The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


patent for an improved photograph.
Pretty things, the long handled lit
Ss fans of the season, only they raise
80 little wind and look like ornamental
gEiddle-eake turner's
The new villa of Fritz Emmett.
which is to cost 100000. now in process
Of construction near Troy, n. Y, will
se one OF the finest in the country.
"A Dakota man has a novei Indian
relic in the shape of perfectly formed
skull, with an arrow head shot into the
eye and piercing the brain.
Mr.. Frederick Tyler. of Hartford.
Conn, who is now little more than
eiGhty-hye years old. and is in fair
health, can remember seeing a man
who was born in 1899 1t was his
own grandfather, Mr. Tyler, who was
born in that year and lived until 1900,
severing the whole OF The eighteenth
seHtury with his life.
Miss Wilson is a Delaware heiress
sud beauty She fell in love with
farm hand because she deemed him
heroic; but when they eloped and he
ran away from her across the fields at
tbe approach of her pursuing father she
concluded that she had overrated him
sad went back home contentedly.
The Toledo Babies Home was not
80 much home a. q place for dying in
5t'was found that twenty-five out of a
tandred of the inmates had persisted
from ill-treatment The woman who
Cou Quoted it had a face like Madonna
aud wasvery successful in getting money
from the benevolent She is to be tried
ga a charge of manslaughter.
A North Carolina runaway couple
are in a curious predicament. They
presented themselves before a Justice
50 tie the matrimonial knot, which that
functionary proceeded to do. As he
was Just finishing the ceremony he
dropped dead, and now the couple do
aot know whether they are married or
rot.
The London Tones says that many
peasants of Southern Russia save their
money for half lifetime in order to
make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
MANY people in this country save their
shat the President of a savings bank
may make pilgrimage TO some coun-
cry with which we have no eXtradition
treaty.
Talking of big mills, there is the
new thread mill at Willimantic, Con-
aecticut. In verifying the levels slight
discrepancy was discovered that at first
could not be accounted for. Investiga-
tiOu showed that the mill is so long that
she curvature Of the earth made an APP
parent discrepancy. 1t is the largest
mill in the world and yet its very exist
ebce hangs on thread.
Everybody reads postal cards.
Many consider it a harmless amuse-
meut TO peruse any card that comes
through their hands, yet, under certain
circumstances, there is penalty for
reading another persons pOstalS, and
thc penalty may amount to $500 fine
and imprisonment for one year at hard
labor. Therefore turn the CONVERSE
Gonal gos>iping side of a postal card
from you.
A san Francisco man went to a
dentist, while temporarily insane. and
said that he wanted his teeth all eY-
.r3cted. The dentist advised him not
to get rid of them as they were sound;
but he insisted, arguing that a false set
would be far handler and more COM
Portable As he did not seem crazy,
Che dentist performed the job. On re-
covering his reason he brought suit for
81, 900 damages under the California
law against professional malpractice.
There is a Railway Boys Mission
IN London. One thousand seven hun
bred boys between the ages of thirteen
and eighteen wears are employed on
three OF the large railways in England.
Admiral FishboUrne says that the OBJ
IecC of the mission is to keep the boys
safe, by finding them honest employ
Dent in their leisure hours. from the
vast amount of bad literature now aioat
aud from the disguised and undlsguised
ntidelity prevalent in the country.
A quaint story of Stonewall Jack
sons devotion is related by ex-Confed-
crate Chaplain J. w. Jones. 1t was on
Che march to Culpepper Court House
5hat the Generals negro servant Jim
cold some officers who were inquiring
about StonewalrS habits: Yes. the
General is a great man for PRAYING at
aii times. But when see him get up
great many times in the night to pray,
Jheu know there is going to be some
shiug to pay and 90 straight aud pack
DIS haterSack. because | know he will
call for il in the mOrnin'."