The Osceola times., 1877-03-31
FACTS AND FANCIES.

CARDINAL red parasols will be worn
next summer, and IL will be difficult to
distinguish woman from meteor three
blocks away Hdwkeye.
MASSACHUSETTS pays $4,000 o year
for the encouragement of horse. e.trotting,
dividing the money among thirty 80
called agricultural societies.
WHEN Vermont editor gets up and
refers 10 Wisconsin man as Wiscon-
sinner, the latter simply telegraphs back
that he wants nothing more to do with .
Vermontstrosity.
Ducks, geese and chickens are ahip-
ped from Tennessee to supply the Jack
sonville, Fla, market. One thousand
and seven hundred head were shipped in
one day.
A YOUNG Madagascar brought into
France inquired Il all Frenchmen arc
doctors. Asked why he thought 70, he
replied that they all took his hand and
asked after his health.
"AT Florence, Arizona, there lisa res
taurant kept by q Chinaman, with .
Mexican wife, negro cook, and white
woman for q waiter" Hash with any
hind Of hair-dressing promptly served.
THE peach buds are uninjured, tie
wheat Is all right, cotton Is fine, tobacco
promises we'll, and IL we knew who would
be elected in 1880, we'd feel like going
ahead and laying out cspital.-Nssc
York Mail.
SAN FRANCISCO has over thirty mill
lionaires. One of them, Peter l)onohue,
or "Uncle Peter" as he Is called, owns 4
railroad ninety miles in length, built
with his own money, and has not .
penny OF stock or bond out.
WHILE we are erecting tombstones
over dead martyn and placing laurel
wreaths on the brows of living heroes,
don't let's forget to drop tear on the
grave of the man who conceived the idea
Of putting potato on the snout Of a
kerosene can.
IT was refreshing variation from the
general run Of speeches at temperance
meetings when man got up in Pitts.
burg the other day and remarked !:
"Ladies and gentlemen, to bring my
nose to this state of blooming perfection
has cost me at the least $10, ,000."
WHEN Mr.. Evarts writes . sentence,
he rolls it up like bedchord, and winds
the end half dozen times around the
middle, and then tucks 1t underneath, 20
that nobody can find 1t, and II won't un-
ravel. It Is az simple and easy to under
stand as sliding down the ragged edge
of n cross-cut saw.
The Keyof the Gulf says: The sponge
fleet, under the direction of the admiral,
have returned into port with full cargo
Of the best sponge seen for years. some
six thousand dollars was paid out last
week, and perhaps double that amount
is nearly ready for sale. Admiral Skel-
ton Is the only master who can detect
the sex among spengcs.
GALVESTON (Texas) News: A. Mil
lett, of Baylor county, with his brother,
own three or four ranches, on which they
have about 70, 900 head Of cattle. Cattle
are in fine condition, and prices range
from six dollars to twelve dollars, herds
selling in round lots at about ten dollars
a head. Land ia worth frsm one dollar
to two dollars an acre, and the best has
already been taken up or located. Tho
country is beautiful, and abounds with
game.
CARDINAL MANNING has given notice
to his clergy that no music taken or
adapted from the theatre, the opera or
concerts, OF which has become familiar
through secular usage, shall be sung At
mass or benediction or used as voluntaries
or interludes, and that the music used
shall be as congregational as possible.
He has also banished ladies from his
choirs 20 thoroughly that not . female
voice is heard in any Of the churches
under his jurisdiction.
AFTER all the talk about frivolous
and immoral" France, 1t appears that
there are mere illegitimate births In
Germany. In France the illegitimate
births are but seventy in one thousand
while in Prussia, out Of one thousand
births, one hundred and twenty are IL
legitimate; and in southern Germany
two hundred out of one thousand arr
illcgitimate. In lower Austria this pro
portion runs up to two hundred and five
and in Corinthia nearly every othe