The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-13
FACTS AND FaNCIEs.
MARY's LITTLE CHILL.

4, followed ner TO school one day
which vas against the rule:
II made The children laugh 70 see
I P1or Mary shs ke in school,
And 20 the teacher sent her home.
| And babe her take someile
| To reconstruct her system and
| To liquidase her tile
READY-MADE-The young lady wait
ing for an offer.
WITH all the variety of canned goods
in the market, we have yet to hear of
canned hash. -sA
, WHY does the new moon remind one
OF a giddy girlH Because she is too young
to show much reflection.
BETWEEN the Yes " and A." Non of a
woman | would undertake to thrust the
point of needle Don Quixote.
UNDER the New Hampshire tax law
two hogs to family are exempt. That
would exempt the whole family, in some
cases.
AN amateur roller-skater at the Phila-
delphia skating rink made q tsn-mile
Journey over the asphaltum pavementin
forty-eight minutes.
II Noah had advertised in the news
papers the exact hour at which the ark
would sail, there would not have been
SO many lives lost in the food
GAS to having half husba II - says
Mormon lady spite'uliy, that is a
good deal more than many of you east
ern women are likely to get" Cypress
i've silence.
In an Indiana church the best-lOOking
young lady is selected to pass the com
tribU ton box and there isn't a young
man in the congregation that dare drop
| in button.
IT takes twenty yards Of dress goods
to make q fashionable lady's dress now
adaYs-six to wear on her person and
fourteen to carry in her RICH. hand or
up under her elbow.
On being deserted by her adorer,
Young lady in the millinery line broke
| forth in this way: Such a wretch
ought to be battered to deSth with thim~
bles, and buried in band box y
A SAN FRANCISCO man has just inven-
ted bOot-msking machine. He war
rants that any boot it turns Que will
| kill an ordinary man with one square
Kick, and the most hardened book agent
! with twenty.
"IT's strange that you should have
grown so tickle of late, nv dear"
said Mrs. Mic to her husband, for in
earlier years you were as staid as could
be-you never came to see me but you
staid till twelve or one O'Clock"
WHOEVER spends his early years in
,.,ksfY,I Sonio4v fbnnuh of
after period he may have the choice OF
better, will yet constantly look back
with longing toward that which he en-
joyed of old, and which has left its i'm
preston blended with the memory Of ali
his young and unreturning pleasures.
BAsHFUL lover to his sweetheart):
Ahem, miss, want to see your father,
Eve an Important matter to propose to
him." Young lady Considerably;
Pm sorry papa is not at home, but
couldn't you propose TO me just as weli?'
He did, and with perfect success.
VOICES OF THE NIGHT.
When bedtime csmes and curtains fall,
and round 90 the doors TO locS,
Ere lamps 20 out my vile doth call.
RENE mber, dear, to wind the clock"
When boots are of, and for the daT
ali irksome cares seem put TO rout,
hear vife's voice from dfeamla1d say,
Be sure you put the kitten out.
When stretched between the sheets / lie,
And heavy lids havs ceased 10 wink.
From trundls-bed there comes cry
- want dwink want dWinkP
The true memories and quick sympa-
thies of pure, intuiti7e soul are frag~
mentary revelation OF all-present, all
powerful love of God-the glory OF the
sky reflected in broken scrap OF mirror
| The pity is some see the reflection and
never look up to see whence 1t comes.
AN Omaha belle recently received a
present of pair OF twenty-four button
] kid gloves from one of her admirers.
She wrote him letter OF thanks IN which
she frankly told him he had made mis-
take in the size, but she had Temedied it
by cutting of the feet aud only wearing
| the legs.
AFTER the unique and cautious YER
diet rendered recently by corOner
iury NJ Tuubridge Wells, sll disbe!ivers
| in the Jury system should be converted
/ The verdict referred to was: The
child was suffJcated, but there l. no ey'
| jdencs to show that the sud0catlOn was
before or after death"
AN old Mississippi captain. who &C
companie1 Jenny Lind from New Or
leans To New York, relstes that when
tnev visited Niagara falls the golden
tbr9ated songstress dropped on her
knees at the foot of the cataract, and,
with streaming eyes, thanked God that
Ha had youchsafed to her 20 grand a
sisbt." OF course this happ' ned before
the hsckman came around to collect
the fare.
Laws derive their authority from
possessions and usage. 1t Is dangerous
20 trace them back to their sourcs.
They grow great, and ennoble themselves
by running; but follow them upward IN
their source. tits but a little spring,
scarce discernable,t hat swelIs thu, and
thus fortifes itself by growing old.
TEE Darlington Hawkeye man is I'M
derstood 10 relate his own experience IN
what follows: "Sing me, my own" he
whispered lovingly, as they sat down on
the one piano stool, sing me, ", WINS
per.wha5 tnou feelest " will, young
man. will" said the tremuloua voice
of her papa. from the disec ion OF the
door : We will sing it a. duet, you
, and I; l win feel and you can whisper
, what it Is" And then ne felt for the
, bow with mis- feet. and went on with IN
i feeling indifference. L" And you needn
! confne yourself to whisper necessarily
: in telling what it feels ike Give
voice, Young man, give it voice."
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