The Osceola times., 1880-05-22
THE WAYS OF TIE WORLD.

"FrSA" is the new and more sensible
way of spelling Itna. It's only an old
mountain anyhow.
IT costs Harpers 5000 per month for
magazine engravings, and the pictures
are good for nothing but to look at.
TEXAS derives re; enue of 100000
from the tax on drummers. The total
number licensed under the law is about
1882.
RAILROAD eating houses in Connectl-
cut employ religious walters altogether.
They won't talk back when the coffee is
called "slop."
The Modern Argo says that the frogs
were the first to organize leap-year par
ties. Yes, and they were the inventors
of the bellows too.
"BEr you two to one don't go to pri-
son." said Mr.. Walker, of Illinois, and
he out with pistol and banged bulle,
into his head.
Joaquin MILLER has purchased an in
terest in brass foundry in Baltimore,
and he will cut his haIr, pare his nails
and cease writing verses.
Two or three centuries hence the name
"angel" may still endure, but the artists
who illustrates them with bare feet and
robes flying, will be hooted at.
THREE elephants have lately been
landed in this country for manageries.
Each one will start out as "the only ele-
phant ever born in this country"
RICHARD VAN RENSSELAER,, aged So, the
last member of the old Patroons family,
and President OF the Merchants National
Bank of Albany, has just died suddenly.
/ Miss SELMA Borg, Finnish lady,
says Americans should be the last to
/ condemn the .,ihilists for desiring what
the Americans have and for doing what
they did.
JUDGE HILToN's splendid place at Sara
toga ia being rapidly enlarged, and the
| hundred acres surrounding are being
transformed into q grand park open to
the public.
/ A BALTIMORE man lost a diamond ring
in his clearinghouse five years ago and
it was found in an old boot in coDbler's
shop. Mysterious are thy ways, oh I!
Baltimore!
PROF. Jons FIsKE, the critic and lee
turer, is from Connecticut,-a large tall
man, with dark curling hair and thick
red beard, with pale face and gold
trimmed spectacles.
How foolish for artists to represent
Cupid as the god of love, when we all
know an old stocking iull OF money has
more influence than forty Cupids
crowded up together.
Miss JENNIE FLOOD, daughter of the
California millionaire, will have an in
come Of 100000 year, when married.
She is more than ordinarily anxious TO
get MARI ed on this account,
SOME OF the companies in the regular
army are so thinned out that after the
officers make their details for boot-blacks
cooks and scrubs there is only one prI-
vate lett to do the fighting
Dows in Pennsylvania folks used to
believe that the Lord made the weather
for each day. but since they have found
out that it i. General Myers instead'
church influence is spreading.
The King of Siam, who visits this
country shortly, is one Of about 70 chill
dren. He was crowned in 1865, when
fifteen years old, and Is quite an amiable
and wel-informed sovereign.
A VERMONT man spent l20 successive
days in trying to run down and kill q
fox, and when at last he got sight of him
and fired a shot the bullet killed 1900
hsrse and the fox sloped away.
II you get on the right side Of the
King of Siam he will decorate you with
the Order of the White Elephant. If
you get on the wrong side he will dec
crate your grave with pumpkin vine.
UNDER a recent enactment British tars
can only be given % lashes on the bare
back. How they expect to keep their
patriotism up to the fighting point on
this slim allowance is wonder over this
way.
The Hon. Alexander Mouton, Louis
iana's oldest Ex-Governor, was serenaded
in New Orleans the other night. He is
80 years old. and was the first native
Louisanian sent TO the Congress Of the
United States, and was the President Of
the Seceeding Convention in 1851.
Col JOHN EMORY, son of the late Gen.
Thos. Emory, and a brother Of Maj. Gen.
VIM. Il. Emory, L. S. A, died in Mary
land on Monday. He served in the reg
ular army in Florida and in the West,
but resigned to take charge of the family
estate, where he resided till death.
The Envoy of the King of Siam is ex.
pected on his second visit to England in
the middle of May. 1t had been ar
ranged that the King would be piesent
and invest Queen Victoria with the
Order Of the White Elephant, but his
visit is postponed in consequence of the
indisposition of the ex-Regent, who
would in the Kings absence have had
the reins of government.
The prospects Of the Kansas City and
Memphis railroad are becoming brighter
and the completion of this great
thoroughfare, which is to shorten by
several hundred miles the route by rail
between the border city of Missouri and
New Orleans, is only question of time.
The Memphis and Kansas City railroad
will run through the northeast portiol
of Arkansas and through a rich agricul-
tural portion of Missouri, and tap one
the great grain depots of the West. -
NelU orleans Tunes
| Clever surgery ON "a Lion.
A curious occurrence has lately taken
place at the London Geological Gardens.
One night one of the lions was observed
to be in state of great tribulation,