The Osceola times., 1876-09-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


TEXAS has nine railroads in process Of
construction.
CALIFORNIA has the largest lunstic
asylum in the world.
AFTER all, the real emblem of liberty
is night key, and 1t ought 70 60 on the
flag.
MRS. STOWE says II isn't half 20 hard
to love as to unlove. And yet shs was
never addicted 10 the weed nor took
bourbon straight.
"6o," said a lady recently to an Absr-
| deem merchant, "y0ur pretty daughter
has married rich husband" "Well,"
slowly replied the father, l believe ~
has married rich man, but ! undeTufond
be isa very poor husband"
A FLArTERER Is said to be beast that
biteth smiling. But it Is hard TO know
them from friends, they are 30 obsequi.
ous and full ef protestations; for ~ q
wolf resembles dog, 90 doth hsttercr
friend.-Ssr Walter Scott.
The farmer who sent his son to New
York to become clerk now writes ask
ing the merchant whether there Is any
thing In the boy" "Yes," replies the
merchant. "just after he has been To
saloon"
A SAFE RULE.-It Is good 1 safe
rule to sojourn in every place AZ ough
you ment to spend your life then never
emitting an opportunity of doing kind
ness or speaking true word, or making
q friend. Seed thus sown by the way
III IN - b~;,,ru ,pxh b,, nj N ~ ba avvo.t
AN Illinois editor has produced
play in which living fish are nightly flop
ped upon the stage by an actual angler.
The audience enjoy the piscatorial ago.
mics quite as much as II they were dol
the angling themselves. -
As the rain falls impartially on the just
and the unjust, no the pale moonbeams,
that lend inspiration 70 the lovers vows,
creep through the cracks in the henhouse
and shows the midnight naturalist where
the best pullet Is roosting.
A vARkwxLL.
NV iairest child, have no song 70 give you.
No lark could pipe TO skies 20 dull and prey,
Yet, ere We part one Iesson can leave you
For every day.
Re GOOD, sweet maid, and let who viii he clever,
10 noble things, not dream them. all day long.
And 30 make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song
Coon nature Is more agreeable in con-
versation than wit. and gives certain
air to the countenance which is mnrc
amiablc than beauty. It shows virtue In
its fairest light, takes Of In some measure
from the dcformity Of vice, and makes
even folly and impertinence supportsble.
-Andison.
"WHAT IL the chief use Of bread :"
asked an examiner at q recent school ex-
hibition. "The uss Of bread,v an
swered the urchin, apparently aste-..
ished at the simplicity Of the inquafy,
ais to spread butter and jam on it,"
WE are told that " for man, love is
a story; for women, 1t Is history"
This Is pretty, but facts are stubborn
things, and 1t doesn't do TO omit all men,
ton OF his twelve-hours- a. day dig fof
family bread and butter and her trouble
over the baby's cslic.
THE jury acquits the prisoner, . SER
want girl accused of having poisoned her
employers, and the judge tells her that
she Is free to 20, and then adds: "I
want a cook, my good woman; but,
nevertheless, may say that it will
hardly be worth your while TO apply for
the place, even with this verdict by way
of reference"
You KNOW now IT Is YoURsELr.
An old farmhouse with the meadow wide,
And sweet with clover on each side
bright-eyed boy who looked from out
Tho door with woodbine wrea ned about
And wishes hisone thought all day;
"Oh II could hut fly away
From this dull spot the world TO see,
How hsppy, happy, happy,
How happy would 5eP
Amid the city's constant din,
man who round the world has becn
Isthinking, thinking all day long,
"Uhl II could only trace once moro
The field path to farmhouse door,
Tne old green meadows could see,
How happy, happy. happy,
How happy would beP'
A WOMAN in Covington, KY, sneczcd
80 violently the other night that she dis.
located her law. and when her husband