The Osceola times., 1881-06-11
WAYS OF THE WORLD.
ARKANSAS

ALL" observed the Presidents mother
The Hartford Tmes states tina, a parro'
in Harlem speaks 80 words" We didn'
know there were so many profane ex'
pressions in the language.
GKx. BEAUREGARD is the inventor O
the system of traction for propellinR can
or other vehicles on land or water which
is used by the San Francisco street cars
SECRETARY BLAINE has purchased fifty
Eve acres Of coal land in Washington
County, Pa, at $50 an acre. He already
owns large coal tracts in the same coun
try.
PHILADELPHIAxs contemplate the es
tablishment of great free library in that
city; Chicago men have similar under
taxing in hand and have secured $500 90,
for the purpose.
A GEoReIA mans niece sues him fol
breach ofpromise ofmarriage. He pleads
tie of relationship as proof that he
could not have thought of marriage with
her, but she still asks for $4,000 DANA
ges.
THEY had been at the masquerade
where she had recognized him at once
"Was il the loud beating of nay heart my
darling that told you / was near?" mur-
INJURED he. "Oh, no" she replied, Il rec
ognized your crooked legs
THE name of the lady whom James
Gordon Bennett is said TO be engaged to
is Amelia Caroline Gasperine Lepoldine
Henrietta Louise Elizabeth Franchise
Maximilliene. He expects to import it
to the United States in three ships.
"SIR," said vain glorious actor to
Charles Keane at the Brighton Theatre
during rehearsal, you need ottrouble
yourself about me: know the play
backwards" Probably you do was the
reply; "but that is not the way | play
it"
FRAGMENTS Of celestial bodies in the
form of meteors occasionly reach us from
the distant regions ofspaee. These stones
exemplify the same chemical and crystal
lographic laws as the rocks Of the earth,
and have afforded no new element or
principle ofany kind.
The effects of Fernando Wood were
recently sold at Washington. The splen-
did china and glassware were bought by
the proprietor Of the Arlington Hotel.
A carved center-table, with malachite top
bought for $500 bv Mr.. Wood in Europe,
sold fer slT0. All of the articles were
of the most elegant and expensive char
acter
A SAN FRAScTsoo man has hit upon the
bold and novel design OF inventing a
gallery of ancestral lineage He has
bought the family pictures Of an impe-
cunious German nobleman, and. in order
TO give them a certain family Likeness
has had the noses Of the portraits paint
ed out, and his own a very peculiar one,
painted in.
Az exchange states that the Miss Ger
trude Blood. who is soon 10 be married
to the Lord Colin Campbell, son Of the
Duke of Argyll is the daughter of Victoria
C. Woodruff, born in 81. Louis In dne
time, If this story is true, Mrs. Woodruff
will be connected in distant and round
about way with the royal family itself
A queerer ending for queer life could
scarcely be imagined.
A BRITISH medical journal says; with
lamentable ignorance of the science he
professed TO know. the reverend lecturer
the Rev Joseph Flsvius Cook stated as
fact that alcohol hardened the living
human brain. leaving indelible scars on
the cerebrum. The elementary fact that,
while alcohol hsrdens dead cerebral sub
stance, in life it includes softening Of the
brain, is, it must charitably be assumed.
unknown to him"
SOPHIA PERowsKA, the executed Nj
hilist, has been elevated into a sort OF St
Agnes. Her life has been written in the
form ofa religious romance, in which
most extraordinary virtues are attributed
to her. She is worshipped IS a martyr
and the Nihilists faithfully regard the
clothes she wore and the ringlets which
were cut from her hair as so many pres.
ious relics. These objects have been dis
tributed as talismans among the leaders
of the Nihilist party.
WHAT is meant by Sir Edward Thorn
ton considering it a promotion 10 be sp-
pointed 10 st. Petersburg instead of re
manning al Washington is simply ths
he will then become an ambassador, anC
as such receive higher salary than ifhs
remained here or was sent to any coun
try simply as Minister Plenipotentiary
The pay Of the former grade is higher
than that Oft latter in the diplomaii,
service, and when Sir Edward is retired
as he will be after time, according L
the rules Of the English diplomati,
service, he will receive a higher salar1
than If retired while a Minister Plenip0
tentiary.
WHEN Mr. Thrall, OF Barnesville, Ohio
died his widow married a neighbor VIII
lived in the next house, just a mile an,
half away. When he died she marie,
the next neiglrbor, mile and half fur
ther on the road Her fourth husban,
was chosen in an other neighborhoo,
still further along the same road, anC
che has buried him and taken the mex
neighbor, just a mile and a half furthe
on. She is young yet, and the unma,rie,
males of the next county are beginning
TO look wild and make inquiries abou
farming lands out West. To quiet al
apprehension in this vicinity We vii
state that she is not headed in this di
rection.-Modsra Argo.
SINCE ls27-half century we may cal
it-ten of England's Prime Minister
have died. George Canning, Lord Ripol
(for few MONTHS the Duke Of We'll
ington, Earl Grey, Lord Melbourne, 81
Robert Peel, Earl Russell, Lord Derby
Lord Palmerston. and now Lord Beacons
field.0f these, the only one who accepte
the visit of a clergyman in his closin
hours was Lord Grey. The Duke {
Wellington, TO whom all the world wa
drill, doubtless would have. as
matter Of regmental duty had he nc
been suddenly taken away, and =
Robert Peel may have a similar excuse
But the others, though all save Palmer
ston and Melbourne, loud declaimer
about the church through their politics
life, did not avail themselves Of its con
solations at its close.