The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
WAYS OF THE WORLD.


THr army should be reduced-at least
one Sergeant could be spared.-Gmfedu.
IMPORTANT TO unmusculsr husbands
The feminine bag Is going out OF fash
ion.
THE ancients used pitch TO give odor
TO wine. Sometimes the wine used To
pitch them.
THE Massachusetts, man who makes
yermilion from potato-bugs expects TO
become vermilionsire.
ERASMUS DARWIN died in London re-
Gently at the age Of ". He was brother
of the illustrious naturalists, Charles
Darwin.
THERE is little flirting done in Constan-
tinople. Criminal punishment awaits
the man rash'enough to address female
on the street.
Busrr il the name of New York town.
The census will probably show how
many Of its people can still boast OF un-
impaired vision.
ARRANeENRSTs are making tor starting
Q new two-cent daily newspaper in New
York ~ the special advocate Of the
workingmen's interests.
THR New York Nail asks: what is
the precise moral difference between =
corner and highway robbery and
then adds "We give it up ourselves" "
MR. sASKEy denounces as Q malicious
fabrication the report that himself and
Moody were "out" They are going 10
England, Ireland and the continent to
preach.
IT is said that Joseph Smslley, who
died recently after living alone on farm
in West Randolph, VT, for over fifteen
years, had $4,000 in gold concealed on
his farm.
The Niagara Falls Gazette advertises
the finding of q pocketbook in the streets
of that city. II it contained any money
II must have belonged 10 hackman.-
Nsr York Tm,s.
Mr.. GRANT ALLEN says tha. Il is pretty
certain that children betweenItwo and
three years old seldom recognize even
the most famliarly known persons
places or objects after about six months
interval.
CINCINNATI has more telephones than
any other city in the country and sends
more messages over them. The Worces-
ter Times explains by remsrking that
there are more females than males N
Cincinnati.
CONNECTICUT newspapers are praising
DIR. Bacon because at q recent celebration
he "cut his prayer down to stickful"
two inches of space). He ought TO have
let II out enough to include the Connec.
ticut newspapers.
A NEW book has Just been published TO
show that true sanity consists merely in
going with the multitude and doing as
they do. That 10 to say. il man don't
wish 10 be considered insane, he must
try to appear an ass.
THREE little Indian children, two boys
and one girl, have made their advent ut
q public school in Philadelphia, but the
teachers say that so long a. small saw
ages have to be trained at all, the mat
ter Of color is not worth mentioning.
A sIx.THousAND-PouND safe, on its way
toa New York third story, toppled and
fell, but as nobody CHANGED TO be pass
ing it gave its whole weight TO the side
walk, which il cracked and crushed as
only q falling safe can crash and crush.
CANON WrLBERFoRcK, Of England, keeps
q dog that chews letter-carriers, and the
Canon is 30 big agun that the courts up
hold him. In the United States, it is
said, letter-carrier is not required TO
deliver letters at places where Fido dis
putes his passage.
DoSE PIArr writes from kelly's Island;
IL have been here but short time, but
long enough 10 know that if you want
pure wine you must raise OF purchase
the grapes and press the juice yourself
into wine. There is no safety in buying
on Kelly's Island, with the vines under
your nose"
Even the street Arabs in Boston have
fallen victims to the utter" craze which
appears to be attacking people in every
walk and station of life. One of these
waits, after picking up more than usu-
ally fragrant cigar stump, said to his
companion: "Jakey, my boy, this is quite
too positively bully"
IT is said that the private fortune OF
Queen Victoria amounts 10 $4,000 900,
and she possesses an annual income OF
$3,250,000. Before her birth her parents
were so poor that they had to borrow
the money to pay their passage to Eng
land, that the expected Princess might
be born on English soil, and she re-
mained in comparative poverty until she
ascended the throne.
BARON RorHscHTLD, of Vienna. has a
favorite horse for whose accommoda.
tion he has had 4 special loose box built
at the cost Of $1,000. This magnificent
room forms part OF 4 new stable which
cost $4,000, and which has marble
floors; encaustic tiles painted by distin.
guished artists: rings, chains and drain.
traps Of solid silver, and walls frescoed
with splendid hunting scenes from tho
pencils Of eminent animal painters. For
tunately, however, the baron's annual
income is large fortune, being about
$l,600,000.
CHINA has population reported at
22S per square mile for the whole nine
teen provinces. These have an area OF
,5S4,953 in square miles. This would
give a population of 362 100000 II is
said there are immense coal fields in the
empire, and that eighteen of the nine
teen provinces contain coal to large
extent. Here, consequently are the ele-
ments for complete supply Of the es-
sential factor In steam power. The ma
chinery can be readily brought from
England or the United States. The
value Of cotton cloth imported into
China for the year ending 1880 was $l6,-
100000; of woolens, little less than S..
000,000. II will require large number
of mills TO produce this quantity oi
fabric. But no one can to-day conjecture
what may be the final result of the Chi
nese efforts now being directed to the
erection of cotton mills,