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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-06
FACES AND FIGURES.


Out Of 9.627 922 registered letters
en2 packages carried last year bv the
Fostoiliec Department 726 were lost
Great Britain has 1900 registered
chemists and druggists and 23, 900 reg
lsiered melical practitioners. Patent
medrinetax realized in 1880, sG00.000
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
goats are The best iand-cleaners known.
10 mentions that q herd OF 900 entire
~ cleared piece OF brush land, consist
wig OF 500 acres in three years Socom-
plcte was the work that not Yestige Of
underground was left
Nebraska was the first State that
made q legal holiday for the purpose of
plpuhng trees. Since the work of tree
Winuting began there a grand total of
~ 10000 trees, according to trust
worthy statistics, ha been set out, and
these are now shading 100, 600 acres Of
her prairie soil, to the great benefit of
agriculture and the enrichment of the
state
The colony of New South Wales,
Australia, has shown remarkable enter
prise in inducing immigration at the
public expense During the last ten
years no less n sum than 81, 1877, 736 has
heen paid out of the COLONY revenues for
this purpose and 26. $50 immigrants
have been secured as the result of the
outlay This is at the rate of $50
head NJ Y Sun.
Brick-making along the Hudson
River is one of the big industries OF the
State. There are about 100 yards,
vacying in capacity from %, 600 to 49,
600 bricks per day. The daily move is
about 5000, 900, or for the season of six
months LOOP, 600, 600 Counting a
brick eight inches in length, this pro-
duction would lay walk six bricks
wide around the earth. For labor these
yards pay nearly SS,000,000 in the
course of the season, wages ranging
from % for small boys to SO. 80 per
day for best men. M J. Heraid.
Little drops of water and little
grains of sand do not amount to much
individually, but when collected into an
ocean. or as the component parts of the
beauteous land, their importance is &C
knOwledged. Five years ago capital
of $4,000 was invested in the industry
Of bringing sand into New York City.
At the present time 100000 are
fhus employed, and the daily receipts
by boats average $500 tons. The
greater portion of this great quantity is
supposed to be used in making railway
sand witches, though no account is
given OF the amount of cement en-
ployed to effect the proper consistency.
The matrimonial chances of a young
lady in life have been determined par
fially by an Old maid in Philadelphia.
Having kept the record of 1000 of her
scquaintances who have been led to the
altar, she finds that the chances be-
tween the ages Of II and 40 are rs fol-
lows: There are 30 chances at the ages
Of Is and Is, 104 chances at IS and II,
2l9 at / 8 and 10, $50 at 20 and q, 165
slt 2 and %, 50 at "a and 20, 60 at 26
and y, 40 at 28 and 30, Is at 80 and 81,
at so and SO, 8 at 81 and So, at Sc
and 81, and at 80 and &c. 1t will
therefore be seen that from g to 25 is
the golden flood tide of matrimony, and
that it is at these ages that the most
chances are taken in theg great lottery
khtedeipktG Record.
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Youths Department.
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4 LITTLE PHILOSOPHER.


4 LITTLE PHILOSOPHER
The days are short and the nights are long,
And me Wins y nippn,r cold;
The task4 are hard and tdc sums are wrong
anu thC teachers often scold.
| III OK tlS sGhaqg ssaT Sgs66Se' HTHOW
AS he whistles ulonr the way2
p" IL viii all come right
by tomorrow night ...
says Johnny McUree To-day.
Tho piums are few ami tho cake is plain,
The shoes are out at the toe: ...
For money you look IN the purse i'm vaiu--
lt was all spent long ago
Bur Johnny McCree,
on, what cares he, ..rf..
As he whistles along the s'reet9 Il
Would You have the blues
For pair Of shoes
Whle you have pair ffoet2 .-..
The snow is deep, there are paths to break.
But tn little arm is strong,
And work Is play if you'll only take
Your work with a bit of song.
And Johnny McCree, ..I
oh, what cares he,
AS h VIII stles along the road2
He W I 90 his best,
And will leave the rest
To the care Of his Father, God.
The mothers face it is often sad
She scarce knows what to do;
But at Johnny's kiss she is bright and glad
She loves him and wouldn't YOU?
For Johnny McCree,
on, what cares he,
As he VIII stiles along the way2
The trouble will 20.
And 81 told you So.
Our brave little John win say.
Young People.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-06
ostrich Farming in the United States.

