The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13

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THREE masked robbers entered house
ms Milwaukee suburb, and had packed
large quantity OF jewelry and clothing
for removal without disturbing any OF
the inmates, when they came upon 8
Young woman fast asleep in bed. An
impulsive robber lifted his mask and
kissed her, and she awoke and screamed
compelling the gang TO decsmp without
their booty.
Our Louisiana sugar growers are call
ing loudly for an invention which some OF
our ingenious readers ought to supply,
namely, a cane-mill which will largely in
crease the yield of juice obtsinsble by
current methods of pressing. Atpresent
but little over half the juice is extracted
even in the bess managed mills, the ma
iority of planters failing to realize 30
much as 30 per cent. OF the possible
yield of their cane. The problem may
present many dEculties, but it is well
worth attempting,
A TRAVELLING correspondent of the
New York Herald says The south is
the only part of the United States that
can afford good speculation in the way
OF railroad (the Southern Pscifc) and
Tom Scott knowsit. The road is sure TO
come, and in view of other facts, and
for reasc ns..t hst we believe are just and in
harmony with this universal verdict of
the best thinkers that we know, we are
forced to conclude that the south Is
rising and her future is secure. The fire
that SCARED her sunny fields will light
the path to glory yet.
The American people are quick to
grasp at anything new, and at once pro-
coed with all their celebrated energy to
run it into the ground. 1t is the case with
a trite saying, slang phrase or popu-
lar song. They are no sooner learned
than desperate effort to forget is made.
Not long since q man was killed for
playing Ny Grandfather's Clock" and
the time ia rapidly approaching when
there will be q massacre on board the
"Pinafore when someone gets off that
What! never? Well, hardly ever
gag.
MANITOBA, where cold waves are man
ufactured with such unvarying success,
has been q sort of Mecca for Canadians
1t is their ego west" locality. MSnY
have left the provinces and even the
state of Michigan to seek a home in
Manitoba. A letter from a prominent
citizen of Winnipeg a Detreiter gives
rather blue outlook from thst quarter
The thermometer, he says, has reached
as low as forty degrees below zero, and
even the freedom from sun stroke which
such q temperature insures, hardly re-
comedies the inhabitants to the frigidity'
Winnipeg has become very dull place
The winter is very long, and no business
doing in it. Summer time is better here
because we have large emigration COM
ing in then. This is not the best place
man can come to; it's played out"
Mr. J, W. BoUT0N, of New York, has
onfexhibition an "edition de luxe" of r.
wings Life of Washington" the man.
ufscture of which cost five thousand
dollars. According to the Worlds de-
scriptiOn, it is fine royal quarto and is
3 presentation copy, with the autograph
of the author, of the large paper edition,
of which.only one hundred and ten copies
were printed. 1t comprises the choicest
picked impressions on India paper of the
the hundred and two portraits and other
plates. 1t is in ten volumes, with one
volume of iconography, and has over
fourteen hundred added illustrations, in
Guiding about one hundred and thirty va
rieties Of the Washington portrait of
contemporary execution. 1t also con-
tsins shout one hundred and twenty au.
togrsph letters from Washington and |
most of the noted men of his time !
The Illustrations consist of portraits,
views of prominent places, battle scenes,
maps, plans of operations, original
drawings in water colors, sepia, and pen
Gil sketches. Besides many other special
features, it ia bound in full gros.grained |
Lsvant morocco, deliberately fooled sides
and backs, inside panels of polished |
crimson Levant, with delicate hand tool |
ing, silk head bands, each plate mounted |
on silk guards, full gilt lodges, and a
chsmois-lned case accompanying each |
volume. o, ye biblyophilesl But it is
not for sale.
THERE is danger of starvation if SCI
ence pushes researches much further in
TO our larders. Trichins in pork, pleu~
ro-pheumonia in beef, typhus in milk,
and now scertsin Doctor Querner in
Philsdelphia has detected diptheria in
lemons, oranges, pears, and especially in