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The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
DlxCIPLINE.
blook Of msrble oaurht he elance

A bloch Of marble caught the glance
winch brishscpcd n iheir solemn deeps
Like meteorological skies.
Smiling = he heard:
For II viii make 1n angel oft"
was the scuipeors word.
Ana toou mallet and chlscl sharp
The stubborn block as<ailed,
And blow by blow, and pang by pang.
The prisoner unveiled.
A brow was lifted high and pure,
The wak'uing eyes outshone,
And - the master sharply wrought,
A smile broke through the stone
Beneath the chisei's edgs the hair
EscApod In floating rtnU;
And plume BY plume was slowly freed
The sweep Of hal lffuried wings.
The stately bust and graccful limbs
Their marble fstters ahed.
And where the ehapelcss block had been.
An angel stood insteadl
o blows that smitel o hurts that pierce
This shrinking heart Of mine
What are 70 but the Master tools
Forming work divineY
o hone that crumbles 70 my feet,
o 10y thst mocks and flies.
What are 70 but the clogu that hind
Ny spirit from the skies7
Sculptor Of souls lin 10 Thee
Encountered heart and hands:
Spare not the chisel. vet me free,
However dear the bands.
How blest, II all these seeming Ills
Which draw my thoughts TO Thee,
should only prove that Thou wilt make
An angel out OF mel
Catholic World.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
King Louis.
London Letter.

1t is very romantic life-that of King
Louis of Bavaria. The writers are fond
of speaking of the mystery that wells
it, and of romancing about the royal
hermit" King Louis has occupied since
last November a new place-the noun
tain castle of "New Swan Rock" Its
dimensions make it one of the grandest
royal residences on the continent; and
its furnishings correspond with its size.
The castle stands on high rock, oppo-
site Hohenschwangan, and is built en-
tirely of granite, in pure Italian style,
with numerous balconies and turrets and
height of six stories. In the center of
the pile there is tower nearly $50 feet
high, from which there is a magnificent
view of the Bavaiian highlands. The
ornamcntation of the edifice, both within
and without, is elaborate almost beyond
conception. The royal occupants apart
ments are in the very top of the building
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I followed him up. He called Cleye.

/ followed him up. He called Cleve-
land, and asked them to put something
con the Wheel" In moment came the
signal. Prof Elisha Gray, standing by,
touched spring, there was whir of a
wheel, and with slight click and clatter
the message came from Cleveland, de-
posting thirty or forty yards of tape"
on the floor in a breath.
"That comes at the rate of fifteen hun
dred words minute" said the officer in
charge of the room; but l have tele-
graphed to-day at the rate OF & l 900 words words
about twenty or thirty words minute.
Moreover" said Prof Gray, mo storm
will interfere with this wire; it is always
in running order; it does not leak, and
carries what we put on it."
The officers Of the company anticipate
great things.
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THE NEW TELEGRAPH.
Some Of the Remarkable Experiments wit
messed in New York.

