The Osceola times., 1880-09-25
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

TuB manufacture of sulphuric acid
and Of alkaii lies at the very root of our
ehemical activity.
0ns LErTA GUY. an Ohio lady, has
4evelopod great talent as whistler, and
= about 10 travel on it,
SRnAFoR BLAISE's youngest daughter,
Ai0 Hattie, has q pet-pony, which she
has named Don Cameron.
OnR of the Campbell girls who came
cut with their father, the Duke of Ar
Ull, to this country, has just been mar
ORR or two inches of snake and
couple OF rattles ought TO be taken from
that 14-foot and 4S-rattle snake killed in
TexaA.
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.
MoRx than one-half of the steamboats,
running out OF New York avoid the law
regarding life-preservers, and malicious
~ avoid It.
II IL thought in monolith circles that
Barnum and Vanderbilt will eventually
obtain possession of the obelisk for their
new museum.
PsorLE are expected to 90 somewhere
because they can 90 cheap. But they
must pay for coming back, and need not
all 20 at once.
THERE 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 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 30 much on the bias.
WIsCoNsIH women are sharp. When
they give their children matches to play
with and 20 off on q visit they carry the
insurance policies with them.
ANTHONY CoMsrocK has accomplished
some good things, but he is a man who
can't see the dividing line between GO
ing far enough and not too far.
LowRLL, Mass, is also disappointed in
the census. She has several thousand
more inhabitants than she counted on,
and must therefore increase her poor
fund.
INDIANA has woman that weighs 80
pounds, yet she ran tramp over three
fences and across meadow and pou nded
him until he had to be taken away In n
wagon.
AN old angler says that fish does not
suffer much pain from being hooked. OF
course not. 1t is the thought of how his
weight will be lied about that causes
him anguish.
YOUNG FARMER-"Aar you fond of
beasts. Miss Gusherton?" Miss Gusher-
ton-"Oh, really, Mr.. Pawker, If you
mean that declaration, you must speak
TO mamma"
Gov. STANFORD and wife, of California,
went to see ''The Danites" in London
the other night, and Mrs. Stanford wore
500, 1000 worth of diamonds. Republi-
can simplicity.
SELENA DoLoRA, tie 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 it has
for sale one Of the identical stamps bv
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 DIR. Dun lor for his
Concordance to the Odyssey and
Hymns of Homer" and to Miss Jackson
for her shropshire Word Book"
BuyrERs 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 IS ton.
IT is remarkable fact that of all the
names beginning with "A" in the Har.
ward class Of '25, five IN number. and
headed by c. +. Adams, not one of them
appears in the catalogue marked with an
astcrisk, denoting death.
jar GOULD is said to be very fond of
his son, whose name is George ]. Gould
a bright lad, and he takes him with him
"hSASNNh hS kONs, III oIucT W euutAte
him-that he may learn the ways OF the
men with whom he comes in contact.
THIS country is 80 far behind the old
world that an Egyptian obelisk is con-
Hdered a new thing in New York. If
such things are to become fashionable.
it is likely that the mummy business
may revive and that something in that
line may be imported.
A GERMAN philosopher says: Fear
and selishness are the bridges by which
We return to the animal" This was ex-
emplified by 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 tune ago for having signed
the kuldscha Treaty without due an.
thorization from Pekin, will not be exc.
cuted for at least six months to come
December 1t appears, is considered
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
his children, tells how, on his first visit
to Windsor, he lost his way and opened
a wrong door and beheld for a moment
q lady having her hair brushed. The
next day the Queen (fJr it was she)
joked him about it, and he says: 81
ended by asking her leave, If ever / write
my memoirs, like Sully or st. Simon, to
mention how at midnight l opened the
door Of the Queen of Englandl She gave