The Osceola times., 1877-01-27

sach"setts town, says the local paper,
bound east.
A SERVANT girl who had been admon-
ished by her mistress to he very careful
in "washin up" the best tea-things was
overheard shortly afterward indulging in
the following soliloquy while in the act
of wipng the sugar basin: If | was to
drop this ere basin, and was to catch it,
| suppose shouldn't catch it; but If !
was to drop it. ant wasn't to catch 1t,
reckon should catch it."
LIFE OF LEAF.
flung leaf on a summer stream
That pucked IRON an adci tree, -
Aud watched It lance in the sunny beam
"Oh for life like that leai, cried,
"tloating along on the sunny tide
Over the water came a breeze,
And II hurried the leaf alolg;
Down TO the margin stopped the trees,
And they whispered gentle song.
"Oh fora life like the leaf cried
"Ever in sunshine and song to glide"
Fast sped the leaf on Its joyous way, ~
Til II reached the rocks In the river,
Over the ledge. amid foam and spray.
Went the leaf and WIS lost forever.
"Ah, mel Is life like the eaf'' cried
like the leaf the echoing rock replied
ADoNIs-Miss Jones, do you think
Brown so awfully ugly? Miss J.--UglYi
No, indeed Why we all think hiXlu
tremely nice-looking Adonis
was talking to him on the st
now, and lady passed. and l
say, "That's the ugliest ma
saw |" And there was nobody
him and me
LET's 90 shares!" This VI
mon expression among boys
were young, and perhaps it is n
Dumb Animak. They must
very nice boys. There have
who said "Iet's go in snuck out it
may be doubted whether any boy, unless
it was little Richard Grant White, ever
said "let's go shares"
The fastest time across the Pacific has
been made by the Occidental and Orien-
tai steamship Oceanic. The ship arrived
Unexpectedly at San Francisco on the
2eth ult., fourtaan. days and fourteen
hours from Yokohoma, beS by
twenty.one hours the time of theC
Peking of the Pacific mail line, on RI
trip, which up to that time had ~
best across the Pacific.
ONE of the peculiarities d
correspondents at the natioI
is that they speak of every rot
dered man as having the studd
They seemed to lack that bread
prehension necessary to enable
understand that a congressmarie
round-shouldered from being cradles
coal-hod before he was large en0ug
sit in an upholstered chair and spit
bacco juice.
KITTY OF CoLERAINE.
As beautiful Kitty, one morning, was tripping
With pitcher OF milk from the fair OF Csie-
when she saw she stumbled--the pitcher II
And ali the sweet buttermilk watered the plain.
Oh what shall do now Twas looking at you
Sure, such pitcher III neer meet again.
Twas the pride OF the dairy; on, Barney M'Lesry,
You'er sent as plague to the girls OF Cole
rsneP
| sat down beside her, and gently did chide her
That such a misfortune should give her such
A kiss then give her, before did Leave her
She vowed for such pleasure she'd break il again.
l, was hay making season, can't tell the reason,
Mi-iortunes will come single--,hats plain
For very n after poor Kitty's disaster,
The devil pitcher was whole In Coleraine
AFTER-DINNER orator." It's in the -
wonderful insight inter 'uman nature
that Dickens gets the pull over Thack-
eray but on t'other hand, it's in the
brilliant shafts O satire, tgether with q
keen sense of humor, that Dickery gets
the pull over Thackens. It's just like
this: Thickery is the humorist and
Dackens is the satirist But, after all,
it's 'bsurd to instoot any comparison be-
tween Dackery and Thickens." So none
was "instooted. ."-London Judy.
IT was at a party the other evening,
There was Iu1l in the conversation,
which made the host, who was inexper-
ipced in party matters, somewhat ner-
yous. In view to relief he asked
mountaineering man, who was set like
q packing. box up in one corner, if he was
married. "No, | am bachelor" stiffly
replied the sober man "Ah !" OBJ
served the host, warming up with the
subject. How long have you been
lachelor?" There was another lull in
the conversation.
TaE Roman Catholic bishop of Not
tingham, England, (Dr. Bagshawe) has
issued pastoral, in which he says he
regards boarding-schoolsa infdel schools. =
He deplores the present method Of bible
reading and he questions whethsco,
would be worse to exclude the ssM,
altogether than to have it ta'~ s Nv
present. Warning his flock ag1 ss =
sphilosoghical inidelitty ssthas .ha :. ~
DR.. Bagshawe says such works ca
studied safely except by the ait
Catholic tutor, as to learn phil11
theology from a non-Catholl
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Condition of society
was furnished TO cG
Charleston, 3. y
old darkey was
his room, VI