The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26

HOPE is the sugar coating on the pill
of life.
A grand canal between st. Petersburg
and the sea is projected.
IT is easy enough to remember things
which you are trying to forget.
a MAN with no arms and bald head
isn't calculated to find contentment in a
fly country.
ANGER when it is long in coming, is
the stronger when it comes and the
longer kept.
If you would be satisfied to do what
YOU can do rather than what you want
to do you would be happier
EVERY man is q good pilot in q smooth
sea, but when the wind blows then we
find out who knows the most.
IF you wish to be as happy as a king
look at those who haven't as much IS
you, not at those who have more.
IT is one of the physiological mysteries
why boys hands will blister so much
sooner on hoe handle than they viii on
baseball bat.
SPRING poetry may be worked over for
summer, and it will do very well, pro-
vided little more warmth is thrown
into it, Picayune. rE
SOMETIMES the best horse wins, and
sometimes he doesn't. These things are
usually fixed up without the horse hav-
ing word to say about it.
A Los ANGELES boy has a new ides
of the refrain. Being asked in Sunda.
school what was the meaning of "Selah,
he replied that it was ancient for "Whos,
Emma"
QUACK: $50 you prefer my medicines
to those of DR.. Piisbury?" Mrs. Multi
gan: "Och, iudade, docther dear; ye'er
8 deal betther than the other QUIZ
'umbug."
ONE of the greatest feats of woman's
endurance is when the female with
diamond ring wipes her mouth 5000
times in 5000 quarter hours without the
least fatigue.
Mr.. BEReH says if the barbarous
methods of killing mosquitoes, by slap
ping them to death, as was practiced
last summer, are followed this season,
he will begin wholesale prosecution of
the human race Hswkeye.
WHEN the contribution box passes up
the aisle the man who hasn't anything
less than dollar in his pocket finds the
deacon such homely man he can not
dare to look at him.
THE unblushing assurance thst leads
the hen of twenty summers to enter the
market as 8 young chicken compels the
belief that nothing but the memorable
difficulties attending the exploit pre-
vents her from appearing in the guise of
a fresh laid egg Boston Transcript.
"BAPTlsTE, you have not brushed
this furniture this morning7" Bsptiste,
with slightly ironicsl smile; MADAME
ought to be able to see that it is not to-
days dust-it's too thick"
ALWAYS help those who are able TO
help themselves. Lightning can reach
the earth without any assistance, and
yet men put up lightning rods for light
ming to slide down on Pieayune.
The tender dandelion now attracts the
eve OF the housewife, and she sallies forth
with case>knife in one hand, basket
in the other, and behold the result
Boiled bitterness for dinner, and vine-
gar. like expression on her countenance
for the rest of the day.
GRANDMA perceives her hopeful
randson at the window, with watering
pot. sprinkling the heads OF the passers-
by below. " Child alive, what are you
doing p" exclaims the old lady. Pm
playing God, grandma, and now Pm
making it rain"
A LEGAL gentleman met a brother
lawyer on Court street one day last
week, and the following conversation
took place Well, Judge, how is bust
ness ?" "Dull, dull; am living on
faith and hope" every good. but l
have got past you, for l am living On
charity."- Boston Courier