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The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
AS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1876.
How to Sleep.

The endless difficulties, perplexitics
and Estates of mind into which writers
upon hygiene are constantly getting Us
with their contradictory notions about
what we shall eat, and what we shall
drink, and wherewithal we shall be
clothed, is something fearful to contem-
plate. 1t has long since been said that
if man partook of food which all
agreed upon as perfectly healthful, he
would starve to death directly. 1t seems
to be the delight of some writers to over
throw the few principles which por-
ton of mankind have considered be.
yond question. For example, sleep
ing with the window open has long
been regarded as ''the" thilIgxo do in
order to live long and happy, hi.8 some
of lis has endured martyrdom for the
sake of principle, and dressed and un-
dressed, and shivered and shook in our
determination to live according to the
rules of health. But all to little pur-
pose, if the following is correct: DIR.
Hall says: Cold bedchambers always
imperil health and invite fatal diseases.
Robust persons may safely sleep in a
temperature of forty or under, but the
old, the infant or the frail, should never
sleep in room where the temperature
is much under fifty degrees of Fahren-
heit. All know the danger of going
direct into a cold from very warm
room. Very few rooms, churches,
thcaters and the like, are even warmer
than seventy degrees. If it is freezing
out of doors it is thirty degrees-the
difference being forty degrees more.
Persons will be chilled by such a change
in ten minutes, although they may be
actively walking. But to lie still in
bed, nothing to promote the circulation
and breathe for hours an atmosphere of
forty and even fifty degrees, when the
lungs are always ninety eight, is too
great a change. Many persons wake
up in the morning with inflammation of
the lungs who went to bed well, and are
surprised that this should be the case.
The cause may be often be found in
sleeping in a room the window of which
has been foolishly hoistcd for ventila-
ton. The water cure journals of the
country have done an incalculablc in
jury by the blind and indiscriminate adj
vice of hosting the window at night.
The rule should be everywhere during
the part of the year when fires are kept
burning, to avoid hosting outside win
dows. 1t is safer and better to leave
the chamber door open, as also the fire.
place--then there is draft up the
chimney, while the room is not so likely
to become cold. If there is some fire
in the room all night the window may
be opened an inch. 1t is safer to sleep
in a bad air all night with a tempera-
ture over fifty, than in pure air with
a temperature under forty. The bad
air may sicken you, but it cannot kill
you; and cold air can and does kill very
often
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06

Thinking, mother dear, of you,' or
Mother, come back from the echoless
shore, or Dear mother, I've come home
to die which, responded the girl.
"No, no." said the cnamored youth;
"none of those; its something about the
old woman's getting old Oh, | know
he concluded, with burst of relief,
conviction, and intelligence; at begins
Mothers teeth are falling out The
assembled company rose with enthu-
siasm and unanimisy, and were just
about hanging him to the front gate
post, when hisquick perceptions enabled
him to discover that the title of the piece
was Fathers hair is turning gray"
The young man stated in justification
that he had a poor ear for music and a
bad memory for dates.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
A Famous Trio.

"On one occasion" writes Mrs. Mos
chelcs, "we had the happiness of enter
tanning the famous Sontag at n large
party at our house. She was cnchant-
ing, as usual. Sir Walter Scott, who
happened to be in London, was present
He was delighted at meeting Sontag,
whose introduction to Sir Walter, on
the eve of her appearance in the Douna
del Lago, was singularly well-timed
Lockhart, it is true, tells us, in his
biography, that Sir Walter feltannoyed
at being besiegcd by crowd of hatter-
ers and strangers who made pilgrim
age to Abbotsford, and overwhelmed
him with compliments, their knowledge
of his works being based possibly on a
single attendance at the Donna del
Lago, at the Italian opera; but in the
presence Of Sontag the great man was
all ears, and eyes, too, think. When
she questioned him about her costume
as the Lady of the Lake, he described
to her with the utmost minuteness
every fold of the plaid, and was greatly
pleased when | produced genuine
satin clan plaid, the present of Lady
Sinclair, while in Edinburgh, the loan
of which | was delighted to promise to
Sontag, He showed her the particular
way the brooch should be fastened at
the shoulder, and would not allow any
alteration. Henrietta had two wor-
shippers that evening, the second being
Clement, who seemed as much flscina-
ted as Scott. He got up from his chair
and said, Tonight | should like to play
also The proposition was received
with acclamation.' "He extemporized
with all the freshness of youth, writes
Moscheles, land we listened with in
tense delight, for Clement very rarely
played before company. You should
have seen the ecstasy of the two old
men, Scott and Clement; they shook
each other by the hand, took it in turns
to firt with Sontag without seeming
jealous of one another, il was a pretty
duet of joint admiration; of course the
poet, musician, and songstress were the
observed of all observers"
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
Mother Songs.

