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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
THE GUINEA FOWL.
Experience of an Ohio Farmer-A VAL
liable Bird.

Experience of an Ohio Farmer-A VAL
liable Bird.
have a weakness for the guinea
fowls, and if their eggs were as large as
those of hen should breed them ex-
clusively, they are so much superior to
everything else in the poultry line in so
many important particulars. Twoyears
ago, while in the south part of the State,
l bought pair of white guineas, for l
always looked upon them with the sus-
picion with which l look upon Ken
lucky mule. l bought for their color,
because there were no white guineas in
nv county. Last year the hen laid about
ninety eggs that we found, and | Matched
seventeen of them under hen. About
the first of July the guinea hen began to
sit. out in the edge of the cornield, on
fourteen eggs, and in due course of time,
/ suppose, she brought off thirteen
chicks; at least one time | went down to
see her, and she was gone, leaving one
egg in the nest. The next time caught
0llluS6 VI HcI, oHO CdlhO W OliO hOuoo
one evening with thirteen chicks about
as large as quails, having kept every one
that was Matched, and the hen which
brought off brood lost only two.
When cold weather came l had thirty
guineas, that had cost me less to raise
than any five chickens in my flock. 1
kept them through the winter, and this
spring sold all but half a dozen at a
dollar apiece, and could have sold as
many morei if Ihad them. Two of them
we ate and found them excellent; the
flesh, unlike that of the pearl guinea, is
white, tender, and of gamey flavor
that is delicious. The ones l kept laid
with the hens for long time this spring,
beginning about the 9Th of April and
laying every day until they began sit.
ting, about two weeks ago. Before
got any guineas the hawks bothered me
considerably, but since that time they
have got but one chicken from me. The
advantages of keeping guineas ART
these: 1t don't cost cent to keep then
from early spring until freezing weather
they are better for the table than any
breed of chickens; the hawks don't ge
them, and when find a guinea hen sit
ting on fourteen to twenty eggs fee
tolerably safe in counting my chickens
before they are Matched. Cor Obi
Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
The Dead Prince Consort's Room.

A long time ago went over the
house and came to room which had
been religiously closed for years. 1t
was opened by special order and there
issued from it a certain hallowed odor
which exhales on opening a long
closed sanctuary. The blinds were
drawn and semi-darkness prevailed. We
drew near table and my guide ex-
planned that this was the late Prince
Consort's room, and everything was to-
day Just as he had left it when he died.
The dust was nearly inch thick on his
writing-desk; half-used quill was lying
crosswise where it had fallen from bis
hand or its rack there were several ar
ticles about paper-weight, book, and
to the right near the abandoned quill, a
little carved frame, and in this frame a
portrait. think | can see it now-the
youthful Victoria painted by Winterhal-
ter. Her majesty has sweet, fair face,
and rosebud mouth, and she wears an
apple-green gown, the tint Just glim-
mering through some folds of lace. This
picture was always by the Prince Con-
sorts side, and when this sanctum was
vacated forever no one dared to touch
it or even the smallest object in the
room. BY the Queens orders it stands
to-day as it stood then. The dust is a
little thicker on tapestry, chair, and Ia
BILE, the quill still lies in its old place,
and the little royal picture smiles as
sweetly as of yore from its half-dimmed
frame. Ineed not say that this cham
Der is never opened on a revel night,
but could not help thinking of it as we
walked once more through other lovely
but less sacred apartments. - London
Cor. Charleston rs. CO. NetOs.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
A SALESMAN'S REMARK.
How Clerks Error in Judgment Lost
Him an Advantageous Sale.

