The Osceola times., 1882-03-11
WAYS OF THE WORLD.

The coronation of the Gar Las been
until September.
TwKsTY-sIx thousand widows are
drawing pensions on account of the war
Of 1912.
Our of ninety convicts hanged in the
United States, Arkansas heads the list
with fifteen.
THE members of the Rhode Island
legislature are allowed IS per day and
newspaper.
OVER 700 cats have been fed to the ami
mails of the park menagerie in New York
the past year.
THE new Gas company of Chicago is
not allowed to charge to exceed sl.75
per / 900 cubic feet of gas, and where
consumer uses 100000 cubic feet a rebate
Of 25 cents per 1000 is required.
One of the objects Of the convention of
colored mem at Macon, Ga, next month,
will be TO organize and hold grand
Southern fair, at which the products Of
colored men will be exhibited.
SOME idea of the immense grain trade
of California may be gained from the
fact that, during the last six. months of
,ast wear. 3l6 ships, with full cargoes,
valued at $250o0,OOO, sailed from San
Francisco.
THE steamer Manitoban, at Boston
from Glasgow, brought a shipment OF
II Clydesdale horses, all arriving in good
condition except six that died during the
passage. A large quantity OF potatoes
was also among the cargo.
AFTER a wedding party had assembled
in church at Bloomington, ILL.,, the
father Of the girl offered her $500 if she
would back out. She took the money,
remained at home and sent word to the
minister to dismiss the assembly.
IT is estimated that the internal reve'
nue. receipts for the fiscal year will reach
Sl50000,0 900. Messrs. Kelley, Randall
and other leading members of the house
ways and means committee, favor the
taking off of about s70,0C000O of this.
PARIS society paper recently printed
a series of pretended matrimonial en-
Vayements of actors and actresses, and
mentioned the names Of Mile. Thullier
and NJ. Lelord, who at the time of the re-
port were not even acquainted, but odd
ly enough, since that time have been
married.
/ Ar Navajo, New Mexico, two men,
White and ONeil, quarreled in the lat
ter's saloon: White shot ONc,l dead.
stood the body up in a corner Of the
! saloon, took possession Of the place and
went to selling O'Neil S liquors 10 cusio-
mers.
TnE people of Kansas, under the fores
try laws of that State, have planted 3d.
coo acres in trees. The cottonwood is
the most abundant, as it grows The most
rapidly. A About & 900 acr,s have been
planted in black walnut and will make
handsome return in eight or nine years
/ MINERAL tanned Gather Is imperyiou3
TO water and is said to be much more
durable than leather prepared in thc
ordinary manner. Tests have been made
which show tha' belts of mineral tanned
leather are not only so per cent cheaper,
but are stronger than common belts.
The mineral process of tanning is report
ed to have been introduced into eight
tanneries in Germany.
A NEW violin genius has suddenly ap-
peared in Italy-a little girl, whose name
is Tua. Her father, very poor man,
scraped little money together to buy a
[ violin for himself His next extraya.
gance was to buy his wife a guitar When
the little girl was three years old she
taught herself and played in such an in
credible style on the violin that the
father Immediately undertook IL pro-
duce her as a prodigy.
THERE was loud call among the Meth
odst brethren for supply Of low'pricel
reading matter To- countaract the pern'c-
ious effect OF the ten cent stuff which is
so largely corrupting the youthful mind.
At DR.. Nincent's urgent suggestion, the
Book Concern published two series Of
books, one for children and the other
for older persons These bear the name
of The Lyceum Library" and sell for 10
cents volume. DR.. Vincent now pub.
fishes his official complaint that the
Methodist public will not buy this kind
of 10 cent literature, and states that, al
though it has been for months on the
counter, not one thousand copies have
yet been sold