The Chicago Tribune is responsible
for the following: "Say, can you sing
ihat-er lovely new song, the-er-um,
about the fellows mother, you knowT
said an indefinite but agreeable young
man the other evening at small social
gathering to the prima donna of the oc-
casion. (which young man, and what
about his mother?' answered the lady,
because there is good deal of mother
in the ballad literature of the present.
"I-er--don't exactly know, you know,
um,' replied the young man. "Was
it Mother, kiss me in my dreams or
Just before the battle. mother or
'Lemmc kiss him for his mother or
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
SUBMISSION.

The sparrow sits and sings, and sings;
softly the sunsets lingering light
Lies rosy over rock and turf,
And reldons where the restless surf
Tosses on high its plumes Of white.
Gently and clear the sparrow sings,
while twilight steals across the sea,
And still and bright the evening star,
Twinkles above the golden bar
That in the West lies quietly.
oh. stcadfastly the sparrow sings,
Aud sweet the sound and sweet the touch
OF wooing winds; and sweet the sight
Of happy natures deep delight
In the fair spring desired ~ much
But while 80 clear the sparrow sings.
A cry Of death Is In my ear;
The crashing Of the riyen wreck,
Breakers that sweep the shuddering deck,
And sounds Of agony and fear.
How Is Il that the birds can sing'
Life is SO full Of bitter pain;
Hearts are so wrung with hopeful grief:
Woe Is 80 long and JOY No brief;
Nor shall the lost again return.
Though rapturously the sparrow sings,
No bliss Of nature can restore
The friends whose hands claspcd 50 warm,
Sweet souls that through the night and storil
Fled from the earth for evermore.
Yet still the sparrow sits and sings,
Till longing, mourning. Borrowing love,
Gripping to find what hope may he
Within deaths awful mystery,
Reaches its empty arms above.
And, listening, while the sparrow sings,
And soft the evening shadows fall,
Sees through the crowdins tear, that blind,
A little light and seems 10 find
And clasp Gods hand, who wrought 1t all.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
SCIENCE AND ART.

