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The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
JENNY LIND.
How She and Otto Look In Their Old
Age.

How She and Otto Look In Their Old
Age.
London Cor. OF the Philadelphia Times.
/ had lately the pleasure to enjoy an
interview with the great singer at her
lovely residence, No. | Morton Gardens,
Brompton road, South Kensington. It
is great big house with generous
courtyard and covered pathway lead.
ing through it from the street. / rang
the bell and presently the door was
opened by flunkey in all the glory OF
pink silk stockings and lavishly powder
ed wig. He leads the way into an ante,
room at the rear of the hall, in which ]
am asked to wait. After an interval oi
five minutes the lean and long flunkey
returns with request to step into the
drawing room. Turning to the right
am ushered into large apartment, pro,
badly thirty feet square, furnished in
the prevailing tints of red. / have
scarcely time to note the surroundings
when well dressed, bald headed little
man, with snip of whiskers under each
ear and well trained moustache under
his hook nose, came in. This is Otto
Goldschmidt composer and conductor
Madame will be down in moment
please take an easy seat by the window,
you are uncomfortable there" and with
out waiting for reply, begs to know if
have noticed portrait in oil hanging
over the mantelpiece.
should like to tell you about Jenny
Lind and what she looks like. but YOU
will have to be satisfied with few gen
eral statements. From the crown of her
wigged head to the sole of her No. 5
shoe there is not one line of grace or
beauty. Her form is angular, her face
hard and her eyes dull and passionless,
features irregular and out of harmony,
and it seemed to me that one ear was
little higher than the other; her hands
are large and vulture shaped, her breast
flat and painfully monotonous and the
stiffness of her knees was amply indica-
ted beneath her meagre skirts. She had
Just been driving and had thrown off her
hat in the hall, and if she would look
pretty at any time one would have
thought it would have been under such
iHt WIS lTtstl
an crisp, the sky cloudless, and warm
spring sun in full splendor. However,
atmosphere seemed to have no beneficial
effect upon Madame" who, if possible,
looked grayer, harsher and more color
less by contrast with the beauty of ma
ture outside. Now, will not try to pre-
sent Jenny Lind in any exaggerated form
to my readers. 1t was a wild, unre-
strained imagination which induced
some recent writer to speak of her as
beautiful. She must have sung to him
as the sirens did TO the sailors of the
East, until their senses were charmed
away, the one of hearing alone remain
ing to fill the offices blindly for the rest,
When he made the statement that she
was beautiful ! can readily imagine that
he was still under the influence of her
divine voice.
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A PenuriOus Swiss.

ShU fThHclsco tnTonlCic
A communication was received at this
office yesterday stating that a miser
named Henry Thomen had died at the
Swiss hotel, on Commercial street, about
ten days ago, and that when his room
was searched 5000 in coin was found
hidden in an old trunk, and $1,000 in
bonds, notes and mortgages stored away
in various old receptacles. The writer
of the communication further intimated
that deceased had lived life of grea
self-denial, and that the facts of his de
mise and boarded wealth had been i'm
property kept secret by the landlord
John Gantner, from the public admins.
traitor. To test the truth of these allie
cations reporter of the Chronicle called
last night at the Schweizerhof and meet
lag the landlord, asked him if one Hen
ry Thomen had died recently in the
house.
::Yes," replied the landlord.
"Did he leave any money!"
about $S0,000," answered Gantner.
"Has the public administrator been in
formed of the fact?" pursued the reporter.
ale has not" said mine host, "be-
cause there was no need of it. The will
was duly drawn up some years ago and
is now in the hands of Mr.. Berton, the
Swiss consul, who was also appointed
joint executor with another friend.
The contents of the communication re-
ferred to in the opening lines of this
item were referred TO the landlord, on
which he referred to with some warmth,
and gave the following facts in explana-
ton:
"Henry Thomen was German Swiss
of poor parentage, who came to this
State in the earlier days. He has lived
in my hotel for l5 years, and while his
early habits had accustomed him to
plain, common living, ne always Jared
with the best that was going. 1t is a
mistake to say he was miser, and it
certainly is an untruth to say that had
any interest in concealing either his
death or his circumstances. | knew
Thomen was well off, but was surprised
to find his accumuations--thc result of
thrift and shrewd investment-had
grown to the extent we discovered on
his demise. The matter was put into
the hands of the Swiss consul and the
will will be offered for probate on Mon
day next, when the usual examination
will bring out these circumstances and
others of a perhaps still more interesting
nature. | do not know much about
Ihomen's family, but imagine this in.
famous letter came from one of his rela.
tiyes who found himselfleft out in the
cold -
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TALKS with Women.
STREET FILTRATION.

