The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-25
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

il FROG was found on top of a Cam
bridge (Mass.), church steeple, $50 feet
above the ground, the other day.
A SCOTCH paper says that two gen
tlemen had narrow escape from being
killed one night lately by the fall of the
hour-hand Of the town clock of AYR.
r. c. DAVIS of Philadelphia has just
purchased half-dime of the coinage of
1902 for SO. Only 10 of these coins are
known TO be in existence.
SAYS an exchange: q 1t is bad enough
for woman to allow her children TO
call her hummer but MARINER the
new variation, is still more deteStable. ="
In February next year there will be
five Sundays. This fact occurs but
three times in a century. Thus, after
1880, we viii have to wait until 1920 be-
fore the shortest month of the year can
again boast of five Sundays.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN's villa at New
port is full of curious antique furniture
which she collected in Europe and
which was never unpacked in America
until long after her death. 1t is very
quaint, but has a tendency to tumble to
pieces.
THE Mongols ascertained the number
of the enemies slain by cutting off the
right ear of each of the dead. In 1899
they collected 10000 of these from the
plains of Russia and after the battle of
Leigmtz, in l24l, filed with right ears
nine enormous sacks.
THERE is in Sandersville, Ga, a blind
negro man who is a professional we'll
digger He not only digs and cleans out
wells, but can rive boards and shingles,
and nail them on a house in as straight
a line as though he had perfect sight.
THEY have in the service of the In
man Line an officer who has been a
mariner since 1889. He has made over
800 trips across the Atlantic, and has
experienced shipwreck no less than four
times.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has received from the agent at Fort
Berthold Agency a sample of oats raised
by the Indians on that reservation,
weighing "a pounds TO the bushel. The
Agent states that these Indians have
raised - acres of these oats this season,
with an average yield of 40 bushels to
the acre.
RANAvALoNA, Queen of Madagascar,
has issued a proclamation to her sub
jects commanding them to send their
children to school, saying that it makes
her glad to see her subjects wise. She
adds: land so be all of you diligent,
for although you do not now know the
sweetness of knowledge and wisdom,
you win discover it when they become
yours.
THE death sentence on Gerald Main
warin9, son of the Rev. c. Mainwaring,
Vicar of Whitmore, Staffordshire, for
killing policeman, has been changed
to penal servitude for life, as there was
no malice prepense. When wild youth
of Il, Mainwaring was sent over here to
earn living, and had lately returned
after three years absence.
DIPHTHERIA is frightful scourge of
the rising generation. The children of
kings and lords are carried away by it,
as well as those of the poorest people.
In several countries of Europe prizes are
offered for the discovery of the best rem
edy for the disease. Among the prizes
is one offered by the Emperor of Ger
many for the best treatise on the subject
published within year.
A HALF-DOZEN drugs seem to be suffi-
cient to combat all kinds of disease.
During the last Turko-Russian war the
medical staff of the Russian army or
dered $4,000 pounds of quinine, 10000
pounds of chlorOfOrm, 1900 pounds of
castor-oil, and several thousand pounds
of opium, gum-arabic, camphor, and
carbolic acid. With these they felt pre-
pared for all emergencies.
A LADY in White HiR. Burlington
County, Indiana, is the owner of dog
and a dove. Whenever she goes out
walking the dove perches itself Oh the
dogs head, and the latter trots off, hap
ply as lark. The bird holds its posi-
ton until the party return home, unless
Towser is attacked by some of the bad
dogs of the borough. Then it flies to a
place of safety, returning to its favorite
roost when the tussle between the dogs
is over
In the Cincinnati Geological Garden,
"Pinafore" is played on a real ship float
ing on a real lake. The characters are
rowed to the vessel in small boats, at the
proper moment, and the effect is re-
markably realistic. Pretty Estelle Nor
timer, the Buttercup, was trifie tardy
in getting aboard the other evening. In
her hurry she tripped on rope, and fell
into the water, a distance of Is feet. Sir
Joseph Porter's crew gallantly rescued
her, but she dripped too much to per-
form without a change of clothes, and
the performance was delayed.
PROF. L. b. ARNOLD is reported as
saying that he had taken the milk of
three patrons of cheese factory, in Oc-
tober, who were feeding nothing but
grass, and the milk of three others who
fed nothing but corn sown broadcast. He
took-an equal quantity of the milk of
each, and curdling it with the same
amount of rennet, at the same tempera-
ture, found, after drying the curd, that
the milk of the corn-fed cows gave 1-2
per cent. in favor of corn fodder over
grass.
OVER the triple doorways of the Ca
thedral of Milan there are three inscrip-
tons spanning the splendid arches.
Over one is carved beautiful wreath of
roses, and underneath is the legend
" All that which pleases is but for mo-
ment." Over the other is sculptured a
cross, and there are the words, "Al |
that which troubles us is but for mo-
ment. But underneath the great CEN /
tral entrance in the main aisle is the in
scripton, That onlyis important which |
is eternal"
DlPHrHERIA Is prevailing to such an |
alarming extent in Southwestern Russia |