The Osceola times., 1881-02-26
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in boys on sled, than he can coal from
the back yard.
Pretty and delicate Canadians arc
employed as table girls in Boston, and
are often mistaken for their mistresses.
sHor is heard around the world
Ne saints polygamy abon on;
What. ho all pettieoats be firledl
For Murrays fired of his Cannon.
The minister who divides his discours-
es into too many heads, will find il dill
cult TO procure attentive ears for all oi
them.
A dead pauper's coat at Fort Scott,
Kas., was found lined with $500 good
money, which goes TO the State, no heir
appearing.
GARFIELD will have to begin to save
when he gets in the White House. At
present he has to furnish horse-feed for
all his visitors teams.
BJoRNsrERSE BJoRNsEN and Hjalmar
Hjorth Boyeson are friends. Bjornsen
Ha Communist. and, it is rumored, is to
marry Ole Bulls widow.
'Baby and | are alone,
Just baby and II
His eyes look up and mine look down,
And the love that flashes in sympathy
Is lht keht III Nht 'i'N"
An exchange says the Egyptian obelisk
, cannot stand our climate. 1t will have
10. 1t is asking little too much of the
people to change their climate to suit
the obelsk.
"WHAT shall we teach our girls?" asks
Mary Ainge De We're in the indianapolis
Sentinel How to make a slipper that
would fit somebody would be one good
thing, Mary.
HAzEN and Nennor are mixing the
weather business fearfully. One is send
ing snow and another rain to the disgust
of everybody. Tice sticks to ice and
says it is not his fight.
EVEN Siberia has its university. An
institution is located in the city of
Tomsk, possesses library of $1,000 vol
umes, and has already cost several
hundred thousand dollars.
Cart. WEBB, who first accomplished
the feat of swimming across the British
channel, has determined to try next
summer to swim from Holyhead to
Kingstown, distance Of 20 miles.
QUEEN VICTORIA has placed Osborne
cottage at the disposal of the Empress
Eugene for few weeks. The empress
will take up her abode at her new resi-
dence in North Hants in the Spring.
What from the water lfi an ship,
Ola thousand tons weight
And of the gigantic thing make
An article of freight,
To be conveyed on platform trucks
Drawn by steam on a railY
The passage of that isthmus win
Have 10 be canal"
TIE heir presumptive to the ruling
sovereign of Japan, Prince Higeschi-
Fuschinio- -No-Mya, is travelling around
the world. He is pronounced a model
young man, but we don't know how his
name is pronounced 1t is No-Mya-tter,
anyhow.
Il want YOU to put new pair Of heels
to these boots" said DIR. Ipecac to the
shoemaker. "Why don't you do it your
self, Doctor" asked old Waxends. 'I2"
said the Doctor in astonishment "Why,
yes. Does not the Good Book say,
Physician, heel thyself?'"
SPECIMEN personal in the territories
Mike McGowan, the imam etaire," has
gone down TO Carson TO make his Christ
mas of some of the citizens of that
village. His teeth would make no more
impression on the cheek of a Carsonite,
than would a cats claw on the smooth
side of a plowshare.
"SGE here" said fault-fnding hus-
band to his wife, ''we must have things
arranged in this house so that we shall
know Just where everything is kept"
"With all my heart" she sweetly ans
wered, "and let us begin with your late
hours, my love; l should dearly like to
know where they are kept" He lets
things run as usual.
LADIES, says foreign journal, will
n DISCOVER in 'Endymion," a new mode of
x inH their regard for dead husbands
miid- form of suitee. The heroine
fc6ts off her TO-. hair, which reaches
nxlT TO her feet, and 'ties-isround the
neck OF her husband in the coffin. The
idea is original, but it has not much else
10 recommend it.
THE negroes of Baltimore claim that
their children are treated with no con-
sideration in the public schools, and
that, to educate them properly, private
tuition must be procured. They lately
asked the board of education to hire
colored teachers in at least one of the
negro schools, and several candidates
for the positions passed a competitive
examination successfully; but the request
has been denied.
A well-known French savant, NJ.
Marcy, has been making study of the
human gait, as exemplifod in the walk
of young soldiers placed at his disposal
by the military authorities of the repub-
lie. lie uses a novel instrument termed
an odograph, which is carried by the
walker and registers every step he takes
on sheet of travelling paper. Each stop
is recorded on the otograph by puff of
air sent from a small collapsing bulb
concealed under the sole of the persons
boot. The results, which are likely to
have practical value in determining
the best conditions of foot gear, equip
ment and diet for the marching of SOL
ders, as well as civilians, have already
brought out very clearly the fact that a
person takes shorter steps when the
heels of his boots are low than when
they are high, and also when the soles
are tolerably thick, and prolonged be-
yond the toe, without being too rigid or
too much prolonged The discovery of
itself agues against the present mode of
wearing high-heeled; thin-soled boots.
Small Girl Operator.
Waco (Tex.) Examine
The frontier telegraph office at Will
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