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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14
THE OLD STORY.
The True Inwardness of an Editors Pop
ularity.

The True Inwardness of an Editors Pop~
ularity.
My son, if / should publish a daily
paper for twenty years-if you can just
strain your credulity to the point of be-
lieving that l could keep daily paper
going longer than six weeks-if should
publish daily paper twenty years, and
in all that time take occasion to mem
ton you about twice a week as "our
distinguished fellow townsman" and
''that eminent man of letters and meE-
chant prince" and should say every
time you crossed the river on the ferry
that you had departed" for the East,
and when you came back / should no.
tice that tour justly popular fellow citi-
zen" had returned" if | should in all
those years praise your dog, your horse.
your goods, your wife and babies, your
clothes and your character, and then
some day, when was away attending a
convention, my local editor should call
the attention of the town marshal to the
filthy condition of the street and side
walk in front of your store, would you
ever forgive me? Would your You
would denounce the paper as a ''scuF-
rilous sheet" and its editor as q 1ying
scandal monger that ought to be whip
ped out of the community" That is
the reason, my son, why there are but
two kinds of editors. One is q meek,
smiling, timid little scrivener, who pays
all the bills and allows his neighbors to
edit his paper; and the other. is trucu-
lent, loud-voiced savage, who viciously
scratches out the nice little personal the
local editor has written about your arri.
val home, and sends it in-"By some Inc
Scrutable decree of stern and relent-
less Providence, old Jake Diffenbaugh
has been permitted to come back home
alive" and then meets you at the head
of the stairs with blackjack and
pounds the top of your head in when
you come to see about lt.-Burdette, in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14
SHE WAITED.
A Detroit Woman Who Wanted to Sec
Square Fight.

Detroit woman VINO wanted TO SEQ
Square Fight.
The other day dog which was fol-
lowing carriage turned aside and ran
into yard on Park street. He might
have expected to pick up fall and win
ter stock of bones, but in this he was
disappointed. He was about turning
away when a dog owned in the house
flew out and rushed upon him in the
most reckless manner, and in the course
of ten seconds there was a bite as-bite-
can contest of the fiercest description.
A woman considerably past the prime Of
life came out of the house as the dogs
rolled around, picked up club lying on
the grass near by, and seemed about to
enter the struggle. She raised the club
two or three times, but let it fall as oft,
and finally stoodan interested spectator
of the fight Among the dozen pedestrians
hating at the gate was man who called
out: "Say! stop 'em-stOp em!"
The woman raised her club, but hesi-
tated to strike.
"Why don't you stop emp" shouted
the man.
"I'm waiting" she replied.
"For what? Don't you see they'll kill
each other?"
'I'm waiting to see how it comes out.
If my dog can lick him it's all right. II
he gets the bulge on Rover I'll even up
the chances with this club"
Rover got neck-hold and shook the
stranger until his yells were heard
block away, and when he was finally
permitted to sneak off the woman flung
down her club and mounted the steps
with the remark:
Nobody nor nothing has been killed
as knows on, and every one of you
could see that it was a square fight, and
victory for the best dog. Please don't
rub the paint off that gate. Detroit
Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14
A CURIOUS TOURNAMENT.
A Monogram Whose Construction Re-
quired Six Hundred Birds.

A Monogram Whose Construction Re-
CURED Six Hundred Birds.
A design which suggests a tangled
tropical copse, thickly denizened by
birds of che most gorgeous plumage
from every cline, may at present be
seen in one of the windows of LEGAL
millinery establishment. The figure is
six feet in height by four and a half in
width, and is an imitation Persian RUG
done in plumage and stuffed birds-a
marvel of beauty and of color. 1t is
edged by very narrow gray feather
trimming which incloses q sort of frame
foot in width that is filled in and thickly
studded with birds of the rarest and
most brilliantly variegated plumsse.
Conspicuous in each corner is a large
green parrot, while the rest of the frame
is crowded with red tanagers from South
America, blue and green merles from
the south of France, seven-colored
finches, notified English pheassnts. gray
Japanese snipes, green top-knotted tur-
pean pheasants, red-headed birds of
paradise, gray terms, sea-birds from
Texas, starlings, blue-birds, thrushes
and owls, This gorgeous display frames
a solid mass of red feathers which sur
rounds the central design of the figure.
1t is the monogram of the firm done in
numming-birds and creepers on back.
ground formed of the breasts and wings
If white herons and aegrets from Flori
da; the elaborate monogram alone re
| quired two hundred humming- anC
in the whole design there are no lesi
than six hundred birds. 1t is valued a
$780, Chicago NelOS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14
THOSE "FLoRAL TRIBUTES"

