The Osceola times., 1879-04-05
NUMBER 81.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
PARTING.

/ Partings are short. eternity is long.
| Lille Is but one brief stage
| AMI they hat say love ends witn life ara wfo0g.
List to thine own hesrts cry
Love oanoot die-
what .housh 80 far avayi
Thy thought, still sita M, and With thee mine,
And ahsenos has no power
| To Lessen What by nature 10 divine.
List TO thine owa hsarfs cry-
| Love snnot die.
Then vesp no more, my love
| Weeping hut n ,ws thy trust in ms 10 email
| + iih is By cslmae.s proved,
For know III trutn, thou csns. no, love Of sn
| Ualess III ne o~n heart crv-
Love cannot die.
DAKOTA claims a population Of so.-
0C0.
WHEN q man hasn't . red be gets
blue.
DURING 1873 there were q, 900 deaths
in New York city.
Now that Lent has arrived, the world
Is repenting in sackcloth and boiled cod.
fish.
The man who carries his railroad
ticket in bis hal. band makes fare dis>
play.
The best are the cheapest. This d
more especially 90 In the matter Of
wives.
TIE man who thinks everybody Il a
/, fool, can keep on good terms with him.
self-[Picay une.
LET us all be merry; brighter days
are in store for us. A Poilsdelphia
organ grinder has been arrested.
IL the Chinese must 70, asks the ST.
Louis Post, can they take the small boy
who plies the bean shJoter with them3
A PsoFoUND writer says: We are
created especially for one ano her,"
Then why blame the csnnibals fer want
ing to get their sharef
MILWAUKEE expects TO have, within
a year, the largest Touring mill In the
world. 1t will be of one hundred run~oi-
stones capacity.
GLADSTONE has been presented with
silver hstchet. This places him under
an awkward responsibility for the future.
He cannot tell lie.
WHEN $4,000 clergyman is offered
| IS 600 pastorate 1t Is styled "call,"
whereas, in point OF fact, It ID not
"call," but q 7" raise"
AN exchauge-which We will not
"give awsy"-in quoting the vital
statistics Of Philadelphia, says: "Of the
births, 1885 we're children"
PPovIDENr MINIsIER: IL wish TO
state that l have procured an alarm.
clock that will wake up the congregation
as soon as the services are over"
In answer to Shakespeare's conun.
drum, +" What's in name 2" the 6yra-
cuse Times rays that If 1t is Russian
generals name the entire alphabet b
in it.
As an eminent medical authority has
asserted that kissing and hugging are
dangerous to health, . cynical Boston
paper recommends marriage ~ . sure
preventive.
MARY: "Oh, sissyl this tiresome
loose tooth declare I'll pull 1t out"
Sissy: "Oh, no, Mary, don't; mall
make me wear it." (Sissy gets oil her
sisters cast-offs.")
A FRENcHMAN Of authority says that
the "jowl steak of q mule Ia preferable
to any OF the meats OF civilization"
"Jowl steak" is good to be sure, but
how would deviled loot strike himf
If Adam had been created q boy In
stead Of a iull>erown man, he would
have clubbed all the apples of from that
tree before the serpent had . chance to
get through the fence around tue gar
dep.~
| FLORENCE, the actor recently remark
ed to a restaurant Owue. In San Fran.
ci.co, as they were looking at big, old.
fashioned pie, Ny friend, the works
look very nice, but I,lon't like the heavy
double cases"
The Sutz Canal, Egypt, among lie
other curiosities, presents the traveller
with the extraordinary spectacle OF vast
fights Of flying fish, which at times
suddenly appear in the vicinity OF the
vessel, and as suddenly disappear.
A SABBATH school teacher writes TO
the Blddleford Times that be was
shocked to rec in billiard room, around
a table, several boys from his Sunday
school. The boys have not been heard
from, but 1t Is supposed they were
shocked too.
"vo'cKs of the Night" makes very'
pretty title for poem, but the reali J
| is not 40 enchanting. We refer to the
pre-. matrimonial conversation carried on
| in the cellar by our favorite Maltese and
q gallant neighbor OF the opposite sex.
-[New Haven Register.
"RoBBED on a bobtail car" That's
a heading for an article In q Boston
paper. Think of it right In the seat Of
culchaw, where the boy at the foot OF
his cls.s would have known better and
wrote: Roberted in q Robert narra>
tive car" We call on the proprietor Of
that paper to fire the writer OF the article
out.
A BAsnFUL young man could defer
the momentous question no longer, 20
he stsmmered: "Martha-l--I-do
you-you must hsve-are ysu aware
that the good book says.-er, says that It
is not g.g.good that m-man should Be
alone YS "Then hadn't you better run
home to your mother p Martha coolly
suggested.
| "AMASpA, wish you TO put the
large bible in a prominent place on the
center.table, and place three or four
hymn books carelessly round on the
sofa. | have advertised tor . young
man to board in a cheerful Christian
family. and tell you what, If you girls
don't manage, either one OF you, to rake
him in, why I'll never try anything
again, for Pm tired out"
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