The Osceola times., 1877-03-17
FACTS AND FANClES.
II Was Net Love.

u Was Net Lsse. s
| The banquet o'er the ballroom charia
| Awhile seemed gone the lights had isded
fair ANNA took my rsene'ed arm
Ana In the hall We promepaded.
| But while-ber hand within my own
We whi-pered words Of softest meaning.
felt her shudder, heard her grcan,
Aud found her gently 'gain-t me leaning.
"what, dearest, thus thy bosom stirs'"
asked. las, doth Loves soft in,isd--
| v" Then she pressed my hand in hers.
! And murmured. 'Oh, tvt lobster saisi."
ATHENS, Greece, with $4,000 people
has fifty periodicals.
THE English marine has lost two thou-
sand ships by disaster in the last year,
and America is only few behind that
figure. The sea is merely grave covered
by water.
A CLERGYMAN at Manitowoc, Wiscon-
sin, rushed s'female out0f church. because
she criticised his sermon. A Jury CRIT
iciscd him to the tune Of ten dollars.
CALIFoRNIA panthers now crawl into
hollow logs TO escape the pursuit OF
California girls. Where can California
men 60?
EHGLIsH journals complain that the
tone of American journals Is not M high
as it should be. Let us all commence
tomorrow to say nothing and be more
like English ncwspapers.--Free Press.
PUNCH, apropos Of the late wet
weather in London, offers the following
sentiment: "Thc empire on which tho
sun never sct--and (of late) very seldom
raisesv
THE Austrian army h gradually 10
exchange its well known white uniform
for blue. Half Of the Infantry will re-
ceive blue tunics this year, and the rest
of the troops will receive them in 1878.
The poet who wanted to he n granger,
and wrote "beneath the tall tomato-tree
I'd swing the glittering hoe" was not NJ
badly informed as he seemed. Mr.. Scott,
OF Los Angeles, Cal, has a tomato-vins
twenty-five feet high.
IT has been discovered by eastern men
that it costs one hundred and twenty
five dollars per week TO take care If trot-
ting horse during the season. The horse
may go at 2:20, but the money goes at
2:19.
A FOREIGN critic says that no rival Is
40 serious as the 'sympathetic. vain mar.
ried woman who has petted and fattered
| the bachelor and Is bristling with anx-
iety to do the same kind Office for tho
benedict.
II could have my way" cried the
aged Neal Dow at Portland meeting,
! the other night, ~ would make IL hang
+, ing for the first offensc, for that's what
| II has got to come to-" Selling glsss
Of cider was what he referred to.
A CONNECTICUT girl who found her
self in unpleasant company after ac-
cepting an invitation to take a sleigh
ride with young man, dropped her
handkerchief on the road, and, when he
got out to pick IL up, applied the whip
and drove home without him.
TALK about America and England be-
ing christian nations, there is not
christian nation that would make room
for Christ il He should come. Not city
on the face Of the earth would invite
Him to come II il was put TO popular
vote. There is no reom for Him. The
world doesn't want Him. Not only
that but hsw many churches there are
that would not have Him. Moody to The
BostoBidn.
A Contributor 10 a religious paper
says: "While we were singing the dox.
ology counted sixteen persons putting
on their overcoats. /. should have been
better had been worshiping instead Of
counting, but it was almost involuntary,
and did not take more than ten seconds;
while those stout worshipers wrestled
with their garments, and, wriggling into
them, finally stood erect in time tocome
out with the words, "by oil in heaven"