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The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
The Acme of a Delicacy.

A gentleman travelling in Virginia last
summer had occasion to take stage-ride
in order to visit the Natural bridge.
Riding on the seat with the driver, he
fell into conversation with him, and
found that he was an old hunter who
was a veteran in killing deer, bears, and
smaller game. Passing stream, the
traveller inquired if it contained fish
Lots on 'em," was the reply.
What kind?'
MOSTLY trout" said the driver.
"All these mountain streams are full OF
trout"
They must be fine eating" was the
next remark.
Fine eating" exclaimed the driver.
You Just 90 up TO the mountain and
ketch half u dozen trout about twelve
inches long, clean 'em without washin'
em, rub in some salt, roll 'em in Injin
meal and bake 'em in the ashes-good
eatin'! why, stranger by heavens, they
beat ham"
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Rescued from Death.

J. Coughlin of Somerville, Mass, SAYS:
I'm the fall of 1876, was taken i'll with n
violent bleeding of the lungs followed by a
severe cough. | soon began to loose my
appetite and flesh. was so weak at one
time that I could not ieare my bed. In the
summer Of 1877 / was admitted to the city
hospital. While there the doctors said /
had hole in my left lung as big as n half
dollar. | expended over a hundred dollars
in doctors and medicines. ] was 10 far
gone at one time report went around that
! was dead. lgave up hope, but friend
told me of DIR. VIM. Halls Balsam for the
Lungs, laughed at my friends, thinking
that my case was incurable, but got bottle
TO satisfy them, when 10 my surprise and
qualification, commenced 10 feel better. Nv
hope, once dead, began to revive, and to.day
feel in better spirits than | have the past
three years.
] write this hoping you will publish it, so
that every one afflicted with Diseased Lungs
will be induced to take Dr. VIM Halls Bal
sam for the Lungs, and be convinced that
consumption can be cured. have taken
two bottles and can positively say that II
has doac more good than an he medicines
have taken since my sickness. Mr.. cough
has almost entirely diappeared, and | shall
soon be able to go TO work Sold by all
Druggists.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
How to Train the Memory.

Your memory is bad, perhaps, but
there are two ways of curing the worst
memory. One of them is to read a sub
ject when interested; the other is TO not
only read but think. When YOU have
read paragraph or page stop, close
the book, and try to remember the ideas
on the page, and not only call them
vaguely TO mind but put them in words
and speak them out. Faithfully follow
these two rules and you have the golden
keys of knowledge. Besides inattentive
reading there are other things injurious
to the memory. One is the habit of
skimming over newspapers, items of
news, smart remarks, items of informa-
ton, political reflections, fashion notes,
so that all is confused iumble, never to
be thought of again, thus diligently cul-
tivating habit of careless reading hard
to break. Another is the reading of trashy
novels
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
l;urdette ON Hartford.

II was bitter cold day when the tray
cling. combination which | have the
honor 10 feed gathered its solitary valise
and stepped ashore at Hartford, Conn.
The Dutch found this beautiful city here
nearly 80 years ago, and the first thing
they did was to establish Colts armory
and 90 into the insurance business. luu
can get insured here in any way and for
anything You wish-mutual, endowment
tontine, accident, intentional, nomadic,
diilerential, proto-plasmic, Baptist, Old
school, Presbyterian, congregational,
Bob lngersoll, renaissance. Gothic, By
zantine, Greenback, compost, Corin-
THAN, Scotch, cheyiot, gossamer, seam
less, new Wheeler & Wilson, barbed
wire, liver pad, and hard finish. II is
the central and distributing point for the
entire insurance business of Auerica
No insurance company is genuine unless
Hartford" is blown upon the bottle.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Looking for "a Wife.

