The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

European dCtItSScS anu AIalloH 9i"C
( erS.
The Brush electric light collected
( $4,000 in royalties for the month OF
May.
1t is said that Senator Logan is
/ General Grants choice for President
in 1884.
Queen Victoria has refused to accept
a barrel of Kentucky whisky named
in her honor.
Eight gambling dens in Carson,
New. Weld a quarterly license of over
5000 to the school fund.
Moody has discovered another sweet
singer of hymns in man employed
in the Denver car shops.
Ireland is harvesting the largest hay
crop known for fifty years, which Is
"agitating the land" to good purpose.
Horace Greeley's brother, Thornton
Greeley, bequeathed his farm, valued
at $4,000, to the City of Nashau, n. H..
The street-cleaners of Paris wash
the pavements early in the morning
bv a liberal and judiciOus use OF the
hose.
Secretary Hunt will visit all the
navy yards this summer, but the de-
tails of his trip have not yet been ar
ranged.
One species of cactus plant i'll Cal
ifornia and Arizona contains tank
holding about pint of water. 1t Is
palatable, and used by the Indians to
make soup of.
Mr.. Keene's horse, Foxhall, is named
after Nks.,..,.,,.,,.an- si.,.-..a . -. 9
Keene, who was namGAatter his moth
er's uncle. Commodore FOxhall
Parker. of the United States Navy.
When President Garfield looks out
of his window at Long Branch he can
see the cottages of Gen. Grant, Fitz
John Porter, Gen. Babcock and Moses
TAYLOR and the grounds of Judge Hill
ton.
A correspondent writes to the New
Haven Register that bag contain
ing cloves, cinnamon, red pepper, all
spice. bayberry and black pepper.
suspended over the stomach, Is a sure
cure for malarial chills.
The colporteurs of the American
Bible society in Georgia and Florida
have visited during the last few
months 1850 families, and found
1920 (the majority of whom are col
ored) without the Scriptures. Forty
three thousand volumes were dlstrlb-
uted.
In making a new orchard, says
fruit grower, systematic matters by
setting your apple trees so that your
summer apples will be together, then
your fall appless, then your winter
apples. and so on. 1t will be much
easier to gather them; you will not be
compelled to haul all over the orchard.
Young man in the bright revised
version of whose youth there is no
such tl.ing as first commandment
with Notwithstanding do you know
I'm real glad you're may mother
Mother equally surprised and touched
-'Whv. my dear son 2" Young man.
-"Because you can't be my mother
in-law p
Columbia Spectator: Providential !:
Mamma-"Did you enjoy your ride,
Elise ?" Elise-"No, mamma, and
reason enough, for Connie James says
the Van Smiths are going to give
dance. and we're not asked" Mamma
-"Well, my dear, your poor aunts
death was providential-of course we
can't CO."
Paris Journal: To a widOwer:
'Is it true that you are going to mar,
nv again ~ "Its very true" "And
whom do you marry?" 'My dead
wife's sister" as she handsome p
mo" erich ?" 'NOt at all" ''Then,
why have you chosen her?' ''To tell
YOU the truth, my dear friend, in order
not to change mother-in-laws."
A Young lady who was present at
the opening of the Newport skating
rink the other night added to her
MANY attractions a novel feature. 1t
consisted in what might be called liv-
ing Jewels. Encircling her hat was
Gordon of live tropical insects, whose
eyes shone with splendor exceeding
the radiance of the most brilliant gems.
Teras AdrOcate Canon Farrar
tells of a woman in London who said
she had two husbands in one man.
One of them was a kind, honest and
respectable person, whom she loved,
and that was her husband when sober.
The other was a brutal fellow who
was constantly illtreating and abusing
her, and that was her husband when
he was drunk.
The suicide of Olive Hersee, of the
Soldene Opera Company, is said to
have been caused by his wife's scant
dressing as a dancer in the same
show. He demonstrated with her.
but she replied that she must earn her
salary or she wouldn't get it. The
couple had a quarrel on the subject III
San Francisco, and at Denver the hus-
band drowned himself.
Boston Post: Lovely woman:
"You must love Miss Lawrence very
much" said Jack to Miss Dashie, as
they left that young lady whom they
had lust met on the street. "You gave
her a most rapturous kiss on the
cheek" and Miss Dashie replied: 81
despise her!' "Then why such a
kiss ?" "Why, didn't you see? She
was terribly palllIeu, anu Ihduc
spot on her cheek with that kiss that
will let everybody who see her, into
the secret of her elegant complexion"
Women are queer creatures!
A new college for technical educa-
ton has recently been established in
London, and Prince Leopold has laid
the foundation-stone of a building
which is to cost about $125,OOO. In a
little speech the Prince said: The
old apprenticeship system, whatever
its merits may be, and whatever good
work it may have done in the past, is
not equal to tie exigsncies of the
present age, and we are beginning to
realize that a thorough and liberal
system of technical education must be
placed within the reach of the British
artisan, in order to enable him to hold
his own against foreign competition.
A wicked mans diary of his wife's
temper: Monday-a thick fog; no
seeing through it. Tuesday-gloomy
and very chilly unreasonable wealth
er. Wednesday-frosty; at times
sharp. Thursday--bitter cold in the
/ morning: re sunset, with flying