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The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

ANOTHER pneumatic motor has made
its appearance on one Of the street rail-
ways in New York. A large metallic
tank is carried on the front platform of a
car which seats thirty-two persons. The
tank is charged with compressed air be-
fore starting until the outward pressure
is 400 pounds to the square inch. The
compressed air takes the place of steam
in moving the car, and the mechanical
appliances for communicating the mo-
ton are not unlike those of a steam en-
CINE The experimental trip was highly
satisfactory, good speed was obtained,
and there was an entire absence of the
smoke and noise which characterize the
ordinary steam motor
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

THE German Imperial Sanitary Bureau
publishes mortality statistics for the
principal cities of Europe ard America,
which make the annual death rate per
1000 as follows: London, 35.5; Liverpool
300; Edinburgh, 10; Dublin, 45.l; Paris,
37.s; Brussels, 29.3; Vienna, 2s.s; Frank
fort. 22.s; Berlin, 2S.5, Hamburg, 27s
Stockholm, 26.5; New York, 2l.7; Phila
delphia, l5.2; Chicago, l5.s; st. Louis
IO.6; San Francisco, 1876. Edinburgh Is
the only European city as healthy al
New ork, while st. Louis is twice AZ
healthy as that city. The American
cities are ahead of the European, while
st. Louis is still much the healthiest cit,
in the world.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

machine. In this machine, revolving
cutter seizes the slip, and with two cuts
removes the superiious wood, sepa-
rates the pencils and rounds them into
shape. The pencils fall from this ma
chine in a continuous stream, or rather
in six continuous streams, each pencil
finished Tor use, and so smooth. II Is
alleged, that the iinest sandpaper would
scratch them.
American ingenuity is also seen in an
arrangement bv which the chips falling
from this machine are sucked away by Il
"blower" into the engine-room and con-
sumed as fuel, with the result of keeping
the place perfectly free from rubbish.
The next curiosity is the counting
board" a grooved board or table, on
which, bv rubbing a handful of pencils
over it, and seeing that each groove Is
full, gross Of pencils can be accurately
counted off in five or six seconds. Other
ingenious machines are In use for stain
ing and vanishing the pencils, stamping
marks and names, and finally packing
them in singular and convenient meth
cd, the package being oval in shape. by
the use of checks on the quantity of ma
terial given out, the Dixon Company
boasts of being able to secure that II
even one pencil Of the 10000 made daily
is abstracted ii will be missed; and incl
dents are not wanting where this fact,
being unknown and unsuspected, has
brought people into trouble who thought
that one pencil might be removed from
among such large numbers. The rule OF
the house is that if a pencil Is missed
from room, every one employed in that
room is DISCHARGED unless the pencil be
found and, as there is a further rule
that no one discharged shall in any case
be re-employed, every one in the place
is interested in securing the honesty
both of visitors and co-workers.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

The Secretary of War, the Quarter
master General and Gen. Sherman have
indorsed the project for building rail-
road from San Antonio, Texas, to the
Rio Grande, probably at Laredo. The
line will be 100 miles long. The Gov
ernment needs it for the transportation
OF troops, and ITS construction will be the
completion of link which will connect
the American seaboard system with the
future chain of railroads in Mexico.
When those roads are built and in run
ming order, Mexico will be part of the
United States, and the lines will be con-
tinued through Central America.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
1t Was q Cultured Bostonian.
Boston Post.

Judgment in musical matters is a great
thing. A New York man who paid 81
to hear the violinist Remenyi was de-
lighted, and on retiring in bis hotel he
found that a fellow in the next room had
q violin that he was working noise out of,
and the New Yorker got up and went to
the fellows door and yelled: "See here
I've just come from hearing glorious
Remenyi, and after that the agony you're
histing out would make man dream OF
bears. Go to bed" Remenyi put up
his fiddle.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

A FUNGUS, similar to that which Dr.
Salisbury first noticed in the blood OF
persons suffering from malaria, is now
announced as constantly present in the
blood of consumptives, and is therefore
suspected of being the cause OF that
dreadful malady. II the alleged discov-
cry be confirmed by further investiga-
ton, it ought to lead to more satisfactory
methods of treatment than any yet de-
yised.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

