gly cerine
is only to be proved by the Glasgow
Mill destruction and by the circumstan-
ces of the Minneapolis disaster.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09

There lately appeared in London
paper the following advertisement:
"Next presentation for sale to desirable
benefice in Bucks. Income about E300
a year, besides good house. Church
and schools in good repair. Prospect
of early possession. Price asked Fl, 800.
No reasonable offer refused if sold at
once" Respecting this the Echo OBJ
serves: SIT was said of old, Make
not thy fathers house a house of mer-
chandise,' but that was long time
ago, and we have grown wiser since
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
"A naturalist visited the Kapin Pc

"A naturalist visited the Kanin Pc
ninsula in Northern Russia, last sum-
mer, to make natural history collec-
tons, and also to study the peculiari-
ties of the Samoyede inhabitants of
that region. These primitive people
took alarm at his proceedings. especial
~ when he attempted to measure their
heads, and, believing that he had some
sinister design toward them, they
marched with their reindeer far into
the interior of the peninsula, taking
the enterprising man Of science with
them. He was finally rescued bv
some fishermen, but he lost all the in
sects he had collected, as the Samoy-
edes drank up the alcohol in which
they were preserved. DR.. Foote's
Health Monthly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
THE WAR TROUBLES.

The steamer Cimbria, of the Hamburg
American line, under charter of the Russian
Government, arrived at Southwest Harbor,
Maine. on the 18th. She has on board full
complement Of officers and men, and is un-
der direction Of Russian naval officer Of
high rank. On her arrival long
dispatch in cipher was sent to Admiral Les
/ sousky at St Petersburg, and the officers
seemed TO be awaiting reply. The ship has
large amount OF stores on board, including
coal for 10 days. steaming. No arms or am
munitiOn are visible, and the officers of the
steamer deny that there are any such on
board.
A Vienna dispatch Of the 3D. sats the Gov
eminent expresses confidence In the prompt
meetings IT the Congress and is again urg-
Ing England to accept the Congress. Per
contra, Constantinople dispatch OF same
date represents both the Russians and Turks
as having abandoned all hope Of peaceful
solution Of the difficulties.
| A telegram from ST. Petersburg, 4th,
stated that negotiations had been resumed
| directly between London and st. Petersburg
in regard TO the withdrawal from Constan-
tinople.
A London dispatch says that the steam
ship Cimbria, now in American waters, was
chartered the oath Of March last, by the
Russian Admiralty, to serve exclusively as
transport. Her principal work will be to
supply provisions and munitions Of war to
the Russian fleet IN the Pacific. Her pres
ent destination, after taking aboard the war
material contracted for in America, is North
Japan.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 9TH says
that Sadyk Pasha has declared that Turkey
will observe neutrality in the event OF war
between England and Russia, and will
cause her own territory to be re-
spected. A dispatch from London says
that the British Admiralty have ordered
that the Island of Helgoland be promptly
and effici entity fortified. A St. Petersburg
dispatch says that the Russian Commandant
Of the Cimbria, now in American waters, is
Cassimer de Grippenberg, and that his mis-
sion is to create flotilla of cruisers.
Parliament reopened on the 9th, after the
Easter recess. In the House of Commons
notice was given of various questions re-
garding the employment of indian troops.
Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, in reply to question asked by
the Marquis of Harrington, leader of the
Liberals, said: a can only say that the
negotiations with Russia continue. Itwould
be highly advantageous topublic interests
TO discuss them nowv
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09


Eugenie's son. Napoleon ", having
been drawn in the French CONSUMPTION,
has availed himself of his privilege as
the only son of widow to take his ex.
emption.
There does not seem to be the Least
likelihood that the Paris Exhibition will
be finished before July, at the earliest
France is more backward than most Of
its guests.
The present Earl of Leitrim has of.
fered a reward of 100000 for informa.
ton which will lead to the arrest of the
men who killed his uncle. This is by
far the largest reward ever offered in
Ireland. A farmer with shattered
hand has been arrested.
The beauties of Partisan society are
said to be the Duchess of Chaulnes,
Nine. de Montebello, and Nine. de Fol
ster, the last one of the most fascinating
women Paris has ever seen. Her head
and face are those of wonderfully beau
tiful boy, while her countenance is full
of character.
Miss Burdett Coutts, now her lady
ship, is the richest and most philanthropy
ic woman in England. The bank OF
thatname is hers. Hundreds have pro-
posed to her, but she somehow thought,
not being handsome, twas her money
they wanted. She has been troubled all
her life with Il hereditary skin disease.
She dresses always in black. Her Chris
tian name is Angela.
FTbo 1o@o o-J I III - - :.
for popularity. A few years ago he ad-
vertised for some one to fill up the va
cancy in his Donegal agency. Three
hundred applicants wrote to him, and in
answer to one of them he said that he
wished to appoint military gentleman
used to shooting natives in Australia and
New Zealand, as he wanted a wholesome
lesson given to the tenants on his es-
tate.
During the sc years of its existence
the income tax has brought into the cot
fers of Great Britain and Ireland the
sum of f265, 100000, or S1,325,0O0,000
in gold. The highest rate-1s. 4d. on
the pound-was in 1861, the years
following the Crimean war. The lowest,
in 1875, was I'd, while the present tax,
including the increase from the s'six-
million vote, is only sd. (about two
per cent? on incomes above ESQ.
There is in Berlin a society called
''The Society of Collectors of Cigar
Cuttings" Every Christmas the pro-
ceeds of the cigar ends collected by its
agents are applied to the purchase of
clothes for poor orphan children. In
1876 about 80 children were clothed by
this society, each child having shirt,
pair of strong boots, wooden stockings,
warm dress, and pocket handkerchief
They were in addition entertained with
a well decorated Christmas-tree. The
system of collecting is by one or two
ladies or gentlemen in the various towns
of Germany getting their friends to save
their sends" for them. Putting the
in that country at 100000,
which is very much below the mark, and
assuming that the cigar-ends of each
person are worth 2 cents a quarter, this
would make in a year 100000, and it
is now proposed by making more active
efforts to raise much larger sum than
has hitherto been raised by this means
and found large orphan home.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
Hans and Mishaps,

