The Osceola times., 1873-10-11
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.


that attracts us 10 the next world
pnd the old man lives amQng
graves.
The first ingredient in coHvcrsa
,ion is truth, the next good sense,
The third good humor, and the
fourth wit. G.
The Grand Jury Of BaIhmare
tas presented as gGisanfe9 all pest,
present, and future NOCTURNAL
political processians,
Donyer has new hatcl with
hnllet-proof walls, You can sit in
perfect security and listen to the
shooting in the next room.
\ dispatch from IIavre annopDccs
the death, near tha, city, Of the
Duke de Rianzarcs, the husband of
cx-Queen Christine Of Spain.
Siam is an ungallant country.
There the first wife may be divorced
ard after that every wife may be
sold tor cash or for yellow dog.
Ifa man named William marry,
why is he pretty certain to be
honpecked? Because his wife will
always have Will Of her own.
1t should seem that Incidence
itself would incline n person to be
honest, rs il requires infinitely
greater psi9s and continuance to
be Il kraYc.
Miss Margaret Bennett, sister
of the late James f.ordcn Bonnet,
of the New York Herald, died
recently at llunlly, in Scotland, in
ihe eightieth year OF her age.
Again Rev, Mr.. Murray quotes
the conundrnm, "Wby 40 clergy
men speak i'll Of each other%
Therefore again tho witty answer
of one of the tribe, I" Because they
arc the black-guards OF tho Gbgrch,
to be sure"
An Irish paper concludes biog-
raphy of Robespicrrc with the fol
lowing sentence: "This oxtraor-
.dinary man left no children except
his brother, who was killed at the
same time"
"Frcd," said young man, walk
ing up Cortlandt Street the other
day, qfler listening to his wonder
fm story, "do you know why you
are like a harp struck by light
ning?' "No," says Fred; 81 give
it up "Bccausc harp struck by
lightning is blasted yre,'
An Illinois editor who was en-
joying himself at San Francisco
when Horace +. Clark stopped |
issuing passes over the u. p. Il. r.,
writes to his wife he is walking
home for his iixey's sake, and will
arrive in ths fail or carly spring.
A Cleveland copper speculator
fell asleep in church, from which
hc was awakened by the pastors
reading, "'Surely there is a vein for
silver and a place for gold, where
they find it," Jumping to his feet
he shook his book at the minister,
crying, "III take five hnndred
shares"
Busy not thyself in searching
into other mems lives; the errors
of thine own are more than thou |
cans't answer for. 1t more con-
Germs thee to mend one fault IN
thyseif, than to find out thousand |
an othGss.
A billiard tournament, at which |
prizes to the amount of $1,000 will |
be awarded, has been arranged to
commence at Chicago on the first |
of November next, under the man |
agement ofTom Foley. -
Tho captain Of n San Francisco
steamboat is exceedingly popular
with the ladies because he always
puts back to his wharf if by the aid
of n powerful fieid-glass he can dis
Germ female who has arrived half
an hour after the starting time.
Eight hundred and thirteen
lepers are now collected in the lepcr
hospital at Molollai, Sandwich Is
lands. Physicians think there may
be fifty more cases scattered on the
different Islands /; but tie disease is
now considered to be under the
control of the authorities, and it is
hoped that by vigilance it viii soon
be entirely eradieated. Leprosy
has been prevailing extensively for
the last few years in the Islands,
and one of the first efforts of the
present administration, was to en-
,deavor to check it by compelling
every person tainted with it to re-
move to Molokai. 81
DTrc Thar, .,