The Osceola times., 1878-09-14
PERSONAL TOPICS.

few days, inquiries seriously, Is civil
war imminent This looks bad
A RECENT issue of the Detroit Ere,
Prs contained an advertisement oi
"For Sale-A piano by II lady with
modcrh legs"
SENATOR BRUCE, Of Mississippi will
settle near Cleveland, Ohio, when his
Senatorial term expires. He has pur'
chased farm there.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAc remarks that the
treaty of Berlin was signed with the
quills Of four vultures, two geese and
one pigeon. France, he admits, played
the part of n goose.
DON PEDRO has addressed 10 Captain
"Jetty" Eads an autograph letter CON
graduating the engineer upon his ex-
PLOTS at the mouth of the Mississippi,
and inviting him to visit Brazil.
DON PEDRO is getting TO be more OF a
trump every day. Hayden Edwards,
late Secretary of the Legation at Rio,
says that the Emperor puts the United
states twenty years ahead of Europe.
KING ALFONSO proposes to erect a
monument to his wife, the State voting
$50, 900 per annum towards building it
until it is finished, the King giving S40,-
U00 year. 1t will cost 81 ,0O0,0
A YOUNGER brother Of the Earl of
Beaconsfield has been discovered in the
person of Mr.. Ralph Disraeli, who is
assistant clerk of Parliament-the sec
ond Office of the House of Lords-with
salary of $4,000.
Edison is home again in Menlo Park.
The Western fellows put up job on
him, and got him to shoot at a Jack-rab-
bit about two hours, when he went and
hit it en- the head and found that it was
stuffed.
LIGHTNING struck the Russia leather
pocket-book of Mis-. Chenery Of Salem,
Mass, which she was carrying in her
hand, and 500 in green backs was burned
to crisp, silver coin backened on one
side, and railroad ticket scorched.
The house in which John Knox, the
Scotch Reformer, lived and died is yet
standing in that part of Edinburgh
known as the old town. Extending
over the entire front is this inscription
in large Roman letters: "Lufe God
abufe all, and vi nychtbour as vi self"
COLONEL HoGG, large land owner
in Omaha, just returned from Europe,
predicts a small immigration coming
this year, owing TO the Indian troubles
and our labor difficulties. The German
authorities are particularly active in
preventing emigration.
THE English Judge who put wax for
another Judge TO sit on during recent
trial has been threatened with punish
meut by the Home Secretary. The trial
led to an unseemly alteration in the
robing room, and one learned Judge
went so far as to threaten TO pull the
other learned Judges nose.
A STREET fight with canes lately
took place in Paris between the Prince
lie Bassano and the Count Albert de
Combourg. The Count was walking
with the wife of the Prince, and the lat
ter, Notwithstanding that he was separ-
ated from her, jumped from his carriage
and made an assault Both men were
arrested.
DIR. CARVER, the glass-ball rifle shot,
spent a thrilling and thoroughly dime
noyal youth. His father, mother,
brothers and sister were massacred by
the Sioux in Minnesota. and he was
taken captive to be brought up in the
tribe. a life of nineteen years as nomad
with the rife, his most loved companion,
gave him the wonderful skill recently
exhibited
EX.PREMIER Gladstone is six feet
high, ssllow, bony, square-cut and well
defined. His eyes are somewhat merry
looking and brown; his forehead is re-
ceding, yet hard and square about the
temples In his costume Mr.. Glad
stone is loose. His shoes are big and never
fit, his pantaloons are baggier than were
Daniel Websters. He wears but one
glove, and seldom puts the other on, like
Macaulay
THE Hindoos have an idea that all
souls are small. In the German folk
lore they are known as thumblings."
A quiet observation of human nature
under certain circumstances-as for in
stance, when the contribution box is be-
ing passed-shows that the idea is not
entirely without foundation.-Ncc York
Herald.
THE Marquis of Harrington, leader of
the British Liberal party, is forty-fve
years of age, perhaps five feet ten inches
high. He has auburn hair, brain of
moderate size, features fairly harmon
ious, and is Just toierably good looking
English gentleman. He is aCavendish,
the son and heir of the Duke of Devon
shire, and is valuable to the Liberal
cause by reason of his rank and con-
nection.
A JuDIcIoUs instance of punning upon
a name once took place in judicial
court of New York, which is thus told:
Counsel had been questioning certain
witness named Gum, and in closing he
said to him, " MIR. Gum, you can now
go of" The judge on the bench, seeing
the pun, sravely added, "Sir, you are
discharged" OF course an explosion in
court Immediately ensued .--M,c Haren
Register.
Jesse Waite, of Williamsburg, n. Y.
went to sleep in sleeping car on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, about
forty miles east Of New York, and while
the train, the fast express, was moving
at the rate Of about forty miles an hour,
he arose, and, while asleep, walked off
the rear end of the car. The train
stopped about half mile further on,
and the conductor went back to find the
man, whom he met walking along the
railroad track, following after the train.
A few scratches were all the injuries he,
had sustained.
THE effect of balloon-descen. was
tried On a canjn- meeting near Cincinnati