Sakti Kumara, the hero of a curious
llindustani story, preferred testing a
damsel's capability before tying the
knot. Master of a prosperous and profit
able business, he came to the conclusion
that n wife was wanted to complete his
happiness, and determined TO 90 in
search Of one. Adopting the guise Of
fortune-teller, and carrying some rice
bound up in his cloth, he started on his
travels. Whenever he encountered Il
girl that pleased his eye he asked her to
cook his rice for him. Some laughed at
him, some reviled him, and none seemed
inclined to comply with his modest de-
mand. At last he met with beautiful
girl who, instead of ridiculing or abusing
the strange traveller, relieved him of the
rice and babe him be rested. Then the
kindly maiden set about preparing the
rice. First she stepped it in water, then
dried it in the sun, aud, that accomplish
ed. rubbed the grains gently on the
ground, removing the avn without break
ing the rice. Calling her nurse she dis
patched that worthy to sell the bran
and with the proceeds to purchase an
earthen boiler, two platters and some
fuel. BY the time this commission was
executed the rice had been brayed in a
mortar, winnowed and washed, and ready
to put in the boiler with five times its
bulk of water. As soon as il had swollen
sufficiently the boiler was taken from the
fire, the water cleared of the scum, the
boiler put back, and the rice constantly
stirred by the pretty cook until she was
atistied it was properly done. Bv turn
ing the boiler mouth downward she ex-
tinguished the fire, and, collecting the
unconsumed fuel, dispatched the old
woman to convert it into butte-, curds,
oil and tamarinds. This achieved. she
told the enraptured Sakti kumara to
go and bathe, and not TO omit rubbing
himself with oil. Having obeyed orders,
the wife.seeker was directed to seat him
self upon plank on the well-swept floor,
on which We're already laid large plan
tain leaf and two platters. His charming
hostess then brought him water in a per-
fumed jug, and administered two spoon
fuls of well-seasoned rice and ghee, pre-
paratory to serving up the remainder of
the rice, mixed with spices, curds, butter
and milk, of which Sakti, ate his fill, and
then INDUCED in siesta. As soon as he
awoke he asked the girl to become his
wife, and, she being willing, the neces-
sary ceremony was gone through with
out delay, and the supposed furtune-teller
took his bride home to astonish her as
the Lord of Burleigh astonished his rus
tic love, but the Hindu lass was uckier
than Tennyson's heroine, for we are as
sured that she lived long to worship her
husband as a god, and made her house
thp abode of bliss
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Piles! Piles. Piies.-A Sure Cure Found ut
Last--No One Need Suffer.

A sure cure for the Blind, bleeding, Itch
ing and liberated Piles has been discovered
by DIR. Williams IAN Indian remedy, called
DIR. Williams Ointment. a single box has
cured the worst chronic cases of 25 and SC
years standing. No one need suffer five
minutes after applying this wonderful sooth-
ing medicine Lotions, Instruments and
Electuaries do more harm than good
Williams Ointment absorbs the tumors
allays the intense itching particularly AT
poultice, gives instant and painless relief
and is prepared only for Piles, itching of the
private parts, and nothing else.
For sale by all Druggists, or mailed on
receipt of price, $i.o0. Henry q Davis, Pro-
prietors, Cleveland q.
RICHARDSON Il Co, St. Louis. Mo-
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Vegetine
WILL CURE

scrofula, scrOfulous Humor, Cancer, Cancerous
Humor Erysipelas, Canker, Salt Rheum
Pimples or Humor in the Face, Coughs
and Colds Ulcers, bronchitis, Neu
ralgia, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism.
Pains in the Side. Constipa-
ton, Costveness, Piles,
Dizziness, Headache,
Nervousness Pains
in the Back,
Fantness at the Stomach, Kidney Complaints
Female Weakness and General Debility,
This preparation is scientifically and chemically
combined, and so strongly concentrated from
roots, herbs ana barks, that its good effects are
realized Immediately after commencing to take
1t. There is no disease of the human system for
which the NEGErINE cannot be used with PER
FECr sAfEry, a. IL does not contain any metallic
compound. For eradicating the system OF all
impurities Of the blood 1t has no equal. II has
never failed to effect cure, giving tone and
strength to the system debilitated by disease Its
wonderful effects upon the complaints naIsed are
surprising TO all. Many have been cured by the
NEGETISE that have tried many other remedies
II can well be called
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
BERNHARDT's BABIES.

