The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand women do not greet
each ether by kissing-they rub noses.
At wedding which took place at
Port Byron, N. T., recently, the bride
was eighty-one years old and the groom
was twelve years younger.
AN hours conversation was easily
carried on between Albany and Lyons.
n. Y, distance of two hundred and
seven miles, by means OF the telephone,
recently.
Red IS the popular color Of Sara
toga; old-fashiOned Turkey REQ" such
as was once used for window curtains
being as conspicuous as a burning build
| ing in the solemn night.
One young gentleman at Saratoga
has fifty suits of Clothes and neckties
enough to drive the other fellows fran
tic He makes it a point to show each
suit at least once during the season.
"A bronze statue of Kamehameha,
the first king of the Sandwich Islands,
| the work of Thomas r. Gould, the
American sculptor of Florence, has just
been cast at a foundry in Paris.
-Middletown, Conn, is talking about
the marriage of B..A. Rich, New York
er, to a pretty servant girl who waited
on the table where Mr.. Rich boarded
when he was pursuing his studies at
Wesleyan University.
The taxes levied directly on the
soil in Italy amount to S40,000,000 be-
ing at the rate of SIG for every acre
of cultivated land The land is so heav-
ily mortgaged that the sum total of
these membranes amounts to 81, 25O,-
600, 900.
Two bold Canadians have publishe d
in the Welland Cont Telegraph. prop
osition to go through the whirlpool
rapids of the Niagara River, from the
Falls to Lake Ontario, for 81, 900, using
an open Hudson Bay canoe. The
famous Maid of the Mist is the only
boat that was ever known to pass the
rapids. !
Miss Julia Wilson, the young lady
who played the part of the Little Wait
in " Joshua Whtcomb," has been kind
ly remembered in the will of her grand
father, William Wilson, who died re-
Gently. The will places her in posses
sion of S12, 900 as soon as she becomes
of age, the interest on that sum to be
applied to her benefit until then by the
executor, Alvah w ilson.
Of late years many members of
both houses of Congress have used
stamps for franking upon which were
cut fac-similes of their signatures. BY
this device clerk could frank thou
sand documents at very little expense
/ "a IS To- hn
master General has decided that no
matter can be franked unless it bears a
genuine signature.
&c Medical Lake. is the name of a
resort near Spokane Falls, Washington
Territory, which is being visited this
season by Pacific coast people. The
lake is nearly round, being a mile and
half long and over mile wide, and is
sheltered on all sides by immense for
ests of pine and fir. The water is clear,
of dark color and so buoyant that If
will sustain the weight of man with
out any exertions whatever. There is
no animal life in the lake except a
species of jelly-fsh. Ordinary trout OF
any other kind of fish die Immediately
upon being placed in the water.
"A fighting clergyman lives at Media,
Pa, as certain thief can testify. His
name is B. F. String, and he is the pas
tor of a Methodist church at that place.
The thief entered the house through
the cellar window, lighted a candle and
then entered the kitchen. He then ex-
changed the candle for coal-oil lamp,
dressed himself in sheet by cutting
holes in it for his head and arms, and
thus arrayed went to the bedside of Mr.
String. Holding the lamp in one hand
and knife in the other, he tried te
soothe Mr. String by saying: We
don't want to commit any violence;'
but Mr.. String sprang from his bed, at
tackled the thief and drove him from the
house.