The Osceola times., 1881-01-08
WAYS OF THE WORLD

Ir you wish to take care Of your health
take air.
PnrNcpw LOUISE il coming back to
Canada before winter sets In.
THs successful politician, like theskil-
full hotel clerk, can always call you by
name.
THE valuation Of Newport, r. l.. is
t2b,O0o, 800 Of which fls,555,?O0 repre-
rents real estate.
NM. EAaIrN of Carroll county, KY,
recently walked two miles to circus,
her liking for diversion Of that kind
h~ving lasted until she is in her e9u
yen.
lHs funded debt of Philadelphia; over
and above the sinking fund and various
stocks held by the city, is $49.685, 1872,
The tax rate TOR the year will be about
2 per centum.
NoRrRsRS people in political times
raise banners, while Southern people
have barbecuee, and send their candid
ates around the country accompanied by
cAvalcades.
An account of the voyage around the
world which Prince Henry Of Prussia is
making in the Prince Adelbert will be
published at the conclusion of the voy-
age in September.
A CALIFORNIA convict who was about
TO be hanged coolly sang a song to the
sheriff, but the local journals do not
know the name of the song. 1t must
have been, Break the Moose Gently"
A DAUGHTER of Senator Mcmillan Of
Minnesota was married to Mr.. Frank
Sheppard, at St. Paul. The affair was
quiet. The eift OF the father OF the
bridegroom was check for $25,O0O.
II is reported that Mr.. Edward Clarke
of Coopertown, N. Y, has decided to
build and psesent TO Williams college
fIre-proof structure for the WILDER cabi-
net and other valuable collections Of the
college.
r BoURUNxvrscHY OF Grand Rapids,
Michigan. fell through hole in the
sidewalk, and has sued the city for $780,.
600 damages. II the gentleman had
only sent his name along ahead, all the
trouble would have beer avoided.
A BENEVOLENT Englishman offers $3.50
for the best essay on the medical means
of counteracting the effect OF opium
smoking in China. The president of
ROYAL College OF Physicians in London
and sir John Fayrer haue consented to
act ~ sjudicators.
BURLINGTON Hawkeye. Last week
Bible agent sst down at farmers table
up in Scott county, played euchre with
the old man and won yoke of four-year-
old steers from him, and then made him
buy eight dozen Bibles and sixteen
pounds of tracts to redeem his steers.
THERE is family living in Metcalfe
county, Kentucky, composed of eleven
members, none OF whom know the let
tiers Of the English alphabet; but their
natural keenness is such that nobody
can fool them with imitation sour-mash
whisky, even II q wrong label is put on
the bottle.
A TRIPLE monument in the church
yard ct Zermatt has just been completed
and rallied in. II covers the remains of
Mcssrs. Hayden and Hudson, two of the
victims OF the first and famous Matter
horn disaster in 1866, and of Mr.. ".
Knyvett Wilson, who was killed four
days later by fall on the Ri6elhorn.
BosroN Courier: Miss X. is telling
Mrs. Y. about her visit to the Concord
school. ''It was delightful" she said.
"There are so many beautiful drives
and walks about Concord; and such
quaint old houses" "But what OF the
lectures2" Mrs. Y. asked. "Ah," Miss
X. replied, "of course didn't under
stand them; but il was charming to sit
in that quiet little chapel and listhen to
the crickets outside!'
IT is humiliating confession, but
Miss Nelson did not tell us last year
that she was to marry Rear Admiral
Carr Glynn. From careful perusal OF
other papers We learn that she impaired
the secret Of her approaching matrimony
TO the representative Of nearly every
prominent journal in the country; and
why those Of Chicago were left out i, is
hard to tell. perhaps the other
papers lied.