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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
A Girl Monk.

Matrena Ivanovna, a Russian peasant
girl of two-and-twenty, has recently ac-
quired considerable notoriety in her ma
tive land through the fact that, under
the monastic designation of Father
Michael" she succeeded in passing
several months in the cloister of Staraia
Ladoga, without mourning the least
suspicion on the part of her fellow monks
that she was other than she seemed to
be. Forced by her father to marry q
person whom she detested, she disap-
peared from her home on the day sue
ceeding her wedding, and upon search
being made, her clothes and two long
plaits of her ''back hair" were found
near the Wolchoff River, as well as a
letter in her handwriting, stating that,
rather than live with her husband, she
had resolved to drown herself. Her
relatives, believing that she had really
committed suicide, forbore any further
inquiry, and mourned for her as one
dead. She, however, dressed in man s
clothing, appeared last March for adj
mission to the above-named monastery,
and was duly received into the contra
ternity on probation, taking the minor
VOWS, and officiating as coachman to
the prior. There is no knowing to what
ecclesiastical dignities she might not in
time have risen, had not unkind fortune
decreed that native of her own village
should have been sent to Staraja Ladoga
by his master for correction at the
hands of the brethren, his Offense be-
inc inveterate drunkenness. Promptly
recognized and denounced by this in
discreet topper as Matrena Ivanovna, a
friend of his youth, ''Father Michael
was handed over to the police authori-
ties by the indignant monks, and is now
awaiting trial for imposture upon re-
ligious community-a crime likely to be
visited with severe punishment in so
priest-ridden a country as Russia.
London TeLeQrdDh.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
Not Up on Goats.

The goat is an everyday sight, and
the man who does not study him and
learn his ways and habits has only him
self to blame. Saturday forenoon a
William was quietly feeding on Col
umbia Street when load of household
goods went past. The owner kept pace
with the wagon, carrying under his arm
a fine mirror about five feet long. AS
he came opposite the goat he met a
friend. and of course he had to stop and
tell why he was changing locations and
how much he expected to be benefited.
The glass was heavy, and he naturally
dropped one end to the walk to rest his
arm.
Had this man been a close observer
he would have seen the goat and wished
he had brickbat Had he made goat
nature a study he would have known
better than to lower the glass. But he
was man who despised the trifes of
life, and he was telling how many tons
of coal the new house would save him
this winter when the goat, who had
been getting mad for two long minutes
at the sight of a rival in the mirror.
went through the glass like a thunder
bolt, and jumped into the street with
the frame clinging to his shaggy sides.
All that ripping, and raving, and cuss-
ing-all the opening of front doors-all
the inquiries by an excited crowd could
have been saved had the citizen but
beckoned to the smallest boy on the
street and asked him to give away few
points on goats.-Detr0it Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
The COcOa-nut Industry in FIJI.

The cocoa-nuts are gathered from all
parts of the island, which has circum-
ference of about thirty miles, and after
the kernel has been extracted and dried
on the long U0tas or tables or in the
steam drying-house, which is the more
improved method, it is packed in bags
for transport by the interisland steam-
ers to Levuka or by some of the small
craft which the merchants employ to
collect their cargOes. The price in the
island is about E14 per ton. But after
the kernel has been disposed of the
husk is attacked, and by means of vari-
Gus machines popularity called g devils "
it is torn into the fibre of which it is
composed and cleanedof its dust (Which
is valuable compost) and turned into
bristleS for brushes or treated as fibre to
be packed into bales for export. All
the laborers who attend to these ma
chimes are POlynesians, many of them
on Rambi being the Withholding Toka-
laus from the Gilbert and Marshall
group. Let us watch for moment the
two who are from the New Hebrides
turning the screw-press by which the
AUIC 10 COlu AhbO OebAOo'
are naked black giants, and as they
throw their force to turn the handle OF
the screw, capstan-fashion, their mus
Giles stand out, and the whole frame is
model of Herculean power. The store
house is full of bales ready for the
steamer by which we expect to leave,
and these find market in Sydney, while
the bristles 90 to England. We pass
along by the Iaborers' houses and there
we find the familiar coolies, and hear
again the "Salaam, Sahib,' often heard
when l soiourned in Maurisius. Pass
ing on, we get into a cocoa-nut grove,
which stretches a long distance along
the coast, the lap of the full tide COM
ing up to the very roots of the first line
of trees On some of the trees the nuts
are so thick as to defy computation,
being indeed too crowded for growth.
As many as 800 have been counted on
one tree, but this is only when they are
as small as apples, for they fall album
dainty in the struggle of the tittest to
survive Still further along the coast
we come to other flats and valleys which
are also being cleared out for planting
with cocOa-nuts or cotton. Chjet-J1tS-
tice GorT-ie, in Contemporary ReCtel0.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
How We Walk.


