The Osceola times., 1876-11-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A CYNICAL lady, rather inclined TO
| flirt, says most men are like cold, very
easily caught, but very hard to get rid of.
A PRETTY reply of French mother:
(Which of your children do you love
most?' always the one that is absent"
SOME boarding schools fit young ladies
for keeping boarders after they marry
and have husband to support.
A DAUGHTER of Mary Fairfax Som
merfield the mathematician, is about to
erect monument TO her mother in
Naples.
MAJOR PAULINE CUsnMAS, who was
a spy in the war and Afterwards an ac-
tress, has opened hotel at San Gabriel,
| California.
To get UP handkerchief hirtation-
| rule firstsget two handerchiefs and two
| fools. The other five rules are unneces.
sary.
A CLEAN of delight passes over the
anxious brow OF the housekeeper, like
wintry sunbeam falling across stock
ward. as she sees the flies that have made
life burden to her, flatteped hopelessly
against the ceiling with chilblains.
"WHEN was president did not 20
hunting. ! wrote sixteen hours day."
--Thiera "He loved books and was his
torian by trade. War is my profession,
and make war on what can--I hunt"
--MacMahon.
CHILDREN must have love inside the
house and fresh air. and good play
and some good companionship outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in the world of whitening or
growing stunted, or at best prsmaturely
old and turned inward on itself.
"OH, mamma, that's Capt. Jones'
knocked kno,o he has come to ask me
to be his wife !"
"Well, my dear, you must accept him F."
"But thought you hated him sol"
"Hate him +? | do--so much, that !
mean to be his mother-in-laww
/ CERTAINLY never said anything
against woman's rights, and they always
seemed to me TO be a kind of rights, that,
if might judge of my practical ex-
perience, are very apt to take care OF
themselves. say this as married man
OF long standing. Hodr
A MILWAUKEE paper reports zone hun
dred and twenty three deaths from small
pox, of which thirty-three were fatal"
The disease must have assumed an ex-
tremely violent form if this statement Ia
trustworthy. When, in the course Of an
epidemic, death becomes iatal7 the com.
munity afflicted should lose no tifnexinn
electng a new board OF health.
THEY were two peanut venders. and
when they met they set their baskets
down and hooked hands silently. Then
one said. COWS the trade Bill, wild
yer now p? aHawful," the dried-up old
man replied eyer see the eastern
question and that pivotal business in
New York is crushing us down. | tells
you fears the markets a going up, and
80 | laid in stock for the winter. Pve
invested forty cents as speckerlation,
and if we don't have war in Turkey I'm
a ruined man."
, Who hath seen Mule die'
Hath the vision Of Man eneompassed one upon
his Last Legs and about to Keel oser9
| Nixy, my boy, for the mule IL immortal
| lie lived thousand years and thsn Braeeth
Up and taketh a Fresh Hold for years
such is the Vastness, the Grandeur, the Greatness
of the snimie He Is Big Thing
$ why is he a Thing that is Big2
. Thou fool, go TO tue Ant and Consider
he Is Big bcoause he is not Little, and
Bigness difsreth from Littleness even as the Flea
dinereth from the Barn door.
Be wise, oh Man, Pad out thy skull with Knowl.
edge and learn Wisdom OF me- the Poet OF
Nature. Martin f. r-PP-R.
Ir is great thing to be able TO see
point Here is a happy instance OF abili-
ty in that line. A countryman, wander
ing with his wife through the art gal
leries of the Philadelphia exhibition,
stood before Riviere's picture Of Gree
and the companions of Ulysses. He
! = eazcd earnestly at the painting, wondered
!, what was meant by the handsome young
= = woman playing on her Tyre, while herd
: of swine wallowed and tumbled about at
: her feet. He then looked up the pic
). ture in his catalogue and pondered over
' the title, "The companions of Ulysses"
! Said he "Well, if that isn't the hardest
slap old Grants got yet"
t TAE Scientific American prints the
I following comforting intelligence for
l. persons who are daily annoyed by tobacco
+ iiends: "The effects OF tobacco-smoking
l. are discoloring of the teeth by carbon,
excitement OF the salivary glands by the
ammonia. headache and lsssitude from
e the carbonic acid, disease Of the heart
+ from the carbenic oxide, nausea from the
}, bitter extract, and tainting OF the
/ breath by the volatile empyreumatic
It substance Tho system may become used
/; to these thing, yet is made liable 10
1t consumption, nervous exhaustion, 10
alysis, and other ailments"