The Osceola times., 1878-04-20

which the Roman pOntiffs have been
famous, to be sold.
The late Mark Hopkins, of San Fran.
cisco, left an estate valued at ST., 5,o00,-
600, but no will hss been found, and the
enormous fortuue will have to be divided
between his widow and adopted son, who
was picked up from the humblest condi.
ton and taken into the folds of the i'm.
Peria) purple of wealth.
A PARIS surgeon recently had occasion
TO administer ether to beautiful young
lady from Lyons While she was in.
haling the gas from the sack light was
brought near, the ether was ignited,
and, the sack exploding, the doctor was
seriously burned and the patient terribly
injured, her nose being taken off and one
side OF the upper jaw laid bare. The
doctor committed suicide.
OF the silver. dollar rage in the Quaker
City, the Philadelphia Inquirer says
Thousands of dollars in new coin were
at first sold in quantities OF FIVE dollars.
People bought them for distribution
among their families, and countrymen
made money by selling them to their
neighbors at an advance of ten cents on
the dollar. A store in Market street
used fifteen hundred of them in two
weeks rs change to customers, and two
saloons which make high bids for the
custom of each other became 30 intense
in their rivalry that one of them
purchased thousand dollars in silver
and five hundred in gold, sold at a
trihing advance, and gave this to Gus,
toners in change"
THE New Orleans Times thinks that
the mocking-birds have not been driven
off by the English sparrows. Among
the many peculiarities Of the mocking.
bird a fondness for a fight is marked.
These birds never hesitate to attack all
other birds, or even animals, that inter
fere with them. They have been known
TO fearlessly attack the largest hawks and
drive them away from the neighborhood
of their nests, and pitch inte the yard>
dog or pfoudest rooster, when they acci.
dentally strayed too near the nests OF
their mates. Their abandonment of the
city is most probably due to depredations
upon their nests by ruthless boys or
speculative dagoes who trade in their
young"
THERE are plenty of newspapers in
Mexico, but they are, geographically
and editorially, queer specimens. They
have neither local nor telegrapbic news
TO speak of, but are ponderous in the way
of leader" and literary lore The ab-
sence of local news is distressing
feature. You scan their pages in vain
for accounts of fires, murders, public
meetings, reviews of troops, political
meetings, court reports, or any other
events which with us 20 to make up the
local columns A bull fight, if it is a
good one, is eulogized to the extent Of a
dszen lines. If a poor one, the Monitor
of Monday will dismiss it with a para
graph like the following: "The bull
fight at Tlslnepanlts on yesterday was
msls malissima. ."-[ Hardings Mexican
Notes.
The employment of women in the
telegraph department has been a com-
plete success in England. Over one
thousand one hundred are employed in
London, and there has been but one dis
missed in four years. Their hours of
work are from eight O'Clock in the morn.
ing to eight in the evening, each being
on duty eight consecutive hours out Of
the twelve. In the establishment there
are kitchen and diniug.rooms and the
girls have thoroughly good dinner for
twenty cents. The pay begins at two
dollars week, which is raised to three
dollars when a girl is competent. Girls
may enter from fourteen to eighteen.
The average pay received is four dollars
and half week, and the highest is
seven dollars and hall week. A clerk
who has worked for thirty years at seven
dollars and half a week would have
three dollars and seventy-fve cents a.
week pension.
GEN. GIBSON says of the nay of the
American private soldier "The thirteen
dollars paid the soldier is over and above
all the reasonable wants of the kind OF
men we are anxious to get in the military
service. But this is not all, for after the
soldier has been two years ia the service,
his pay, under the admiral system to
which we are indebted to the late Vice-
President Wilson, is increased one dollar
per month in each OF the succeeding
years, 30 that when he has completed his
term Of five years he draws at the rate Of
fifteen dollars month; the increase,
however, is paid him only on discharge
from the service, and is forfeited unless
he serves honestly and faithfully till
discharged Should he then elect to
re-enlist for another five years service he