The Osceola times., 1877-03-24
FACTS AND FANCIHs.
THIS is called "washerwomen's year.
IL has fifty.three Mondays.

six pounds each may be used for dispers.
ing cluster of tomcats.
THERE Is an anxious inquiry among
the patriotic Ohioans, If president Hayes
can d all these vacancies among the
rear-admirals
ANY lady can press her bonnet over
into the new spring style by placing il
on pavement block and letting loaded
icewagon back over II lcnRthwise.
II you want to be in style, yeu will
wear an amethyst ring on the third
finger of the left hand. Also cough sadly
now and then, as II you were the last Of
an illustrious family.
The vital statistics Of Vermont show
that during the last ten years six women
have been killed by tipping over back.
ward while rocking In "the dear old
chair"
New Cook: "ifyou're going upstairs,
Mr.. Ruggles, you might just tell my lady
that II she can't wnte the "Afenoo' In
French, ! shall be very 'appy to do 1t for
her !"-Pmch.
"My son." said doting mother 10 her
eight-year- old, "what pleasure do you
feel like giving up during the lenten
season." "Well, / gues I'll stay away
from school" was the reply.
THERE are In Connecticut, NewtDersey
and New York hat manufactures which,
il run at their full capacity, could easily
make in two months all the soft hats the
country would demand In the next six
months.
A LAWRENCE Mass young man has
been fined five dollars for making two
girls laugh in meeting. This policy Is
calculated to keep young men away from
church, and then the girls will look
solemn enough.
A CONTEMPORARY asks: care spit.
toons unhealthy" Our Acquaintance
with spittoons is not very extended, but
Judging from the bad breath cxuded by
the few we have encountered, we sh0nld
say they had a disordered stomach, IL
nothing worse Nnrisfoscn Herald.
GYMNAsIUMs are being provided at
all the large barracks in Great Britain.
That of Tipperary cost f2,860. Tho
British soldier of to-day IL locked after
and indulged in manner which would
hu'o astouhuVu hir cNt-o 'uiUe'taIieu
grandfather.
A PAUPER in the New Castle, Del,
almshouse recently received q draft for
$500 from ireland to bear him back home,
where legacy of $4,000 awaited him.
In months time after cashing the draft
he had not cent left, and his friends
raised enough money to ship him to Liv-
erpool.
The Asters have given notice 10 all
their tenants-and they are numbered
by hundreds--tha after the first Of May
next q reduction Of ten per cent. will be
made upon their rents This IL the third
reduction ofa similar amount which
they have made since the panic, making
in all thirty per cent.
A SIMPLE methodlof rendering paper 90
retentive Of ink that ths latter cannot be
removed without leaving plain marks
has been lately adopted in France for
cheeks. The main feature Of the method
is the passing the paper through very
weak solution Of tannic acid in distilled
water.
Two French ladies' were conversing on
the Qualities and demsrits Of their own
fair sex. Said one with twinkle In her
beautiful blue eyes. 81 have never
known but two women who were really
perfect" "Who was the other!" asked
her companion, with smile on her 6ns
thin lip.
A RECENTLY appointed Scotch bailie
took his seat, for the first time, on the
magisterial bench. Looking sternly
around, "Hitherto there have been many
complaints "A to how impartially affairp
have been carried out here; but ] intend
that the business Of this court shall In
/ future be conducted neither partially
nor impartially."
GEORGE ELIOT, who is now in her
fifty-seventh year, has begun the outline
of another novel, which she IL determined
to make the world acknowledge as her
masterpiece, since it il not satisfied with
Daniel Deronda." 1t il said, by the
way, that Mrs. Lewcs' earnings have
been exaggerated; she has really
made no more than sl62,0O0 by heI
eighteen years literary work.
The plan Of buryingthe dead in wicker
caskets, and only foot or 30 below the
surface, is gaining much favor in Eng.
land. The Inventor, Mr.. Seymour Hay.
J den, has more applications for thess
caskets than be can supply, and iE many
cemeteries they are used almost ex
clusivcly. On the other hand, cremation
is becoming more and more unpopular, q
! result probably due 10 the growing favor
, in which this new invention is held.
"THE brink of the water" exclaimed
Mr.. Middlerib, bulging joyously into the
, sanctum, 'is broken--l mean the wink oi
the batter is b-naw, the wack Of the
! boker-aw, shaw. they brack Of the
: wnker is-shucky, the hrote OF thu
, baker is winken--.here where Is the near
est shooter dopf" And the old gentle
man was gone before we could ask him !
: he was trying to announce that the bacl
: of the winter was broken Bvriirgto,
: Hdwkeye.
SYDNEY SMITH once went incognito Il
, Deville, the phrenologist, to have hi
head examined. "This gentleman'scase,
said Devile, ais clear enough. Hi
! faculties are those of naturalist, and
see that he gratiies them. This gentle
man is always happy among his col
: iectious Of birds and ti.hes." aSir," ri,
smith, turning :around upon hin
solemnly, with widecpen eyes, ~ dom
know fish from bird"
A NICE young lady In west-side sun
. day school has class Of bright liStle boy
with whom she labors to have ev4ythiis
clearly understood, and to this = n
! quently calls upon the class to deahe ~
, ahard words" Happening to use -!