The Osceola times., 1875-12-11
FR0n ALL SOURCES.

tween New York and Chicago than on an
other route in the United States.
The effort to build a monument 3
Horace Greeley has proved an utter failur,
aad there Is talk Of returning the none
contributed.
There Il bullfrog farm in South
eastern Wisconsin, thirty acres fenced in
and - proprietor sends thousands Of thes
fse>herless birds to New York.
Stanley writes that the last African
king he met had but three hundred wives
In Africa king with but three hundred
wives Is looked upon by the girls as almost
widower.
There were over 300, 900. 900 paper
collars manufactured In the United State,
this year, and the heather washeeman is ask
ing himself II Chinese cheap labor IL TO have 4
fair show In this country.
A majority of the tawny-tinted
owners Of the Black Hills have decided to
sell out their rights In that piece of real es.
tate and move westward. The white mans
brogan will soon press the virgin soil there.
The question whether gentleman
may kiss lady at the depot is beiag vigorous.
iy discussed. II the train has started and
you think you can swing on 10 the rear plat.
iofm ana are going away to stay, 1t looks
tolerably safe to try its
Postmaster General JEWELS annual
report shows an excess Of expenditures over
receipts of about $4,000 900, but as large ad.
ditionaI mail facilities have been furnished
to the public this might be expected. Mr..
Jewell recommends return to the old rate
.! one cent for each two ounces for third.
class mail matter.
The surgical examination of the
body of Lexington, the great Kentucky race.
horse, revealed the most singular cause for
his death. That part Of the skull under the
ien eve, where the trouble of the horse
seemed to be located, was filed with at least
quart Of masticated food, which had been
forced into the cavity through an opening in
the upper jaw, caused by the loss Of a tooth.
Of the thirty-six million inhabitants
Of France only two million, or six per centum
have fixe incomes and no occupation-tbe
omer four million are workers: of these, five
per centtm belong 10 the so-called liberal
PROFESSIONS, hfty-two per centum are agrioul-
turists, fourteen per centum are EMPLOYED in
banking, mercantile and kindred pursuits
and twenty-three per centum are mechanics
Paul Morphy, the once famous chess
player is not insane, according to a New
Orleans paper, which positively contradicts
the report recently circulated and states
tnat MI. Morphy was never in better health,
physically and mentally, than now. Mr..
Morphy has given up chess-playing, 1t ap-
pears. for the practice Of law.
The Baptists all over the country
are making preparations to celebrate that
denominations growth during the century
calling II the Baptist centennial though the
Baptist church is considerably older than the
nation. In l776 they were only 25,OOO or
SO0OO communicates, but they now number
something like 100000.
A Miss Butler, fifteen years old,
daughter Of watchman at Flint river bridge,
ON the Southwestern railroad, in Georgia,
had been in the habit when the train was
approaching Of putting her foot on the track
and drawing II back Just in time for the car
10 miss Il, or getting on the track and run
ning on Just in time to escape but few
nights ago, standing on the track and facing
poll-car, which was running down grade at
speed Of twenty miles an hour, she put her
loot up as II intending to stop IL, and ere
she could turn and leave the track the car
struck her, and she was crushed to death.
The commission appointed to in
qaire into the route fur the proposed ship
canal, to connect the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, reports their opinion after full in
vestigation, that Nicaragua is the best. and
e. mate that the work from the harbor Of
Breto on the Pacific TO Greytown on the At
lantic can be constructed at n total cost not
exceeding sixty-six million dollars. From
this investment the commission claims an
enormous return would be made, especially
In the shipment 10 Europe and American
ports on the Atlantic of California products.
u is regarded Of the highest importance that
the United States take some action at once
to carry out the plans of ship canal, In
order to prevent France or England from
reaping honor and profit Of great enter
prise.
A translation of the Pilgrims
Progress" has been issued by native Japa-
nese publisher. The vernacular literature Of
Japan is extending at rapid rate, adapta
lions OF the best English textbooks on
geography and physical science being pub
iished almost monthly, and, though far from
being perfect productions, attaining u wide
circulation. japanese writers have the
greatest difficulty in finding accurate equiya
Tents in their own language for European
words used to denote recent European dis
coveries and scientific terms. They are
almost always obliged to paraphrase; thus
dynamite becomes "the powerful thing"
torpedo, underwater buster,D and so on.
The great evil is that each different writer
chooses his own paraphrase for such terms as
polarization" "spectroscope," "proto-
plasm," etc.
During the emperor of Brazil's alb.
sence in this country and Europe next year
his daughter, the Countess D'Eu, is going to
run the government machine for him and
she is the very girl to make it spin, too
some time ago she wanted the emperor to re
lease q couple Of Catholic bishops he had.
sent to Jail, but the old man declined to do
it, whereupon Miss ID Eu walked over to the
corner grocery, bought broom, and, having
thrown her shoes and striped stockings into
the corner, went to sweeping the streets, de-
claring that she meant to keep on sweeping
until the pair of bishops were turned loose.
The old gentleman knocked under, and D'Eu
washed her feet, put on her shoes and stock
ings, and resumed the embroidering of the
yoke for Wamsutta chemise where she had
left of. When Dom Predo comes out here
he needn't hurry back for fear she can't keep
things straight.
The California papers contain great
many interesting minor incidents of the fire
at Virginia City. For instance, think of the