The Osceola times., 1884-05-17
EFFERvESCENCE.

Nature don't often make fool. She
furnishes the raw material and lets II
take its own course.-Fort Wayne Hoosi'
er.
An editor makes q point when he
sharpens his lead pecil.-Chicago Sun
But they are very blunt sometimes
Warsaw Wasp.
The Philadelphia Call says: "Lent il
the time to 60 SLOW" Oh, no! you are
mistaken. II is the time to go fast
Boston Budget
| An old bachelor wants to know If it's
squall-ity or if it's quantity that takes q
premium at the baby show.-Merchant
Traveller.
There is petrified baby in museum
at Dallas, Texas, and the ladies all think
it a real gneiss little thing.--Bismarck
Tribune.
Nice life a married man leads when
every time he asks his wife for cup OF
tea he knows she'll make it hot for him
Boston Post.
| A Cedar Rapids editor wants any
young lady who Jumps to conclusion
to consider him Conclusion" An or.
phan preferred. Light.
| A shock of an earthquake was felt in
London the other day, and inside of an
hour the police had jailed twenty seven
Irish spects.-Bismarck Tribune.
The ancient leap year girl who "would.
MT marry the best man living" has just
engaged herself to street loafer. She
stuck to her word Kentucky State Jour-
nal.
Mrs. Barker of Oxford, Connecticut,
who is SO years old, never employed a
doctor until the other day. Her recov-
cry is now oespaired of--Chattanooga
Peoples Paper.
A man may raise in this world and
fall in the rext.-Whitehal Times. But
that does not signify that because a man
falls in this world he win "ryes" in the
next.-Henderson Gold Leaf
Aimee tells reporter that she wears
out $500 worth Of stockings every year.
But as stocking comprise her entire ward
robe the figures are not 80 very appalling
Electric Light.
Il pass" said the conductor of the
railroad train, as he looked at the edi-
tors ticket. al didn't think you would
take it up" said the newspaper man,
WilliampOrt Breakfast Table.
The reason why Richard Ill, when
waking from troubled dream, called
for "a horse was because he disliked
the nightmare which he so frequently
had ridden.-Gouverneu Herald.
The princess Louisa is said to be look
ing 'prettier than ever" this spring. The
cable message should have read "less
ugly than formerly" and we might have
believed it.-St. Louis Critic.
Mr.. Henry Watterson Is making him
self pretty disagreeably humorous just
now for a man who has never been a
political leader and cannot look straight
at anythipg.-Washington Gazette.
A medical journal states that the
weight of an average Chinese baby is
only five pounds. 1t is strange that such
a light body should acquire "ways that
are dark."-New York Morning Journal
A Pottstown lady has not had a pitch.
er broken during twenty nine years of
house keeping. A pitcher dead broke"
is not, however, unusual in the baseball
fraternity. Hartford Sunday Journal.
Everybody itches and burns and aches
and writhes with the intcnsest desire to
marry.-Blond and Brunette of the Sun
ny Cline. Great heavens, girls! ~, Up
on buckwheat cakes.-Bra ford Suniay
Mail.
Forepaugh's white elephant has land
ed. To get even on the leprosy report,
Barnum Is industriously spreading the
news that ii has got the Asiatic mumps,
and they are contagious. Bradford Sum
day Mail.
There has just arrived in Paris young
man whose head, both as regards shape
and color, resembles that of calf He
must be a direct descendant of the ORR
ginal prodigal son.-N. Y. Morning jour
nal.
John B. Cough says: The press is
the mainstay of sim" That depends on
what kind Of press you mean, John
The press is often the mainstay of good
looking 0irl.-Williamport Breakfast Ia
BILE.
The butchers of New York are trying
| W uisCoutiuuc Tic tIdHspOTtalOu IrOm
Chicago and other Western cities of
dressed cattle. Anthony Comstock should
be set upon the track Of there butchers
Boston Transcript.
The editor OF New York Life is at
work on tragic drama entitled The
Lions Mouth" II is expected to cause
a fl-roar in dramatic circles. With such
q title il should be able to growl black at
the critics. cs.-Norristown Herald.
A Newport girl who had two suitors
for her hand proposed that they draw
straws for her. They went right away
and drew straws-that is they drew
something through straws that reposed
| in glasses of liquor.-Fort Wayne Hoosi-
er.
II il the early chicken that first dis
cards his spring ovacoat.-In the game
of life q full" hand will not beat
straight" "man.-Paradoxica a. 1t NAV
seem, live man should always be in
dead earnest. New York Morning Jour-
nal.
A New Hampshire lady has worn one
pair q eexsines night and day Sur forty
yoars xhcuf time, wo should ny, to
&s - e9a4d have 'sA essahsd. 0ut