The Osceola times., 1878-06-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

PEARL bead ornaments and fringe will
trim many OF the spring bonnets.
SCIENCE hes got to explain how Jonah
rendered himself indigestible.
Our ancestors, the monkeys, couldn't
have been 20 ignorant, after all. They
we're all educated in the higher branches.
THE As.yrisn inscriptions reveal the
fact that under the Bsbylon kings it
WAS common TO cast men into burning
fiery furnace, and also into den Of
lions.
A FRRSCHMAS studying English
declares that, inasmuch rs number OF
cows are called cattle, why a number Of
cats are not called cowtle is thing he
cannot understatd.
AN old edition OF Morse's geograI by
says. "Albany has four hundred dwell
ing houses and twenty hundred
inhabitants, all standing with their
gable ends Ia the street"
Ira tar of one hundred dollars be
placed on every Chinsman landing In
California, the Imperial authorities at
Pekin threaten To impose similar tax
on Americans landing in China.
The New York dog,show was sorry
humbug. After the show an Arabian
collie dog, value IS 900, brought $50; a
cocker spaniel, valued at $500, was
knocked down at $75, and bull-terrier,
valued at $500, sold for 81.
WATTS went to writing hymns because
he found such stuff as this in the hymn
books:
aye monsters Of the brlny deep,
Your Makers praises tpout
Up from the ssnds, We codlirgs, peep,
Ana wsg your tsils about
"MY dear" she remarked through
the telephone that ran TO her husbands
office, "you ought TO be spanked for not
changing your shirt this morning" The
young bookkeeper who received the mes
psge didn't feel like keeping up the
dialogue.
"TFE test of chivalry in New York."
says an exchange, "is giving up your seat
in strt ct car to lady" The lady who
sets out with the determination TO travel
there until she witnesses the test embarks
in an enterprise that will absorb her
energies for the rest Of her life.
A CATFISH was recently caught in the
Mississippi river at New Orleans, which,
when opened, was found to contain the
skeleton Of a baby and and box Of
shoe blacking The box was open, but
when the backing was tried it was found
to be ss good as when first bought.
al SHOULD like to live to draw two
breaths after am acquitted, and then
would die satisfied, said John Smart, of
Burnet county, Texas, who mad lain In
Jail nearly year on a charge OF murder,
and was brought into court on his couch,
sick. At il O'Clock the verdict mot
guilty" was brought in, and at IL o'clock
the man died.
A LITTLE four>year old bounding out
OF bed one summer morning ran 70 the
front door, and seeing ram with large
spiral horns In neighbor's yard ACROSS
the street, bounded back TO his mother,
crying, Mamma mammal There's =
great big ting over in Mrs Ankin's
yard that looks like grest big thing,
and every time 1t sees me 1t looks at
me
An English merchant was dining with
q Chinese mandarin, when 1t struck him
that perhaps the dish which he bad
eaten Of ~ heartily might have teen
stewed cats, for he heard that they ate
cats in China. The ChiDsman didn't
know English, 40 his guest, aDxiously
pointing to the dish. inquired, Miow,
MiowY" "No, no." said the mandarin,
=" bow, wow"
on the shores of the Red sea the
natives insist on exposing a wound to
the atmosphers when they desire II
should heal quickly. NJ. DAbbadle
found that their treatment was justified
by result, the experience Of western sur.
geons Of eminence To the contrary not
withstanding. This Red sea practice Is
considered 10 owe its success TO the alb
sence In the air of microbes which sre 20
mischievo9s elsewhere.
ISeERsoLL observes: 4" To day the
newspapers are engaged in finding out
all the mean things that are done. Un-
less thing is q ksd thing it is not known.
II all the reporters of all the newspapers
would look through all the streets and
through all the houses of the country,
and find the name of some man who had
practiced seli.denial ior the sake OF bis
wife and children, find some man who
had given up all the property he had to
pay bis honest debts; who had gone ont
Of his house, given up bis pictures and
all there was of luxury, and taken his
wife by her hand and gone down to
poverty and penury in hut; II they
would tell the names of all the men who
had done generous deeds. / tell you every
newspaper in the United States would
be crowded with the names Of the men
and women"