The Osceola times., 1875-12-18
FROM ALL SOURCES.
!. said that the late William B.

erty to his two sons ana not '" nus c'u's' SUM-
A. previously reported. His daughters are
amply provided for in the testament.
There is no lead in 'lead pencil.
Rea lead Is an oxide Of lead, and white lead
is . earbonate Of the same, black lead Is
neither metal nor the compound OF mteal'
Il isa form Of carbon.
In the Senate, Mr.. Morton intro
tiuced resolution proposing an amendment
to the constitution looking to the abolition
Of the electoral college, and to have the pres
ident voted for directly by the people.
There is said to be detachment of
Cuban rebels that are commanded by wo-
man. who, dressed in a riding habit and
mounted on fiery, untamed steed, leads her
troops "to glory or the grave" with the dash
and bravery Of Ccur de Leon.
The London Builder recommends
people who transplant trees TO mark the
north side of each tree with chalk before It
is taken up, and replace il in its natural po-
sition. A large proportion will then live, as
in ignoring this law Of nature transplanted
trees generally perish.
Boss Tweed got tired of boarding at
the Ludlow street Jail and walked of the
other day. II is unnecessary for the wires
10 bring the news that he has not been heard
Of since. The Sheriff and his subordinates
had no doubt planned all that too well he
forehand. The Boss did not get off without
help, and knew where he was going.
In addition to a section of one of the
"great trees" Of California, which will he
one of the features Of the Centennial Exhi,
bition, an Oregon mill-owner proposes to
furnish for exhibition fr-plank, twelve feet
wide and one hundred feet long; a spruce
plank eight feet wide; a cedar seven feet
larch seven feet; and a hemlock five feet
The suspension of the mining oper-
ations in the Schuylkill coal region of Penn.
sylvania will throw about 10000 miners out
Of employment. The leading operators state
that 1t IL not likely business will resume te-
fore spring, and it is therefore probable that
we will have during the winter the usual re-
cital of assassinations, coffin notices, destruc-
ton Of mining works, etc.
There was lately shown at the rooms
Of the society Of art, in London, n piece Of
milk "solidiied by the Hooker process" and
weighing one hundred pounds, and which
"hss been exposed to the action of the air
for four years and three months" The Agri-
cultural Gazette, Of that city, says that "its
quality was still so excellent that in few
minute i was resolved, by churning, into
good fresh butter"
The late w. b. Astor's millions have
not yet been accurately asccrtained. lie left
100000 to the Astor library, for the purchase
Of books; $4,000 to charitable institutions
$4,000 10 the American Bible society; Si0,-
oo0 70 four family servants, and 5000 year to
the widow Of Benjamin Astor. The immense
balance of his fortune is distributed among
his own family. W. B. was not ms charitable
man as was generally supposed.
Little is generally known of the
production of quicksilver. How many are
aware of the fact that California produces
nearly as much of this valuable mineral as
all the remainder of the world? Spain pro-
duced last year 80 1000 TASKS, Of about seventy.
five pounds each, Austria 5000 TASKS, Italy
200, Borneo 1900, California 5000. This
year the production OF California promises
to be nearer $4,000 TASKS.
1t used to be the boast of the founder
of the New Yor, Herald that his main de-
pendence was on the chambermaids and
washerwomen, and that as long as they con-
tinued to send him their advertisements
nobody else could destroy his business. The
income OF his successor, in great part derived
from the same sources, has recently been
publicly stated to amount to nearly three.
quarters of a million of dollars a year.
The New Orleans Republican com.
plains as follows; New Orleans contributes
largely to the support of Partisan folly. Ask
for the owners of property below Canal
street, block after block, and you will be told
they live in France. They have no money
for public improvements, they pay taxes
only upon compulsion, and they rail always
against the government Of city and state
The poor tenants pay rents, and the absent
landlords spend the substance abroad. New
Orleans is peculiarly cursed with absenteeism
This was the case before the war, and il is So
now. Our city is continually being drained
to build up Paris.
The Winchester Arms Company are
to have novel rife range at New Haven. A
deer has been made Of boiler iron, hung upon
pivots and mounted upon wheels to run upon
track seventy-five feet long which is to b,
placed upen an inclined plane. The deer
being started from one end Of the track viii
travel rapidly, with Looping motion, which
will be sustained by a simple arrangement o
springs. The marksman, standing at a dis
tance, will fire at the deer while il is in mo
tion and passing behind trees and blinds ar
ranged to make the hitting more difficult.
DIR. Lambert, in recent lecture in
Boston, showed statistics to prove that, con
trary to the popular opinion, the people O
the new were longer lived than those of tn,
old world, The English girls, so often spoker
of for blooming checks and robust forms
owed these qualities to their outdoor life
the damp coldness of their island, and theii
fondness for the national beverage, beer. Tn,
fact was, the women of this country wer,
longer-lived than the English women. Their,
probably was no place in Europe where 81
many old people could be found in proper
tion 10 the population as in New Hampshire
and three out Of every four Of the people VIII,
had reached the age of ninety years in New
Hampshire were women. The constitution
of woman was substantially the same as tn,
constitution OF man, and the duration o
their earthly existence, as general rule, OF
the American continent was the same.
Mr.. Huet's theory of the water 10
comotive has excited considerable interest
He thinks it mistake for ships to have Il
force their bulk through the water, meetin,
thereby the large opposing surface and
sliding friction over the who'e of their i'm