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The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

PARIS scientists recently discussed the
effect of the electric light on the eyes, and
almost unanimously decided that it IS
harmless
AMSTERDAM, the chief commercial city
of the Netherlands is to have an inter
national exhibition from May to Octo-
Der, 1883.
The Board of Trustees Of the South
Carolina L University has decided to have
five additional pro 'essorslips at a sal
AIRY Of s. 900 each.
PHILADELPHIA will have a grand cele-
bration of the 2Ooth anniversary OF the
landing Of William Penn on the 9th of
next October.
ONE hundred and sixty acres of land
will be given 10 the person securing the
largest number Of articles for exhibition
at the Florida State fair
GES. GRANr may have dissatisfaction
Of knowing that in foreign society jour
mails his doings are chronicled among
those Of the nobility.
Mn. BEEcHER says that where zone
man goes crazy in the excitement of a
revival of religion, twenty men 90 c razy
in the excitement of Wall street"
DURING six years 4 600 volumes have
| been distributed by Mrs. Surgeons
book fund, mainly TO ministers who
could not afford to pu. chase for them
selves"
/ ONE Of the great French railway COM
! panies have recently issued an order that
/ all sCason-tiCket holders are at once and
for the future to furnish photographs Of
themselves.
The age of the oyster may be ckoned
by counting the lines in the grove OF the
hinges of the bivalve. These lines indi-
cate the annual layers Of the she'll
growths.
PRoF. RuEY says the heat Of the
drouth of last summer has killed off the
iessian fly, and that immunity from its
attacks may be expected for some ears
TO come.
THE cost Of feeding the prisoners in
San francisco is low. Last year. in that
city, meals were furnished prisoners 20
the number of Al, $50, at an average cost
of AZ cents per meal.
lT is strangely indicative of the strug-
giles of writer's that the largest number of
suicides throughout Europe are TO be
iouhh oiipHe autilOiSi JUL hai-SlS ehs
muscal composers,
ITALIAN bees gather honey from flowers
which fail to attract black bees, because
the former have longer tongue and are
able to find honey which is beyond the
reach of the black variety.
THE Senate of Mississippi passed bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purpose OF
encouraging immigration into that state
The House has amended the bill by re-
duoing the amount to $4,000 and then
passed it.
VERY grave complaints have been
made of late of the fraudulent packing
of sand in American cotton bales, 50
much so that the American consul at
Manchester has made personal inycstl-
CATION and reports the charges proved.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

A DOG stole piece of meat from stran-
shan's butcher shop at Holly, Mich, and
the man threw knife at the thief which
killed him. The owner of the dog prose.
cuted stranahan for cruelty, the town
became excitedly divided in sentiment,
the trial employed the best legal talent
in the country, and the butcher was
finally fined $40.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

PROFESSOR W. B. RICHMOND, an English
art teacher. says to art students; "Never
on any plea whatever to be without a
pencil or book. Never omit making a
note Of any impressive scene, and if you
see face which strikes you draw it.
Keep your pencil in your hand, and you
will become an artist"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

are also benefited by feeding bran, with
parts of sulphur and cream of tartar, as
these tend TO allay the trivial skin dis
eases that cause irritation of the skin
and results in wool rubbing. Calves, the
poorer ones at least, should have an ex-
ira ration Of mill feed to give them a
ata ri
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

Asa BRrees died few days ago at
Shutesbury, Mass. Conscious of his ap.
preaching end, he desired that a certain
minister living il neighboring town
should attend his burial serv ices, giving
as reason, "They say he's good hand
at funeral, and I'd like to hear MIN
lust once.r
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THE other day party of seven under
graduates, at Keble College, Oxford,
walked into the room of one of the most
inoffensive of their fellow-students and
cropped his hair, so as to give him the
appearance of convict.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

A ACHicAgo prison keeper says Il have
met with boys here under IL years old
who have travelled all over this land
alone, and gave me accurate descriptions
of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, San Fran.
cisco and New Mexico"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

MADRID had q brakewater built by
British engineers at cost of $1,000, 600
but they neglected to land the grea,
blocks Of concrete properly, and the first
storm has knocked the whole thing to
A;pJar,
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