How is IL that when some one dies
Neglected and alone,
, halo by the unfeeliDg world
round his mem'ry thrown2
Tsey tell his virtues, every one,
Their tongues are all united
Such praises, sooner spoken, might
Have soothed him ere he died.
They bear him proudly to the grave,
While mourners line the way,
And fragrant flowers smother deep
The cold, unfeeling clay;
He's riding in hearse that cost
A hundred pounds or more,
He never had so fine ride
In all his life before.
His grave is full of flowers,
Bxotics rich and rare,
With Mr.. Someone's compliments
What does the dead man carer
The flowers are very handsome,
The cOlors nicely blent--
(The papers give a list of those
Who floral tributes sent.
IF they had listened ere he died,
They might have heard him moan
For flowers like these that fill his hearse
When he was sick and lone.
The roses might have brought him hope
The lilies, thoughts of May,
He might have gathered strength and bee
Alive and well to-day.
Toronto World.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14

"A wonderful turkey gobbler has
been discovered in Tennessee. Recent
ly it indicated a desire to initiate .
motherly hen, and to test its patience q
dozen eggs were placed under it.
The gobbler sat the required period, and
at the proper time a brood of little
chicks appeared. They are thriving
and are greatly attached to their strange
parent. Louis Globe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-14

With regard to the popular notion
Of the disappearance of American trees,
t may not be idle to notice the wonder
iul change for the better in all Western
villages during the last twenty-five
years. The number of trees grown in a
quarter of century must be enormous,
and must in itself exert a climate in-
auence. Chicago CWreRt
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
Chinese Editors.

The life Of Chinese journalist is a
happy one. lie is free from care and
thought, and allows all the work Of the
establishment to be done by the press
man. The chinese compositor has not
yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like
the rest Of his countrymen, is initiative.
He does not depend upon his brain for
editorials, but translates them from all
the contemporaneous American papers
he can get There is no humorous de-
partment in the Chinese newspaper. The
newspaper Office has no exchanges scat
tered over the floor, and in nearly all
other things it differs from the American
establishment. The editorial room is
connected by ladder with hunks on d
loft above, where the managing editor
sleeps, and next to it is, invariably, a
room fitted with an opium bunk and lay
out. Evidences of domestic life are
about the place pots, kettles and dishes
taking up about as much room as the
press. If an editor finds that journalism
does not pay he gets job at washing
dishes or chopping wood, and he does
not think he has descended very far,
either. Literary World.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
LIFR-SAVING SERVICE.
Report Of the superintendent Re
mark able Showing for 1855.

