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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
WAGES IN 1900.
= me When Mel Could De Hired for
Six Dollars a Month.

= me When Mel Could De Hired for
Six Dollars Month.
In McMaster's History we are told
workmen were paid at tho beginning of
this century: On the Pennsylvania canals
the diggers ate the coarest diet, were
housed in the rudest sheds, and paid So
a month from May to November, and
s. month from November to May. Hold
carriers and mortar mixers, diggers and
choppers, who, from 1898 to 1900, la.
tbored on the public buildings and cut
the streets and avenues of Washington
City, received $40 year, or, if they
wished, $50 for all the work they could
perfOrm from March to December 20.
The hours of work were invariably from
sunrise to sunset. Wages at Albany and
New York were three shillings, or, as
pnoneY went, forty cents per day; at
Lancaster So to $40 a month; elsewhere
IN Pennsylvania workmen were content
with Sc in summer and So in winter.
AZ Baltimore men were glad to be hired
at eighteen pence a day. None, by the
month, asked more than Sc. At Fred
cricksburg the price of labor was about
- to 81. In Virginia white men, en-
ployed by the year, were given SIG cur
Fcncy; slaves, when hired, were clothed,
and their masters paid 81 per month. A
pound of Virginia money was, in Fed
cral money, 1888 The average rate
Of wages the land over was, therefore,
$50 a year, with food and perhaps
lodging. Out of this small sum the
workman must, with his wife's help,
maintain the family, But then the cost
of living was vastly less, and the habit:
of people generally infinitely cheaper.
There were no art or bric-a-brac crazes.
chronological Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY.

If were only fairy-well!
'Twould take me ever so long to tell
OF all the beautiful things i d do
For every body | loved, or knew;
For I'd have IA wonderful wand OF god,
Like fairies carried in days of old.
= Mother should have u house ms grand
AS any you see i'm all the land;
A cap of lace and Il velvet gown,
And a carriage to ride about the town;
She never should do thing ali day
But hold her hands like n lady gay;
And all this tiresome, tiresome work,
Which every day am glad to shirk
Would just be done-wouldn't that be finel
The minute l waved that wand of mine!
That's what I'd ike to do, but oh,
I'm only II bit of Il girl, GU know!
Working away at homely things,
And not fairy with shining wings.
] haven't a wand; and If had,
Perhaps the fairies would think 1t sad,
If they had a chance to look and see
What fearfully lazy girl d be.
" But have two nimbe hands, that know
How to knit and to mend aud sew,
How to cook and to dust and sweep
Come, and I'll let YOU take a peep.
So | II hurry and do my very best
While mother sits by the fire ut rest
And she VIII think, If she does not say,
One little fairys alive today
And for every thing that girl should do,
Can wave, not one little wand, but two
Sidney DdUre, IN Youth Companion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
ROTATION OF CROPS.
One of the Most Important Questions Rela.
tive to Farm Work.

tive to Farm Work.
A subscriber asks us for information
about rotation of crops. This is one of
the most important questions relating to
farm work, and deserves especial con-
sideration. 1t has long been considered
as indispensable to good and successful
farming and there is no reason to sup
pose under the light of all the later
knowledge derived from experiment and
study, as well as improved practice,
that the old farmers were mistaken.
The old practice was to follow grain
with a grass crop or with one which re-
quired frequent cultivation of the soil
This was so firmly established that
among the English farmers whose crops
on the average have more than doubled
ours, every tenant was bound by his
lease to conform to it, and never to fol-
low a grain crop with another one Of
the same kind. The reason for this was
and is that the growth of consecutive
crops of the same kind rapidly exhausts
the soil, or encourages the growth OF
weeds 1t is found in the natural
growth of plants and forests that Ger.
tain growth is generally succeeded
after it has attained its maturity-by
different kind ofvegetation; for instance,
when pine forest has been cut off, or
has been destroyed by fire, hard woods
succeed it, or when oaks or other hard
woods have been cut off, pines grow in
their place. The old fields of the South
are standing example of this,
and the 'old field pine" covers the
abandoned land from which a
hardwood forest was cut off, to make
room for tobacco and cotton. The eX-
plantation of this fact is, that hard
woods are rich of potash, and taking a
large quantity of this element from the
soil, leaves the land deficient in it, and
unable to produce another growth OF
hard woods, but as pine is rich in ST.
lca, and poor of potash, the soil OK
hausted of potash, and having an
abundance of silica, produces the pine
with ease, when it could not produce
oaks, hickories and other hard woods
The same principle applies to farm
crops. and hence wheat is followed by
Grass and clover, and these with corn
and corn with oats or barley; and theI
the land is MANFRED, and wheat i
grown again, In practice, we thinl
this rotation is too short, and would b.
greatly improved by root crop afte
corn, and oats and barley after tn
roots, with clover following, and tn
second years clover plowed in TO
wheat, with which grass is sown, wit
clover added in the spring. But this
too, might be improved, perhaps, b
sowing the grass and clover by them
selves in the spring, and not with tn
wheat, or early in the fall, as soon a
wheat is removed, thus permitting tn
soil to be thoroughly prepared for tn
grass seeding, b. which its success
greatly enoOuraged.-An'ertcaH Agr
eUltlLTiSt
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10

