The Osceola times., 1879-03-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.
TWO KISSES.

When made visit home,
And stole up stairs good fortune leading.
l saw, or rather thought ! aw, 9a.
Ny sister In tbs study reading.
With noisele tread forward crep',
With schemes Of mischief most imprudsnt,
Aud leaning DER the arm-chair's back,
softly kissed the gentle student.
She turned to hy with burning face
As III a brother . kiss polluted
Rapturei twas not my sister Lu,
But Cousin Amy ia saluted.
OF course I then began 10 beg
She would excuse nv having kissed her;
Protesting. that upon my word
Ireslly thought II was my sister.
A conversation followed next
Whose theme he sure, was not the weather;
And then . very blissful pair
seated-wel, rather Close together.
And Amy, With her rosuish way
When for the second time kiased her,
yoa quite sUHtns .aSs Ue ~. e mo NO. your ar
Mosr peoples compassion 10 worss
than their indifference.
MoRE men worry and fret themselves
crazy over taxes than love.
To b dumb for the remainder of life
Is better than to speak falsely.
mAkhlA0E III ELuklbuu, W 10 IVY hou,
must take place in the afternoon.
GoD pardons like motheT, who kisses
the ofense into everlasting forgetfulneas.
FIRE and sword are but slow engines Of
destruction in comparison with the bab>
bier.
THOUGHTS that burn--Amateur poet
ry wnen the editors waste basket 10 over
flowing.
LIFE would be insupportable II pain
over great loss preserved its bitterness
for long time.
A WOMAN too often reasons from her
heart; hence two thirds of her mistakes
and her trouble.
"WE have had plenty of heroism,"
says a practical Memphis paper, "now
let us have sewer"
The Japanese army, on peace foot
ing, consists of 81, $50, and in time OF war
is increased to 1880 men.
FRIENDLY letter should be written BE-
cause the words spring spontaneously
from the heart, and rot from sense Of
duty.
ONE moment of true love and hap
piness among years of sorr0ws is worth
more than lifetime OF quiet, even mo-
n0tony.
A PIECE of brush throwni into an oyster
bed near New London eighteen months
ago, was recently taken out with shout
thirty bushels of bivalves clinging to it.
TWELVE thousand tons of zinc ore are
to be shipped soon from the mines in
New Jersey to Belgium. The deposit
in New Jersey is very large and the
cost of labor and fuel Is small.
CAUssHUN IL good thing for q man
to have, but when he has got 40 much of
it that lie IL afrade to tuch q cast-iron
lion for fear 1t will bite, ignorance IL
what's the matter ov him. Josh.
A CAREFUL study of the habits OF the
tramp will reveal the fact that in the
morning he calls for coffee, at noon for
pie, and at dewy eve" for ten cents to
help pay for his lodgipg-a.little whisky
in his stomach.
"WHY are you looking at me so.in'
tently, Alice p said Theodore. "I was
gazing at vacancy" replied Alice,
dresmily; and yet there was twinkle
6OOut tuc mOutu tubt euOWeu nor Ap~
praisement of the young man.
A .WIsooNslN dentist sdvertises his
new plugging machine thus: OTIS op-
perations are swift, easy and beautiful,
pleasant TO the patient, like the hum
ming-bird as it moves from flower to
flower to get the sweet nectar"
The day approaches on which the
freckled boy will send the cross-eyed
girl over the way, a picture OF dat
heart stuck through the center with
barbed stick. He will call ita valentine,
and the stick shows how he Is stuck on
the gal.
THERE was tide in the affairs of
Noah, taken at the food, which did not
lead on to glorious fortunes, though the
patri.ar managed TO keep his he d above
water, and save "the only complete
collection Of wild and trained animals in
the world"
SKIMProM came in the other day TO
tell US yet another sign Of the good
times coming. Turning his face around
to discover the beautiful red lancework
30 elcquent OF scratches, says, Skimp-
ton RI Mn. 8 = nsil. works have started
up, ycu see."