The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
PITH AND POINT. -

A. N. GRIswoLD of Felchville, VT,
claims to have 1S1 boils. Ii he has not
tempered with the returns, Mr.. Girls
void is bigger man than old Job
Chicago Tribune.
SPLINTERs asserts that his stairway
is so long that you have to walk over 20
rods to get to the top of it. If the point
of this isn't clear, perhaps it IS because
the rods need polishing.
LAWYER DEMBITz of st. Louis is in
variabIy polite A long and terrific roll
of thunder stopped him in an address to
a jury, and on resuming he said: :" Gen
tlemen. pray excuse the interruption.
A WOMAN who comes into church half
an hour late in order to show off her
good clothes should be looked upon
mildly. She is simply making room
in Heaven for two women in Calico
Detroit Free Press.
We know q girl who win wrestle with
a crOquet mallet in the hot sun for hours
and not complain. But Just ask her to
hold on to the wooden end of q broom
for a few minutes and she'll have fit
Exchange.
THERE is something passing strange
about human nature. If man had to
support his family by playing billiards
at two dollars day he'd swear he had
to work awful hard for a living.-Mid-
dletOaon Transcript. 9u1
Two Meriden men are in trouble over
the ownership of ladder, and are tax
ing steps for lawsuit. The Danbury
Ne1oS says the result of this will be that
one lawyer will get the sides and the
other lawyer will get the rounds, leav-
ing the holes to the litigantss ji
EDWARD, what do l hear? that you
have disobeyed your grandmother, who
told you just now not to jump down
these steps?'' ''Grandma didn't tell us
not to, papa; she only came to the door
and SAID, i wouldn't jump down those
steps, boys and | shouldn't think she
would, an old lady like hertz
SAID grizzly old pioneer to Remenyi
after a late concert in Virginia City: II
amt much on the fiddle myself, mister,
but you bet yer life l know good playin'
when l strike it. was to hear you last
night, and l never run afOul of any thing
like it. You're fiddler from Bitter
Creek, that's what you are, an l kin
lick the man 'at SEE you amt
SEVEN young ladies received the de-
Sree of A. B. at Northampton recently.
Butt asks the Lowell Courier, show
can young woman be a bachelor?'
Pshawi A. B. don't mean that in q
lady's diploma. 1t means :" after bach
elOrs," and signifies that the young lady
that received the degree is qualified for
matrimony.
A YOUNG man at Spaxton, England,
thought that it would be fun to set fire
to nearly empty cask of benzoline. He
dropped a lighted match in the bunghOle
and ran One person was killed by the
explosion, and the young man is in pris-
on awaiting trial on charge of man
slaughter He viii probably plead that
he didn't think it would "gO Off"
DEAN STANLEY was not equal to his OPP
portunities when he performed the mar
rage ceremony for Prof. Tyndall. The
Dean should have asked the groom: "Do
you take this anthrOpoid to be your CO.
ordinate, to love with your nerve GEN.
tiers, to cherish with your whole cellular
tissue, until a final molecular disturb
ance shall resolve its organism into its
primitive atOms?"
A CELEBRATED German surgeon had
lost his wife. One of his friends has
tened to offer blm consolation. Draw
ing q long face, the friend entered the
house of death. 1t was deserted. No
body in the parlor, nobody in the draw
ing-room, not soul in the bedrooms.
oh, hOrrible!" he exclaimed; has
the poor man, in his despair, put an end
to his life?' trembling with fear and ex-
element, he ran to the savant's labora-
tory, the sole apartment which remain
ed to explore, and there he found the
widower, knife in his hand, TRANQUILITY
engaged over dead body. "What?"
he exclaimed; ''you are not dissecting
your wife?'' "Why," said the man of
science, with honest astonishment at his
friends horror, "She'S dead n'-Frelch
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