The Osceola times., 1877-10-20

Kicking fallen man about the head il
called In London the Yankee touch"
An Oregoners comment on seeing q
railroad train for the first time: "That
thar lead mule pulls powerful fine"
"HE who boasts that his heart has re-.
mained whole, confessess that he has only
a prosaic, out-ofthe-way corner heart"
"HUMAS beings, like the ground, must
Re plowed and narrowed before they are
in receptive condition before It ID any
good to SOW seed in them"
FIasT speaker -" There goes an Eng.
lishman; ] can tell by the cut Of his jib. .
Second s." Why, that fool thcre9 Ho,
hO Hes from New York.
THE monster that has becn Topping
about in the Mississippi near st. Louis, il
pronounced by the World TO be the
Observation-Disclosures
GOODWIN SMITH says; II is the
fashion to accuse the Americans Of un-
limited voracity, but they seem really 70
be about the only people who look at a
thing before they swallow It,"
"WHo will love my baby now? were
the last words OF Mrs. Siep Chin, wife of
Kwsng XII Chin, Chinese Interpreter for
the Harvard students. Here is a golden
opportunity for new song.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's grave Is closely
guarded, and the phrenOlogist who wants
to know how big the prophets bump Of
amativeness was will have TO wait long
time for the tough old skull.
CONFUCIUs, q man who charged Meth
Ing for preaching, used ~ say: Coarse
rice for food, water tn drink, and a
bended arm for pillow-happincss may
be enjoyed even in these"
A PAIR of boot.lasts have been made
for Leonard Wilcox, Of Rome, N. ",
who is seven.ieet high and weighs xix
hundred pounds. The lasts are twenty.
two inches long and eighteen around the
instep.
ALL the other PASSIONS condescend at
times TO accept the inexorable logic of
fact but jealousy looks facts straight In
the Ease, ignores them utterly, and says
she knows q great deal better than they
can tell her.-Hips.
"To some minds, education is like the
notion of dress-something which should
be literally trimmed, which should have
its rough edges bound, its basting threads
pulled, 20 a. to give no hint Of process,
and then worn and displayed 10 the best
advantage"
To man weighing two hundred
pounds, hanging appears TO be rather
pleasant. Mr.. Burns, Of Missouri, .
pekon of that weight, was hanged four
tunes, and he says that he lest con.
sciousness every time On soon as his feet
left the floor; that he felt ne pain at any
time"
And 50 beside the silent ses
wait the muiied oar
No hahn from Him can come 70 me
On ocean on shore.
know not where his islands lit
Their fropded palms In air
l only know cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
cit is many things to its many dwell
era, this world is. 1t is hsme; it is a
workshop; it isa place of amusement; II
il school with trouble and pain for
teachers for the devout, it is church
TO worship in; and for those who have
eyes to wee, it is the wisdom, and the
glory, and the love OF God"
Or Chicken Charley, a Salt Lske thief,
IL is said: ala will steal nothing but
chickens. You can trust him anywhere
or with anything but chickens. II he
comes into she society of chickens, he ID
bound to steal them. He has served out
several imprisonments for this same
crime. the last year in the penitentiary;
but he was no sooner a free man than he
was indulging his old passion"
SONNET.
"Ay, thou art welcome, heavens delicious breath
When woods begin TO wear the crimson leaf.
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow
brief,
Aud the year smiles, as it draws near its assth;
wind OF the sunny south oh still, delay
Ia the CAV woods, aud In the golden cir.
Like 70 good old age. RELEASED from care.
JourneyinG, In long serenity, away.
MICH, i wsar oa, iii Iis s Ike thee S' %ia bower. and
brooks
And De rer yet, the sunshine Of kind Loo h,
ud music OF kind voices nigh;
nj When my last sand twinkles In the glasr,
Pass silently nom men. as thou dost psss"
The phenomenon Of phosphoresence At.
sea has generally been supposed u be
csused by electricity. Sci ntists now 20.
sert that electricity has nothin - do
with the matter They claim thr /, is
due 10 microzoa which exis's far down 10
the sea depths. and rises at certain ~easops
Of the year. There are different SPECIES
The principal one, according tn Pouchet
is the military poctilucs. Their sub.
stance is a d,aphamous Jelly. In the
tropicol sess they are seen in perfection
The whole broad surface of the sea h ,
blaze Of light. Tongues Of liquid FIRE
dart f.om before the prov of the ship NJ
it plows along and the wake ot the ves
sel seems like line, somewhat white,
and more beautiful than the normal con
dition Of the sea before it was disturbed
THE old Egyptian and ASyrian he'd
the downward slope Of the eye and n,
calves on the legs. The same with tbs
Greeks and other old savages. The mer
had no calves. Wherever we find ~,
downward slope Of the eye and NO caIve
we find fansticism and ignorance. Shov
me a man without calves and Win sbov
you nincompoop. The cat has dow.
ward slope Of the eye, and the cat 4 !,
fanatic. In Massachusetts We hsye
statesman with downward sloue a. ~
eye, or rather both eyes and = Z
fanatic. I refer to General Butlsr. a,
other thing: Our forefathers had ~
noses. Having small moses they nuuche'
their food yes, munched it. Your s.ss1
grandfathers actually munched ~
they ate. Az they grew more civlll~,'
they cut their meat, their iavp S-1s
smaller and they gradually ate ft.