The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


Greek mothers are very careful in
training their children to good man.
ners.
-Alittle daughter of Mrs. f. c. Vim
cent, at Union, 5. c., was killed by
fall from her mothers lap.
The deadly quicksand in the San
Pedro River, Arizona, lately swallowed
up carriage containing a gentleman
and three ladies.
Mile Sara Bernhardt is, by the Off
cial utterance of the Paris Conserva-
toire, declared to be thirty-siX years of
age. having been born in 1874.
The wife of wealthy Boston sugar
refner was caught stealing a lace shawl
in a store, though her wallet was
crammed full of money, and her hus-
band permitted her to spend all she
wanted to.
Charles Greenburgh loved the widow
Cleveland, in whose boarding house he
lived, at Norwalk, Conn, but could not
make her realize the fact. After aSsur-
inc her of his devotion again in vain,
he seized a rope and ran to the woods.
The widow gathered the neighbors and
went in pursuit They found him hang
ing to a tree. He recovered, however,
and she, convinced at last of his sin
cerity, has promised to marry him.
"A farm servant blowing near Rosen-
berg, in West Prussia, a few days ago,
turned up an earthenware pot contain
ing about six thousand gold COINS.
They were so-called :" hollow pennies
of the old Teutonic knights, and be-
longed to the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. The " hollow penny" is a
silver coin with raised rim around it;
the center displays the arms of the
Grand Master of the Order for the time
being. There were twenty-one differ
ent sorts among the coins found.
While a party were watching a
storm at night from the front room of a
brewery in Tombstone, Arizona, sud-
denly the apartment filled with daz-
zling light and an explosion like that of
ton of giant-powder followed. The
whole party were lifted several feet
from the floor, and thrown in a con-
fused mass. When one of the party re-
gained consciousness he found the cell
inc in flames, the contents of the bar in
woeful confusion, the doors wrenched
from their hinges and the weather
boarding of the house torn into ribbons.
Nobody seriously hurt.
The Faith Doctor, as Virginia
clergyman named Miller is called, is
credited throughout that State with mi
raculous power to cure diseases. A
physician who has made an investiga-
ton reports that he is wonderfully full
of electricity, which strongly affects
nervously diSordered persons with whom
he comes in contact. But Miller firmly
believes that his gift is directly from
God, in answer to fourteen years OF
prayer, and he proves his sincerity by
refusing money for his services. He
will accept nothing but food AID lodg-
ing.
Mr.. Fawcett, the Postmaster-Gen-
eral of Great Britain, has hit upon a
very clever device for the purpose OF
encouraging the saving of money among
the lower classes. The Government has
issued at its various postotlices an Off
cial strip of paper, having upon it
places for twelve postage stamps to be
stuck. The pOssessor, man, woman or
child can, whenever he has a spare
penny, buy a stamp and put it upon the
! Slip. When the slip is full, that is, when
| twelve stamps have been glued on, the
holder can, by taking the slip to the
postoffice, get a Savings bank receipt
| for a shilling, which is the minimum
deposit that the Postoflice Savings
/ Bank will take.