~ love my child, the actress wrote.
MY duty Is 10 guide
Ihe child bore, and in my aims
The child loys shall hide
Shall hide nom missels cast al me.
d. a conscience that 1 choose 10 rear
Inc child ] took from God
There / a sin from which usag
May gracious heaven guard.
Inat = - own worse punishment.
Itself is sole reward
And Of H. social law has said
To man II sin you must.
20, thch ana come again but leave
The woman In the dust
Al. who car know, save Him Allvlsc.
Nho watche. from above.
The awiul hazard woman dare
10 run for men they love
pr tell how many "A craven heart,
TO shield his own bad name,
Has caused woman's trustful love
10 bring her lasting shame.
To her who, when the dream was passed.
Finds herself lett alone.
AND in her crushed, repentant heart.
yearning to atone.
Heaven, more pitiul than man
Who erst upon her smiled
By love 20 win her 10 itself
May send a little child.
Then, II the mothers lonely heait
Accept the gracious gift,
Ana II the charge she dared 10 take
She does not dare to shift
shall we untempted and untned,
To ease and virtue born,
Ni,it upon her shrinking head
our unrelenting scornf
We, who have all our lives been taught
Truths other men have learned,
Aud walked by what celestial light
In other bOsOms burned:
We whose sublimest duty is
To do as We are bid:
How shall we judge a soul from which
The face of God is hid:
Know you the lonliness Of heart
That courts release from DEATH
That makes IL burdensome to draw
Each slow, successive brealhe
That longs for human sympathy
Until, when hope is lost.
respite from it, agony
II buy at any cost?
OF erring human nature, we
Are born, each with his share,
We are all vain: we are all weak
And quick TO lly from care,
And if we keep our footing,
br seem TO rise AT all,
Twere well for US with charity
To look on those who fall.
And if our rhands are strengthened,
And II our lips can speak,
Iwere well If with them we might help
our brothers who are weak,
And well If We remember
Gods love is never grudged,
And never sits in judgment,
II we would not be Judged.
--Neg York SuH
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
A Chicago Brokers Happy Investment.
Chicago Journal.

Lewis IL. o'Conor, Esq, whose office is
located at 93 Washington street, this city,
lately related the following in the hearing
of one Of our reporters us an evidence of
special good fortune. have been suffering
said Mr.. O'Conor, for "A number of weeks
lieved to be from the effects of cold con.
tracted while on the lakes. had been pre-
scribed for by several Of our physicians and
used various remedies. Three DAYS ago,
abandoned them all, and bought a bottle of
st. Jacobs OIL applied il at night before re-
tiring and to-day feel like new man. |
experienced almost instant relief and now
feel no pain whatever.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

Nh. Ko, the Chinese professor at Har-
ward, dresses in the costume of his native
land. His coat is a fir-lined crimson silk
garment, ornamented with white medal
lions which contain pictures of storks
His trousers are of fgreen silk, his slippers
are embroidered with gold, and his tiny,
saucer-shaped cap is surmounted with a
knob. lie is very grave and is one of the
first gentleman in street ear 10 offer
lady a seat.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

"VrGErINE," says Boston physician,
"has no equal as blood purifier Fearing
of its many wonderful cures. after all other
remedies had failed, visited the laboratory
and convinced myself Of its genuine merit,
II is prepared from barks, roots, and herbs,
each of which is highly effective, and they
are compoundedin in such manner as to pro-
duce astonishing results"
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
As a boous bill can raadilv ha nasse

As a bogus bill can readily be passed
upon the ignorant and careless, so can
william by assuming the language and
bearing Of a gentleman palm himself Off
upon the needless and the inexperienced
as worthy member of society, but to
the sagacious judge of men the counter
felt is readily discovered and soon ex-
dosed.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Sensible Advice.

You are asked every day through the col
umns Of newspapers and by your Druggist
TO use something for your Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint that you know nothing
about, you get discouraged spending money
with but little success. Now to give you
satisfactory proof that GREENS ArGusr
FLOWER will cure you Of Dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint with all its effects, such as
sour stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation Of the Heart, Heart
burn. Water-brash, Fullness at the pit OF
the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue.
Indigestion, swimming Of the head, low
spirits, etc, We ask you to go to your Drug
gist and get Sample Bottle Of GRErN's
August FLOWER for 10 cents and try it, or
regular size for IS cents. Two doses will
relieve you.
THE habit Of running over boots or shoes
corrected with Lyons Patent Heel Stieen-
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

PrRE Con. LIVER on ma le from selected
livers, on the sea. shore, by Caswell, Hazard
& Co., New York. II is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken 1t
prefer it 10 all others. Physicians have de-
cided ii superior TO any Of the other oils in
market.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
"My TOrmeutctl Rack :"

is the exclamation of more than one poor
hard-working man and woman; do you
know why it aches? II is because your kid
news are over-tasked and need strengthen
ing, and your system needs 10 be cleansed
of bad humors. You need Kidney-W Wort
Democrat.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
See the Conquering Hero, etc,

Among the most wonderful articles of the
period is st. Jacobs Oil. The Hon. Leonard
SWEET Of Chicago, pronounces il the most
thorough conqueror Of pain that he has ever
known.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Suffer no More.

