The Osceola times., 1877-06-23
PITH AND POINT.

Illh AND VhNAs
A CROSS dog will make the top Of .
hemlock board fence soft as downy pill
lows.
A YoUNGsrER says If he can't have
fireworks on the Fourth, perhaps when
he dies he can touch off the northern
lights.
The New York beauties walk out
with their pet dogs attached to strings,
and foreigners wonder at the number OF
blind ladies' going about.
PEOPLE who may be malicious are
stories to the effect that so.ne
of the springs at Saratoga are bogus, and
allege that the owners go there every
morning and throw In salt, old iron,
tomato cans and tenpenny nails. of
course this is very important--f true.
JOHN BULL, and the rest Of the great
powers around the table, to the Gar
+" Your imperial majesty, what part OF
the Turkey do you prefer :" The Car.
II you please, q couple OF sides, pair
Of wings, a brace Of legs, the neck, breast,
thighs and tail-piecc will do, but no
sauce" Table in an uproar, especially
on the part of John Bull.
IT is estimated that at least SOC, 1000
pilgrims will visit Rome during the
jubilee of the Hftieth year Of the episco-
pate Of the pope. 1t is supposed that
each Of those pilgrims will give to the
pope at least SO, making q total Of b.
900, 900. Add to this the amount that
will be sent by the churches, and the
sum may reach SIC, 100000.
BLuEglass ia on the wane. A Brooklyn
man, with weak eyes, tried blue glass
spectacles as remedy. The result was
that his eyes, already too weak to be
used in ordinary circumstances, were
exposed 10 terrible glare and heat,
which In less than week destroyed the
eyesight Of the sufferer. He Ia now
totally blind.
THE luphonious name of the first
native lady who, after successful matric-
ulation examination. has entered an
Indian university, Is Miss Chandramukhi
Bose. The Calcutta papers say that
there is great stir In the Bengal Zsn-
anas. Miss Bose Ia pretty, with an olive
complexion, dark hair and eyes, ID young.
has ripe, full lips and pearly teeth, and
her pet study Is the biennial theorem.
The lamblike manner in which the
Chicago and Cincinnati papers refer TO
their city contemporaries is being emu
lated in the far east. The Toxic Times
has been called names by the Japan
Mail, and retorts by publishing the FOL
lowing: Wanted-At the Office of the
Japan Mail, a copy Of Roget's Thesaurus,
to enable that journal TO diversity its
epithets."
The opponents Of the dummy engine
as a tractor on the street railway are
rejoicing over the fact that a girl has
been run over by dummy in Worcester,
Massachusetts,, and seriously injured.
There have been several persons killed
by cars drawn by horses only; yet ve
have not heard Of any widespread de.
mand that cars shall therefore be drawn
enly by men.
A MINISTER in Augusta, Me-, has q
son-a hopeful child Of four years. His
father expects he will be minister, and
the lad has talked encouragingly until
the first warm day Of the season, when
he gave signs Of having fallen from grace,
for the devoted child came to his father
and said, Papa. I'm not agoin to be .
minister" "What do you think OF
doinsY" asked the father. "Goin' to
drive ar ice-cart."
LYDIA SHERMAN showed great Gu !
nirg in planning and executing her
escape, but her presence Of mind seemtd
TO desert her when outside the jail walls.
She registered in Providence hotel an
"Mrs. Brown, Of Philadelphia." After
wards she told her landlady that her
name was Moore" and that she was
widow with six children. She showed
napkin ring on which was engraved
Lydia" and volunteered the informa-
ton that That doesn't say Lydia Sher-
man." but the police thought it did.
HE started cut in the morning happy
boy. When at dusk he returned with
bloody clothing, a broken finger, a
sprained ankle and big cut in his lower
lin, his fond mother asked him in alarm
"if he had been through q threshing
machine or had been the unfortunate
victim Of n railroad smash-up." Meth
er, mother" replied the youth, and then
triumphantly, "Never mind me. ma. l
have only been playing base ball; Our
side, the Lilies waxed the No Names
beautifully; score, 13 to g." and then he
sunk into confused heap on the Parior
carpet; revived little, lifted up his
head, muttered, "Jim, put that to nrst
and be thunderirg, quick about IT, then