One of the requisites of good sales
man is knowing just what to say, and
when to say it, to customers who are I'M
decided and hardly know what they
want, and to whom word spoken at the
right time is sufficient very often to effect
a sale. Sometimes, however, statesmen
with the desire of assisting u hesitating
customer, say things which have the OPP
posite effect from that intended, as the
following anecdote will show:
A gentleman who was several years
younger than his wife, and who was be-
sides small and rather boyish in appear
ance, entered a dry goods store in one
of our towns with his wife and requested
to be shown some carpets. The pro-
prietor himself, to whom as it happened
they were unknown, waited on them.
He showed them very politely his ex-
tensive stock of carpets, and exhibited
with great pains their beauty and excel
lence of quality. The gentleman and
his wife both seemed somewhat unde-
cided as to what suited them among the
various patterns displayed, and the pro-
prietor, with the laudable desire of as
sisting them to decide, remarked bland
ly to the gentleman, pointing to one of
the carpets: 81 think, sir, this is the car
pet your mother likes.
The gentleman looked little sur
prised, but quietly said: "She is not my
mother, sir, but my wife"
The lady said nothing, but it is need
less to add that she did not find any car
pet to suit her, and they left the pro-
prietor, who felt that he had lost sale
by his unfortunate remark, a sadder and
wiser man. If there is anything that a
woman will not forgive it is to be
thought older than she is.-DetrOit Free
Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12

In the sun, however, the Their mometer
may register 100 degrees to lis degrees,
and at theIhottest period of the day may
give 102 degrees or 1903 degrees in the
shade. Then the outside heat may be
greater than that of the human body in
repose. But al other periods of the day
the temperature is notably less, while
our own heat tends to remain perman-
emily at the same degree. In short, dur
ing the greater portion of the day, even
in the hottest summer, the body temper
ature, in some of our organs at least,
is above the surrounding temperature.
These remarks do not apply to the few
people who work in the sun, but to the
great proportion who labor in the shade.
Exercise may bring the blood to fever
heat.
Leaving aside any consideration of
our exterior apparel, we will say that
most of us, during this exercise, wear
white stuff next to the skin. Yet such
garments will reflect heat from our
bodies more when the temperature out
side is greater than it is inside of them,
and to our bodies more when the excess
of temperature is in the blood. In the
vast majority of cases, therefore, we
put on such garments preferable in sum-
mer when they generally serve as re-
tainers of heat. In outer clothing we
make another error in wearing fabrics
which do not absorb moisture readily
and tend to keep stratum of air satur-
ated with it over the skin, thus prevent
ing evaporation, and consequently re-
frigeration. Besides, what retains moist
ure retains heat, and what retains both
is, so far, doubly injurious. This is just
the way white linen clothes operate
There are men who can not be made to
wear, in the heat of the sun, anything
lighter in weight or color than dark
hued flannel shirt. Negroes black as
Erebus split wood standing naked be-
meath the copper sky. They do not
complain. In winter nature wears a
mantle of spotless white. White retains
heat. Who ever saw black polar bearF
But the human creature has on gar
ment that is dark colored, and absorbs
heat. The atmosphere around him,
which may be below zero, will wrench
the heat from his blood and organs
which may be above 100 degrees in tenn
perature. His vital furnace is set a roar
ing to supply the loss. Exhaustion Of
fuel occurs, and he is chilled to the core.
Then fever sets in, by the same law OF
equilibrium, the overtaxed organs make
a tremendous effort to remedy the
trouble by reaction.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
WIT AND WISDOM.