II the bowels are torpid if piles torment,
ifthe back is full of pain, get package of
kidney-Wort, and be cured without more
suffering. 1t can be bought of all druggists
in either dry or liquid dform.-Rcpublioaa.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

FoR twenty years TUFTS Pill have proven
the friend of the invalid, and through all
the changes of that period tens ol thousands
still stick TO their old friend and as many
more are daily testing their virtues. They
are truly the sick mans friend.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
Snow Bread, or Cake.
American Sentry.

First cool large bowl-wood is the
best. In this put the desired quantity
of wheat flour or corn meal, and mix
with it twice or three times its bulk of
snow. 1t then appears like dry meal.
Put some of the mixture on a hot pan or
griddle. If too dry TO turn well, add
more snow; if too wet to be light, add
more meal; when just right, turn the
mass into creased pan about two inches
deep, rounding it from the edge. Bake
in quick oven about twenty minutes.
Note-lt will settle about one-half in
cooking, but the bread will be peculiarly
light. for corn bread Use one-fourth
part superfine -four with the meal. lfa
sweet cake is desired, add sugar to suit
Shorten superfne flour with corn meal.
Use no salt. 1t can he baked on grid
die, also, If done quickly.
LOVERS of honey will be gratifed to learn
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

CoLE 4 BROTHER, OF Pella, Iowa, offer to
send their illustrated Garden Guide free.
Our readers should send for it.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

LYDIA +. PIsKHAAs VEGETABLE COMPOUND
revivcs the dropping spirits; inyigorates and
harmOnizes the organic functions gives
elasticity and irmness to the step, restores
the natural luster to the eye, and plants on
the pale cheek of beauty the fresh roses of
lifes spring and early summer time.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

The proprietor Of this celebrated medicine
bisy claims for It superiority over all RENE
dies ever offered 10 the public for the SAFE.
CERTAIN and PERMANENT cure OF Ague
ana Fever, or Cbills and Fever. whether of shori
or long standing. He refers 10 the entire West
EN- and Southern country 10 bear him testimony
- the truth of the assertion that in no cast
whatever Will IL fail 10 cure # the directions arr
strictly followed and carried out In q great
mGny cases single dose has been sufficient fof
cure. and whole families have been cured by G
tinge bottle, with perfect restoration OF the
general health. IL Is, however, prudent Dnd ID
evUry case more certain TO cure IL IL use is con
unuel in smaller doses for week or two sRci
tie disease has beea checked more especially in
dlhicut and long-standing cases. Usually thh
medicine Will not require any aid TO / q p tie
bowels in good order. Should the patient how
ever, require cathartic medicine, after having
taken tnree or four doses OF the Tonic, q single
dose OF BULLS VEGETABLE FAMILY
PILLS will be sufficient
The genuine SMITHS Tonic SYRUP must have
DIR. JOHN BULLS private stampon each bottle
lRJOilN BULL only has the right to manu- fac
lire and sell the original JeHs J. SMITHS Tosis
sYECP, OF Louisville Ky. Examine well this
lsbe on each bottle. II my private stamp Is not
on each bottle do not purchase " you will be
deceived.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

Is small town in Nova Scotia one
family lost eight children by diptheria
within a week.
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19
PONDS EXTRACT CO..

Is Morray Street. Ncw YORK
o,,.s ~. ~ f,i.-,0- -isf-
The Osceola times., 1881-03-19

ANY Of thcso prsparai chs viii ~ zen, carrag.
free at ab1yo prices. IN loi- q s. woffa, on
receipt Of money or =. "a. order
fF- OrH New PAMps,Er Win liisroay or ork
ParpARArIoss. SKsr FREE On APPLICATION
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
And Such a Change.

