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The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
CLEVER ANIMALS.

A Portland man put large spider On
n floating chip in pond. After walking
all about the sides of the chip the spider
began to cast web for the shore. He
threw il as far as possible in the air and
with the wind. 1t caught on some
blades of grass. Then turning himself
about the spider began to haul the chip
toward the shore.
A horse in Sayreville, Pa, has to haul
sixly-five loads of clay and one load Of
coal dust every day. lie receives no
orders, yet never fails to 90 exactly the
right number of times to the clay pit
and then to the coal heap on the pier
He has his own idea of how much each
load ought to be, and rears and kicks if
too much is put on his cart.
For fifteen years horse belonging TO
Col. Mott of Westbury has been driven
at a certain hour to town for the family
mail. Recently the animal was declared
entitled to a rest, but at the usual time
he broke from the stable and was soon
at the post office. The animal has ever
since appeared daily at the regular hour
at the posi- Office.
| y uOg DclODSihS W d iiuhoy Nouuty
farmer helps his master to cheat. When
he is hauling grain and the team is driv-
en- on the scales, the dog walks under the
wagon and lies down. As he weighs
forty pounds, and there is only thirty
two pounds to bushel of oats, he counts
wonderfully When the farmer comes
back TO have his wagon weighed the dog
forgets TO be there.
During the burning of London music
hall cat exhibited remarkable pluck
and devotion. Her kittens were behind
the scenes on the stage. She was re-
peatedly driven back by the smoke, but
succeeded in rescuing three kittens. She
hurried back for the fourth. but return
ed no more. After the fire the charred
remains of the cat and kitten were found
living side by side,
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
MEN OF MARK.

The Judges of the New York Court OF
Appeals began on Monday to wear, while
on the bench, black gowns of heavy gros.
grain silk.
Sergeant Vkeefe, for many years the
signal service officer On Pixies Peak, has
disappeared mysterlously from his home
in Denver.
Matthew Arnold frankly told Boston
reporter that his primary object in COM
ing to tins country was to make money,
and that his expectations in this respect
had been fulfilled.
Although CaI tain Howegate, the de-
faulter, is supposed TO be missing, he was
found easily in Washington the other
day when it became necessary to Secure
his signature 20 a title deed.
d. X. Locke, the "Nasby" of past cam
paigns has broken away from the regu-
lar Republicans and has made of his
paper, the Blade, of Toledo, an unccm-
promising Prohibition journal.
w. X. Thorn, jr., and another alleged
American, Alfred Torrance, recently took
part as performers in an amateur circus
at Pau, and with great success, showing
themselves skillfil riders.
Gen. q. T. Beauregard has become a
member of the New Orleans Cremation
Association, and Pere Hvancinthe, still
lectur.ng in that city, has publically OK
pressed his approval of the principles of
tie society
Mr.. Booth finds the Boston public tickle.
At his appearance there when the pres
ent season opened the houses we've fill
ed; this time, in the same theatre, the ca
pricious theatre-goers leave him to pla Y
before small audiences.
Charles Biadlaugh, the English Par.
liamentary Atheist, resembles Henry
Ward Beecher, greatly in personal APP
pearancc. He is about the sane size,
but does not wear his hair as long as Mr..
Beecher does.
Times-Democrat, and General James
Eusts. a rich man with personal tradi.
tons ofplantation aristocracy. are the
opponents os Senator Jonas in his con-
test for reelection. The Legislature
that will select he succe .sor of Mr.. Jonas
is to he chosen in April.
Victor Hugo's new house, when Ia,
builds it, will be on lot he lately has
bo lrht on the avenue named after MIN
and although he is 81 he has made ali
his plans for his future residence, even
to the planting of the adjacent garden
the fruits Of which he expects to long
live to enjoy.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Gems OF Western Criticism.
Gin. News-Journal


Nine. Valleria omitted all the staccato
hsrpeggios and the chromatic octaves.
One of the ballet looked like she might
have been slugger Sullivan's big sister.
Is her other name Jumbo?
When Mignon put on that blue cloak
and black slippers she looked sweet
enough 10 eat.
The audience tore arou I'd like a politi-
cal conventiont to have Nilsson repeat her
toilet song.
Scalchi was Just as cute as ever and
sang so that they called her 10 do it some
more. Scalchi is served that way every
time.
Nilsson wears shoe, two and half
full.
The opera was shced up like loaf of
bread for the food sufferers.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Mrs. sargent's Radical Club.
San FrancIsco Argonant.