A NEW Photographic process has been
discovered in Japan. One Of the sub
stances employed in the manufacture OF
Japanese lacquer has the property Of be-
coming almost as hard as stone under
the action of hight. A slao covered with
this material, and duly exposed behind
a Photographic negative for twelve
hours, is scraped, when the softer parts
are rubbed away, and the hardened por-
tions stand out in low relief. The slab
can then be used as block for printing.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
Fernando as An Actor.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Herdid tells us when Fernando
Wood was a youth he joined a dramatic
company aud aspired to high tragedy
jealous of the tragedian of the troupe,
heprocured can OF thin red paint (used
by the company's bill man, and steal.
ing to the bedside of his rival one night
poured the sticky fluid upon him. lis
sluggish flow awoke the sleeping Virgln'
ius, who hodiscovering its sanguinary huepy
the light of the moon imagined himseh
welterlng in gore from some horrible
cause. Wood was suspected, and selnng
his stage sword the tragedian pursued
him up stairs and down stairs CDotn
as scantily attired as Tam O'Shanters
Mamie in her "cuttle sark') and oW
into the streets of the Old Dominion
capital-tbat city which % years lalel
was the scene OF so many real Tragedies;
This episode ended Woods thealricsi
career and he soon driited to New iorh'
where tame and fortune awaited him.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
Editing out West.
n. Y. Tribune.

n. 1. lrlDunc.
The unhappiest man in the Far West
IS always the editor OF the pioneer news
paper. Witness this touching appeal
from the BeHtonian (Cal.): 1--WE have
collected $3.50 cash during the past six
months, and lived on that sum. In ad-
dition to this weeks work at the case,
We have looked after the chores Of the
office, made up the paper, cut and wet
down the paper, washed the rollers,
worked the press, put up the mails and
carried the paper. We have bought,
begged or stolen the frewood, and
chopped it with a borrowed axe. We
have done our own cooking and lived
on one meal and cold lunch a day,
never getting good square one except
when chance halt dollar fell in our
way, and we would rush up TO the Cali
fornia Hotel. We have lived on boiled
beef wiz an occasional turnip, and not
unfrequently a boiled frozen potato and
ualt for dessert. We would then change
our diet 70 soda crackers and sweetened
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

SHOULD the experiment of boring arte-
sian wells on the plains east OF the
Rocky mountains, which is contemplated
by the Government, result favorably, a
most important step will be taken toward
the reclamation of those uninhabited
lands. Artesian wells have been sunk
in the deserts of Algeria with great sue
cess, and every well has become the CEN
ter of a thriving village.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
TIMELY TOPICS.

INDIANA girls are right smart. An ex-
change tells of a girl in that State who
wanted TO see if her lover really loved
her, so she hired boy to yell MAD
doei" as they were walking out. The
lover flew over the ferce and left her to
be chewed up, and she went right away
and married a store clerk.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

water for a few days. There is -
so conducive TO health as no'alns
change OF diet. For the last nr'eqgent
two we have been gormandizinos seek Or
con and beans straight, with I'm oI Ia.
stepped in weak tea. What tohaoeken
cannot beg we buy on credit W MY We
not been in bed or lain on A ,os.e e nave
since last Nav. 'atIfass
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

THERE is at least one Chinaman in
New York who believes that when in
Rome he should do as the Romans do.
He took an oath, Mclean man fashion,
in court on Monday, with the remark in
pigeon English that he considered an
oath ON the Bible binding, as he believed
in the Chinese religion when in China,
and in the United States religion when
IN the United States.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
The War-Cloud.

During the past week a war-cloud has
come up out of the East, which may
strengthen the hands of the Tories in
the British Parliamentary elections,
and advance the price of grain in the st.
Louis elevators. While Russia dis
claims any purpose OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
in Asia, 1t invariably finds it necessary
to annex the territory adjoining its last
annexation. Having annexed Khiva to
protect the frontier on the Avel, it an
nexed Tashkend to protect Khiva, moved
eastward to Yarkand and Kashgar to
protect Tashkend, and so worked its way
to kuldja, no-man's land, nominally
subject to China. Here, at last, it met
with resistance from real government,
and after few skirmishes the difficult
ties were adjusted by treaty. Unfortun-
ately, before the Chinese plenipotenti-
ary returned home, somebody had stiff
ened the Chinese backbone, and by this
time the plenipotentiary's bead is prob
ably anywhere but on his shoulders and
China repudiates him. OF course Eng
lish influence is said to work, and prob
ably it is, but after England's little
maneuvers in Zululand and its theory of
a scientific frontier in Afghanistan it can
hardly object to Russia's carving
scientific frontier out of the western
corner Of China.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
Cafarrh Sometimes

commences with a cold, but its cure ALWAYS
commences with the use Of Sage's Caarrh
Remedy. This old, reliable and well-known
1119 noes rcpular than now.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

