The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Within the last decade the popula-
ton of Great Britain and Ireland has
increased eleven per cent.
Jerusalem existed 700 years before
Rome was founded. 500 years before
the seige of Troy and 500 wears before
the hanging gardens of Babylon were
built.
Some ArabshaFe offered to present
to President Grevy pair of white
horses. Fhe. Presidents has refused to
accept them. His representative tried
to buy them, but the reply was that
ARABS never sell their horses. - t
When a tribe of Bedouins goes out
to fight it is their custom to place one
or two young maidens on the besthorses
at the front. These dusky Amazons
encourage the desert cavaliers by their
cries and GESTURES. and plunge into the
thick of the fight. Wherever the dam
sells lead the Arab ehivalIy follows, but
if they are killed or captured their fol-
lowers lose heart and retreat.
"A couple whose, family occupy
high social position in England were
actually at the altar of the chapel in
Arlington when. the Clergyman dis
covered that the requisite notice had
not been given, and the ceremony had
to be postponed to next day. The
would-be bride snd bridegroom consoled
themselves in a very sensible and philo-
sophical manner by returning home to
consume the breakfast, after which
they drove out to spend the afternoon
at picturesque spot in the region.
Here is the last discovery in photog-
raphy. A Frenchman takes one mega
tive of a sitter with open eyes Then
he makes the sitter shut mis- eyes and re-
main exactly in the same position while
another negatives is taken. The two
negatives are printed on the same paper
one On each side, exactly coinciding.
When this double-faced picture is
held in proper position before
a lamp and the lamp is rapidly
moved or caused to flicker, the curious
effect is produced of long-continued
winking. 1t is not claimed that per-
son looks more beautiful when he keeps
winking, but it cannot be denied that
it gives one very interesting appear
ance.
As the most valuable wealth q
country can possess is it's healthy popu-
lation, the tables of mortality are worth
study; and from these we find that on
the first day of life seventy-eight boys
die to sixty-three girls. In the first
week of life 160 boys die to 152 girls.
In Prussia the mortality among females
is the greatest from ten to fourteen
years of age; and from the twenty fifth
to the fortieth it is greater than at other
periods of life, and yet at all periods of
life the census of females compares ia
vorably with that of males. In England,
taking a period of seven years, there
were eight men to fifteen women who
were alive at the age of 100 years; five
men to nine women at FOL years; three
men to five women at 102 years; two
men to three women at103 years of age;
and no man to two women who lived to
104 1t is observed that only one per-
son in LOCO born lives beyond ninety
four.
The lines of railways in the five di-
visions of the earth cost, in round num-
bers, SIC, 900, O0e, 900. and would, ac-
cording to Baron Kolb, reach eight
times round the globe. although it is
but little over hall. a, century since the
first railway worked by steam was
opened between Burlington and Stock
ton, September 81, 1925, and between
Manchester and Liverpool, September
Is. 1880. 1t is shown that in France,
previous to the existence of railways,
there was one passenger in every $780,
900 killed, and one out of every $4,000
wounded, whereas between 1885 and
1875 there was but one in 5,17S, 1890
killed, and one in $780, wounded, so
that we may infer that the tendency to
accidents is yearly diminishing. Rail
way travelling in England is attended
with greater risk than in any other
country in Europe. A French statisti-
clan observes that if a person were to
live constantly in railway carriage and
spend all his time in railway travelling,
the chances in favor of his dying from
a railway accident would not occur till
he was $50 years old.