SOlne oil tIre hSemhfkdDsc e. poAh'e"s' WV
messed in New York.
Indianapolis Journal.
DIR. J. w. Culbertson, of this city, has
Just returned from New York, where he
has been witnessing number Of exper-
iments in telegraphy at the Office of the
new company in which he is interested.
He stopped at Richnond on his return,
and thus described the experiments and
the proposed workings of the company
to Palladium reporter:
"The Doctor timed one message of GAO
words transmitted and received in thirty
seconds, being at the rate of about 1.OOC
words minute. By attaching the har-
monte system, an arrangement of tuning
forks, 50 as to give each message differ
ent pitch, sending eight for each octave
from as many cylinders, making 5000
words a minute. This is done automat.
ically and accurately by machinery oi
great simplicity and perfection, that never
gets tired, and can be managed by any
one after little instruction.
"When it is known that an expert op.
orator can send only about 120 words a
minute on the old plan on one wire, il
can be seen what number of wires and
high-priced operators it would take to dc
the business of one wire on the new
method. There is as much difference
between them as there is between q
limited express train of Pullman cars and
the old road wagon or canal boat
"The company will extend direct linei
from New York to San Francisco and all
the cities of the United States and Can
ada, with connections with the ocean
cables, and the Mexican and South Am
crican telegraph systems. They owr
and control the Iegg automatic and Guys
harmonic systems and other patents
These inventions show an exquisite com
prehension of the undulatsry or wave
theory, now a century old. Although
the sound wave and electric wave arc
entirely different, the latter is made the
vehicle for carrying the former.
"The Doctor was present Tuesday tC
test the capacity of their compound wire
for telephone purposes between New
York and Cleveland. Music and con
versatiOn were heard $50 miles more
distinctly than through the iron wire be
tween New York and Brooklyn.
"The company's compound wire has Q
steel core to give it strength to bear any
amount of tension required, and the cop
per, the best conductor owing to its mole
cular arrangement of all the metals ex
cept silver, is deposited by the electro
plating process to any required thickness
The wire has resistance of only l 7-l(
ohms to the mile, while the iron wire
now in general use has resistance of q
ohms to the mile.
"The conductivity and tensile strength
of the compound wire adapts it perfect!
for electric light and telephone purposes
the demands for which require the max
ing of about forty miles of wire per da,
at the company's factory"
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was high sheriff, for she tossed him at
least twenty feet up in the air.
A Kansas boy, while leading COW 70
pasture, put the rope around his neck
and kept his hands in his pockets, Inc
cow suddenly threw her head back and
broke the boys neck.
A young man of Dooly county, Ga
Jumped over fence where nice youns
woman was milking a cow. The lac
kissed the lass, the COW kicked the milk
pail, the milk pail struck the lover, ano
he lover has ceased his visits.
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A Letter of Ethan Allen's.

The following is copy of an original
letter of Ethan Aliens now in the poss-
ession of citizen of Rutland:
SIR: This Hour, Capt. warren and
myself Arrived at Ticonderogo with
the soldiery, Consisting of Seventy-six
men, including officers. We met with a
Cannonnading of Grape Shot, the Musick
was both terrible and Delightful. We
was across the Water at distance of so
or 100 rodds. Some of our Party was
Killed, the regulars Breke their ranks
but we Know Not as we Killed any of
them. The Council of war have agreed
to Immediately take Possession of the
Isle of Noah, which is Ten Miles this
side Saint Johns, and fortify it and ad-
vance all the Troops thither we can
spare from Every Station on the Lake.
This is therefore to Desire and Earnest
ly request you to Lay this Letter before
Those of our friends, that are at your
Station to repair here for the purpose
above Mentioned. | should think five
or six Sufficient to Occupy Your Station,
and forward Provision except proper
hands to manage the Water Craft for
that purpose. desire you would send
all the Soldiers you can and urge for
ward Provisions and Ammunition. Fail
Not. Given under my Hand the 2lst
Day of May, 1775.
ETHAN ALLEN,
Commander of q. M. Boys
N. B.-This Express is by the agree
ment of the council of war.
To Capt. Moan LEE, Commandant al
Skeenesborough. ri
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of asking meaningless questions, is given
in the following, which we find in an ex-
change:
ain those days when John the Baptist
preaching" etc. What times were they
Of which the text speaks? Those days.
All Yes, those days, those days, those
days!
Well, what person is spoken Of in those
days? John. Ay, yes, John,-John,-
very true remember that 1t was John:
Well. what John was this? John the
the Baptist. Yes, right,-John the Bap-
tis,-John the Baptist.
Well,-next, what did John the Bap-
tist do? He came. True, true: he came,
you see. He wasn't there, and he came
there.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
Making Hay without Sunshine.
Our Home,


There are youths whose busy hands
through the working-day earn honest
bread, and, perhaps, support others
and whose evening hours are devoted to
study that will make them men among
men some future day. There are stu
dents whose summer labor procures the
money that supports them in their win
ter study at college. There are lads now
running the errands of capable engi-
neers, who will, when they are men be
chief engineers themselves. There are
bright cash boys hurrying TO and fro in
stores, who will one day control large
interests of their own.
They have no sunshine to speak of I;
but they make hay for all of that. There
are lads about the newspaper offices and
the great printing houses, who have
neither money nor friends, nor position
but they have ambition, and the day
will come when their convictions will
shape the course of multitudes.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
A Kentuckian and his Miss Duckie,
Stanford journal.