\
The proposition that the ostrich. shall
be encouraged TO emigrate to the United
States and make its permanent home
among us has much to commend it.
AT present there are many languishing
industries and undeyeloped resources
that would be improved were osuiohes
present in proper numbers. The only
individual we have whose industrial
tendencies resemble those of the ostrich
is the goat This useful creature does
his best-an angel could do no more
but he is not entirely equal to some de-
mauds of modern society. Like the
ostrich, he will feed upon many things
that to ordinary animals are unpalata-
BILE and more or less indigestible, yet
which are of no possible use to the
world in their present condition and
are easiest disposed OF by the process Of
swallowing. A goat will eat used-up
sermons, Congressional bills, Patent-
Office reports. diIapidated buffalo
robes, torn mosquito MEETINGS and Will
Q en- place q popular clergyman S sur
plus slippers where they will do the
most good; but some things are beyond
his capac ty. He cannot swallow an
empty tomato can, q broken stove lid
exceeds The extreme stretch of his Jaws,
and his throat will not stretch enough
to permit the PASSAGE of a pickle bot
tie a mustard pot or worn out walking
shoe. The swallowing and digestive
powers of the ostrich are said to be
equal to all these articles Of diet, and
to be not ayerse to a dead dog of mod
crate size or live baby. There may
be some diversity OF opinion about tie
value, Tor edible purp ses, of birds fat
tened on such Dict but, as the flesh
cannot be tougher than that OF many
chickens and turkeys that have been
served at board n houses and restau-
rants. there is no fairness in doubling
the ostrich in advance of his appear
auce Let the ostrich come. N d.
Herald.
There We're $3.50 12 dwellings IN
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-01-06

There We're $3.50, sl2 dwellings IN
the United States in 1850
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

The destitution existing in the west of
Ireland is said to beggar description.
Thousands of people are living on food
unfit for beasts, and even this is in scant
supply. Prompt and thorough measures of
relief must be taken by the government or
thousands will die of want before next
seasons crop shall afford them the
means of subsistence. To add to their
misery, the supply of fuel is scarce and
dear, and suffering from cold is added to
the pangs of hunger. These people may
be improvident, as the English assert, but
there is great excuse for improvidence in
the fact that there is no incentive offered
them for frugality and thrift. They are
robbed to right and left of all they can
earn, and even by the most earnest effort
can never be out of debt to the rapacious
landlords and tax gatherers. Any people
in like circumstances would be as lacking
in thrift as these, even if not further de-
graded in the social scale.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
VIE sENATOKrAn SIrU4rToN.

Atlast there is change in the situation.
For more than a week the so-called Sabin
boom has been matter talked of without
Undertaking.. Mr.. Sabin persistenhy de-
clined to allow the use of his name, and
his friends were 10th to place him in the
field against his will.
The general understanding last night
was that Mr. Sabin had at last assented to
the use of his name, and that to-day would
not only see him a candidate and voted
for in the convention, but absolutely
elected.
The prevailing opinion last evening was
that the whole matter would be closed to-
day by the election of Mr.. Sabin. This
view was taken by the Window and anti
Window men alike and if there can be
any conclusion based upon outside report
it would be that the protracted contest
is undoubtedly ended.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

