The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ca. was found dead at his pillow handles
recently. He is the third brother that
has died suddenly at the plow
A snake was killed on the farm OF
w. H. Williams. Gwinnett County, Ca.
which had two feet with five toes. the
feet being shaped like those of lizard.
California miiliOnaires are rated in
the tax lists there as follows: Charles
Croker. S34, 495. 45S: Leland Stanford,
81, 645.5OS, and Mrs. Mary F. S. Hop
Aims. s25, 2S0.972.
The new Webster mansion at
Oiarshheld. Mass. on the site of the old
and historic Webster mansion, which
-wss burned, is now nearly completed.
a vii cost about $4,000.
"A hollow old tree near the corner
of Brosdway and Fiftieth Street, New
York, was cut down the other day, and
several large ratLlesnakes were found
in it and quickly dispatched.
According to recent surveys of the
Great salt Lake its greatest length IS
ninety-three miles, while its greatest
width is forty-three miles. The present
evaporation is about one inch per day
sad the influx of water through the
many rivers entering the lake is little
more. As soon as the snow in the hills
gives out the lake viii begin to lower.
There is lady at Saratoga who
wears a large diamond ring on each OF
3cr eight fingers whenever she is seen,
whether at breakfast or by gaslight.
She also wears diamonds in her hair,
tets aud pins set with these rare jewels.
She is suspected of also having anklets
and garters clasped with diamonds, as
svell as shoe-buckles.
On a recent Sunday the church of
he Rev. Thomas x. Beecher, Elmira,
n Y, was telephonicailv connected
.Rith newspaper Office at Wiliiamsport,
Pa, seventy-fiye miles away, and pOr-
lien OF his sermon geographically re-
l&rted for the paper. Nearly every
.Ford of the speaker could be heard in
EVEliamsport and the music by the or
gan could be heard as plainly as if it had
been only fifty feet away.
A notice is posted in the Office OF
The Stockton House at Cape May to the
effect that Guests accompanied by
,f0gs viii be charged ten dollars per
seek extra" The cause of this notice
N4s the following order received by the
caterer of the hotel last week: Please
send TO room No. 800 for my dear little
Jupiter one tenderloin steak very rarely
5roied, cold chicken wing and a pint
III new milk
Dora Young. a favorite daughter OF
She late Brigham Young. is in Chicago.
She is described asa particularly attract
TVe and handsome woman, with beau
t5ful complexion and golden hair. She
dresses flshionably and in good taste
She mas considerable property, secured
fcOm her fathers estate BY a successful
salt at law, and intends to enjoy it. Two
wears ago she was jealous Mormon
J'1t now she abominates the system and
has forsaken her old home and friends
Senator Sharon, of Nevada. has re
cently secured the title to the Crane
Hotel property at San Francisco. Id
already controls the Palace Hotel, which
stands ON the other side of the street
70 make one great hotel by uniting The
Gwe hotels is now his plan. The divid
ing street, some seventy-five feet il
width, will be bridged by massive iron
structure thirty feet from the pavement
Suites of rooms in both houses will b'
Enade into connecting corridors and the
bridge will be rooted with glass ant
windows put in to correspond with tn,
connected building.
Every now and then, says the
Springfield Republican, we hear some
1iing about scores of American girl
aludying music in Italian cities, being
for the most part silly creatures withou
"a good note in their voices. When on
at chem "comes OUT it is always witt
az Italian name which doesn' fit her a
AL, and which makes il necessary
she ever sings in her own country to eX
Ylain that Signora Simperini is REALLY
.Ssxah Smith of Paquag. Here is Lillian
Norton, for instance, who while age
made debut at Milan rs "Gilia Nor
.dica," name not half so musical a:
her own. A girl by any other nam'
may sing as sweet, but in spite of Ham
lets opinion we still call rose a rose
A fossil forest has been discovered
fa Oldham, England, in Edge Ian,
Qaarry. The trees number abou
IEelve and some of them are two fee
IN diameter. They are in good preser
walton. The roots can be seen inter
Racing the rock aud the fronds of tn
ferns are to be found imprinted OF
every piece of stone. The discover
has excited much interest in geological
circles round Manchester and the ''for
est has been visited by large mum
Der of persons. The trees belong {
The middle coal measure period, al
though il has been regarded as some
what remarkable that no coal has beer
discovered near them. The coal
found about 250 yards beneath.
Cape May letter to Baltimore SuH
1t is painful to see at q resort like thi
the determined efforts of some halt
grown boys and beardless youths t
TGzitate the habits and customs of me-
of mature age. They smoke cigarette
and sport miniature canes with all tn
importance of real big men. They oc
.cHny prominent seats at all the publ
assemblages and when in company O
voung ladies outrival a French dancing
master in bowling and scraping. Will
for soft-solder the vocabulary of tn
English language would fail to give
fitting idea Their little nobby hats
generally worn upon one side of tn
head, are constantly jerked from tb
head upon the approach of some youn
lady who they think is smiling upo
them, but who is in reality general
much amused by their grimaces.
Australian Women.
Dr. l,c-4nss Is o snnniinpn of the. rar