The Osceola times., 1876-09-16
FACTS AND FANClES.

IT il sad To see Q man who has waded
through gore to rescue bis country from
the grasp Of the tyrant, 30 subdued after
marriage that even the flies take advan-
tage Of him.
APPEARANCES are deceitful. At
camp-meeting It is difficult to tell ffon
the background whether the man on the
front seat Is shouting glory or has just
sat down on tack.
In ten years the screw propeller has
entirely replaced the paddle In transat-
lantic navigation, the weight Of marine
engines has Diminished one-half, the
steam pressure has quadrupled, and the
consumption of coal has decreased two
thirds.
ANCIENT BRONxE.-According to .
German analyst the composition Of an
old bronze weapon, supposed to be about
two thousand years old, he's bean ascer-
tanned to be ninety parts copper and ton
parts tin, proving that tin was known to
the ancients.
THERE is man in Newark 30 close
that when he attends church he occupies
the pew farthest from the pulpit, to save
the interest on his money while the col
lectors are passing the plate for contribu-
tiens.
WHITTIER sent this little verse to an
autograph collector in England:
Thicker than water In one rill,
Through centuries d story,
Our Saxon blood has flowed, and still
We share with you the good and III,
The shadow and the glory.
A SCIENTIFIC writer says every infan
cansay "no" several months beforp u can
say "yes." An old bachelor who has
been rejected seventeen times says this
habit Of saying "no" before she can say
Eyes" clings to the female infant until
after she becomes twenty.seven years OF
age.
HrR Won DER SEEDEN, once . PruMian
official, has received the first formal per-
mission for fire burial. The bodies Of
his two children are to be subjected to
incremation and the ashes be sent to
their parents. The question Of crema-
tion Is said to have made decided pro-
gress among the educated classes Of
Germany.
A WOMAN in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
sold cut her husband for brindle COW,
calf, and $40 to boot. A former wife,
from'whom he had beea twice divorced,
coaxed him 10 return to his allegiance,
and the second wife, actuated by Q spirit
of accommodation and agricultural enter
prise, consented TO q separation Tor the
consideration named.
The motto for the week on little
girls SUNDAY y-schoo! card was, "Get thee
behind me, Satan" There were goose
berries in the garden, but she was for
hidden to pluck them. Pluck them she
did. "Why didn't YOU" asked her
mother, "when you were tempted to
touch them, say, Get thee behind me,
Satan p" al did," she said, earnestly,
"and he got behind me, and pushed me
into the BUSH"
The time-honored custom which Ger
man students have Of swadding them
selves up until they are invulnerable to
ANYTHING less than shot from krupp
gun, and then trying to scratch each
others noses with sword points, II show.
| ing signs of falling into disrepute. At
Darmstadt. one of the so-called dueIs
having taken place, the government OF
the university expelled one Of the COM
batants, suspended the other, together
with The seconds, and broke up the so
ciety Of which the warriors were mem.
bers.
Or Rufus Choate's wit . volume
might be compiled. Ofa party in suit
he said: why doesn't he pay back
the money LIE has i'll got? He Y %
much of villain that he wouldn't II he
could, and 90 much Of bankrupt that
he couldn't if he would" Of . very
crooked fight of stairs he said, How
drunk must q man be to climb those
ssairsp OF one Of his female clients b
said, "She is sinner-no, not sinner,
for she is our client but she is . dia'
agreeable saint" He defined the law
yer's "vacation" as "the space between
the question put to witness and his an
swer." Of the homely shief;iuseies
| shaw, al venerate him = the Indian
does his leg, curiously carved I -
knowledge thstih Is ugly, but ! NJ thas
he Is great" OF the constable who -
peated the word having" many tlnes
In his return, "He has greatly over
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