The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-11
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The Sergeant-at-Arms of the British
House of Commons has held his office
for 43 years.
ONE writer estimates that English
sportsmen spend more than $50, 100000
per annum in connection with hounds.
1T is proposed to convert Manchester,
England, into a seaport for the largest
steamers, at a cost of S16,000,000.
A SEvENTH-DAY Baptist at Newport,
r. l., has been sued twice for keeping
his market open on Sunday, and an
nounces that he intends to keep it open.
A GOOD looking and apparently re-
spectacle girl frequently appears in the
streets of Windsor, Canada, with light
ed cigar between her cherry lips.
Mr. BEECHER has taken to beer. He
recently said that after 60 years of total
abstinence he had learned that a glass of
lager beer was a good thing to take be-
fore going to bed.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) Post brags of hen
in that place that has been laying every
day since June 5, and is still at it. Up
to the date of the papers issue she had
turned out two hundred and sixteen
eggs.
The London newspapers tell of
belle who paid S25 to have the initials
of her lovers name tattOOed on her arm,
and later, having quarreled with him,
was offering $500 for a means of oblit-
Grafton.
A GOOD joke is told at the expense of
Jamaica Plains (Mass.) sexton, who
procured the communion wine for his
church When he made his last pur-
chase he also bought some whisky for
himself. The two demijohns got mixed,
and on the following Sunday the COM
-municants received whisky instead of
wine, some of the sisters being consider
ably choked by the strong liquid.
INsECT-POwDER is obtained from spe
cies of Pyrethrum. In 1876 Jousset de
Bellesme extracted an alkalOid from Ply
rethrum carneum. In 1878 Rother dis
covered an acid, or rather a glucoside,
in the powder, and it possessed insecti-
eide properties. Dial Sic has obtained
from the ethereal extract crystalline
acid, and from the alcoholic extract
resinous matter which in contact with
dilute sui phuric acid splits up into sugar
and some other substance.
MARTHA ROGERS, who died a few
days ago at Middletown, Conn, for 80
wears possessed a fortune; but she was
constantly dreading poverty, and regu-
larly spent part of her time gathering
rags and other discarded things in the
streets. A room in her house was filled
with such rubbish. Yet she gave money
literally for charitable and religious
purposes, while she lived, and by her
will left S25, 200 to various institutions.
Mr.. NICHOLAS Kiss, formerly men,
Der of the Hungarian Reichstag, possess
es a hotel at Paris. At the foot of the
staircase he has placed an elegant save
all or tirelire, surmounted by parrot.
When any one comes down or goes up
the staircase, the parrot screams out
''Szegedinl" The visitor looks around
astonished, sees the tirelire, and puts
something in it. The parrot has already
collected more than 5000 francs.
A FARM-LABoRER at Ardleigh, Eng,
went to the help of man who was being
overpowered by a lunatic in his charge
and in danger of being killed. He was
absent from work an hour and half,
and was prosecuted by his employer for
5s. damages on account of loss of serv-
ices, and the Court decided against him
for not getting permission from his en-
ployer before going to the rescue of a
man who was liable to be killed at any
moment.
An innocent-loOking young man, trav-
cling on train from st. Paul to Chica-
90, was observed suddenly to reach up
and pull the bell-rope. The train, of
course, came at once to a standstill
while conductor and porter rushed iuto
the car to ascertain the cause for the
detention. Gentlemen" exclaimed
the young man, "you must excuse me.
WANTED the porter, who was in the
'forard end of the car, to make up my
bed, and thought that if | pulled the
rope that would fetch him."
Miss MAGGIE MURRAY of Waterloo,
Iowa, was sitting near a sewing machine
at the residence of her aunt, when she
felt something at her feet. She paid no
attention to it at first, but feeling it again,
she looked and saw snake cOiled upon
the floor beside her. She didn't do what
nine out of every ten would have done
scream and faint away-but she as
sisted her aunt to kill the intruder. On
examination, it was found to be spot
ted snake about four feet in length.
THE following record shows the mark
ed improvement in the speed of trotting
horses within the last 60 years In 1920
the best mile time was 500; in 1880,
2:4O; in 1910, the best record by Dutch
man, :28; in 1850 Lady Suffolk made
mile in 1926; in 1860 Flora Temple
made a record of 2:19 "a in 1870 Dex-
ter trotted mile in 2:17 IA; in
1876 Goldsmith Maid completed a mile
in 2:14; in 1873 Rarus against time)
made mile in 2:13 IA; and quite re-
Gently Bonner's Edwin Forrest is said to
have made mile in the unparalleled
time of 2:11 ga.
A WESTERN gentleman recently took
his little girl into the highlands of the
Hudson, SAYS the Christian Union, where,
for the first time in her life, she saw
mountains. They were sitting on the
piazza of the West Point Hotel, looking
on the finest mountain and river view
that is to be seen east of the Rocky
Mountains, and the little girl had been
standing reverently, with her hat in
hand, for some Manufacturing now
at the river, now at the mountains, now
at the clouds-when, with a sudden in
spiration, she waved her hat above her
head, and cried out, - Hurrah for God!'
1t was an act of genuine worship;
true answer to David's call on every soul
to make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
THE nicknames of the citizens of the