The new French cabinet appears to be a
mere makeshift, organized without any idea
of permanency. 1t has notinspired a large
measure of confidence, either among the
people of France or the governments of
other countries. 1t is of necessity expert
mental, but may ultimately form the basis
of ministry that shall be able to success
fully cope with the dangers that encompass
the republic. At least such will be the
earnest hope of those who desire the main
tenance of republican form of govern
ment on the European continent. The
failure of the French republic at this time
would work incalculable harm to the cause
of republicanism all over the world, even
though it is known that the failure is due
to the unrepublican features that have
been retained in the constitution.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

the opinion being very general that if it
should develop anything like the strength
claimed by its friends, that respect
able contingent would join in
and give it boost. Indeed
the GLOBE envoy found several who did not
hesitate to say that they thought it happy
outcome of the struggle and that it would
be most creditable ending of the dead
lock. Still even these declined to com
nit themselves to the movemen
or to say what would be
their course until after their caucus, called
to meet at the capitol at 8 o'clock this
morning.
Such is the situation. The break for
Sabin to-day is sure thing. The friends
of the movement are confident it
will prove success and Window
and the friends still adhering
to his failing fortunes fear it will be. In
any event Window is dead duck, which
is glory enough to satisfy any ordinary
mortal. With Window out of the way it
will not take the representatives of the
people in the legislature long to elect a
Minnesotian- knowing her needs, will
labor faithfully to advance them-to the
national senate
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

CINCINNATI enjoys prominence as car
riage manufacturing city. For sometime
the manufacturers, of whom there are six
teen large firms, have agitated the project
of raising the prices of manufactured
work. The endeavor was made last Fri
day, through meeting of the manufac-
turers to agree upon a schedule of adj
vanced prices for carriages and other
wheeled vehicles. 1t turned out that but
six of the sixteen firms were represented
at the conference, and while it was agreed
that the prices we're low, it was decided to
be inexpedient to order an advance. The
fear was expressed that owing to the sharp
ness of competition an increase of prices
could not be maintained. There will be
no further effort tie increase prices.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

The Christian Union of Brooklyn, n.
Y, in its issue last week contained eight
short communications upon the temper
ance problem. These writers do not ma
terially differ with each other, and though
it may be inferred that each represents an
influential class in the community, all are
presumably practical total abstinence men.
Thus, from the same premises, these gen
tlemen are all agreed that at this time
prohibitory laws will not have the
effect of checking dram drinking
and drunkenness, and that higher public
sentiment and a livelier public and per-
sonal conscience needs cultivation, before
dram drinking can be abolished. Temper
arce coffee houses, where young men may
find as much freedom and comfort as it is
supposed the bar-room affords, and where
they will not be vexed about their religious
cies. Most of the writers urge that higher
license fees are desirable, and all
cut direct az the root of
the matter by insisting that the
first step now needful is the rigid enforce
ment of such liquor laws as are now upon
the statute books. P. 7. Barnum wrote
that it is his opinion no icencs to sell
liquor should be granted for less than
$500. Ex-Gov. John D. Long regards the
example of total abstinence the best tenn
perance measure. Rev. DR.. II. q. Potter
expresses the opinion that the two wings
of the temperance reformers are beginning
to work together, and he hoped for better
things in the future. He illustrates his
view thus: ga man whose boy has
had his eyes blown out by
gunpowder may be eager that it should be
excluded from the community, but a
sportsman who has used it all his life
without harm to himself or others may
insist that such a course restricts his lib
erty. Both of them, however, will agree
that measures which may prevent it being
carried in the vest pocket in company with
parlor matches, or kept under the kitchen
stove, are worth initiating Other con-
tributors upon the list are Rev. DR.. H. w.
Thomas, Mr.. J. M. Hark, Hon. W. B. Wash
burn, Rev. W. M. Taylor, D. D. John G.
Whittier, the beloved Quaker poet, thinks
that the temperance cause has made some
progress since sixty years ago, when all
classes drank without apparent scruple,
and large per cent.of New England farms
were mortgaged to rum selling groceries.
1t may be that from the source above men
toned, no new or striking light is cast up
on the problem. Still it is of value to note
that there is in the opinions of these gen.
tlemen nothing to encourage the imprac
tical prohibitionist, but that the advocates
of regulating and controlling the traffic
are given fair and earnest moral counte-
nance and support.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

The National Fish Commission has com.
menced the delivery for 1888. A car left
Washington last Friday evening with
eighteen thousand young carp for Califor-
MIA. Some of these will be distributed
from st. Louis to applicants in Missouri
and Arkansas. From Texarkana another SUP
ply will reach Northern Texas and pals
will also be left in New Mexico and Arizo
ma. From San Francisco the fish will be
sent by special messengers to Oregon and
Washington territory. Applicants in Utah
and Idaho will pc supplied from Ogden
Another car of carp is now in Texas. Dur
ing February the commissinn will begin
the distribution of white fish in the lake
region, trout will go next and salmon later
in the season. The work of the commits
sion is greatly appreciated in the sections
supplied, and the demand for stocks is
rapidly and largely increasing. From the
present outlook, it will be sometime be-
fore Minnesota will be in need of the IA
vors of the commission.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
CORNERS.

