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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-30
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Store at the bridge on Main street, in
Happy Hollow" and get all kinds
of Goodies. Tropical Fruits Spe-
cially. BOYD Bros.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-30
Solid Foundation.

Long Legged Boots. Soft Boots,
Old Gents Easy Boots,and all kinds of
Boots and Shoes in all Styles for Men,
Ladies and Little Folks at
JORDAN IL ADAMS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-30

Itch and scratches of every kind
cured in 80 minutes by oolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Warranted by DR.
NJ. D. l.. jordan, druggist, Milan.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-30

An epitome ofeverything that is attractiy,
gnd desirable in Juvenile literature. -Bost 4
Courier.
A weekly feast of good things to the il
and girls n every family which it visit
Brooklyn Union.
1t is wonderful in its wealth of pictures, II,
formation and nterest.-Christian Advocate
n.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Unconsctous Counting.

1t has always formed part of the pro-
fcssional conjurer's education to acquire
the power of making instant mental
note of many objects. The author of an
ingenious article in the Gartenlau6e,
suggests the idea that the ability pos
sessed by most people, of distinguishing
from three to five objects at glance,
may be so perfected that the mind will
find it possible to take note of at least
thirty articles in the same length of
time.
Indeed, well-known arithmetician,
Dase, who died in 1861, declared that he
could count thirty objects of the same
kind as easily as other people could
count three or four.
The truth of this assertion was often
proved when the arithmetician, with
lightning rapidity, gave the correct
number of herd of sheep, of the books
in library, or the window-panes in a
large house.
Apart from the usefulness of this ac-
CURED power, the method of teaching it
may be found very amusing rs a game.
The test of ones ability in counting
may easily be made by placing several
small objects. such rs pins or coins, un-
der sheet of paper, then lifting the
paper so that one may glance ut the ar
ticles, and give an immediate guess as
to their number.
AT first the eye finds it possible to dis
tinguish only three or four objects, but
practice soon enables it to manage any
under ten with the same facility. Above
that number the process becomes more
difficult. Conscious counting should be
avoided; the articles should merely be
valued.
To perfect ones self in this practice,
black spots may be made, forming vari-
Gus geometrical figures, upon squares of
white cardboard, the number being
gradually increased, and the position
altered.
1t is also found advisable to open
book at random, cover part of the
page, and guess at the number of lines
left visible. Unconscious counting,
though difficult at first, thus becomes
purely mechanical
Herr Preyer, the advocate of the sys-
tenn, says the sensation of q person
practised in unconscious counting, when
looking attentively at large numbers of
objects, is that their number shoots rap
idly through the head. - Youths Conn
9ln71iO,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Making q Home.

AT a reception in Washington lately
q woman, famous in the last generation
fell under the discussion of coterie o.
her old friends. one of whom spoke ol
her wit and power of repartee, another
OF her broad, generous charity, third
OF her keen instinct in reading charac
tea
ITO me-" said General P. ''she
was most remarkable for her ability &c
make a home. Put her Gas have seen
done in the wesD in log cabin with
nothing but some wooden chairs, piece
of muslin, an open fire, and the odds
and ends which she had stored in her
trunk, and she would turn it in few
hours into charming dwelling-place.
OF all her gifts, that was to me the most
attractive and womanly."
An American who saw in his youth an
Englishwoman pre-eminent at that time
for her learning and genius, was ques-
toned as to his impression of her.
''She overwhelmed me with her know
ledge; her broad, liberal views and her
philanthropy opened new world to me-.
Yet the most distinct recollection have
of the visit is the torn and dirty table,
cloth, the greasy carpet, and the ashes
strewn halfway across the floor"
Carlyle, who had been used to coarse
surroundings in his early home, was
deeply impressed by the refinement, the
pretty "bits of plenishing," the gentle
hood, in the home of the woman he
afterwards married; and the most pa
thetic part of his wife's history is her
heroic effort to give this dainty charm to
the rough dwelling in which he placed
her.
There is no trait in the Englishman
stronger than his love of home. and
hence he is apt to value in woman the
quality of making Il home" above all
others. The sailors wife ''makes the
hearth Clean" to show her joy at his re-
turn. 1t is the 'household motions of
Wordsworth's ideal women that are
Eight and Free" and all Shakspeare's
lovable heroines are domestic women.
'Let me see your home, and | will
tell you what YOU are" the Russian
Paulovitch says to his countrywomen.
Our American girls, in their zeal for
music. art, or it may be authorship, are
sometimes apt to forget this They
leave the oversight and the details of
housekeeping to servants, forgetting
that the soiled tablccloth and greasy
carpet tell tales of character as loudly
and emphatically rs do neatness and
taste.
They forget, too, that while their pic
ture OF song or story may prove fail
urc, dainty, cheerful home is poem
which any woman may give to the
world, and one which all men can I'M
derstand and will certainly take to
heart. Youths Companion.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
"Chcstnuts."

