The Osceola times., 1879-02-08
FACTS AND FANClRs.
TOUCH Us GEN NrLY, rInRi

Touch us esutiy, Trraei
Let glide sdovu thy stream
| 0sp'ly-as ws eometimrs Glide
Through quist dream.
Humble voyasss are ",
| Husband, vile and ehiliIeu three-
| Zone Ia lost an angel ned
To the asurs overhead y
Touch us gently. Timsi
we've rot proud nor soaring wing;
Our smbitioB, our conteet,
Lies In simple tsineA
Humble voyassU are ws,
Der fs's din ursound d -,
seskins only some calm cline;
-Bosvy CbruraM
In Russia there Is literally 10 dsna.d
for books.
In Canada greenback Il now - good
O. local coin.
MEXICO y importing corn iron tie
United States.
1HE Afghan troops are provided With
breech.l0ading rifles.
PLAYING football by electric lights 4
all the rage in England.
AN Irishman died at Boston, ths
other day, At the age Of Jos.
A LICEnsE for Protestant marriaeo
In Buenos Ayres cost nearly $500.
The pipe and cigar are the causs Of
many copfsgrations.
INDIA-RUBBER is 10 be made IN On
tario from the juice OF the nilkwesd.
DEsPrsR not small things; the largest
corn Is always found on the smsllest to-.
The writer who uses weak arRuments
aud strong epithets ID like the lapdlady
who gives weak tea and strong bu tier.
THERE Is an oil well OF santa Barbara
running to waste In thirty fhthoms Of
water. The Yankee residents Of Santa
Barbara grow sick thinking Of Il.
A MAN advertises for . conpstsnt
person to undertake the sals Of new
medicine-and adds that 1T will psovo
highly lucrative 10 the undertaken"
NEW fans Of painted silk have sp.
pesred, on which 10 portrayed hid,
which shows on the outside Of the I'm
when the Ian IL closed, and h In the MD
die when It 10 opened.
The Rev. Mr.. Pentacost, Of Boston,
in sermon against rOund dancing, aid
that Q very Intelligent young lady had
assured him that the hugging was 70 her
the pleasantest part Of the ball.
In Egypt mummies feed the Arss that
proptl the iron horss on the railroads.
These dried up human bodies, once ~
tenements Of immortal souls, are said to
make q very hot Are. Their supply =
almost inexhaustible.
A YOUTH of about twenty winters ex.
hibited the respect for ere psovalent
among the youth OF this country By the
following remark: "There's ny eA
father now, he's most seventy yeaSs Old,
and knows nearly - much q I d."
A PERSON who WAS recently called inte.
court Ior the purpoee Of proving Tie oos.
rectness Of . surgcon's bill, was asksd ~
the lawyer whether " the doctor did no1
make several visits after the patient We
out of dsngerf" "No," replied ~
witness, "I considered the patient in
danger .. long - the doctor continued
his vista"
"BoYs," said the old man, holding a
Inverted match In one hand and dark
cigar in the other, never acquire Tie
pernicious habit of smoking. an Q
slave to it now, and yet hate It. !
never see cigar that do not want -
burr it up" And then, with extrene
satisfaction, he burned up the one b hsd
in his hand.
The crew Of shipwrecked vessel was
lately killed and eaten by the blacks %
the coast Of Queensland, Australia. The
bodies OF two OF the men we're found In
AN oven on the mainland opposite KinG's
Reef, ON which the YES el struck. The
features OF the men were unrecognisable,
the skulls being smashed in and paxtD of
the Aesh being removed bat tseess Of
paper, clothing, etc., in the neighber.
hood Of the camp lett NO doubt - 70
their identity. eas