Since no one is perfect, it is wise
to be sparing in criticizing others.
Boston maidens love flowers. 1t is
haughty-culture, don't you know So.
PuUl Herald.
In the great game of life the devil
pitches the ball for idleness to bat
Whitehall Times.
The man who gives his son a toy
pistol is the one who bangs his hair
~ Y Journal
As one fountain is filled by the
channels that exhaust another, we
cherish wisdom at the expense of hope.
eff can not have the fat of the
land | can take a little lean" said
tramp, as he rested his shoulder against
a lamp post. Oh Citq Derrick.
"A book has been written telling how
to write plainly. The best way is to get
some manuscript of an editor and not
write that way.-M Y. Graphic.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh
own 1900 acres of land in England.
He is going to split his name into pick
cts and fence in his land.-ChicdgO Sun.
THAT'S beefsteak joke. remarked
one of the boarders at breakfast "What
kind of a Jokes thatP" asked the man
across the table. TOO tough to be
pleasant, "--MerchGnt Traveller.
-"What celebrated King ate GRASP"
asked teacher. Observation-Disclosures, "
was the reply. "Why did he eat grassp"
"'Cause his mother cooked it along
with the turnip green's" shouted little
Tommy Wingate, who had undergone
experience in the matter Chicago
Times.
An Italian scientist says that wrin-
kles depend mainly on the fasciculi
which forms the reticular part of the
dormis." We always supposed that
age had more to do with it than the
fdscicllj. Persons who would escape
wrinkles, it would seem, must first get
rid of that italic thing.-NoriSto'0n
Herald.
Somewhere in the West sable
knight of the lather and brush was per-
forming the operation of shaving q
HoosieT with a dull razor. stop y
cried the Hoosier, "that won't do. "
"What's the matter, boss ?" That
raznr mills" "Well. no matter for
dat. sab. If the handle don't break, de
beard am bound to come of. " Chiea0C
Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
A "REMINISCENCES OF WEBSTER.
How He Saw the sea-serpent and Refused
to Speak of 1t.

to Speak of 1t.
B. M. W. tells me that he learns
from pretty good authority that Web
Ster once saw the sea-serpent. 1t seems
1t was first seen in the bay between Man
omet and Plymouth Beach by a perfect
ly reliable witness (many years ago.,
who was accustomed to look out on the
sea with his glass every morning the
first thing, as regularly as he ate his
breakfast. One morning he saw this
monster, with head somewhat like
horses, raised some six feet above the
water, and his body, the size of cask,
trailing behind. He was careering over
the bay, chasing the mackerel, which
ran ashore in their fright, and were
washed up and died in great numbers.
The story is that Webster had appoint
ed to meet some Plymouth gentlemen at
Manomet and spend the day fishing.
After the fishing was over he set out to
return to Duxbury in his sailboat with
Peterson, as he had come, and on the
way they saw the sea-serpent which
answered to the common account of this
creature. 1t passed directly across the
bows only six or seven rods off, and then
disappeared On the way homeward,
Webster having had time to reflect on
what had occurred, at length said to
Peterson, "For Gods sake, never say a
word about this to any one, for if it
should be known that have seen the
sea-serpent, should never hear the last
of it, but, wherever / went, should have
to tell the story to every one met" So
it has not leaked out until now.-Tko-
rean's Summer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
NEW IDEAS ABOUT DRESS.
White Best for Winter and Black for
Summer.

