The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

I -NdNtuCkel SHOWS IL pOpuidllOu' OF
three thousand against ten thousand
forty years ago, when the whaling bust
ness was good.
There is an outcrv in England over
the honorary Colonelcies of regiments,
costing some S1,000,00O a year, and
filed BY $50 Generals, who do nothing
for the money.
Statistics show that more ship
wrecks and collisions occur on the coast
of England than anywhere else, as the
shipping and commerce of the world
center in the neighborhoOd; but they
are ten times less frequent than twenty
years ago. ......
Noah Towner committed suicide at
Central, w. Va, because he had not
been true to his sweetheart. 81 de-
, ceived her." he said in a letter, " and
now I'm going to my everlasting re-
ward; where the smoke of my torment
will ascend up for ever and ever"
"A recent traveller IN South Africa
has placed in the hands of DIR. Cameron,
NJ. P, whip, more formidable than
the .'cat'' of the British navy, with
which he says that the missionaries
near Lake Nyanza are in the habit of
fiogging refractory converts. The sub
ject will probably be officially investi-
gated.
-Sixty-four years ago occurred the
year without a summer. May II, 1916.
the snow fell eight inches deep on a
level in Hartford. July 5, that year,
Indian corn was so frozen that the
greater part was cut down and dried
for fodder in Connecticut. There was
frost every month of the year in the
Northern States.
"A man in ChattOoga, Ca, recently
saw a large trout swimming under a
root and ran his hand in the hole to try
and catch it. Instead of catching the
trout he was himself bitten by a snake
in the wrist. His arm and right side
swelled and turned black, and he came
very near dying, but at last accounts he
was improving.
-Sheikh About Huda, the chief adj
wiser of the Sultan of Turkey, is about
thirty-five years of age. He has a great
reputation as well for his learning as for
the purity of his life. He traces his de-
scent through the paternal line to Seed
Ahmet Rifai, the nephew of the Proph-
ct, and by the mothers side to Khale-
dibu-Velib, the conqueror Of Syria.
Not in many years people familiar
with the Allegheny Mountains traversed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad remem-
Der to have experienced such tremen-
dous thunder and lightning storms as
those which recently prevailed The
destruction of trees has been very great,
some portions of the Horseshoe Bend
being literally lined with uprooted trees.
Patrick Clarl, and his wife left their
baby with Ann Davis, a San Francisco
negro nurse, and for threeyears neither
paid the board nor showed it any atten-
ton. The white child regarded the
black woman as her mother. At length
the Clarks desired to reclaim their off
spring, but Mrs. Davis would not give
it up. They therefore waylaid the
couple, and the mother carried off the
yOungster, while the father whipped the
nurse so numerically that she died.
For the Arctic steamship Gulnare
there has been constructed a curious
sort of watch box, called the " crows
nest''-a wooden tank coopered with
iron hoops and about the height of a
man-to be drawn up to the masthead
by rigging for the purpose and fast
ened there, in which a Waterman is to
be hoisted from the deck and kept on
guard there, day and night, as look
out. They are to enter up into the
" crows nest through a tTap-dOOr and
a seat is constructed inside where they
can sit, enveloped in furs, and scan the
polar horizon.
Does any one remember a once
popular but now obsolete toy called the
fifteen puzzle? 1t has broken out in En-
gland under the name of the boss fifteen
puzzle and is spreading over France 1t
is said that people are writing to the
papers, explaining how it can be done,
that scientists are celebrating the for
mula which expresses the mathematical
possibilities of it, and that the funny
men have got hold of it and are making
Jokes on it. By well informed English
men the visitation is supposed to be
deep and deadly revenge against those
BritOns who came over here, enjoyed
our hospitality and then went home to
abuse US.
Before the education of Queen Vic
toria had been completed and while
there were so many lives between the
young girl and the throne that the pos
sibility of her succession had never been
whispered to her, the task of one of
her teachers was to instruct her in gen.
eral carriage and gait, in which she was
singularly deficient. Once, at least, in
complete despair over her awkwardness,
the tutor exclaimed, What a grand
Queen of England you would make
with this hop-and-go walkr' Instead
of resenting his remark the idea seemed
for the first time to occur to her of the
possible future elevation. She rose in
stantly in height, pulled herself togeth-
er, walked queen and halted no more.
Her will, says the tenerof the anecdote,
had thrown an electric force into the
affected part, and curing it, had given
her the part for which she has since
been notable.
A Tramp's Temptation.
4 l. L, II,