One night last week Boss" Hamilton,
son of Mr.. Isaac Hamilton; at the June
ton, procured half dollar from his
mother for the avowcd purpose of hiring
a horse to go to party at Joe Newland's.
Instead, however, he went to the house
OF Mr.. George Moore, where his dulcinea.
Miss Duckie Jennings, was stayinc. and
having previously arranged with her to
fly with him to Tennessee and become
his bride, they were soon in vehicle
and OIL for Danville, where they took the
train for New River, station on the C.
). X. X. Arriving there, a magistrate
did the business for them, and on Friday
night last they returned to the Junction.
The groom was a few days under II,
while the bride is pretty and wcll-de-
veloped maiden of sweet I6.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
A Little Girls Prayer.

A friend tells us this about a little girl
four years old:
She had been got ready for bed, and
when her aunt went in the room to say
good night she found the little one say.
ing her prayers. This is what she said
"Now lay me down to sleep,
! pray the Lord my soul to keep;
Ill sheuld die before wake"
Here thought struck her, and after
pausing a moment, she added: What q
rumpus there would be in this house y
She then repeated the concluding line Of
the PRAYER and scrambled into bed.
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The Mississippi River.
Phrenological Journal.

Recent data show it to possess 55 trib-
utary streams, with length of naviga-
ton of 1851 miles, or about two-thirds
of the distance round the world. Even
this, however, represents but small
amount which will follow when the feder-
al government has made the contemplated
improvements in the upper Mississippi,
in the Minestota, Wisconsin, and other
rivers. in which il is now engaged. But
while the Mississippi has 1851 miles
navigablc to steamboats,, it has 20,22l
miles nayigable to barges
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Washington Irying's former rector, in
his address at the Tarrytown celebration
sid he remembered meeting his famous
parishioner, who was parish warden,
sitr = service, when Mr.. Irving remark.
ed 70 him, with twinkle in his eye: 81
have passed that plate 80 often up and
down the aisle that ! begin to feel like a
hiehwsyrasn. feel as though I could
stop man on the road say: Your money
Or your life.'r
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Walt q Hit.
Tpxaa Siniups

Timothy Flynn was tailor in the
employ of Mr.. Peters. The domestic af-
fairs of Timothy and his wife were not
conducted with harmony. Broken heads
and dismembcred articles of furniture
frequently attested that fact.
Last Monday Timothy did not come
to work. On Tuesday Mr.. Peters went
TO the house to see him. He met Mrs.
Flynn at the door, a black eye, a bruised
nose and a triumphant smile were her
most prominent features. E
"You seem to have been having devil
of time, Mrs. Flynn" said Mr.. Peters;
"you arc all broken up. Has
Don't talk, Mr.. PcteH--Iord love ye,
don't talk till We see Flynn"
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A Theory Upset.
Carl Pretzel's Wceklv.

- 'f rVVHeI "CtkIy.
The theory that photographs cannot
be taken at night was upset the other
day when thief was marched up to the
bar in Justices court.
Judge-"what is the charger"
Officer-"Stealng."
Judge-"Stealing what?o
Qiilcer-rStealing photographs
Judge When did he steal them?'
0hicer-"Last night, yer homer"
Judge will discharge the prisoner.
ior know that thousands ofdollars have
been wasted in the attempt to discover
process whereby pictures could be TAX
EN- at night. The prisoner may CO."
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An Original Petition.

Not long since Lily, little girl of five
years, after saying her evening prayers,
began to indulge in an original petition
of her own. varying according to her
moods. She was aware that she had not
been particularly good on certain day,
and her evening prayers were thus sup
plcmented: 81 pray the Lord to make
Lily good little girl, and if at first you
don't succeed, try, try again."
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
Bovine Eccentricities.

Thos. Collins, of Bakersville, N. j., has
calf that when but 6 months old weigh
ell i04 pounds, measured five feet six
inches in girth. and was four feet six
inches high.
Hawkinsville, Ga, has cow 100 years
old that gives milk.
A Georgia farmer sold in six months
$3.50 worth of butter, the product of eight
common cows.
As he passed COW in the road, Sheriff
Nickel, of Loncoln county, Miss, said
"Shoov' but she evidently thought be
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An Old Relic.
Poplar R.nn Citizen

We were shown paper this week by
Mr.. Aseor Blackburn, the Sheffield Jour
nal or FLYING Post, dated 2oth, 1857, l26
years old, which he informed us, he
brought with him from England, having
inherited it from his grandfather. The
old relic is yellow with age, and is an
interesting study. II contains an inter-
csting letter from America, giving the
many advantages and disadvantages ex-
perienccd in the Colony at thai early
dav.
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What to do When serepaded.

