The Osceola times., 1880-01-17
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THE WAYS or THE WORLD.

THERE are l,322 students al iiaf'afd
College.
ALI dinners are remembered according
to their deserts.
STEALING kiss costs E3 js, with costs,
at Hanley England.
BLONDES are out of fashion Ia Paris,
and dark hrunettes are the rage.
A NoS-TREEzABIE water pipe should
next employ Edison's attention.
A VISITOR to Queen Victoria has to he
announced by five different persons.
THERE are grounds for believing that
clearinghouse coffee is not always good
SoME doctors are very disagrceabe
creatures, being always out Of patients.
A BOY in Pekin has reclted the whole
of the New Testament in his own Ian
guage.
BEER is the appropriate name of an
Ohio S'ate Senator. Wonder if he takes
snthin.
EvE's first remark: "What ! want, by
my love. il to see my ma Elmiro
Free Press.
A DIARY for 1880 will cost the price Of
three good cigars. A word to the wise
Is sufficient
SILVER will be the proper caper for
those having pretty ankles and embroid-
cred stockings.
THERE are in all England between So
600 and 10000 Jews, Of whom about 80
900 live in London.
CAPT WEBB is going to swim in the
halcvon climate Of { llifornia, likewise in
the waters of the Pacific.
TNG-A-LING being the name of a Chin
est girl in San Francisco. Boston paper
thinks she must be belle
New YORK goes all over the world
hunting for great men 10 bust. A bus,
OF Tom Moore is to be put up in Central
Park.
4 FAvoRIrE dish with the Russians is
made with mrnips and chestnuts A
favorite dish with Americans is made of
clay and baked.
NIRGISIA has 67j colorcd schools taught
by il5 colorcd teachers. The male
teachers salary averages $50 a month,
and the females s2i.
Al Boston the blind are taught to tune
pianos, and are extremely successful.
The city has for three wears entrusted to
these blind tuners all the pianos in the
public schools.
FEBRUARY will have five Sundays. short
as the month il. This thing only hap
pens once in twcnty-eight wears, and
those who pass contribution boxes must
make the most OF 1t.
4 MICHIGAN man, on wager, ate nine
pumpkin pies As the Western hoy kill
ing season is not yet over, there is faint
hope that justice will yet meet the
wretch Phiiadeiph,d Press
No living man can produce one single
instance where mince-pie, eaten just be-
fore going to bed made a man have wild
dreams. Men have laid it TO mince-
pie, but II was their conscience.
4 WET towel applied to the back of the
neck not only induces sleep, but when
you sleep you dream that your uncle
died and willed YOU the whole Bay of
BiScay as a reward for your goodness.
II is said Sara Bernhardt is building a
villa, which will be as singular u piece
of architecture as herself lfthe villa is
as thin as Sara it will be very singular,
and fit only 10 receive a turtle turned up
edgewise.
ONE hundred millionaires are now resi-
dents of san Francisco. Mackay. who j.
said to be their chief, being worth about
10000 ,0OO. il content To- pass most Of his
time in a temperature Of l00o, down in
his mines.
A STRANGER dropped wallet contain
ing $500, on the streets of Fair Play,
Col, and the citizens let 1t lie there until
he came back for 1t. They thought it
was some new feature introduced into
the string game.
1HE Detroit Free Press says: THE
latest Yankee discovery il a spring in
Michigan SO strongly magnetic that II
man who drank from il and went into a
blacksmith's shop, found the anvil ON
which he sat stuck to him, and had to
have il amputated.