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The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
A Mathematical PhilanthrOplst.

He was boy with nineteen cents in
his fist. He counted the money at the
corner of Woodward avenue and Con-
gress street, again at the corner of Jefler-
son avenue and once more on Griswold
street and there was no more nor less. He
wa. boy who wanted to do good with his
money. His first desire was to buy
nineteen barrels of -four for nineteen
peor and worthy widows. but after
figuring little he found that he couldn't
do it. Then he got an idea that he
might offer a gold medal as a prize to the
Woodward avenue car driver who should
drive his car the nearest to one mile in
an hour, but he replied that some would
drive in an hour aud thirty minutes,
some a second slower or a second faster,
and the strife might result in the death
of three or four horses.
al think I'll come right down to Jaw.
breakers 70 once" he said as he sat down
in a doorway. "I kin buy nineteen jaw.
breakers and make nineteen boys happy,
including myself. Jim! Jim !"
Jim came down from the corner, and
the philanthropist said
"Jim, if you had nineteen jawbreakers,
what would you do with 'em?"
Eat every burned one in forty sec
onds by the watch" was the prompt
reply.
pist to boot. black across the way.
The sinner came over and was asked
"Would ohe jawbreaker make you
"For just about ten seconds" an
swered Sam.
The philanthropist walked away from
them, and rs he reared candy store he
mused:
81 igger that one jawbreaker will make
me happy for half an hour, and tha'
nineteen jawbreakers will last me nine
teen days. BY giving them away al
happiness is gone in ten seconds, and all
iawbreakeis are gone in forty. Isn't j
better for me to eat the hull nineteen
Would this world be any bettert to morrow
il | sowed eighteen jawbreakers broad.
cast Casting bread on the waters is all
right, cause bread won't sink, but one o
them jawbreakers goes right to the bot
tom like hunk O. lead
He entered the store, sheIled out his
change, and said
Gimme the worth o. this in jaw
breakers, and please do up the package
so it II look as If was carrying home an
old Goldfish ."-- Detroit FREE Press.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
The Cat. a London .Hin-Palace.

II was about $50, fairly set in, and
the street below was lit through its en-
tire length by fame jets from gas and oil
and naphtha, that the crowd began to
make its appearance. From my observa-
tory | could see through the whole
breadth of the plate.glass windows Of
the Cat, and scarcely yard of the ample
space before the bar, provided by five
compart ments, was hidden from me.
There had not been much doing at that
establishment as yet but the decks were
cleared for action, and the crew of mus
cular barmen were evidently prepared
tor action. There were four of them,
strong and hearty fellows, in their shirt
sleeves, which were rolled back above
their elbows, and with white aprons, but
with neither shirt-collar nor neckerchief,
the object evidently being to avoid any
superfluous incumbrance that might
impede free action when the time ior
displaying it arrived. Mr.. Chowler, the
proprietor, was present, but he wore his
glossy hat and his black coat, and his
frilled shirt with the emerald studs, and
lounged negligently at the door of the
private bar, smoking cigar in manner
admirably adapted for the display of the
two large diamond rings with which his
short and chubby little finger WAS
adorned. The queen was in her count.
iughouse, counting out the money in
other words, Mrs. Chowler, wearing the
sleeves of her black satin gown short
enough to fairly reveal her heavy bullion
bracelet, was busy in the parlor with a
cash box and tray, setting out count.
less heaps of change for sovereigns and
half sovereigns, handily counted out and
all ready. Seven-7:30 came, and at
present the four stalwart barmen had
he'd such an easy time that began to
think | had unfortunately hit upon an
exceptionally slack night. But my
alarms were soon dissipated. At 7:30
counted sixteen people drinking at the
bars; at 7:45 there were thirty-lhree; at
s:l5 there were so many, and the five
doors were so constantly opening and
shutting for the ingress and egress of
customers, that | found ii impossible TO
keep count, aud gave up the task as
hopeless. There was no rush ss yet.
However elaborate the carving and gild.
ing and cumbrous ornameEtation on the
liquor vending side Of the bar, the most
rigid economy as regards space was OBJ.
served on the drinking side of it. In each
ofits five compartments (Which included
the great principal one, capable of afford
ing standing room for perhaps one hun
dred persons), everything was as naked
and bare as a warehouse. Not a chair,
not form TO sit on, not table or so
much as an upturned tub TO rest glass
or pot on. But as there was by no
means roam enough at the !oug length
of bar to accommodate the groups Of
friendly drinkers, who, as the night ad-
vanced, poured in thicker and faster,
there was nothing for them to do but to
stand in the midst Of the restless mob, in
clusters, sore pressed for elbow room, as
they turned their measures of gin into
the glasses. or raised the shining quart
pot out of which they were amicably
swigging.- Bslgracia.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
OSCEOLA ARKANSAS SATURDAY, H.

