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The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
The Cold Tip Of the Earth's Nose.

c. G. Fulton in the Baltimore American
When any adventurous traveller under
takes the ascent of Mont Blanc, numerous
spectators take up their station on the
sides of the Breven, from which the pro-
gress of the party, as soon as 1t has
emerged on the snow line, may be traced
the whole way to the summit. Great is
the excitement at Chamouni when they
are seen returning in the evening across
the plain towards the inn. Here they
come, the men who have been up Mont
Blanc! Earth seems like velvet to them;
they walk not like common men; honor
and glory await them; twelve Of them
(the guides) get five-and-twenty shillings
each, and the thirteenth has his name
painted on a board by the side of De
Saussure. He has periled his life score
of times in the last forty-eight hours, but
it is over now. He has been on the tip
top of Europe, has stood like fly on the
cold tip of the earth's nose, and must go
straight home and write book descrip-
tive of the perils he encountered, the
sensations he felt and the grand discoy-
cries he made. They nearly all do it,
and that is one of the reasons why they
make the ascent. The first ascent of ns
Saussure was in the interest of science;
all that have followed it have been slim
ulated by vanity. Many persons make
the excursion to Chamouni, at the foot Of
the great mountain, but the great MAORI
ty content themselves with sitting on the
cosy seats at Geneva and watching the
last rays of the evening sun glancing on
its ice-encased summit.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
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To Remove Cinders from the Eve.

At this season of the year persons sit
ting in the cars near an open window Of
ten have the misfortune to get cinders in
their eyes, and we frequently hear it ask
ed "How shall get rid of this terrible
nuisance"
1t isprobably not very generally known
that by Immediately pressing the finger
against the tear passage at the inner cor
ner of the eye, and keeping it there for a
minute, the substance will, in most in
stances, disappear at once.
Do not rub the eye before practicing
this method, as, if the eye is irritated or
infamed, it is very difficult to remove
anything from that extremely delicate
organ. Much fine scenery has been un-
enjoyed and many an excursion spoiled
on account of cinders, which might have
been easily removed by observing the
simple remedy alluded to, and which we
hope will, for the sake of the travelling
public, be remembered.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
The English Wheat Crop.

According to the London Times the
English wheat crop this season will fall
below the average of the past five years,
both in quantity and quality. The state
ment becomes still more significant in
view of the fact that the yield of recent
seasons has been inferiorto that offormer
years. The number Of acres planted in
wheat was nearly million less in 1881
than in 1874. The condition of the pres
ent crop must be discouraging to the
English consumer. But let the latter
have no fear of any famine in bread
stufis. The American yield this year will
be unusually abundant. According to the
latest report of the department of agricul-
ture it will exceed 500,000,0OO bushels,
and some estimates put it nearly 100000
600. Our producers will be glad to let
England have all it wants, and also
France, whose cropis reported to be only
a medium one.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
Tennyson at Home.
Hartford Times.