st. Louis inaugurated the war on
mashers, and Eastern gallants are join
ing the ranks against the latter.
They have, however, introduced new
feature into the war, and term it "a war
against street airts," thus including the
rash and bolder portion of the other sex
amongst the hostiles.
They claim that, brazen as the male
street firt appears, he will not often
speak to woman who offers him no en-.
couragement. 1t would be poor sort of
fun for him to invite attention all day
long if his invitation met with no re-
sponse.
1t is manifest that the girls are to
blame for his presence upon the streets.
Let them lay aside their dashing bold
ness of manner, which they often fool
ishly imagine denotes independence, but
which is as dangerous as it is unseemly
Such demeanor provokes remarks from
men and women which would make the
ears of the average maiden tingle with
indignation could she but hear them.
There is no doubt that many girls are
lacking in their modesty which would
entitle them to consideration. With
these the street Irritation. frequently re-
sulting in acqnaintances, is a great frolic
but these very girls would soon assume
a manner not in accord with their char
acteristics could they see themselves as
Others see them. Very few girls wish tc
be considered fast, yet they can, by q
certain recklessness of conduct while in
public places, especially earn the appel
lation. They may not be guilty of any
crime, but they will as certainly lose the
respect of every one whose respect il
worth having as though they were. This
particularly applies to women who have
reached or passed beyond the age of 20
What may be readily overlooked in the
schoolgirl of 10 will not be forgotten in
her sister of maturer years.
In no other country are unmarried
women allowed so much freedom as il
our own. In view of the disastrous re
suits of this custom it would seem to be
the part of wisdom TO adopt the old
world system Of chaperones. If, howev
er, the girls and young women can b,
made TO understand the use of liberty
and conduct themselves accordingly, the
masher's vocation will be gone, and he
will gradually disappear from the public
places.
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THE BLIZZARD OPERA COMPANY.
now the Wandering Minstrel Sells Patent
Cure-All Medicines to Country Folk.
Phila. Times.


Phia Times
The street fakir is the man who stands
upon the corner beneath tlaring glaring
light and sells everything, from wagon
load of stationery and jewelry to bottle
of "The King of Grease" Sometimes
he travels singly and sometimes in pairs.
While eloquence is largely depended
upon to attract and hold a crowd of peo-
pie, the street fakir invariably has some
other and more potent enticementin the
form ofa banjo, or fiddle and guitar. The
banjo is the great favorite. The people
who have never yet had an opportunity
TO weary Of grand opera will stand listen
ing by the hour TO the hoarse voice and
twanged banjo of the out door singer.
The advent of the treet fakir is the
event of the year in small villages. The
rural Young America stands agape in
admiration of the fakir's wit and music,
and longs for the time when he, too, can
wear broad-brimmed hat and long hair
and sell soap and worm medicines. For
several years past one of the greatest no.
madic enterprises in the West has been
the Blizzard Oil Company. A large COW
erd wagon fitted up with a small cabinet
organ, q quartette of male voices and
instruments and the "Doctor"-the lee
turer and salesman-comes into town
with the horses and wagon gayly
bedecked with banners and ribbons. In
the afternoon under shady tree and at
night under constellation Of powerful
lights the wagon of the fakir stands,
surrounded by large audience. The
crowd is attracted by the music and then
the lecturer expatiates upon the wonder
tul healing qualities of the Blizzard Oil.
Consumptives, rheumatics and sufferers
of all kinds are taken up an easy flight
of steps into the wagon and are invaria-
bly, cured of all ills free of charge, by the
single application of the wonderful med
icines. The lecturer distinctly declares
that he does not care to sell any of the
medicine, as it will be placed on sale in
every drug store, while his mission is
simply to advertise it, BY accident he
happens to have few dozen bottles in
the wagon and would accommodate suf-
fering humanity at the regular drug
store price, His ingenuity in meeting
with another accident about the time the
first lot is sold out is really marvellous.
When every inhabitant of the place has
been convinced of the necessity for sim
liar accommodations the wagon is closed
up and the Blizzard Oil Opera Company
taken its way to another town. Several
opera companies of this kind are organ
izing for the road here in Philadelphia,
and these facts are obtained at first hand
from one of the irnpressarios.
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Adam and Eve out In Kansas.