Though the collapse of the corn corner
in Chicago has ruined scores of specula-
tors, the managers of the deal, it is said,
have realized 2 handsome profit, roughly
estimated at round million dollars. They,
al least, are satisfied with the result, and
it will not matter to them how many
families have been impoverished, how
many men have sunk the earnings of a
lifetime in single ill-advised venture, how
much suffering and misery and restitution
they may have caused. If their conscien-
ces reproach them they will retort that
they simply treated others as they would
have been treated if their situations had
been reversed. And this is true. The vic
tim of to-day on the great gambling ex-
change of the continent may be the con-
queror of tomorrow, and he who pockets
his tens of thousands this week as result
of successful ventures may next week lose
his all.
The moral ethics of grain gamblers
would hardly pass muster if guaged by the
golden rule. That rule is reversed in their
theology, and they strive to do to others as
they think others would do to them. When
they prove to be the victims, however, they
do not deserve any more of the public
sympathy than they receive.
Sympathy is thrown away
upon men who, with their
eyes open, risk all they possess upon the
hazard OF days fluctuations in the price
of some commodity that is under the con-
troll of others.
L. is useless to preach of the morality of
corners. Il is as impossible to defend
them on moral grounds as it would be to
defend brace game of faro. All the
chances are in favor of the manipulators:
none in favor of the gudgeons who risk
their money. 1t cannot be denied, how
ever, that they are of some benefit to the
country. They artifcially increase the
price of the commodity cornered, so that
the producers realize much better return
for their labor. The corner in corn that
has Just ended has added thousands of dol
lars to the profits of the farmers of Iowa,
Illinois and Kansas, and has in
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

The summary of exports and imports
of merchandise for the year 1882 shows thai
the balance of trade is in favor of the
United States. The excess of exports over
imports for the last six months of the
year, ending Dec. 81, was $54,572,222
For the first half of the year, ending June
30, the exports exceeded the imports S25,
902,6S3. During the month of December
the exports of merchandise from the United
States amounted to $92,96O,433. This ha;
been exceeded but once before, in the month
of December, $780,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
Obituary.

SAN Francisco, Jan. 29.-Henry G. Lang
ley, the veteran compiler of Pacific coast
statistics and of various directories, died
this evening aged seventy years. He was
an old New York journalist, having started
the Morning Ne,cs in conjunction with
James O'Sullivan and Samuel j. Tilden.
He was very prominently known on the
coast, and came to California in 40.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 30.-Rev. Fl. B.
McCallum, editor and proprietor of the
Florida Union, died to-day. He sold his
paper on Saturday last.
New YORK, Jan. 30.-Services over the
remains of the late Archbishop Hughes
took place in st. Patrick's cathedral this
morning. Cardinal McCloskey and other
dipnitar,es were present.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
Lyons Injunction Suit Withdrawn.

CHICAGO, Jan. Bottle motion to dis
solve the injunction secured by Jno. B.
Lyon against the alleged manipulators of
the corner in January corn, was argued to-
day. In the afternoon, Lyons asked and
obtained leave to withdraw the suit and the
case ended without decision being
reached, as to whether or not the court
would make the injunction perpetual un-
der such circumstances. Lyons counsel,
being asked the reason for Withdrawing
the suit, said that when the action was be-
gun the price of January corn was such
that his client was liable to lose $4,000.
Since then its value had fallen to such an
extent that they could settle at profit of
$4,000. Under these circumstances they
naturally had no desire to press the suit
and lose money.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
The Discoveries.

