The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

There are no Chinese in Brazil, and
the coffee planters of Brazil are en-
deavoring to import few as laborers.
California boasts of a 10-year-old
girl who can hit ten-cent pieces and
break glass balls all with her wonder
ful little rifle.
"Will the coming man fly p is the
! question, and the Fat Contributor"
thinks he will-when the coming
woman gets after him.
The ugly crow is exterminating the
singing birds in New England, and
thereby "worritingr the New Eng
lander's mind considerable.
The first carload of new wheat ar
rived at ST. Louis on the 10th inst. 1t
was grown near Fort Worth, Texas,
and sold at auction for 81 80 per bushel.
The Atlanta (Ga.,) rolling mill has
an order for 2000 tons of rails, at $4S
per ton. In seven months this concern
paid out 100000 for material ana on
pay rolls.
Burmah stands third in the list of
donors last year to the American Bap-
fist Missionary Union; Massachusetts,
gave $4l,3l2 New York, S39, 1863, and
Burmah, $3l,Gl6.
THE Philadelphia Chronicle learns
that in that city, colored lard is sold
for butter, and suggests that pigs feet
for spring chicken viii be the next
dodge. No telling.
An Auburn lady says that the rea-
son Lord Roscoe wears little curl on
his forehead is to cover up an ugly
scar made by a horse kicking his
lordship OH the forehead.
While we are wrangling here in the
dark, we are dying and passing to the
world that will decide all our contrO-
versies and The safest passage thither
is by peaceable holiness.-Bdrter.
The office of the Register for the
District of Columbia pays $1,000 per
year, and open to the public half an
hour every other Wednesday. Poor
Fred Douglass will be worked to
death.
A State convention has been called
to meet at Jackson, Miss, on the
twentieth of July, to inaugurate meas
ures looking to prohibition. Each
county is expected to be represented
by delegates.
The Secretary of War has laid many
prohibitions upon the cadets of West
Point. First he took from them mu-
sic at their Sunday parades, then
their BARRIERS, and now their tobacco
that's the unkindest cut of all.
The Georgia newspapers of the most
influential class are effectively sup
porting the efforts of agents of the in
| ternational revenue bureau for the
suppression of this sort of traffic, and
heartily commend the management of
the collector to Atlanta.
Who can deservedly be called con-
queror? He who conquors his rancor-
Gus passion, and endeavors to turn his
enemy into a friend. Thou shalt not
say. Il will love the wise, but the un-
wise 1 will hate :" but thou shalt love
all Hebrelc IdImud.
A CHoICE.-If / am between two
moral evils l will not have either.
''There is small choice in rotten APP
Piles" l am to reject both A man
is not to lie to save from the necessity
to steal; nor to break the Sabbath
lest he should not be able to pay his
debts. Never choose to do wrong
John Hall.
Miss Abigail Judson, sister of tn
great missionary, Adoniram JudsOriS
celebrated her ninetieth birthday
March Both. She was the second child
of her parents, her brother Adonirom
being the first, and was nearly twen-
ty-One years of age when in 1872, her
brother departed for India. Thus
her life covers the whole period of
modern missions.
Norristown Herald: "Ah, good !
Thatll do. 1t is all right !" somewhat
impulsively remarked Mr.. Groggins,
laying down the Revised New Tesla
ment. ~ see they have not altered it.
L was afraid they would change the
passage where Timothy is urged TO
take little wine for his stOmachs
sake and oft infirmities, by substitute
ing lemonade or sarsaparilla for wine.
Science and art may invent splendid
modes of illuminating the apartments
of the opulent; but these are all poor
and worthless compared with the
light which the sun sends into our
windows, which he pOurs freely, i'm
partially, over hill and valley, which
kindles daily the eastern and western
sky; and TO the lights of reason and
conscience and love are of more worth
and dignity than the rare endOwments
which give celebrity to the few.-DT.
Charming.
Some enterprising women in a GER
tain town desired to raise $1,000 for
charity. They fell on novel plan.
Smoking gentlemen Chat is, gentle
men who smOked), were requested to
save for the ladies the ends of tie ci-
gars bitten off before smoking. These
were heaped together and sold. 1t is
said that in four months the money
was thus raised. What, then, must
the smoking have cost, if the tips in so
short time came to $1,000, after pay
ing for converting them into snuff?
A PRESBYTERIAN missionary writes
in the Foreign Missionary that, al
though there are many hcathen tenn
Piles in Siam, they are most of them
going to decay, and he adds there are
only One-fourth as many Buddhist
priests in Bangkok, the capital, as
there were thirty years ago. And the
missionary expresses the opinion that
Siam ere this would have become a
Christian land but for the fearfully
wicked example of business men who
have come there from Christian coun-
tries.
A special to the COurier-Jourpal
fromSloan'sV Valley, Cumberland noun
tains, on the line of the Cincinnati
Southern railway, says that the valley
is full of people engaged in the tam
bark business. Disputes and cOnten-