The Osceola times., 1876-03-25
FACTS AND PANCIRs.

off the shirt and puts on another, quiet-
ly smiling all the while. he never,
never speaks to soul. oh, no!
A couNTRyMAN went to sec his lady
love and wishing 10 be conversational, OBJ
served, "The thermomokrcn n twenty
degrees above scion this evening"
"Yes," innocently replied .he maiden
"such birds do fly higher some seasons OF
the year than Others"
WALL street brokers who advertise IN
country papers and send out circulars
asserting that money in sums OF 700 to
| IS 900 invested by them In their way
leads to fortune. cautiously omit to state
who gets the fortune. II is not the man
who furnishes the money.
THE Princs Of Walez y : mighty hunt
| er. Nimrod Is no where. B0xed ep ~
bomb-prpof tower, he actually killed
tiger drlv.n towards him by beaters,
and all Albion rings with acclamations
of praise and rejoicing. Unless he Ii
belied, however, he has hunted the
tiger when the beast got much the best
Of him.
THR membership Of trades unions in
New York city has fallen from $4,000
in 1873 to $4,000, and of the 10000
artisans, mechanics and laborers In the
CITY about one-third are out Of employ
ment. Wages in all OF the building
trades have come down to " day,
and those Of laborers and 'loDgshoremen
to 81 a day.
NEGRO women in Jacksonville, 1ndi-
ana, sell babies for old rags. A rag ped
dler discovered one in sack Of old rags
which he had purchased. II was white,
and the negro woman said she was board
ing il for white woman. Her story Is
that the child crawled into the bag, and
she did not know it was there when she
sold it. The little waif was nearly smoth-
cred when found.
SOME young ladies' of Whitmore lake,
Michigan, undertook 10 get up dona-
ton for Rev. T. Z. Pierce, by retailing
kisses. and succeeded in disposing OF
ninety, for which the aggregate receipts
were four dollars and q half But the
investors complained that the girls
pinched up their lips, and skimmed the
measure to such degree that they made
profit Of one thousand per cent.
IA MAN." says the New York Times,
"may be failure AZ United States
senator; he may even disgrace his coun-
try in a foreign official position; or he
may steal the peoples money, wear
prison stripes, and still manage to rub
along very comfortably through lie.
But TO fail as car conductor is to be =
social and moral wreck. To have ones
bell-punch and twenty-five dollars de-
posit taken away Is To be sent upon .
cold and heartless world vagabond."
A MODEL for wonderful ferry across
the British channel and the Atlantic has
been tried in England. The structure
consists of three parallel tubes, lar enough
apart to allow paddles 10 work between
them. the whole being linked together to
form single vessel, covered by deck,
on which the inventor, Mr.. Edgarton,
proposes to carry railway trains and a
thousand head Of cattle ut time. Inc
| channel passage is TO be made with these
ferries in an hour and half; and cattle
are to be transported across the Atlantic
at the rate Of two pounds head. =,
The Scientific American says oi the
"Great Britain" one Of the first made
iron vessels, and one Of the earliest to
ply between New York and Liverpool,
that she has recently arrived at Liver
pool and completed her thirty-sixth
trim around the world. The Great
Britain" /" was built at Bristol, England,
and in July, 1876, made her maiden
voyage from Liverpool to New York in
fourteen days. Since 1882, independ-
cntly of her employment in the Crimea
during 1854 and 1855, she has sailed
over one million nautical miles, ana
when recently surveyed she was pro-
nounced ono of the strongest vessels in
the mercantile marine.
GIVE know the public Is down upon
u.s." remarked the old milkman, a. ne
dipped out the desired quart from one Of
his big cans, "but the public Is mistaken.
In the fust place we put In leetle wa
ter--only a bit, TO make up for shrink
age. 1t goes to the big dealers, and they
amt bit keerful when they git TO pour
ing in water. They sells 1t to the gro
GERS, and they put in chalk with one
hand and water with the other, and tney
are thinking of politics and get In too
much. The servant gal goes after milk
for the family and drinks third OF II,
and she puts in water to make up tho
measure; and, you see, when the family
gits il. the taste amt there, and they
goes for US poor old men, who hasn't q
dishonest hair in our heads. That's the
way, mister-gee up, there, HomerF
SOMEBODY relates this little story for
the benefit Of christian trsdesmen A
gentleman wandering through the ba,
Ears desired to buy an embroidered
handkerchief Of Turkish shopkeeper.
He asked the price. "Seventy-nve
masters" "No," said the gentleman
aware that it is usual among all traders,
whatever their creed, to ask at nrst
more than the value; THAT is too mucn
l will give you seventy" and ~ tne
dealer seemed to assent he counted out
the money. But great was his surprise
when the heavy-bcarded Osmaiiii,
rrayely pushing back to him twenty
piasters, observed "This is more than
the lust price. 1t is always the custom
here TO bargain over thing down to its
| fair value, and as fifty piasters Is my
fair price, those twenty belong to you.
SexE curious relics were found in the
old elm of Boston Common. A hattened
bullet was discovered imbedded In the
trunk eighteen rings from the center
and beneath the tree was medal which
is described as follows: e II is OF lark<
size, of copper or bronze, and has me
dallion head on one side, and on tht
other figures Of Justice with scales and
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