The Osceola times., 1876-04-01
FACTS AND FAxCIEs-

1
Edwin Forrest, at Philadelphia, into
summer concert garden.
The average journalist can work like a
mule and with the brilliaDcy Of head
light to locomotive, and still be abused
by an ungrateful public.
On the eleventh Of June in each year
the inhabitants of Cyprus throw a beau
tiful young girl into the sea IN honor Of
Venus. She IL then taken out, crowned
and worshiped all the day as queen or
demi-goddess.
A CHICAGO doctor says that supcrsti-
tion often kills people who are otherwisC
fitted for long life. That may be 80,
but what Is fellow ~ do when his
grandmother's ghost pokes him in the
ribs at midnight and whispers: Refund
that money-your hour has arrove!
The YEARS
Why do we heap large mounds of years
Before us and behind,
And scorn the little days that pass
| Like angels on the wind?
Each, turning round small sweet face
As beautiful as near,
| Because IL IL so small a face
We will not see 1t clear.
And SO it turns from us, and goes
Away in sad disdain:
Though we could give our lives for it,
1t never comes again.
THERE is a saying of Schopenbauer
/ that the "women remain all their lie
long big children; they have an eye for
the thing which is nearest to them; they
attach themselves to the present; they
mistake the appearance for the reality;
and they set aside the most momentous
question for the veriest triAe."
"THLY manage these things better In
France" At n trial in Paris recently,
where it was anticipated that the evil
dence would be such az might have a
tendency to shock the sensibilities Of the
delicate. minded, the Judge intimated that
such would be the case and requested the
moved. "Usher," said the judge, "now
that the decent women have withdrawn,
put out the rest"
TIE old adage that "charity begins at
home" il we'll illustrated in the benevo-
lent work done in the city Of Boston.
Statistics complied for the government
show that in the'ycar 1878 the city gave
for home charities 3,466,4 ,437; the aver
age given by its Protestant churches TO
foreign christian missions yearly Is $780,
900. This would show iorty-three dol
lars expended for home charities for
every dollar expended abroad.
THE agent of an English company has
been for some time past buying up the
wild pine lands in Georgia, which have
been lying inutilized for years, and only
| xl.,.e T1x.,
object is to obtain the. timber and
turpentine for foreign shipment. No
less than 100000 acres have been thus
purchased, and it is the intention of the
company to buy million, from which
they pay from five TO fifty cents an
acre.
KEEPING LENT
Is this fast TO keepe
The larder leane
And cleane
From fat Of vcales and sheape'
Is it to quit the dish
OF neshe, yet still
To I'LL
The platter high with Hsh'
| Is il too fast an houre,
Or ragged goe,
A downeast look and sowre?
No! tits a fast to dole
Thy shesfe Of wheate
And meate
Unto hungry sowlel
II is fast from strife,
From old debate,
And hate
To circumcise "thy iife."
To show hesrte grief rent,
To starve tiny sin,
And that's to keepc thy Lent!
Robert Her7ick, 1891.
The Boston Post thinks this. from the
World, beats Col. Sellers calculation as
to the profits realizable from introducing
his eye-water into Asia: "There are four
hundred and fifty millions of people in
China, and all, men, women and children,
wear cotton clothing, both upper and
under. Allowing ten yards for the outfit
of each person, of cotton cloth weighing
five ounces to the square yard, we have
four billions five hundred millions of
yards oi cotton cloth, weighing seven
hundred thousand tons"
THE Georgia ladies find it expensive
these hard times to assume their leap
year rights. A party of them at Column
bus, unanimously passed the following:
Resolved, That we have always been OPP
posed to the young gentlemen hiringcar-
! riages to take us to places of amusement,
I simply because it rained. Resolved,
9 With view of setting an example and a
g precedent, we obligate ourselves to ig'
e more carriages, and provide ourselves with
! an umbrella, a waterproof and pair OF
! overshoes, and we shall ask those gentle
: men whom we are to escort to be pro-
! vided likewise.
OUR brains are seventy-year clocks.
i The angel of life winds them up once for
all, then closes the case, and gives the
! key into the hands of the angel Of the
! resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tacl go the
wheels of thought; our will cannot stop
them they cannot stop themselves;
sleep cannot stop them madness only
makes them 90 faster; death alone can
break the case, and, seizing the ever
swinging pendulum, which we call the
heart, silcnccs at last the clicking of the
terrible escapement we have carried 50
long beneath our wrinkled foreheads.-
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THEY are publishing that process again
by which every man may become his
own ice-house. 1t is 10 gil barrel with
2 water and let it freeze solid and then set