The Osceola times., 1881-07-23
WAYS or THE WORLD.

WAYS VI The WOkLD.
FLORIDA contributes thisy year so, 100000
oranges.
LONG Branch will pay $4,000 this
season for music.
America is called the paradise Of Euro
pean actresses and Italian singers.
The fact that George Eliot's mother is
still living has just been made public
MR. VANDERBILT spent 500, 900 for
pictures during his recent visit TO Europe.
TEE Khedive of Egypt favors the total,
but gradual, abolition Of slavery in his
dominion.
Ms. ]. W. MAcKAY has purchased in
Paris mirror with gold frame, origi-
nally owned by the Empress Josephine.
liz GERMANY there is a million surplus
of women-the result of the wholesale
emigration of men to escape military
service.
JRrrERsoS DAVIS old plantation is now
leased to his former slaves, who pay a
small rental and manage TO earn living
from it
Horace WHITE, of the New York
Evening Post, has bought two and half
acres Of ground at Long Branch. paying
$4,000 therefor.
IT is said that "Clara Belle" who has
been contributing most sensational read
ing to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Is none
other than Gath.
A MANITOBA store-keeper says that
Sitting Bull is liar and dead beat and
wont paw his whisky bills. The great
chief has even descended to stealing
mackeral.
"HAD DRANK"is not good English gram
mar, says high authority. 1t certainly
10 not. "Was drunk" is better grammar
and more in accordance with the facts
nine times out of ten.
GUSTAV FRKYTAs, the popular German
novelist, is one of the few authors who
have been fortunate enough TO earn
money as well as fame. He il building
q $4,000 house at Wiesbaden.
The Empress Eugene visits her be-
loved dead at Chiselhurst every week
when she is in the neighborhood, and
twice month assists at the services said
for them by Monsigneur Goddard.
A STRONG decoction of tea made by
sprinkling the liquid on rose bushes, an
Ohio lady says, will kill or drive away
rose-bugs, they being anti-tobacco users.
GKx. MoLrKE has OF late years been
able to obtain little sleep, owing TO ex-
IRENE nervousness; his entire amount Of
sleep does not amount to over three
hours every night His health is much
enfeebled.
Mrs. CHARLES HIGGINS, of Indianapo-
lie, cleaned out q saloon in exactly four
minutes, breaking -very article in the
place and cracking tn. head cfthe saloon
keeper himself. That's rapid transit and
no mistake.
KING KALAKAuA intends visiting the
Blue Grass region on his way home to
his Kingdom, and will be the guest of
Gen. Withers at Lexington. His Majesty
Is fond of handsome horses and has
already purchased several.
A LADY engaged to be married, and
getting sick Of her bargain, applied to
friend to help her unite the knot before
II was too late. "Oh, certainly" she re-
piled. ut is very easy to unite 1t now
while it il only beau knot"
In addition to his other trials, q wes-
tern editors wealth was increased by a
BABY weighing only four pounds.
Whereupon Q heartless contemporary
mentioned the arrival and called it a
supplement" -Hackensack Republican.
A WOMAN near Quincy concealed an
ingehiously constructed spring stilletto
in the corset of the hired girl, and late
that night her husband came home with
his arm in q sling and related to Ler
thrilling story of combat with eight
masked men.-Ka Adams.
Miss Doc BULL is eaid to be the belle
Of the Indians at the Standing Rock
agency, and several duels have been
fought by the young braves who are
rivals for her hand. As her father owns
800 ponies, she is considered a good
catch aside from her superior personal
attractions.
And now the poor heated editor
snatches up his shears with delight as
his eyes light on a promising squib, and
throws them down with quotation
from the Old Testament, as he reads
further and finds it is something about
take Jenkins Jaundice Jerker."-
Eponsrille Argus.
The silk industry is reviving in Louis-
lana, the reports of the Matching Of 1881
being very encouraging. Interest in the
culture is growing, and inducements are
offered silk workers TO come from France
and engage in the business. The first
exports of silk from Louisiana was made
a. far back as 17lS. The culture of silk
is being revived in South Carolina and
Georgia.
An SAY, superintendent of the Chinese
laborers employed in constructing the
Union Pacific Railway at Evanston, w.
r., is said to be the possessor of the agree
able annual income of $4,000 He is a
partner in one of the great Chinese com
panies that contract for the labor Of their
countrymen. He has so lar adopted eau
casian customs as to take out life in
snrance policy for $40, 900 in favor ofTiye
Ulaye, his wife.
A God-Forsaken People.
salt Lake Letter to the Lowell Mail.
But Of all the ill-conditioned, God
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