Apropos of unnt elligent woman in
contract with intelligent men, there is
no more striking instance than that of
Mrs. Sargent of Boston. Professed phy.
seal attractions-indeed, being positive
ly plain, quite uneducatod, and even i'll
terate-she has for many years held
sway in literary circles persistently deni-
ed to many women of far greater gifts.
A little knot of brilliant men were wont
to assemble at her house. They called
themselves the Radical Club. How or
why, 1t is not easy to say. They were
not radical, except in the sense that all
Bostonians are. They were not club,
having no bylaws, no membership, no
admission fee except a smile for Mrs.
SARGENT, and no officers. Stop, | am
wrong; there was one officer-the silver
haired DIR. Bartol, called with gentle iro-
ny, "the moderator" The Radical Club
was an elastic institution, and therefore.
at one time to another, carried on its
imaginary rolls the names of many dis
tinguished dmen-Emerson, Alcott, James
Freeman Clarke, DIR. James the elder,
Edward Everett Hale. David A. Wells,
Oliver Wedwell Holmes, John Greenleaf
Whittier, Celia Thaxter, Julia Ward
Howe, and last and not least, Wendell
Phillips. Many others there are who
have not been mentioned. The Radical
Club would have delighted the soul Of
Jean Jacquez himself Without the
semblance of organization i. moved on
quietly but successfully. Perhaps it
was this organization that made it sue
cess
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Curious Facts.

The Babylonians invented the sun
dial.
The banana yields three and some.
times four crops year.
The Chinese regard it as a happy
omen II the lily blossoms on New Years
day.
There are some editions Of the Bible
called "Treacle" Bibles, because pas
sage in jeremiah is rendered, as there
no treacle in Gilead ?"
As late as the seventeenth century
English smiths believed that if mousse
wort were kept about horse he could
not be hurt as he was shod.
The oldest alphabet in existence is
scratched on little ink bottle found in
one of the Greek colonies in Italy, and
is supposed to date about 500 b. c.
There is an old superstition that the
wearer of silver ring is secure against
the quarrelsome, and that any one who
Is touched by precious stone set in sill
yer is Immediately reconciled to its
owner.
Blindness has steadily decreased in
England for the last thirty years, owing.
it is thought, to the improvement of the
opticians and the almost complete ex-
tinction Of smallpox among the children
Pills are made by machinery at Dion
France. and, being coated with sweeten.
ed gelatine are rather agreeble thar
otherwise, SO that French children
rather enjoy taking them.
In Japan, babies hair is shaved OF
arranged in certain specified WAYS, sc
that its sex can be told by the dullest
observers, and innocent young bachelors
do not say She is little darling" only
to he told "He is boy"
The longest runs without stoppiny on
any British railroad are made between
Grantham and Kings cross, a distance
of 1864 miles, which is made in two
hours and four minutes, and by each
one of the four trains which traverse
the distance in a day, within two hours
and six minutes.
Recent investigations made in Ger.
many GO to show that sleep is very
night during the first hour after con.
seriousness ceases, but grows deeper rap.
sidiy, and becomes most profound in an
hour and three-quarters, tightening
from that time up to five hours and q
half, when reaction towards deeper
sleep occurs, after which the slumber.
er wakens.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
FASHION NOTES.

