The Osceola times., 1876-11-11
Items Of Interest.

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| trils and administers glass of water.
Spurgcon wears blue overcoat, and
ga cigar burns merrily in his mouth" I"
Genius can not disguise itself, even
among clergymen.
On New Years day the people of In
dia are to have their happiness com
pleted by the formal announcement of
their English empress.
Walters Of the Lick house, San
Francisco, injured by the explosion Of
the steam table in September, 1915, have
brought, damage suits against the Lick
trustees and ask for $4,000.
The University of Virginia has re-
ceived donation Of $1,000 for the ben
eft of its library, from Mr.. VIM. W.
Corcoran.
Two.thirds Of the willow for the
manufacture of willow-ware in this
country is imported from Europe at a
cost of $5, 5,000,0Oe. as,...'- ----s b.
The double hanging in New Jersey
last week was horrible affair. One of
the wretches slowly strangled to death,
and in his struggles his hands got loose
The Jersey hangman has evidently been
reading Deacon Smith.
Commodore Vanderbilt says the
obituaries are much better than he exr
pected, but he is mortally afraid u
newspapers will go back on him ircAt
time. There is such thing as a mans
dying once too often. If the Commo-
| dore keeps on he may write the obitua-
ries of some of the newspapers and
they would make lively reading.
The steamship Acapulco of the Pa
cific mail line, which arrived last week,
was struck by lightning on the 9th of
October, while entering the harbor of
Aspinwall, and the topmast was shivered
down to the lower mast, distance of
about forty feet. Fortunately no one
was near it at the time, and no perssn
was injured. 1t Isl curious fact that
the fore topmast of the Acapulco was
also struck by lightning in the same port
on the previous voyage.
The Anglo-American Times argues
that the United States have fully re-
covered from the panic of 1873. "Amer-
lean factories" it says, " for the first
time in sixteen years, threaten a iormida-
Bile competition with manufacturers in
foreign markets They can now produce
on par with European manufacturing
countries, because their work Is as eco
nomically done, or would be, were it not
for the faulty system which remains.
American labor is cheaper, its means of
| living cheaper, and the whole scale is re-
duced, by which the cost of manufac.
turing the article is lessened."
The papers transferring the Old South
! church, Boston, have finally passed, and
the sale is completed. II is now held by
/ Mr.. X. NJ Pulsifer "a trussee for the
owners. The sum of $4,000 was ad-
vanced, 100000 without security by
friends interested in the purchase OF the
building ; the rest of S400,0 is secured
by first and second mortgages. The con-
dition annexed 10 Tire aaie t,y tlIv stand
ing committee of the church, namely,
Z" that the building shall not be used for
any purpose whatever on Sunday for
thirty years, except 20 far as may be
necessary for its preservation" was rati-
fed by the society.
II has become notorious that a legally
made will stands for nothing it there is
enough Of money to make il an object
to fight for it. Any grasping relative
or any person whose interest IL is to dis
cover plain case puts it within reach
of the lawyers, and there it is all up with
| the estate so far as the heirs are concern
ed; the city and the lawyers gob6le it
up.-Jennie June.
Mr.. David Polsifel, of the seere-
tary of states Office, has in his posses
sion wellpreserved but very ancient
Hebrew roll, known to be at least more
than 900 years old. 1t contains the
four books of Moses, written upon soft
brown silk about ninety feet long and
two wide. The pages of the roll are
seven by twenty-four inches, and contain
brty-lines. The characters are large and
jet black, age having had no apparent
wearing effect upon them-Bosfon Ad'
uertiScr.
Maggie Stewart, a little girl from
Brooklyn. visited Independence hall last
night, accompanied by some of her iami-
ly, and while admirng The old bell and
the many relics exhibited there, asked
the janitor whether she might be allowed
to recite "The Independence Bell" " say
ing that it was her highest ambition to
speak the piece in Independence hall
Permission was granted, and the little girl
astonished the many visitors by reciting
the piece in fine style. Another poem
was called for, and the child again de
lighted her auditors. - Philadelphia
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