The Osceola times., 1877-06-09
FACTS AND FANCIRS.
CoEvKnsArIoNAL.

CONVERSATIONAL.
| "How's your father %, came the vhisuer
Bashful Ned the silence breakine;
"Oh. he's nicely" Annie murnuFed,-
sn,iIingly the question taking
Conversation Tagged a mom.nt;
H6pelesr, Ned esaayed another;
| "Annie, I-1"- then a coughing,
And the question. " How's your mother ~
| Mother! Oh, she's doing finely y,
| Fleeting fast was all forbcarance,
When In low. despalSing aocents. l.4flt r.
CAmethe climax. " Hovs your parentsf"
A LITTLE boy startled lady friend Of
the family one day by remarking that
he was "four years old with his clothes
ou." ts -rs3 Es~t :,
TIE humblest can do something to-
ward making the local paper interesting.
II you cannot be defaulting bank clerk,
you can, at least, step on an grunge peel ;
and sprain your ear.-Rome Sentinel.
A CORRESPONDENT says he Is Ignorant
Of the origin OF the saying, Arise,
daughter, 20 to thy daughter, tell her
that her daughters daughter hath q
daughter He will probably find it in the
book Of Daughtef.oLomy.-Bos Boston Post.
|. The Chicago Journal thinks il Is this
way In Turkey: II he is a Jew, the
Christians kill him, II be 10 q Chris.
| tian, the Mohammedans slay him and II
be is Mohammedan, the Greek church
people come over and chop him up into
hash. 's
JOHN WEISS IL reported ~ saying, in q
lecture ON Music" st Boston, that
"the earthquake widens in concentric
circles till the earth's bosom swallows
up its own shudder, and ten thousand
harp strings snap ut the touch Of its
ruthless power" 1t must be worth ~
to hear what John says when he slips
down on q banana skin.
the nest of humming- bird is thus
described by Californian: ut Is
about a. large at the top as q half dollar,
and is made Of spider webs, downy feath-
err, with fibers Of bark and shreds of
cotton, all interviewer. The eggs, two
In number, were about the size OF small
white beans, and the young birds be-
fore they were Aedged, resembled bum
ble-bees."
A DOOMED TowN.-We learn that
Cedar City, in this county. ii In hapless
condition. All hope Of saving the town
has been abandoned, and the people are
moving out. All the houses that could
be moved are being pushed back toward
the hills. The depot will also be moved.
Quite number OF convicts are at work
to stop the ravages OF the river, but their
labors are hardly sufficient to accomplish
30 difficult task. Captain Eads, the
great engineer, has visited the place, and
recommends deep spiling - the only
thing that can possibly stop the washing
away Of the lands threatened nov with
speedy destruction.-Fuiton (Missour)-
Telegraph.
The population Of the Indian territory
Is about 1900. The wild Indiana by
blood, called "blanket" Indians, who do
not cultivate the soil, are the Osages.
Cheyennes, Arspahees, Kiowas, and
Pawnees, and number 10000. Those
mixed with the whites who are partly
civilized are the Cherokees, Greeks, Sem =
inoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws. A
white man marrying a squaw becomes
"a white Indian, and a white woman
marrying an Indian becomes "a white
squaw." There are also a lot Of "black
Indians" who are negroes, Altogether
these number 55,0O0. Besides these
there are $500 "negro citizens OF the
United States" formerly slaves Of the
Chickasaws. They do mot rank o. In
dians, while "black Indian" does.
TIVE English are somewhat alarmed at
the danger which their great ironclads
would run IN time ofwar from torpedocs
like the Whitehead torpedo. 1t Is in
sisted that the British navy should pos.
sess the newest and most varied means ot
launching torpedoes Of every kind
against the enemy The Whitehead
torpedo can be directed against an {
enemy's ship l,0Oa yards, and in partial
darkness the vessel bearing y would be
sbIs 70 approach any large ship'w without
danger. The. simultaneous attack Of
three torpedo boats would thus imperil Z
the safety of the most powerful IRON
clads. Purely defensive measures, ,Asafh
as enveloping the ship with skirt OF
wire Lets, must be Of little avail. The
best mesns of defense is to give each
ironclad a couple. Of satellites in the
shape Of fast steam torpedo beats, armed
Il Al l.