The Osceola times., 1876-08-26
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

RiIis In tnl8 Weatner JUST 70 20 tnem
padding in the air with their fans.-Sa-
panndh Nesrs
The world will never be in any man.
ner of order or tranquility until men arc
firmly convinced that conscience, honor
and credit are all In one interest. Steele
ONE fellow, when he saw female wo-
man step into the Buhalo's car, said
they'd better change It's name to 6hccar-
go. The wretca!-PAiiadslphia BxlIe-
tin.
Ir Is just o. hard work to get any kin
ding wood split ~ 1t ever was; but
over sixty young men Of Rome are ready
to 80 west and svenp ~ dsath Of Cuss
ter. Rome SeHfiAe(.
Won'r there BE- fun alter u IndIan
war is over and Sitting Bull takes turn
around among the newspaper Offices 10
find out who wrote those articles Cat
cdgo Tribune.
WHEREVER Igo," saia an elderly
traveller the other day, al find men wear
| ing out their old clothes and hats; but
the ladies, almost without exception,
have brand new and expensive dresses."
THE Bible Is the most betrashed book
in the world. Coming TO IL through
commentaries is-much like looking at q
landscape through garrett windows, over
which generations Of unmolested spiders
have spun their webs.-Beecker.
WHITTIER are We driftingi The first
apple spoken ofin history was accomps-
MED by large serpent, while nothing
but contemplate little worm can be
found In our favorite fruit to-day
Rhitehau Times.
A FASHION exchange says that "the
jabon Is now generally used by married
ladies'" This would indicate that =
harmless but incorrect method Of SPELL
ing jawbone Is now prevalent in polite
society.-Nor,oich bulletin.
AN agreeable figure and winning man.
ner, which inspire affection without love,
are always new. Beauty loses relish,
the graces never; after the longest &C.
quaintance, they are no less agreeable
than at first.--Henry Heine.
THE brain Is the palest Of all internal
organs, and the heart Is the reddcst.
Whatever comes from the brain, carries
the hue of the place II came from and
Whatever comes from the heart carries
the heat and color Of its birthplace
Holmes.
Oh for some spot where . sweltering mortal
rorm'this hot world oi ours might p.ntinsiy -
Oh that I were some kind Of "lortls"
Nine fathons deep In the Caspian sea.
oh for fan lihe an armorers hellovs,
Blowing cold blasts on my blistssing soul,
Oh TO BE- sandwitched in Ice, ~ they tell us.
Franklin ia. somewhere not far from the pole.
IN an article on the habits of the hy
the New York Tribune ably says:
Great care has to be taken In eating
huckleberries, because nothing plcases
| fly no much a. to be mistaken tor one
and, If he can be baked In cake and pass
himself off in the unwary as q current,
he dies without a regret"
IT is an error common to many to take
the character of mankind from the worst
and basest amongst them whereas, ~
an excellent writer has observed, nothing
should be esteemed a. characteristical Of
species but what Is to be found Amongst
the best and the most perfect individuals
of that species. Fielding.
WE do not know either unalloyed
happiness or unmitigated misfortune.
Everything In this world il . tangled
yarn; we taste nothing of its purity;
we do not remain TIVE moments in the
same state. Our affections, as well as
our bodies, are in q perpetual Aux.-
R0usscdu.
MANKIND are fond of inventing Ger.
tain solemn and sound expressions which
appear to convey much and in reality
mean little; words that are the proxies
of absent thoughts, and, like other
proxies, add nothing TO arguments, while
they turn the scales Of decision.-ShcIly.
No man can rightly form even an ap-
proximatc idea of the number and in.
finite variety Of living creatures which
inhabit the woodland s0litudes, until he
lies down on the velvety green sward
under the spreading branches of some
monarch OF the forest, and counts, or
tries To count, the different kinds Of bites
he receives In five minutes.
QUITE an excitement was created In
Nashville few days ago by the appear
ance of an uncommonly seedy couple
in a dry goods store. The woman or
dered a large stock of "fxings," for
hich the man paid. She then asked .
clerk TO 20 after a parson, and upon his
arrival the rustics were married amid q
pile of muslins, calicoes and linen goods,
with a grinning group Of passers-by for
witnesses.
ACCORDING 10 Cologne newspaper,
there is in that city booth in which is
exhibited bearded lady" At the en-
trance is stationed a girl to take money.
Recently visitor, having feasted his
eyes on the strange phenomenon, think
! ing on his departure 10 have = joke with
the little money taker, said to her, fond
ling her under the chin the whilei
"Well, little one, suppose the bearded
woman is your mamma, eh p mo, sir,
replied the child, "she is my papa"
| RxyoRK THE LEAVES FALL.
wonder II oak and maple,
willow and elm and all,
Are stirred at heart by the coming
| Of the day their leaves must fall.
| DO they think Of the yellow
Or OF the crimson spray,
| That shall he when chill November
Bears all the leaves away3
"If die We must" the leaflets
Seem one by one 20 say,
Until We pass away.
No eyes shall Us falter;
| And before wc lay II down
We'll wear in the sight Of all the earth
The years most kingly crown."
So, trees Of the stately forest,
And trees BY the trodden way,
You are hindlins into glory
This soft, autumnal day,
| And We, who gave, remember
That more than all they lost,
| To hearts and trees toacthcr
| Mag come through ripcning frost.
BRING together all the children In the
| universe: YOU will see nothing In them