The Osceola times., 1877-10-13
NUMBER %.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

meat from other states annually.
The triumph of woman is 10 be loved
deliberately by an impulsive man.
WADE HAMPTON can call over 5000
citizens of South Carolina by name.
The question as TO who Is the Sickest
Man of the east is now in much doubt.
1T is truism not to be gainsaid that
truth is more of stranger than fiction.
LITTLE expenses, like mice in barn,
when they are many, make great waste.
SINCE woman must die 1t is perhaps
well enough to wind up obituary notices
in Oregon style, viz: She was forty,
very good looking and always did her
own work.
"How is it that you have never Kim
died fame in any mans hearth" asked
rich lady of her portionless niece. ~
suppose, aunt, it Is because Pm not
good match" mAekly replied the poor
niece.
"THE funeral was all that could be
expected" says an aged lady who looks
upon these events with an artistic eye.
"The display of flowers was grand, and
the widow wept like born angel
Rochester Democrat.
THE other day little girl Of three and
half, while playing with her Aunt
Aice's ring, lost it. Both looked for 1t
some time without finding it, when, in
despair, the little one said: "Come,
Aunt Ii, let's cry!"
"MusrNG on the infinite, eh? said
aktfaIx ~ ~
individual who was walking along the
roadside with bowed head and serious
countensnce. well, yes; same thing
thinking of my debts"
THE humorist of the New York Times
agely remarks: "No wise man argues
with scientific person. The latter can
always overwhelm him with unsavory
scientific terms, to the Use of which no
selfrespecting man can descend"
WHAT do you cal. large amount,
Mr.. Tweed 2" asked one Of the examin-
ing New York aldermen. cat the
time, " replied Mr.. Tweed, +" ! could call
$5, 900 large amount now l call any
thing from IS up large amount. T"
A GuILELEss boy was deluded the
other day into picking up the handle. .ota
galvanic battery. lie yelled Justify until
they "shut her off," and in describing
his sensations he said he could taste green
persimmons all over himself.-Bu Burlington
Hdwkeye.
EVEN the most refined and polished Of
men seldom conceal any OF the sacrifices
they make, or what IL costs to make
them. This IL reserved for women, and
is one of the many proofs they give Of
their superiority in all matters OF sfec-
tien and delicacy.- W'9mon.
LET your sleep be necessary and
healthful, not idle and expensive Of time
beyond the needs and oonvenicnces of
nature; and sometimes be curious to sec
the preparation which the sun makes
when be is coming forth from his cham
bers of the east.-Jeremy Taylor.
POVERTY, except where there is an
actual want of food and raiment, is a
thing much more imaginary than real.
The shame of poverty--.the shame Of be.
ing thought poor---is great and fatal
weakness though arising in this country
from the fashion of the times themselves.
---C0bbeH.
GALL babies born in the Oneida com.
munity ere at once taken from their
mothers and given TO some other woman
TO nurse, and the babies are changed
around 30 that no neither ever rears, or
even knows, her own child" Remarks
by various mothers outside OF the COM
munity "l!!!!!?f?g?Yl!!!!l"
A SPIRITUALIsT doctor of Philad elphia
reports "a death-bed where those assem-
bled, while singing hymn, had their
spiritual eyes opened and saw the dead
brother issuing out OF his mortal tene-
ment, Joining bis wife and child and
floating away" If the dead brother ha0
been man of two or three dead wives,
the scene weuld doubtless have been
much more interesting. The problem ~
to whether female spirits ever pull hair
might then have been settled forever.
TALKING through mans body is the
latest achievement Of the telephone. The
wires we're cut and the man held the
ends in his hands, The current was pro-
duced by the magnets Of the telephone
and conversation was carried on. The
experiment was continued until five men
we're put il the gap to complete the CIR
Gle, the resistance then being equal u
twenty-five times the length OF the AT
lantic cable.
ON the 2Oth of August a curious case
of poisoning by nicotine occurred In
Turin. Giovanni Deloges, sged seven.
teen, visited that city in compliance with
an invitation from his uncle. Aftel
l.:- L. :o;nad bis uucla and apypra
friends in the room allotted him during
his stay in Turin. There they dranl
light wine and smoked continually unit
the early hours When the company
separated lie did not cease smoking unit
nearly overcome by sleep. His rscm wa
completely impregnated with smoke, ant
the young man, sufiocated by the ex
cessiye quantity of nicotine he ha1
inhaled, never woke again, although
every effort was made to revive him
DR.. Tessier, of Turin, was OF the opinion
that death was the result OF poisoning