The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A cremation company has been
granted part of the cemetery in Rome
Tor building purposes.
Shakespeare fixed the age of Juliet
at fourteen, bat on the stage the ma
turity of actresses capable of playing
the part makes an alteration of the text
necessary. San Francisco, however, is
to have a fourteen-years-old Juliet in
the person of Ida Aubrey, prodigy.
The viii of James E. Brown. of Kit
. tanning, Pa, bequeaths twenty-five
dollars to every widow in the town and
twenty-five dollars to every wife who
shall become q widow, and the same
amount to all the girls now living who
shall become wives. Large sums are
given to charitable Institutions out of
the $4,000, 900 OF the estate.
in Virginia City. New. the last
honors paid 20 a miner were directed
by his nearest friend After the coffin
had been carried from the house to the
hearse, he led the minister to a car
riage, and, when everything was in
readiness for a start for the cemetery
he put his hands to his mouth and yelled
to the driver of the hearse, ''All set. "
In Germany, including the free
cities, about eighty-five per cent. of the
population have incomes under $500; in
Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen 14.6 per
cent. have incomes from $500 up to
1000, and one-fifth of one per cent.
(that is to say, about 5000 persons in
the three cities taken together) have
incomes exceeding $4,000 per annum.
This does not give one a great idea of
the wealth of Germany.
Many Of the Hindus still think that
the leader of the Sepoy rebellion, Mana
Sahib, is vet alive and that he is in
America, a region as vague to them as
the dominions of Prester John were to
the medi9valists. Although his death
was announced twenty years ago, the
truth or falsity of it was not then, nor
has it since been, ascertained. He
might be alive. as far as his age goes,
for he would not now be more than
sixty years old.
Among the Migrants who applied
for reliefto the police authorities of New
York City the other day was u young
man named Rudolph Ruckert. He said
his father was principal of a college at
Darmstadt and had given him first
class education. He spoke Greek, Latin,
Hebrew, French, English, German and
italian. He had come to this country
to turn his attainments to account and
he had met with poor success.
The rich and respected President of
a Boston gas company lives luxuriously
with one wife in the neighborhOod OF
that CITY, Another wife called on him
the other day and he could not deny the
relationship, for she had marriage Ger.
tifcate in her pocket. She had no de-
sire, however, to take him away from
his second spouse, but simply demanded
a restoration of the property she had
given him years before. He promised
to do it.
"A train of emigrantS lost themselves
in an Oregon desert, thirty years ago,
and wandered for several days before
finding their way-out. They afterward
said that they had seen place strewn
with nuggets of gold, but were at the
/ time suffering starvation, and did not
suppose they would 1--we to care any
thing about the treasure. A grizzly old
man was recently encountered in that
region. He had been searching since
1850 for these nuggets. and declared
that he would stick to it until he died.
1t must be confessed that the build
ing of stable for twenty horses on
the top of private mansion, access to
which is obtained by means of a lift, is
calculated to awaken a feeling of aston
ishment even in these days of marvels.
Yet this is the case on house just
erected in Belgrave Square, London.
by Mr.. Sassoon. Ground is very valua-
bic in that fashionable part of London,
and by RELOCATING the horses to the top
of the house two birds are killed with
one stone, for space is saved and the
smell of the stable is avoided. The
horses do not seem by any means to OBJ
iect to the mode of ascent, possibly
they are unconscious Of it on account OF
the closed shutters of the lift.