High-necked dresses, without any
sleeves are fashionable.
Pink shades in grey, or cafe au lait vel
vets are mnch in favor.
Dresses painted by hand aIe fashiona-
BILE among those who can afforl them.
Blue and gold colors are combined in
lovely gradations OF shades in the new
Spring batistes and zephyrs.
Manageable girls may be interested
in the information that factory at Bay
City Mich, turns out 2400 washboards
daily.
Black gros grain and ottoman silks are
being made up in short costumes for the
street and house for early spring.
Young ladies having thin arms now
wear very low.necked dresses, with long
sleeves OF different color and material
from the dress.
Fashionable New York girls are learn
ing the art OF scientific dressmaking, i'm
PEELED thereto by the enormous expense
involved in following the present FASH
ions.
At a recent ball in New York, a boquet
of cabbages and turnips, tied with stream
ers of oil cloth and Turkey red, was sent
to the leader of the german. Very
stupid "fnn."
A skating dress of gold and ruby cloth
trimmed with plush Of Vandyck red, u
short cap of red plush, and fur hat was
much admired on Central Park lake New
York.
The bast leap year fun we have heard
of is theater party where forty young
ladies invite forty young men, and give
them lat private house, supper after
ward.
The costliest dog collars, generally
worn by pugs, are of gold and silver set
with diamonds, opals, rubies, emerals,
and other Jewels, the initial letters of
which spell out the name of the wearer
or lis fair owner.
Evening dresses Of great taste and ele-
gance are made of the new ecru batistes,
nearly covered by gold OF silver figures
tbatssmake them look like cloths of gold
or al silver; but this stuff comes among
millinery goods only.
A fashionable woman of New York,
who receives few friends every after
noon at five o'clock, wore recently an Ella
borate tea gown Of gold colored satin,
trimmed with deep flounces of tulle due
hesse embroidered in gold. A loose jack
ct of orange colored velvet, embroidered
In gold, opened over achemisette oftulle
strain independent" of orange colored
velvet compile ed this elaborate "undress"
which was very much admird.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Why Tie Was Promoted.
Wall street News.


1t is related of an ex member of Con.
gress from the West. who died last
month, that in 1868 he received a call in
Washington from Captain in volun.
teer regiment who wanted to expose
some crooked things about n certain
pork contract. The member received
him very coldly, and made light of bis
grave charges, but hardly had the cap
tain returned to his regiment when he
was promoted to colonel and assigned TO
another. At the close of the war he
happened to meet the Congressman, and
in his gratitude he called out:
That promotion came from you, and
thank you with all my heart"
oh, you don't owe me anything"
But didn't YOU secure NV promo
tom
Certainly"
And shouldn't be grateful ,"
Not by a iugtnl As captain detailed
in the quartermaster's department, you
we're thre atening tp expose a shortage
in my pork contract b which ! made
$4,000. ] had you promoted TO get you
out of the way. No thanks, no thanks;
good daV."
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05

Grafton, and Henry Fitzroy became
earl of Euston. The widow of Mr.. Smith
became countess ofEuston and the future
duchess of Grafton. But troubles had
already come between her and her hus-
band. No fault being proved against
the countess since her marriage, the earl
in vain sought an excuse for divorce.
The mysterious Mr.. Smith has now ap-
peared. and the excuse is found IL the
case1fails Kate Cook will be duci ess of
Grafton. and the title created for a mis-
tress ofa king will be borne by woman
of the town
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Eng lish sailors Abroad.
FOrnipu Tettar


The other evening a fight took place
IN one of the obscure and narrow streets
OF Naples between some ten English sail
ors who had been drinking. The intox-
icated men threw offtaeir coats, and even
their shirts, to the aston shment and
amusement of the few Neapoltan spect-
ators, and, naked to the waist, commelc-
ed a regular boxing match A fair. hair
ed sailor knocked down three opponents
one OF when struck his head against
wall and was badly hurt. The fight last
ed quarter ofah hour, at the end of
Wh,ch the victorstook up the conquered
aud gave them couchibv M a fountain.
One Of the worst hunt was pu, into a car
iozeila, and the Britsh sailors moved
away amid q storm Of htssss, whistles
and howls.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
Historical Jacts.

De Soto landed in Georgia in 1889.
There were S27 granaries in ancient
Rome.
The Jews were the first to divide time
by weeks.
Rhode Island was settled by Roger
Williams, in 1886.
The oldest station for lightship is
the More, which was thus marked in
1882.
Gun cotton was invented by Prof.
Schenbein, in Basel, and first made
known in 1916.
"Dieu ct mon droit,' the royal motto
of England, was the word given by Rich.
ard the Lion Hearted to his army at
Gisors, in ll9s. Henry vi. first used it
as a motto.
In Elizaheth's time the gentry dined
at eleven, the common people at noon.
In the fourteenth century ten and
eleven O'Clock in the morning were the
fashion lble dining hours, and five in
the evening the supper hour.
As late as the time of Edward VI. a
runaway or any one who lived in idle
ness three days was liable to be brought
before two justices Of the peace, marked
V with hot iron and made the slave
for two years Off any one who would buy
him.
In 1902 the French nation adopted a
calender proiessedly founded on philo-
sophical principles. The first year of
the em of the republic began at mid
night, betweed the 21st and 22nd of
September, 1892; but its establishment
was not decreed until the 4th Frimaire
of the year 2, oath of November, 1898.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
THE TROUBLE OF TWO PEERS.
An Earl seeking to Get Rid of HIS Wife.
Chicago Tribune.

