The Osceola times., 1880-08-28
ARKANSAS
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

SfTTIHo BULL still considers himself to
be the Bismarck Of the sage brush.
THR manufacture of sulphuric acid
and OF aikali lies at the very root of our
chemical activity.
Miss LETTA GUY, an Ohio lady, has
developed great talent as a whistler, and
10 about to travel on it.
SENATOR BLAISK's youngest daughter,
Miss Hattie. has pet-pony, which she
has named Don Cameron.
ONE of the Campbell girls who came
out with their father, the Duke of Ar
gyll, to this country, has just been mar
ried.
OSR or two inches Of snake and a
couple Of rattles ought TO be taken from
that l4-foot and 4s-rattle snake killed in
Texas.
EVERY persons objection to the round
dance holds good until he or she learns
how to dance it. 1t is then very pleas
ant dance.
MORE than one-half of the steamboats,
running out of New York avoid the law
regarding life-preservers, and malicious
ly avoid it.
IT is thought in monolith circles that
Barnum and Vanderbilt will eventually
obtain possession of the obelsk for their
new museum.
People are expected to go somewhere
because they can go cheap. But they
must pay for coming back, and need not
all 90 at once.
THBRE are 400 musicians at Coney Is
land, and the ocean has no chance to
get its work in through the music of
the sad sea waves.
An Ohio girl was struck by lightning
while splitting wood in thunder storm,
but her father, who sat reading a novel,
scarcely felt the shock.
The Chinese are learning to chew fine
cut tobacco, but they can never spit with
an American gentleman while their eyes
are go much on the bias.
WIsCoNsIH women are sharp. When
they give their children matches TO play
with and go off on visit they carry the
insurance policies with them.
ANTHONY CoMsrocK has accomplished
some good things, but he is man who
can't see the dividing line between 60
ing far enough and not too far.
LowsLL, Mass, is also disappointed in
shO tCibao. 'itC HAS ttNtTdl lIlOu53nu
more inhabitants than she counted on.
and must therefore increase her poor
fund.
INDIANA has woman that weighs $40
pounds, yet she ran tramp over three
fences and across meadow and pounded
him until he had to be taken away in a
wagon.
An old angler says that fish does not
suffer much pain from being hooked. OF
course not. II Is the thought of how his
weight will be lied about that causes
him anguish.
YoUNG FARMKR-"Aar you fond of
beasts. Miss Gusherton?" Miss Gusher
ton-"Oh, really, Mr.. Pawker, If YOU
mean that declaration, you must speak
10 mamma"
Gov. STANFORD and wife, of California.
went to see ''The Danites" in London
the other night, and Mrs. Stanford wore
100000 worth OF diamonds. Republi-
can simplicity.
SELENA DoLoRA, the most finished.
and in many respects the most admira.
BILE actress on the London stage. has
signed an engagement for forty weeks
in this country.
A LONDON firm advertises that il has
for sale one OF the identical stamps by
which George III attempted to impose
the obnoxious tax on teas imported into
British America.
JOHN RUsKIN is selling a number of
his books to get rid of them, his reason
for selling any particular volume being
in most cases, that he has not read il
and doesn't want it.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has granted pensions
from the civil list to DR.. Dun lor for his
Concordance to the Odyssey and
Hymns of Homer" and to Miss Jackson
for her shropshire Word Book"
BUYERS in Burns county, Nebraska.
are gathering for the Eastern markets
vast quantities of old buffalo and cattle
bones that lie around loose on the prair
les, for which they pay s. a ton.
IT is q remarkable fact that of all the
names beginning with "a" in the Har.
ward class of '25, five IN number, and
headed by c. F. Adams, not one of them
appears in the catalogue marked with an
asterisk, denoting death.
JAY GOULD is said to be yery fond Of
his son, whose name is George J. Gould.
a bright lad, and he takes him with him
wherever he goes, in order to educate
him-that he may learn the ways of the
men with whom he comes in contact.
THIS country is so far behind the old
world that an Egyptian obelisk is con-
sidered new thing in New York. ri
such things are to become fashionable. !
1t is likely that the mummy business
may revive and that something in that
line may be imported.
A GERMAN philosopher SAYS: Fear
and selfishness are the bridges by which |
We return to the animal" This was ex.
emplified by a Minnesota farmer, who in
his efforts to save his burning house
forgot his three children, and two OF
them were burned to death.
CHUNG HAN, late Chinese Embas,ador
at st. Petersburg, who was condemned
to death some time ago for having signed
The kuldscha Treaty without due au.
thoriZation from Pekin, will not be exc.
cuted for at least six months to come.
December, 1t appears, is considered a
particularly suitable time Of year for cut
ting of peoples heads in the Flowery
Realm, and Chung Hans decapitation
has been postponed to that month in
Difference to the high rank of the doomed
Mandarin.
GuIzor, the French historian, in let
ter late.y published, addressed TO one of
hie children, tells how, on his first visit
to Windsor, he lost his way and opened
wrong door and beheld for a moment
lady having her hair brushed. The
next day the Queen (fJr it was she)
loked him about it, and he says. 81
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