The Osceola times., 1882-12-09
SINGrLARITIES.

The peculiar bent of a PHILADELPHIA
mans insanity is his mania for masonry
He tried TO get into the temple, awakened
a watchman at midnight tO initiate him
and became so frequent in his annovan
ces that he was arrested,
A Denver reporter who essayed to in.
terview a politician at midnight ap.
preached the wrong house, was mistaken
for burglar, and came near losing his
life at the hands of the suspicious gentle
man who lived there.
Two small children of Mr.. William
Older, of Gibsonville, Wyoming county,
were suddenly stricken with paralysis at
the same hour, one day last week, and
the doctors are at a loss 10 know the
cause. Thechildren are dangerously i'll.
Somebody in New York is evidently
trying TO introduce a new fashion. A
colored man, clad in full evening dress.
rode about in an elegant equipace one
day last week deliverins wedding invita-
tions to the aristocratic residents of Muir
ray hill.
A man who imagines he has solved the
problem Of perpetual motion is ALWAYS
but with how much pity must the resident
Of Ware, Mass, be regarded, who thinks
he has invented three perpetual motion
machines.
Lyman Moses, pioneer Hebrew citi-
zen of Cincinnati, once brought home
handful of earth from the cave of Mach .
pelah, where the remains Of Abraham and |
Sarah are said to rest At his funeral a
few days ago the clay from the Holy Land |
was sprinkled upon the coffin.
A queer freak in architecture is now to |
be seen at the southern border of Califor-
MIA. 1t appears that an English family |
named lightfoot are building a triangu-
lar house, all the details Of which are Civ
On by the spirits through Mrs Lightfoot,
who claims to be medium. The build
ing will be handsomely finished and will
cost about $1,000.
Harry Tinsley, the editor of the Stan
ton (Va.) Nindcator, is swelling with
pride among his editorial fellows. A Gin
cinnati concern failed a year ago, owing
Tinsley quite an amount, from which he
expected nothing but last week he re-
ceiyed from the proper officers, who had
settled the estate, check for cents, his
share of the dividend assets.
This is the story told Of the quick
growth of a Texas town. On the 10th OF
September, 1872, one man tool. another
to a lone tree away out in the prairie and
said: How will this do for the center of
Main street" From the spot there was
not a house visible in any direction.
The solitary tree is now in the center of
Main street, Denison, town of 1000 in
habitants.
No reason for it: "How do you loike
the new school, Mickey, me SOM"
Purity well; but, mother, phat makes
the boys at school think I'm Oirish ?"
"lts meself doesn't know, but I've been
often SUSPECTED av bein' Oirish meself
when divil a hint av it they iver had
from me."-Texas siftings.
Maggie's baby: Some time ago a very
innocent young lady paid a visit to
lady friend, who, few days before, had
presented her good man with a son. She
had, of course, to see the baby. After
looking hard at the little stranger some
time she remarked: Dear me, Maggie,
how sunburnt it is"-Hartford Times.
An Indian epigram: Old Chief Po-
cotello, now at the Fort Hall agency, in
answer TO an inquiry relative TO the
true Christian character of a former In
dian agent at that place, gave in very
terse language the most accurate de- ,
scription of hypocrite that was ever
given to the public: ugh! too much
God and no four"-Laramie Boone
rang.
DR.. w. II. Bennett, an old and wealthy
citizen of Meridian, Miss, has acquire la
great post mortem notoriety from having
in life willed his large property and Sl2-
600 life insurance property to his cook.
His aged wife and adopted daughter were
completely ignored, but will now contest
the will. :. -,