The Osceola times., 1877-02-17
FACrS AND PAyCtE;.

TIE grave Of Gen. Lee II kept cJn-
stantly adorned with flowers
soxE Of the Virginia girls say Alexis
makes himself really quite too far more
than awiully agreeable
THE Berkshire Mas ice product il
so clear that newspaper may be read
through three feet OF II.
BLATANT conceit-The impression ON
the part Of our opponents that they have
right, equally with ouraelves, to
opinions Of their owp.
A FRENCH tourist, on a visit TO the
centennial last summer wrote home:
"Americsns live we'll up to their income,
and insure their lives for the balance"
IT Is perhaps true that the indiscrimin
atecharity does more harm than good,
but jurt at present indiscriminate
charity is not nrolifc enough to justify
the hoistiny Of storm signals.
WESTERN paper, in describing an
accident recently. says, with Much can
dor; "Dr. Jones was called and under
his prompt and skillful treatment the
young man died on Wednesday night"
fHE CstLolic Directory for 1877 re.
ports that the number Of Catholic
churches In th,, country is 5.292; of
pie Is, 5 297. The estimated Catholic
population is 9, 100000.
A WISCONSIN, lumbcrman offers thirty
dollars In cash for "a rattling good wife
-one who Ia not too high. h.nosed to grow
fat on bean coup" All females reaching
thi. point can go through without
change of cars.-Frrs Pres.
TEAcnER--Who was the FIRST man?
Brown (hcad boy)-Washington; he was
first in war, FIRST in--- Teacher--No,
no Adam was the hrst man. Brown
Oh! II you're talking Of foreigners,
'spose he wss.
HERBERT SPENCER fills out his para
graphs with such words Is "endogomy,"
''exogamy," "polygamy,' "monogamy,"
"polyandry," "polygly" aad "agna-
tion," thus enabling imperfect minds To
take in his meaning at glance.
BRiGHr-EYEs, on being told that her
heart was like a garden, where flowers
grew when she was good and weeds when
she was naughty, rendered 1t to the SER
want, "when ] am naughty have a
weed in my stomach
TnH Danbury News tays: "We are
all more or les, conceited until after We
travel" Is travel, then, a sovereign
remedy for conceit9 Dear James, come
west aud listen a few hours some busy
morning to the man who has been at
the centennial.
STRANGER, il you must have q pet or
perish, git young hedgehog--a male
one IL preferable and keep him housed
In barrel, aud view Inn thru the bung-
hole whenever. .yu feel lon~suRl. and II
this don't make yu feel happy, 1t GER
tainly amt pets that ails yu.-Josh
billings.
A CERTAIN way to keep anis from
sugar barrels. lard pans anc preserve
jar, tays one who has tried il, Is to tie a
string wet with kerosene around the
barrrl. can or jar. Repeat the wetting
Of the string with the kerosene oil every
few days.
TnE chap had legs like pair of slate
pencils. Small boy yelledto other small
boy: "Say, Billy, that feller's got a
heapo' courage to risk himself out ON
such legs as them, this weather"
Why! might freeze, break of,
stick in hi. body aud. bleed him TO death.
Ok examining some new Aowersin the
garden Of the Rev. Sydney Smith beau
tiiul girl who was OF the party exclaimed.
. Oh. Mr. Smith, this pea will never
come to pericctionw Permit me, then,"
said he. gently taking her hand and
walking toward the Plant, ITO lead per.
lection to the pea"
TINE, begir ming Of tie year. Fist
student Ito second ditto). Glad to see
you back" Second student, so glad
yo,l're glad" Fir-t student, "Glad
you're glad, I'm glad" Second student,
$50 glad you're glad I'm glad you're
glad" a realizing scene OF the awful
insanity to which they are drifting here
breaks ofFthc coliloquy.
AFTER the battle Of Chattanooga the
surgeons made several incisions in the
leg of soldier who had been wounded
in the knee by n muskct ball. Out OF
patiencc at last, the soldier exclaimed:
! Why are you carving me up ~?"
"We're trying TO find the ball" answer
ed surgeon. "Why didn't you ask for
the ball In the first placer" Indignantly
cried the soldier; there 1t Il in my
po~ketw
TnE late Jedcdiah Bushnell, pastor of
the Congregational church at Cornwall,
VT, one OF the wisest and best of men,
on an occasion Of some disturbance made
by the crying of an infant, paused in his
sermon to say; "Mcthers, don't stay
AWAY from the house Of God becsuse
you have no one TO leave your babies
with. Bring them with you, and If they
cry now and then IT will not distress or
discompose me half as much rs to see
your places vacant"
HERE lisa little Turkish romance in
nutshell. The sister of the sultan
married Mshmoud Bey, and died dur
ing the honeymoon, Of lung disease. The
lady In the case was twenty-nine years
old, had been SIX years widow, was
devotedly attached to the man who be-
came her husband, and married him
when he knew that she could live but a
lew DAYS, and she did this that he might
inherit her estate, estimated at $9,oO0,-