Carrie Heatie, aged 10, of Ridge
way, Mich, being crossed in love, killed
herself with morphine.
"A 2-year old daughter of William
johnson, living near Carroll, Iowa, was
drowned in tub containing only three
inches of water.
-Thos. Hagen, aged II, formerly a
wealthy farmer of Butler County, o.,
hanged himself on account of his finan-
cial reverses.
"A daughter of Mr.. Babe, a farmer
living in Crawford County, Iowa, was
burned to death by her clothes coming
in contact with a prairie fire. She was
Is years old.
The house of Alex. Ashby, in Lake
County, Mich, was destroyed by light
ming recently. Mr.. Ashby's mother
and daughter, 6-year-old, persisted in
the flames, and Mrs. Ashby was seri-
ously injured.
-Ayoung son of James Wiseman,
residing near Fairfield, Morrow County,
o., accidentally swallowed hickory
nut shell which lodged in his throat,
choking him to death in short time
"A 2-year-old child of Bolivar Dun
can, living near Bedford, Ind, while
playing near the house was attacked by
large blacksnake and severely injured.
When found, the snake was wrapped
around the child's neck.
Near Mason City, w. Va, young
girl named Lizzie Jasper, while fooling
with loaded pistol given her by her
brother, shot her 3-year-Old sister
through the head, killing her instantly
-Ex-Judge Gleeson, practicing
lawyer, and his adopted son, Frank, Is
years old, were found insensible in their
room at Baltimore, Md, one morning
recently, having blown out the gas
when they retired the night before. The
young man died in short time, and
the Judge was not expected to recover.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09

river from Mcintosh down, and put stop
to such proceedings.
The Right Hon. Claiborne Hardy has been
gasetted-for the peerage, with the title Of
Viscount Cronbrook.
Contrary to expectations raised by the re-
cent conciliatory attitude Of the Papacy,
those Prnssian priests in receipt of Govern
inent stipends have been asked by Cardinal
Caterini, Project Of the Congregation of the
Sacred Council, either to renounce their SAL
aries or declare their opposition to the Ec-
clesiasticaI Nay lava.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-09
MARROW ESCAPES.

Fred George, badly burned, leaped
from window of the Zenith Mill and
escaped. His companion persisted. He
says that at the moment of the explo-
sion a pile of barrels to be filled last
night moved bodily upon him from the
front room. He climbed over them
through the rapidly spreading flames
and dropped from the window.
John Monte, Waterman in the Gal
axy Mill, jumped from q third-story
window Fortunately, the explosion
had ripped up the timber covering of
the canal, and he fell in the water, re-,
eeiying only slight injuries. Two men
persisted in the Humboldt Mills In all
the lost were Is, of whom all but three
were married. One widow, crazed by
her sudden loss, imagining she heard
or saw her husband, would have rushed
into the fire when burning its fiercest,
but that strong men restrained her.
Daniel A. Day, second miller, acting
as Waterman at Petit & Robinson's
mills, was in the mill Office on the first
floor, by window on the north side,
with his back towards the front win
dow, and near it, and at his right
against the partition was heavy desk.
He heard no sound. The first he knew
he was hurled against stone wall and
the desk after him. Recovering, he in
stinctively. rushed to a window; when
he was again thrown back. By this !
time the office was fun of flying debris. 1
Somewhat stunned he scrambled to a
side window. The wall was plainly
rocking, and waves from the canal rolf
ed several inches deep into the Office.
Still be had heard no noise. By this
time an atmosphere Of flame had swept
through tie MILL He tried to turn on
the water, but found he had not time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-30

TOLEDO, August pa meeting OF citi-
zens was, held tonight and committee
appointed to canvass the city for subscrip-
tions to thc,rclief fund for the benefit Of
the yellow fever sufferers ut the South.
Tho members of the Stock Exchange to-
day raised apurse Of five hundred dollars.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-30

SgDALIA, Mo-, August 20.-The Sedalia
Democrat has the following particulars Of
the robbery OF the COncortlia Bank,
which occurred to-day: Concordia is q
town Of about 1900 Inhabitants, in Lafay-
ette county, on the Lexington 4 st. Louis
Railroad, 30 miles from Sedalia. The
principal banking business OF all parts OF
Lafayette county is done by the Con-
cordia Savings Bank, OF which ]. II.
Lohoefener is President and II.
Ficken, Cashier. This Afternoon about
half past o'clock three men
entered the bank. One of them asked the
cashier, who was alone in tho bank, TO
change ten dollar bill. While he was
changing the bill another man jumped
over the counter and caught the cashier
by the arm and placed one hand over his
mouth. They then took what money was
in sight, and putting pistol to the CASH
icr's head told him to open the safe. He
did so, under fear OF his life, and the rob-
bers took all the paper money in the safe,
between three and four thousand dollars,
refusing TO take the silver Of which there
was between two and and three thousand
dollars. During the robbery n gentleman
named Sodeman was near the bank, and
the robber who was guarding the door,
called him TO advance, instead OF which he
turned and ran. The robber then fired at
Sodeman but missed him. They then
mounted their horses and galloped off ina
southerly direction. The whole robbery
occupied about ten minutes. They were
all mounted on good horses newly shod
The citizens are In hot pursuit.