The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-04
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

of health officers and sanitarians.
THE California Senate has decided
by vote of SO TO not to have chap
lain.
THE young man to whom Miss Nellie
Croker, daughter of a California mil
honaire, was betrothed, and to whom
she left 500, 900 in gold by will made
a short time previous to her death, IS
named Beck, and his father was at one
time Secretary Of State in California.
THE favorite amusement of all Span
iards, bull-fghting, is threatened with
suppression. The Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. estab-
lished in the capital of the Austrian En-
pire, has addressed circulars to kindred
institutions throughout the world re-
Questing their cooperation in putting
down this barbarous sport.
PUTTING together the facts that
Stephen Denaro kept seven pistols and
five guns in his house, on Edistc Island,
S. c., that his favorite theme was the
untrustworthiness of circumstantlal evil
dence, and four men have been muir
dered in his neigbborhood within few
years, the officials concluded that his
arrest was proper, although there is no
direct proof of his guilt
DIR. VANDERPoEL, of New York,
makes the rather startling suggestion
that in many cases where people are
supposed to be dead they are really
frozen to death by the undertaken who
places them in freezer and packs ice
around them. He mentions several
cases in which he believes the person
was not dead when thus frozen.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, the British
Minister, and his two daughters ride on
the roads about Washington every
pleasant day; the white whiskered fa-
Their on a handsome bay, the young
ladies on two beautiful mouse-colored
horses. The English girls high hats
and short blue habits are mentioned as
being of the most delicately trim fashion,
and they are remarkably graceful horse
women.
THERE is always an interest shown by
people who must stay at home in the ex-
penses of a trip to Europe. A gentle
man living on Long Island, who has
Just returned from ninety days tour
of Europe, says the trip cost him in all
only 1915. He paid 500 for a return
ticket on a first-class steamship, and for
the rest he visited the British Isles,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland,
Belgium and Italy. He does not state
how many relatives he had in those
countries.
A YOUNG woman at Mankato, Mimi,
was cleaning her white kids by washing
in benzine, the other day, near hot
stove, the gloves being on her hands,
when the treacherous stuff took fire, and
she will probably lose both arms, even
if she does not lose her life. The poor
girl rushed out doors and plunged her
arms in and rolled in the snow, and sue
ceeded in extinguishing the flames on
her arms and forehead, but not until the
skin was completely burned off both
arms to the elbow.
An orphaned heiress at Searsport,
Me-, had a scapegrace for lover and
two watchful uncles for guardians. She
1esired to marry, but the uncles would
not give their consent, and she would
lose her fortune by disregarding them.
A message arrived by telegraph from
London for the lover one day, saying
that he had fallen heir to great wealth.
The news soon reached the uncles, and
they did not learn until the wedding had
taken place, with their consent, that the
Young folks had deceived them with q
false report.
BARON KURD Won SCHLosER, the
German Minister 1T Washington, is g
plain simply dressed bachelor, who does
more work than any other foreign Min
lister. He is as simple in his habits a:
in his dress. When all the other diplo-
mats went in elegant carriages to make
their New Years calls on the President
Baron Won Schloser walked. He takes
long walk every morning, gets his owl
mail from the Post-office, and does
thereafter a hard days work. He useC
to be the Private Secretary of Prince
Bismarck.
WINNIPEG, but few years ago The
very outpost of civilization, inhabited
mainly by servants of the Hudson Bay
Company and few hundred half
breeds, and reached only by the print
tive ox-cart of the Selkirk settlement
is now flouishing city of 49, 0people
connected by railroad with the grea
lines which stretch up through Mime
sofa to its northern border, and keenll
alive to the possibilities which lie before
it as the capital of what is soon destined
to be one of the most popular and pros
porous provinces of the British Empire
SPAIN has a remarkable speculato
in the Marquis de Santa Cruz di Nun
dila. He made fortune many year.
ago, and became large holder of fl
tree lands in the Sierra di Segura, jus
before they roso from nothing to grea
value by the railroad being made from
Alicante to Madrid. His next ventur,
was in planting vines on such seal
that he is believed to be the largest own
err of vineyards in the world, His vine
wards are ploughed instead of worke'
by hand, and he raises great quantitie
of drinkable wine at small cost.
THE protector of the floating apiary
G. o. Perrine, who attempted bee cul
ture on a raft upon the Mississippi, com
mencing at its mouth and working mort
during the season, pronounces this al
tempt a total failure. From his expert
ments he lost many thousand dollars
He now advises bee keepers to keep a
far as possible from large bodies c
water, since, during high wind, many G
the bees perish in the water. His pres
ent system is to take his bees down t
New Orleans in cars as soon as the sea
son ends at the North, returning wit
them in the spring as soon as whit
clover begins to bloom. L costs but on
dollar per colony to ship them Sout
and return, while by this method ne II
ceives continuous harvest during tn