4" Porter is at work." he said. "The
clouds are the smoke of exploding
bombshells." Very soon we met an am
munition box; then a dozen, and then
an acre of them, floating in the
sea. The testimony OF these mute
witnesses of combat was soon
confirmed by the sullen roar of
artillery that fell upon the ear. We
arrived at the scene of conflict Just as 1t
had ceased. A heavy pail of sulphurous
smoke, made blood red by the settings sun
behind it, hung in the still air over Fort
Fisher. Porter had, indeed, caused the
louisiana, under the command Of the in
trepid Capt. Rhind, to follow in the wake
of a blockade runner, at midnight, TO
within three hundred yards of the north
east salient of Fort Fisher. There she
was anchored, and at two o'clock in the
morning the powder was exploded with
out any sensible effect upon the fort or
the garrison. The shock was felt like a
slight earthquake at Newberne and
Beaufort, but the garrison of Fort Fisher
thought it was the effect OF the bursting
of the boiler of blockade runner. Prob
ably not e.fitth of the powder was ig-
nited. The fort seemed untouched by
the explosion, for the edges of the parapet
were as sharply defined as Benson
j. Losing in Phiid. Weekly Times.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
Personalities.

Mr.. Oscanvan, formerly consul.general
at New York, has lost the suit for 100000
brought by him against the Winchester re-
peating arms company.
Di Murska is fond of pets. She keeps
in her room an affectionate mouse, two Aus
tralian magpies, Scotch poodle and re-
markably profane parrot
ID. r. Yates, champion checker player
of Brooklyn. is contestinga match game OF
ten games in Boston, with w. II. Barker, the
best player in New England.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, has
been made an honorary member of the Phil.
osophic Society OF Great Britain, OF which
the earl of SALISBURY is the president.
Sir Wilfred Lawson, the well known
temperance member of parliament, says that
jail chaplain told him that only one teeto-
taller was ever brought before him. and that
was a man who whipped his wife for getting
drunk.
Miss Ella Die:z and her brother Frank
are Civ ing readings in London to large and
apprecia,ive audiences. The papers speak
OF their entertainments in enthusiastic terms.
Ella and Frank are the sister and brother Of
Linda Dietz.
Mr.. Edward Kimball. of Chicago, the
church debt extinguisher, has been the trav-
cling agent for u school furniture manufac.
turing firm. He was formerly connected
with the same church and Sunday-school on
Beacon hill, Boston, (lhe Mount Vernon
church that sent forth Moody and Cough.
Spurgeon recently remarked that he
had often thought, when hearing certain
preachers of a high order speaking to the
young, that they must have understood the
Lord TO say, Feed my csmelopards," in
stead of Feed my lambs" for nothing but
graiies could reach any spiritual food from
the lofty rock on which they place it.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12

II will be remembered that in August, 1865,
a special military commission sat in Wash.
ington to try Wirz, charged with destroying
the lives of soldiers confined in Anderson.
Vile military prison. The crimes of which
Wirz was convicted, and for which he was
hanged, were less offensive to the code Of
modern warfare than those imputed to Os.
man Pasha. Every day brings to light new
horrors at Plevna.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12

A YOUNG lady Of DIR. Tiffany's church,
New York, has updertaken to build, at
her own expense, seaside home for sick
children, the first expense of which is to
be about 1000
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12

Tne genius o; modern literature tends
To short words. Saxon words are pre-
fen ed to Latin. Why not use, for in.
stance, photoprinted instead OF pho
to,ithographed." -
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Names Of Russian Generals.
ny ROBERT soUTRY,