Scene: Private dining-room at club.
A company of gentlemen dining. Mr..
", slightly garrulous party, loquitur,
triumphantly:
SHARP boy, my Bob; rather got even
with him yesterday, though. Guess he
found the old man quite sharp enough
for him. You see twas this way:
had been telling about that time when
the boat upset at Lake George and not
one of the six in it could swim but my
self, and at the point where / swan
ashore with Bob's mother 1--WE weren' t
married then) that young monkey re-
marks:
40, chestnut
Chestnut said l; what is thatp'
"lt means you've told it before; it's
an old story said Bob.
pretty soon, Bob passed up his plate
for more meat. Quick as flash
Chestnut said /.
"'What do you mean by thatp asked
the boy in surprise.
"1ts an old story; you passed your
plate for more meat yesterday
bob looked pretty streaked, and said
if I'd give him some meat he would
never say chestnut again. Rather
turned the tables on the young scamp,
ehP And then his mother said, with "a
smile:
"'You shouldn't notice those things,
Robert. only think of The gears I've
heard your father tell that storyr"
V somehow failed to appreciate
the laughter that greeted his story
Boston Record.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

cav, deah boy, it's immense-per-
fectly immense, l assure your said one
gilded youth to another, and in no
whispered tones, rs they slipped a small
bottle in an uptown restaurant last
evening. "Mrs. So-and-So has struck
the biggest racket yet-put q buffet into
the reception-room of her stall at the
Metropolitan. Tremendous card, 1 tell
you-with pretty maid to ask what
you'll have. Mrs. So-and-So (the casual
suppresses the name of well-known So
ciety lady, which the speaker blurted
QUIT isn't the prettiest sort, you know,
nor perhaps the cleverest at saying
things; but didn't she show genius in
providing the right sort of magnet
to attract the fellows, you knowp The
regular thing is to 60 10 the front and
pay your respects; then, us you pass out
again, you take your tipple. Prime stuff
and no license, dear boy. Come around
next opera night and I'll introduce you
to the daisiest thing in the weinhand-
lung line you ever saw."-New York
Graphic.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Handy with his Gun.