BY the new process of toughsnfng
timber it is claimed that the effect pro-
6uced upon wildwood is such that a
cold chisel is required IN order 10 split
it. This result is accomplished by a
special method of stesming the timber
and subm:ttingit to end pressure, tech
nically ''upsetting it." BY this means
the cells and tibers are compressed into
one ccmpact mass; and it is the opin-
ion OF those who have experimental
with the process that wood can be
compressed to the extent OF some sew
enty-ive per cent, and that some of
the timber now considered unfit for
use in such work as carriage building,
for instance, can be made valuable by
this means as substitute for ash, hick-
DRY, etc.-BOStOn Globe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10

"A boy of five years, the son of
clergyman, had behaved rudely in COM
}pany, and so when visitors filed into
, the dining room, he found there was no
place for him at the regular table. His
plate and knife and fork were at the
side table; and thither the boy was BAN
ished. No sooner was he seated in his
high chair than he bowed his head,
claSped his hands, and said in solemn
tones: ''Oh. Lord, thank Thee that
Thou hast prepared table for me in
the presence of mine enemies! Chris
ESaa Union.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10

The experience of fruit growers all
goes to show that it is unwise toTule
ones conduct by exceptional circum-
stances. The Florida orange growers
who loose crop of fruit and perhaps
years growth of their trees can not af-
ford to throw away their orchards (and
the same remark applies to peach and
small fruit Ct Jwers) because of an oc-
casional disaster. The evil must be
taken with the good, and sort Of self
insurance system should be established
to cover losses in certain years. The
example of the seven years of plenty
followed by seven years of famine re-
corded in ancient history should be fol.
bowed in these cases.-N Y. Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10

An enterprising New York caterer
at recent dinner had placed opposite
each cover statuette 80 modelled as
to caricature each guest, his tastes, hob.
bies, and characteristics, yet preserving
his likeness so correctly as to be recOg-
nized at a glance.-M. Y. Mail.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10

"A few nights ago a Newport man
desiring to look through his new house,
stumbled into mortar-bed, which was
full of soft mortar, and after he got
out you never saw such q mortarfed
man as he was.-KeRtWckV State Jour
nal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
A Nervous Duelist.

The second duel caused by the publica-
ton of the book, ''La France Juive," has
just taken place at Saint Cloud. The
following is the official process verbal of
the encounter:
At the first engagement, NJ. Drumont
having attacked his adversary with great
vivacity, close followed in which the
seconds, Notwithstanding their agreement
not to interfere, were obliged to do so, in
consequence of an involuntary movement
in which the left hand of M. Meyer touch
ed the sword of M. Drumont. Then, after
the regret expressed by M. Meyer, and up
on the demand of M. Drumont, the COM
batants were again put in position. The
combat was resumed with the same vi
vacity, and resulted, as in the first en-
gagement, in close, which lasted half a
minute, and in which the seconds were
once more obliged to Interfere, the left
hand of M. Meyer having again fallen up
on the sword of M. Drumont, almost at
the same time that the latter received a
deep wound on the left thigh. The COM
bat then ended, and Meyer approached
the seconds of Drumont and expressed to
them his regards and offered his excuses
for the involuntary movements which
his nerves could not master.
Since the plague never surrenders it's
rights in Paris, this nervous accident has
produced many jokes, and here is one we
find in the Pays:
''Why did Myer use his left hand? Be-
cause as an Israelite, he wished to protest
against the precept of the gospel, Let not
thy left hand know what thy right hand
piyeth'."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27

