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The Osceola times., 1878-08-24
THE CANNiBAL LOVER.
A swIsBUSIAS LYRIC

I caught but glimpse OF her face,
Az. wooed by the breezss oil dawn,
A Apicture Of beauty and grace,
She stoCd on the emei aid lawD.
Tho caught but glimpse Of her face,
The vision remains with me still,
And always most probably will,
Tho I caught bat glimpse OF her face.
Then passion my soul overcamo;
Volcanic with love, arose,
seized her with ardor ahame,
And bit of the end Of her nose.
My passion my soul overcame,
In spite Of hei blushes aud fesrs,
ardently chewed off her ears,
For my passion my soul overcame.
lac lava my blood boiled within
She uttered tremulous shriek-
l seized with my teeth her soft skin,
And fed on her fair damask cheek.
Lite lava my blood boiled within
Unheeding her tears and her sighs,
eagerly swallowed her eyes,
For like lava my blood boiled within.
Ny heart wildly throbbed with delight
The rapture that thrills and exalts-
Her chin removed at one bite,
And pulled of ner hair which was false.
Ny heart wildly throbbed With delight,
i laughed at her toolish alarms,
And broke of her legs and her arms,
Az my heart wildly throbbed With delight.
Ny cannibal instincts arose,
Her aspect my fury iocites,
With 10Y that no Grahgmite knows
Like the Ghoul In Arabian nights.
My cannibal instincts arose:
panted with fercest delight,
And gobbled her up In great bites.
As my cinnibai instincts arose.
To memory often recurring,
Cones back the deep bliss OF that hour,
Within me End something stirring
Which soothes me with marvellous power !;
To memory sften recurring
Returneth that maiden 40 cherished,
That dear one uRtimeiy who pc ished,
To my memory often recurring.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24
The Philosophy Of Strikes.

Where are you going with the puppies,
my little man 7" asked . gentleman Of .
small boy yesterday whom he met with
three pups in basket.
"Goin' 10 drown them," was the
reply
l want pup for my little boy to play
with; what do you say TO letting ne
take one Of them 7"
am sell you one" spoke up the boy,
with true American entsrpriss.
"I'll sell you this ysllef one for half .
dollar, the black one for 70 cents, and
the spotted one Ii worth dollar.
81 think my boy would like the spot
ted one the best, but you ask too much
for 1t. You had intended drowning all
Of them, but I'll give you 26 cents and
save you the trouble Of drowning ths
spotted one."
Twenty Eve cents for that spotted
pup" exclaimed the boy; II can't
stand IL; taxes Il high rent u high ;
groceries 10 high; oil il down and going
iower--oh, no; can't take lees than .
dollar"
"But you intend to drown"
"Take the black one ct rs csnts."
"My little boy wouldn't like the black
one."
"Take the yaller one at half = dollar,
and he's dog cheap"
81 don't like his color"
"Well, then you'd better tell your lit
tie boy to play with your toes" I" and he
continued on bis way to the river, rs-
marking that mo party can dead-beat
his way on me these hard times."-lOn
City Derrick.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24
women's Taste and smell.

The marked superiority of.women over
men Il on few points more remarkable
than in their superior powen Of smelling
and tssting. A wo.nan will detect tie
faintsst odor OF tobacco when . nan,
even though non-smokeF. often falls -
discover any symptom Of II. Al with
smell, 20 with taste. Women are mar
velously acute and iastidious in the nat
Ter OF sauces and al havorins ingsedients.
This faculty has been rsoognIssd 10 .
most plsssiug manner By tie oo1pod.
tion Of the jury who arc W dscids II
Paris on the merits OF the mustards Of
various nations. The mustard cooGresa
is 70 oonaist Of twelve geAtlenen a1d IN
equal number Of ladiss. Thb ssfanGss
ment, Il 10 stated, b owing 70 saGssa-
ton that The palstss Of The msa sEe VIII
eted hy eRoki1g; YheseSs Nensas VIA
- ~ - fulp A1qlp = - 1.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

THERE is in the county Of Devon, the
garden of England, family at this mo-
ment who are rightly described as saw
ages. They have lived for about twenty
five years on their own farm OF forty
acres, worth about $500 year, in a de.
plorably miserable tumble-down howell,
consisting of single room, in which the
whole family OF eleven persons eat, drink
and sleep. No d,cent.looking person
can approach the place without bein"
ssa,iled by voleys OF filthy abuse, often
accompanied by mud, sticks and stones.
aud they hold no communication with
the rest ri the parish. They pilfer and
rob in sll directions. and are the terro,
oi tae ntisaborhoid There have heen
nc ieser Than e'tg ceny.c.ieGs recorded
sgssnss Them, ,sat when they rstsrs from
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