Mrs. JONES, how il your health this
morning2 Thank you, madam, much i'm
proved. bought a bottle of Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup last night, and after the first
dose my cough was checked. l slept well,
and have not coughed once this morning.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

THERE are many hard tasks set ~,
women in this world but few which tnsIh tI.:Ih,
find it impossible to perform. o.n ou
there never was woman who cou's
keep a fur-lined circular from nyins
open and showing the fur.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
Free of Cost,

As you value your existence, do not iai,
to improve the opportunity of procuring q, ,
bottle of Or. Kings Nete Piscorcrg, W
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, Asth,ns' ,,
Bronchitis and all throat and lung ans,
tons before it is too late. This is the ony
remedy you can poshiyeiy rely on dong
represented. Trial bottle free. Regular si''
one dollar. For sale bv all druggists.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

BABIES are too highly prized 10 psrln"
them to suffer with Collie, Flatulenoe, e'er
when DR. Bulls Baby Syrup will at onceN'
lieye them. Price % cts.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

TWENTY SIX million six hundred thou
sand tons Of Anthracite coal has been
mined this year.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
A PRETTY TOILET.

A toilet designed for dancing days
ahead is of folds upon folds of white
tulle, forming plain, Opaque, grape-hke
frills and putls, that look as if carved out
of tlexile marble, shot with small satin
beads and frings, giving a frosty sparkle
of delicious coolness. The ornaments
to be worn with this exquisite dress are
a necklace in one strand of India pearls
as large as peas, and pale PINK natural
roses
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24
ROUND HATS.

Every woman can have a fashion of
her own IN millinery this spring; round
hats are wired as shaped to suit the face
and fancy. One of the most successful
shapes is middle-sized hat faced with
flowers under the brlm and worn slant
wise on the head. with space cut out
for the chignon in the brim, concealed
by fall of beaded lace.
The Osceola times., 1880-04-24

Extra genteel fashion writers appar-
emily have an idea that doubling the
final consonant and adding c to Il title
adds extreme to the style. The fashion
books, which show some of the worst
writing in the world, are full Of such alb
surd errors as Bretonne lace for Breton,
mule for Indian null, musseline for
muslin, cuirasse for cuiras, and hun
dred similar follies.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26
The Campaign Tert Book.


From IN e New York Her Id, Aug. 25th,
"The Campaign Text Book" issued
by the National Democratic Committee
is one of the most comprehensive and
formidable documents that has ever
been issued by any political party. II
is a large octave volume of 573 pages,
and among its subordinate titles are
"Why the People Want Change. =
"The Republican Party Reviewed. - "Its
Sins of Commission and Omission" A
Summary of Leading Events in Our
History under Republican Admlnislra-
ton" These titles will sufficiently
demonstrate the character of the book
1t is aggressive, every line of it. The
Republicans are attacked in the front, in
the rear and on the tanks. General
Grants administration, General Gar
fields public life, General AIthur's ca
reer aud even the official existence of
President Hayes, have been made to
serve the purposes of the Democrats
Each of these gentlemen is attacked In
one way or the other, aud the whole is
capped by carefully arranged sta ements
relative to the conduct of various public
departments by Republican government
officials.
The volume opens with the Demo
| cratlc platform adopted at Cincinnati ,
and this is followed by sketches of Han
cock and English ana by their lettels of
acceptance. General Hancock's letter
to General Sherman ON tic duty of the
amy, during the 1876 presidential mud
die, is gwen, aud tLen begins the fierce
onslaught on Republicanism. The
Credit Mobilier, the DE Golyer and the
Sanborn matters, the District of COlum-
bia "ring" and the back pay ''grab'' are
all made subjects of specially virulent
articles rejecting Oh the Republican
candidate. The whole is called "a
Pyramid of COrruption!" "a Monument
of Fraud" Under the head of "rhrce
Monstrous Grievances" the text book
talks about "Troops at the Polls "'ai-
tisan Jury Laws" and ''Partisan Elect On
Laws" and III connection with all these
matters General Garfield is iepres ntcd
! to have pursued 'devious" course, aud
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26