There was FormaEow and Jsmalow
And all the Others that end In ow;
Milaredovitch, and Jalo sovitch,
And Ksratchowitch,
And all the others that end In itch
Schamsehtf. soueho atth,
And Schepalen
Aad all the Others that end In Ell;
Wasittschikoff. Kostoniarof,
And Tchoslokof,
And all the others thai end in OF;
Rsjef,ky, and Noveresky,
And Rieff.ky,
And all the others that end IN tfisky;
Oscharohssy, and Rosiofl.ky,
And all the others that end In onsky;
And Piaitoa he played them OF,
And Shouvalof he shoveled them on,
And Markof he marked then of
Ana kro-snof he TOSSED them of,
And uchkoff he touched them on,
And Borostof he bored them Oh,
And KutGusoff he cut them od.
Aud Psreakoff he pared them of.
And Worrouzoff he worried them on,
And. Doctor he doctored them OF,
And Rodiosof he hogsed them Of.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-12

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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05

We take pleasure in announcing that we
have made arrangements with the publish
er of the CHICAGO WEEKLY News which
enables US to offer that paper to our sub
scribers as premium, at no additional
cost ovor the regular subscription price OF
the REPUBLICAN.
For one subscription price we thus fur
nish our subscribers with two papers-a
metropolitan and home weekly. BY
this arrangement our subscribers are pla-
ced in command of the whole situation.
All events of interest, local, national and
foreign will be presented, completely and
promptly, by the one or the other OF these
two publications. The single feature of
full and trustworthy Chicago market quo
tations will be worth, to many OF our
readers, the entire subscription price.
To those who are not familiar with the
CHICAGO News, we would say it is the
best representative of independent jour-
nalism in the west The WEEKLY NEWS
is q large eight column folio, 'cram iull"
of telegraph and general news, short and
pithy editorials on the topics Of the day,
written in a very familiar, incisive style,
and in all its departments evidently aims
to give facts in few words, without the
verbiage aud fine writing which render
so many of the large. metropolitan jour-
nails "a weariness to the flesh" Facts,
not words appear 10 be its matto.
All new subscribers TO the REPUBLICAN
and all old subscribers who renew before
the first of January, will receive the
WEEKLY NEWS six months as premium.
j. w. SlDERS Il CO..
Pub Republican, Plymouth.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
Judge Riyes and the Preacher.
[From the scottsyiI.e, Va, ocurier.l

tFrom the Scottsylle, Va, Ccurief.l
Judge Alex. Rives, when young
man, saw good old preacher riding
down the Monticello road (then a
single track. A boy, with long
cross cut saw lying crossways on his
horse. and also coming down the
same narrow road, some distance in
the rear Of the preacher. The boys
horse ran away, and as he was ap-
preaching the pious divine, the latter
sprang from his horse and scrambled
up precipice. Whereupon the Judge
exclaimed: "Bless my life. Mr.. -,
you have told me that you were
ready, willing and anxious to die
why then struggle so hard to get out
of the way of that horse and saw?"
"Well, Mr.. Rives." the good man re-
piled, II am anxious to die, but do not
wish to be sawed to DEATH"
This circumstance reminds us OF
the following from the Courier Jour
nal:
"If man is going to the woods to
commit suicide, and bull suddenly
gives chase, the chances are that he
will run for his life. or course he
will run. He is going to the woods
to commit suicide and not to be
killed by a bull, Besides, do you
suppose man wants to have his last
moments disturbed by a personal
difficulty that may cost him his life?'
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
The Great Wall OF China. .

