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The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
WHERE DO THE HATS GO?
What Is Done with the Millions That are
Csst on Every Autumn.
Providence Journal.

Providence Journal
The question asked about this time of
the year is:
"What becomes of hats"
One-half of the population, twenty-five
millions of people, change hats at this
time. That leaves twenty-five million
new old hats to be added to countless
Iaillions of other old hats, tucked away
in garrets, hung on raiter nails, thrust
into broken windows to keep the rain
out, and packed in charity boxes for the
hat destitute.
1t has been observed that when box
or barrel of clothing is wanted for BEN
evolent purpose old hats are no at all
lacking.
An old, dilapidated hat in charity
box is like punched dime or leather
button in charity box-both help to fill
up and make a show, but neither are of
much value.
AT the close Of a season, or several sea-
sons, hat dealers have stock of out-of-
style hats that are disposed of at the buy
ers price. Large quantities of old hats,
old in style only, are sold to Southern
dealers. If one collection of put by hats
is sold all in the same place, the street
promenade must invite the sketching
pencil of the artist in search of the gro
tesque.
A tall nan, with tall hat with tap
ering crown, and q short man in a saucer
hat would be a notable sight except in
an Indian camp, where the boss dignita-
ry, the best man, is satisfied with silk
hat smoothed the wrong way, ear rings
and blanket.
Country dealers, nearer than those in
the far Southern cities, are suspected OF
buying hats at the close of seasons in
cities, to begin their own seasons with
the latest in hat styles,
As to straw hats, their usefulness is at
an end when the season closes, unless il
be costly Manila or Panama.
Some are repressed and whitened, but
such a processs makes them brittle, and
they seem so soil much sooner and easier
than when new. Such hat is an eve.
sore to q man. 1t is too good to put in 6
broken window, but not good enough tc
wear, and becomes in time cats cradle
or an herb basket.
Strange as it may seem straw hats wert
sold as late as week ago, and they viii
not all be put to flight till after the snow
| flies
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
An Anonymous Letter.
Detroit Free Press.

A dav or two ago a widow living on
Sixteenth street called the policeman on
that beat into the house and informed
him that she had very serious case on
hand. Some one had written her an
anonymous letter, and she wanted the
officer to trace out the giluty party If it
took him until January, 1892.
"What was in the letterW he asked.
Il will read it. 1t begins; My dear
friend and goes on to say that the writ
er has fallen in love with my red checks,
sparkling eyes and dimpled chin"
"IIe must be blind man." bluntly
observed the officer. II don't see any
led cheeks or dimples."
"Perhaps YOU don't sir" she coldy re-
Piled, but | will read further. He says
that nv image is constantly before his
eyes. and that ] am the subject of his
dreams"
"Well, that's all right" said the Off
GER unless he lets the image bother his
ewes when butcher-cart is around. He
is evidently mashed"
"And further down he says that the
SIGHT of me getting off the street car
sends thrill through his whole system"
every likely, madam, that is, if you
catch your foot and sprawl on the ground
| think | know the old coon who wrote
that letter"
"Old coenw
Eyes. an old Goldfish down here who
has had three wives and seventeen chill
dren."
"Sirw how dare you imagine he would
write to me"
and I'll see that he Is arrested"
"No, you won't | warn you not to in
terfere in this case in any manner
"But thought you wanted the guilty
punished ?" :,
"Who said | did? | simply wanted
you to trace ii out and give me the name
of the writer"
80 that you could prosecute him ?'
"No, sir wanted to know if he was
in earnest, and if he was-you see-you
know would"
YOU'D write him that if his conduct
was repeated you'll appeal to the law?"
Il think you needn't bother with the
case at all !" she remarked as she swal-
lowed lump in her throat. You don't
seem-that is, you appear-that is, good
day, sirl'
"What she wanted of me- said the Of
flee, as he went back to his beat, was
to assure her that some one really wrote
the letter in earnest, and that he prooa-
bly, meant all he said. Once sure Of that
she would have answered it,"
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