A WOMAN died in Fall River, Mass,
recently, of overwork and lack of proper
food. She had been trying to support
herself and four children on 80 cents a
day which she earned in one of the mills
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THE shovel makers in the United
States manufacture about 10000 shovels
every week. About one-half OF them are
used at home and most Of the others go
to South America.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THERE is hardly an adult person living
but is sometimes troubled with kidney
difficulty, which is the most prolific and
dangerous cause of all disease. Thele is
no sort of need to have any form of kid
ney or urinary trouble if Hop Bitters are
taken occasionally.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

HRRBERr SPENCER will visit America
this summer, but will not lecture. His
design being solely to see the country
and people without any ulterior object
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

A PHOTOGRAPHER in Providence, r. l.,
has been fined $40 and costs for follow
ing his usual vocation on Sunday, lie
pleaded guilty on two complaints.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THE city Of Toxic, Japan. has free
library Of over $4,000 volumes, $1,000 of
which are in European languages, while
all have active circulation.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

TRELAwsEy, the friend Of Byron and
Shelley, is buried beside the latter, and
in his last will and testament, full Of
pagan ideas, he desired that his body be
cremated as Shelley's was.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

Two car loads of scrap iron, loaded al
Peoria, ILL.,, were found TO consist entire
lyof things stolen from the railroad
company over whose line the audacious
thieves proposed to ship it to market
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

DIR. SrRorHER. Kentucky lecturer,
holds that the garden Of Eden was the
Mississippi valley, and that Noah's ark
started from Manhattan Island.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

MANY butterflies take no food and
have no digestive organs. The eating
and storing of nutriment was performed
in the earlier larva state.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

ARKANSAS man and woman have been
married to each other once a year for
four years, a divorce having separated
them after every union except the last
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THERE is said to be farm in Worces.
tershire, England, which stands in twelve
parishes and pays fifty different rates.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

MARY ALLEN, Hartford thief, made
such wry faces when they tried to photo
graph her for the rogues' gallery, that
nothing in the least like portrait could
ha ohtaiued
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

ELEVEN English clergymen recently
exhibited their pets at a dog show, and
many clergymen were among the spec
tators.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THE New York circulating libraries
lend 20 per cent works of fiction. or two
and one-third times as much as Of all
other classes of literature.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

THE increasing shallowness of the Sea
of Azov is attributed to the habit Of
casting ballast into the sea instead Of
unloading it ashore.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

The Green Mountain range will form
the line dividing the State of Vermont
into the two new congressional districts.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
SELECTED ITEMS.

A FALSE charge of stealing 25 cents
drove an Illinois girl insane.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

JOAQUIN MILLER is financially broken.
His poetry no longer pays, and his lee
tures no longer draw.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

SOME of the Eastern papers tell OF a
Western girl who went to funeral to
flirt with the mourners.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

A MAN So years old and a woman 65,
who live in the lower rart Of Dawson
county, Ga, recently ran away and got
married.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

For over lfty-four years Squire shell
ton, of Aberdeen, Ohio, the "Gretna
Green" of America, on the Ohio rver,
performed the marriage ceremony Tor
runaway couples from Kentucky. etc.
making 1000 persons happy or ml' era
BILE. His successor, Squire Boosley, who
began twelve years ago, has married
1000 persons, mostly under age!
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
CLOVER WITH WHEAT,

The testimony of farmers that it paws
to harrow in clover seed In the spring is
accumulating, and it is rare to hear of a
case of clover not catching, when sown
in connection with narrowing the soil.
One of the reasons why clover seed fails
to grow, is because it has no chance.
Sown upon the top of the ground, and
relying upon the upheaval of the soil by
frost, to give it root hol}, there is little
If any chance for the rootlets to gerIni-
nate, or if it does no chance is afforded
it to grow, and few days unfsyorable
weather completely kills it. The ques-
ton OF narrowing wheat is a debatable
one with as much in its favor as against
it. The question is, does the gain in
grain compensate for the extra labor; not
that the wheat is damaged, but when the
success of catch of clover is practically
guaranteed by narrowing the wheat at
the time OF sowing it. The success of
the practice is its own best recommend.
A Mantua farmer remarked to Inc this
morning, Il have raised wheat for nearly
forty years and | value clover more
highly every year. l have got more
faitn in a crop of clover plowed under
than | have in any phosphate. | use all
the barn yard manure | can make and
rely upon clover for the rest and when
the men who own clay farms will plow
under clover instead of buying so much
phosphate, they will brinp up the value
of their lands to that of STARK county.
They have kept their lands rich without
buying manure. But farmers should not
expect crop of clover plowed under to
last forever. A clover sod is good for
two crops; manure the ground for the
third crop, which should be wheat, and
seed down again. In this way we can
make our farms increase in fertility, and
and yet better crops with less labor, than
by any other plan"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
AGRICULTURAL.
Several Excellent Fertilizers for
Wheat-Feeding Pastures-RaisiDg Pota-
tocs-Attention to Cattle.
FEEDING PASTURES.