swell, now. you had better believe
have seen some lively times in Texas"
was the remark of General Henry Smith
to an Enquirer reporter yesterday. The
general went to Texas when but lad,
and has accumulated mint of money
in the cattle business. ''Yes, sir; mighty
lively times" he continued. "Why,
knew the time about Austin and San An
tonic when it seemed sorter lonesome
like if you did not hear several times a
day the crack of one of these here things
(referrilg to large Colt revolver that
he pulled from an inner pocket of his
great coat. You see l have one. We all
carry them out our way; got to do it,
you know. Now there was Ben Thomp-
son. OF course you have heard of Ben.
Had the reputation, you know, of hav-
ing made twenty-five or twenty-six diff
ferent men bite the dust. all in q legiti-
mate way, however-got the drop on
'em, and they never breathed after the
ball left his gun. He was killed about
three years ago, during fight in
theatre ut San Antonio, but several
men went with him before he gave up. y
Thompson was a great shot, wasn't
hep
"Umph! great shotP The greatest
l ever saw. He was dandy little fell
low, as strong as lion, and quick as q
flash of lightning. Why it would make
the heart of an average man sick to see
how readily he could get out his gun
and let it go. Pshaw! he'd pull his gun
and fire while any of these other people
would be thinking of getting theirs out.
And, say, none of them are slow Mt pull
ing a gun and shooting!'
''Did you ever witness any of his bat
tlesP asked the reporter.
Several. | remember one time that
three fellows came down to San An
tonic from FL Paso. They were as tough
as they make them, and had not been
in town three hours until one of the
men had killed good man. They had
heard of Ben, and wanted to find him.
Ben also heard of them, and thought he
would have little fun at their expense.
What do you think he did, Why, he
Just went home, dressed himself up for
all the world like q dude, with yellow
kid gloves, and carried natty gold
headed cane. sportod dude glass in
one eye. Then he went to one of the
great public resorts and waited for his
men. He did not have to linger very
long. Just as he was leaning over the
bar, slipping claret punch, in the mir
ror in front of him, he saw the three
men entering the saloon. He affected
the affairs of n dude more than ever,
and in moment they were on to him.
One of them gave him u tremendous
whack on the back, and another pulling
his revolver, ordered Thompson 10
dance. Quick rs q flash Thompson
turned about, with gun in each hand,
and in a jiffy the three men were lying
upon the floor dead.
"Was he arrested?"
''Oh, no. They couldn't spare the
time to arrest that man. Later that
evening he strolled into another saloon.
AS he entered the saloon he saw an old
enemy in front of him. He saw the
man going for his gun, and ut the in
slant in the mirror saw another enemy
behind him who was also going for his
gun. He killed both of these fellows
and was uninjured himself These are
just few samples, yon know."-Cin-
cinnaS Enquirer.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Wonders of the Sea.

The sea occupies three-fifths of the
surface of the earth. AT the depth of
about $500 feet. waves are not felt.
The temperature is the same, varying
only tritle from the ice of the pole to
the burning sun of the equator. A mile
down, the water has Il pressure of over
a ton to the square inch. If box six
feet deep were filed with sea water and
allowed to cvaporate under the sun,
there would be two inches of salt left on
the bottom. Taking the average depth
of the ocean to be three miles, there
would be n layer of pure salt 230 feet
thick on the bed of the Atlantic. ~The
water is colder at the bottom than at
the surface. In the many bays on the
coast of Norway, the water often freezes
at tue bottom before it does above.
Waves are deceptive. To look at
them in q storm, one would think the
water travelled. The water stays in the
same place, but the motion goes on.
Sometimes in storms these waves are
forty feet high, and travel fifty miles an
hour-more than twice as fast as the
swiftest steamer. The distance from
valley to valley is generally fifteen
high will extend over seventy-five feet of
water. The force of the sea dashing on
Bell Rock is said to be seventeen tons
for each square yard. Evaporation is q
wonderful power in drawing the water
from the sea. Every year a layer of the
entire sea fourteen feet is taken up into
the clouds. The winds bear their bur-
den into the land, and the water comes
down in rain upon the fields, to flow
back at last through rivers. The depth
of the sea presents an interesting prob
lem. If the Atlantic were lowered
1864 feet, the distance from shore to
shore would be half rs great, or 1000
miles. If lowered little more than
three miles, say 1860 feet, there would
be road of dry land from Newfound-
land to Ireland. This is the plain on
which the great Atlantic cables were
laid. The Mediterranean is compare
lively shallow. A drying up of 600 feet
would leave three different seas, and
Africa would be joined with Italy. The
British Channel is more like pond,
which accounts for its choppy waves.
1t has been found difficult to get cor
rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid
shipman of the navy ovcrcame the diff
ficulty, and shot weighing thirty pounds
carries down the line. A hole is bored
through the sinker, through which a
rod of iron is passed, moving easily
back and forth. In the end of the bar
cup is dug out, and the inside coated
with lard. The bar is made fast to the
line, and q sling holds the shot on.
When the bar, which extends below the
ball, touches the earth, the sling UNI
hooks and the shot slides of. The lard
in the end of the bar holds some of the
sand, or whatever may be at the bottom,
and drop shuts over the cup to keep
the water from washing the sand out.
When the ground is reached, shock is
felt as If an electric current has passed
through the line. Electrical Recic,o.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
College Education.