Baron Grant, the great English rail-
way speculator and one of the guinea
pigs" in the Emma Mine affair, built in
his palmy days the celebrated Kensing-
ton House, which cost him a million and
quarter of dollars. He was scarcely
settled in it before his bubble burst and
he was bankrupt The place was too
costly for any known use and it was
found that the ground could only be used
to advantage by tearing away every YES
tigc of the buildings. For the last four
months the materials have been offered
at public sale and were finally closed out
a few weeks ago, after realizing a sum
total of fifty-two thousand dollars, or
about four per cent. on the original cost
of the house.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
A Near-sigbted Horse
New York sun

In paper on near-sightedness read
before the New York county Medical
society last evening, DIR. W. F. Mittendorf
told of q fine horse in Berlin that became
intractable, and on examition proved to
be suffering from myopia. The owner
had a pair of glasses made for it, and it
became as tractable as ever. American
students, DIR. Mittendorf said, are not so
subject TO near-sightedness as German
students. Sedentary occupations and
want of exercise develop myopia, and
women. therefore, are likelier than men to
contract it. 1t generally sets in N child
mood; rarely appears after 2l years fage.
Blindness often follows neglect of it..
Glasses should be worn early in life to
prevent its progress They should be
rather weak than strong. and slight
blue tint is desirable.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
EUROPEAN ECHOES.
POLITICAL AND GENERAL MATTERS
AND THINGS IN THE OLD WORLD
OF INTEREST TO AMERI-
CAN READERS.

II was understood from the moment
the British successes in Egypt were an
nounced that the two commanders-in-
chief, Wolseley and Seymour, would be
raised to the peerage as the first reward
of their admirable conduct of the cam
paign, but the British public was some
what disappointed, as were also, prob
ably, the recipients of the royal favor,
when it was announced that nothing
more elevated than baronies were to be
conferred. General Wolseley, however,
was voted handsome sum in cash on
his return from the Zulu war, two years
ago, and he and the Admiral are likely
to be treated by Parliament in the same
generous fashion at the next session, so
that the question of rank will be over
shadowed by the more practical con-
sideration of ready money.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
FABRICS NOW IN FASHION.
some idea of what They Are, Together
With Description OF a Club Costume.
New York Evening Post

New York Evening Post.
Checked and striped woolen fabrics,
serges, tweeds, light fannels, cheviot,
ladies cloth, vigognes and limousines are
the favorite materials for autumn cos
TUNES. Limousine, a popular fabric, is
a soft. thick material in blended colors
the result being very uncertain shade
being proof against wear and tear, which
can be made up by itself or combined
with a monochrome fabric Of shade TO
correspond. Tricot cloth is is another
wear defying material, a soft, elastic
tissue, in dark shades of olive, garnet,
admiral blue, hunters green and wood
brown. Very pretty jacket bodices, in
cardinal or terra-cotta, are also made Of
this cloth. Another kind of cloth known
as drap de Ladack, is much used for
skirts to wear with fancy jackets or
other material, with interviewer threads
of various bright shades, the same style
of material being woven into a pattern
of brocaded blocks upon grounds of ma
room, olive brown, peacock blue, ruby
and laurel green. These goods make up
very tastefully for afternoon toilets.
Serge is never dors de mode, and this
fall there are a great many very pretty
costumes made of it. Cloth dresses are
more elegant, however. Fine ladies'
cloth dresses look exceptionally well, if
worn on good figure and made up with
out "fripperies," the material being quite
unsutedlto them. A stylish costume of
this kind in dark invisible green had the
skirt arranged in double-box pleats,
with Grecian tunic caught up high on
the left side with dark green silk cords
and dark green velvet ornaments, this
being the only trimming. The tight
fitting bodice was cut into square blocks
around the bottom of the short basques
and simply edged with the silk cord. In
the centre of each block was very rich.
looking ornament of dark green velvet
A very wide collar of plain white linen,
with deep cuffs to match, similar to
those seen in the pictures off Mrs. Ken
dali in "The Squire" were worn with
this dress, giving it look of still severer
simplicity. A dark green Sir Joshua
Reynolds hat of French felt, trimmed
with dark green velvet and long ostrich
plume was faced inside with deep car
dinal surah, the only touch of br ght
color about the custume. This, with
very long gloves Of dark green undressed
kid, finished a very ladylike and be-
coming street dress.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
Little Things, but Good.
boomerang.


