The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Banl6lSOuNlIe (COnn. cat Is
nursing two fray .uirrels.
According 20 The latest order of
Genera, NeljkoM. al! vessels are forbid
den, under the severest penalty, to an
Choir opposite the Winter Palace on the
river Neva.
A census enumeratOr got a terrible
whipping in Pittsburgh because he
pressed stalwart Irish woman for an
answer to the question, Are you white
or black?'
st. Paups Church at Troy, n. Y,
is to have two organs. one in the choir
and one in the chancel. A pneumatic
apparatus viii enable single player to
play both instruments at once.
The Jewish congregation in Vienna,
Austria, has given in the past ten years
96,6l5 forms for benevolent purposes.
In the same period 2,615 marriages
were sOlemnized.
AT Cardiff, England, lately, hotel
and went off to London with the money.
Arrested, he was discharged, because
said the magistrate, there was a con-
tract between the parties, the prisoner
having undertaken to bring back some
thing different to what he received and
this took the matter out of the range of
criminal proceedings. -
Rafferty, and Eagan, New Orleans
pugilists, were rivals for the hand of the
same girl, and they agreed to settle the
question by ring fight. There We're
ropes and stakes, a referee and seconds,
police raid after the encounter and
other characteristics of such occasions.
But the victor did not get the prize
after all, for she said she had never in
tended to marry either.
The crown of Hungary has lately,
for the first time been photographed.
1t is greatly revered by the Magyars,
who believe that the inner portion
forms part of the original crown pre-
scented to the first King of Hungary by
the Pope, A. D. 1000. The regalia are
kept in a chest secured by eight seals
and the royal seal in the center. These
may only be broken by those who af-
fixed them.
The British Mc,licql Journal says
that garlic has already had great repu-
tation among neutrality-suspicious. RENE
dies and is found as a principal integral
portion in large number of fOrmulR
long kept secret. A young man bitten
by mad dog was shut up in loft. In
his delirium he seized upon some bun
dies of dried garlic, ate greediIy of it,
fell into deep sleep and awoke calm
and cured.
"A writer in the Scotsman AYERS that
out of 30, 900 hams imported into Ham
burg last year, 2y7 were found to con-
tain trichine, while of 1900 sides of
bacon eighty-fve were found to be more
seriously infested. He adds that re-
cent commission in this country report
ed that of the pigs slaughtered at Chi
cago no fewer than eight per cent. were
thus infested. At Liverpool and Glas-
gov there is no examination made as at
Hamburg.
"A boy IN Augusta, Me, recently
found a nest with twelve young rats.
These he placed in a basket and pre-
sented them to the family cat, who is
the mother of two small kittens. Pussy
bounced upon the rats and devoured
ten of them. Then, taking the two re-
manning rats in her mouth, she carried
them to the basket and tenderly placed
them beside her own young, and there
they remain, living in harmony and
drawing sustenance from their natural
enemy. The cat evinces as much sOlic-
Itude for the safety and comfort of each
new prOtege as she does for her own
offspring.
"A young man, nineteen years of
age, was discharged from the Connec-
lieut. State Prison, few days ago, who
certainly has full claim to the title of
an unfortunate" Utterly ignorant of
his parentage, never having known
home, mother or father, deficient in in
tellect and moral capacity, his earliest
and only memory of childhood as the
inmate of an almshouse, his whole life
to the present time as the veriest drift
wood of society, he finds himself now
a discharged convict, after passing
through the various stages of aims
house. juvenile reformatory, reform
school, Jail and States prison. What
retrospect! What prospect!
Two young Basques have Just been
condemned at the Bases Pyrennees
Assizes to two years Imprisonment for
burning an old gypsy woman, much
venerated in the country as a NEGRO
mancer and sorceresS. The men found
this aged female lying in the road, help
lessly intoxicated, and set fire to her
clothes, thereby causing her death amid
horrible agony. EXtenuating circum-
stances were, however, found, the doc
tors declaring that the old woman was
so inveterate adrunkarrl that they could
not state positively whether spontaneous
combustion had not forestalled the effect
of the pyre to which she had been so
subjected. s.ss-# |-
Several cases of death resulting from,
or directly following vaccination have
occurred in this city, says the
New York Graphic. This will not do
= at least, it ought not to be permitted
to do. Nothing can be more painful to
a parent than the reflection that the
death of his child was the result of an
act to which he was at least a consent !
ing party. An isolated case of death !
from erysipelas caused by vaccination
might be set down as anomalous; but |
when half dozen such cases follow !
each other in rapid succession, it be-
comes subject demanding immediate
and close attention.
"A colored sister in this county says !
he GAINESVILLE (Ga.) Gazette, declared |
herself sick unto death, and after Ian
gushing for a week she received, rs /
she declares, a revelation from heaven |
hat she was poisoned, and that she |
would be restored to health by the fol-
owing prescription: Equal quantities
# bark of red oak root two yards from
he tree, white rose bush in pieces of |