The Osceola times., 1875-11-20
FROM ALL SOURCES.

after him. Any gentleman would consider
.hmself dehled by such y performance, Ma
gentleman would care to parade the street
IN such attire that one hand was constantly
occupied in reeiing the slack of his breeches,
after the manner Of holding up shirts al the
present time. American gentlemen attach
the character of gambler on man who
wears man" jewels and rng., anh recognize
cognaie vulgarty in the ady who similarly
over-pads herself on occasions when personal
adornment is mot in keeping What we
mean IS 'hat there is modesty and sobriety
OF azure and even OF bearing among recUg-
nlzed gentlemen which the recognized lady
has not yet attained.-SDrmqfed R,gph,cd1.
Ii is probable that the project of
constructing a shin canal a9ros, the isthmuS
OF Darien will ere long assume tangible shape.
large amount OF money has been expended
by the United States government in surveys
and voluminOus reports, and in fact 50 far
has this country gone in the matter that il
will not look well TO abandon the enterprise
10 foreign powers, who will surely obtain the
honor which the construction Of such a valu.
able worlds highway viii give them il the
United States does not net. commission of
engineers will meet in Washington next
month to take into consideration the various
routes which have been surveyed, and they
VIII Then make report in January as 10 the
feasibility OF the project. The Colombian
government has made an appropriation for
surveys, and has expressed it, WILLINGNESS Tn
cooperate with the United States government
IN the prosecution of this great work, which
is OF equal importance with the Suez Canal
a raSpy Cincinnati woman thus
speaks her mind, aftera ride on the railroad
we have seen the married. man. after seat.
ing his wife, leave her mud 90 into the smok.
lng car, which is ,rima tdcic evidence that
ms love Tor tobacco predominatcs over the
entertainment afforded by his travelling COM
PdhI"n' Ne have also observed married
man Comfortably seat himself alongside an
ou'er masculine, while his wife, for the want
hi seat, was left to lean on the arm uf the
chair. We have noticed married men, when
accompanied by their wives on the train,
occupy their time by reading or looking
vacantly out of the window instead 6f con
Versing with their wives while at other
Tunes, and in company with other ladies'
their merry laugh and rcpar,oe could be
heard over the shrill whistle ol the locomo.
tive"
The difficulty between England and
China, which seriously threatened at one
time to lead to war has been adjusted. The
'hinesc government, yielding to the demands
oi the British embasSador, consents to send a
political mission to England, charged with
tbe delivery of a letter to Queen Victoria
containing public and full apology for the
past "A commission Of inquiry is to be dis
patched from Pekin to inquire into the cir
cumstances ot Mr., Marpary's murder; this
commission is /" be composed of high rank
mandarlns line oi communication between
HindooStan, lrmah and China is 10 be open.
ed; and foreigners and the foreign trade in
China are to be treated honceforth in Just
ana liberal spirit. These are very large CON
ceS,ions, and denote the conviction on the
part of the Chinese government that "out-
side barbarians" can no longer bc treated
with coutumely and injustice
The recent attempt of the Turkish
government to- cNtricate itself from financial
embarrassment by an act Of reputation has
stirred up the creditors to such an extent
that il the Porte holds To the plan of sup
pressing half the interest ON the debt of one
thousand millions and giving the bondhold-
ers bonIS at hyc per cent at par in lieu
thereof, il is very likely that the governments
who have been furnishing the Sultan money
for his harems and summer palaces will
come to the conclusion that it does not pay
to uphold rotten, ASiastic government in
Europe. Turkish five per cents. are now
down to %. and holders of those securities
who take , y per cent in each and > in
bonds will naturally suffer very materially
1t will be hard for Turkey to obtain a new
loan.
The increase in the amount of sala-
res paid to postmasters during the last fiscal
year is 1881 600, or H. per Ctntum of the en-
tire amount paid This increase is .attrb-
uted to the law which provides that
the salaries of ,postmaster> shall be regr-
lated according to the amount OF business
transacted. The bad effects OF this law have
been observed In the causes where practi-
caly fraudulent sales OF st mps have been
made in order 10 increase salaries. While
this law has increased postmasters' salaries
about Is per ccntum it has added only about
l3 100 of per centum to the revenue.
The birth of a daughter to % the
duchess OF Edinburgh increases the tally OF
the queens grandchildren to twenty->even,
twcnty-four of whom are still alive, aud that
oi her total living progeny to thlrty-three,
including three unmarried children and the
Princess Louise, who is married but without
family. The duke and duches, of Edinburgh
were married at St. Petersburg January 23
1S7 and the first child, n son, was born to
them upon the 18th of the following October
The cost of maintaining limited monarchy
in England is apparently increasing at an
alarming ratio.
The expenditures of the postoiiicc is
a subject OF much concern to the postmaster
general, and it does not seem 10 be easy 10
reduce the annual charge Of SSWO,OOO upon
the treasury. The increase of postage re-
cciptS instead of being : per cent. rs used To-
be customary, has fallen to "a per cent.
This is largely attributed to q decrease of
letter postage consequent upon the deprcs-
sion in business, but is partly attributable to
the loss to the revenue by ranking the coun-
try newspaper.
The steady and rapid growth of the
wealth Of New Ycrk has scarcely any par
allel in the history OF commerce. We hold
the commercial Sceptre over 100000 peo-
Pile. We are the principal factor of a couu-
try which grows l,0O00OO bales of cotton,
aud the quantity is constantly Increasing
II is to q certain extent a national monopoly.
Without it the manufacturing wealth of
England would lanCuish and gradually he
become almost eNtnct-Ncw York Worth
Prof H. w. RAYMOND, the mining
commissioner, sets the yield of gold and
silver for four wears, from all of our terrto-
ries rs follows:
1850 ....... sol 10000 1871 .S66 663, 900
Is7O........ 66,O00O00 lS72....... 639i3,S ,S57
Since then the yield has been about an
average of these four wears, until this year,
when it was believed that it would be in
creased to nearly SlO0OO0O00, To what ex.
tent 10 fire at Virginia City will influence
the product can not yet be determined.
Some light is wanted in Porto Rico.
The authorities do not like Freemasonry.
La HoBde Hcco,pig"e states that fourteen