Ella Wheeler poetizes; Love is
enough" Ella is the kind Of a girl many
young men are looking for,
A young lady has been discovered on
the North Side who never sang "Over
the Garden Wall" She is crazy and
deaf and dumb.
4 Boston girl describes a statue as
bust with two legs under it. Most
"busts" begin with two legs but end
without any.
All husbands don't hate their mother
in-law. We have just read of one who
eloped with his, leaving a beautiful
wife Of eighteen.
A leopard never changes his spots. A
mosquito does, for he will settle in a new
spot every five seconds d sing all the
time he is changing.
A Tennesse woman has trained a dog
to drink beer and chew tobacco. Now
you see, that woman will never marry,
for she has no use for man around
the house.
1t takes something more than wind
TO run political organ, as the candidates
find out while they go along and the
music Of such organs is shut off instead
OF being improved by the stops
The bookeeper of country newspa-
per in Massachusetts disappeared, taking
with him the keys of the safe. The
keys are probably the most valuable
thing he could find about the place.
-Four brothers named Barnett, in
Tennessee, are the champion berry,
pickers of the season. They have late
ly married four sisters named Berry
Syracuse Times. They must have gone
in with the intention of cleaning the
patch. Did they grub the mother in-law
out?
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
Naples.
Cincinnati Commercial.

Naples has half million inhabitants,
such as they are. Naples is quite the
proper place TO visit, on account of Mt.
Vesuvius, and the view of the bay. You
will be gladder to get out of it, though,
than any place you were in ever in your
life, not even expecting the station
house. ! do not see how an American
can live in comfort in any Italian city,
owing to the notions of cleanliness and
decency that are peculiar to the country.
But Naples is the worst. Squalling chill
dren make the sreets hideous from day
light to midnight. The houses seemed
to be turned inside out, back foremost
and all domestic and toilet operations to
be performed upon the street
The lower classes are no more than
half civilized. They repudiate and re-
ject utterly commonly-accepted notions
of delicacy. They are as primitive in
many of their ways as if they had lived
in the times of Moses. One of our party
saw woman spinning with distafi
precisely as women did in the days of
Homer. The lower stories of the houses
often have no windows towards the
street. A door furnished the only light
and air. Inside of one such room a
whole family are supposed to find their
dwelling place. In brief, they live like
rats in hole. When it is necessary to
cook, they set up sort Of little furnace,
right out in the street, and broil or bake,
as the case may be, before the gaze of all
the world. l judge the women comb
their hair only on high saints days.
They cannot perform the operation for
themselves, either, apparently. Neigh
Dor wives club together as it were, and
comb one another's hair, sitting in the
front doors for friendly gossip mean
while.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
What Makes n House Beautiful.

1t is an excellent thing to have q well.
kept house and beautifully appointed
table; but, after all, the best cheer of
every home must come from the heart
and manner of the home mother. If
that is cold and this ungracious, all the
wealth of India cannot make the home
pleasant and inviting. Intelligence; too,
must lend its charm if we would have
home an Eden. The severe STYLE of
house-order neatncss seldom leaves much
margin for intellectual culture. A sim
pier style Of living and house-furnishing
would set many bonded slave al lib
erty, and add vastly to the comforts Of
all the house.
There are bare cabin homes that have
been remembered with pleasure, because
of the beautiful loving presence there:
and stately palaces which leave the inn
preston of an iceberg on the mind.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
Lord Dufferin, who has so admirably

Lord Dufferin, who has so admirably
conducted the diplomatic negotiations
with the Porte, is to be made marquis,
and no man in English public life better
deserves the recognition which his valu-
able services have received. In the
evasive and procrastinating diplomacy
which civilized nations so rarely find it
to their interest to employ, he has beaten
the consumate masters of that branch of
the art on their own ground. England
wished to sign convention with Turkey
so that the army might go to Egypt with
the formal assent and nominal co-opera-
ton of the Sultan as suzerain of the
Khedive. The Turks were secretly hop
ing that Arab would succeed, and they
obstinately delayed signing the con-
vention, thus forcing England to land
her troops on her own responsibility.
When that had been done it at once be-
came England's turn to avoid signing
any convention which should limit the
operations of her army or prescribe any
conditions as to the temporary or per-
manent occupation of Egypt Lord Duff
ferin turned the Turkish tactics against
the Turks themselves and prolonged the
discussion over the convention until
Wolseley had taken Tel-el-Kebir and oc-
cupied Cairo, and he then announced
that there was no longer any necessity
for convention and that England de-
clined to enter into one.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
Arebi and the Kentncky Mules.
Louisville courier-Journal.

