The Osceola times., 1880-03-20
WAYS OF The WORLD.

MARX TWAIN is said to covet seat in
Congress.
To preserve woolens from moth-give
them to the poor.
LIE depending on fishing with nets is
good deal Of drag.
Possibly light snow" is the best hold
of the Weather Bureau.
WrDow VAN Corr is having great sue
cess in revival meetings in Philadel'
phia.
Ir is not what an ofiice-holder steals
that makes him rich. 1t is what he
saves.
TExxYsoN, the poet, is worth 81 l,OO0,-
900. There are few poets worth less, we
believe.
THsex-Khedivc has tried in vain to
get Napolitan bank to advance $l40, 900
on some jewels.
IT has been discovered that the Dutch
baby cries for its mudder and its fodder
at the same time.
Mns. LoRrLLARD, Mrs, Astor and other
New York ladies have organized a Len
ten skating-class.
An exchange softly says of a defaulter:
"He admits gap Of $1,000 between him
sell and creditors"
OxIY one-half of the rural population
of New England make use Of any better
light than candles.
WHEN eggs drop from 30 cents to Is
cents per dozen in two days it's pretty
sign there's hen on.
kyne Inns riy
his daughter little present of $780,
600 to help marry her of.
In this country mean man has only
to die to have every body praise him and
neglect the good who live on.
ScHENcK, Prussian painter residing
in France, has made fame and fortune
by painting sheep in snow-storms.
YOUNG ladies' unable to support hus-
bands will not be likely to ask loafers to
marry them, even if this is leap year.
ONE of the Utes is so noted fo- covet.
Ing everything that he sees that he is
known at the agency as Handkerchief
MORE than forty Spanish editors have
received the title of Marquis, and they
value 1t but little. There's no money in
II.
WHEN two funerals meet at the Gem
etry, 1t il EN- barrassing to have one un-
dertaker call to the other, "How's busi-
ness?"
HANLAN will have a shell made for
sculling on the ice. 1t will have bottom
hard enough to defy the handsaw of
Courtney.
The New York Herald announces in
Its amusement column that "Rev. Tall
mage continues to occupy his rink on
Sundays"
THE average English umbrella is so
heavy that a person must carry it in both
hands and have no arm left to put around
The girl.
MITE sociables are not the most dismal
forms of entertainments known, yet if
they were a mite more sociable they
would be better.
The leader Of the present Cuban in
surrection has only seven Christian
names after his title OF General" and
he is very foolish to expect success.
A FOND mother in Leadville speaks of
her late son as having been born in
Michigan, but raised in Colorado. The
Vigilance Committee raised him.
NJ. TAME being asked for biographical
"reminiscences, replied: 81 have worked,
cave married, and l have had child
rem. That is the history of almost every
BODY"
OBERLIN, o., is much excited over The
opening of cigar store within its limits.
Public meetings are being held to de-
nounce it, and anti-tobacco pledges are
being circulated.
Mr.. GEORGE A. SALA makes the follow
ing report on New York to the men who
sent him there: "The streets of the En-
pire City are, throughout the winter, in
ah inconceivably neglected and filthy
condition"
HENRY JAMES, JR., has written novel
for The Parisian. 1t is in form of letters
written from a French pension, by an
American girl from Bangor, Me-, an En-
glish girl, German professor and
Frenchman.
The shirt worn by Charles l. at his
death and the sheet into which his head
fell are preserved, together with his
watch, in the church of Ashburnham,
Sussex, where they are deposited with
the communion plate.
A FASHION writer says: "A long round
bar with fine cone at each end makes a
pretty brooch, and costs a lady Sc" An
other long bar with bottle of whisky
at one end keg Of beer at the other
makes brute Of man and costs him q
fortune.