White Best for Winter and Black for
Summer.
In recent article published in The
Ne,O Oll'Gas Medic1t and Surgical Jour
nal. DR.. Thomas Herbert points out what
he believes to be serious popular fall
lacy concerning summer wearing APP
parel 1--WE have been taught" he says,
"that white bodies reflect heat and dark
ones absorb it. We saw for ourselves
that snow melted much faster under
dark cloth than it did under white
fabric The inference was that we should
wear white cloth in summer, because it
absorbS less and reflects more, and dark
cloth in winter for the opposite reason.
This is an error which has grown into a
pernicious habit. The temperature of
tine body. as taken by the thermometer,
is about 96l degrees. This would make
the blood temperature 100 degrees.
Probably more. Now, the general blood
temperature is much on a parallel with
the outside atmosphere temperature
during the greater portion of the sum-
mer, with a tendency to be higher, even
in the repOse of the body, and this ten
dency is much increased by exercise,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Tarts: One-half cup butter, one
half cup sweet milk, two teaspoons
cream tartar, one of soda.-1he House
hold.
On every American farm of one
hundred acres is waste land enough to
raise two hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Detroit Free Press.
After wheat is stacked it should not
be threshed until it has gone through
the sweat, which generally takes about
six weeks.-M Y. Examiner.
Cows should not be heated up by
being hurried, excited by bad usage,
etc., and should have shade from the
extreme heat of the sum- Christian at
Work.
Corn Fritters: Crate twelve ears OF
corn, scraping the ears with silver knife
so that all the milk may be removed.
Mix the pulp with three eggs and one
teacupful of flour. Fry in hot drip
pings.-Indadna State Journal.
When putting away the silver tea
or coffee pot, which is not used every
day, lay little stick across the top I'M
der the cover. This will allow fresh air
to get in and prevent mustiness OF the
contents, familiar to hotel and board
ing-house sufferers. -ETchdnge.
Pudding Sauce.-One egg beaten to
froth, one cup of white sugar, one-halt
cup butter, two-thirds of cup or more
poured on it of hot water. Flavor with
little lemon and nutmeg. If more
water is used, take little corn starch
dissolve and pour in Chicago Journal
Although this is not the season for
chilblains, sufferers from this painful
complaint may take note of the follow
ing means of relief for future reference:
Take a turnip, boil it with the skin on;
then take out the pulp and beat it up,
and add to it half a teaspoonful OF grated
horseradish. Lay this ons a rag and
tie it on TO the part affected. -PhttGdet
phiG Press
"A bushel of corn when compacted
into lard, or cheese, or butter can find
its market anywhere in the world where
the cost of sending the corn itself would
make market for it impossible. Be-
sides this, in the making of the lard or
butter, a manurial residue is left on the
land, instead of being carried away to
fertilize foreign fields, This is the kerr
mel of the argument for mixed farming,
instead of grain farming Chicago
Tribune.
Don't put your autograph to paper
in trade unless the individual can be
vouched for by some respectable bust
ness man of your acquaintance who
knows him. An Ohio farmer signed a
contract for 81. 60 to a lightning-rod man.
The rods were put up by another, and
the wealthy but unbusiness-like farmer
found himself in for So cash and his note
for S75 more. Of course, the wealthy
but ignorant man didn't believe in
newspapers. IN Y. Sun.
In warfare with coarse weeds, and
especially with Canada thistles, q most
useful weapon will be found to be a
broad, sharp-edged chisel fitted to the
end of a staff, such as a hoe-handle.
This is used to thrust into the ground so
as to cut off the weed afew inches under
the surface. Burdocks, golden rods,
and all other persistent weeds which
come up among the hoed crops after
having been plowed under are quickly
and effectively subdued by this means. -
Prairie Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

General Booth says his Salvation
Army will number 30,0O0,000 in 1900.
"A negro man, aged Ill years, was
Baptized on a recent Sunday, near
Jackson, Tenn, in the presence 1000
persons.-N Y. Herald.
The lady students at Chautauqua
this year outnumber the gentlemen
three to one. Even the business school
is largely composed of young ladies'
Buffalo Express.
Rev. Charles Babbage has been
pastor of the Unitarian Church at Pep
perell, Mass, for fifty years. he thinks
he has earned rest and has resigned
Boston Journal.
The Episcopalians have decided to
build memorial church at Gettysburg.
1t is to contain memorial windows, and
contributors to the building fund are to
have special privileges for themselves
and friends. philadelphia Pes
Call it magnetism or what you will,
there is a something about some preach
ers that makes them more agreeable,
more entertaining and more popular
than others, even if they do not know
half as much.-PatSburgh Dispatch.
There is school at Sweetwood,
Ga, remarkable popularity of which
is that of seventy-one pupils each and
every one is related to the teacher and to
each other. Only one of the scholars is
over fifteen years of age.-Chicogo
Herald.
Sam Jones, the revivalist says:
"Some of you little sinners are sitting
around here waiting for salvation to
strike you as it did ST. Paul God adj
justs his ammunition to the size of the
man he is after. Mustard-seed shot will
do for you"
"A member of the rhetorical class in
certain college had just finished his
defamation when the professor said:
"Mr. -, do you suppose a general
would address his soldiers in the manner
you spoke that piece?" Eyes, sir, | dc"
was the reply, "if he was half scared
to death and as nervous as a cat. - Chi
cGgo Times.
The new system of teaching Arabic
in a shorter period at Constantinople,
instituted by Ibrahim Effendi, having
proved successful on trial, the Sultan
has given house for a college in which
there are now $50 pupils, 1t is expect
ed that system will leave more time to
the Ulema for Eur opean and other
studies.
Students are graded at Princeton
in six groups. The athletes stand well
down in the ranks, according to Presi
dent McCosh. Fifteen of the twenty
seven are in the lowest two grades, all
but seven are below the middle, and
only two get up into the second grade.
The doctor is in favor of athletics, but
believes that excessive bodily exercise
takes too much time and attention.
NJ Y. Post.
The cross which the Princess Of
Wales recently gave to ST. Peters
Church, st. Louis, is of guided brass,
with triple formed points, beautifully
engraved, with four Irish crystals at its
extremites and garnet set in a royal
star at the junction of the cross. Ithas
been placed upon brass pedestal OF
three steps, on which the inscription is
engraved: ITO the Rector and Congre-
CATION of ST. Peters Church, st, Louis,
from Her Royal Highness, Alexandria
the Princess of Wales, 1885.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12

