The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ceramic buttons are coming into
fashion. Some are painted with minia-
ture landscapes.
"A careful traveller says that he
rides in the rear car of an express train
and in the forward car of slow train.
The English sight-seer must guzzle.
An English nobleman who allowed the
public free admission to his beautiful
grounds has been obliged to close them
up, as the British tourist leaves beer
bottles, debris of luncheons, and greasy
paper all over the park.
Jack Eterman, bank burglar, left
$4,000 at his death in Philadelphia. He
made no will, and his natural heirs re-
the proceeds of robberies. The legal
question arises whether, there being
heirs, the State can take the property.
-Twenty-th three English bicyclists
have been visiting Calais. They wa
gered that they would reach Bologne
twenty minutes sooner than steamer
starting at the same time. The steam
er won by quarter of an hour.
The polite reporter of the New
L vi OUft, WIN luGCINAOWCu
Hughes on his arrival, in place of de-
scribing him as baldheaded, writes: 1.-The
fine outlines of his head are not hidden
by any growth of hair, except at the
sides and back, where there is fringe
of iron gray"
The elephant hunters of Ceykon and
India corroborate Sinbad's story that
elephants, when they feel the approac b
of death, retire to solitary and mac
cessible valley, and there die in peace.
Mr.. Sanderson, superintendent of ele-
plants to the Government of India, ad-
mits that no living man has yet come
across the corps of wild elephant that
has died a natural death.
Among the stonelayers employed
upon the building of the new House of
Parliament was one of q peculiarly
thoughtful turn of mind, a man of
speech and ambition above his trade.
That man now sits in the House he
helped to build, and he is Mr.. Broad
hurst, the member for Stoke, whose
speech on the Employers Liability bill
has marked him out for Parliamentary
success.
New Zealand, whose first railroad
was built twelve years ago, has now
over 1, 100 miles in successful operation.
All the roads are three feet six inch
gauge. They are all owned and oper-
ated by the Government, and under the
control of minister of public works,
with a commissioner of railroads for
each island, who has general and
fro flo m N q orar I1nHoT. him
"A Welshman was on exhibition in
London for some days as faster He
was to forfeit $50 for every day he tasted
fool during two weeks. A watch wss
organized, and the public were ad-
mitted on condition of purchasing
drinks. The man made a strong at
tempt to carry out his undertaking, but
after six days he fell from the sofa in
state of coma, and only revived when
fed.
Among the many Heidelberg ira
ditions of duelling is the following: Two
students fought, and each sliced off the
others nose. The noses fell to the
ground, and, being picked up by the
seconds, were plastered again on the
faces of the duellists. The operation
succeeded, but in the hurry the noses
had been changed. The aquiline man
henceforward had a snub, and the snub
man had an aquiiIne.
"A girl was found nailed to plank,
80 that she could move neither hands
nor feet, and floating on the Yangtse
River, in China. Beside her was the
head of Buddhist priest, and some
coins. An inscription said: This
money is provided for her coffin when
she is dead" She belonged to wealthy
family, and her two brothers, petty
mandarins, used this cruel treatment
because she married the priest whose
head was on the plank with her.