The Osceola times., 1881-04-23
WAYS OF THE WORLD.
NERBuM sap-maple sugar.
ARKAN SAS


LONDON newspapers are adopting the
american paragraphic system gradually.
That is, they sometimes have two articles
ON page.-Nec Haren Register.
TIE New Haven Register informs us
that "some men are like dried apples"
in the name OF humanity, we protest
against any such being sent as mission
aries 10 the South Sea Islands. Boston
Post.
WHEN a car is accidentally put off the
track nowadays, il is said 10 be "de
railed,r We presume that when man
is accidentally put off the car, he may be
said TO be de rided. Just so-Baitimore
Erery Saturday.
An exchange prints an article headed
"How Oiiclotn is Made" We have read
il through carefully, but have failed TO
fined the information We seek, which is
how oilcloth is always made 80 ALFRED
cold.-RoD,c Sentinel.
CfScINSArI Saturday Night Last sum-
mer she was eating green corn by gnaw-
ing il from cob, when her teeth became
entangled with corn silk. "Oh, dear,
said she, impatiently, Il wish when they
get corn made they would pull out the
basting threads
PROVERBS translated from German
column: What with the heart is written
should not with the senses he read. In
the cold region of politeness it is the
truth hard itself naked to show. II gives
for us more under people and over peo-
pie than fellowmen.
BosroS Post: A Maryland man was
kicked by a mule just in time to get him
out of the way Of a stroke Of lightning
Some men would have seen special
providence in this. But he ddn't lie
cursed that the lightning didn't strike
him in time to get him out OF the way OF
the mule.
THIS naughty story appears in the
Fond du Lac Reporter: IL am convinced
that the world is daily growing better
remarked a reverend gentleman 10 a
brother clergyman; "my congregation i
constantly Increasing" ayes" replied
the other who happened to be peniten-
,iary chaplain, "and so is mine.'
Norristown Herald: A woman may he
as homely as a drove of camels, and as
uninteresting as counterfeit detector,
but as soon as her husband is elected to
Congress and they take up their residence
in Washington and give receptions she
becomes Handsome and fascinating"
the newspapers. There are no blanks.
How do the gilded youth of both sexes
like this from the lips Of an old beau of
the old regime? "The femme CONNIE il
faut of my youth is extinct as the dodo.
Language is slang, society is mob, dress
is display, amusement is not; people are
let into society who have no other claim
TO he there but money and impudence,
and are ignorant as maids and grooms,
and more So"
SoENE-The gambling-table at Monte
Carlo. Persone--Young English lady
with little sister and gentleman whose
acquaintance they have made at the ho-
tel. Young lady-"Oh, l say, | shall pu!
five-franc piece on the number of my
agc."-putting one on the figure eighteen.
The number twenty-sight wins Little
Sister-"Whnt fun! Now, if you had
really put it on your right age, sis, you
would have won, wouldn't you?'
orR friend Wales was doing some lith-
ographic work for an illustrated paper
One morning messenger was sent for
the long expected drawing. "Tell them
that I'm sick-a.bed," said Wales. Two
days later the same messenger returns,
but the lithographer is not yet ready
Say Pm dead" answers the artist. 0n
the following day the messenger again
put in appearance. "Mr. Wales" said
he, "The managing editor sends me to
ray that if you are dead will you at least
kindly send back the lithographic stone
The stone!r howled Wales, "Tell him il
is on my grave."-Num Crinkie.
In Southwestern Russia, between the
Baltic and the Black seas, the sunflower
is universally cultivated in fields, gar
dens and borders, and every part of the
plant Is turned to practical account. A
hundred pounds of the seeds yield forty
pounds Of oil, and the pressed residre
forms wholesome food for cattle, as
also do the leaves and the green stalks,
cut up small, all being eagerly eaten.
The fresh flowers when little short of
full bloom, furnish a dish for the table
which bears favorable comparison with
the artichoke. They contain large
quantity of honey, and so prove an at
traction to bees. The seeds are a valua-
BILE food for poultry; ground into floor,
pastry and cakes can bemade from them,
and boiled in alum water they yield a
blue coloring matter.
A LOUISVILLE man had noble, Eth-
full, sagacious dog, as big as a molasses
barrel. lie had also four beautiful white
rabbits, the most delightful pets he had
ever known. A few mornings since, the
n, T., 8. dog was looking unusually well,
and was walking about with such self
satisfed air that it was supposed he must
have eaten a remarkably lat burglar dur
ing the night. After a while, the man
went ont to pet his rabbits. Alas, the
darlings were nowhere to be seen. \
frantic search began. One of them was
at length found. 1t was lying dead in
the dog-house. 1t would not have been
there but for the fact that its three love-
ly and tender mates had proved too
large meal for even dog the size oi
their masters. Persons friendly to the
dog ellege that it must have mistaken
the poor things for sheep, not being a
country dog.
He Lived There.
Detroit Free Press