under the inspection of certain officers,
hoping no doubt that some of the States
might refuse 20 permit these officers TO
assume the duties imposed upon them
by Act of Congress, whereupon mem
bers elected without such supervision
might by a stretch of the same despotic
power be declared not entitled to a seat
in that BODY, when such declaration would
result to the advantage of the Radical
party.
These centralizing efforts are constant
ly cropping cut and the people should
be awakened to their effect. We only
point the matter out. Any gentleman
who has read and observed the signs of
the times may judge for himself. The
defeat of the third term policy only
put back the aim of the leaders of the
centrallzing despotism that is being urg-
ed upon the freemen OF America. The
enfranchisement of eight hundred lgnor-
ant men is sought to be used by the i'm
perialists to help them to carry out their
work OF despotism.
OUR esteemed contemporary, of the
Smyrna Times, sees the disturbed and
wrecked condition of his party, and
refers to it in the following philosophi-
cal language:
The Republican party of Delaware
is suffering for want of disinterested-
ness. At present it is in the clutches
of factionists who are trying how near
they can squeeze the life out of it
The wonderful vitality it manifested
in assuming a new life in the spring
is vitiated by warning factions ere the |
''dog days" are reached. Who is Hig- |
gins, or who is Bird, or who is Cannon,
that the party should be run in their
interest? When men like John NJ. |
Clayton step to the front and say |
"come on boys" then there may be
some excuse for rallying under an in
banner.
Our advice to the Republicans is to
vote the Democratic ticket.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26
DEAF MUTEs' CONVENTION.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 25.-The
deaf mutes of America are holding here
to-day their first convention. There IL a
fair attendance of leading deaf mutes
from all parts OF the United States and
from Canada. The proce ediugs are all
carried on bv signs. The following
prominent officers have been chosen :
President. Robert McGregor, of Gin
cinnati; First Vice President, II q nv
der, New York; Second Vice President,
II Atwood. Massachusetts,; Third Vice
President, ID w George, Illinois; Fourth
Vice President, NJ freeman, Georgia a;
g JrrespoDd NJ Secretary, HOdgson,
New York; Recording Secretary, George
I Dongherty, Missouri; Treasurer, r Il
Lawre nee, Louisiana.
Short addresses were made by Rev.
John Cham berlain. of New York Ed
mund Booth and Mr.. Holmes, Of Massa-
chusetts, and others. The session will
continue Two days longer.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26

to have made an "ineonsistent" record.
A proposed investigation of mat 'ers con
nected with the granting of a subsidy to
the Pacific Mail Company is alluded to,
and General Garfield is alleged to have
been instrumental in suppressing an ex-
animation. Various other subjects con-
nected with General Grrfeld's Congress
sional career are treated OF, and then The
matter of President Hayes's civil service
reform policy is taken up. The efforts
of Republican campaign committees to
raise money from government employees
is dealt with.
So the "Text Book" continues. 1t
attacks the Republicans in the most vnl-
nerabl, points, and not an alleged scan
dal sine the close of the war is left un-
revie wed.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26
Truth Ever to be Remembered.