Tennyson's manner has brusqueness
and bluntness about it which is at first
rather startling to one who has only
known him through his books. He ut
ters his opinions in plain, straightfor-
ward way, choosing the homeliest Saxon
words and rarely rising to the heroic
strain. His disregard for the conventions
alities of life is, however thoroughly nat
ural and unaffected. He is an inveterate
smoker. A brother poet who spent a
week with him at his country seat says
that partagas, regalias, and cabanas have
no charm for him. He prefers a pipe,
and of all the pipes in the world the COM
mon clay pipe is his choice. His den is
at the top of the house. When he sits
down to work in the morning, huge to-
bacco jar, large enough for an ancestral
urn is at his feet, together with box full
of white clay pipes. Filling one of these
he smokes until empty, breaks it twain,
throws the fragments into another box
prepared for their reception. Then he
pulls out fresh pipe, fills it, smokes it,
and destroys it as before. He will not
smoke pipe the second time. His chief
delight is not in communion with his fell
lows. Rather it is to lounge at the win
dow Of his study surrounded by a few
choice books of favorite authors, and in
view of the magnificent island scenery.
with the gray line of undulating hills and
the streak Of silver sea in the distance.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Mr. Oscar Wilde, who has been unspar-
ing-always on bis aesthetic side of the
house-in his attacks on .our interior
decorations"
"Well, is there not considerable truth
in what he says?"
"No, sir; none whatever. 1t is notorious
fact that for young nation like this,with
hardly any time to spare on these intri-
cate questions of artistic detail, we have
beaten the world in interior decorations
Hence the demand for American wall
paper abroad. You would be surprised
il you knew the amount of furniture that
is yearly sent out from this country, not
to uncivilized countries, but to all parts
of Europe. / could mention you the
names of several New York, Cincinnati
and indianapolis firms, all furniture
manufacturers, who have leading branch
houses in Glasgow, London, Paris and
Berlin. 1t is to fight the idea that con-
trolls our readiness in making ingenious
and good work that this man Oscar
Wilde has been sent over here. He
spends his money very freely-far more
than the income from his lectures war
rants
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
Utilization of Solar Heat.
Paris Correspondence to London Times.


At a popular fete in the Tuileries Gar
dens, was struck with an experiment
which seems deserving of the immediate
attention of the English public and mill
tary authorities. Among the attractions
of the fete was an apparatus for the con-
centration and utilization of solar heat,
and, though the sun was not very bril-
liant, saw this apparatus set in motion
a printing machine which printed several
thousand copies of a specimen newspaper
entitled the Soleil Journal. The suns
rays are concentrated in a reflector, which
moves at the same rate as the sun and
heats vertical boiler setting the motive
steam engine at work. As may be sup
posed, the only object was to demonstrate
the possibility of utilizing the concentra-
ted heat of the solar RAYS; but | closely
examined it, because the apparatus seems
capable of great utility in existing cir
cumstances. Here in France, indeed,
there is a radical drawback--the sun is
often overloaded. Thousands of years
ago the idea of utilizing the solar rays
must have suggested itself, and there are
still savage tribes who know no other
mode of combustion lslt the scientific
application has hitherto been lacking.
This void this apparatus will fill up.
About fifteen years ago Prof. Mouchon,
of Tours, began constructing such an APP
paratus, and his experiments have been
continued by NJ. Pifre, VINO has devoted
much labor and expense TO realizing Nj.
Mouchon's idea. A company has now
come to his aid and has constructed a
number of apparatus of different sizes at
a factory which might speedily turn out
large number fthem. 1t is evident that
in a country of uninterrupted sunshine
the boiler might be heated in thirty or
forty minutes. A portable apparatus
could boil two and one-half quarts an
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Etiquette in Germany forbids the car
rying of parcels, no matter how small
by a gentleman. Under immense pres.
sure of necessity, lady may take home
in her own hands a small purchase, OIL
carry q book or roll of music to the house
ofa friend. When a dressmaker comes
to try on q little walking jacket, small
boy must needs walk behind, bearing the
garment on his arm. An officer cannot
under any circumstances carry anything
when in uniform.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
She Lost Her Baby.
springfield Mass Republican.

At Plainville, Conn, Wednesday NOR
ming, woman stepped from a train a
moment to question the agent, and the
train pulled out Suddenly without her,
carrying off her baby. Her frenzy moved
the good ticket agent to telegraph to Bris-
tol and order the baby returned. The
train dropped the infant at Forestville,
and good man footed it thither and
lucged the baby back TO Plainville. The
mother, meantime grown impatient, had
gone TO Forestville on the engine of
gravel train. So back went the good man
with the baby to Forestville, there TO
learn that the mother had returned to
Plainvile. The man then telephoned
to the woman to sit still half an hour,
which she did, and got back her infant.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