NE LpblA'Ab luuHi. .iPuiiS hiS
residence in the island of Jamaica in
1868 and 1869, NJ. Houseau assiduously
observed the zodiacal light for six
months consecutively, and has now
communicated the results to the Bel
gian academy. NJ. Houzeau has for
more than thirty years devoted great
attention to this pulling phenomenon,
and he is fortunate in having now OBJ
tained such fine series of observations,
the boundary of the zodiacal light is
having been carefully determined by
him on 56 nights out of the 179. As
far as these results go, it appears that
the zodiacal light is not appreciably in
clined to the ecliptic, and does not ap-
proach to coincidence either with the
plane of the suns equator, rs Cassini
supposed, or with that of the moons
orbit, as Jones has more recently sug-
gcstcd. The observed deviations from
the plane of the ccliptic are explained
by Nj. Houzeau as the results of greater
absorption of the light of the lower or
southern side by our atmosphere,
which is, of course, less transparent
near the horizon. From these obscr-
vations, NJ. Houzcau concludes that we
must reject both the hypothesis which
regards the zodiacal light as an append
age of the sun, and that which assigns
it to the moon; and since, if it were a
ring round the earth, it would be seen
as a complete arch in the sky crossing
from the east to west. the author Is
driven to the conclusion that il is fan
shaped sector, somewhat similar to the
tail of a comet, spreading from the
earth towards the sun, thinning off
each side of this direction, so that it
extends TO about 400 on the side to-
wards which the earth is moving, and
GO or 100 on the other side. This
must, of course, be modified, if We ac-
cept these observations in which the
zodiacal light has been distinctly traced
right across the heavens from east to
west; but NJ. Houzeau's conclusions are
founded on his own observations alone.
For the period of his watch there was "A
sensible diminution of brightness, the
zodiacal light being seen in January,
1869, as readily as a fourth-magnitude
star in twilight, while by June it was
not so bright as the fifth magnitude.
From observations on his voyage to
Rodrigues and back, with the Transit of
Venus Expedition, Mr.. Burton has
been led to very different conclusions.
He was provided with a binocular spec
troscope devised by himself specially
for this work, and with this he deter
mined the spectrum of the zodiacal
light to consist of a continuous band
with a bright linein the yellow Corning
the boundary Of the spectrum on that
side) and a dark line in the green.
This same spectrum was given by every
part of the sky unoccupied by the Milky
Way, most important observation,
which, in combination with the change
of form of the zodiacal light seen when
the observer passed from S. to n. lati-
tudes, shows, according to Mr.. Burton,
that it reaches and probably surrounds
the earth. From the spectrum seen, as
well as from the fact of polarization in
a plane through the axis of the zodiacal
light. Mr.. Burton further concludes
that it is emitted by matterpartly liquid
and partly solid, intcrmixed with gas.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06

BEEF TEA.-Nery few people know
how to prepare this article of food, so
perfect of its kind, so essential in sick
rooms, possessed, we are told, of a re-
parative power which science has never
been able to define, but which she does
not attempt to deny. Most housekeepcrs
follow the army recipe, ",Iust puta bit
of meat into pot and kind of stir it
round" The following is the best way
of making beef tea: Cut pound Of
lean juicy beef into small pieces, put on
it pint of cold water, and let it stand
half an hour or more, then put it inc
a closely covered saucepan and let ii
heat on the range (but mot boiD for
twenty minutes; then bring it forward
and boil six minutes. Stfain of and
season with pepper and s3lt.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
The Religion We Want.

We want religion that bears heav-
ily not only on the Exceeding sinful
ness of sin," but on the exceeding ras-
cality of lying and stealing; religion
that banishes small measures from the
counters, pebbles from the cotton-bags,
clay from the paper, sand from the
sugar, chicory from the coffee, alum
from the bread and water from the milk
cans. The religion that is to save the
world will not put all the big strawber-
ries at the top and all the little ones at
the bottom. 1t will not make one-half
a pair of shoes of good leather, so that
the first shall rebound to the makers
credit and the second to his cash. 1t
will not put Jouyin's stamp on jenkins
kid gloves: nor make Paris bonnets i'm
the back-room of a Boston milliner
shop; nor let a piece of velvet that pro-
fesses to measure twelve yards come to
an untimely end Mt the tenth. 1t does
not put bricks at five dollars a thousand
into chimneys it contracts to build with
seven-dollar material; nor smugg'e
white-pine into floors that have paid
for hard pine; nor leave yawning cracks
in closets where boards ought to Join.
The religion that is going to sanctify
the world pays its debts. 1t does not
consider that forty cents returned from
one hundred cents given is according to
the Gospel, though it may be according
to law. Ii looks on a man who has
failed in trade, and who continues to
live in luxury, as thief.--Ihe Christian,
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
A SIGH

How can live, my love, ~ far from thee,
Since far from thee my spirit drooI's and dies
What is there left my love, for me to sce.
since beauty Is concentrated In thine eyes7
My only life is sending thee my signs,
which, rs sweet birds fly home from deserts lone
Fly swift to thee as each swift moments hies,
Uprising from the current Of my moan.
But CLOSED is still thy heart Of stone,
And my poor sighs drop murdered at thy feet
For which while in grief do sigh and groan,
New hosts arise to meet death ~ sweet
Then love give scorn; for II love thou didst give
How could love thee In thy sight and livef
VIRGINIA VAUGHN.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
A Truthful Pilot.

