The Osceola times., 1878-01-12
srANLEY's recent expedition into the

And. Dociorof he doctored them OF,
And Rodioaof he hogsed them Of.
SrANLEY's recent expedition into the
heart of Africa cost $4,000.
THEY wers sitting on bank Of blue violets,
with the Wind blowing soft from the south,
When he sighed: MY dear love, shall die oh
And she gave him swsck in the mouth
A VERMONT lover got down on his
knees before his sweetheart and read a
declaration of love he had carefully
written.
i For the first seven days Of the year
Gustavus Adolphus will kiss his young
wife upon returning home two heurs late
for dinner without turning his head lest
she scent the fumes Of that last ". c.
IT was the morning before Christmas,
She. John, you have no idea how hurt
my thumb stoning raisiDs for the fruit
cake" He. "And you have no idea
how | hurt my fingers stoning that in
fernal COW out Of the back yard"
A PICKLE lover Of twenty. four,
named MulkiDs, is being sued by con.
slant maiden, aged thirty.two, and
named Howe, in Lansin, Mich, for
promising to marry and not keeping his
word. The community is shaken to its
core over the contest.
TALKING about our civil service, some
one tells of an Ohio tavern keeper ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue.
who got one day in an envelope addressed
to him officially, $500 greenback, with
slip of paper on which was written, icon.
| - Ha Tho hill Il, hsa
pocketbook without debate, simply re-
marking. al always did suspect that
barkeeper. Hartford Times.
Miss BRADDoN MAxwELL,t the novelist,
has an indignant letter in the London
Times. She was riding with several
children in Londsn, not long sgo, when
a steam roller was the means of killing
her horse, nearly killing her coachman,
spelling her carriage, and frightening
the little people. An action was
brought against the steam.rollcr, and the
steam. roller won. Hence the letter.
SHE lives in Connecticut, and, TO de.
ceive her husband, she caused her death
to be announced. The effect upon the
poor wretch is thus described by the
sweet singer herself:
Talk about your picncs and say what lots Of
while talk Of my Eddy and how after him run;
tell you he's worth having, Is such man as "a,
Who danced sailors hornppe when he heard bis
wife was dead"
A FEW days ago an elegantly dressed
lady got into Madison avenue, New
York, car, and although the day was
cool, she could not wear her gloves on
account OF her many diamond rings.
A balky horse having twice stepped the
car, the lady went 10 the door, and,
looking at the team for few moments,
said 10 the driver: THAT ere of horse
aip't use to be druv on than ere side"
WOMEN need much consolation in this
world. Sometimes they are in love.
Indeed, this Is 10 common q complaint
with tfem that they should have q sub
limated Ponds extract, q metaphorical
cam oher, or spiritual arnira, to apply to
that hidden wound. The needle is q
geod little lightning -rod-a conductors
off for concealed disturbances. Many a
heart-ache has been embroidered away.
-Appletons.
A GENTLEMAN who is a sculptor, In
feeble way, was calling on lady the
other evening How do you manage
to get the right facial expression" she
asked. referring to bis statuettes. Very
simple" he said " read q poem ex-
pressing the passion desire to portray,
then, as my face expresses rage or love,
; plunge head foremost into mas OF
putty | have at hand. This retains the
impression, and there you are"
A STORY comes from Coventry, Conn
giving an account Of woman who COM
menced marrying at fourteen, and has
kept it up until she has scored seven
husbands. She married not wisely but
: too frequently, for her supposed dead
husbands turned up in such a way IS TO
[: make quite an array OF Enoch Ardens.
4 and now the town OF Coventry sues the
town of Manchester for her support 81
: it seems the more husbands the less
providence.
THE late Mrs Gen. Hooker, then Mhs
Groesbeck, OF Cincinnati, WAS once al
an evening party in that city, when n
J Young dandy was asked il he would like
to b /, presented To her. "Ob, yes" raid
), he, Ianguidly, trot her OUT The lady
, oyerht ard the remark, and when he was
preseDteu sDe auJusteu HeI eyc E'no" .,
; deliberately ard slowly scanned his cloth
. ing from boot to collar. The survey
finished, she waved her hand carelessly
, and said: "Trot him back have
, seen all there is of him."
The signal service was one of the new
ideas of the great American conflict, and
; it was improved and utilized during tho
.iege OF Plevna. After the completion OF
: the circle OF investment the weakest part
, OF the line was that held by the Rou-
manian troops. The Turks seem to have
been well aware of the fact, but the Rus
slams, by the disposition Of their reserve
forces and by system Of telegraphic sig-
, mails which they organized were able 10
: hurry up reinforcements in time to any
, threatened point. The outpost duty o.
the blockading army was regulated with
the great test attent on alter Gen. Tbdleben
took cemmaud. The night service wss
especially vigilant, and telegr aphic ~.
TEN of electric lights was formed 70 gux,d
against surpvises. Tho dsieedsz q ~
. bsatspoi i deGtined - u - q