That great change has taken place in
the character of pasture lands is inds-
putable. The first 'slashing," with their
virgin soil, rich with stores of fertility,
the accumulations of thousands of years
have given place TO the open, unpro-
tected pastures that, closely cropped by
the dairies, as year after year they roam
over them, now fail in producing the
rich, luxuriant growth of the past; and
even in lesser degree, afford the nu-
tritiye qualities that the soil once stored
fer these grasses. 1t is only fair to pre-
sumo that if fertility of certain sorts
could be given the pasture, more Wig
orous growth OF vegetation would at once
ensue. The growth of grass, years con-
tinued, to a certain extent exhausts the
mineral elements of the soil, and there
being no adding of chemicals to decom.
pose or unlock the inert fertility, the
supply Of plant food thus is yearly les
sened, and the result is that there is a
dying out of the grasses, and coming
in of moses and weeds that find the ele-
ments of support they need and thus the
pastures are made unproductve. The
remedy is the pow, manure, and clover;
but II there was even top dressing OF
one load of ashes per acre, plaster, a
small quantity of potash salts, light
dressing of phosphate, etc, they would
work wonders, especially if light seed
ing of standard grass seed and clovers is
given in addition and sharp harrow
run over the fields. Greater damage is
done pastures by winter feeding, espe.
clally such winters as the present one.
1t is quite as likely that as great bene-
fit arises from allowing this "old feed''
to decay and protect the pastures, as
from any fancied feeding value with
which it has been credited.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
ATTENTION TO CATTLR.

Little attentions paid to the cattle find
ample compensation in better condition
and thrift. Cattle that have had but
few changes from one diet OF hay. should
have grain, il even in small quantities.
regularly. A little ginger now and
then will be healthy thing if fed TO
cows. Sulphur is also excellent as
It pnrifies the blood, and, if in
tested with vermin, helps to drive
them of. An excellent remedy for
the last is to card an animals hair up 10.
ward the spine and then sift fine wood
ashes over them, taking the precaution.
however, Of fair day to do it. sheen
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
EXCELLENT FERTILIZERS.

For some purposes wood ashes are one
of the most valuable fertilizers that a
farmer can apply to his soil For root
crops of all kinds, grasses, clover, ETC.,
they will be found just what is needed to
stimulate and feed the crop. The ash is
the mineral element of any vegetable
structure, and therefore indispensable to
its growth. The farmer who will sell his
ashes, is actually parting with so much of
the fertility of his farm. As an applca.
tion to reclaim marsh land the effect of
ashes is often wonderful. The burnt
lands in the Huron peninsulas will have
their productiveness greatly increased by
the burning of the forests covering
them, and farmers there will receive
great benefit in the future from the clear
ing of the lands and the depositing of the
ashes from the burned forest upon them.
A correspondent of the Practical Farm.
fr, says 81 notice in Waldo's Farm
Papers, he speaks of the value of rye as
green manure, and | wish to give my
experience in the matter. My father has
plowed under rye for the last three
years and thinks it cheap and valuable
fertilizer. Two years ago we turned a
piece of heavy rye that was as high az
the horses backs, and when We broke
this land the next spring, we found the
soil full of the decayed rye and very
mellow. This spring We have turned
under eight acres, and my experience is
that the land plowed ali the easier for
having the rye on it. We used com
mon plow with chain to turn it under,
and had no difficulty, and after it was
plowed scarcely head was visible. We
SOW one bushel of seed to the acre, any
time in the fall after we dig potatoes or
cut up our corn, and have never failed
to get good stand. The cost of putting
it in is small, and seed can usually be had
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
CARING FOR BABY.

