The Osceola times., 1873-07-12
Brevities.

lever IN IOnuOut tfaccu SNciy s"sS
10 the use Of impure water. 4
During 1872 the Lake Cham
plain iron mines yielded $4,000
tons Of ore l,47f tons were ex
tracted from the Missouri iron
Mountain, and over one million
Tons were mined in the Lake Supe-
flor iron region.
"A Yankee soldier telling his
mother of the terrific fire at Chick
amauga, was asked BY her why he
did not get behind tree. "Tree P'
said he, "there wasn't trees enough
Tor the officers" "
=" Daddy" Cain, South Caroli-
ma Congressman-ht-large, in the
full enjoyment of his 81 800 salary,
paid monthly (s625) in advance of
any services, is now travelling north
and was last heard from at Cincin-
natl.
What blessing these Postal
cards will be Iftheir utility bears
any proportion to their ugliness |!
The colors are most dismal, and the
execution would be a disgrace to
u abackwoods printing-oflicc.
"A country paper takes occasion
to remark that the United States is
now at peace with all tho world ex-
cept the Modocs and the organ
grinders. BY and by all will be
quiet in the Lava beds; but who
can predict the end of that irreprcs-
sible conflict between the fearful cit
izen and that willy, omnipresent foe
that peripathctic organ-grinder.
81 say boy" cried Paul Pry
TO an excavator whom he espied at
the end of yawning gulf, "what
are you digging there "a big
hole the old boy replied. Paul was
not to be put off in this fashion.
What arc you going to do with
the hole ?" he asked. "Going to
cut it mp into small holes" rejoin-
ed the old boy, "and retail them TO
farmers for gate-posts."
Tho deputy keeper of the pub
JIG records in England has been
investigating the date of Il manu-
script ofthe Athanasian Creed, in
Greek, which is preserved in St.
Mark library, Venice, of which a
Photograph has been recently TAX
bn. He concludes that the date of
The manuscript, which is earlier
than that of any other existing
manuscript of the creed, may be
assigned to the close Of the sixth
century. - %
Tho editor of the Record, an
Arizona paper, has now on his Ia
bic two invitations to act rs second
in duel, an invite to an Indian
hunting raid, pair of bcarskin
pants presented by "A hunter, three
pound nugget of silver, free pass
On a stage rout, two lottery tick
cts, three Apapha scalps, a call to
act as postmaster and Justice of the
peace, and twenty.sevcn dollars
worth ffaro checks. " ''''''
"A papyrus discovered few
months ago in an Egyptian tomb
has been deciphered, and found to
contain an account of the exodus of
the Jews from Egypt in the time of
RaMeses III. 1t is in The form ofa
proclamation, addressed "to his
people and all men on earth"
Other interesting discoveries of in
scribcd tablets in two languages,
containing a collection ofproverbs,
have recently been unearthcd in
Assyria by tho expidition sent
thlther by the London Daily Tel.
egraph. : 80
Tho city of London has q
population Of four millions Of pco.
pie, and is the largest in the world;
but the real city has only $4,000
souls, and its territory is not one.
fifth the size of Buffalo. All the
glory, pomp and dignity Of the city
centers in the lord mayor. Chosen
annually from the list of aldermen
he has a salary equal to that OF
President Grant, and has, in effect
for more than a century enjoyed
more privileges than tho soyorigr
Of England. "''''S
The Lexington, Virginia Ga.
zette thinks Gen. Wise is tagging
because his last cpistle fills only
three and q half columns of the En-
q~irer, whereas the Sandiord letter
written in his prime, absorbed
fifty six newspaper columns. Whc
could have preIicted, asks tho Ga
zette, that the artist of q African
uncomlincss-the author of" Fbo
shin and Gizzard Foot" would cv
erplead for the place of picking
the tune in corn shucking cam
paign, would beg for the honor O
/. running a race in the old Dominion
with his sOofv s.vnof,- ond sohpto,