The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-05
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cut it down, but built around it. The
odd sigiis, is presented of q treetop
growing out of the roof of a handsome
brick house. -
A DAUGHTER of MAYOR Prince of Bos-
ton died Of poisoned blood, and an in
vestigatioH<show that the cause was
eating meat tainted by seyer-gas, which
arose through a pipe into a refrigerator.
The house of Mayor Prince is on the
"made lands - ~
MISS YocUMs, a school teacher at
Kittata Valley, Oregon, has taken up a
land claim, fenced it, built a house, and
this wear raised 612 bushels of grain,
besides teaching school, She says she
does not mean to marry until she can
support a husband.
A YOUNG man in Hartford, Conn,
who incurred the displeasure of his kins-
people and acquaintancesb by marrying q
German servant girl, now holds his head
very high when he meets any of these
critics. His wife has fallen heir to an
estate in the Fatherland worth 5000, 900.
KEEPING track of freight-cars under
the existing system of car-recording is
attended with difficulties. A lost-car
agent for a Western readFeeently found
a car for which he had been searching
for months away eeton the plains, quite
&. distance from the track and occupied
by a squatter for a residence.
The Savannah Theater was built.in
1903, and is the Oldest In America. Ut
is massive building of brick and
stone. IL has AeRer been renodeled or
changed in any way. Ihes architect Of
this theater was an Englishman, brought
to America by the Blake brothers, two
wealthy rice planters of South Carolina,
who at that timeshad their residence in
Savannah. ,s,.srs, -.st ..-
THERE is "a student of natural history
at Chico, Cal, who believes that the
deer of Butte County know what day
the game law goes into effect He has
gravely read a paper before the Cali
fornia Academy of Sciences, in which he
asserts that they stay on the foothills
every yearuntilrNOv. 2, and then, knew
ing that. on and after that date il is nm
lawful to shoot them, 90 boldly down
into the inhabited valleys.
Mrs. ]. J. Aston of New York has
sent out recently from the office-of the
Children's Aid Society a stNew Year
party . of 100 homeless children to
homes in the West and South, at an ex-
pense of 81 800. This makes during sever
al years a-total number OF 677 homeless
children whom this generous friend of
the poor has placed in homes, mainly in
the West, at an expense Of 80, $50. Many
of these lads have now grown up, hav-
ing farms of their own and doing well
in the world.
If lolgeEity, gas a national character
istic, bea fan test of the healthiness of
country or. the tough vitality of its
people, then Greece may claim TO beat
the civilized world on the score of its
sanitary perfection. Of all countries in
Europe it seems to possess the greatest
number of what may be called very old
people-that is to say, Of people from
80 years Of age and upward; out of a
population of l, 457 1894, it has of these
veterans no fewer than 1898.
PROF. L. B. ARNOLD advises, skim
ming the milk as soon as sourness is per-
ceptible, and to churn at 60 degrees in
stead of 20, before the cream gets very
in granules, enough cold water or brine
should be putin to reduce the mass to
about 80 degrees, when, after a little
slow churning the granules will become
hard and distinct, and the butter be in
condition for washing out all the butter
milk The salt should then be worked
in with as little labor as possible, and
after standing awhile it will be ready to
pack.
A STRANGE incident occurred recently
in Easton, Pa, which was witnessed by
several persons. Some men dropped
whisky flask on a curbstone, making
pieces of it. The bottle contained whis-
ky, small quantity of it remaining on
some of the. pieces A sparrow flew
down. from q tree and commenced
drinking the liquor. In few minutes
the bird began to stagger and could
scarcely hold up its head. Presently it
dropped, q over, :. deadzz7drunk.. The
little fellowsiSas picked up BY a peanut
vender and properly cared for. In a
short time it flew away, apparently So
Der.
A SHOCKING case illustrative fefD the,
effects of opiumsis given in thelStoning-
ton, Conn, family of Paul Greene, wife
and daughter, the parents 20 years of
age, the daughter about So. They have
been sent back, paupers, from Hopkin-
ton, RI, to -Stonington, where they
formerly lived among the best people in
the town. The daughter was accom-
plished in music, the father a leader in
the Baptist church, and the family was
respected. But the mother began the
use OF hudAnnm to deaden pain and
kept up the habit, and The husband and
father also became a Slave to it, and then
the daughter; and they parted with
their money! house. and furhituret To-
obtain the noxious drug which has
ruined them.
SECRETARY SCHURZ has recommend
ed to the House an appropriation of
$500 topurchase the first patent ever
issued in this country. Accompanying
the proposition was 4 letter from b.. H.
Hall of Columbus, o., the present pos
SCISSOR of The. document, in which he says
it was issued atNew York, July 81, 1890,
to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, for
an improvement in making potash and
pearl-ash 1t is written on a sheet of
parchment in a round, old-fashioned
hand, signed by George Washington
and certified by Ed. Randolph, Attorney
General, as being conformable to the
act of Congress 20 promote the useful
arts, and its delivery to the grantee is
certified by Thos. Jefferson, with the
seal of the United States.
SUCH a severe winter as that under
which the populations of Silesia, East