The great wall OF China was re-
Gently measured by Mr.. Unthank, an
American engineer engaged on sur
vey for a Chinese railway. His
measurement gave the height eigh-
teen feet. Every few hundred yards
there is a tower twenty-'our feet
square and from twenty to twenty
five feet high. The foundation Of the
wall is Of solid granite. Mr.. Unthank
brought with him brick from the
wall, which is supposed to have been
made 200 B. q. In building this i'm
mense stone ience to keep out the
Tartars, the builders never attempt
ed to avoid mountains or chasms to
save expense. For 1900 miles the
wall goes over plains.and mountains,
and every.foot OF the foundation is oil
solid granite and the rest Of the
structure solid masonry. In. some
places the wall is built smooth up
against the bank, or canons, or prec-
ipices, where there 10 sheer descent
of one thousand feet. Small streams
are arched over, but on the larger
streams the walls run to the waters
edge, and a tower is built on each
side. On the top OF the wall there
are breastworks, or defences, facing
in and out, so that the defending for
ces can pass from one tower to an
other without being exposed to an
enemy from either side. To calcu-
late time of building, or cost OF this
wall. is beyond human skill. So fal
as the magnitude OF the work is con.
cerned, it suTpasses everything ir
ancient or modern times OF which
there is any trace. The Pyramids o.
Egypt are nothing compared to it,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05


Among the Seminole Indians there
is singular tradition regarding the
white mans origin and superiority.
They say when the Great Spirit made
the earth be also made three men, all
OF whom were fair complexioned, and
after making them he led them to the
margin OF small lake, and bade
them leap in and wash. One obeyed.
and came out purer and fairer than
before; the second hesitated mo-
ment, during which time the water,
agitated by the first, had become
muddled, and when he bathed he
came out copper-colored; the third
did not leap until the water became
black with mud, and he came out
with his own color. Then the Great
Spirit laid before them three pack
ages, and out OF pity for his misfor-
tune in color, gave the black man the
first choice. He took hold OF each OF
the packages, and, having felt the
weight, chose the heaviest; the cop
percolored man chose the next heav-
lest, leaving the white man the light
est. When the packages were open,
the first was found to contain spades,
hoes and all the implements of labor /:
the second unwrapped hunting, fish
ing and warlike apparatus; the third
gave the white man pens, ink and pa
per, the engine OF the mind-the
means Of mutual, mental improve
ment, the social link OF humanity, the
foundation of the white mans superb
oritv
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05

deep pinch to both~- ~-nostrills, drew 1t
up with a gusto. Then extracting
from his pocket a very large hand
kerchief, which flowed to his feet as
he brought it to the front, he blew
his nose with report that rang dis
tant and loud through the crowded
hall.
Webster: Mrs. Greenough, was
Mrs. Bodgen a neat woman?"
Il cannot give you full information
as to that, sir. She had one very
dirty trick"
@Whnt was that, ma'am?"
"She took snuff"
The roar OF the Court House was
such that the Defender Of the Consti-
tuition sat down, and neither rose nor
spoke again until after Mrs. Green
ough vacated her chair FOR another
witness, having ample time to reflect
upon the inglorious history of the
man who had stone thrown at his
head by woman.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
ga Dirty Trick.O

Lawyers sometimes resort to ques-
tionable methods in order to destrCy
the effect which the testimony OF a
truthful and intelligent witness has
upon a. jury. Mr.. Webster once tried,
in an ungallant way, to break down q
woman's evidence. and he met more
than his match. 1t was In the some
what famous case OF Mrs. Bodgen's
will, which was tried in the Supreme
Court. Mr.. Webster appeared as
counsellor for the appellant.
Mrs. Greenough, wife OF Rev Will
liam Greenough, late of West New
ton. a tall, straight, queenly-looking
woman, with keen black eye, wo-
man OF great self possession and de-
cision Of character, was called to the
stand, a witness on the opposite side
from Mr.. Webster.
Webster, at a glance, had the sa
gacity to foresee that her testimony,
il it contained anything of impor-
tance, would have great weight with
the court and jury. He therefore re-
solved, If possible, to break her down.
And when she answered to the first
question put to her, Il believe" Web
ster roared out:
"We don't want to hear what you
believe; we want to hear what you
know!"
Mrs. Greenough replied. "That was
just what was about to say, sir"
and went on with her testimony.
Notwithstanding his repeated ef-
forts to disconcert her, she pursu-
ed the even tenor of her way, until
Webster becoming fearful Of the re-
suit, arose. apparently in great agita-
tion and drawing out his large snuff
box, thrust his thumb and finger to
the very bottom, and, carrying the
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
Essential Points of the Resumption
Programme.