An Earl seeking to Get Rid of HIS Wife.
Chicago Tribune.
Mayfair, new society magazine will
publish the following paragraph. An
other celebrated case will be that of the
gallant earl of Euston, who will be the
next duke ofGrafton. The earl seeks tc
get rid of his wife. His contention ID
that the lady's first husband was alive
when she became countess of Euston, ID
now alive, and can be produced. His ap.
pearancc in the witness-box will be high.
ly dramati,. for the lady has seen him
and declares that she knows nothing
about him. The approaching trial will
rival the Ticbborne case and be the sen.
sation of the season."
The facts Of the matter are these. Thir-
teen years ago Henry Fitzroy, eldest son
Of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, fell in love
with dubious woman known as kate
CooI." She was handsome and stylish
in person, and her matured charms we're
quite sufficient to captivate the youth of
2S. Unknown to his father, who was
eque-ry to the queen, he married her.
Most chronicles Of the peerage ignored
marriage. Others described the bride as
the daughter of John Walsh and widow
of "Mr. Smith"
In 1852 the bridescrssn's social POSI-
tion changed. lerd Augu =, li.zrs, ...-
n1o1o6 ~ heother ~ seventh duke Of
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
4 Kick ON Texas.
Detroit Free Press.


There came into the City Treasurer's
Office the other day a woman who desir-
ed to pay her city taxes, and she patient
ly stood holding some money in her
hand until clerk informed her that the
amount was s26,l5.
1T can't bel"
"Oh, yes, it is"
"But last year ! only paid 2ll"
Yes, but taxes are higher this year"
For what reason?"
"Well, the Fire Department has an in
crease"
suppose it has Am ! fireman? Has
my house ever been on fire? Don't |
keep insured so as to get the worth of my
house il it should burn?' There can't no
Fire Department increase my taxes, and
don't you pretend it!'
"The Police Department estimates are
larger"
"A snap for the police! Didn't rascal
break into my house in broad daylight
and steal 81? Have / ever been arrested2
Do want any one arrested? And i'll did
would there be blue coat within mile
OF the spot? III not pay one cent for the
police
and you know the city bought Belle
Isle for park"
Whats that TO me? Was / ever up
there2 Am ever going? III did 90,
wouldn't the boat blow up or the wharf
break down, or I'd lose my purse or get
a terrible cold? The back yard up home
is park enough for me, and I'm wo-
man who can't be cajoled"
But you'll have to pay the tax
"Never. Here's the S2l, and if you do
not take ii III walk out and calmy wait
for lawsuit"
Il can't take less the full amount"
Very well, sir. If you, were Nero
himself wouldn't pay il! I'm woman
who drove two horse team TO Califor.
MIA and back, and you can't scare me for
shucks"
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
WOMEN OF the WORLD.

The price of Circassian girls has late
lv dropped TO about $500, or the lowest
figure ever known.
Mary Anderson's London house Is on
Cromwell road. After the play she goes
home and sits down and thinks about
Oliver.
Ann /. Jameson, who died in Rock
land, Me-, recently, left her property, a
large estate, 10 be used in purchasing
land for negro refugees in Kansas.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05

of the young man, who, was trying to in.
sert himself in his obstinate pantaloons
He did not tumble, as it were, until
the night watchman got Babcock fire
extinguisher and played on him. Very
likely it was, "Sister, what are the wild
waves saying?'
Anyway, he staggered into his ',oom
and although he could hear the audience
outside in their wild, tumultnous encore
he refused to come before the curtain,
but locked his door and sobbed himself
to sleep.
How often do we forget the finer feel.
inps of others and ignore their sorrow.
while we revel in some great joy?
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
llBET.
The Tricks They Play on Travelling Tender.
feet Out There.
Bill Nye in Detroit Free Press.

