The Osceola times., 1879-03-15


the path to glory yet.
The American peop'e are quick to
grasp at snyt1ing new, and at once pro-
ceed with all their celebrated energy to
run 1t into the ground. 1t is the case with
trite saying, Slang phrase or popu-
lar song. They are no sooner learned
than desperate effort to forget is made
Not long since a man was killed for
playing My Grandiather's Clock" a1d
the time is rapidly approaching when
there will be a massacre on board the
"Pinsfore when some one gets off that
"What! never! Well, hardly ever "
gag.
MANITOBA, where CO ID waves are man.
ufsctured with such unvarying success,
has been sort of Mecca for Canadians
II is their "go west" locality. Many
have left the provinces and even the
state of Michigan to seek home in
Manitoba A letter from a prominent
citizen OF Winnipeg Detroiter gives
rather blue outlook from thrt quarter
The thermometer, he says, has reached
as low as forty degrees below zero, aud
even the freedom fom sun stroke which
such a temperature insures, hard y re-
comedies the inhabitants TO the irigidity.
Winnipeg has become very dull place
The winter is very long, and no business
doing in it,. Summer time is better here
because We have large emigration com,
ing in then. This is not the best placs
msa can come to- IFS played out"
Mr. j. w. BoUroN, of New York, has
on exhibition an led ton de luxe" OF Ir-
Wings 4" Life OF Washington" the man.
ufscture of which cost five thousand
dollars. According to the Worlds de-
scription, 1t is a fine royal quarto and is
a presentation copy, with the autograph
OF the author, of the large paper edition,
of whichonly one hundred and ten pies
were printed. 1t comprises the choicest
picked impressions on India paper of the
the hundred and two portraits and other
plates. 1t is in ten volumes, with one
volume 'of iconography,. and has over
fourteen hundred added illustrations, in
cluding about one hundred and thirty va
rieties OF the Washington portrait of
contemporary execution. 1t also con-
tains about one hundred and twenty su
tograph letters from Washington and
most of the noted men OF his time
The illustrations consist of por traits,
views of prominent places, battle scenes,
map,, plans OF operations, original
drawings in water colors, sepia, and pen
Gil sketches. Besides many other special
features, it ia bound in full gros.grained
Lsyant morocco, elsborstely fooled sides
and backs, inside panels of polished
crimson Lsvsnt, with delicate hand tool
ing, silk head bands, each plate mounted
on -ilk guards, full gilt edges. and
chamois.lined case accompanying each
volume. o, ye bibIyophilesl But itis
not for sale.
THERE is danger of starvation il sci
eDce pushes researches much further in.
to our larders. TfichinS in pork, peu-
ro-pneumonia in beet, typhus in milk,
and now acertain Doctor Querner in
Philadelphia has detected diptheria in
lemons, oranges, pears, and especially in
apples. The doctor declares that he has
been for years engaged in investigating
the causes of this disease, and having
traced 1t in certain cases TO the eating of
apples, he examined the fruit with the
microscope, and found the skin covered
with species of fungus, indentical
with the fungi from a diptheris ulcer.
The fact that everybody who eats an ap-
pie does not die of di iptheris he accounts
for by the different susceptibility to d.
sease, OF individuals. OF course, per-
sons once infected with these fungi com.
municate them as rapidly as the fruit in
which they originate. DR.. QIerner
publishes the remedy for the disease,
based upon the theory of its cause.
1t is to keep up the strength of the pa
tient by stimulants and food, locally to
destroy the fungi by means of a solution
OF one part OF strong, muriste OF iron to
ing in precipitste of sulphur, salicilic
acid to be given every two hours for
twenty-fcur. We give the discovery aud
cure Tor what they are worth, but it may
be added that other Philadelphia doctors
don't think very highly o! the new itss.