There is some difference of opinion as
to how much the Kentucky mule contrib
uted to the downfall of Arab Pasha. In
Ohio and some other narrow-minded
states there is an attempt to show that
when the great Egyptian commander
surrendered, the mule brigade had not
arrived in Egypt, and that it was still at
sea. But how contemplate is all this!
There is not veteran anywhere who
does not know that, whether the Ken
lucky mule was present or not when the
great Egyptian scheme collapsed, it was
due to this intrepid animal that the col
lapse took place. Arab may not have
seen solitary mule. What of that? lie
knew that if he should hold out a few
days longer he certainly would see one,
and he yielded. 1t was the moral effect
of the Kentucky mule that scattered the
patriots of Egypt and paralyzed their
war camels. Let the small-minded press
Of Ohio, etc, be honest for once, and give
their readers the truth about the mule.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

That celebrated Austrian railroad
sharp, Baron Hoffmann, who for shor.
time paralyzed the speculative share
market IN Berlin and Vienna, was sup
posed to have passed out of sight when
his stock forgeries were exposed and he
was expelled from the exchanges.
Among the honorary decorations which
the alleged baron secured through his
confidential relations with ministers and
princes was the jewel of the Order of st.
Olaf, of Sweden. AT the recent annual
festival of the order, at the royal palace
of Stockholm, the King of Sweden re-
voked the decree comforting the honor
of knighthood on Hoffman, and thus
advertised the fact, which the world had
forgotten, that SO consumate a rascal had
crept into 50 honorable a society. The
other sovereigns who delighted to honor
Hoffman, in his palmy days have been
more discreet, and, if they have scratch
ed" him at all, have done it quietly.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

gib the women presents an dc general
would glib de men sto'-clothes, an head
handkerchers, an terbaccer. Den we
would draw rations fur de weeks holi-
day-hour an sugar an coffee an tea.
An we would walk roun' de house sing
in, de general a-bowin' an a-wavin' his
hat at de front do. An by de time we
hae got roun' to de back DO dar he was
to receive our greetin's." ale didn't
have a servant but would "a died for
him." said Aunt Oracle softly. The Her
mitage is not paid for, and when an ap-
preparation for the state debt was vsted
on not long ago, old Alfred got all the
negroes within his influence to vote for
it "for the sake of Gen. Jackson's home
and honor"
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

1t is the immemorial custom Of the
British War Office to give gratuity Of
five hundred pounds in cash and a pro-
motion of one step in brevet rank to the
officer who brings back the official bulle-
tin announcing the victorious ending Of
a campaign. General Wolseley acquired
some notoriety in his two African cam
paigns by assigning his special friends to
this agreeable duty, and the War Office
iniimated in 1880 that this custom would
be no longer observed. The General has
taken a very neat way Of trying conclu-
sions on this point during the present
campaign. On his staff as private secre-
tary is certain Major Ftz-George, a
fitz-son of His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge by his fitz-wife Miss Fair
brother. The Duke is Commander-in-
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
The Wealth Of the Aztecs,
Detroit Free Press.

Another myth is going the way of all
earth. A scientific investigator says that
the story of the pomp, the riches, the pal
aces, the gold and silver of the Aztecs was
a Spanish lie told by Cortez to enhance
the romance Of his conquest. The
scientist reasons that it would be utterly
impossible for race to disappear and
take with it all the evidences of its
civilization as the Aztecs must have done
if they are what the Spaniards represen-
ted them. The ruins found in Central
America belong to an older and different
race. The Aztecs were never civilized.
In the time Of Cortez they were precisely
like the Pueblo Indians ofmodern days;
their cities were nothing more than vast
communal houses like those in which the
Pueblos live, and all the stories of their
magnifcence and Of the wealth and
civilization of the Aztec empire were
invented by the Spaniards. They adopted
methods Of building employed by the
Spaniards; suffered their old communal
houses made ofsuu-dried brick TO crumble
to shapeless mounds, and learned the art
of revolution, and so became the Mexi-
cans of modern times,
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
About the Way with All Courts