hour, or, say, four gallons day, thls
supplying by distillation or ebullition six
or eight men. The apparatus can be cas-
ily carried on mans back, and on con-
dition of water, even of the worst quality,
being oDtainable, good drinking and cook
ing water is insured NJ. de Rougaumond,
young scientific writer, has Just pub
lished an interesting volume on the in
vention. | was able recently to verify
his statements, for saw cider made, a
pump set in motion, and coffee made-in
short, the caloric action of the sun super
ceding that of fuel. The apparatus, no
doubt, has not yet reached perfection, but
as il is it would enable the soldier in In
,.dia or Egypt to procure in the field good
water and to cook his food rapidly. The
invention is of especial importance to
England just now, but, even when the
Egyptian question is settled, the Indian
troops might find it of inestimable value.
Red tape should for once be disrogarded,
and competent commission forthwith
sent to 80 Rue d Assas. with instructions
to report Immediately, for every minute
saved may avoid suffering for English
men fighting abroad for their country.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Were the Iowa liquor law to be strictly
enforced, no wine could be obtained fol
communion services, as there is no ex.
ception to the prohibition. The churches
are in quandary as to their duty in the
matter, and ii is likely that in most in
stances unfermented grape juice will be
used instead of wine; but the Presbyte-
rians of vinton have voted to defy the
law and to indemnify the druggist who
sslls 70 thsm.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Two Philadelphia detectives accused a
young man, who WAS innocent, of steal
ing 500, and showed him how strong
was the circumstantial evidence against
him. Greatly frightened, he paid them
the amount out of his small savings, and
they kept half, giving the rest to the loser
TO settle the case. Now the original
money has been found where it was mis-
lo.I
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

New Orleans claims to lead in rose
growing. There may be seen in that city
a Lemarque rose vine, with stem eigh,
inches thick. In some private gardens
are 100 varieties. The favorite rsse is the
Gold Of Ophir. 1t is small, of very pale
pink, shading toward the heart into deep
rich gold color, while faint streaks Of
crimson touch the outer petals.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

II is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr.. Joseph Sail
er, who has recently retired from the
financial editorship of the Philadelphia
Ledger, was not only the Oldest editor in
that position in this country, but the first
to write regular money article for any
daily paper, as the Ledger was the first
N this country to print money article.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Charles Reade is described as tall
slender, and wearing glasses. His hail
is gray and sparse on the top of his head
lie has short, full beard, which is also
gray, a face that is pleasant in conversa'
ton, but stern in repose, and general
air of determination and strong will.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

The Jews are chided by the Jewish
Messenger for leaving their religion at
the city when they go to Summer resorts.
1--WE have vet to learn," it says, "of a
single instance of public worship on the
Jewish Sabbath at any country place"
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
A Cat Guarding n Henroost.
Hartford Coursnt.

One day last week, carly in the morn.
ing, near the residence of Mr. Cramp-
ton, in Madison, Connecticut, fox came
down from the woods, evidently bound
for the henhouse, but found his progress
Unexpectedly interrupted by cat, which
turned on him and showed almost an ca
ger readiness TO fight. Not prepared for
such hostility, the fox retired, but return
ed soon after, and, the defender of the
poultry having withdrawn from the field,
escaped with chicken.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Experiments made in tree planting at
the Shaker settlement in Enfield. Conn.,,
have had gratifying results, seeds placed
in sandy soil in 1859 having produced a
dense growth Of trees that are now twelve
to sixteen feet high.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

A medical journal devotes a whole col
umn to explaining what causes cold per-
spiration. Any one who has gone up a
dark alley and stepped on a dog will be
wasting time If they stop to read it.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

The London World says that men and
women are nowadays 80 much in the
habit of living in crowd that the very
notion of being alone appears monstrous
nd unnatural.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
cistern

Dickens has made the fortunes of end
less ramshackle old places" says the Lon
don World, "and matched cottage on
Denmark Hill actually insists on raising
its head-and its rent-on the ground OF
Mr.. Vim. Black having given it the i'm
mortality of Nudes library in one of his
very readable books on British topo-
..~c
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