There is one practice, not uncommon
in poor homes, to which / cannot help
giving the name of cruel. Yet | have
seen many mother do it, as well as lit
tie nurses who know no better. 1t is
that of giving the mouth. piece and tube
of feeding-bottle to baby, and allow
ing it to suck nothing but air for an un-
limited time by way of keeping it quiet.
Need ! say that such a practice is both
unkind and injurious to the child?
Many nurse trains baby to be restless
by rocking it TO sleep instead of allow
ing ii to lie peacefully when up, and put.
ting it into its cot awake from the very
first Such nurse entails much need
less trouble on the mother, or the young
er person who succeeds her in the care
of the child. Should baby fail asleep on
the knee, do not keep it there, but lay it
gently in its little bed, and tuck the
clothes not too tightly around il, but
Just firmly enough for il TO have feeling
of still protecting arm should it be par
TALLY aroused by the operation. Never
allow baby TO be long without glance
to see that it is safe, even when in bed.
Mothers have listened and thought the
baby still asleep. Cases have come un-
der say own knowledge of infants stran-
gled through Intellectual struggles
amongst bed. clothes, or through passing
the head between the brass bars of a cot.
Never use or allow the use of opiates, ex-
cept ordered by doctor.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

The Kentucky method of saving seed
and planting may not prove an uninter-
ing recital. Potatoes designed for seed
are dug about the middle of July, cut
and Immediately planted again. They
are slow in making their appearance the
second time, but when dug about the
middle Of October the potatoes will be
found to have attained the size of hens
eggs. This crop will not sprout until
planted, and only one eye to piece will
grow of this seed. The single sprout
thus gets all the strength of the potato
and is very large, and makes a most
healthy stalk. This spring planting will
bring eatable potatoes some two weeks
earlier than ordinary seed. This means
of obtaining seed involves an extra
planting and digging, the gain being
made in forcing early maturity of the
crep to escape drouth, which last is now
rot uncommon.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
RECIPES.

For Croup.-Take lobelia. ginger and
cayenne pepper, of each one half drachm,
put them in a pitcher with one-half
pound of sugar and pint of boiling wa
ter; stir until sugar is dissolved leave to
settle; then add one drachm of the oil of
peppermint, and one ounce of the tine
ture OF myrrh. Bottle when cool; dose,
frcm ten drops TO teaspoonful every
half hour until relieved. / hape that
every msther who reads this will
give it trial.-Maine Farmer.
For Black Points, or Flesh Worms
DIR. Unna prescribes the following: Ka-
olin, four parts; glycerine, three parts;
acetic acid, two parts; with or without
the addition of a small quantity of ethe-
real oil. With this pomade the parts az
fected are covered in the evening, and If
need be, during the day. After several
days the comedones can be easily
pressed out of the skin. Bandaging with
vinegar or lemon juice or diluted hydo-
chloric acid has much the same effect.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-08

NEW note paper has figures of insects
end reptiles. ''No''
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr.. William Fl. Vanderbilt recently
gave his check for 81. 600 to pay off the
debt of Grace Church, Lexington, Va,
which was erected in memory of General
Robert E. Lee.
Vermont can still chow snow-banks q
mile long and sixteen feet deep, and
New Hampshire men have no thoughts
of leaving off their overshoes for
month yet.
Five men, who made an attempt to
destroy bridge. on the Mexican Ma
tional Railway short time ago, we're
arrested, and by order of the Governor
of Mexico, were Immediately shot.
Mr.. H. M Stanley, the discovefer of
Livingstone, is now in command OF the
Belgian West African expedition. He
has again surnotnted the Congo Falls
and reached Stanley Pool, where he is
building Belgian station.
Miss Lille Darst, editor of news
paper in Circlesille, Ohio, has been
chosen an alternate delegate to the Ohio
Republican Convention. Miss Darst
visited Baltimore last year with the
Ohio Editorial Association.
An auctioneer, by birth a native OF
the Green Isle, caused to he printed on
his handbills at a recent sale, Every
article sold goes to the highest bidder,
unless it SO happens that some gentle
. man bids more"
Mr.. Thomas Hughes, according to the
Liverpool Courier, is financially ruined
by the failure of the Rugby colony in
Tennessee. It is alleged that Mr..
Hughes was duped and hattered into
the enterprise by sharpers in the United
States.
Mrs. Josephine Reeves, of Bridgeton,
N j., dreamed that man was trying to
steal her baby, an infant only six weeks
old. She awoke screaming for her
mother and olasping ber baby to her
breast. Her mother few to her, but
the child had been smothered by the des'
perate grasp of the frightened woman
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
A Little French Story.

