The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-08-28
HORSE, % l-2, hands high

/ Just TWO and a half years old who has mo-
less than six dresses which cost $50
apiece.
4 n CHINAMAN in native costume, whose
carriage is faithfully followed by a pet
I pig, is one of the attractions at RYE
Beach, New Hampshire.
A MICHIGAN. lady saws that to kfH in
Sects she uses one teaspoonful of Zero
sene to gallon of water and sprinSles
it on the plants with hand-broom. 1t
destroys green flies and other pests.
A SMALL boy recently picked up
pearl on the Little Miami River, near
/. Marysville, o. 1t was sent to New York
and sold for $3.50, that price having been
set upon it-by a large jewelry. house.
QUININE has, gone up since the duty
has been taken off. Two or three man
ufacturerS have done this, but the price
will probably come down as soon As COM
| petition can reach the market
A LITTLE boy in Troy, n. Y. during
storm, was playing in the doorway
with his kitten. He put it down for a
moment, and while he was walking to-
ward an adjoining room stroke of
| lightning. killed the animal.
ZTNG-U-ZING, the Chinese giant, who
is over eight feet high, and % years old,
is now on exhibition at the st. Peters
burg Geological Garden. He attracts as
much attention as the Zulus did who
were lately exhibited at the same place.
INDIA has become one of the largest
wheat producing countries in the world,
and it is anticipated that the completion
Of the Indus Railroad, by cheapening
carriage, win make the Puniaub won
/ derfully large exporting province.
/ SIX young women are spending Au-
/ gust in six tents, near Northwood, n
ii. Only one man is tolerated in the
I camp, and he is a servant. For diver
sion they fish, row, ride, shoot at a
mark, play games, read, sing, and frolic.
| The camp is called Gumption, and each
of the party is "Gump ~ or ''Gump
- and so on. .r- E.
l. DURING the year 1878 there were p
/ 705 medical students graduated from
the 80 colleges of the United States. As
the statistics show that in this country
an average of 500 people support one
physician, there must be 4 constant sup
I ply of over 5000 patients who must pay
| the handsome sum of 81 $40, 900 year,
in order to allow each doctor only g 4
/ day.
Snow is shoveled out Of large gran
4 lite building in Boston every morning,
and the boys may play at snowballing in
temperature of 90 degrees, if they are
quick about it. This building is a ware
house for the storage of perishable pro-
visions, and the air in it is kept at 40 by
refrigeration with ammonia. The snow
gathers constantly in the machine room.
A MAN climbed tree to a height of
20 feet, at Offham, England, and drew
crowd of spectators, among whom were
/ his wife and daughter, by singing
! hymns Then he took rope from his
pocket and said: ''GOod-by; l have
made nice moose, and now am going
to tie the knot. Marwood says that q
drop of six feet is necessary, but am
only going to give myself three. | have
tied the knot and am going to jump"
Then he hanged himself.
! ANDREW FERGUSON of Louisville, Ky,
was born and brought up slave. Since
his emancipation he has made mon
ey and has learned to be lib
eral with it. A Methodist Church in
/ Louisville was put up for sale recently
under foreclosure. Mr. Ferguson bought
it for 81 $50 and made a gift of it to the
Knox Colored Presbyterian Church.
His brethren gratefully accept his benefi-
cence. Mr.. Ferguson is well educated,
and has spent several years in Liberia.
TIP MCLAUGHLIN was convicted OF
murder in Sacramento, several years
ago. Immediately after the jury had
rendered a verdict, and before he had
been taken into custody by a Sheriff,
having previously been at large on bail
| he coolly walked out of the courtroom,
! and escaped to South America. There
he was employed by Harry Meiggs, and
subsequently made great deal of money
| in speculations of his own. News has
| lust been received of his suicide. He
grew tired, he said, of being fugitive
murderer. .,........ .......... .....-..... ...,l
| AT the close of prayer-meeting in
Methodist church at Acton, Ind, Broth
er Hamlin, Superintendent of the Sum
dav-school, announced that the services
| on the following Sunday would be held
| in grove near by. This was really the
result of n division in the congregation.
| Pastor Weaver said that, on the contra
nv, the usual services would take. place
/ in the church, and at once pronounced
/ the benedictiOn. The two then met in
the aisle, quarreled fiercely, and then
had q fight, in which the clergyman
whipped the Superintendent. "a
! AN apparently well defined case of
death from hydrophobis is reported
from Chicago. The victim was
a lad who, while playing. with
| a favorite dog, became innOcu-
lated with the poison by contact of sa-
/ Iva from the animals mouth with a
/ fresh cut or scratch on the hand, and
| died in great agony after a brief Illness.
An alarming feature of the case is the
fact that the dog was to all appearances
perfectly harmless, having manifested
no symptoms of rabies either before or
since the communication of the disease
in the singular manner described.
AN Iowa law RENTS certain percent
age of taxes for five years on every acre
of fruit, and for 10 years on every acre
| of forest trees planted within the State
and kept alive Under this stimulus
over 10000 acres of fruit and forest
trees have been planted, and there; has
been a remission Of State and county
taxes to the amount of s200,000. The
acreage of trees is about one-half of one
per cent. of the farming lands of the
! State. A very considerable hole is made
in the tax income-of the. State, but the
( loss will be more than made up in the
permanent advantages TO the State