The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-10
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
MARY's Chill


And % the teacser sent her home.
| and babe her faks cIns lie
To reconstruct Der system and
| 10 hquidsie The hiio.
| Wat makes poor Nary have the chilIs
nd shass ~ arisl bad1
| Wby don't she take = gf - Of pliis
~ wear iiveT-gad
BAR EELlEY- Drinking In a sample-
room 10 drown sorrow.
THE ls1gest steel rail min IN the
United States il 10 he erected A. Esld.
win, near Harrisburg, Pa.
A CLOCK keeps its hands before lie fare
probably, because it il ashamed ~ ths
cowardly manner in which time fee.
IF the socialists keep on shooting al
the monarchs Of Europe, it miaht nav
for some American to go over and copper
the king.
ALL the pateD5s on India-rIsbber shoes
have expired, and that's why most any
sort Of a man can get trusted for pair
this spring.
CRITICS are seztinels in the grand
army OF letters, stationed At the corners
of newspapers and reviews, to challenge
every new author.
TALMAGE may be guilty q heresy, bur-
glsry, arson and murder, but the one
great tact that no ore can 90 to sleep
under his preaching should weigh tons
in his favor.
EVE, it will be remembered, had no
spring bonnet, yet she married the first
gentleman in the land. she had iall suit,
however, OF the ig-leSf pattern when
she left Eden.
BRILLIANT and impulsive people,"
saida lecturer ON physiognomy, shave
black eyes; or, if they don't have 'em,
they're apt to get 'em if they are too
brilliant and too impuIsiEe."
SENATOR BURTON, q eolOred member
of the Texas legislature, sends money to
Virginia to assist his old mistress who
raised him and taught him how to read,
and who is now living in straitened cir.
cumstsnces.
ThE last rays of the setting sun were
shining ON the gilded frame of a mirror
before which a young fap had been
standing for hours, trying to arrange a
refractory tie, when he exclaimed, "Aha!
at last it's eventide."
The worlds fair, at sydney, Australia,
to BE- opened on the 1st Of next August,
will be chiefly contributed to by the
mother country and the United States.
Two shiploads of American machinery
and products are to be exhibited.
AT Tirnova, the Bulgarian capital, a
correspondent saw, the other day a
queer sight-a dozen Bulgarian soldiers,
armed with Russian nfes, conducting
half dozen TURKS and as many Rus
70 p
trial.
"KEEP way from dat niger, l tell
you, said Uucle Rgbe to his sable daugh-
ter; keep way from him. He's like
what de 'POstie John lived on in de
wild'ne "How's dat p she asked.
" Low cuss and wild, honey replied
Uncle Rube,
QUESTION AND ANSWER
A.-What ia the good aud what is the bed?
Where is the perfectly true2
What Is the end you live for. my lad
and what, may ask, your
UnprOven, fer, is your heaven above,
Life is bat labor and sOrToS:
Then why should we hope, and why should We
And why stould we care tor the morrow
B There may be a ght worth fighting, my friend,
Though victory there be none;
And though no haven be ours Mt the end,
Still we may steer straight on.
And though nothing ba good and nOtbi g be
bad,
And nothing be true TO the letter,
Yet good many things worse, my lad,
And one or two things are better.
REMARKABLE are the stories coming
from Newfoundland as to the wealth Of
copper ore. According to these ac~
counts vast masses Of copper hsve been
discovered near the sea, rising above the
surface in lofty cliff, easily qusrried,
and easily shipped, and of superior Iich-
ness
EVERY now and then some chap writes
TO newspaper for a recipe to prevent
hair from coming out. Ii men would
90 home from the lodge before midnight
with their legs sober, their hair wouldn't
come out so rapidly. We always 90
home early, and we have more bair now
than the day we were born Norris
town Herald.
THR police in Aisace and Lorraine
have seized great quantities of cigarette
paper in the shape OF trlcOlor and in
scribed with the arms Of StrasbOurg,
Metz, etc; also many labels tor bottles
marked Liberation Liquor" and "Ex-
tract of France, to be taken at the
psychological moment" and some minia-
ture maps with the severed territory in
black.
THE late Prince Henry of the Meth
e7Isnis was one OF the wealthiest prin-
css III Europe. HIS property has heen
usually estimated in Holland at &4l $780,
COO The greater part of it consists in
state funds; there are also shares in COM
Eercial companies, landed estates and
castles, and similar property, some
of it in the Netherlands, the remainder
in Germany and the Dutch colonies.
OTrO MCNANNY isa St. Louis man of
middle age and sedate manners. Mary
Engelbrecht is young, with shapely
figure and pretty face, and she dresses
with artistic neatness. Otto saw Mary
in the street for the first time, and was
overcome with admiration. He threw
one arm around her waist, drew her to
him. exclaimed, 40, girly. girly," and
kissed her three times before she could
break away. He subsequently paid
| fifteen dollars fine in police court.