The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-20
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Transfers along the ella River, Ari-
iona, complain of the large herds of
wild camels that have of late taken pos
session Of the main roads, to the con-
sternation of horses and mules.
Nor long ago Maj. Lissovitch was
put in charge of the Nihilist prisoners
at the citadel of Charkoff. Now he has
committed suicide to escape the sight of
sufferings he dared not alleviate.
A CHINAMAN in Paris committed sui
eide because his tormentors had cut off
his queue. He fastened the cherished
braid with pins to the place where it
ought to grow and jumped into the
river.
THE trial of copyright lawsuit in
Washington brings out the fact that one
printer has, within a year, furnished
thousands of counterfeits of foreign
champagne labels to put on American
wine.
AN ironcled 400 feet long, 70 feet wide,
80 feet deep at the bow, and 50 feet at
the stern, with solid iron armor of one
foot thickness, and a speed of 10 knots
an hour, is to be launched next month
from the royal navy-yard near Naples.
1t is TO be called Italia, and will be the
largest war ship in existence.
AN aristocratic Chinawoman has ar
rived in Winnemucca from Idaho, ac-
companied by her son and attended by
aTartar woman. The lady has regular
features and fair complexion, but the
great distinction between her and the
Tartar woman is in the size of her feet,
which are no larger than those of an or
binary 4-year-old child.
Two Chicago men went on a weeks
spree which involved an irregular tour
through the West. One morning they
awoke in hotel, with dazed notion as
to what city they were in. One said st.
Louis, and the other Cincinnati They
bet 500 as to which was right, and
neither won, for the bell-boy informed
them that the place was Milwaukee.
A SERIES of towers are being built
from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mex
leo for the purpose of making a survey
of the Mississippi River and its tribu-
taries, with the object of determining
the true water course from the lakes to
the gulf One hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars was appropriated by
the last Congress for this purpose.
THE little child of Postmaster John
Beckwith of Des Moines, Iowa, while
playing about the house, found some
sugar-coated pills, and ate four. This was
discovered Immediately by his mother,
who thought them harmless. The boy
played about for an hour, when he was
seized with commissions, and died in a
few moments. 1t was found that the
pills contained strychnine.
THE Federal Council of Switzerland
warns the Swiss people against emigrat-
ing to join a colony at a place called
Alping, in the Allegheny Mountains of
Pennsylvania. The Council says that
emigrants are there exposed to all kinds
of fraud in the purchase of lands, be-
sides finding themselves in a place re-
mote from larger settlements, and with
out adequate means of communication
and transportation.
By the effect of the drouth lake in
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, which usu-
ally covers an area of many acres, was
reduced to the size of slough 200 feet
in length and &c in width. 1t appears
that the lake full of fish, and that the
drying up of the water exposed great
numbers of them to view. Advantage
was taken of the opportunity and seve-
raj large CARS were killed, one being
over six feet in length.
Mrs. MARGARET ROBERTSON of
Cooper Angus, Scotland, died recently,
aged 107. She lived under three Brit
ish Kings and one Queen. She talked
with scorn of poor creatures who could
not live over 80 or 80, which she de-
clared to Sir Henry Thompson, the sur
geon, was Z" nae age at a." The clay
pipe was always in her mouth. "I've
smoked a my days. she said. "It's
had plenty of time to dae me i'll, and its
never socht."
Mrs. ID. f. SMITH, who lived near
Legienier, Westmoreland County, Va,
died recently. Her proportions were
inches across the shoulders, and weighed
within fraction of Clio pounds. The
coffin was necessarily of immense size,
and before II was delivered two ordinary
men lay in it, side by side, on their
backs, without crowding each other in
the least. When brought TO the house
it could not be gotten through the door,
and il was necessary to leave it outside
until the time set for the funeral, when
the corpse was carried out to the
coffin.
THE Eureka Sentinel proposes a new
style of leg competition. 1t holds that
all of the misery attendant upon prize
fight or a walking-match can be OBJ
tanned from standing-match, if it is
only protracted sufficiently. Surely
dozen men can be found willing to stand
in a row until they fall from exhaustion
for gate money. "We have" it says,
" some talented ISLANDERS here in Eure-
ka-gentlemen who have been pacing
on the street corners for years without
any apparent fatigue-who would be
extremely formidable in a contest of this
kind. They can at least find hackers
among those who have observed their
industry in this regard in the years gone
by"
THERE is something strangely par
allel in the tragic fates of Donaldson
and Wise. These men were intimately
associated in former years. Donaldson
went up from Chicago, and Wise from
its rival city, st. Louis. Each had with
him one companion. Neither of the bal
looms was ever found, and the exact
fate of each is matter of conjecture,
although 1t is thought that both were
engulfed in Lake Michigan. Each of
the companions was found some time
after the occasion, each on the shores of
Lake Michigan, one with a copy of a
Chicago paper in his pocket, the other
with a St. Louis paper. Donaldson was
never found, and neither has any thing
been heard of Wise.