By means of an ingenious clock-work
apparatus, Marcy, the French biologist,
has obtained a number of exceedingly
interesting graphic illustrations Of the
manner in which man walks. The in
strument is a vertical barrel, covered
with finely-ruled paper, and as the barrel
is made to revolve by the gearing with
in it, little pencil makes mark on
the paper, as the person whose walk Is
under investigation steps along with the
registering device. A little air-cOm-
presser, worked by the foot OF the walker
at each step, sends a current OF air
through flexible pipe to the instru-
ment, and gives a more or less up-and-
down movement to the pencil. 1t has
been found that the step in going up
hill is longer than in going down hill;
that the step is longer for an unburdened
man than for burdened one, and that
the step is longer when the sole OF the
boot is thick and prolonged beyond the
toe than when it is short and flexible.
When a person ascends a hill he quickens
his pace, but diminishes its length, and
he does just exactly the opposite when
descending an inclination on the ground.
1t would seem that Marey's observa-
tions point to the ACCESSIBILITY OF pedes-
trians in general adopting low-heeled
boots, with thick, projecting soles.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
The Apache Who Could Ride a
s'BrOncO.'

Tom Newland has an Indian who
places a high estimate on his equestrian
ability. There was horse to be brought
to town few days ago and the Indian
was given the job. He was told he
was bronco" but it was - esta bueno
me sabe." Hitching the animal to a
tree, he carefully placed the sweat
cloth on him; then the blanket, the
bride and the saddle; at each perform
ance giving voice to a satisfied . All,
hail." each ejaculation growing intens-
er, till he got into the saddle. All
this time the - bronco" looked as I'M
like Alexander the Greats war horse,
Bucephalus, as a carpenters saw-horse.
The Indian started; he gained the crest
of the hill where the scrub oak was
thickest; he turned and gave another
g All. hail." which was followed so
closely by "whoa" that it sounded like
q compound word. Then something
rose to a few feet in the air, went back
and rose again. There was cloud of
dust, heap of Apache talk, flash of
bright colors. and-silence. When Tom
went up, he found the horse grazing in
the most orthodox fashion and a stri p of
white breech-clout and pair of brown
legs surmounted by red stockings and
irOn-clad shoes sticking up from the
middle of a scrub oak, like a new sort
of plant. Tom got him out of the brush
and when he said: . All. hail. the
Indian looked As though he wanted to
20 on the war-path.-ArizoBG SilUer
Bell.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
Fashionable Tipping in England.

