The Osceola times., 1877-07-07
CURRENT EVENTS.

Egypt exports more rags tnan any
thing else.
The young ladies take degrees at Cor
nell university.
The public library of Boston now con-
tains 314, ,265 volumes.
Rural Kentucky continues 10 clamor
for the whipping-post.
Germany il the principal buyer Of
Kentucky bluegrass seed.
The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed
ten different papers In its days.
The attendance ct the Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
Colorado is shipping wild sage to TIE
east, to be used for medicinal purposes.
A Genesee, N. ". barber advertise :
Ecstatic Shaving and Phisiognomical
Hair Cutting"
Jacksonville, Fla, hes just been
forced by a mandamus to raise money to
pay the city bonds.
A Marshall, Mich, paIoon bartender
made his three year old hoy beastly
drunk for the amusement Of his pstrcna
The clipper Canterbury hes sailsd .
race from New Zealand TO London IN
sixty.fve days, the fastest time on
record.
The san jose (Cal.) Mercury says that
"the stubborn fact 10 presented that the
grain crop this year will not sufAcs Tor
horsc.feed,"
A mansion now building In New York
has Pompeiian room, the woodwork Of
which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid bg.
ures, and psnels Of anar:nth wood
painted by hand. sfnrniturs i'
holstered with raw 3.
bordered with crimson w.
A Battle Greek, Mich, Latest
given breakfast at tho housk
Hall, says the Journal, but MnHIN(
noticed that he did not eat, and pr4s
ly he got up from the table. The hos
ess asked him II he was sick. mo, II
amt sick, but am going to 90 whsrs
can get decent breakfast"
OF the forty members Of the gradua-
ting class at Williams college, twelve ase
to be ministers, seven lawyer, four ply
siciAns, three business men, three teach
ers, one a journalist, and the rest are
undecided. Every man h fteetTadef,
and there are ten who class thenselvee
a. independent in politics.
A statement published IL the Globe
Democrat, shows that, while there weIs
2,888 deaths In st. Louis during The
period from Jan. to June 20, there
were only seven hundred and twenty
eight births for the same period. This
shows net loss of 2,160. st. Louis No.
lies principally upon her directory
maker for gain In her population.
Torpedo balloons are proposed BY
correspondent Of the Scientific Amer
ican. The idea Is to float the balloons
over the nemy, and drop the TORPEDO
by means Of electricity sent over wire.
II il calculated that q city could b
totally de troyed in this way BY dropping
sufficient quantity Of nitre-glyceFins.
The other day William Kief, Of New.
ark, N. J.. was cleaning his finger nails
with pair Of scissors. His young vile
began teasing him to buy some furniture,
and he became angry and threw the
scissors at her. The two blades penetrar
ting her eyes just beneath the eyeballa.
A physician said that the woman could
not recover her tight.
The German American matrimonial
help society is Philadelphia concern
which promises 70 give every member
$500 on marrying; but the member hnds
that In initiation fee, monthly dues, and
assessments he Is compelled to pay much
more than he gets. The assesgmentsy
too, are in many cases made on the poe.
sibly fictitious marriages Of nembers h
distant parts Of the country. The COM
rany has sent out gorgeously litho.
graphed circulars, referring 70 nineteea
Philadelphia merchants and clergymsa
as indorsers OF the scheme; but evefy
one of them has, in published State
ment, repudiated it,