"Some day the menial work OF the uni
verse will be all done by the mongolians
while the Caucasian race is to fill the high
places of the EARTH" The man who sayi
10 is the keeper ofa Chicago employment
Office for Chinese servants.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Near Elkhart. Ind, six years ago, an
old farmer was robbed Of his hoard of
money. John Elliot was convicted of the
crime and sent to the penitentiary. Just
as his sentence is to expire, thorough
search of the theif's old home has re-
suited in the discovery of the swag in his
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, member
parliament for Edinburgh and st. An
drew's Universities, is in America, and
will remain iu America until the open
ing Of the session Of parliament in Octo.
her next,
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Calino's wife goes out to work. The
other day as she reproached him for get
ting up so late he replied: "Ah, madam, l
sleep very slowly, and l need in conse-
quence much more time for repose than
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Several exchanges are devotng consid-
erable space to the importance of "cook-
ing pirls.n It's no use. We don't want
them cooked. The raw damsel is good
cnough for lis,
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
BATTLE CREEK. Mich. Ian 31 1879.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 81, 1879.
GENTLEMEN-Having been afflicted for
a number of years with indigestion and
general debility, by the advice of my doc
tor used Hop Bitters, and must say they
afforded me almost instant relief. l am
glad to be able to testify in their behalf.
THOS. G.. KNOX.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

The Jealous husband of a pretty woman
at Fayette, Texas, branded her with an
iron used for marking cattle, making a
star and cross, which she must bear on
each check for life.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

a crusty old fellow once asked: "What
is the reason that griffins, dragons and
devils are the ladies' favorite subjects for
embroidery designs% "Ah, because
they are continually thinking of their
husbands" was the lady's quick retort.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Not over 20 people have been cremated
in this country. One of them was the
wife of b. Pitman Of Cincinnati, and the
urn in which her ashes repose is now
being busted by second wife.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

"Jones, why do yon send your wash to
a Chinaman II don't" "You don'tf'
"No: he comes and gets it,"
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

A pretty girl of Is, neat in dress and
polite in manner is bootblack in Gal
vestsn. She has chair at a street cor
ncr, and makes from IS to Sc a day.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Everything about church should be
pure; but alas in many of them even
the windows are stained.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Mr.. Forster has been delivering him
self of some very sensible remarks about
industrial schools. Some have objected
to them on the ground that they give
boys who are turned loose upon the
world with, perhaps, inherited or acquir-
ed evil dispositions, better training than
the sons of honest working people can
get. To this rather remarkable excep-
ton to them Mr.. Forster replied on an
inspection visit recently to the London
School Board ship Shaftesbury, that he
knew the fact was as alleged, but that
this would not justify any neglect of those
who have to be rescued from themselves
if their future is not to be left helpless.
He used an even stronger practical argu-
ment. He showed that there were in
London $500 juvenile criminals, and he
wanted to know how they could be saved
from becoming desperate and hardened
criminals and vagabonds but by indus
trial education. There is evidence that
more schools of this class rather than
fewer are desirable, for rowdyism and
assaults were never so numerous in the
metropolis as they are now.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
OSCARS MISSION.
Is the Great Esthste Agent for Euro
pean Decorators

Raid Against the Wall Paper Makers-The
Recent Scene at Long Branch, and the
Revelations that Followed-Why He
Denounces American Furniture
and Interior Decorations.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

In little Switzerland there is no fear OF
depopulatien by emigration, though the
best blood of the country runs every year
into fresh arteries in the New World
The impregnable republic can teach inn
perial Germany lesson in this matter
For many years the Swiss youth have
been coming to the United States, and
for quite as long time Swiss parents
have gladly sent their children abroad.
The superior education of this hardy
people may have something to do with
their gladness to expatriate themselves.
No particular class comes. Many of the
recent emigrants have learned their
trades and then come to America to prac.
tice them, never settling down in busi-
ness in their mother country. Agricul-
turists take the lead in migration. Com
paratively few Swiss artisans leave home
whether for England or the United
States.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
CURRENT EVENTS.

