The Osceola times., 1877-02-03
NUMBER "A.
FACTS AND fANCIES.

THIS is positively the latest | would
| were school marin and among the
school marms band, with a small boy
stretched across my knee and a ruler in
my hand.
THAT Sioux Indian talked sarcasticaI-
ly enough TO the government official.
Why don't white man put Injun on
wheels, like brave at tobacco store, 80 he
can be wheeled around easy?"
LAziNEss is not always evenly dis
tributed over fellow. You may have
known great many lazy people, but
did you ever know anybody who didn't
use his mouth enoughl
Ir is the right of every domestic ami
NAL to have good food, good air and good
shelter from the weather, and it pays
their owners, in every way, TO furnish
them.
CONVENIENT is not brawler, nor
dsturber of tac peace, but should the
sheriff want him for purpose, he would
sooner look for him in the poor mans
cottage, than in the rich mans palace.
Miss COLEMAN is the richest lady in
Washington, and one of the wealthiest in
the country. The greatest part of her
princcly income is derived from coal, and
her mines in Pennsylvania are said to be
inexhaustible.
THE Moors, after occupying Spain
over seven hundred years, and making it
during the middle ages the home fagri-
culture, as other arts and sciences, were
expelled in 1892, the same year Column
bus discovered the new world.
WHEN some one asked Choate how he
was going to avoid the force of some very
ugly facts, and how he expected to shut
the eyes of the jury to it, he replied,
"Why, sir, | shall jump them right over
it,"
THE ice crop Is enormous this season,
and suggests the probability that the
consumption of water in liquid state
next summer will be proportionatcly less.
"If we can have cheap ice" said man
with blossom on his nose, 1--WE don't
really need any water"
"TRIPLErs," said the doctor sententious-
ly. The husband of year rushed out
on the back porch, thought upon his
slender income, glared upon the snow
clad yard and exclaimed with wild,
mocking laugh: "Son-struck in Janu-
ary."
LEANING over the gate last week, says
"Hohokus," saw approaching a pretty
girl that | had not seen before in three
years. exclaimed: "Well, Mollie, Pm
so glad to see you that I've half mind to
embrace you" Drawing herself up to
full height, the ready answer was "Sir,
do you take Inc for an opportunity"
PINEAPPLE shirts and coats will soon
appear in the market. The pineapple is
cultivated extensively in the East indies,
where the leaves are converted INTO "a
kind of wadding used for upholstering
purposes instead of hair, and INTO sort
of flannel, of vnich SUBSTANTIAL coats
and shirts are made.
A RoME miss of seven summers has
concluded to maray big man for her
first husband and little one for the sec
ond, SO that she can cut the clothes OF
tho inst down and make them over for
MS successor. Thus the hard times
force home lessons of rigid economy
and practical sense upon tender child
hood.
ONE of the most noteworthy provis-
ions made by cardinal Antonelli in his
will is in regard to his servants. 1t is
arranged that those who had served him
twenty-five years shall have their wages
continued to them for the rest of their
lives; those who had been with him fiji
teen years shall have two-thirds of their
wages and other servants one-third.
WHEN King Theodore, of Abyssinia,
committed suicide, the English officers
found and brought away a little boy,
the son and heir of the dead king. The
lad has, been educated in England, in fact
the queen has in manner adopted him.
The prince of Abyssinia isnow at Rugby,
visits the royal household during his
holidays, and is studious but not smart.