The Osceola times., 1879-01-25

The last census taken in Austria re-
vealed the fact that they were 1873 men
and 226 women above the age OF 100
years in that country.
The Egyptian correspondent of the
London Standard reports a retfench-
ment in the Khedive's harem. Some
twenty or thirty women have been sent
of lately. Ladies thus discarded receive
a dot of from $500 to $4,000, and with
this can find husbands, especially gov
eminent clerks.
The milling industry Of this country
is said to rank next to that of iron. The
number of mills is over 81, 900, affording
employment to over 10000 men, whose
annual wages are over $40, 100000, and
turning out yearly about $4,000, 900 bar.
rels of -four, of which 1000, 900 are ex-
ported to foreign countries.
THREE HUNDRED gallons of castor oil
wer, produced this year in st. Clair
county, ILL.,, alone. The oil of Illinois is
said to be equal to that produced in
Levant, in Spain, Provence, Brazil, or
the West Indies, and it is steadily i'm.
proving in quality. About twenty
bushels of beans to the acre is considered
fair yield.
WHOM the Lord hath Joined togeth n
let no man put asunder," and yet the
statutes of the different states of this
glorious union afford no less than thirty
three distinct causes, exclusive of such
loop-holes as "incompatibility Of dispo.
sition," "uncongenislity OF temper, -
ETC., authorizing a matrimonial disolu-
tien.
AFTER the schooner Rosina had struck
upon Halibut Point, Mass, during the
great gale of last week, the crew left the
vessel for a time, and on their return
found she had slid off, and, all sail being
set, was scudding away before the wind,
with only large dog on board. The
men hired tug, and tried to overhaul
the fugitive, but she soon distanced
them, and sailed away.
DELIRIUM tremens is always produced
by fusil oil and never by pure ethylic
alcohol. Next to organic disease of the
stomach, cierhosis of the liver is the
most common consequence of hard
drinking; a distinct form OF non.heredi.
tary consumption is ''another frequent
result. So says DR.. w. B. Richardson,
who adds that if the use OF alcohol were
there would be no more
Brights disease.
NAMES once prominent industry,
ship building, gives employment to a
constantly decreasing number of persons,
not half the work having been done in
the season just closing that was done in
the previous year. Indeed, only eleven
ships were built in the state and of the
ninety six vessels constructed, the
average tonnage was only 425, or, taking
out the ships, less than 3O0 The pros
pect is that less shipbuilding will be
done in 1879 than in any single year in
the last thirty.
PEOPLE usually find fault with the
government for being too slow to adopt
improvements. As papers and CORES.
pondents at Liverpool had been declar-
ing somewhat loudly that it would be
great boon If cheap certificates OF posting
were furnished, so that the sender of
letter might possess proof that it had
actually left his hands, the English pos.
tai authorities agreed totry the expert.
ment at Liverpool. At first twenty
seven of these hali-penny certificates
were called for daily, but IL was not long
before the daily average fell to fourteen
The society for the suppression of vice
originated in 1872 with Anthony Com
stock, who, then clerk in a dry goods
store, had his attention called to the
rightful tendency OF obscene publications
by the habits and language of a fellow
clerk. He sought out the publisher of
the concentrating volume and had him
arrested. Since then, out of sixty-six
publications of this character, sixty have
been suppressed and the plates de.
stroyed some 300 persons have been ar
rested, and over twenty tons of obscene
literature in the form Of books, circulars,
pictures, ETC., destroyed.
The postoffice department has ordered
new postage stamp to be used on let
ters not prepaid. Heretofore letter
being posted and wanting a stamp has
been held in the Office at which it was
mailed. The postmaater at this Office
then writes to the individual addressed,
saying that such letter has been held
in that Office for him, the postage not
having been prepaid. The new stamp
which has just been ordered under the
new regulation is put on the letter not
prepaid and cent TO the postmaster at the