The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
ARKANSAS
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

TnE boldest man of whom there u
any record has Just married his mother
in-law in New Jersey.
Isxr Il wonderful how a 81 600 trottei
shfinks in the hide of $40 plug whel
the assessor comes along
SENATOR BEx Hill has undergone 9
second operation upon his tongue for the
removal Of funs old growth.
Dr. TASSKR rises up in a Western
Pennsylvania town to deny the re2or,
that be recently died In Europe.
A BRAKEMAN on q drunk at Chicago
fell into a sewer, ar q at once yelled, "st
Louis, change cars,"-B Boston Post.
GLADSTONE is praised because he lis
tens politely. Seward charmed the sen.
ate because he was good listener.
An Ohio boy has run away with an
Indian. Much apprehension is express
ell as to the fate Of the poor red man.
A YOUNG man, ~ years old, and six feet
tall, has been kidnapped in Vermont
Rather an old kid to be caught mapping
A CLAN shell thrown by New York
boy struck little girl IN the leg, and
she nearly bled to death. Nobody bled
the boy, IL was very funny.
LEAK In the water pipe in the Char
lesion post office gummed 1925 worth OF
postage stamps so firmly together that
not single 3-center was saved.
A CYNICAL ministerial member Of par
lament. on being asked what he thought
of the Irish land bill, replied 1T is ike
the Athanasian creed We all believe in
il, though we do not understand it."
A REASON given for not roofing sheer
corrals in Colorado is that in covered
pens big snow drift will smother tn,
sheep. 'The why" of this is little dill
cult to understand.
In grazing sheep on the ranches o
Colorado the area required for one sheer
is reported at five acres Land ought e
be cheap when it takes as much as tha
70 keep a sheep through the year.
HrsHwAyuRS in California tried /,
wreck train the other day, for the pur
pose Of capturing Millionaire Fair
whom they expected to hold rs a hos
tage until heavy ransom should III
paid.
TuRR. is scandal in Canada relativ,
10 the quantity Of wet groceries that th,
hafYuis VI lprut tDph VIII nun on nl
recent Manitaba trip. The Toronto
Hord IS talking wildly about a Gear
load of erog."
THE editor of the Cincinnati Commc'
cidi says the silver dollar is mot par
ticularly handy for anything" 1t /,
very evident that Ohio Journalists have
never tried the experiment of usin,
silver dollars instead Of chips in a pokei
game
Ir is related of Mr.. Spurgeon that h,
was once addressed in the street by O
person who, with the briefest of intro
ductions, called him "a very great hum
bug" =" | am only too happy, SIR" wa,
the preachers reply, ito he very great
anything"
PRINCE HENRY of Russia, saws IN.
London World, is a particularly intelligent
young man, and all he saw during hi,
visit TO the royal dockyard, whether OF
board ship or in workshops, was regard
ed, not with superficial carelessness, bu
intelligent inquisitiveness The prime,
is already great favorite, particular,
at Osborne.
WILLIAM WILSON engaged himself [,
marry Susan Southwell, at Ogden. Utah
and among his gifts were q sewing ma
chine and cabinet organ. Her parent
forbade the union, and told him TO taxi,
away the presents; but he delayed doing 81
until he was married To another girl, am,
then, when he called, Susan gave hin
such thrashing that recovery is doubt
fal.
DoSS PIarr is keeping up his cheerfu
frame of mind. His last letter says 81
may be that in fighting the Guiteaus
Pig-iron Kelley, Dawes. Conklng, ct al
may fail but God will not fail and il
good time all these fellows will be hung
am not vindictive-not at all-but
hope TO be spared TO see them all dang
ling, when my eyes will close in peac,
with the full assurance that the Lor,
lIveth."
WHEN they shear sheep in Austral
they mean business, as may be imagined
when the fiocks aggregate over 200,00I
There are some proprietors who ow
over 100000. Edoes 4 Co, New Sout
Wales, upon one sheep farm Mt Burr.
wary, had a sheep shearing which laste
ten weeks, during which time 260, T.
sheep were shorn. One hundred shea
ers besides the regular farm hands wer
employed.
THE editor of the London Truth mu,
lie a contcmptible fellow to writ
such stuff as this about the Barones
Brrdett-Coutts and her husband :"
lap-dog, a lead captive, slave to tn
wrinkled old conqueror on her glide
ear What a position for a man to whoi
has been given the sovereignty of life
And what fatal blindness in the woma
who thus buys her living whistle. an
pays for it in the long run more dearl
than she bareainedw
A LEIrAG journal, devoted to the glas
interest. states that the cracking Of lam
ohimneys may be prevented by placin
them in a pot filed with cold waite
adding little cooking salt, and after tn
mixture has been allowed to boil we
over a fire, to have the articles cool slow
ly. Treated in this way, glass will b
found TO resist cracking, even il expose
TO very sudden changes of temperatur,
aud the chimneys becoming very dul
able by passing through such an operi
tion. The process is, an fact, simply on
of annealing and its results that III
slower the operation is carried on, e.
Iecially the cooling portion OF it, tn
more effective will it be.
The Only Pretty Girl.