The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-02-06

Barry C0ra,rrA
IN Russia there is literally no demand
for books.
In Canada greenback is now as good
as local coin.
MEXICO is importing corn from the
United States.
1HE Afghan troops are provided with
breech-losding rifles
PLAYING football by electric lights is
all the rage in England.
AN Irishman died at Boston. the
other day, at the age of 109.
A LICENSE for Protestant marriage
in BuenOs Ayres cost nearly $500.
The pine and cigar are the cause of
many eonfagrstiOns.
INDIA~RUBBER is to be made in On
tariO from the juice Of the milk-weed.
DEsPIsE net small things; the largest
corn Is always found on the smallest toe,
THE writer who Uses weak arguments
and strong epithets is like the landlady
who gives weak tea and strong butter.
THERE is an oil well off Santa Barbara
running to waste in thirty fathoms of
water. The Yankee residents of Santa
Barbara grow sick thinking of it.
A MAN sdvertises for a competent
person to undertake the sale of a new
medicine-and adds that cit will prove
highly lucrative to the undertaken"
New fans of painted silk have sp-
pesred, on which is portrayed a bird,
which shows on the outside of the fan
when the tan is closed, and is in the mid
die when it is opened.
THE Rev. Mr.. Pentacost, of Boston.
in g sermon against round dancing, said
that very intelligent young LADY had
assured him that the hugging was to her
the plesssntest part OF the ball.
In Egypt mummies feed the fires that
prOpsl the iron morse on the railroads.
These dried up human bodies, once the
tenements of immortal souls, are said to
make very hot fire. Their supply is
almost ineIhaustibls.
A YOUTH of about twenty winters ex-
hibited the respect for age prevalent
among the youth OF this country by the
following remark: There's NV old
father now. he's most seventy years old,
and knows nearly as much as | do"
A PERSON who was recently called into
court Tor the purpose of proving the cor
rectness of a surgeon bill, was asked by
the lawyer whether the doctor did not
make several visits after the patient was
out of danger ?" No" replied the
witness, Z" considered the patient in
danger as long rs the doctor continued
his visits"
d" BOYS" said the old man, holding an
match in one hand and dark
cigar in the other, never acquire the
perniciOus habit of smoking. | am a
slave TO it now, and yet | hate it. /
never see a cigar that / do not want to
OUR it up" And then. with extreme
he burned up the one he had
n his hand.
THE crew of a shipwrecked vessel was
ately killed and eaten by the blacks on
he coast of Queensland, Australia. The
bodies of two of the men were found in
IN oven on the mainland opposite Kings
Reef, on which the vessel struck. The
eatures of the men were understandable.
he skulls being smashed in and parts of
he flesh being removed; but traces of
paper, clothing, ETC., in the neighbour
hood of the camp LETT no doubt as to
heir identity.
BURDETTE, in his letter to the Hawk
we, magnauimously allows the palm to
he east in the matter of revolutionary
elies, but in the next breath is inclined
o take it back. He SAYS: - ] remember
n 1876, when had the great centen-
Iial Tea party at Burlington, that saw
more revolutionary relics at Union Hall
han l have seen in all New England.
ADd they were better looking relics, too.
those saw in Old South church were
Id and battered and faded, and al
Ogether shabby looking, while the Iowa
elics had a bright, fresh, modern look
o them, that was much plesssnter to