Dickens satirizcd the costs of the Eng
lish Court of Chancery. and, says the
London Telegraph it still ''grinds mems
bones to make its bread"
Anna Richardson, domestic servant,
had saved f240, TO which her master, Sir
George Balfour, added free gift Of ECO,
lodging the whole with trustees, who
were to pay her the interest After a
time, Anna wanted to go to New Zealand,
and desired the possession of her capital.
The trustees had no objection, provided
they obtained the leave of the Master of
the Rolls. For that purpose friendly
suit was instituted, and the leave OBJ
tained, but the costs amounted TO f2l6.
Thus merely TO ask the formal assent
Of the Court of Chanoery to a change Of
this kind swallowed up more than two
thirds Of the sum in question. Lord
Coleridce, on hearing of the fact, which
came incidentally before him few days
ago, aptly said: at appears as if Oh IN
cery, to prevent any one from being hurt,
sometimes takes care that nobody should
get any good"
--
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
Crossing the Atlantic.
Demoresls Monthly.

The Great Western was the first of the
regular steamers to cross the Atlantic.
She sailed from Bristol ON April 23d,
1888, and reached New York in sixteen
days and one hour. She was n wooden
paddle-wheel steamer Of twelve hundred
tons burden. During the present year,
the City of Rome has been put on the
same route and made the voyage in less
than seven days, but she weighs eight
thousand four hundred TONS. What Il
difference in size and speed these figures
indicate? No doubt the time is coming
when passengers will feel aggreved if
they are detained longer than a week on
the voyage between the old world and
the new.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

Bismarck received many splendid tes-
timonials of the regard of his country
men on the 2Sd of September, when he
celebrated the twentieth anniversary Of
his accession to Office as chief of the
Prussian Ministry. The German colony
in Odessa, which controls large part of
the important mercantile business of the
Black Sea ports, sent to Varzin mag
nificent punch bowl, with a ladle and
six massive goblets of gold, in the
medieval Russian style, the work of
Khlebnikof, the celebrated goldsmith of
Moscow. The set is mounted on an
deliberately carved stand, which bears IN
appropriate inscription commemorative
of the Chancellor's services.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18
How to Swim.
London Truth,

There is really no mystery in learning
TO swim-an accomplishment which is
possessed in perfection by the most
stupid Of frogs. More than once have
explained how any one can teach him
self. The trunk, less the arms, is heavier
than water; with the arms, it is lighter;
all, therefore, that a person has to do is
TO acquire the habit of drawing in the
breath when he is preparing to make a
stroke, and expelling the breath when
he is making it. Let any one do this and
keep calm, and he will find that he can
swim. But, perhaps, it is better to ac-
quire confidence by a preliminary course
Of floating. To do this it is only neces.
sary to lie fat on the water, stretch out
the arms with the palms of the hands
downward. throw back the head, and
whenever the body sinks low, slowly fill
the lungs with air.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

Strenuous but f1Iitless efforts were
made to induce John w. Mackay, the
Bonanza man, to buy Kensington House
as an appropriate place from which to
launch Mrs. Mackay and her daughter
on the sea of English society, voyage
which has been for sometime in contem-
plation. II is reported in London that
Mrs. Mackay's daughter, though formally
announced to be without a dowry, is en-
gagged to ana will soon marry an attache
of the British embassy at Paris.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

How TO GET SIcK-Expose yourself
day and night, eat too much without ex-
ercise, work too hard without rest, doc
tor all the time, take all the vile nos
trums advertised, and then you will
want TO know
How To GEr WFIL-Which is ans
wered in three words-Take Hop Bit
tiers
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

Artificial leaves are more in use for
millinary purposes than flowers, but
many of the handsomest fall bonnets
have leaves. flowers and feathers COM
bined in the trimming.
The Osceola times., 1882-11-18

Feather thistles appear among new
bonnet trimmings.