The Osceola times., 1876-09-02
FACTS AND RAxCIw~

sOOnosts-N. Y. RePS0Nc0H.
GENERAL BUTLER is q red ant In ths
Massachusetts, pantaloon les.-Da~tsvy
Ness.
WE know God easily, provided we do
not constrain ourselves to dsAns him.
Joubert.
AUTHORS are the vanguard In the
march Of mind, the intellectual back
woodsmen, reclaiming from the Idle viii
derhess new territories for the thought
and activity of their happier brethren.-
Carlyle.
FIVE or six months Of married lils, 10
marks veteran observer, will often ~
duce . naturally irascihle man N such
condition Of angelic humility that Il
wouldn't b afs to trust Hin With . paiR
Of winQ. q, x
Man, pfcud man dressed in's4little
brief authority, most ignorant Of what
he Is most assured, his CLASSY essence, like
an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks
before high heavens ~ make the angeh
weep -Sha&peare.
A soUTHKRNER, writing from Cape
May to his home paper, wonders why
prudish girl who will dance with no ono
but her brother will run along the beach
"naked a. to the knee" and kicking
sand at her beau.
IT is aid that In 1850 George WaGh-
ingtcn rent to England for nine pounds
Of mixed candies, and this was at Z time,
too, when q girl would desert homo, par
rents and kindred, and cling 10 Z man Tor
four pounds and half
An Indiana girl wishing TO Ne II her
lover really loved her, hired . boy 10
yell "mad dog ~ they were walking
alone. Careful lover jumped . fence
and left, leaving her 70 b. chewed up
alone. She went of and married . dry
goods clerk.
MAMMA, II We cross the bridge at
night must we pay tollr "Of coune,
my dear why do you ask r. "Why,
because the river has gone hone 10
alcep." "Oh, the river never sleeps."
"Then why has It . bed, mamma r
THERE are brains 70 large that they
unconsciously swamp all individualities
which come In contact or too near (; and
brains 70 small that they cannot take In
the conception Of any other individuality
as whole, only in part or parta--Ara
Jdp,esoW.
WE Americans, who are al plain -
quircs, with here and there general, or
colonel, or ny = majah, can al56rd TO
smile at our English cousins, who peak
Of Victoria a "the queens most excel
lent majesty" and Of the little whippeg-
mapper from France = :" his imperial
highnes, the prince imperial"
THERE are few pleannter sights IN
this selfish world than 70 - coroner at
a picnic urging, with all the warmth Of
disinterested ffiendahip, the over-heatsd
to drink freely of ice-water and paning
the cucumbefs and other cholers mix
lures assiduously TO his companions.
A YOUNG lady received the following
note accompanied by bouquet Of how-
es: "DRAR -: send you bi the
boy q bucket of foun. They h like
my love for you. The mite shade
menes kepe dark. The dog Sene!
menes / am you slave. Pods red and
posi-: pail, my love for you shall never
A GENERIC difference. School girls
out for walk:
First school girl (sweet sixteen) III am
80 tired of walking along by twos and
twos in this wayl It's a. bad - the
animals going into the arkl
Second ditto (ditto ditto)-WorBel--
Half OF them were masculine
LET us play the fool; with mirth
and laughter let old wrinkles come, and
let my liver rather heat with wine than
nv heart cool with mortifying groans.
Why should q man whose blood u warm
within sit like his grandsire cut in ala
baster, sleep when he wakes, and creep
into the jaundice Of being peevish.--
Shokspears.
NOTHING will supply the want Of sun
shine to peaches, and TO make the
knowledge valuable, you must have the
cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you
are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The Joy of the spirit indicates its
strength. All healthy things arc sweet
tempered. Genius works In sport, and
goodness smiles to the last. Emevsos.
WHEN Goethe says that in every hu-
man condition foes lie In wait for us,
''invincible only by cheerfulnes and
equanimity," he does not mean that We
can at all times be really cheerful, or at
moments notice, but that the endeav-
or to look at the better side of things will
produce the habit, and that this habit b
| the surest safeguard against the danger
Of sudden evils.-Leigk Hunt.
EVERY human soul has the germ Of
some flowers within, and they would dopen
If they could only find sunshine and free
air TO expand in. Ialways told you that
not having enough Of sunshine was what
allied the world. Make people happy,
and there will not be half the quarreling,
or tenth part of the wickedness there
ia-Mrs. L. NJ Child.
WHEN the president Of the French re-
public and hero of Woerth and Sedan was
run over by a cart, he no doubt ex-
pericnced feelings similar 10 those OF the
American veteran who didn't mind
diving. but thought it extremely hard 70
90 through the battle of New Orleans and
the Cherokee and Seminole warn, and
then be "butted to death by billy
goat"
WRITING Of foolish little csuntess
and other women, Paris correspondent
saws: "Here was the petite 6runstte
dressed plainly, yet ~ she stood she was
worth In dry goods and Jewels (omitting
her bracclets) over $4,000 In her prom
enade costume, not TO mention her other
toilets. Worth has some LADY clients
who spend $4,000 q year tor dssss
alone"