Said Bass to DR.. Pelleteer, who is
in the Homeopathic line, How does
your like cures like work in a case like
this, for instance: A friend of mine, no
matter how warm he may be when he
goes to bed, soon becomes chilled and
suffers great pain in consequence. Now,
what would you recommend in his
case ?" The doctor replied, without
stopping to take breath. "a coun'
terpane, of course. boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-07
DANGER AT MONTREAL.
Solutions Language of French Newspapers
The City on the Verge of Another Riot.

MONTREAL, Nov. 6-Montreal is evidently on
the eve of another riot The forcible removal of
Gagnon's children to the hospital by the mayor
and sanitary officials has evoked storm of in
dlsnation from the French papers. La Minerve
and LIE Monde, in which Mayor Beaugrand is
described murderer and a revolutionary
autocrat Says lie Monde: you have no heart
you have not got the right to maltreat those
who have the honor of having one. Your inhu
man and barbarous conduct caused the death of
the brave Gagnon's child. You are responsible
for this death. Yesterday you triumphed over
the poor and courageous Gagnon, from whom
you took his children and his wife, and whom
you have thrown into prison with one of his
children. You are victorious, but your injus-
tlce your cruelty, your barbarism already crush
you and cover you with shame and dishonor"
La Minerve goes further and invites the pop
ulace to resist the officers. AS result, the
mayor has issued warrants for the arrest of Mr..
Vanassee, NJ. p editor of La Monde, NJ Tas-
semp, editor, and Mr.. Gelmas, sub-edtor of La
Mlnerve, on charge of personal and sedltious
libel, the latter against Mr. Beaugrand in his
capacity mayor
A woman named Forth threw her n-year-old
boy off the morning train at Bonaventure sta
ton, to-day, because he had the smallpox. Be
fore the attention of the physician in charge of
the depot where the woman boarded the train
could be drawn to the fact that the boy was suf-
fering from the disease. the train was Off The
loud mutteringS of the passen gers evidently
yard. and while the train was running at the
rate OF sixteen miles an hour, she took her boy
to the platform of the and threw him from
the train. She has been arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-07
The Anti-Chinese Agitation.

PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 6.-The Oregonian's
Seattle, W. T., special says: There is much dis
appointment there among law-abiding citizens
over Governor Squire's proclamation. They asked
for troops, and think troops are absolutely
necessary to preserve the peace. The Governors
proclamation will have effect, they say.
consultation was held yesterday afternoon be-
tween leaders of the anti Chinese organization a
committee of citizens and committee of Chi
nese merchants The latter agreed to leave if
they were paid for their property. One Chinese
firm here has $130. 900 invested in property. Last
night public meeting was held. at which mem
bers of the peace committee and Chinese agi
tators spoke. References to the outrages at
Tacoma were greeted with loud cheers. The city
is in fever of excitement. and trouble is feared
before the end of the week. It is believed by
conservative citizens that the presence of United
States troops will preserve the peace and pre-
vent bloodshed."
The Seattle authorities have telegraphed Gen.
Gibbon, commanding the department of the Co.
lumoa, for troops. Gibbon is reported at AS
toria, and out of reach of the telegraph at this
hour So far as ascertainable no answer has
yet been sent by the military commander.