The Osceola times., 1876-01-22
FACTS AND FANCIBS.

| hehtucky Why Of uescfitnlg hiKn state
Of hilarity.
| What with stocking -darners, knitting
and sewing machines, apple-pare wash
ers and wringers, woman as necessity il
fading from the face of the earth.
Mary had little lamp,
Twas filed with kerosene;
Mary down the chimney blew,
And vanished from the scene.
Did the lawyers of this country
ever stop to think that when Brigham
Young dies there will be the biggest con-
tested will case on record?
In thoir interoourue with the world
people shodd not ta1Es vDeas - - much
gcniue coin or standard metal, bat merely
as counters that people play with
Douglas ysvroid.
| I'm Newark, the other day, a fashion,
able mother said 10 the family physicisn,
In the presence of her three giggling,
frivolous daughters doctor, how can
We improve our girls p "By improving
the Mothers" was the gruf reply.
o, hearts Of lovei o, souls that turn
Like sunhowers, TO the pure and best,
To you the truth is manifest!
Who lean, like John, upon his breast.
JOHN @. WHITTIER.
An old veteran was relating his ex-
ploils to crowd of boys, and mentioned
being in five engagements. "Thats
nothing" broke in sharp little fellow
"My sister Agnes has been engaged
more'n eleven times.
-"Closing places where games of
chance are played" Is hardly the effective
way TO put II. The majority might
escape under> the plea that there's no
chance at all, for the outsider. There's
nice technicality for rising young
COW lawyer.
MY dear" said Cincinnati packer
to his daughter, "a regular Murillo
painting has been discovered in our
city" "Is it water color, pap "No,
my dear. it's real hogs oil painting"
And the young lady screamed, "Oh,
Lardp
-"As TO being conAicted with the
gout," said Mrs. Partington, "high liv-
ing don't bring il on. Il is iincohersnt
in some families, and Is handed down
from father to son. Mr.. Hammer, poor
soul, disinherits 1t from his wife's grand
mother"
THERE is no better nor safer way, no
easier way, no surer way of saving chill
dren from the debasing influences OF the
streets, from corrupting association, and
from the acquisition Of vicious and hurt
full practices, than to make home attrac-
tive.-W W. Hall.
Good manners are pMt of good
rals.---WHATELY.
Truth has her Plsa'ure-sround., her haunts
And easy contemplation--gny parterres
And lsbyrinthine walks, her sunny glades
And shady groves, for recreation framed.
--WoRpswoRrH
The Washington elm at Cambridge,
under which Washington drew his sword
and took command Of the Continental
armies, is visibly decaying, because its
ancient roots have been deliberately un.
dermined and cut through by the Canta
brigham municipal government in order to
make way for public sewer.
A BRIGHTON lady, riding ON the cars
the other day, was amused by the qucs-
tion Of a little girl, who, hearing the
conductor cry the stations, looked up
into her mothers face and innocently
asked: "Say, mamma, do we get out at
the next holler T'-S. Louis Republscan.
The following sonnet (says the Scots
mdn) has been written by the Poet Lau-
reate for a new work published by =
Boston firm, entitled Laurel Leaves"
BLACK EYES
There are three things that 6ll my heart with
sighs,
And steep my soul in laughter (when view
Fair maiden forms moving like melodiest r
Dimples, rose lips, and eyes Of any hue,
There are three things beneath the blessed
skies
For which lve--black eyes, and brown,
and blue;
hold them all most dear-but oh! black eyes.
live aud die, and only die for you.
OF late such eyes looked at melville mused
At sunset underneath a shade wy plane
In old Bayonne, nigh the Southern Sea
From halfopen lattice looked at me.
saw no more, only those eyes confused
And dazzled to the heart with glorious pain.
"A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the other
day wrote note to his washerwoman
and one to his girl, and, by a strange
fatality, put the wrong address ON each
enVeiOIe anu ScuS tucm Ons Auo w"Ni.o'
woman was well pleased at an invitation
to take ride the next day, but when
the young lady read: eff you muss up
my shirt bosoms, and rub the buttons of
my collar any more, as you did the last
time, | will 20 somewhere else" she cried
all the evening, and declares that she will
never speak to him again.
m ,py aptruurrvc-
Rosebud, dainty and fair TO see,
Flower OF all the world to me,
Come this way on your dancing feet
Say, how much do you love me, sweet!
Red little mouth drawn grsvely down,
White brow wearing puzzled frown,
Wise little baby Rose Is she,
TRYING to measure her love Tor me.
al love you all, the day and the night,
All the dark and the sunshine bright,
All the candy in every store,
All the dollars, and more and more,
Over the tops of the mountains high,
All the world, way up to the sky"
The doctrine of atavism--which
means, in the scientific slang Of the day,
reversion of the traits of ancestors-
has moral bearing which has not been
sufficiently considered. There Is sweet
comfort in it for the sinner. When a
man has an attack of stavism, he is, Of
course, not responsible for his misdeeds.
His great -great-grandfather Is acting
through him. When the force Of scien-
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