A special from Crowley county. this
state, gives an account of the location of
veritable Garden of Eden. Last Sun.
day man and his wife, named Palmer
while laboring under delusion, stripped
themselves, and not being adorned by
even the historical fig leaf, wandered
about their corral and orchard all dav
and night, imagining they were in Eden
and obeying the behests of Jehovah
AS the husband is a very strong and
powerful man, the neighbors were afraid
to 90 near them, but on Monday morn.
ing some of them coaxed up courage
enough to go to them and persuade them
TO cl the themselves. Their children
were IN the house, but were unable 10 do
anything with their parents. The con.
pie are now quiet, but still out of their
minds. The woman, who is very we'll
educated, was bitten by rattlesnake q
a few days before the above occurrence
but, trusting solely to prayer, refused n
allow ANYTHING to be done for her N
cure the bite. '' W
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
nh Drummer.

The favorite song of the literary critic:
"Sitting on the style.'-Puck.
Very few people nowadays suffer from
suggestion of the brain.-Mrs Parting
ton.
"This world is a barber shop" says
Squibbs, "for we all shave one another"
Harlem Times.
The wise man gives his home the
shake, while his wife and the hired girl
shake the carpets.-Chicago Eye.
Telegraphy is not such an old discov-
cry, but 1t is a Morse-grown one never
theless.-Yonkers Gazette.
What is there in a woman which is
most suggestive of early death? Aheml
Her age.-Boston Transcript.
To remove paint: Sit on a fresh daub-
ed cellar door, or wash the rosy cheeks
of a sleeping beauty.-N. Y. News.
The hangman's halter is a very con-
vinclng line of argument.-Governeur
Herald.
In shower of tittle-tattlea sensible
man hoists the umbrella of indifference.
Modern Argo.
Help the poor, says an exchange. Just
what we've been urging on our subscri-
bers all the time.-Gold Leaf.
1t is stated as fact that many people
hear best when their eyes are closed
Just think Of this in church.-N. Y. Ad-
vertiser.
What is the difference between timid
child and a shipwrecked sailor? One
clings to his ma and the other to his
spar.-Rome Sentinel.
We have heard of soldiers that show
ed great coolness under fire. 1t is east
er, we should suppose, to keep cool un-
der fire than over it.-Cin. Sat- Night.
No shoemaker ever says to his doctor;
physician heal thyselfl" "Pun' my sole
he knews better than toe make such
unprofessional remaiks.-N. Y. News.
The white vest cometh up as a flower
and it grows best in summer time.-Ral-
eigh Visitor. Well! why don't you pull
it down?-Winston Sentinel.
1t is said the corner in glove-stretchers
was brought about by the dudes buying
them to open their trowser legs.-Cam-
bridge Tribune.
Beware of the man that can behold no
good in his neighbors.-When a wasp
gets after fellow he generally makes a
bee line.-Some men are mighty strong.
and it is in this that they resemble
cheese.-Grit.
The wife of Bell, the inventor of the
telephone, is deaf and dumb. Just see
what man can accomplish when Heav-
en- has blessed him with the right kind
of a wife.-Pittsburg Telegraph.
1t is about time for ministers and edit
ors to commence thinking about taking
their summer vacation, and thinking"
about it is about as far from home as the
editors will get.-Oil City Blizzard.
Fresh strawberries have made their
appearance in our markets. They come
highland so does the bottom of each
box, which is a little nearer the top than
last years style.-Laramie Boomerang.
A Harlem man who recently Joined
the church was heard to mutter, as his
shiny new beaver fell into mud hole:
"Wouldn't you hear some tall swearing
if hadn't been converted last week?"-
Harlem Times.
While the Arkansaw press association
was at Hot Springs, the proprietors of
the bath houses extended TO the editori-
al gentlemen the privilege of free bath
ing. This was a very quiet piece of sar-
casm.-Arkansaw Traveller.
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a sutler in the United States Army, and
he had gained fortune by the enter
prise, tact and the other rare qualities
that 90 to make up an army sutler; =,
'The other heirs were alarmed ana
about the first thing they Thought Oh
doing was to ask me to return the lee
they had paid me, which J respectfully
declined TO do. Those heirs who were
not prompt enough to get their shares
are out and the remainder of the mon,
ey is still in the custody of the court
awaiting the rightful owners return.
He has not come back TO claim his share,
vet, but if he were to come back ne
would have to prove his identity, and
that he was not dead, and get an order
declaring him living, before he could
legally claim his share of the property"
The reporter making reference to the
Tichborne case, the lawyer said Had
the heirs in possession Of the Tichborne
estate taken steps to have Roger Itch
borne declared dead it would have end
ed all proceedings. The claimant would
have had this fact to overcome before he
could have begun suit for the estate"
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
Mexican Express Runners
Monterey Correspondence.