report Of the superintendent Re
mark able Showing for 1855.
The annual report of MIR. ). J. Kimball,
general superintendent of the life-saving ser
vice, shows that at the close Of the last fiscal
year the establishment embraced 2OSstations,
157 being on the Atlantic, thirty-eight on the
lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at the
falls of the Ohio, Louisville, KY The NUM-
Der of disasters to documented vessels within
the field of station operations during the
year was 256. There were on board these
vessels Z, 2O5 persons, of whom only ten were
lost. The shipwrecked persons who received
succor at the stations number SOS. The esti-
mated value of the vessels involved in these
disasters was S3,519, $50, and that Of their
cargoes 81, ,0S4, ,905 making the total value of
property imperilled $4,604, 455. OF this
amount 50, ,352, 100 was saved.
The total loss Of life within the scope Of the
service is the smallest ever reached since its
general extension, except in the year 1880,
when but nine were lost The assistance
rendered in saving vessels and cargoes during
the year was larger than in any previous
year, except the last preceding. The follow
ing statement gives a summary of the statis-
tics of the service, from the introduction of
the present system in 1871 to the close Of the
fiscal year. The loss of life as stated below
includes lS3 lost at the wrecks of the Huron
and Metropolis, which are really not charge
able to the service: Total number of disasters,
2,9lS; total value of property involved, ssh
763,6 ,694; total value of property saved, S36,-
217, ,929; total value of property lost, SIS, ,4S5,
765; total number of persons involved, ri. Job;
total number of persons saved, %, 236; total
number of persons lost, 45T; total number Of
persons succored at stations, 4,S29.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROFESSOR HUXLEY, the English scientist,
is incurably deaf.
TEE Princess Metternich is one Of the best
shots with a gun in Europe
The wife and son of ex-Secre tary Lincoln
are both in very poor health
GENERAL SHERIDAN also is said to intend
writing history Of the late war.
PROFESSOR AGAssIz is said to be tho
wealthiest Of American scientists.
GENERAL FREMONT il reported In poor
health and almost in abject poverty.
LORD SALISBURY and Mr. Gladstone do
not use tobacco. Both are very healthy men
GOVERNORS ANDREW AND LONG, Of Massa-
chusetts, were Sunday school superintendents
in early life.
LIEUTENANT ScAwATKA, of the United
States army, contemplates Polar expedi-
tion next year.
The Marquis Of Lorne, husband OK tho
Princess Louise, has applied for an improve
ment in bicycles.
CAssIUs NJ CLAY, though not far from
seventy-five, IS managing 2 large farm III
Kentucky and nearly as vigorous in mind
and body as he was in his prime
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico. and family
recently dined Off of locusts, under the inn
preston that they were a new species OF
crab They had been sent him as q curiosity
by friend in New Mexico
SENATOR HALE, when absent from Wash
ington devotes his time to improving the
grounds about the fine new house he has
built on q high hill at Ellsworth, Ne. 1t
is the finest private dwelling in Maine.
WILLIAM M. SCOTT, Of Erie, Penn, Is said
/ to be the richest man Of the next House Of
Representatives. His wealth is estimated at
$4,000, 900, invested in railroads, oil lands
coal mines, etc. He was page in the House
rvhap Wahetar CLAW and Calhoun yrern Sti II
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
NUMBER Is.
COST OF GRANTS FUNERAL.


Ane Snderfa a1er-s Rf1I Empatd-sOme
Items Of Expense.
Undertaken stephen Merritt Of New
York, was shown copies Of Western newspa-
pers containing statements that his bill fs
the funeral expenses or General Grant had
been refused payment by the war DEPART
ment accounting officers It is alleged ia
these dispatches that the total expenses for
the funeral amounted to S2s, O0O of which
$1,000 was charged for carriages Tie state
ment IS q Sd maize that an Objectionable item
in the funeral charges is the $50 asked for fba
carriage used by certain naval official Gem
eral Hancock is quoted as opposing The allow
ance Of these charges on the ground that
they are excessive Mr.. Merritt and his son.
who is partner in the firm, expressed an
noyance and surprise over the matter. ssOnr
Dill Is very moderate" they stated, sand
amounts to Ss4, ,l63. rs only. We don't know
where the other Sl4, 900 comes IN Our biii
includes all expenses at Mount Me-
Gregor, where we had five men working
day and night for sixteen days, railroad rare
up and down from New York, the cost of the
casket, the preparations of all kinds before
burial, the gloves and trimmings Of all con
cerned, the carriages, horses, and indeed
everything required for the burial occasion.
The largest charge for any one carriage was
$35 This was for President Cleveland. and
was drawn Dy SIX horses. the Nice-Presf-
dents carriage had four horses. and the
Others two each. No charge Of $50 for the
carriage Of a naval officer is in our bill.
and we made no item Of 6.OOO'
the largest item being $3.50
for more than 500 carriages This IL very
reasonable when it is considered that tie
New York owners Of carriages put up a
corner on US as soon as General Grant died.
It required much tact to do anything with
carriage owners, and we only broke the
corner prices by securing vehicles
from Brooklyn and Jersey City Even
owners out Of town put up prices.n Refer
ing to the statement Of opposition to his Bill
on the part Of General Hancock, Undertaken
Merritt said: II can scarcely believe il.
Why Colonel Hodges and General Perry.
commenting OF my bill when it was pre,
sented to them for auditing, said it was sur
prisingly moderate. The whole trouble or
iginates think, over the lack of money ii
the war department to the credit OF the con-
tingent fund out Of which the funeral ex-
penses must be paid.n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
Kamtsehatka.

