The Osceola times., 1879-12-13
THE WAYS OF TIE WORLD.


A STITCH in time frequently saves the
entire garment.
Ir is reported that lydia Thompson
has raked in a good deal Of money on
one pair.
Or the twenty inmates OF the Rhode
Island State Aims House only six are
Americans
the bar there is always somebody ready
topilot in.
A HUNDRED thousand dollars worth of
hazel nuts are shipped yearly from Tur-
key TO England.
LITTLE Buttercup Is ruined now. The
Paris Times speaks of her as "a sort of
old she-sutler."
Ir is impossible for everybody TO be
famous and have his name posted on old
fences and dead trees as the greatest liy-
ing pedestrian.
ACCORDING to the Cincinnati Saturday
Niqht, in Zululand young folks fight and
get married. In this country they get
married and fight.
From the votes ct recent elections on
the Pacific slope il is estimated that the
population there is l,266,000, as com
pared with S2l 900 when the last census
was taken.
THE greatest tax payer in the United
States is Mr.. Blackwell, the North Caro-
lima tobacco manufacturer, who pays a
tax of $4,000 year, $4,000 a week, or
over 81 ,420 day.
EMMA ABBOT does not think that get
ting married spoils good singers. Nei.
ther does Max Strakosch, who even goes
SO far as TO say that married prime donne
are the best singers.
TIE grand jury of the Superior Court
of Greenfield, Mass, has indicted the in
habitants of New Salem school district
for failure to provide suitable school,
house for the children,
TIE Empress OF Russia recently re-
ceivcd dress from Paris, the cost of
which was $1,000. Probably the Emper-
or will have his heavy boots half-soled
and wear the same old ulster
a CINCINNATI paper re marks that when
a new dramatic company "takes the
road" they should see that the road is
kept in good repair, for the chances are
that they will need it to walk home on.
JAY GouLp now controls the policy of
fourteen Western roads, aggregating
5,075 miles OF track, provided the rumor
is true that he has secured control Of
the st. Louis and San Francisco rail
road.
THE Sutro Independent tells how lady
of that place won Il tiye.dollar bet by
riding block and q half through the
principal street in Il wheclbarrow, and
concluded that it paid better than keep
ing a boarding house.
The reading room of the British Mu-
scum contains three miles of bookcases
eight feet high. The dome whence the
electric light irradiates the vast room is
next TO that of the Pantheon at Rome,
the largest extant.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is working qui-
etly upon several plays one Of which is
designed for distinguished performer.
The positive merits of Miss Dickinson's
first play encourage the belief that she
will still win place as a vigorous writer
for the stage.
SIG. DAnIo MAZzEI, stenographer TO the
Italian Senate, has invented a machine
which claims to produce a speech in the
ordinary printed characters as rapidly as
it is spoken, a word Of several syllables
being recorded by single touch of the
keys.
THE male members Of the Keokuk bar
| showed no jealousy when Miss Mamie
Smith was admitted TO practice. The
presiding Judge descended from the
bench to shake hands with her, and the
lawyers subsequently gave her a ban
| luet.
THERE is another new work by Charles
Dickens, and the last one we shall ever
have from him. 1t is his own letters in
two volumes, edited by his daughter
Miss Mamie Dickens, and by his wife;
sister Miss lIogarth, and published
in this country by Charles Scribner''
/ sons.