All through the interior ofthe country
at almost every town and village, are to
be found runners" usually Indians
whose business it is to carry small pack.
ages upon their shoulders from place to
place.
Knowing all the mountain paths and
short cuts, and possessing vast amount
of strength and staying power, these
runners" make long journeys in pro-
digiously short time. To cite case that
illustrates both the custom of gift send
ing, and the manner of sending gifts:
One of my friends here in Monterey,
being then on his way home from the
city of Mexico, stopped for night with
his carriage, horses and servants at a
hospitable rancho, where he was admira-
bly, entertained. On the evening of the
next day he came to a town famous for
its delicious fish, and, as an acknowledge
ment of the hospitality rendered him, he
sent runner" with a basket of fish to
his host of the night before.
The distance, allowing for short cuts,
was forty miles across mountainous
country yet the runner" made it inside
of ten hours--leaving at seven o'clock at
night, and arriving at the rancho las my
friend subsequently was informedl at 5
o'clock the next morning Taking into
consideration the time lost between col
lection and shipment, and between re-
ceipt at the terminal point and actual
delivery to consignee, the best regulated
express company in the world could not
have made this shipment more expedite
ously. Moreover, as these runners are
absolutely trustworthy-there are cases
on record Of their dying in defense of
their freight--tho express facilities which
they afford in small way scarcely can
be improved upon.
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CURRYING THE ANIMALS.
Was Not Exactly In the Line OF Painter Oh
the Zebras.


Wa. Not Exactly In the Line Of Painter OF
the Zebras.
The other evening after ;he perform
ance was over at the show, a young man
called ON Chiarini and said he wanted to
see him on private business. The old
gentleman took him into his office and
received him with his usual politeness.
81 came all the way from Carson to
see the show, and now I'd like to join"
said the young man.
aDhl see;," said the Snowman, you
are well-informed, healthy-looking
Young fellow, and I'd like to encourage
such as you." The youths face bright
ened. 3.
"You don't chew, smoke or drink,
hope?"
"Oh, nol honor bright-except soda
and beer"
"You must leave off these bad habits
they weaken the muscles and paralize
the nerves. You can soon stop drink
ing, but your salary will not be large un-
til you have overcome these little ten
denotes. A little lemonade is all the
performers drink. Gail at IL o'clock to-
morrow morning, and l will see what l
can do. You mustn't expect over $oo a
week, though, at first. We never pay
high salaries until we know just what a
man can do"
The delighted Carsonite went away,
and this morning was on hand.
Chiarini took him 10 a tent where 800
Bengal tigers were Gagged. Handing him
a curry-comb and pair of shears, he re-
marked:
Your duties will be comparatively
light at first. You will go into the cage
and curry the animals down every NOR
ming. and about once week cut their
claws; keep em down pretty short, 30
that when they attack the tiger tanner,
| Mr. Wilson, they won't lacerate him
much. Sometimes, but not more than
once month, you may have occasion to
file their teeth. You must throw the
animal on its back, and hold his head
between your knees. If he acts rough
belt him in the nose few times. keeT
betting him until he quiets down."
Haven't you got vacancy in the ari
departments" asked the young mar
from Carson.
"Is art your line?" inquired Chiarini
"Yes," drawled the young man. TN
the shows that I've always run Win
used to paint the red stripes on the re
bras. Il killed so many tigers keeDin
'em straight, that the boss wouldn't LEI
me handle them. He said | used 'em
too rough"
Chiarini swears that the terror from
Carson shall have the first vacancy.
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
A ROMANCE OF THE LAW.
An Heir Who Had Been Adjudged
Dead Bothering n Court.
New York Tribune.

