The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-18

AT 8 seminary not many miles from
London huge mastiff exhibited won
derful powers. AT O'Clock every weeh
day morning he viii ring the schoo
bell to awaken the inmates, by Juggling
at the rope that hangs within his reach
and on Sundays one hour later. He il
soon admitted in the building, when his
task is the distribution of 20 pairs Of
boots TO their proper rooms. A new
pair at firstperplexes him, but after put
ting around all the others has no trouble
in deciding to whom the new ones be-
long.
! SOME fiend in human shape went into
the electric battery-room of San Fran
cisco hotel the other day and turned
the whole force of the As Humpkoff
coils on the reverse way at once. In
stantly loud shrieks resOunded through
the corridors, and in the next 10 min
utes the walters found over 60 guests
hanging by their thumbs to the electric
! buttons in their rooms, eapering round
like maniacs and yelling for release.
One old lady was drawn up into such a
knot that two doctors haven't got her
flattened out since.
VEsUyIUs is not as it used to be, and
presents very striking aspect at pres
ent. Around the great cone three era
ters launch steam and incandescent lava,
which loses itself in the deepvalley be-
tween Vesuvius and Mount Somma. At
the end Of October two small craters
opened, blowing off portions of the
mountain which obstructed the issue of
lava. This is flowing slowly in a north
easterly direction, as is visible to the
naked eve from Naples. In spite of the
smoke, showers of pumice stone, scoria,
and red ashes, curious visitors do not
hesitate to approach the edge of the
crater. The heat is bearable there at
q distance of IS TO 80 metres.
A REMARKABLE case of surgery has
been reported to the French Academy of
Medicine. A carpenter nearly cut off
the big toe of his right foot with an AK.
The toe was held to the foot by small
thread of skin only. DIR. Ganey de-
tached the toe completely, and having
washed it and the wound on the foot,
brought the surface together again and
held them in place by strips of lint,
lodion mad set another strip was wound
round. An apparatus was used also to
keep all parts of the foot immovable.
Twenty-four days after the accident the
cicatrization was perfect. aIs
II. c. LoNG of Delaware, who recently
married for fun, has done the thing
again in aseri0Hs way. In 1876, when
L.. old lo L
ing in Philadelphia with Miss Lucy
Robinson, a young miss of 10, when he
proposed that they should be married.
She agreed, and in ten minutes the joke
was carried into effect. He took her TO
the house at which she was visiting, and
they did not meet again for year or
mere. They subsequently became
aN are that the jocular marriage was
binding, and, as both. had formed other
attachments, divorce was applied for
and granted.
THE late inundatiOn. of the great plain
of Murcia, in Spain, washing away four
fifthS of the surface soil, cutting it into
assures, destroying orchards, buildings,
vineyards, and gardens, and drowning
5000 people. might, it is asserted, have
been avoided if the range of mountains
10 the north had not been denuded of
their trees. Had the original forests re-
manned, thev would have absorbed a
large portion of the sudden rainfall and
saved the plain from overflow The
floods last summer at Szegedin, in HIM
gary, are traceable to the same. cause.
The neighborIng highlands were left
shorn of trees, without the power of
either attracting or absorbing rains. -,.
The ex-Khedive of Egypt has just
lost one of his wives from his harem. A
handsome young Italian painter named
d'Elia went sketching through the ha-
rem grounds. He noticed a beautiful
odalisk at one of the windows, and in
some way managed to establish tele-
graphic communication with her, which
was soon followed by romantic elOpe-
ment and marriage. How he managed
TO get her out of the harem is a mys-
terry. The young couple are now living
happily at Foggia, and since they are
man and wife the Khediye can't clam
his former favOrite. He is determined
in future to keep his wives from the
windows for fear of more elopements.
The young lady in question is said to be
a French woman. I'D Il
ICELAND has been making progress in
various ways since her great festival in
1874. Prof. Fispe says they are making
new roads, cultivating wider spaces, and
their increased trade is shown in the fact
that there are now two lines of steamers
running to Scotland instead of one.
They are making great efforts to relieve
themselves of their ancient bondage TO
the Danish importers. The Danes have
for ages supplied the Icelanders with
commodities which the latter can only
repay in produce, not in money; in this
way nearly every family in the island is
in debt to Denmark, and they have no
prospect of being able to pay in money.
The island is substantially mortgaged,
the Danes holding vouchers of this accu-
INFLATED debt. But the Icelandic folk
now see that they could do much better
if they could send their produce freely to |
Great Britain, and they propose to de-
wise means to do so. ~ ~ ~
A YOUNG woman who served out a
sentence of five years in the Maine State
prison found means of education, and,
becoming thoroughly reformed, left the
prison in appearance lady. She was
employed by dry-goods firm in Port
land as saleswOman, and gave perfect |
to her employers, till one |
day 3 wealthy lady of the place entered |
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