Bill Nye in Detroit Free Press.
At Ubet, NJ. T., during the cold snap
in January, one of the most inhumen
ontraees known in the annals of crime
was perpetrated upon a young man who
went West in the tall, hoping to make
his pile in time to return in Nav and
marry the New Yorf heiress selected
before he went.
While stopping at the hotel two froHc.
some young women hired ths norter 10
procure the young mans pan,aloons M
dead OF night. They then sewed mn tho
bottoms of the legs, threw the doctornd
garments back through the transoto and
squealed Fire ""'
When he got into the hall he was
vainly trying to stab one foot tbroucL
the limb o. his pantaloons while he da,.c.
ed around on the other and Joined in Tho
general cry of "Firew The hall seemed
filed with people, who were running
this way and that, ostensibly seeking =
mode Of sgrsss from the fisnes. but in
reality trying to dodge the mad efforts
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05
An Aneodote from the Cow-Bor Country
Miles City in the Chicago Tribune

Miles City in the Chicago Tribune
Two ladies, one from the East and the
other from the West, were sitting last
summer on the veranda of one of our
fashionable frontier hotels in Miles City
chatting together, when two cattle men,
clad in leather pants, buckskin shirts
and sombreros, rode up.
20 N.Y." exclaimed the Eastern lady,
"there are some of those horrid COW.
boys; let us go inside
why, you wretch" cried the little
Western woman, "that is my husband"
pointing to the foremost horseman.
And the othsr?" inquired the Eastern
lady.
'My brother said the Wsstern laAy.
The Osceola times., 1884-04-05

1t is proposed next season to celebrate
the centennial oI the temperance move
ment in thia country. We should like
to participate, but regret to be obliged to
admit that it is not quitea hundred
years since We swore off. Could not the
thing be posponed thirty or forty years
or SOS. +. Call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09
On the corner once more In 7aeuU brick block
ON NORTH SIDE OF TIE SQUARE
Solicits the PATRONAGE of the public.

We again rise to remark that lola Of
fers a better location for a creamery
than any other town of our acquaint-
ance, and any man who knows the
business and has the capital to conduct
it on sufficiently large scale, can I'M
doubtedly reap rich returns. Trains
enter the town from all four directions
so that an almost unlimited extent Of
country could he drawn upon for cream,
while the same roads furnish extra
facilities for marketing the butter.
Experience has shown that well con-
bucted creamery is no longer an ex-
pertinent. The profits are sure, and
we write this item in the hope that it
may reach the eyeof some one who is
looking for just such an opportunity
as lola offers.
At the last meeting of the city coun-
Gil r. b. Stephenson made a formal
tender to the city, of the use of his
room, at present occupied by r. III.
knight as law Office, rent free for
one year to be used as city library. 1t
was determined by the council that on
next Monday evening, after Miss Dick
inson's lecture, the matter should be
brought before those present in the OPP
era House and an effort made to organ
ize library association, and take what
other steps were considered necessary
to secure for the city a permanent cir
culating library. The REGISTER has
so often urged the desirability of such
a library that nothing additional needs
be said now. As the matter appears
at present, those having it in charge
will come next Monday night prepared
with definite plans, there seems little
doubt that the object can be success-
fully accomplished. Let every one
go to the lecture prepared to remain
and hear the library scheme thorough
v discussed,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-09

Judge Stillwell's decision in the
Edwards injunction suit, brought
against the leaguers for trespass on
Mr.. Manly's land as noted in last
weeks REGISTER, was no less en-
phatic than in the HOlstein case. He
decreed that they should not enter
upon the land again, to add anything
to it, or to take anything from it, or in
any way interfere with Mr.. Manly's
possession of it. AS they had broken
about eight acres If land and had built
a shanty and stable before the sheriff
reached them Wednesday morning
with a restraining order, this order
means considerable. In the course of
the trial and in his decision the Judge
took occasion to repeat the lecture he
gave the leaguers in the trial of the
Holstein case, warning them that he
ney er wanted to have any more such
cases brought before him.
tits the wish of McCook Post No. 81 :,
q. A. r. that every soldiers grave in
our cemetery should be marked by a
suitable head stone, and the Post has
made arrangements to have this done
~HSueNer tiic graves Cau oC iouhu ahu
known. To this end a committee,
consisting of John Waters, John Nc
Donald and David Robinson have
been appointed to seek out and mark
the graves Of soldiers which are not
already marked. In order to do this
they must rely to a great extent on
the friends and relatives of the deceas-
ed, aud they ask us to request any par
ties knowing of an unmarked soldiers
graves in our cemetery to notify any
member of the committee Gifts location
so that it may receive proper attention.
The action Of the Post Is very laud-
able one, and they should be given all
the assistance possible.