viii you please tell me what is pro,er
for lady to do when serenaded?"
In romances it is usually written. "Thc
curtains were seen to flutt,r and n vbite
hand emerged and tossed down rose"
In real life the heroine generally sleeps
through il, and, If she wakes, had usually
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

A few years of cooperation on the part
of the farmers and creamery men OF
Iowa, has brought the business to be SO
profitable that to-day the dairy product
is valued at $25,000,000. What HAS been
done in Iowa can be done elsewhere.
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All in n Minute.

Croifut, the New York correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune writes:
was in the Office of the Postal Tele.
graph company Tue day, and found Mr.
George u. Roberts, one Of the directors.
Come up stairs" he said. "and helr
us telegraph to Cleveland"
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THERE Is A FARMER.
n. c. DODGE.

There Is a farmer who Is Y's
Enough 10 take HIS E's,
And study nature with his is
And think of what he C's.
He hears the chatter of the is
As they each other rs,
And rs that when tree ID KS
II makes a home for BIS.
A pair OF oxen he will U's,
With many haws and G's,
And their mistakes he will X Q's
While plowing for his P's.
In raising crops, he all X LIS,
And therefore little O's,
And when he hoes his soil by spells
He also soils his hose.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Lucy Hooper says that great many
Americans who want to "see Naples and
die" do zee Naples and die, the Italian
malazial lever curying them off with as
toniukf1x rauidity.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
Flint Implements.
Industrial Arts In Denmark.

To be able 10 chip the hard flint (often
as fragile as slass) in mastery manner,
a very close knowledge of the nature of
the material, as well as where it was to
be found was necessary. As long as they
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Liberty Hail." the home Of Alexan-
H. Stephens, is regarded rs sort of q
Georgia Mount Vernon down there, and
it Is likely that the State will buy the
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Gen. Gresham now walks with a cane
but for some years aher the war had to
use . critch. A bullet ploughed deep
furrow in his leg, at the battle Of Peach
Tree Creek, before Atlanta.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

l Thaddeus Fairbanks, Of st. Johnsbury,
W., one Of the principals Of the firm that
invented and patented the celebrated
Fairbanks scales, is over ninety years
<.lI
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

General William Myers believes in
hammering the swords into plowshares.
He has left the army and gone 10 farm
ing, and now superintends his own shcc
ranch on the Elkhorn, in Nebraska.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

De1tis q msmbsrs Of the Cabinet
while holding Office have been very rare
the lest instance before the death Of
Postmaster General Howe being that Of
General Rawlins while Secretary Of War
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

The Comptroller Of the Currency has
authorised the Commercial National
Bank, of Watesiso, Iowa, 70 begin busi-
ness with capital Of $4,000.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
Meaningless Questioning.
Yonth's Canpani n

There is style Of questioning Sunday
school scholars which neither interests
nor instrucis them. An Illustration of
this style, which may be naned the art
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

CHAR. the eminent German patholo-
eist, who has just been made professor
at Prague. is thirty years old, and has al
ready made 5000 post mortem examina-
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Amaa always looks through his pock-
ets hefole handing his cot 70 his wife to
have ! button sewed on, and even then
he3 ~ With s nameless fear until the
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Black. bitter tasting cofieee is never
good coffee. 1t may be strong, but SO
lye may be, while neither is desirable as
drink.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Ieading Ohio Democrats are meeting
with bad luck. Gen. Morgan, as well as
Judge Thurman, has broken arm from
falling down stairs.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Ofwilliam Blacks descriptions Of still
life, London Academy says that his only
rivals sre among workers with the brush
and the etching needle.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

1t is reported that Pennsylvania farm
ers use 10000 tons of commercial fertiliz-
ers, annually, at a cost of 81, ,25O,O0O. By
chemical analysis made under the d-
rection of the State Board of Agriculture
So per ton ($2l0,000) was saved to the
users of these fertilizers, or more than
fifty times the annual cost to the State of
the Board.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

The addition of little mace TO veal
soup will give an agreeable flavor to it
Do not put in enough to make it dis.
tinct flavor, but put ii in with herbs and
pepper and salt.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

