The Osceola times., 1876-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STATISTICS prove that the frail, broken
down American woman lives longer on
the average than her round-faced Eng.
lish sister.
CoLFAX declares in his lectures that
in his retirement from the cares of public
life, he has found "his life dream.
'Sh don't awake him.
A LAssEN county, Cal, farmer re.
Gently had two thousand sheep starved
to death. His feed gave out, and the
deep snow prevented the sheep from
reaching grass.
THE Kentucky legislature has passed a
bill taxing all dogs over three years of
age 81 each Dogs refusing to give their
ages to the census enumerators will be
dealt with summarily.
RUBENsTRIN, the condemned murderer,
has complained to the authorities that
he has been subjected TO punishment
not included in his sentence, his keepers
having forcibly compelled him to wash
himself and put on clean clothing. His
father was almost as much incensed as
he, and declared that he would catch his
"death o. cold"
THE lady correspondents harp on Mrs
Belknap. One expatiates upon her
"big hands," another declares that her
nose is an "unmitigated pug, far too
small and expressionless for the rest of
her face" The latest writer, however,
settles her unfortunate sister with: at
never seemed to me that the soul of that
proud lady had any message for my
soul"
ST.. LOUIS is excited over the gas ques-
tion, the city claiming title to the works
of both the leading companies and alleg-
ing that the profits derived since 1870
belong to it. The council has declined
to pay any further gas bills and one of
the companies has served notice of inten-
tion to shut off the supply unless the gas
bills are paid by the first Of next month,
The mayor retorts with request to the
city engineer to furnish estimates of the
cost of lighting the streets with oil.
THE decision of the United State su.
preme court nullifying the California law
against importing immoral Chinese wo-
man, creates much Indignation and gen.
uine alarm on the Pacific coast. Depu-
tatlons are organizing to 20 to Washing
ton and besiege congress TO meet the case
by cnacting the necessary legislation. 1t
is understood that the entire steeragc
capacity of the steamship lines has been
engaged for six months by the Chinese
companies, and that many thousands of
these heather evils will be precipitated
upon California, if preventive measures
are not at once taken.
A PHOTOGRAPHER, of Lyons, France,
is credited with discovery of immense
Importance. 1t is nothing less than a
method of phetographiug co,ors, or pro.
ducing naturally colored pictures. The
usefulness of the process in science will
be vastly increased by this new applca.
tion of it, while broad field is opened
in the region of art. The reproduction
of landscapes with their natural coloring,
and of the paintings of the old masters,
instantly suggests itself. No more occa-
sion for deftly retouching" photo
graphic likenesses with the artists brush.
Those who do not like their complexion
can paint before they sit.
THE death of the Hon. A. o. p. Mich
olson, chief justice of Tennessee, re.
moves another of the landmarks of by
gone American politics. At one time
Judge Nicholson was among the foremost
democratic leaders of the country. He
was born in Williamson county, Ten
nessee, August 81, 1908, and graduated
at Chapel Hill university, in North Car
olina, in 1927. He settled in Tennessee
as a lawyer, and was a member of the
Tennessee legislature from 1888 to 1899,
a senator in congress from Tennessee
from 1910 to 1912, member of the SEN
ate from 1913 to 1915, chancellor of the
middle division of the state in 1915,
president of the bank of Tennessee in
1916 and lsi7, printer of the hous. OF
Representatives of the thirty-third con-
gress, printer Of the senate of the thirty
fourth congress, editor of the Washing
ton Daily Union from 1858 TO 1856, and
again United States senator from 1859.
His term extended to 1865, but he was
expelled July IL, 1861. He was dele
gate to the Philadelphia National Union
convention in 1866. In 1867 he was
elected chief justice of Tennessee, since
which time he has sat upon the bench.
He was man OF extensive culture and