The Osceola times., 1880-09-11
ARKANSAS
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

ALL varieties Of potatoes wear out and
become weak in about 20 years.
ASPARAGUS ice-cream with rum sauce
was feature of q recent Saratoga bill OF
fare.
SANCTUARY shoes" are advertised in
England. They are warranted not to
squeak.
"Jusr dropped in for bite" as the
shark said when he drew near a water
ing-place.
CApK MAY is having its most brilliant
season, and people there don't want a
change"
ONE of the latest Jesuit purchases is
the palace of Ogna, near Burgos; another
hotel in Wales.
VANDERBILT will probably have Cleo
patra's needle bored and crawl through
1t to spoil the Biblical text.
The epicure may wear out the coat of
his stomach, but he can soothe the de-
nuded surface with cape-on.
THE Chicago RaiiDay Age says that
railway" is fast becoming as much an
American word as is railroad"
WHEN a storekeeper announces arti-
cles at the "cost price" he often means
a. the original price with lie added.
The Pope's hair is snow white. He
has q strong and vibrating voice, and
bears himself with the utmost dignity.
EpIseN ought to hitch his fast electric
locomotive to his slow electric light, and
see if he could drag it out of obscurity.
SEVERAL professors of the Kazan Uni
versity, Russia, are preparing to trans
late Shakespeare into the tartar language.
THE Boston Traveller SAYS Millard Fill
more Gas the handsomest of all the
American Presidents and Mr.. Lincoln
the homeliest.
THE Longfellow brothers, Prof Henry
w., the poet, Rev. Samuel and Alexan-
der, are now together at their old home,
Portland, Me.
Con-. AsHEuRY, who lost his seat in
Parliament at the last English election,
is consoling himself with trip to the
Arctic regions.
TIE daughters of the peot Pushkin
Countess Nuremberg and the widow of
Gen. Hartung) have been granted pen
sions by the Gar.
EDMUND YATES regards the profess
sional beauties as the pick OF London in
respect of looks, and as genial and pleas
ant members of society.
The packet boat Antique, bound from
Marseilles to Constantinople, lately ran
on the r. cks of Monte Crsto's prison,
the Chateau DIFF No one hurt.
To short-sighted person the mildest-
visaged clerk looks, with pen-holder
held amidships in his mouth, like the
bloody buccaneer of dime-novel motor
iety.
THERR Is fortune in store for the
genius who shall produce a boier-iron
shoe for the small boy. Something
warranted to last two weeks is what is
wanted.
AT the Irish watering-places it is
found that most Irish girls surpass the
English girls in swimming. They Jump
at once into six feet of water and swim
with the tide.
The London Truth says Amelioanese
is very easily acquired, and residence
of a couple Of years in Chicago will even
teach q London cockney to place his
"h's" properly.
The London Truth has found a new
American beauty in the person of Miss
Parsons, who appeared at the recent
Bachelors ball at Albert Grants Ken
sington mansion.
HEINRICH HRRMANN, the bookseller of
Leipsic, has collected over 800 likenesses
of notable persons belonging to the book
trade in all styles except photography,
which is excluded.
THB Boston Globe says that camping
out in canvas tent during ones vaca-
tion is like kissing a pretty girl at a
candy scrape-you have a good time,
but you come out OF it rather the worse
for wear.
The teaching of morals and manners
is included in the course of the San
Francisco grammar schools. Book.
keeping has been made a special study
in the first grammar grades and IN the
high schools.
The Boston Post says Mrs. Jennie Nc
Grau Fske, the wife of Prof Fiske, OF
Cornell university, is building 500, 600
house for herself and her liege lord.
That's the kind of a woman for poor
school-teacher to marry.
An American colonel" sent his hope
and heir to Paris boarding-school.
"There are a lot OF swells in our school,
said the hope; "they are are all princes,
counts, marquises and so forth" And
what do they call you, my SOM" asked
the Colonel" swelling with the import
ance of title gained by six months
service in our war. "Imbecils," an
swered the boy, sententiously.
THE French opinion on DIR. Tanners
experiment is summed up in Fronce,
Girardin's paper: This prodigious fast, "
il says, will not fill the stomachs OF the
starving. There is no need to be great
doctor to make such experiments. All
the wretched make them each winter
DIR. Tanner has done the poor great
deal of harm. The familiar appeal, My
God, sir, pity me; I've eaten nothing for
two days will never more have any
effect on u.s."
The Raid on Mexico.
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