The hills are covered with forests Of
fir, larch, cedar, birch; and in these are
found numerous wild animals, such as
the fur sable, the otter, foxes of all col
ors, and the bear, which latter, on &C
count of the great supply Of food, at
tacks neither man nor the domestic ami
mails. 1t is curious to note that the
squirrel, which is universal in Siberia, i s
not found here at all. Swans and wild
ducks are found in great quantities in the
lakes and marshes in the interior; and
their eggs, as well as the birds them
selves, are taken in great numbers by the
people. The fish, which throng the riv-
ers in enormous numbers in the summer,
form the principal food of the natives.
For the most part, they are salmon, and
are dried and stored up for the winter;
but owing to the scarcity and dearness
of salt, the fish frequently become rot
ten, and the people suffer great privation.
The rigor of winter is much softened
by warm ocean currents, which create
those thick continuous fogs that rem
dered the coast so dangerous to naviga-
ton. The total population of both sexes
is put down at only $500 souls; but
owing to the total absence Of agriculture
and to the primitive methods adopted
for preserving food for winter, these are
frequently in a state of semi-starvation.
For all except bare food, they have to
look abroad-clothes, utensils, tea, to-
bacco; and these they purchase by means
of their fur sable, which is unequaled in
any other part Of the world. About
5000 OF these skins are sold each year at
fifteen to twenty rubles each.
At the beginning of the present CEN
tury, cattle were introduced from r.
kutsk, and, owing to the excellent grass
and water, would have thriven we'll; but,
on account Of the lack Of industry or
energy on the part of the natives, it was
found impossible to lay in sufficient
stores Of fodder in winter. The question
whether agriculture is possible in the
peninsula has never been answered.
Markets exist in the ports Of Eastern
Siberia, which are at present supplied
with such articles as salt meat. butter,
cloth and hides from San Francisco.
The main obstacle to agriculture is
the extensively damp and constantly
foggy climate. The sun seldom shines,
and does not, therefore, give enough
warmth for the growth Of rye and wheat.
The trade is almost wholly with Cali
fornia; and, as there is little or no
money there. it is carried on by system
Of exchange, the natives Offering their
sable skins in return for such goods as
they require. Mature
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
THE WAR In THE EAST.
King Milan's Forces Driven Out oF
Bulgarian Territory.


Bulgarian Territory.
Dispatches from London give tie following
late particulars of the war between Servia
and Bulgaria:
The Seryians attacked the Bulgarian CEN
TIRE, but were repulsed, and retired in disor-,
der, crossing the frontier near Tzaribrod.
The Servians are now retiring from their
positions at Trn. The Bulgarians have adj
vanced to the frontier Widdin Il being
shelled by the SeTvians, but has not been
set on fire The Bulgarian commandant
there prohibited the passage of eight Aus
One of the saddest incidents of the present
struggle between Servia and Bulgaria is the
death OF General Jovanoyi5ch late com
mander of the Danube division Of the Servi-
an army, who has committed suicide by
shooting himself with revolver sooner than.
survive the disgrace caused by his dismissal
from the army. At the battle of SliTnitza
the general is said to have dis0beyed orders
IN advancing to the attack hence his mill
tary death and eventual suicide
Sofia, the dirty capital of Bulgaria il
wild with excitement over the news being
received from the front, and the unintef-
rupted succession of Bulgarian trinmphs lin
Sofia it is rumored that Prince Alexander. Of
Bulgaria, has followed up his victories
and is driving the Servians slowly
but surely from Bulgarian territory
The latest dispatch says that the prinUs
stormed the heights of Tzaribrod and occu-
pied the city, Alexander making triumphal
entry into the place and being received with
enthusiasm by the populace
dispatch rom Vienna to the London
Times says: Russia and England have in
duced tile Porte to dispatch a note to Servia
counselling King Milan to stop the war The
5srvian war accounts are unreliable. All
correspondents are excluded from the SerTian
lines except two Austrian correspondents,
whose dispatches are cooked
Later reports state that King Milan had
returned to Belgrade having accepted the
armistice proposed by the European powers,
and that the war was practically at an end.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03