The passenger, who was gong down
the big river for the first time in his
life, secured permission to climb up be-
side the pilot, grim old grayback who
never told n lie in his life.
"Many alligators in this rivcr?' in
quired the stranger attera look around.
"Not so many now, since they got
to shootn' 'em for their hide and tai
ler," was the reply.
Used to be lots, eh?'
Il don't want to tell you about 'em,
stranger" replied the pilot, signing
drearily.
"Why?'
"Cnusc you'd think | was a-lyin' to
you, and that's sumthin' | never do.
kin cheat at kecrds, drink whisky or
chaw terbacker, but | can't lie"
"Then there used to be lots of 'cmy'
inquired the passenger.
''I'm most afraid to tell ye, Mister,
but I've counted 'leven hundred ally
CATERS to the mile from Vicksburg clar
down to Orleans! That was years ago,
afore shot was ever fired at EN-"
"Well, don't doubt it, replied the
stranger.
"And I've counted 3, 459 OF 'cm on
one sand bari" continued the pilot.
1T looks big to tell, but government
surveyor was aboard, and he checked
'em off as called out
81 haven't the least doubt of it,'
said the passenger as he heaved "A sigh.
"Im glad o that, stranger. Some
fellers would think | was liar when
Pm telling the solemn truth. This
used to be a paradise for allygaters,
and they were so thick that the wheels
of the boat killed an averaged of for
ty-nine to the mile"
SIS that soY'
"Trde as Gospel, Mister! ] used to
almost feel sorry for the cussed brutes,
cause they'd cry out even most like n
human being. We killed lots of 'em,
as | said, and hurt pile more. l
sailed with one captain who allus car
ried thousand bottles of linimcnt to
throw over to the wounded ones!'
"He did?'
"Truc as you live he did. / don't
'spect I'll ever sec another such a kind,
Christian man. And the allygators
got to know the Nancy Jane, and to
know Capt. Tom, and they'd swim out
and rub their tail agin the boat and
purr like cats and look up and try to
smile"
"rhey wouldY'
"Solemn truth, stranger. And once
when we grounded on bar, with an
opposition boat right behind, the ally
CATERS gathered around, got under her
stern, and bumped her clean over the
bar by grand push! 1t looks like a
big story, but never told LEY and
never shall. / wouldn't lie for all
the money you could put aboard this
boat
There was painful pause, and after
a while the pilot continued:
sour injincs gin out once, and u
crowd of allygaters took towline and
hauled us forty-fve miles up stream to
Vicksburg."
"They did,"
"And when the news got along the
river that Capt. Tom was dead, every
allygater in the river daubed his left
ear with mud as badge of mournin'
and lots of 'en. pincd away and died.!
The passenger left the pilot-house
with the remark that he didn't doubt
the statement, and the old man gave
the wheel turn and replied:
"rhar's one thing | won't do for
love nor money, and that's make liar
of myself. | was brung up by a good
mother, and I'm going to stick TO the
truth if this boat doesn't make a
cent. Vicksbny Herald.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
The Western Rural disapproves

The Western Rural disapproves of
exaggerated statements about the or
der, whether on the order of one in
the Chicago Times to the effect that
the order is dying out in the west, or
in the Farmers Friend that 81 ,000,-
600 has been raised by the enemies of
the order to be used in attempts to de-
stroy it. Both of these statements are
without doubt greatly ovcrlrawn and
should not be given place in public
print without note Of explanation. In
some places oranges have from some
cause or another failed 10 work harmo-
niously, and in some places they were
placed too close and have consolidated,
thus reducing the number, but there is
total want of evidence to sustain the as
sertion that the order is dying out. As
to the other, while there are many bus
iness men who regard the order with
disfavor and would gladly see it broken
up, we have not seen enough to believe
that this opposition is so organized as
to raise 81, 100000 to us used against
the grange.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06
FROM ALL SOURCES.

The following table shows the re-
ported production in each seventeen of the
largest corn-producing states in 1874, as re-
ported by the bureau Of agriculture, the ag.
gregate acreage this year being estimated to
be per cent. greater than in 1874:
The Osceola times., 1875-11-06

Salvini is unmarried, and hence the
grand glocm that characterizes his per-
sensations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-10
THE COURT OF APPEALS.

