The Osceola times., 1878-01-05
MlSCELL LLANEOcH.

MIsCELLANEOCs.
In the express business there are is, 900
men employed.
Seventy kinds of bricks are made by
Philsdelphia company.
The United States now use more postal
cards than any other nation.
OF sixty-nine words which make up the
Lords prayer, only five are not Saxon.
In Austin, Nevada, has been set up
whiPping'post for the punishment of Wife
besters.
1t is said the duke of Norfolk's. we'd
ding day cost him little short Of f30, ,00C- a
| couple Of months income.
The ordinance providing for the arrest
| OF boys found on the street after 3 o'clock u,
M, is enforced in Virginia City, New.
A New York court has decided that
wedding presents are the property, not OF the
husband and wife, but OF the wife alone.
Sixteen persons have mysteriously
disappeared in New York during the past
month, and all endeavors to trace them have
failed.
The Springfield, Mass armory, which
has been idle for year, is about to resu me
operations, and will give employment to 2O0
or 800 men.
Europe has, as near IA can be calcu-
lated, 500, 900 miles OF railroad, and America
2260O0; India has 1900 or 1900, and
Australia 1900.
The prevalence OF diphtheria in some
parts Of Indiana is alarming. 1t is epidemic
in many localities, and schools have been
obliged to close.
VIM. Roberts, Of Bradford county, Pa,
aged twenty-five, asked his girl to marry
him. She iokingly refused, and he went and
hsnged himself. Now the girl is nearly
crazy. Two fools met -. o., -
A Venetian has succeeded in making
violin, the box OF which is porcelain, and
the strings CT metallic wire. Upon it are
said to be produced tones of rare purity,
richness, harmony and power.
To remove foreign bodies from the
throat an English naval surgeon recommends
blowing forcibly into the ear. Powerful
reflex action is produced, during which the
foreign su bstsuce 10 expelled.
John Bright said, lately, that "you
might almost rs well ask spider to give up
weaving his web, or to destroy that he had
woven, as to ask the great body Of lawyers
to consent 70 simplicity aud publication
OF the law"
Col. G. C. Long, an .ex. confederate
officer, who resigned his place in the Egyp
tian snny, has arrived in Washington, and
says that only about nine Americans remain
in the service of the khediye, and that they
have but little influence.
The secretary of war has appointed
Gems Barnsrd and Wright as q commission
OF the engineer corps to make an inspection
nf tk..E d.. aA.t a.
port at the earliest day possible. Capt Eads
Is in Washington to facilitate matters. -
Oak wood which has remained a long
time in water finally acquires the appearance
and hardness OF ebony. Upon demoiishing
the old sluice dam in the Rhine, oak which
had lain for LAG years was found to have be.
come possessed of the characttristcs OF
ebony. The modification is due to the
peroIide Of iron. E -
English capitalists have raised money
to build an underground railway in New
York city, running under Broadway, from
the battery TO Oty HAh park, thence through
ad djacent streetsto Union square, and through
Fourth vellne to Forty second street Sir
Edward Watkin, president OF the London
underground railways, is said TO be at the
enterprise. r
Mr.. Darwin must look TO his laurels.
4 Japan correspondent says that he saw
wrought in inlaid wood on a door in the
greattempie Of Ligmoto, q scene showing
first monkey, then an ape, then a gorills
and so on up by gradual development until
the final one OF the series was perfect man
surrounded by elephants and curious birds.
The door was several hundred years old.
In recent lecture in New York, Mr..
Joseph Cook made some interesting speeu.
lations on the future Of this continent He
observed that America could sustain a
greater population than the whole of the old
world, and II was unguestionsble that some
day she would. The pivotal point about
which the population OF the United States
would swing, il 4 solid body, was now little
east OF Cincinnati, and was moving westward
st the rate Of sbout As feet daily The
possible population of AmericH he placed at
l,2OO, 100000.
In France each inhabitant drinks, on
an average, three-quarters OF gallon Of
spirits annually. Sudden deaths, the con.
sequence of drink, are most frequent in
those departments 10 which spirit is drunk
they are rare where wine only is consumed
Cases Of intoxication, Sufficient TO bring the
drinker under the notice Of the law, are also
iiye times more frequent in the departments
which consume much alcohol than in those
in which wine Is consumed. SO, also, with
respect 10 alcohollc dellrium; the number of
| cases stands in almost direct relation to the
amount ofspirits consumed, and particularly
TO the amount Of manufactured spirit which
| is taken. Vendee and Charcnte pre- sent the
only exceptions to this rule, and there a
large quantity Of white wine is taken--a.
most a. dangerous as brandy.
New Y, rk Bulletin The project some
time talked Of, Of opening up direct trade
between the northwest aud the West India
islands, we see hasAt last eliminated in a
practical step on the part of some Of the
southern and southeastern railroads that
promises TO be rewarded with success.
line OF steamers has ju.t been established
connecting Savannah with Cuba, the boats
10 leave Cuba every two weeks The rates
on -four from Savannah TO Cuba will he 50
cents harseJ, and 40 cents per-.00 pounds
On fourth class. To draw the attention of
shippers Of the northwest to the business
possibilities In this direction, ARRANGEMENTS
have been perfected so that freights can be
shipped from Chicago and 81. louis direct
to Cuba. The roads which have taken the
initiatiye in thi movement are the Central
of Georgia and the Nashville and chaua.
nooga.
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