A WRITER ia Science Gossip observes
that all grazing animals eat a great
quantity of earth. Earth seems COM
Portable to their insides and ii is certain
that they enjoy it, He used to ride a
horse, he says, which, being regularly
led on hay and corn aud not turned cut
10 grass, pined for little dirt. Find
ing out this ] sometimes let him 90 TO a
hedge. bank, slackened the rein and
watched him scoop out with his tongue
earth enough to fill pint pot. This, !
think, is tie reason why horse so often
stirs up the mud in po md with his hoof
before drinking. Many horses will paw
the water even when passing a clear
stream, giving their riders the fear that
they want to lie down in it,
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

ACCORDING to the figures of the City
bureau Of statistics 5,9S7 illegitimate
children were born in Berlin during the
year 1877. OF the mothers ,556 were
house servants, LOT seamstresses, l ,l04
workingwomen, 3I8 widows and "a
housekeepers; the remainder were
teachers, shop girls, singers, actresses,
laundresses, etc.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

CANNIBALIsM has existed among all
savage nations. st. Jerome says some
British tribes ate human flesh, and the
Scots from Galloway killed and eat the
English in the reign Of Henry 1. The
Scythians were drinkers of human blood.
Columbus found cannibals in America.
The aborigines of the Csribbee Islands
were cannibals and some South Amer
lean tribes and most Of the natives Of
the South Sea Islands make it an open
practice TO eat human flesh.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

HEAT, says, the Lancet, oppresses the
spirits, lowers the tone of vitality, and
pervades the whole body with a feeling
of lassitude and incapacity. This con-
dition points TO a necessity for a reduc-
tion OF exertion and excitement when
the physical world is overheated. In.
stead, however, of complying with the
plain teaching of nature, and lessening
activity, people resort to various devices
to lessen the sensation of heat. Perspi-
ration is moisture which nature spreads
over the surface of the human body for
much the same purpose as an intelligent
housewife sprinkles water over her but
ter cooler. But Precipitation is checked
by sitting in draushts, by wearing very
little clothing, and by adopting light
colors for dress The remedy Is taken
for the disease, and through impeding
the processes of nature, summer colds
and other allied evils are contracted.
d" The conditions Of health require That,
within very narrow limits the tempera-
ture of the human body should be the
same, whether the thermometer stands
at 9O0 in the shade or sinks to few de.
grees below zero"
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

FROM the Graphic's Paris letter
A French butcher has no idea of Ameri-:
can or English beefsteak. Ask for =
steak here and he cuts it from the utter,
most and most incomprehensble parts of
carcass, Climbs up to quarter of beet
on ladder. No bone. 'Porter-house'
aud 'sirloin quite unknown. Their
steaks are good and tender, no matter
where they come from. Separate shop
for pork ditto for liver Suspicion of
horse meat at some inferior restaurants.
Coarse meat, very red, no fat. Stewed,
s.eaked and boiled. Horse, mule and
asses meat publicly sold at few shops
in Paris. Legal permission necessary.
Labeled prime horse, mule and asses
meat A pork steak is termed cutet."
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

NATURE never does anything without
an intelligent purpose. For example,
the eve, as DIR. Paley has demonstrated
at great length, and in the most conclus-
i've manner, was made 10 sc with. SO,
too, man was furnished with mustsche
in order that the cracking noise made
by it when it takes fire from match
while he is in the act OF relighting a
cigar stump may warn him to withdraw
his nose from the flames. In short, the
evidence that nature always has a pur-
pose in whatever she does isso conclusive
that it may BE- unhcsitatingly assumed
that when she endowed woman with a
lap and withheld that gift from man,
she acted in pursuance of prsiseworthy
design.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

A NEW pamphlet from the Oneida
Community, which professes to mate
men and women according to common
sense, says: "There have been born in
the community since September, 1869,
fifty-five children. OF the fifty who
survived the perils of birth all are now
living. There has been no death in the
children's department for eight years.
The department includes seven children
brought in by their parents in addition
to the fifty born here. The community
numbers In all about three hundred per-
sons"
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