~ :. sHinhin, the Tammsny politi.
cia1, - that AIs ticke lbr 1854 is-For
Pre1ldenh John W. Stevenson, Of Ken
tusAE tbr Vice President Chasles A.
DaaA Of New York. Ss&
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Mn. Martha Ryan, of Ienoirs, gnu
Is Eve feet ten inches high, Is the mUsa9s
81 1 lsrae family of children, and weighs
S92 pounds.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

I rx-Governor Hendricks, who went to
Florida for his health, has returned to
his home In Indiana much improved.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

franklin Piercc's old home at Con-
cord, N. H., is 70 be turned into school
for Girls. III
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

n. Leon Say, In his recent speech at
Lyons, declared that he was in favor Of
opening free trade campaign.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Mr.. stephens, the Mayor-elect OF Gin
!. c:nna:i, served his term as a cabin-boy
on an Ohio steamer. n ..ft
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

:, Hikon E]utchins and some other Wash
ingsonians have bought Davis Island, in
EIAks winnipiseoeee for $4,000. i'
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Mr.. BagweIl, Of Tipperary, is writing a
history of Ireland under the Tudors.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Governor Boynton, of Georgia, s said
TO be about to marry a maiden of that
State. M atii Vas -
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Pro>ssG Assssis has bought for Har-
vsfd University the bones Of colossal
animal recently found in the Belt range,
near Butte. Montana.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Outragcs are not confined TO ireland,
nor tain sobberies 70 Western Missouri.
THev have both in France. A
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

Mis- ANN Jaques. Of Ncwbury, Mass.
has given $25OOo to found q hospital al
Newburyport.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05
NOTES or THE DAY.

English beauties with cropped hair
wear the turnan.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

M wstrs, recently editor Of the Bos-
ton Advcrtier, b going to ail around
The world.
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FARM ADD GARDEN.

Some Useful Notes and Information Per-
tainidg Thereto.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

A San Francisco lady recently received
a few plants from Mexico, and with them
advice to fertilize them with waste cof-
fec and coffee grounds. This was done,
and the results were so satisfactory that
the same treatment was tried on roses
which soon assumed healthy, vigorous
appearance. and bore extra crops and
finer roses than the plants not so treated.
We would advise ladies to try this, and
be sure not to allow coffee grounds to
stand in the pot ever half dozen hours,
anyhow.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

A great many farmers, says Colonel F.
d. Curtis, in the Country Gentleman,
comfort themselves with the notion that
If they change seed with some other far
mer they are doing big thing. This is
a mistaken idea. Seed should be improv-
ed and taken from the farm where it is
grown, and to which it has adapted itself
At home is the place for improvement.
The idea that the little germ of seed
can carry the good qualities of good
farm with it is ridiculous; but it can carry
with it peculiarities in its nature growth
and maturity acquired in one place,
which will be unsuited to another. He
therefore advises farmers to improve the
seed on their own land by careful selec-
ton of the best ears for planting.
Prof. Beal, of Michigan, relates that in
order to test the belief in the necessity
of bumblee-bees for fertilizing red clover
he made several experiments. The first
year few clover heads, covered with
light sashes of muslin, yielded about two
thirds as many seeds as those left un-
covered In the second year four heads
covered before Towering yielded is, 80,
3s and Al seeds respectively, while fonr
heads that were uncovered yielded 46,
81, As, and 81 seeds, each. In the third
year of the covered heads, only one
among 81 heads yielded seed. For the
second crop of the third year eleven COW
cred heads yielded no seed, while the
uncovered heads yielded an average of
372 each. Other experiments showed
that with the aid of the bumble-bees,
four times as many seeds were produced,
compared with those from which they
were excluded. The Professor thinks it
fair to conclude that the bees are of con-
siderable value in ferlilizing the flowers
of red clover.
The Osceola times., 1883-05-05

A correspondent of the Farming World
claims that the best time to prune fruit
trees is just before the sap begins to flow
from February to April, according to
the latitude. The wounds will then heal
over rapidly without leaving dead wood
or scars. The next best sine is from The
middle to the last of June, when the sap
flows afresh and the trees commence a
second growth, but heavy pruning should
never be practiced in June. Much prun-
ing may be saved by pinching and rub
bing off superfuous sprouts during the
growing season.