Not long ago a strange scene took
place in pretty garden not hundred
miles from London. The tree shaded
lawn was scattered over with seats,
with here and there a bright-colored
Persian rug for the special behoof of
any guests who object to open air
amusements on account of the g damp
grass" To some minds grass is always
damp. 1t was early IN the afternoon,
and the only tenants of the garden were
the servants, who were arranging re-
freshments upon some tables under the
trees. They seemed full of mods and
becks and whispers of apparently mys
FERROUS import passed among them. A
carriage drives up to the gate and two
ladies, entering, look around for their
hostess. The servant who has admit
ted them goes in search of his mistress,
and few moments afterwards young
and beautifully dressed woman issues
from the house, her face deeply flushed,
her eyes half closed and her gait uncer-
tain. just at this moment another car
rage drives up, a gentleman and lady
being the occupants. They, too, enter
by the garden gate and advance towards
the house across the lawn. As they ap-
proach the uncertain, swaying figure of
their hostess they look at each other
significantly, and the lady says in a low
voice, = l was afraid of this. Where
can Mr.. X. be to allow her to be seen in
this statep"
The Interpretation of those wild looks,
that disordered hair and those mean
ingless words is that Mrs. X. is intoxi-
Gated, though not sufficiently so to be
quite helpless. She wanders about
among her guests, her condition, how
ever, being so palpable, so unmistaka-
BILE, that the majority laugh and litter,
while the friendly few pity though they
condemn her. The painful scene was
ended by the arrival of her husband,
whose look of misery, as he led his wife
on his arm through the groups Of gayly-
dressed people into the house, touched
even the laughers with pity.-Londo''
TIuth
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
AProm,se to a Mother Kept.

CHARLIE OWEN, express messenger on the
train that was wrecked last Friday evening,
was struck between the shoulders by box,
temporarily paralyzing his arms, but when
offered glass of whisky by the physician he
refused, and when the doctor urged him he
again refused. Insisting, the medical man and
several others standing near told him he must
take it to save his life. "No, sir?' said the
Young man, firmly refusing. "When L went
to railroading l promised my mother that L
would never touch whisky, and I'll die here
I'm nv tracks, gentlemen, before I'll touch
it, The young man mentioned is a brother
of the agent at Knoxville. He is but nine
teen years of age, and has been in the
employ of the Southern Express Company for
a few months only. He has been tried on
several roads, and on account of his integrity,
intelligence and close application to duty has
been rapidly promoted by his route agent to
the position of first class" messenger. He
left Lynchbnrg September "a with a heavy
run of freight and yaluables The entire
train left the track near Big Lick, and the ex-
press car and contents were crushed and torn
to splinters Charlie was dragged from under
the wreck crushed and bruised, and was
evidently suffering greatly. His first words
we're to call for his safe and two boxes of
silver. When brought to him he extended his
bruised body over them, and watched his valu-
able run through the long hours of the
night.-KTOrUiUG (TGnn.) Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
a Smart Girl.

jim LARSON runs the dray line in Blooming
ton, Ill. The other day while he was getting a
safe downstairs from an Office the rope broke
and it fell down; he was in the way and mar
rowly escaped being crushed. As it was he
had his leg broken and his foot smashed. This
left him with apparently no one to attend to
his business, which is quite extensive. In
this emergency his daughter Nancy, aged
fourteen, took hold of his accounts, and
since then has run the whole line, and done
it very successfully. She has attended to the
orders, kept the men at work, made out and
collected all the bills, and transacted all the
affairs of the line just as well as any one could
have done. This is the kind of girl to have,
and if Jim don't take her into partnership
then he deserves never to get out of bed. By
the way, the most successful coal and lumber
merchant in that city is woman, Miss Geor-
gian Trotter She is a good business woman,
too, and knows how TO make as well as keep
money.-PeJrid Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
A Romantic Match.

A Boston bookseller tells a very ro-
mantle story as follows: AT one time l
had prepared boxes of fancy paper with
a fancy initial or pet name embossed in
it, and put this up at one dollar box
and advertised it widely. One day |
had an order from California, from
Miss Susie -. The box was done up.
addressed TO her and lay about here
when a young Englishman came in and
wanted to write a letter. ] gave him
the materials and place, when his eye
caught the address on this box.
Have you the order that came for
that box of paper?" he asked.
YES" replied, d" it is about some
where"
Would you mind sending it up to
my hotel? If it is what | think shall
leave for California tonight"
found it and sent around and heard
no more about it for perhaps three
months, when one day the young man,
with lady on his arm, walked in. 4
want to present you to my wife," he
said. 1--WE could not leave this coun-
try till we had thanked you for your
part in bringing us together" The de-
nouement was quite romance. The
young man was the son of an aristo-
cratic family and the girl the daughter
of the gardener. But love levels all
distinctions. and the young man felt this
girl to be the chosen companion of his
life. To break off the attachment his
father had sent him to the continent
and dispatched the gardener and his
pretty daughter to America, where the
young man had followed them, ignorant
of their address, and at last finding it
through the chance of the box of paper.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
EN- Bezzle is a bad miss.

