The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-27
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sy mpathy and attention of all the ladies
1 present"
SUCH loss of life and property has
o .owedi the wanton cutting down of
entire forests, for years past, that sew
eral European Governments have APP
pointed commissioners to interfere in
this, and instead of removing at once
the entire growth of forest lands, they
now thin the trees out only when attain
ing their full growth, and in their prime.
In this way, just as large, if not a
larger, product of lumber is obtained
during a half or a whole century, and
the roots of the trees left standing and
| the underbrush act as filters for power
full rains, retard their otherwise rapid
flow, and prevent their washing away
the soil The streams in the valleys are
consequently not filed so soon in days
as before in hours, and no destruction
If farms, villages, and their inhabitants,
nerds and flocks follows. Nothing is
more unsightly in a landscape than the
thick stumps left on the ground after
cutting off noble forest. If the trees
be gradually thinned instead of cutting
al off at once, this ugly, depressing
sight is avoided.
THE newspapers of San Francisco
gave way to little temporary delirium
over Sharon's reception of Gen. Grant.
The Post had a report of the affair that
was 10 columns long. OF Sharon's
mansion it says: Between $40, 900 and
$50, 600 was expended in this entertain
ment. The Belmont mansion, palatial
as it was before. was made more so for
the occasion. New wings were added
for wine and supper rooms. Fresco
artists made pillars and cornices beauti-
full. To perfect the ventilation of the
art gallery, fancy apertures were made
in the ceiling, and throughout the sew
eral rooms, that which was not beauti-
full before was made so, and that which
was beautiful was made more so. The
wine-rOom, which was located in the
lobby of the bowling-alley, and en-
braced an apartment about 27x40 feet
size, elegantly decorated with cypress
branches and geranium leaves, with
shields and pampas plumes, was pre-
sided over by Elvia Fay, whose delicious
punch was unanimously praised" This
wine-room was referred to with sus-
picious frequency in the report, and it
probably had something to do with the
magniloquence of the language.
The domestic economy of Liberty
Hall, the Georgia home of Hon. Alex.
H. Stephens, is peculiar. 1t is proba-
bly, the only mansion in the country
~here the domestic and social arrange
ments are entirely unaffected by the
sickness or health of the master of the
house. Visitors come and 90, partake
of his hospitality, make themselves at
home, whether he is able to receive
them in person or not. Almost every
train that stops brings coming guests
and bears away departing. Dinner is
served at one, and all who happen to be
present take their places at the board.
Later visitors take supper, and earlier
ones breakfast, and the breakfast-table
always brings new faces. Mr.. Stephens
own habit is to rise at nine, and, after
dressing, to be rolled in his easy-chair
out upon the piazza, where he usually
calls for a game of whist-an amuse-
ment which has become a habit with
him, and helps to sOlace many an hour
of suffering. After an hour or two, he
returns to bed, and rests till dinner,
when he rises and takes the head of his
table, that being the only meal he takes
in the dining-room. After dinner, con-
versation and whist are in order, and at
seven he goes to bed.
On certain days you will hear the
beating of triangles, and have your at
tention attracted to the red flag of the
curb-stone autioneer, whose vOlubility
will be heard above the din of traffic.
These out-of-doOr auctions are always
amusing, and the crowd of negroes,
poor whites" and loungers that they
gather afford an interesting study to the
lover of physiognomy. 1t is ike bit
of the Bowery or Chatham Street turned
out-of-doors but the articles sold are
more miscellaneous and wretched. You
may buy WORKOUT stoves and tables,
secondhand bacon, muddy croquet sets,
rubber hose of one kind and cotton hose
of quite another, canary-birds, hat racks,
baby carriages, old fruit jars, clothing,
bath-tubS, straw sun-bonnets and hats,
squirrel cages, carpets, books, bed
clothes made "befOh de wah,' sweet
oil, saws, crockery, iron garden settees,
ice-cream freezers, saddles, window
sashes-every thing out of time and
from pair OF snuffers to a
horse and wagon alive and harnessed.-
Ernest IngerSoH, IN Harper's for De-
Gender.
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