In some parts OF France manageable
girls arc accustomed to pluck, as they
return from midnight mass on Christ
mas Eve. sprig of apple tree. VIII oh
they put in q vial full of water the
vial is hung in their bedchamber in
front of the window if one bud blooms
before Easter the mistress is sure to be
married before the year ends. Among
the servants of chateau near Alencon
was chambermaid from Brittany. She
was gentle, good.natured, quiet, pious
an excellent girl every way-but she
was hunchbacked. Her name was Ur-
sule. Taking advantage of the dark
night she, too. plucked eprig of apple
tree, sure that nobody saw her. She
was mistaken. A fellow servant saw
her and made the servants hall ring
with peals of laughter at poor Ursule's
expense. Still they kept the secret
among themselves. They all agreed to
play a trick on poor Ursule. On Easter
Eve one of the journey men gardeners
removed the old sprig ofapple tree from
the vial in Ursule's chamber and put in
it's place sprig covered with blossoms
When Ursula went into her room she
could. not believe her eyes. She re-
turned to the servants hall her face
was radiant with delight as she showed
her trophy the laughter, jeers. and
hootings of her companions revealed
the trick put on her. She stood dumb,
confounded, trembling, scarcely able to
restrain her tears. Just at this moment
the mistress entered the room and
said.-
"Ursule, the app'e-tree sprig may be
trusted believe it; you will be married
before Christmas next. You are vir
tuous girl; am sure you will make 6
virtuous wife. All that you want t.
get a husband is money the none.
wanted will give you"
As she spoke, the mistress twined
thousand franc bank note around tn
sprig and returned it to Ursule.
fortnight afterward the journeymal
gardener who had put the trick on he
asked her in marriage, but she refused
him, at which he was greatly jeered
and married another.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Extravagance of Napoleon III.

The great Napoleon assumed state
and encouraged luxury from calcula-
tion his nephew both from policy and
taste. Napoleon III was fond of pomp
and show, beside being a confirmed
sensualist and derived a personal en-
joyment from his entertainments.
They were on most magnificent scale,
but the only marked or lasting infu-
ence of the imperial court as regards
fashion or manners, was on female
dress. The invitations to Compieene
and Fontainebleau were commonly for
eight days and lady was expected to
change her dress three or four times a
day, and never to wear the same dress
twice. The outfit for the visit was
computed at not less THAI twelve thou
sand francs. We have heard French
woman of the imperial court circle
complain that she could not dress for
less than one thousand pounds year.
A milliners bill, on which an action was
brought, amounted to fifteen thousand
pounds for three years, and the fair
defendant paid twelve thousand into
court. The spirit of French extrava-
gance proved catching, and extended to
England, where traces Of it are still
discernible.
It is not uncommon for lady at o
country house to come down in morn
ing dress, change it for lawn tennis or q
walk, change it again for the afternoon
tea, and then dress for dinner or ball.
The only parallel in the male sex must
be sought among those who indulge in
fancy costumes for the smoking room.
Male dress errs on the side OF negli-
gence. The cut of coat, the tie of o
neckcloth, or the pattern of waistcoat,
is no longer q title to fame. and o
Brummel or D. Orsay would be 9
social anomaly or impossibility. Nc
indefensible fashion has taken so com
plete hold on women of all classes al
the fashion for false hair. Seventy FIVE
tons Of hair from the East paid duty a
Marseilles alone in 1875, and NJ. Baud
rillart computes that double that quaint
ty is annually worked up in France
The exports, principally to England an
the United States, are estimated 9
seventy. five thousand pounds.