ST. Louis, Jan. 30.-Capt. Henry Free
man, formerly government inspector of
tin mines in Australia, who has been pross
pecting for tin in Mexico the past year
and a half, returned here bringing with
him nearly ton of rich ores and smelted
tin, found in the state of Durango, Mexi-
leo. He says he found very rich deposits,
and obtained liberal and valuable grams
from the Mexican government for working
the mines. Captain Freeman represented
a company of gentlemen here who will
Immediately prepare for vigorous working
of the new mines discovered and old ones
acquired, and they have reason to believe
they have control of as rich and extensive
deposits as there are in the world.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
R4ILROAD LEGISL4

The profuse amount of railroad legisla
ton which is proposed is not healthy
indication. Railroads undoubtedly need a
reasonable degree of restraint, but there is
just as much danger of going to the other
extreme. 1t is estimated that
fifteen million dollars were expended IN
this region last year in railroad
building. Much of the business prosperity
of Minnesota is due to this vast outlay of
capital. When the development of the
country thus secured is also taken into
consideration, it is hardly possible to place
an estimate on the advantages which will
accrue.
One thing is certain, there should be no
war made upon capital by the legislature
Instead of being treated as something to
be repealed, capital should be encouraged
and invited to come to our midst. A
country that does not invite capital can.
not prosper.
The GLOBE does not assume that capital
is not, at times, aggressive, but it is rare
that any fancied wrongs cannot be lighted
without resortlng to oppressive legisla-
ton. The menwho have invested their
money in railroads cannot make it to their
interest to destroy the prosperity of the
people from whom they draw their sup.
port. The proper way for the Legislature
is to meet these gentlemen in spirit OF
fair play, Instead of legislating to de-
stroy the property agree upon basis Of
mutual concession. A violent war upor
railroads will bring harder times than this
section of the country has ever seen.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

III the 'Frie1ds ct Vin6On," FiJJ Brace
Up, He WiU Buy the "Dirty Cre0tuyes."
Pioneer Press-Windom Organ-Jan. IS.
If MIR. WINDOWS friends have the firm
ness and tenacity of purpose to hold to-
gether to the number of fifty, or even for
ty five votes, there is still good fighting
chance that they may win. x X x
There are probably some ONE OR TWO
DOZEN OF THESE INEFFABLY DIRTY
CREATURES IN THE LEGISLATURE
WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING TO BE
BOUGHT.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

directly added much to the profits of the
farmers of Minnesota by the influence the
price of corn has had upon the wheat
market. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
corners are not an unm1xed evil, and it
will always be matter of doubt as to
whether the benefits do not outweigh the
injuries inflicted.
If cure for corners is wanted, however,
it will not be hard to find. 1t is useless to
enact laws forbidding them, for
means will be devised by which
the laws can be avoided as
long as there is a profit in the transac-
tlons. The surest way to prevent them is
to outlaw all contracts made under manip-
ulated markets just as gambling contracts
are outlawed. This can only be done, how
ever, with the consent and active co-opera-
ton of boards of trade. AS long as the
boards of directors enforce these gambling
contracts by imposing penalties for fail
ure to respect them, all such laws will be
imperative and void. In the war against
corners such ''kickers" as Lyon & Co., of
Chicago, are to be encouraged, not CON
demned. If there was general ''kick'' of
all the victims of one of these corners an
absolute refusal to pay the artificial values
demanded, and threat to repeat the op-
Grafton at every opportunity, there would
be an end, promptly and forever, of all
corners. 1t is only the regard in which
these "debts of honor" is held that enables
the manipulators to successfully manage
corners of grain, provisions and stocks.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31

1t has been publicly stated in congress
that if the tariff bill should fail, the presi-
dent will call an extra session of congress.
This may or may not have an effect in
producing the desired legislation, for the
relief of the taxpayers of the country, but
the hint is evidently thrown out for that
purpose. 1t is estimated that if an extra
session is finally decided upon, congress
will be convened in September. Should
this congress pass tariff bill, it will be of
such a character that an extra session will
be as important to revise it,as an extra ses-
sion will be in demand to make good an
omission to pass the bill.