The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-06
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AN Ell2llsh NOilidl ' lSitillS al 4 oIt-
land, Ne, who is AZ years old, is the
mother CT 81 children.
No other passengers are to be taken
in the steamer Samaritan, which is to
convey the Princess Louise to England.
CONSCIENCE impelled somebody to
send 3, 800 anonymously to Isaac G..
jenkins, a Syracuse On. Y. y merchant,
with the words, :" robbed you of this
years ago"
EVERY hotel in Brattleboro, Vt, is
closed, and travellers are compelled to
find accommodations at private houses.
This is in pursuance of the plan to
make the prohibitory liquor law I'M
popular.
A MAN exhibited at fair at Montpe-
her, VT, three packages of butter from
the same churning, but differently
marked, and got first premium on one,
second on another, and the third was
condemned as poor.
THE London FreemGson points out
that in February next there will be five
SUNDAYS. This fact occurs but three
times in a century. Thus, after 1880 we
shall have to wait until 1920 before the
shortest month in the year can again
boast of five Sundays.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE writes to the
Boston Advertiser that Joseph Rankin,
the Indian boy whose devotion and
courage saved what is left of Maj.
Thornburgh's command, is one of the
Indian lads who was under the personal
training of Mr.. Danforth of Boston,
when the latter was agent for the UteS.
THE Gar of Russia has ordered from
an English shipbuilder million-dollar
Yacht. 1t has been designed by Admiral
Popoff. and will replace the Levadia,
lost off the Crimea last autumn. The
Gar is represented in the contract by
Admiral Lesovsky, the Russian Minister
of Marine.
THE alarming increase of dphtheTia
in Paterson, n. j has attracted the no.
tee Of the local journals, and they point
out that its prevalence is largely tracea-
bic 10 imperfect disinfection and to at
tendance at the funerals ofvictims of the
disease. A well known Paterson under
taker is quoted as expressing surprise
at the recklessness with which many
persons court danger on these Occa-
sions.
A LADY travelling on the New York
Central Road, the other day, lost her
sachel near lion. 1t contained $40, 600.
A freight train came along shortly after
the passenger train, and the Conductor
picked up the sachel from the side of
the track, and left it with the Agent at
+. i l., To-
presented the Conductor with $500 for
his honesty.
A NUMBER of Frenchmen have been
defrauded by a sham emigration COM
pany in London, which held out the
temptation of farms and profitable
handicraft labor in the United States.
On repairing to London they were in
duced to pay 500 francs per head for
passage, etc, and were directed to 90
to Portsmouth to embark in the Uragel-
Ian No such vessel was to be found
there, and on returning to London the
victims found the company's Office shut
up.
BoTH in Norway and Sweden the
women preponderate in number over the
men. At the last census of Norway, in
1873, the total population was 1,S17 900,
of which SS6, 600 were males and 931 600
females, being at the rate of 4SS males
and 512 females, TO every 1000 of the
population. In Sweden the proportion
of births is at the rate of 5l1 boys to
4S9 girls out of the 600; but the NOR
tality is in favor of the females, for the
census returns showed 4S6 men to 514
women out of every 1000 of the popu-
lation.
TERRIBLE trinkets have been devised
in France. Formed in the shape of a
scaIf-pin, they are connected with hid
den electric battery, so small that it may
be carried in the pocket, and by it
worked in such fashion as to become
truly appalling to the beholder. One, a
deaths head with diamond eyes and an
articulated jaw, is said to create pecu-
liar surprise. As the spectator looks
on. It rolls its optics and grinds its teeth,
while its wearer, apparently unconscious
Of this extraordinary pin, pursues his
ordinary ayocations.
RED Doc, the peaceful Sioux chief,
who is now encamped in the Valley of
the Wounded Knee River, in Dakota,
was made frantically happy a few days
AGO by receiving a letter from a young
white woman of Washington. Years
ago. when he was bad chief, Red Dog
kidnapped little pale-face girl and
gave her as a servant to the people of
his lodge. The girl grew into favor and
when she was released there was wailing
on the Wounded Knee. She was
brought TO the East, educated and given
work on a Washington paper.
A SINGULAR accident befell two ladies
living Just outside the town of Lafayette,
Georgia. One morning, not long ago,
Miss Wilson, an elderly lady, went out
to her eow-peR, and, falling over a rail,
broke the cap of her thigh bone. She
sent for her sister, Mrs. Greer, to come
and stay with her, and few days after
Mrs.. Greer went out to the cow-pen, fell
over the same rail, and broke a bone
lust in the same manner her sister had
done. They are now both lying in the
same room, and it is said neither Will
ever be able to walk again.
Mrs. MARY STOw died and was bur-
led at Ravenna, O., in August, 1856.
Recently the body was exhumed for re-
moval to Braceville, and upon opening
the coffin, the friends were startled by a
most remarkable sight The body lay
and looked identically as when buried;
the features were not even discolored
nor wasted. The wearing apparel was
not decayed and in perfect preservation.
The corpse was so perfect that persons
who had once known her easily recog-
nized the features. She was buried in
an ordinary air-tight burial case.