WHAT THE HoUsR OF REPRESENTATIVE
DECLARED THREE YEARS AGO.
II ON the Congressional Record, Vol. ",
Part Ill, Page 2,23B
ReSolred by he House Qf Representatives.
Of the United StOtes, That IL is the duty of
the House to declare, and this House does
hereby solemly declare, that Samuel j.
Tilden OF the State of New York received
one hundred aud ninety-six electoral
votes for the Office of President OF the
Udited States, ali OF which votes we've
cast and lists thereon signed, certified and
transmitted TO the scat Of Government,
directed To the President OF the Senate, ia
conformity with the Constitution and
| ws of the United States, by electors
legally eligible c and qualified as such cleo
tors, each of whom had been duly ap-
pointed and elected in "A manner directed
py the Legislature OF the state in and for
which he cat ms vote us aforesaid
Hd that Sd Il Samuel j. IttdeH huUtIg mus
recetUed The UOte Of a mUOrtty Of The tLecfOIs
dppOtHted us aforesaid. he HuS UteTe5g dUiy
eiecfed I'resident ot The Jtuted Stdfes of
-iHiertcu yOr a t.rlR Of Jour Bcdrs, cOHtHieHc-
Dty on the an Odg Of AfdIch, H. h.. 1871.
and tuls House further declares that lhos.
y. HendrIcks having received the same
number OF electoral votes for the Otfice Gt
Wee President OF the United States tn1t
were cast Tor samuel j. Iilden for Presi
dent as aforesaid, the said votes having
been cast Ior HIM ny the same persons
who voted Tor the said Iilden for PTcsi-
dent as AFORESAID, ana at the same t.mo
ana IN the same manner IL Is the opinion
IfcHdrtci.s of the STATE ~ ifiGitdHd UdS dUgl
elected I,cc- r. cstdtnt NJ u,e Gaited Sidies
jOr term " IOitr HcdfS, cOyg gHlc1lctHg on tnr
M ddy Of hdTch. 4. H., ls7I.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26
THE SHERM ANS.
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN o. THOMPSON.

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN O. THOMPSON.
From the Chicago Times.
"What about the Sherman following
in your State; was there any discomfort
in the ranks because of Garfield's Domi-
nation?"
"Let me answer you, as "'-ee Is
said TO DO. hy asking you Question.
Don't you think 1t was remarkably Kind
in the General 10 so promptly furnish a
copy of that remarkably good campaign
He could bave declined or adopted some
othe- method. even though Hancock
himself asked TOR COPY, of preventing
its publication; but, inste al of that, the
moment o journalist asked him for it
away in the West, while on his travels,
and without a secretary, he had staff
officer make a copy of it.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-26
GARFIELD'S CONGRESSIONAL
RECORD.

THE FRIEND OF JoBBING CONGRESS-
MEN AND THE LoBBY-HIs CONNEC-
TION WITH AN ATTEMPTED HALF
MILLION PACIFIC MAIL STEAL.
Correspondence OF the Detroit Free Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 18th.
General Garfield, throughout long
Congressional career, and while occu-
poing important positions on House
committees, has never been recog-
nized as the foe of jobbers. He has
as many warm personal friends among
jobbing Congressman and their allies
Of the lobby as any man in public life.
December 18th, 1874, Mr.. Garfield
arose to a question of personal privi-
lege, and sent to the clerks desk and
had read an editorial paragraph from
the New \ ork Tribune. The clerk
read as follows
HALF MILLION STEAL.
The first of the jobs makes its ap-
pearance at the Capitol early, and, we
regret to say, in one of General Gar
fields surprisingly prompt appropria-
ton bills. We beg the General to re
lieve himself and his committee from
responsibility for it at once. The Pa
cific Mail was in the enjoyment of a
subsidy Of $500, 600 per annum. Nh.
Stockwell, one of its numerous retiring
presidents, succeeded in getting a law
authorizing $500, 600 more, on condi-
tion that enough new first-class iron
steamers should be placed on the line
to do the mail service by the 1st of Oc-
tober, 1878. The company failed to
get them on by that time, has not yet
got them on, and has only two of them
the Toxic and City of Peking, even
built. The postmaster-generalr report
ed this failure to Congress in Decem-
Der, 1873. Congress thereupon made
no appropriation for the subsidy, and
the bill itself only escaped repeal be-
cause of the view, generally expressed,
that the company's failure to comply
with its terms made it null. Congress
being out of the way, Attorney Gen
eral Williams was appealed to for one
of his opinions. He conveniently de
cided that the failure of year or two,
more or less, made no difference.
Postmaster General Jewell has been
induced to estimate for the extra $500,
900 subsidy as if it had been earned,
and General Garfield promptly report
ed it to Congress in the Postal Appro-
priation Bill. We call upon every
! friend of honesty in the public service
to watch this job-to resist it from the
outset. After this exposure there can
be no decent pretext for continuing
the claim.