The discussion over the election of a.
president for Yale college to succeed
President Porter who has resigned, has
given tho alumni of that college an OPP
portunity to urge the election of q presi-
dent, who will take broad and practi-
cal view of education in that institution.
The fact is that too many OF Our col
leges educate our sons so that they turn
out nobOdies. Even the valedictorians
cannot make good living. And if o
boys education does not fit him for the
practical duties of life, what on earth is
it good forp
The world asks a young man what he
can do, not what he knows. Workers
are demanded, not Greek and Latin
speaking parrots. And when it comes
to earning his bread and butter by do
ing something that the world wants
done enough to pay for it, the college
boy is too often confronted by the start
ling fact that his Greek and Latin and
higher mathematics are not the slight
est help to him in either securing q sit
uation or making living. If he had
learned German, or French, or engineer
ing, or surveying, or mining, or bank
ing, or indeed any mechanical pursuit,
he would stand some show to get on in
the world.
AS he walks the streets of the busy
city this college graduate, wondering
what he can do, and knowing that he
can do nothing that other young men
are doing who nave educated them
selves in the worlds practical school, he
comes to the conclusion that somehow
he was educated for-quitc another world
than the one he is to live in and strug-
gle in. not only for success, but oftener
for living. No wonder, after the bit
ter experience of educating himself in
all that has made his success in after
years possible that this same young
man, now grown to manhood, looks
back at his college education, as much
Us he can recollect of it, rs the poorest
kind of education for practical life he
could have had. 1t was the education
fit, perhaps, for drone in the worlds
hive, but not that education certainly
with which to equip man who is to
strive in the great struggle of the sur
vival of the tittest." 1t is such college
graduates-and the country is full of
them, more unsuccessful, too, than sue
cessful-who look back upon their col
lege education rs four years studiously
spent in fitting themselves for nothing
practical in this work-a-day world
Philadelphia Call.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
She Didn't Know She Was s;nubbcd

Speaking of Senator Voorhees,, says u
Washington correspondent, recalls u
story of the Senator's daughter which l
heard Yesterday and which well illus
trates the snobbiness and emptiness of
the young beaux of Washington society.
You will find nowhere in the country,
and perhaps in the world, q brighter
society of old and middle-aged men
than here at Washington. The young
beaux, however, made up largely of
young army officers and rich, pampered
statesmen's sons, are, as n rule, of the
silly dude order who have hardly
enough sense to 60 in when it rains,
and with whom position means every
thing. They think that the whole of
life is going to germans and receptions,
and they snub those below them and
toady those above them in social rank.
Senator Voorhees, daughter is very
bright girl, somewhat beautiful, and not
toned to going much in this young So
ciety, and the other night, when she at
tended one of their germans, she was
comparatively n stranger. The day
following she received u call from u
young Lieutenant she had met at. the
dance, who said with q shipper as he
met her: ''Nliss Voorhees,, / have called
to apologize in that | did not pay more
attention to you at the dance last night.
But WEAKLY did not know, you know,
that you were Senator Voorhees, daugh-
ter"
II was not aware" said Miss VOor>
hees, 'that was especially sighted"
"Ah! but you know, Miss VOORHEES,, it
makes great difference in our society
who you are, you know; and had we
known you were Senator Voorhees,
daughter, you would have gotten, you
know, great many more fayors at the
german, don't you know! But / know
you now, Miss Voorhees,, and will see
that Senator Voorhees, daughter gets
more favors in the future. hope you
will pardon us, but you know we didn't
know you, we really did not"
doubt not if the young Lieutenant
had appreciated what Miss voorhees,
thought of his silly toadyism he would
nave gone away more disguised than
pleased.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