jollification, and away to sea the next day
for a voyage around the Horn with the
suit he stands and ragged suit of Oil
skins"
swell, take the average sailor, and give
me an inventory of the contents of his
chest"
II think will tell you what we found
in the chest of one of our men who diesE-
last voyage; it would hit the mark, per-
haps. We had been struck by squat off
Hatteras, and had had hard work to get
the muslin off the ship before the gale
which quickly followed, hove Us to under
close-reefed maintopsail. As the men lay
down from aloft one of them was pitched
headlong overheard by the parting of
ratlln, and he was astern and swallowed
up by the angry waves before any effort
could be made to save him. As is the Gus
tom, his chest was brought aft, opened
ana an inventory made of his effects, that
might be forwarded to his friends. In
addition to the heavy clothes for bad
weather and the light ones for use under
sunny skies, were found many little pres
ents which the dead man had picked up
and was taking to his friends at home.
There were dress pattern of rich China
silks, pretty toilet boxes and bits of fancy
carving. Each was wrapped up and the
address of the intended recipient written
upon it. From letters which were found
IN the till of Jacks chest we learned that
he hailed from an inland town of Penn
sylvania, and the gifts were intended for
mother and sisters there, who will have
to wait long for the return of their sailor
bow"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
MISS FOLsOM'S BRIDAL DRESS.
What the Presidents Brid-Elect VIII Wear
at the Wedding.

What the Presidents Brid-Elect viii Wear
at the Wedding.
Philadelphia Press: The forthcoming
social event of concentrated interest Is
the wedding of President Cleveland.
am able to give, on the word of Apnes
Folsom, the brides cousin. who is an
opera singer in this city, description of
the wedding dress, which in the estima-
tlOn of feminine readers will he of more
consequence than aught else connected
Before Frances went abroad" saws
Miss Agnes, 'she visited me in New York.
and at her request [ gave her the address
OF an expert dressmaker in Paris--one
who had made some costumes for sew
eral American actresses and singers.
She didn't wish to go to Worth or Pin
gat or any other of the more renowned
designers. Well, in a late letter she in
formed me that she had gone to the man
recommended, that he had taken the
commission to provide the trousseau, and
that the bridal robe was nearly done. Of
course the stuff in white satin, and it is
exceptionally heavy and fine-not as
lustrous as the average, and quite pliable
DecOllet? No, indeed. Modest brides
nowadays don't expose their necks or
arms. The make of it is like this" and
Miss Folsom drew a sketch of the impor-
tant garment 1t was a shapeIy and
rather quite thing, according to this
picture, snug and smooth as to bodice,
open in a triangular bit at the neck, with
sleeves trifie puffy at the shoulders and
a train of moderate length.
''The trimming that runs around the
waist across the drapery in front and
among the train" my informant contin-
ued, sis exquisite old point lace given to
Frances by her grandmother, who wore
it almost half century ago. The lace
forms an establishment of the costume
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
FOREVER YOUNG.
BELGRAVIA.

The wild world hastens on IFS way;
The gray haired century nears its close;
Is sorrow deepens day by day:
The summer blush forSakes th e rose
But, darling, while your voice / rear,
Aud while your dark-browia eyes / zee,
Sad months and sunless season drear,
Are all the same all glad TO me,
Despair can never reach me
While your soft han / hold:
While your eyes love aud teach me
| never shall grow Old
They say that love forsakes tine old;
That passion fades aud pales away;
That even loves bright locks of gold
Must lose their charm and change to gray;
But. darling, while your heart is mine,
And while feel that you are true
For me the skies will ever shine
While summer light and teaderest blue.
Yes, let old age deride NE;
| scorn his knocking tongue.
Dear love. with you beside me,
am forever young.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
Likely to Go to the Bottom.
Kentucky State Journal.


