The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-02
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

GIRLS are said to be the most expert
telegraphers along the line of the Penn
svlvania Railroad
1T is proposed to erect a statue to La
fayette in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore,
at a cost of SD 900.
THE rewards of the truly virtuous are
inherent in their own lives, and are none
the less enjoyed, though they are I'M
known to all the world.
SENATE pages at Washington do a
good business by making up complete
books of the autographs of Congress-
men. A good collection commands $50.
A CANADIAN girl carried 2O-foot
ladder 100 yards, placed it against n
burning house, climbed up, and-well,
she did not put out the fire. She fell
backwards on man and nearly killed
him.
How much soever a person may suffer
from injustice, he is always in hazard of
suffering more from the prosecution of
revenge. The violence of an enemy can
not inflict what is equal to the tor
ment he creates to himself by means of
the fierce and desperate passions which
he allows 10 rage in his soul. Revenge
dwells in little minds.
LEWIS A. KENDALL and Lewis A. Slo-
cum of Boston; William E. Hunt of
Rockland and Mrs. Wallace Hunt have
been held in $1,000 apiece at Boston for
misusing the mails. They advertised by
postal-cards and letters the sale of valu-
able clocks for one dollar each, and
then sent applicants the solograph, a
cheap device by which the suns rays in
dictate the approximate time of day pro
vided the sky is unclouded.
A REMARKABLE bicycle accident oc-
Cured at Philadelphia the other day.
A young man named HulSeman, 80
years old, while crossing Il bridge. fell
against the stone parapet, which being
out of repair, gave way and hurled him
into the stream many feet below. He
struck on the rocks and Law there
one hour before he was discovered,
and died soon after being taken to his
home.
A CALIFORNIA man has sent the De-
. troit Free Press one of the ballots cast
there at their last election, and that pa
per remarks: They are so big that
they cast all other California bic things
into the shade Each ballot Is five
inches wide and two feet long, and con-
tains 81 names Think of casting bal
lot of 100 superficial inches! 1t takes
an able-bodied man to WELD the ballot
in California, and the printing-ofice
that is fortunate enough to get the Job
of printing them instantly orders all the
paper that can be had, and forthwith
makes fortune.
PRESIDENT JOHN w. HARPER of the
Danville Qnd.) College disappeared
mySteriously a year ago, while on his
way to address n Sunday-schoOl conven-
ton. There was nothing in his business
or social relations to drive him off, and
it was believed that he had been muir
dered for the $500 that he was carrying
in his pockets. Lately his wife took out
letters of administration on his estate.
But he now returns. His story is that
he was knocked down and robbed; that
the blow affected his reason, and he
wandered westward, finally coming to
his senses among the Ute Indians.
THE Boston Globe Theater gets an
amount of attention in the newspapers
that would be incidentally valuable as
advertising if the peculiar circumstances
did not keep the establishment closed.
Il is owned in sections. John StetSon,
formerly the manager, holds lease Of
the main entrance and lobby. A. C.
Baldwin holds the auditorium, and will
not let Mr.. StetSOn have it at the price
offered. A part of the stage belongs TO
A. A. Rand, and has been cut off by a
brick wall. 1t is said that the theater
will be rebuilt on Mr.. Baldwin's ground
on a smaller scale.
A coLoRED pastor in Georgia has in
troduced novel service which pleases
his people. The congregation forms
into procession in single file, each men,
Der carrying a big stone on top of his
head. The minister carries a hvmn
book and the great pulpit Bible. Thus
equipped the procession marches around
the church seven times, chanting
plaintive dirge all the time. The idea
is taken from the marching of the Is
raelites at the siege of Jericho. But it !
falls considerably short of the Jericho
idea, for the result of the procession
around that city was the tumbling down
of the walls
THE Princess Louise at the military
review in Toronto was, says CORE |
spondent, " the plainest dressed woman |
in sight. She wore a short riding habit, /
decidedly the worse for wear, hole in /.
If being conspicuous. There was not a
bit of trimming on it any where; the |.
only piece of color was buttonhole !
bouquet of bleeding hearts on green /.
leaf She wore plain linen roll collar, |
fastened with a stoneless gold brooch. |
Her earrings were large pearl drops. |
Her face was shielded by black veil,
with large black spots, and her gloves /
were of dogskin."
UPWARD of 1000 letters from the |
West have been forwarded to the Dead |
letter Office, bearing the address of
Messrs. Stone & Smith, Chicago. The
fact that they always contained daguerre- !
otvpes, with instructions rs to how
they should be enlarged, caused an in /
veStigation by the Post-office officials. |
The result shows that George C. Ford is I
travelling throughout the Western States /.
representing himself TO be the agent of
the firm mentioned, and sOlicits orders /
on commission. After receiving the !
commission. he writes out memOran-
dun TO the firm, and disappears for /
new field of operations. No such firm |
as Stone & Smith exists, consequently the |
persons transacting business with Ford |
are swindled. The special agents are
on the alert for the impostor.
AT the celebrated Eastern Circus 1
Orozi, recently performing at PeSth, the |
attendant was started from sleep by the .
elephants rising to their feet and trump