Mrs. Senator Stanford recently re-
ceived letter from Chicago woman
saying that as Mrs. Stanford was now
in mourning she could not make bet
ter use of her ball-drcsses and gowns of
similar description than by sending
them to the writer II belong" she
continued, ito the gcnteelly poor class
who are compelled to present an APP
pearance out of all proportion to their
limited incomes. BY complying even
partially with my request you will
oblige.'
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Story About the Oat Meal King.

"Yes, know Schumacher, the oat
meal king who recently lost his big
mills by fire. said the Ohio passenger,
"and am odder little man you never
saw. He's n German, of course, about
sixty years old, about as big as grass
hopper and just as lively, talks Dutchy
and writes the most vigorous English,
hates whisky and beer as he does liar
and works sixteen hours q day. He
came to this country as poor as a
church mouse, started little grocery
and beer saloon, run that awhile and
then began making oat meal by hand
mill in his wood-shed. Finally he sold
his saloon, peddled oat meal and
farina from hand-cart, which he
wheeled about town himself, and in
thirty years built up the largest factory
of that kind in the world. He won't
hire q man in any capacity who drinks
whisky or even beer, and has about him
several hundred employees, who are
mostly Germans, and, strange to say,
jealous prohibitionists like himself. He
once brought over from Germany a
workman who was master of new pro-
cess. This man came under II two
years contract at large salary, his ex.
penses being guaranteed. The second
day after he began work Schumacher
learned that he was beer-drinker. In
two hours the workman left the mills,
never to return. and with check for
nearly five thousand dollars in his
pocket This was the price Schumacher
had paid for unfolding his principles
and enforcing bis rules to the very
letter. " Chicago Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

A chemist has discovered an extract
from coal tar 230 times sweeter than SUI
gar.
An item having appeared in a New
York paper to the effect that Mr.. S. s.
Cox, United States minister at Constan-
tinople, had come into possession of a
lot of Arabian horses at the expense of
the government, Mr.. Cox writes to brand
the story as an Oriental romance
worthy, he says, of the Oriental story
teller whose horse rose into the air by
turning button on his shoulder.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

An American lady writing home from
Toxic, Japan, says: The other day, on
one of my rare visits to the kitchen. a
hairpin became loosened and dropped
without my notice. had been seated
in my own room only few moments
when my houseman entered, bearing q
small salver, which he presented TO me
with many genuflections. Fancy my
surprise to see little hairpin upon it,
and to learn from my proud but en-
barrassed servitor that 1t had fallen to
the kitchen floor from my head. After
ward | found there had been a discus
sion as to who should pick it up, and
almost II quarrel us to whom belonged
the inestimablc honor of bearing it TO
its owner.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

The newest Paris sport is snail racing.
The race course is smooth board, at
the end of which is lighted candle, to-
ward which the snails begin to creep
when the room is darkened. There ar Q
miniature hurdles on the course and a
river, and the famous racing snails are
handicapped with pellets Of clay.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02

All Trains DaiiyeScept sunday.
FRED. NJ. BRIGGS, Station Agert Owosso
o W RUGoLEs, G. =. & T. A.. Chicago,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-02
Toledo, Ann ArbOr & North Michigan Rd
NORTHERN DIVISION.

Do All trains run by Central Standard Time
ES-All trains run daily except Sundays.
III. w. ASHLEY, GenI Sup't.
w. III. BENNETT, GenT Pass. Ag't.