The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-30
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

LUCIA ZARATE, lne midget, ana her
parents have returned to Mexico, taking
with them, it is said, snug fortune.
"D. BOONE eilled A Bar on Tree in
the year 1760,'' is inscribed on an old
beech tree in Tennessee, near Jonesboro.
The centennial of the old tree has lust
been formally celebrated
EMELINE w. WARDwELL of Boston
has recovered s., 208 damages from the
estate of +. c. Boyden, because Boyden,
an apOthecary, put up laudanum instead
of rhubarb for her, two years ago. She
has been partially paralyzed ever since.
A PINE tree in England, 65 feet high,
has rocks nest at the very top, out of
which grew this year three stalks of oats,
each carrying a well-filled head and
showing clear against the sky two or
three feet above the tailest branches.
THE ex-Empress Eugenia is worth
more than S5,000,000 and yet earth
holds no more unhappy woman than she.
What's money to her, when she remem-
bers her dead son, the misery of lonely
widowhood and the loss of her throne.
A CHILD 10 years old was recently ar
rested in Paris for stealing cats. He
went around cat-hunting after dark, and
his father employed the day following in
disposing of the proceeds TO keepers of
eating-hOuses. What they did with them
has not been revealed.
LOVERS of the grape will be sorry to
learn that the wine crop in France this
year will be bad one, as regards both
quality and quantity. From nearly all
parts the reports are unfavorable. In
the Bordelais, Charentes, Maconnais,
Bourgogne, Touraine, and Champagne
the prospect of a bad crop is general.
1t is estimated that the total produce of
wine in France this year will be about
fifty millions of hectolitres.
On recent Sunday at London, Ont,
a robin flew into the Methodist Church,
took up his position on the railing Oppo-
site the minister, sang loudly and well
when the people sang, was perfectly 81
lent during prayer, chirped when the
minister said any thing good during the
sermon, seemed to re-echo the doXolO-
gy, and did better than many regular
church-goers by remaining until church
was formally dismissed.
RAILROAD companies are interested
in the subject of ties. The scarcity of
timber for the purpose has raised ques-
ton as to a substitute. Cast-irOn ties
cost three times as much as wood, but
the difference Is more than made up in
the length of time they wear. English
lines have introduced glass ties, or sleep
ers. BY a new process the glass Is
tOughened, and the cost is about the
same per ton as those of cast iron, but
there are about three times as many to
the ton.
BALlOONIsTs should beware of the
rural regions of the Don. Preparing to
descend an aeronaut was first shot at
and when he alighted found a crowd of
peasants armed with scythes, hatchets
and stones, preparing for an attack. On
declaring, in good Russian, that he was
mortal, like themselves, pope, extend
ING a crucifix, babe him lneel. He did
so, but even then would hardly have es-
capped had not an eX-COssack arrived
and explained the mysteries of balloon
ing.
THE President of the Wesleyan Con-
ference in England has issued circu-
lar to the Superintendents of Circuits
suggesting that a day should be set apart
for % humiliation and supplicatiOn be-
fore Almighty God, on account of our
national sins, with especial reference
to the depression of our agricultural
and our various manufacturing interests
and the lamentable wars in which we
are engaged, as wetl as to the decrease
in the number of members in our SOci-
etiesn
AT the carnival in San Francisco in
honor of General and Mrs. Grant, Mrs.
Grant was presented with a bouquet,
composed of the flowers indigenous to
the various countries she had passed
through in her tour round the world.
The flowers were placed in regular or
der, starting from Philadelphia and
ending with San Francisco. The bOu-
quet-holder, five inches long, was OF
pure California gold, and inlaid with
quartz and 4 collection of other metals
found on the Pacific coast.
In new budget of anecdotes about
Bismarck. DR.. Moritz Busch says that
one evening the Prince complained that
his political achievements had given him
but little JOY or satisfaction. "They did
not make amy one happy" he continued
'either myself, my family, or any one
else: and they made many unhappy
Without me three great wars would not
have taken place, eighty thousand mel
would not have persisted, and parents
brothers, sisters, and widows would MOI
have nourned."
A PAINTER of celebrity in Paris, wher
his first wife-he is now married to an
,other-was sick unto death, was informed
by her of her great fear of being buried
alive and fbarpuOOn OrOmiSed TO MAKE
an incision in her neck when he though
her dead. He, however, failed to rec
ollect it. Some months after he wa!
dining with n friend and paying court t.
the lady he wished to make successor t.
the deceased one. Out of brown study
he suddenly exclaimed: "By JOve,
forgot to cut my wife's throat"
needed long explanations before tn,
other took him.
SIGNoR BRUMIDI, the aged artist
who has so long been engaged in deco
rating the Capitol at Washington, wa
nearly killed while working on the uppe
part of the rotunda the other day. Ii,
sat on chair perched on a scafforld s.
feet from the floor. In leaning over t.
give a finishing touch to figure almos
out of his reach, he caused the chair t.
slip and fall off, and he only escaped b.
q sudden clutch at the edge of the scat
fold. He has been at work upon tn
Capitol for % years, and has latel.
been so feeble that it has been founC
necessary to lift him to his fresco wOrl
by derrick.
SOME one truthfully saws that tn
science of mechanics draws its vitalit,