its side, was beating the water into foam
in its death struggles. Now in circles
it swan about, vainly attempting the
grand leap it had first accomplished, but
finally these efforts ceased, and it drifted
upon the surface dead
The boat was about mile and half
from the shore, and passing the line
astern the lance was driven into the fish,
a second line fastened to it, and thus
harnessed the prize was taken in tow
and hauled toward the beach. It was
like towing twenty-ton schooner, hard
and slow work, consequently the prayers
OF the Mexicans were now changed to
invecrive as the devil fish moved slowly
toward the shore.
They're as tough a fish to tackle
any that swims in the Pacific" said the
skipper, wiping the brine from his eyes
with his sleeve, and dropping into the
stern sheets as if exhausted with his ef-
forts. "And, he continued, "this one
amt nothing to some. They're just like
people; some will take it easy and run
along, and die gentle jest as if they liked
it; again, others, not bit bigger, will
take boat under SO quick you won't
know where you are, and sometimes
jump right on to you, and when they do,
and hit, it's goodbye. Ten hundred
pounds of solid fish coming down on
hundred and sixty pounds of man aint
square deal, to put it mild. The truth
is the fish is so ugly and big it scares the
greasers half to death, and several divers
in the pearl fisheries down below here
have been hauled up dead, partly be-
cause they got demoralized and got
choked. But there amt any Citing
around it, sea bat is enough to scare
any one. They are very common down
on the pearl banks, and when one swims
over diver it looks like big bird"
During this conversation the Mexicans
had been pulling slowly toward the
beach, and finally it was reached, the
boat beached, and the lines attached to
the great fish passed ashore and seized
by the assembled crowd, who quickly
hauled it to the edge Of the surf Here
for the first time its enormous breadth
became apparent, the fish covering an
area that seemed incredible, and called
to mind the story Of Pontoppidan, the
old bishop Of Norway, who described
huge fish on his coast that was so broad
that when floating at the surface it was
taken by some sailors for an island, but
after alighting and building fire they
discovered their error. The bat6sh was
small edition of this tabled monster,
and might well have been the originator
Of the fable, as upon its broad back fifty
men might have stood at pinch.-Ne.0
York Times
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03

There are 35, 600 papers and other pc
ricdicals published in the world, Of
which the United States owns 1S, 494, on
about two-ffths. The New York Sun
discovers that $50 American newspapers
are called the News, 4S9 are called the
Times, 415 Journals, 406 Democrats, 297
Gazettes, 273 Republicans, 19s Enter
prises, 1870 Independents, $50 Tribunes,
ITO Records, III Couriers, 173 Senti-
nels, 149 Presses. 1877 Registers. 1873
Chronicles, 1876 Reporters, 10 Stars, III
Reviews, 10s Suns, 1O7 Leaders, 80 Ad-
vertisers, SO Argus, 80 Standards, so
Free Presses. SO Posts, IA Bulletins, 72
Expresses. n Banners, 20 Observers, 63
Unions, 81 Citizens. 80 Messengers. 81
Eagles, 53 Dispatches, 40 Advances, 49
Indexes, 40 transcripts. IA Mirrors, SO
Pioneers. 81 Commercials, 81 Globes, 35
Echos, 81 Watchmen, 27 Mercurys and
20 indicators.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
a LliEIa Misunderstandinn.

GIVE married amiss, said gentleman to
A lawyer whose aid he besought a.
"Ah, then, happy man, | congratulate you.
From your looks should never have guessed
it was true.
You had married a Miss; would sooner
have thought
You had welded tough and oft-married old
shrew.n
you don't understand me, the gentleman
said;
II mean that / married amiss:
That was mistaken tho day that I we'd
"Of coursel IT'S as plain as the hair on your
head
That you were Miss-taken the day that
the miss"
But before be could dstinish the gentleman fed
Chicugo Neacs
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03
DREAMLAND.
The moon is rising in silver mist,

The moon is rising in silver mist,
And in shadowy veil the bright stars gleam,
While in some fair isle Of the mystic realm
Spirits meet in happy dream.
No more divided by land or sea,
Broken the barriers that keep apart;
And true and sweet, unfettered and free,
Is the soul communion, heart to heart.
Listl through the ambient silence comes
The call of the white-robed angel, Sleep;
And softly she whispers, ''In dreamland fair
Some one is waiting Loves tryst to keep" !"
-CaLie Z Bonney, in the Folio.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03

Eight morning dailies are now pub
lished in the city Of New York. Boston
has five, and its population is less than d
third as large as New York's. New or
leans has four. and its population is 4
third less than that Of Boston.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-12-03

The first religious newspaper issued
was the Herald 0t' Gospel Liberty. which
was published BY Elias Smith, in Ports
mouth N. H, in 1908.