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

THAT settles it, ss the egg-shen said
to the coffee.
CALIFORNIA has eighty Congrega-
tional churches
A PAIR of ears that go on head of
civilization--Pioneers and frontiers.
WHICH of Shakspeare's plays is the
last day of February "The Winters
Tale" QaiD.
AT the present rate of increase of the
| Slav race, Russia will have o0,000,e0Q
of inhabitants in fifty years.
AN Alabama poultry-fancier has OBJ
tanned beautiful fowl by cross be-
tween a guinea and turkey.
THREE-FoURTHs of all the tobacco
consumed in Great Britain is purchased
by poor people in half ounces.
WILLIAM M. EvARTs' sons, Prescott
and Sherman, are editors on the leading
Harvard and Yale College magazines re-
spectively.
IT is a base ball where one lady
monopolizes partners enough to have
nine on side. Any other woman pres
ent will say so.
A MEMBER of the Kansas Legislature
has received small coffin with the in
scription, "From the people you mis-
represent. Go bury yourself"
IT has been proposed IN the Texas
Legislature that the State fit up print
ing Office in which deaf mutes shall be
employed on State printing.
JAPANESE used to have such high
sense of honor that they would commit
suicide if caught in any bad business.
Now they fee lawyer, and plead not
guilty" .
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been visiting
in Vicksburg. The Herald, of that
place, says that the old man shows age,
but though by no means vigorous could
hardly be considered feeble.
The Chinese Encyclopedia meets q
long-felt want; no family should be
without it. 1t is published in Pekin,
and has only 1920 volumes. Price.
$500.
JOAQUIN MILLER declares that he
longs to return to the woods; and let us
hope that he will do so before the game
laws are in force again.-PittS bGtTgh
Telegraph.
A COURAGEOUS Boston girl, about to
marry a comparatively poor young man,
has requested her dear friends not to
make her any wedding presents, as she
may not be able to reciprocate in the fu-
ture.
AMONG the things the anclents knew
about and we do not, was the art of
making beef tea out of species of ore
dug out of the ground. Perhaps,
though, it is not lost, but gone before
THE Ratchet with which Capt. Cook
was killed was exhibited, together with
his log, at the celebration of the Capt.
Cook centenary by the French Geo
graphical Society. The Ratchet belongs
to the Donai Museum.
THE late Judge Cadwalader, of Phil
adelphia, was such stickler for judicial
dignity that he once fined his brother
$50 for contempt when he came into
court and called him "John."
AN aristocratic papa, on being re-
quested by rich and vulgar young fell
low for permission to marry zone of his
girls" gave this rather crushing reply:
Certainly; which would you prefer,
the waitress or the cook?"
A LADY writer is out with an article
entitled "HOw to Catch Husband"
But her theory is all wrong. Ask any
married woman how to catch husband,
and she will reply, "By the hairl"
"TheY all do it."
THE tomb of Charles Louis Napoleon
Achille Murat, nephew of Napoleon
Bonaparte and son of Joachim Murat,
ex-King of Naples, the great cavalry
General, stands in the city cemetery at
Tallahassee, Fla. Murat owned for
many years large plantation in Flsr-
ids.
THE day before a Turkish girl is
married she is taken to the bath by her
lady friends and Jumps of sugar are
broken over her head as a forecast of
the sweets of matrimony. A year or so
afterward her husband breaks the whole
sugar-bowl over her head.
The silver ore about Leadville is de-
posted in layer about sixty miles
long and four or five miles wide. The
depth at which the ore is reached va
ries. In some mines it is only four or
five feet under the surface; in others it
is $50 feet.
DURING debate in the Maine Leg
islature, the other day, a lawyer sheer
ingly remarked to journalist who had
the floor that it was the function of edi-
tors " to ferret ont rogGes and thieves"
Whereupon the editor mildly rejOined
that it was the function of lawyers to
defend rogues and thieves"
KHALIL BEY gambled away g, 100000
in Paris in three years, his last loss
amounting to $360,0O0. A friend, in
trying to stop him, was met with the re-
buke: Remember this, my friend; l
prefer losing by doing what l please to
winning by doing as you wish" Pur-
chasing tea services was one of his pc
culiarities.
Four Boston girls, ranging from s to
II years of age, have been caught pick
ing pockets. They have worked mainly
in Methodist revival meetings, where
the crowding and the fervor make the
women careless as to their valuables.
Ninety handkerchiefs were found in the I
little thieves room, besides many emp ]
tied pocket-books and articles OF jew !
elry.
Lov1sA BOWEN killed Henry Muzzy
with baseball bat, in Norwich, Ct, !
last summer. She said that he entered |
her house at night, and that, in the dark, I
she struck him under the supposition !,
that he was burglar. She was tried !,
on the charge Of murder, the prosecu-
tor holding that Muzzy was her rejected
lover, but the jury acquitted her.
The mania for spending large sums In
forts and big guns still obtains In Italy.
The forts around Spezia arc now receiv,
ing supply of 1OO-ton guns cast at