The sweetest little fish story OF the
season is told by Frauk Abbot, OF Bur-
lington, Ia. At Clear Lake dwels a
little girl who takes ride every day in
a small skifi drawn by two pickerel
They are regularly harnessed, and by
mean OF lines she Is enabled to guide
them In any direction. The fs,, are
about three feet in length, weigh between
seven and eight pounds each, and are
very powerful. When the girl has tired
of riding she drives the pickerel to the
beat-heuse, where they are embarrassed,
taken into commodious glass aquarium,
made expressly for them, and ted.
When she goes to the tank to harness
them for ride, the pickerel jump almost
into her aims, SO glad, apparently, are
they to see her. The young miss has
been offered 81 900 for her team.
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

Jail they recommence operations. All
attempts to induce them to sell out have
failed,
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

DIR. John p. Gray, In the American
Journal Of Insanity, disputes the popu-
lar opinion that suicide is always an in
sane act. He admits that it Is always
an unnatural act. but In the large ma.
iority Of cases be thinks that It Ia COM
mitted by sane persons. 4 deficiency
o moral sducsliap, rather than mental
aeMassmen!, Is The occasion af Rost
Suissdee,
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24
Effects of the Sutro Tunnel.

A reduction in the temperature of the
2,0O0-feet level OF the Savage mine, from
l20 degrees to "a degrees, since the
Sutro tunnel penetrated that mine, Is
now reported and the cooling process is
still going on. If the air>draft through
the tunnel into the mines can reduce the
temperature 26 degrees in 80 short time
at a depth of $50 feet below the level O.
the tunnel, there is reasonable prospect
that it will ultimately have like good
effect upon many other mines put or to
be put in communication with the tun.
mel. Men canIeesk without danger Of
collapse at temperature no higher than
"a degrees, and thousands Of miners
have done good work in the gulches at
ITO degrees, but at 100 degrees it is i'm
possible for any man, however strong, to
work more than few minutes without
rest. If the Sutro tunnel should bring
about lise change in the temperature
Of the Comstock mines generally with
that already realized in the Savage
2 O00-foot level, 1t will be the means not
ouly of making mining more profitable,
but of saving a very great waste of life
aud health attendant hitherto upon that
sort of labor = San Francisco Chronicle
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

AN incident of the camp-meeting at
Lake Bluff is reported IN the Chicago
Tribune. "While singing, Mr.. Spencer
threw his arms around another brother,
who cordially embraced him, and this
refreshing season OF affection started .
Miss Barr, of Emanuel tent, who broke
into series of hysterical cries. Her
shrill screams penetrated every nook
and Granny Of the csmp-greund, Her
shrieks were pitiful, and her assevera-
tions that the Lord has come could be
heard a mile. Several Of the ladies tried
to calm her, but the greater their efforts
the wilder manifestations, until her
voice srose to prolonged squesl and her
appearance was frenzied. Some of the
men were dumfounded, and all Of the
women were frightened. One of the
ladies explained to the Tribune reporter
that she had some doubt Of the sincerity
of Sister Barr, as Miss Barr had in the
morning announced her intention Of
startling the multitude"
The Osceola times., 1878-08-24

A STRANGE story of the ses is told by
captain just arrived at New York.
His vessel, the Allahabad, took fire when
two weeks out bound for New York.
He fastened down the matches, soaked
the decks, and made for the nearest port.
A large force Of men finally extinguished
the fire, but the whole cargo had TO be
taken out. While waiting there to
reload he received the captain of the
coal-laden new English ship Glen Ericht,
who had abandoned his vessel at sea on
fire. After the Allahabad set sail again
and was well on her voyage, she came
up with the Glen Ericht still aaost with
her Goals still burning. She was
abandoned in December and found in
April. All that time she had been
drifting about the waste of the ocean.
Perhaps she is drifting yet. The wood
was all destroyed, but the iron hull was
sound and tight at last accounts.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

