The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

AN auetioneer is a man of more~bid
| tastes.
A FELoN on the thumb is worse than
two in the penitentisry.
GREEN TURTLEs-Those that allow
themselves to be caught.
LAST words of the car to date:
"Why, see here l still live"
A LITTLE knowledge may be danger
Gus, but little widow is more so.
MONEY that bank officers get awav
with is charged to running expenses.
THE weather has been pretty rough
on spring chickens, and they show it
THE success of church choir singer
Is, after all, largely matter Of chants.
AT last accounts the Gillian army
had the Bolivian army down and was
sitting on him.
AN Irish sailor visited a citv, where.
he said, they copper-bottomed the tops
OF the houses with sheet lead.
WAGNER, the composer, is reported
hopelessly insane, and no wonder. He
has probably heard more of Wagner's
music than any man living.
The Scotch preachers illustration Of
q miracle is said still to have considerable
force. at would be a miracle, d" he re-
marked, ''if a coo were TO fly up a tree
and whistle like mavis."
IT is now said by scientific authority
that sleep commences in the feet and
extends to the head. Possibly the Gus.
tom of sitting with the feet toward the
pulpit may have something to do with it.
IAGO was an undertaken, for did ne
not induce ROderigo to attempt Cassio's
life, and then say:
NOW. whether he kills Cassio
Or Casio him. or each do kin the 9th T,
Every way makes my gain.''
AFTER the manner of Walt Whitman
" o tablet o chair o big chairl o little chairl
three legged stool towel, basin and pewter
mu,I
II adore anything, it is you, l-scuttIe.....
and the coal of the eoal-scuttle......and
particularly the hOuse-maid who enpties
the eOal-seuttle on the fire."
AN Irishman adorned with a blue
ribbon went into an apothecary shop
and said to the clerk, eff ye plaze, sir,
Pm temperance man, but if ye have
any soda water of the strength and
quslity of whiskey I'll trouble you for
little"
SCENE (group of medical students aniS
discussing the difficulties of
Young doctor attached to
the service of hospital: 81 am never
st fault. l discover the nature of the
of all my patients, without
AFTER the autopsy" muir
INJURED an old college companion who.
knew him well.
QUoTH wise man to youth one day:
= !ell me your ain in life, prsyi"
" mighty general I'd Oe"
Replied the youth ambit;ously.
Then quoth the stripping to the s1gs:
" Tel me your aim in Old age.'
Then said the sage, little tired,
Almf On have no aim, I've fred"
ONE of the school directors of San
Francisco lately celebrated his golden
One of the morning papers,
IN describing the gifts presented on the
occasion, made particular mention of an
elegant set of spoons and forks of solid
yold, accompanied by testimonial from
our hundred teachers and scholars eigh-
teen feet long. ~..--... ....#.
"WHERE to strike an attacking dog"
s thus told by Land and Water: 'When
you have the good fortune to be armed
with a shillelah, do not, says General
hit him across the head and
yes bear in mind that the front part Of
lis forelegs is far more vulnerable and
ensitive spot. One or two well applied
blows upon that unprotected place will
disable the strongest dog"