EN- Bezzle is bad miss.
Torches in professions throw some
light on the political situation.
1t is the man with the lottery ticket
who looks out for number won.
The early bird catches the worm.
Later in the day the leisurely sportsman
gathers in the bird.
The man on the fence has all he can
do to look out for the piekets with
joining the forces on either side.
The man who whistled to keep his
courage up got another mans temper
up. and was very much discouraged
finally.
1t IL Just az cay and natral to tell
the truth az it is to talk, but lie haz to
be arranged before it IL safe to Civ it
wings Billings.
The average age of a hog is only fif-
teen years. This always consoles us
when we see a man spreading himself
out over four seats in railway car.
"A New York scribe has discovered
that IN. B." attached to the post
script of a Boston invitation to dinner
means "no beans"
"A beautiful girl in Moline,
Whose hair was a silvery sheen,
Bought an awful red bang
On her forehead to hang,
Producing a curious scene.
Chicago Tribanse.
"A guest at fashionable hotel took
his seat at the dinner table, but no one
appearing to wait upon him he re-
1 u al. OF
this hotelP" :" Yes, ;" responded a wag
on the opposite side of the the table;
1.-the boarders are the walters"
my wife," remarked prominent
manufacturer, "never attends auctions.
She went once, just before we were
married, and seeing friend on the OPP
posite side, nodded politely, whereupoll
the auctioneer knocked down a patent
cradle, and asked her where she wished
it Delivered
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
The Remarkable Fasting Achievements
OF a Canada Girl.

There is within mile of Meaford a
Young woman whose achievements-not
undertaken for the sake of notOrlety or
profit-are more astonishing than the
forty days water diet of DIR. Tanner.
The Young woman is now under DIR.
Maclean's care, and from him the pro-
fession NAV learn more of the case by
and by. About year ago last February
this young woman gave up eating, not
on account of ill-healtb, but simply be-
cause she felt no desire for food. and for
six months thereafter she took abso-
lutely nothing but a cup or two OF but
termilk once or twice a week, with an
occasional drink of water. AT the end
of six months she began eating and ate
regularly and heartily for about six
months, when she again repeated her
fast of half a year under like circum-
stances. A little over three weeks ago
not having yet broken her second fast
she was placed under DR.. Maclean's
professional care, and for nineteen days
thereafter, though offered food frequent
ly, but at the same time being carefully
watched, nothing passed her lips but a
cup or two of cold water daily. During
this time she lost weight at almost ex-
actly half pound per day. On Satur-
day last she was persuaded to eata very
little of watermelon, and for the next
three days her loss was only half
pound in all. The girl is under the
medium height, but when eating like
other people is unusually fat. She now
weighs eighty-nine pounds, but is in as
good condition as most girls of her size
looks and is cheerful, walks about tn,
house little weakly, but without as
stance, and does some light work.
Ieaf0rd [Ont. Monitor.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
puh,,c RECOGNITION of Heror,m.

OK the afternoon of the Seawanhaka disas-
ter, last summer, three boys, Fred ii. wight
man, Herbert II. Dean and Edward L. Lamb,
were fishing in a rowboat near the float of the
Knickerbocker Yacht Club As they saw the
burning steamer coming through the Gate,
they sprang to their oars, and rowed pluckily
to the rescue. They reached the shore of
Wards Island just as the steamer grounded,
and theirs was the second boat on the spot; the
brave boys succeeded in rescuing fourteen
persons, among whom was the Captain of the
steamer. The matter came to the attention
of the Irving Club, an association composed
of prominent residents of Harlem, and it was
unanimously voted to make public recogni-
ton of the gallant conduct of the boys by pre-
senting TO them gold medals. The medals are
handsome pieces, made by Tiffany. On one
side is a representation of the boys in their
boat in the act of rescuing person. Around
this was the inscription: presented by the
Irving Club of New York City" The reverse
side bore the following: For bravery dis
played at the burning of the Seawanhaka,
June 2S."-N. I. Cor. Utica Herald.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
The Most Remarkable Case Of "Graft-
ing'' on Record.


