The Osceola times., 1876-07-15
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Nor every one who has the gift of
speech understands the value of silence.
THE difference between baby and an
overcoat is: one you was, and the other
YOU wear.
CRUsrY says that the list of marriages
in the newspapers ought to be put under
the head Of" Ring Frauds"
YOUNG swell-"I should like to have
ny mustache dyed" Polite barber
Certainly. Did you bring 1t with youf"
Why is it that dirty pair Of cuffs
protrude much farther than clean ones,
despite all endcavors 10 hide them?
FoRTY-sEvEN million pins are made
daily In the United States, and yet II q
man wants one he has to turn the house
upside down TO get Il. 81 fsA
WOMAN has many advantages over
man; one Of them is that his will has No
operation till he is dead, whereas hers
generally takes effect in her life time.
WE look at death through the cheap
glazed windowe Of the flesh, and believe
him the monster which the fawed and
cracked glass represents him.
| THE Lord all creatures, fortunes rules;
None, weak or strong, his might defies;
Tie makes the young and simple wise;
| The wise and learned he turns to fools.
-Mdhdbhdrdffd.
ROssEAU says: ITO write good
love letter you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say and to
finish without knowing what you have
written"
RICHARD GRANT WHITE says there is
no such thing a. ain our midst" but we
would like TO know where he locates the
pain that makes paregoric a popular
bersge among the young.
THERE Is never miser who does not
intend to make handsome expenditure,
some day death comes, and the inten-
ton Is carried out by his heir. This is
the history of more than one king OF my
acquaintance.
A LADY gave recently the following
opinion of nice young man, according
to her own thinking: "Oh, think he'd
make an excellent stranser-onc that
you'd never become acquainted with,
you know"
THEY were talking of q death when
QUO utan uskeu VH@S "oio Hs A"o'
wordsr "He didn't say anything" was
the reply. "That's just like him." @id
the first man with an approving ned;
"there was no gas about him. He was
all business"
Irishman went 10 the theater for the
| first time. Just az the CURTIN descended
on the first act, an engine In the base
ment exploded and he was blown through
the roef, coming down in the next street.
After coming to his senses he asked,
"An' what piece do yer play nixtT
Miss ANToiNETTE POLK, n daughter
of the late soldier-b bishop OF Tennessee
Leonidas Polk-and niece OF the late
President Polk, was belle, last winter,
of society in Rome. She Is "The One
Fair Woman of Joaquin Miller's latest
romance.
KEEP your conscience tender-tender
m the eye that closes its lids against an
atom of dust, or as that sensitive plant
which you have seen shrink and shut its
leaves, not merely at the rude touch Of
finger, but at the breath of a moth.
In his address, read at her grave.
| Victor Hugo said George Sand will
be the pride of our age and our country.
| Nothing was wanting in that glorious
woman. She had the heart of Barbes,
the wit of q Balzac and the soul of q
Lamartine."
GEORGE G. WHITTIER, seventy years
of age, rode into Biddeford, Me-, the
other day, attired in the regimenta!s
which he used to wear 10 general train
ing" fifty years ago. Some rude boys
threw stones at his horse, the old man
was thrown of and received injuries from
which he shortly died.
A MEMBER Of New York jury, In q
case where 100000 were involved, re-
Gently asked the judge to oblige him by
explaining the meaning of two words
which had been used good deal during
the trial-the words "plAintiff" and
I" defendant" A member OF another
jury admitted that he did not know
what was meant by conveyance"
Mr.. KELLEY, the motor man, and the
managers Of the Washington monument
have made bets upon their respective
work. as to which will be finished first.
From the fact that Mr.. Keeley is secretly
betting on the monument, it is to be in.
ferred that We shall have TO be satisfied
with steam power a few centuries yet,
and from the parallel fact, privately as
certaincd, that the monument folks are
taking covert odds in favor of the motor,
it is judged that George will continue to
occupy his back seat for the present.