The Osceola times., 1876-02-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


A New HAMPSHIRE man sends four
teen Of his children TO one school, and
when they combine against the teacher
he knows that he can safely bet upon the
result
AN interesting Harrisburg journal
says: "Mrs. Sieb0ld, Of this city, is eigh-
ty-four years of age, reads without
glasses, and has had her back broken
three times"
AND now Bayard Taylor also says that
black eyed women can never love as
fondly as those with blue eyes. He says
they may think they love, but its only
morbid affection.
"Ir Jones undertakes 10 pull my
ears" said loud-mouthed fellow on =
street corner, "hs will just have his handa
full" The crowd looked at the mans
ears and thought so, too.
DID you every see the end Of Henry
Smiths right thumb? Because if you
didn't you never will, as Mr.. Smith very
foolishly attempted TO interfere with =
buzz saw, the other day.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT Is fairly
warned that playing shinny on horse
back will not enable him TO cope with
the conjugal broomstick in the hands Of
a willowv and poetic creature.
THAT preacher forgot himself, who,
while add ressing ladies' charitable 80
ciety, said, "My hearers, ! now urge on
all Of you to dive down into your breeches
pockets and haul out sunthin' for the
poor"
AK eastern man calls himself on his
card "a temperance boot maker" The
need Of temperance boots is apparent.
for though they're not generally drunk,
it's notorious fact that they're often
very tight.
ANNA DICKINSON complains that she
has bad sensations in her head" She
has been trying TO create sensations for
long time, and il now she finds that they
have turned up in her head, she has no.
body TO blame but herself.
A DEBATING society is preparing 10
wrestle with the following question
Resolved, that man who plays on an
ACCORDION and keeps barking dog can't
be Christian" Four members TO one
want to take the negative side.
SOME of the papers are recalling the
day when, 100 years ago, ITO women
went to tar and feather a man and wo-
man who had named child Thomas
Gage, after the English general. Such
was our forefathers' idea of liberty.
IT is said that since his release from
confinement, Brigham Young acts ~
changed man. 1t is only necessary for
one Of his wives to hint that the fire Ii
low, and he will trot out 10 the wood
shed a. if he was thankful for the exercise.
THERE is watch in Swiss museum
only. three-sixteepths of an inch in diana.
ter, inserted In the top OF . pencil-case.
lis little dial indicates not only hours,
minutes and seconds, but also days of the
month. II is relic OF old times, when
watches were inserted in saddles, snuff
boxes, shirt-studs, breast pins, breaches
and finger-rings.
THE New York World, speaking of .
European scandal, remarks: He Il
said tv have lavished 10, 10000 roubles
upon this lady during as many years"
This is not lavish. II is downright par
simony No lady can live in any style
ON u rouble year-a rouble is about
equal to 100 copecks, or two sicca rupees
Q-l5 of mohur or One-fourth Of a halbe
vereinskrone).
INDIANA farmers recently got out
their rlows, spat on their hands, kicked
their oxen on the ribs, and jerked around
among the rocks IA naturally as though
it were the month Of June. A day or
two later they took their little crowbars
and pried up rs much Of the plows ~
they could. and will recover the rest in
the spring. Such is the simple life Of
the agriculturist.
WHEN great Tennessee medium ms
terialized an Indian, and bystander re-
marked that the spirit and the medium
appeared good deal alike, the manager
Of the seance said: Well, ] used 70
think that way myself, but ! understand
better now. You see, the spirit absorbs
50 much of the mediums person in max
ing the naturalization that they do look
very much alike; at times they can
barely be distinguished"
A SEAL about three feet and half in
length was shot in the Delaware river,
near Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, q couple Of days ago. The seal
had rot considerably out Of his latitude
and deserved death for his temerity in
locating himself on a river whose banks
were 50 thickly peoplcd as those OF the
Delaware. His sealship was probably
refugee from menageric or a geological
garden somewhere along the river.
THE Staunton indicators compost.
ton on the ground hog: "The ground
hog was out Wednesday. He saw his
shadow. He ran back in his hole. There
will be awful weather for the next six
weeks. Many persons will damn the
ground hog. But he will not care. he
Is in his hole. If n person is safe in bis
hole he does not care how much cursing
goes on outside. 1t is the rame with
ground hogs as with grown persons