The Osceola times., 1878-06-01

OF the institution are scarcely met by the
receipts.
ANoNa many interesting relics in Al d
about Monterey, Cal, is the wreck of the
old brig Natalie, the veritable vessel in
which Napoleon made hIs escape from
Eiba' This slowly decsying wreck is
safely anchored in the sand by the new
whsrf
IHh British newspaper press direc-
tory " for 1873 exhibits IA newspapers
published in the United Kingdom. In
the United States in 1917 there were
s,O79 newspapers and periodicals. OF
British newspapers ljs are daily, while
OF the American 700 are daily.
A BosroS man named Samuel b.
Hale, who has been farming in Buenos
Ayres forty>dve years, owns nov IS, 900
acres Of rich prairie, 3 900 cattle 500
horses, 10000 sheep and 400 hogs
The fences cost S2G, 900. Last year the
wool product Of the farm netted s22, 900
pounds, and there was a yield Of 300, 900
pounds of tallow; also 25. $40 sheep
skins.
DURING the nine months past, the
aggregate value OF exports from the
United STATES has exceeded that of the
imports, as shown by the custom house
hooks, by $206OO0 600. The cabinet
considered this fact recently, and became
convinced that it demonstrated a atis.
factory commercial and financial con.
ditioa.
FROM the return of the British board
OF trade, for the first quarter Of 1873, 1.
appears that the exports of breadstuAs
from this country to Great Britain we're
$l7,0O0.000 in excess of the amount in
the corresponding period last year, while
our exports OF cotton decreased $780,
600 in the same time. The increase in
wheat was $40 900 600; -four, So ,O00, 900
sDu corn s4OOO,VOl
y CoRREsPoNDENr of the New York
Evening Pot, writing from Toxic,
Japan, sends the following " The famine
in the north OF China RACES with increas-
ing severity, and the most dreadful
reports come from the sfa cted regions.
In ons town q man opened shop for the
sale Of human flesh, and did good bust
ness in cannibalistic ioints and roasts till
the local Mandarin caused the shop
keeper to be arrested and beheaded.
II is hot two years since the Custer
massacre took plsce, yet the wilderness
in which 1t occurred is now populated by
farmers who are rapidly turning the
desert into cultivated country. A
town Of nearly ole thousand inhabitants
has risen where Gen Miles encamped on
Tongue river in 1876 in fact the whole
country which Sitting Bull occupied is
now taken up by hardy pioneers who are
planting civilization where barbarism
fourished such a short time ago.
A QUANTITY OF well executed coun-
tsrfeit trade dollars has been captured at
Cincinnati They are composed Of block
tin, bsmutb, and pulveriaed glass, They
possess pretty nearly the standard weight
and have the exact color and the true
ring Of the real dollars. The only means
Of detecting them from the genuine Is by
means Of a weigher or by pressing them
between the teeth, when the glass which
they contain emts cracking sound
PRoF SPENCER BAIRD, who has been
elected secretary OF the Smithsonian In
stitution, 10 fll the place Of Prof Henry,
deceased, Is widely known rs the head OF
The Fish Commission, which under his
direction has accomplished such a good
work in exciting general interes, in
pisciculture. Prof Baird has written
several valuable works on natural history.
rhe Washington Star says; "He is
perhaps better fitted, rs Prof. Henrys
,uccessor, to direct the operations OF the
institution in conformity with its estab>
lished policy than any other man in
America
A RECENT Washington telegram says
the Philadelphia contractors for the
South American railroad are uDsuccess-
full in endeavoring to secure colored
lsborers about the capital from the fear
Of the colored men that they will be sold
INTO slavery, the Brazilian minister hsv-
ing been called upon by the colored men,
and stated that, although slavery has not
been fully abolished in Brazil, it is in
process of abolition by gradual emanci-
patton, which will make the country free
ia twentysone years. There is law in
Brazil prohibiting colored men from set.
tling in that country, and they can only
he taken in by contract under special
act
A poET in the Cornhill Magazine,
wishing TO write that his wife was out
havond tho brnnl f,upd that % broobp