"You may think that the law is dry
and humdrum profession, but l could
tell you of some strange things that l
have seen in my brief experience which
discount the alleged incident of mod
ern novel," said a young attorney to a
Tribune reporter, while the twain were
sitting in a lawyers Office enjoying So
cial cigar The reporter intimating that
their recounting would afford pleasant
pastime for an idle hour, the young Solon
proceeded:
"Here's a strange story of will case.
About two years ago a man came to me
and stated that his father had died in
testate, leaving property on Long Island.
OF several heirs one was son who had
gone West in 1866, and had not been
heard from. The property had been
partitioned and divided among the heirs
the share of the absent one remaining
in the custody of the court. Ny client,
who was the eldest son, wished to have
this share divided for the benefit Of him.
self and the other heirs. The missing
man was the third son. II was a case
without known precedent in the books.
A Judge of the Supreme Court, to whom
/ spoke, did not recall any parallel case,
nor could he advise me what steps were
proper in the case. I solved the difficult
ty BY taking proceedings by petition in
the Supreme Court. The matter was re-
ferred for proofs of the facts alleged in
the petition. We proved that the miss
ing son had not been heard from for
fourteen years, and that all efforts to
find him had proved futile. The court
then issued decree declaring him dead,
and ordering his share to be distributed
among the remaining heirs.
'This was done, and the attorney had,
YOU may Judge, received his fee, when
the lost heir turned up alive! After all
these years he had suddenly concluded
that he wanted to hear from home, and
he had written letter, addressing it TO
the old homestead. He was surprised
to learn of his fathers death, though he
had not heard from him for ffteen years.
He had settled in Wyoming Territory, ~
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
The Newspaper for Children.

When a child begins to read it be.
comes delighted with newspaper be.
cause it reads of names and things
which are familiar, and it will progress
accordingly. A newspaper in one year
is worth quarters schooling to a child
Every father must consider that inform.
alton is connected with advancement
The mother of a family, being one of its
heads, and having d more immediate
charge of children, should herself be in
structed. A mind occupied becomes for
tilted against the ills of life, and is brac-
ed for any emergency. Children anus
ed by reading or study are of course
more considerate and more easily man.
aged.
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07

In 1881 a barrel was made at Sleidel-
burg, in Germany, which was composed
of sl2 solid beams, "a feet in length, 10
feet across the ends, and IS feet through
the centre, and contains 500 hogsheads,
yet it was once drank out in eight days.
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
There are two "sarvossas,"

There are two "sargossas," or weedy
seas Of considerable extent in the Pa
ciic Ocean, one lying Is degrees east
southeast Of New Zealand, the other
and by far the larger, about Is degrees
west of San Francisco, in California
There is also large region lying nearly
halfway between Cape Horn and New
Zealand, which seems to correspond 10
the deserts on land, as mariners report il
almost wholly destitute of any signs ol
lifs, either in sea or air.
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07


The greatest length Of the Pacific
Ocean, from the Arctic (at Behring's
strait) to the Antarctic circle, is 1900
miles, and its greatest breadth about TO-.
800 miles, while its area may be roughly
estimated at sO,0oO,OoO square miles or
about two fifths of the whole surface of
the earth. Its form is rhomboidal, with
one corner incomplete (at the south)
and its surface is studded with number
lcg islsnds. either scattered or in groups.
These, however, are chiefly confined to
the wesosrn side and "a. the limits where
The doth of the ocean is not great.
Along the whole eastern side. from Beh-
Ein9s Gtrait TO Cape Horn, there isa belt
q ~ Of varying width, which, with q
NY fev exceptions, is wholly free from
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07

A new theatre in London, called the
Eden is said to be 80 enormous, and
it's halls and corridors are on SO gigantic
scale, that 1t is impossible for the eye
to realize the magnitude Of its details.
Its ceiling is much higher than that of
any other theatre in the world, and its
halls are 90 large that they can be con-
yerted inte immense bathrooms.
The Osceola times., 1883-07-07

"For Sale-A fine farm in the glorious
new northwest. Take the train to Gla-
cier Junction, then the overland bob
sled to Frozen City, where snow-shoes
On be borrowed to continue the journey.
The location of the farmhouse will be
recognized by the chimney smoke curl
ing above the snow drifts. Ring the
bell on the trap door near the chimney"