A bright lady has described the rasp
berry as "two pimples and seed"
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

Along with a war in Egypt, and fresh
complications between the Turk and the
Greek, comes disturbance of the Euro
pean concert by Spanish demonstration
in the direction of Gibraltar. This is not
yet a serious breach of the peace, but
something may ultimately come of it,
for many generations Gibraltar has stood
no less an eyesore in the view Of Spain,
by reason of the English occupation, than
Calais once was in the view of France. A
few weeks ago pamphlet published in
Madrid made great sensation 1t declar-'
ed that the hour had come to rescue
Gibraltar from the English hereto. 1t
suggested that, in order to accomplish
the rescue, fortilications should be erect
Cd ON the Sierra Carbonera, height at
Lao great distance from Gibraltar, from
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

The semi-annual notice of the grant of
the alternative of banishment and mar
riage for Imprisonment has just been
circulated through the female peniten-
taries of France. Girls of good health
without regard to moral character, are
given permission to petition for release
from prison on condition of going out to
New Caledonia, marrying there, and
never coming back again, and those un-
der long terms of sentence usually jump
at the chance. Not all who apply, how
ever, are given this privilege, and there
is great anxiety in the prisons after the
applications are Fled until official notice
comes of the names of the favored ones.
Those who 90 are given suitable outfits
by the government, free transportation
and tickets of leave. The Governor of
the New Caledonia colony introduces
well-behaved convicts to the girls on
their arrival, and the girls choose their
own husbands, for there are always on
hand three marriageable men to one
marriageable woman. Many happy mar
riages have been made under these reg
ulations
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

which, in the opinion of the writer, shot
out oflong range krupp guns would soon
render the British fortress untenable.
Meanwhile the pamphleteer advises an
expedition into Africa TO battle with the
Moors, pointing out that on their return
the Spanish soldier, flushed with victory
over the infidel, would "carry Gibraltar
with a rush." The singular thing about
this balderdash is that many Spanish
newspapers approve it.
The deferred hope of a good harvest
has at last fairly made sick the hearts OF
English farmers. For six successive seas
ons the sun and the rain have frowned
upon them, while, TO make matters worse
for them this year, American and Rus
sian competition will cut off the high
prices which scarcity might otherwise
produce. The agricultural interest does
not look upon this foreign abundance as
blessing-forgetting that it, and it alone
will avert starvation from thousands Of
the inhabitants of the British Isles. The
Royal Commission, which has just made
a report concerning the depression OF
farming, has revealed nothing new re-
garding crop failures and competition
but it has shed some new light on the
oppressive incidence of local taxation
There was found great need for the re-
adjustment of these burdens in the in
terest of the agriculturist. Taxation is
yearly growing heavier, while the re-
turns of the soil are with equal pace
growing lighter in quantity or in value
In some cases parish rates have increased
four fold in dozen years. A possible
escape, in part, from these evils may be
afforded by laying on personal estates
now exempt, as well y on landed prop
erty, taxes for pauper, highway police and
educational purposes.
The Osceola times., 1882-09-23

A flock of buzzards attacked a large
rattlesnake at Brady, Texas, and killed
it.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-02
Late News from Egypt.

IsmailIa, Sept. AFTER the return
of the Indian cavalry from a ~reconoi.
tering expedition yesterday morning the
emeny's cavalry returned the visit by
gallopinG up and surveying Kassassin
at a distance.
Alexandria, Sept. News has been
received from the interior that Arab
Pasha is selling European property to
natives. Several well known properties
belonging to Europeans have been con-
iiscated and sold, and the names of
natives purchasers given.
London, Sept. 1.-Gen. Graham's
account of the battle at Kassassin shows
that the infantry, instead of as re-
ported, being in great difficulties at the
time OF the cavalry advance, cooper
ated with the latter in the attack.
Port Said, Sept. 1.-The English ad-
miralty owes the Suez Canal Co.,
seventy-two thousand pounds for tran
sit of transports and men-of-war to
date.