ALBANY, N. Y. Nov. 9.--In the Court of Appeals,
Tneaiay o. 1s76 the following decisions we're handed
down -, ,..,,.-
art urnam act. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Com
pany BOynon agt Andrews; iil AIT The syracuse Bng
hantcn and New YORK alroai Company McGarTy agL
I0rpis James agt. Hamoni Rider agt STRIKER; koebner
agt Tire knckerDOcker Life Insurance Company trusOn
ar IisseIl; The Union Nstiona Bank sgt Kupper.
Judgments arhmed-fhs People agt POWELL the feope
agt. Linsay. -, -.-... A.. .o... a. .h,,.
the Vent-Carmau Beach OBGleD The 'OnniefcA
Fire Insurance Company Washburn agt. Burnhan
affirmed with cOstsGbbs agt Tue queen Insurhico
Company.
defendsut on stipu All with ccsts-Stror sgt Lyon
Tho folio made Hoss agt HoperS-Ao
ton deau Samuel Hand Tor notion Chas D. ba~er
opposed; u, ann, co,onarv ri Magp,o n Lacey And
ors-satson placr calendar vi dial OF ming rtGin
under Glass Of preferred upon motion OF W. H.
Dick -nson appellant, granted 49,. -
No l8-MerNSin ID. Iia~ey respondent, agt Artefnns r.
administrations Sc. and ois appellants
IpIn motion ~ A Parker oriufesi back to-lSH2
No William J0ansID. appellant, sgt kobert A. VII
llams &c, respondent pom motion oued tor"Aru v"
30 2s6-The ogdersburg and Lake Champaign Railroad
Company app liant The vermont and ,spas fAlr"sd
ompany Respondent Motion to dismiss appeal = G jam
az respondent for the notion and Mr. Soubmsyd
opposed. TIE Court took the papers. ,-
205-The Atlantic and fscinc telegraph Company agt
Barnes dismiss app-aL-fhos sonther Tor The
motion Samuel Hand opposed. -
Lester Rfdnor President respondent aet william A.
implicated. eppelisnt'D motion of saincl hano
No 2g1 -RnswIiOn. respOnd' mt ag The New York and
Harlem Railroad Company appellant motion 10 dismiss
ChaPes the motion Elliott r. Shepard opposed iht
Court took the pspefA
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DEP4RTURE or FOREIGN MAILS.
WEDNESDAY. Nov. 20.

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az D. steamship sails Al p H. nom Cunard
Fog Hay,i sata Martha and savs1Ia by the steamship
mails close at 10 Steamship sails at IL ~, from
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For Europe via Plymouth, cherbcnrg AMI HAMBURG by the
stesmship foinmerana malta close at $50 supple
ueuiary closes! $50 steamship saiis At -
~ from Pier at foot of Thirtst. HoboAen. ~
Eor steamship Crescent CITY, mails close NJ
m. Supplementary Mall Is closed e 20 p IN Steam
ship sails Al p M Irom Pier -" - Ssr,h Rye len p.r,
mails clse at p H. STEAMSHIP sails at p M if"m PEI
For the Nefherand. direct by the steamship Mas malls
close Steamship sails Al IL H. irom rAvonia Ferry
Jersey City. ,., 49,, .,
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Malls for England Ireland and via Queenstown and
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A Supplementary Mail - closed OF l245 m. Steamship
sails af 2 ?. ~, from Pier Ma. as, North River. .
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e,osc so steamship sails al D. H. ron Pies ioo'
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.LIp sails iroll Pier Ma. 90 North River.
SUNDAY Nov. IA -
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"V" " MONDAY. NOV I5
For South Pacific Central America &C. BY the steam
IL closed az Steamship sails ut IL n fron Pier No
AZ. North River.
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Australia, will DO sent from ssn IranSsco on Sos 10 w.,
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ports and East Indies. Will be sent from san FRANCISCO
Nails Tor Key sent every Saturday closing the
Mails Tor Newfoundland close At the NewYork Postoce
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once every day at l;5op m