The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.
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ONEk TIE WAY.
Behind yon gcssamer screen Of lace
All day my little sweetheart sits
Singing and sewing, and over her fscs
The roee-vine's restless shadow fits,
As, merrily Swinging % and fro,
The loses rock when the SWEET winds blsv
Across the garden thst lies between
The dancing feet Of the sumner showe-s-
In azure and purple aud gold aud green
dave trod6an tzngled pR9 Oh horers
But never hsEes can ,ulsteh the grace,
OF her pAnsy eyes and her rosebud face
twouidthstT we're tie sunbsam aeet
That over the ST. Of her lattice slips
10 kiss with godsn kisses sweet IN
hernussy eyes aud her devy lipsf
As she s,ts sewing, with never a cane
How the biiihs winds ruaie her shiniag aGir
She has bewitehed me, i do telisvel
MY tf-escnie tasks are lrit undone
And here tarry from morn TIL eve
To vstch her sc ving, in sha e and sun,
Inc fe1fgi and vonderinl thing that 10
10 mrhe up the sum OF my loves trousseau.
DOES stolen hen lay poaehed eggs
SOME railroads are run on narrow
! gauge, some on brosdsgauge-bu. all on
mortgage ftf-7t
IF you wish to have good house to
Hive IN when yeu are old you must Law a
brick every day.
The more soda water you drink the
more you viii have to pay for. That's
all the philosophy there is in 1t.
REMARK by the small boy Of the De-
Rod Let me see the cirGseso of nation.
and care not who makes its laws.
tt q remarkable fact that nc vessel
propelled by steam was ever struck by
lightning, nor sny ship which was built
of iron.
"TELL me how to Woo Thee will
never be popular song. The response
wouldbe dead give away on the part of
the gil. ~ Fsf,.qr-
81 AM corpse's brother, and object
to any such singing" remarked enc Of
the mourners at Portland funeral the
other day.
&C. HAD no time to stuff the chicken"
apologized iandlady TO her boarders.
Never mind, madam, it's tough enough
as it is replied one of them.
THE Russian exposition cost only
S37 900; and it discovered new kind of
moss and saw sorrel-colored fox. Who
says that science doesn't pay? aF
A MONTAGUE undertaken advertises
that he has established branch concern
at Wendell, which is in charge of "a live
man who willplesse everybody"
ATMOSPHERIC air is so heavy that its
weight upon the body Is fifteen bounds
! to the square inch. tPeople car under
stand now why it is so hard to raise the
vino. .refs--ffes "a I,ssss-a
"JANE," said be, st think if yeu
IiftoA foof f~Ox.,
might have some heat in the room."
And they hadn't been mmried two wears
either. p !NakH}bH .lSii'iII
WHAT feeling OF relief comes over
woman as she enters church and dis
covers that her neighbours wife has the
same feather on her spring hat tnat she
wore last season.
This country will now have to begin
to import missionaries. We understand
that some one has invented q cheap hand
organ that will play only one tune
Wheeling Sunday Leader. 4H
"HAvE you the song, 'Saccaarine
Fuiurity p" asked girl of the music
clerk. ave have" he answered, as
with a pleasant smile he rolled up 8
copy of "The Sweet-By-snd-By." ?
BUFFALO is trying to work up enshu.
sissm over a man who sleeps on the floor
to save his bed. Don't we all know ne
sleeps on the floor rsther than pull his
boots off ? Detroit Free Press.
THE man that goes fishing and sits
in camp-meeting posture on narrow
thwsrt from early morn till dewy eve
and calls it, fun, is the same chap that
never goes to church because the pews
are not comfortable.
RUSTIC CRITIC Ito artist painting out
of doors)-" Now that's real kinder nat
ural, ain'tit Bat what makes ye. waste
yer time on them darned old ellrm
trees? Ye'd ought to go right up back
here onter SINNERS Hill, where you
could see something sorter interestin'--
the Town halbgant the .Bsptis' meetin'
house, an the new brick high skule."-
Harvard Lsmpoon. -a1s.sF-rE
LONGEVITY often runs in families.
This is easily explained. No human
being can detsch him or herself from
the lives of predecessors. Our own life
is only protrsction of the life from
which it sprung. Parents disappear
when their time comes, and their lives
survive III their children. One j. some-
times startled to find himself using the
same gestures, the same FERNS of expires.
sion, be they smiles or frowns, as his
Lather or mother 20 likewise, are, seen
of resemblance in res lures,
The shape Of fingers. nails, toes, and in
,ther particulars. In the family pictures
hung up in the halls of the Older sristo-
cracy, it is. interesting to notice how
likenesses east up after Two or
.hree generations. ANY of us in the
present day may be repetition of his
,reat ran5-fathen If there be Roman
lose in the family, It is sure to last for
,undress of wears. lHA