The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-30

THE Uranium of Descartes, says Ma
tire, is often adduced as an exception to
the general rule that great mind re-
quires large brain. This statement
seems to have rested on no exact meas
urement, and DIR. De Bon resolved to
test its accuracy. The result is that he
! finds the cubic capacity of Descartes'
/ skull to be LOO centimeters, or 80
centimeters above the mean of Partisan
skulls of the present time. At the same
time, De Border has recently found the
average capacity of the skulls of 80
guillotined murderers to be 5,547.91 C.
c., the largest reaching the high figure
of 2,076 C. C.
! HERR JOHANN BoCH, a well known
painter of Germany, was killed by a
stroke of lightning some weeks ago
while taking a walk in the neighborhood
of Bavarian village, where he had been
passing the summer. 1t was beginning
to rain, and he opened his umbrella,
which almost Immediately thereafter
was struck by thunderbolt that killed
the unfortunate artist instantly. A black
mark, extending from the head down.
ward showed the course the electric fluid
had taken. The gold chain that Boch
wore could not be found, and is sup
posed to have been consumed; the coin
about his person was scattered in all di-
rections, and his clothes were torn to
bits. He was about 80 years of age.
MISS MINNIE F. AUSTIN, for many
years teacher in Chicago and San Fran
cisco high schools, also principal of
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failing health turned her attention to an
outdoor life. She now owns a fruit
farm of so acres in Fresno, Cal, and
last spring set in the ground, by the aid
| of one man, over 600 fruit trees. Miss
A. conducts her farm with as much sys-
| tenn as she did her school. She has %
acres of the best raisin grapes, from
which the yield will be between 80 and
80 tons of fruit; about 800 apricot trees,
| 100 nectarines, 400 figs, 400 prunes, and
all ordinary fruit trees. She has this
wear nearly two tons of peaches alone.
which she has dried for market
A YOUNG Englishman, calling himself
Martin, is in great demand at Erie, Pa.
By letter of Introduction, supposed to
be forged, he gained admittance to a
highly respectable family named Full
stone, and confdentially proclaimed him
self ViscOunt Herbert, heir to the Earl
dom of Mount EdgecOmb. He prayed
| that his rank be kept secret, as the next
heir was seeking his life. His Lordship
borrowed about 5000 from the hospita-
BILE family Gan English one) which took
| him in, and it is rUmored that he had
/ OIL
/ parties to whom he confessed his nObili-
| tv under the seal of confidence. He has
also committed forgery, and has been
engaged in a Matchmaking operation.
| His arrest is expected.
THERE are at present in England two
Javanese Princes, the first who have
ever visited it as representatives of the
wealth of their country. In Eugene
| Sues romance of the Wandering jew
his Java Prince is pictured as delicate in
| limb and feature as a Greek statue, 1.-THE
and supple as a young tiger, graceful
and swift of foot as the antelope. But
Prince Gondosiwoyo and his son are
represented as of middle height, stout,
with the dark yellow complexion of the
| Malay race, and the hair, blue-black
and oily, hangs straight down their face.
Their costume is rich and highly orna-
mented, without any of the gaudiness of
color so much liked by the Hindoos, and
their aspect is more serious than that Of
any oriental race
THE newest service rendered by mon
keys to mankind was recently illustrated
in London. In one of the school dis
tricts too many parents reported no
children in their families, and in order
to ascertain the real number of children
in the district the school officers resort
ed to an ingenious measure. Two mon
keys were gayly dressed, put in a
wagon, and, accompanied by a brass
band, were carried through the streets
of the district. AT once crowds of chill
dren made their appearance. The pro-
cession was stopped in park, and the
school officers began their work; dis
tributing candies to the youngsters they
took their names and addresses. They
found out that over 60 parents kepttheir
children from school. The ingenious
measure brought to the schools about
200 boys and girls.
| MUSCULAR Christianity has found an
other champion in the Rev. e. K.
Fairey, who is padding his own canoe,
the Evangelist by name, along the coast
and on the rivers of Australia. The
craft is u feet long, % inches in beam,
and 20 inches in depth. She is fitted
with lockers for provisions and charts,
with India-rubber air chambers to IN
crease her buoyancy, and with pedal
tiller, which Mr.. Fairey can work as he
sits on the flooring amidships, using a
single-bladed paddle to send the boat
along. The Evangelist is, at require
ment, sailing vessel, and will make
seven or eight knots on fair wind. She
is decked fore and aft, and carries a
light mast and a lug sail. Her net
weight, including sails and all fittings,
is about 80 pounds. In February last
she made her first voyage, a distance OF
. 800 miles, round the iron-bound north
and east coasts of Tasmania, calling al
various places, where Mr.. Fairey held
services and distributed books. He was
the guest of an isolated family on Eos
ter's Peninsula during three days
: while it was blowing too hard for his
, little craft, and finally he arrived at Ho,
J bart Town, after having experienced al
kinds of weather.
IT was in the reign of Alexis Mikhal
, lovitch, father of Peter the Great, about
: the middle of the seventeenth century
that Siberia received its first caravan OF
, criminals, and there has been a regular
7 annual succession of them since. The
yearly contingent increased largely un
, der the late Emperor Nicholas, and from
about 5000 in the middle of his reign
, the total number of transported persons
> I L., ,.;eo,, e., 1S 400 or 10 600 undpr A l.