The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.

beard five feet long.
THE legislature of Delaware divorced
thirty-tour married couples at its recent
session.
A MAINE railroad man has invented q
comfortable car seat designed to furnish
sleeping accommodation for ordinary
passenger csrs.
WE are ruined by English cheap
labor, the Buffalo Express thinks, bes
cause Colonel Mspleson took away
with him $4,000, and Rowell $4,000.
MRS. MONTAGUE once said to Sir
William Pepys, ON seeing a very awkward
man coming into the room, "There is q
man who would give one of his hands to
know what to do with the other"
Mr.. B. CHAMBERS of the postofice
department at Washington, writes that
there are no fewer than four thousand
women postmasters in the United States,
and that the number is on the increase.
a MAN, whose wife hanged herself in
ms presence, on being asked WHY he did
not prevent the tragedy, replied, Z" 1 cut
ner down three times last week, and /
can't be always cutting her down.
HE income of the widow of Lieuten-
ant Benner, the yellow fever hero, is $500.
derived from the fund raised for her
and invested in government bonds. She
has also been given comfortable home
in Elgin, Illinois.
THRY are building a little steamboat'at
San Francisco for Honolulu, and her
owners has made its name the subject of
riddle at the Hawaiian Islands, prom>
Using any one who discovers it before it
is announced free passage on the vessel
to any point on her route for one year.
AN Oil City boy who had run away
from home, and at last returned. was
asked if his father had killed the fstted
cali for the prodigsl. "Not much" he
replied. "He didn't kill the fatted calf,
but he wanted to Stay the prodigal."
Mrs. JOHN SEYFERT, aged thirty
years, OF Reading, has been sleeping
almost continuously for three months.
She arouses herielf long toward mid-
night, and partskes of q bite or two of
food, and then drops off to sleep again.
WHEN butcher sells a piece of meat
he lays it on the corner of an immense
sheet of coarse brown paper and rolls it
up, and then begins over again and rolls
it up in another sheet, and so on till the
purchaser is st loss to know whether
ne is paying for the meat or the paper.
AUGUSTUS, did you think to take
my hymn BOOK out of the rack after
service this morning?' "I didn't.
.ove." "Ohi what shamel 1t isn't
bit fashionable this year to leave books
n pews, and besides that binding was
20 Outre. 1t does seem as if we were
ust beset by calamities wherever we
90"
JAMES l.. HUMPHREY, a Reading,
Vt. hotel keeper, on getting out of bed
n the morning, said that he would die
before night. He made his will, dressed
himself as he desired to be buried. and
hen reclined in an easy chair, with
pipe and bible, to prepare for death.
The astounding part of the story is that
Re did die, an attack of heart disease
carrying him of.
EsTHETIC entertainments Lucy has
posed the little rustic model, and Mary,
Maud and Msdaline sit, pencil in hand,
ready to catch and transfer to paper the
;hild's expression of wonderment and
lelight as it listens for the first time in
Is life to the murmur of the shell.
Lucy: " Now, darling, put the pretty
hell to your ear and bark to what it
ays p Rustic Model: "Lorl Is that
III Why, beer jug can do that"
+ Tendon Punch.
DIR. THOMPSON, taking for his text,
Look not upon the wine when it is red
n the cup" enlarged upon the evil
fleets of drinking upon the head, heart
md purse. As the congregation depart
d, two old cronies, given to taking more
han wee drop, talked over the sermon.
Did you hear yon, Johnnie p ne'er
yinked an e'e." "Aweel, an what
bought We OF ?" Deed, Davie, think
10 has been a lad in his day, or ne
ouldna ha kne'd sac weel about it he's
zen a sly hand, the ministerp
ALL of one long, happy hour mamma
ad been reading to the little ones, Sum
ay afternoon, and talking to them about
eaven and the angels, and showing
hem pictures of angels with their snowy
rings. Suddenly Jack shouted: "Mo~
her, when Pm an angel l want to be a
hanghaip Shocked silence on the part
f the family circle, followed by the
cause by Jack: feathers
n my legs you know" Mother dis
Kissed the little congregation without
be usual benediction.-[ Burlington
Tswkeye.