Washington Special to Cincinnati Gazette.l
The details Of resumption are the
constant subject OF interest. Every
Congressman who arrives endeavors
to find out about them, and nearly
every member who maEaes investiga-
ton of his own has different theory.
The explanation OF this is undoubted-
ly that full details have not been de-
termined. 1t is is quite probable that
as soon as these have been decided
upon, an official announcement OF the
programme will be made. in order to
strengthen public confidence and to
remove needless uncertainty. Mean
while, from all that can be learned
FROM every source, it is believed that
the following will be the essential
points in the resumption programme:
First-United States notes will be
redeemed at the New York sub treas
ury in gold or silver coin at the op-
tion of the holder Of the notes, with
out limitation as to amount.
Second : Legal tender notes of
special issues, OF large denominations,
will be delivered in place OF gold cer-
tificates, and there will be no further
issue OF gold certificates.
Third-Holders of notes, who pre-
fer gold instead OF silver, will obtain
gold, and the treasury will not force
upon the holder OF notes the kind
OF legal-tender coin that is not de-
sired.
Fourth-That legal tenders, even
without the enactment of any law af-
firmatively authorizing it, will be
everywhere desired for custom dues.
Fifth-That silver dollars will be
exchanged for legal-tenders or Ma
tional bank notes in multiples Of
81 900 at any State treasury or Ma
ton bank which is a United States
depository, the expense of .ranspor-
tation to be paid by the mint. This
is the plan which was inaugurated in
September last, but was so suddenly
discontinued, on the ground that
there was no authority OF law to ex-
change silver for legal tenders until
after January 1st.
Sixth-That perhaps arrangements
would be made at the sub treasures
other than at New York to redeem
legal. tenders in coin within the limits
and interests OF the place, but not in
large sums.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
The Mystic Sounding Church Bells.

Manitoba Lake, which lies north
west OF Fort Garry, and has given a
title to the province formed out OF the
Red River region, derives its name
from small island, from which, In
the stiffness Of night, issues mys-
terious noise. On no account will
the Ojlbways approach or land on
this island, supposing 1t to be the
home OF the Manitoba, the Speak
ing God" The cause Of this curious
sound is the beating Of the waves on
the "shingle,' or large pebbles lining
the shores. Along the northern coast
OF the island there is long, low cliff.
Of fine-grained. compact limestone.
which, under the stroke OF the ham,
mer. clinks like steel. The waves
beating on the shore at the foot OF
the cliff causes the fallen fragments
to rub against each other and to give
out sound resembling the chimes OF.
distant church bells. The phenome-
non occurs when the gales blow from
the north, and then, as the winds SUBJ
side, low, wailing sounds like whis-
pering voices are heard in the air.
Travellers assert that the effect is i'm
pressive, and that they have been
awakened at night under the impress
sion that they were listening to
church bells.-Helena (Montand) In
dependent
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-12-05
Best Protection Against Rusting.

For farm implements Of all kinds.
having metal surfaces exposed. for
knives and forks, AMI other house,
hold apparatus, indeed for all metals
likely to be injured by oxidation or
"rusting," we know of no simpler,
more effective application. than that
furnished to the american Agricul-
turist by the late Prof Oimsted, au.
thor Of "Olmsted's Natural Philoso-
ply" etc. He used 1t on air -pumps.
telescopes, and various other appara-
tus: Take any quantity Of good lard.
and to every half pound or SO. add OF
common resin ("rosin') an amount
about equal to half the size OF an egg
or less-a little more or less Is OF no
consequence. Melt them slowly to-
gether, stirring az they cool. Apply
this with a cloth or otherwise. just
enough to give thin coating to the
metal surface to be protected. 1t can
be wiped of nearly clean from sur
faces where 1t will be undesirable, as
in the case of knives and forks. etc.
The resin prevents raDcidity, and the
mixture excludes the ready access Of
air and moisture. A fresh applica-
ton may be needed when the coating
is washed off by the friction OF beat
ing storms or otherwise. This single
recipe will be worth many dollars to
any one in the long run. There was
talk OF pa,enting it. at one time, but
Prof. Olmsted gave it to US to be pub
lished for the general public good
4merican Agricult,.rist for December.