Does he 60 down a crevasseP No one
knows, lie is seen no more. IT'S too
true, the spirits in the mountains are re-.
vengeful Even if he escapes once, ills
death for him to go back. The life.
blood which dripped from the veins Of
the little flower he crushed lies on the
snow. He must die! He must follow
the voice that summons him."
Rose shivered; she thought of the lit.
tie Alpine blossom, with its red color.
which Josef had given her that day Of
his return from the mountains.
When Josef babe her good-by she
clung to his hand. He kissed her fore.
head gravely in his slow German fash.
ion.
"Be careful" said Rosy; "do not"
do not crush the fairy flowers, she was
about to add, but certain sense of
shame and ignorance overcame her.
"Be careful and come back to me,n
she said again. 81 shall count the DAYS
till you return"
Poor Rosy! There were many days
to court.
Josef never came back.
Rosy watched and waited and hoped
in vain. One day, opening book, she
saw the red Alpine flower pressed be-
tween the pages. With a shudder she
shut the book. 1t was as if Josef's dead
face had looked ut her.
The people Of the place grew used to
her pale face. The hunters, returned
from the mountains, grew used to her
sad, appealing eyes as she invariably
asked:
"Have you seen Josef? Has any
thing been heard of himP"
There was pity always in their voices
ss they answered, "we have heard
nothing; nothing is known"
By and by Rosy besought that we
should go home. 81 am weary of
these mountains. They kill me. Their
shadows press on my heart with an aw-
full weight" So the story is told!
But-was there no doubt underlying
that sad grief? Was Josef's fate ever
knownp
Hush! Rosy is listening. She, at
least, has no doubt; all is sweet and sa-
cred in that consecrated soul. Memory
is divine! And is not that enough?
Veal 1t is enongh--to believe.-
Springfeld (Mass.) Republican.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
Clerical Wit.

A parsOn who missionary had been,
And hardships and prvations oft had seen,
While wandering far ON lone and desert
strands,
A weary traveller in benightcd lands,
Would often picture to his little flock
The tcrrors of the gibbet and the block;
How martyrs suiier'd in the olden times,
And what men suffer now in other climcs;
And though his words were eloquent and
deep,
His hearers oft INDUCED themselves in sleep.
lie marked with sorrow each unconscious
nod,
Within the portals of the house of God.
And once this new cxpcdient thought he'd
take
In his discourse, to keep the rogues awake
Said he, "While travelling in distant state,
witnessed scenes which will here relate:
Twas In deep, uncultivatcd wild,
Where noontidc glory scarcely ever smiled;
Where wolves in hours of midnight darkness
howl'd-
Where bears frcquented, and where panthers
prOwld;
And, on my word, mosquitoes there were
found,
Many of which, think, would weigh pound!
More fierce and ravcnous than the hungry
shark
They oft were known to climb the trees and
bark"
The audience sccmd taken by surprise
All started up and rubb'd their wondering
eyes;
At such n tale they all were much amazed,
Each dropping lid was in an instant raised,
And we must say, in keeping heads erect,
IL had its destined and desired effect.
But tales like this crcdulity appalled,;
Next day, the dcacons on the pastor calrd,
And begged to know how he could ever tell
The foolish falschoods from his lips that fell
."Why, sir" said one, "think what mon
strous weight!
We're they rs large rs you were pleased to
state?
You said they'd weigh n pound! 1t can't be
true;
wen not believe it, though tits told by your
"hh, but it isl" the parson quick replied;
."In what stated you may well confide;
MANY, | said, sir-and the storys good
Indeed think that many of them would"
The deacon saw at once that he was caught,
Yet deemed himself relieved, on second
thought:
Out then the 6arking-think of that, good
mani
Such ,nonstrous icsl EXplainit if you camp
"Why, that, my friend, | can explain with
case
Thcg climbed the bark, sir, 'ohen they climbed the
trees"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
AN ALPINE FLOWER.
BY MILE W. CARPENTER.

BY MILE W. CARPENTER.
Love is come with II song and Il smile;
Welcome Love with Il smile and song;
Love can stay but II little while.
why cannot he stay? They call him away,
Yc do him wrong-yc do him wrong,
Love will stay for whole life long.
"What. You two girls all alone?"
eyes, dear, We two girls all alone!'
But aren't you-don't you-won't
you"-
awe aren't! we don't--we WON'T"
was my sister Rosy's merry, knocking
answer. ave jointly assure you of all
that in advance"
"But, something might happen to
you," persisted the matron of urparty,
seriously. "Don't you know there
mjght?"
81 hope something will" said Rose,
calmly. 81 have always felt that it
would he dreadful to 20 through life and
have no adventure -nothingto tell Of
never to get into The newspapers even
except in dreadful obituary."
She laughed with delicious impudence
nj our different ordinations.
"Besides there is Minnie-Minna we
must style her now that we are in the
atmosphere of Collaborating for i
chance to absorb sentiment in the true
German fashion. We both are in far
too good health and spirits-we need
something to happen to u aud tone us
down. |, for one, shall take pains to
state everywhere that we are two seek
ers after sorrow, Two American girls
in search of ! sigh"
80 Rose, who would have believed
YOU were 80 hear;lcss." cried Mrs. Ar
mott; and then she added vicicusly,
.But YOU nccI not put yourself 20 the
trouble Of declaring yourselves Amer
cans. Idont believe aly but Ameri-
can girls would think even of spending
a summer all alone in 4 strange land
like this"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
Merry Rain.

Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the RAIN
Tapping ON the window pane;
Trickling, coursing,
Crowding, forcing
Tiny rllls
To the dripping window'sills.
Laughing rain drops, light and swift,
Through the air they htll and sift;
Dancing, tripping,
Bounding, skipping
Thro' the street,
with their thousand merry feet.
Every blade of grass ground
Is II ladder to the ground;
Clinging, striding,
Slipping. sliding,
ON they come
With their busy zip and hum.
In the woods, by twig and spray,
To the roots they ind their way;
Pushing, creeping,
Doubling leaping,
Down they go
TO the waiting life Below
Oh, the brisk and merry rain,
bringing gladness in its train!
Falling, glancing,
Thinking, dancing
All around
Listen to its CHEEKY sound?
-E7eta Forester, In 50. Nicholas for april
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
A Colorado SnOW-SIide.

The Silverton Miner says: The in
habitants of this town were startled at
an early hour this morning (Friday) by
the appalling news that snow-slide
had carried away the shaft-house Of the
Ajax Mine, on Sultan Mountain, and
buried the four men dwelling therein.
The call was instantly responded to. A
strong force OF men Immediately pro-
ceeded with sleighs to the scene, where,
after an hours labor, the dead bodies Of
four stalwart men, who, few hours
previously, were full of life and strength
and vigor, were exhumed from crushed
timbers and the piled mass of snow 10
feet deep, cold in death-hurried in one
brief moment into eternity. The names
of the deceased are as follows: James
Jewell, John Green, Frank Green and
Jonathan Thomas.
From information hastily gathered, it
appears that the four doomed men, who
were working day shift upon the Ajax
Mine, the property of Mr.. H. L. Rog-
ers, situate at an elevation of some 25O
feet above the creek, on Sultan Noun
tain, about a mile below the town OF
Silverton, in a southwesterly direction,
after completing the days work and
finishing supper, had gone to the shaft
house between Z and s last evening,
where they slept. Tell. Graham and
William Williams, living in neighbor-
ing cabin, upon going outside at day
light this morning, noticed that heavy
slide had passed over during the night
and proceeded to the Ajax Mine, when
the fearful fact was apparent OF tunnel
and shaft-house being smashed up,buri-
ed and carried away. They instantly
summoned Mr.. Rogers, and the latter
rushed off to town for assistance, when
was nobly and promptly answered. Inc
result is as stated above.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

THAT astonishing pedestrian, Bertha
Won Hillern, accomplishes feat after
feat in rapid succession, her latest being
q walk in Cincinnati of 100 miles in 20
hours, with minutes and AZ seconds 10
spare. Several physicians in that Guy
warned her that her health would surely
give way under such abuse of her phy-
steal strength, but she declares that inc
walking does her good.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

CoRN-sTARCH PUDDISG.-To l guar
of boiling milk add 6 tablesPoonilN
prepared corn-starch, 1 heaping taoie-
spoons sugar; favsr with lemon
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

\ UTICA doctor, escorting a young
lady home the other evening, attempt
ing to relieve her cough by giving her'
as he supposed, troche, telling her 10
allow it to dissolve gradually in her
mouth. The next morning he received
a note of thanks, inclosing a metalIic
button, which, she said, she had been
unable to make desolve anyhow.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06

My lutte shall wake thee!
One day we heard some hunters who
had been to the mountains talking of
adventures and dangers. They spoke
of the death of comrade.
eyes, it is fate. When we hear the
voice call, what can we do but follow?
Never shall I forget Emile's face when
he babe us farewell and turned to go.
Three times had he heard the call in the
darkness. All, poor fellow"
ais it. so dangerous, then, in the
mountains?" asked Rose.
The old hunter rose stiflly and bowed
with a grave, old-fashioned courtesy to
the pretty young lady with the wild,
startled eyes and pale face, who asked
this question.
1--WE must all die, and one can never
tell when his time will come. Some
times hunter chasing his prey, breaks
a twig or brushes fiower-woe to him
if it bleeds internally. He must give
life in return for life. Is it not so, Ivan?"
The old hunter appealed to scratched
his head thoughtfully.
"Strange things happen up there"
he began, pointing with his pipe out
ward. Sometimes, after hard days
toll. a cOmrade rises from his place by
the fireand goes out. There Is glamour
on eli things - he follows oR-whiiher?