The following is curiou circumstance
of last summer:
A boat ascending the Ohio river was
hailed by another boat when the follow
ing conversation ensued:
.'What boat is that?'
''The Cherrystone.''
whence came you?'
''From Redstone."
"Where are you bound tor
'Limestone.'
'Who is your captain?"
Thomas Stone'
What are you loaded With"
"Millstones."
'sYou are a hard set altogether; take
care you don't go to the bottom. Good
bye"
The New Haven Herald, IN announcing
a performance recently, added this re-
quest: .sThe ladies who may be present
will confer favor by sitting without
their bonnets."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
Contents of a Sailors Chest.
New York Mail and Express.

''What is a sailors kit for long voy-
age?" repeated weather-beaten old tar
recently. as he munched piece of old
navy and gazed refectively into his glass
of grog in a Front street saloon. ''Why,
as for that matter, no two are alike. One
will so to sea with nice outfit of long
togs for nights ashore, and a sea rig large
enough to start a secondhand clothing
store on South street; and another will
fire all his Doodle away at one nights
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
The Dumrly-Key Trick.

An ingenious scheme has been invented
by congressman which he is studiously
trying to keep to himself, which has so
far worked to charm. He calls it ''the
dummy-key racket" This congressman
is a very popular fellow, and lives at one
of the large hotels here. He found that
his room had become the headquarters
of a crowd of his friends, who were US
ing it after a free-and-easy fashion of
clubhouse. He didn't like to say anything
about it, but he saw plainly that some
thing must be done and done quickly.
Being of an observant turn of mind he
noticed that visitors inquiring afer board
ers in the hotel looked at the key boxes
back of the clerks desk. If the key was
gone it was tolerably certain that the man
had taken it to open his door and was
probably in. On the other hand, if the
key was in the box of course the boarder
was out. This fact gave the congressman
a very enlarged idea. He know that if his
friends saw the key there they would think
he was away, and therefore would not
come up stairs, so he had a dummy key"
made, which is always in his box except
very late at night when the clerk ;remOv-
es it, only to replace it in the box early in
the morning. The scheme has worked to
a charm, and the congressman only hopes
he can keep it secret until the end of
tha present session
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27
George had a Great Head.
YonkerS Statesman .

Tact is the lubricant that makes sliding
down the baluster of life easy.
She had two adorers, and, as is usual,
halted between two opinions. Henry
loved her well, but Georges head was the
longer, as the sequel shows.
Speaking of memories" cried Lucille,
':why, 1 can remember when I used to
play with dolls and make mud pies in the
Iane.''
'sWhat memory" exclaimed foolish
Henry.
''Pshaw! Wonderful to recall that which
occurred so few years ago?" spoke George
of the long head.
The next time Henry spoke to her she
snubbed him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27

Danville, Pa, is to have a fine public
library and gymnasium, costing 100000,
the gift of Thomas Beaver, uncle of Gen
eral Beaver.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27

Mrs. Lew, age Is years, of Columbus, o.,
is the heroine of two marriages. She was
first married when but IA years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-27

A story long current in France under
the last empire has been revived by the
institution of a suit by young lady from
Corsica against the ex-Empress Eugenie.
AS the tale ran, it was alleged that the late
Prince Imperial was not the son of
Eugene, but the offspring of favorite
of Napoleon, who willingly exchanged
her son for the daughter that was born to
the Empress. The babies once mixed"
in this fashion, the persons who were
privy to the facts kept them religiously,
but the gossips obtained their information
in some unknown way, as gossips do, and
the legend has been cherished ever since,
in spite of repeated denials.
Since her retirement III England Eugene
has been pestered by young woman of
rare beauty, whom many people declare
bears a striking resemblance to the En-
press, with petitions to recognize her as
her daughter. Refusing to give any Gre
dence to the story that has long been IA
miliar to her. Eugene has now been made
defendant in suit brought by the claim
ant with view to establishing her par
entage and securing her rights as an heir.
Just what foundation the ancient romance
has is likely to be demonstrated before
the legal hearing has been ended.
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