Within the last ten years new and
significant kind of literature has sprung
up among us. 1t consists for the most
part of thin octave volumes, in purple
or red bindings, with gorgeous coat
of arms blazoned on the back, and on
the front page the magic words. '.Print.
ed for private circulation only" Each
of these volumes purports to be the au-
thentic history of some American fami-
ly, Smith or Potter, as the case may be,
from the present time back to great
founder somewhere in the mists of an
tiquity. The popularity of these books
is that very little Information is given
concerning the present generation OF
Smiths or Potters, although it could so
readily be obtained. The writer of the
book is usually that member of the fam
lily who, having made fortune by a
lucky speculation in soaps or a patent
pill, is acquiring taste for good birth
along with the other belongings of the
class into which he has made his way.
He has given up pie for breakfast and
a noon dinner. and leisurely eats his
eleven courses at seven. He no longer
takes his boys to the negro minstrels
and laughs on a front bench, but sits in
a box at the Academy, where the music
is severely classical, critical and calm.
His wife has banished knitted cotton
tides from her parlor. and talks now of
the "feeling IN her embroidered tow
els" and the s.harmony of eternal mo-
tion'' in the wave-pattern of napkin.
Why should they also not drop the
Smith and Potter blood of the present.
smelling as it does of soaps or ipecac.
and treat themselves to a great ancestor
back in the middle ages-a whacking.
bloody, spurred Crusader of the high
heroic patternp--M. y Tribune.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
1nconvenfences OF Color. blindness.

The inconveuiences which color-blind
people must frequently be exposed to
are manifest. Numerous stories are
told of the most ludicrous mistakes
made, especially by red-blind persons;
of tailor, for instance, who mended a
black coat with piece of red cloth; of
a hunter who bought red cloth to have
made what he supposed would be q
green hunting-jacket. The story of the
tailor shows how this malady, or, rather,
constitutional defect. may do injury to
men in their professional capacity.
But the consequences that may possibly
arise from it are of a far more serious
nature when the safety of a large num-
Der of human beings is dependent on
the color-vision of single individual.
This is the case with ra lroad opera
tives, who must be able without fail to
tell one signal from another; and, as
of late years the conviction has gained
ground that color blindness is far more
common than it was formerly supposed
to be, the railroad companies are
warned more emphatically from year to
year by scientific men to see to the
eyes of their employees. Some of the
European Governments are beginning
to turn their attention to this important
matter (all the more important because
railroad-signals are usually red and
green, and ed-blindness is the most
common form of the failing). and the
Swedish Government has lately directed
the physicians attached to its state
roads to examine all the operatives on
these roads, with a view to the detec-
tion of the presence of color-blindness.
The first fruit of this order is report
by Prof. Holmgren, who recently ex-
amined the employees of the Upsala-
Gene road, showing that, out of two
hundred and sixty-six individuals,
eighteen were afflicted with the maladY
to degree sufficiently high to incapac-
itate them entirely for service on the
road. The prevalence of the disease
varies in different countries, the highest
percentage being found in England,
where, according to statement made
by Prof. Won Bezold, in his Theory of
Color" republished in this country in
an English translation, one out of every
eighteen persons is said to be afflicted
with it. Among men, as before re-
marked. the disease is more common
than among women.-Popular Science
Mo2thtu. --'h
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-26
Gamgee's Ammonia Motor.

The Gamgee motor, with which Chief.
Engineer sherwood, of the Navy De.
partment, has been experimenting for
the last three months at the Washing.
ton Navy Yard, continues to excite
much discussion among scientific men.
Mr.. Park Benjamin, the scientific ex-
pert, described the motor to an EUen-
ing Post reporter as follows: "John
Gamgee's motor is based upon practi-
cally the same principle as his ice
machine. Liquid ammonia, which at
the ordinary temperature OF the ali
gives out vast amounts of vapor and
causes a high pressure, in any vessel in
which the liquid is contained, is put in
to a boiler, and the vapor used to push
q piston. The vapor which has pushed
the piston forward one stroke is then
conducted into suitable condensers aud
converted back into liquid ammonia,
which Is returned TO the boiler for use
over again.
The long and short of the matter il
that MIR. Gamgee is after perpetual mo-
tion. 1t is true that liquid in expand.
ing into vapor develops power; but il
requires just as much power as is devel.
oped to reconvert it into liquid again.
The Patent Office has curiously blum.
dered in granting a patent for an i'm
possibility. Mr.. Gamgee, in simple
language, is seeking to solve the long.
sought problem of how to lift himself
over fence by his boot straps; when
he accomplishes this his zero meter will
run-not before. Every iota of gain
due to the expansion OF his vapor must
be lost in recondensing it. The capa-
bility of the machine Is one stroke.
After that it will be immovable. ~
y Ereai,ig Post.