Lucy Osborn. who had her scalp torn
from her head by getting her hair
caught in revolving Shaft in button
factory at New Milford in this State,
six years ago. is still an inmate of St.
Dukes Hospital in New York. During
the past six wears the doctors have been
grating on a new scalp BY slow process,
and the operation as a whole has been
very successful. The material for build
ing the scalp has been furnished bv
hundreds of volunteers, and oCer four
teen ttousand different pieces have en-
tered into its construction. In the ac-
cident in which she was injured the
scalp was taken clean off, the skin being
peeled from the bone and taking with
it piece of the integument of the right
ear. The process of inducing the scalp
to grow is slow and tedious one. and
out of three hundred and fifty gratis
which had been planted up to May 1,
1875. but forty had taken. In 1877
grating ceased for time, and the head
was strapped with adhesive plaster to
draw together the newly formed skin,
which appeared in patches over her
head. The patient was discharged as
improved July l, 1876, but returned in
the following September. She then
had two uncovered spots on the head,
the larger four and one-half inches long.
More grating was done, nearly cover
ing these spots, and the patient went
nome. During the month of Septem-
Der Just passed she returned with two
ulcers on the back of her head, and is
again undergoing the grating treat
ment.-HarJord Gonna Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
Lost Money Found.

A RECENT Ocean Grove On. " telegram
SAYS: AT the close of the camp-meeting,
held in August, some excitement was created
by a gentleman stopping at the Arlington
Hotel accusing servant-ruaid of stealing $3.50,
which upon going 10 bed he said he had placed
under cuspidore, but which he failed to find
The girl protested her innocence, and was not
prosecuted. A few days ago, on removing a
looking-glass in one Of the batbing-houses,
seven $50 bills were found behind it. DR..
Stokes. President of the Ocean Grove camp
meeting, remembering the loss of the money,
telegTaphed TO the loser, who is in the West,
and received reply identifying the money, and
asking that $50 be given to the accused girl
and SO to the finder of the money, which was
done"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-04
Moorish Table Manners.

Tea is quite formidable meal. 1t
is served by man servant. First the
teapot-or kettle, if named after its
shape-is filled with green tea, sugar
and water, in such proportions as to
make a thick, sweet sirup, which is
drunk without milk or cream. Then
follows an infusion of tea and spearmint.
Yet another of tea and NORWOOD. Yet
another of tea and lemon verbena. And
vet another of tea with citron. On great
occasions a sixth is added, of tea and
ambergris. Nothing is eaten, The
- weed usually follows; but the Moor,
though smoker, is not an invetere
ate.' Dinner consists of various dishes
of mutton, fish and fowl, ingeniously
and artistically served in mixtures of
pomades, soups, spices and cosme tics;
SO, at least, Englishmen declare who
have had in courtesy to swallow the
preparations. Knives, forks and spoons
are dispensed with, perhaps despised.
The company sit cross-legged on the
floor and gather round central dish.
At 90 In the name of God" which is the
brief grace pronounced by the master
Of the house, the slave removes the
cover from the bowl; lifted hands are
thrust into the smoking dish and NOR
sells of its contents, deity rolled into
convenient forms, are tossed, dripping,
into the mouth with neatness and pre-
cision truly wonderful. Exact portions
are picked from fowl and fish and NUT
ton-chop bone without delay or effort.
After the course water and napkins are
brought round. The wash over, another
dish, and another plunging OF the paws
into the savory mess. Incense is often
burned during dinner, which fills the
apartment with delicate aroma.