The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
NlD-W EEk MUSINGS.
PhIIadelnhIA laL-.


1t is wise calf that knows It's own
chicken salad.
England cannot give US back Lotta and
take Langtry any too quick.
This is a very trying time, said the
prisoner while waiting for the verdict.
The fact tsat we wrote "The Bread
Winners" is getting ont in spite Of our
attempts to keep it 4uiet
Ii you have any bad habits, conceal
them. Put them in an inside pocket and
be careful that the cork is tight.
This being leap year, and our time be.
ing limited, We rise 10 explain that all
the millionaireS on the editorial staff are
already ma.sed.
An Illinois colony in Mexico while
digging for silver struck large deposit Of
vegetable soap. They have written for
money to get home with.
1t takes ninety ght policemen to keep
order now on the Brooklyn bridge. Tai
mage and Beecher both go over to New
York TO the theatres now.
Some one SAYS: "No thoroughly occu.
pied man was ever miserable We don't
know about that Mr. Sullivan can keep
a man very busy and very miserable.
"The point that am strivingto reach,
my dear scholars said school teacher
as he seated himself ia his chair, lis
very simple and but he never tin.
ished the sentence.
The announcement Is made that tive
new and swift steamships are to be add
eel To- the transatlantic lines. Lutla, We
understand. is only waiting for the first
one to be launched.
West Virginia is said 10 need ncn Of
/ money, hrains, energy, muscle and stead.
| iastno,s We are sorry for West Nir-
gina, hu: We have no idea o. leaving
/ Philadelphia at present.
The editor Of the Toledo Blade r1u.
| plains that he had no opportunity while
| travelling in Maine to "pulycrlzc the rum
/ power" Perhaps lac was kept too busy
pulyerihng the rum.
An exchange tells chow to live on
sixpence day II is simple enough
! Make your ,iXpence 90 as far as 1t will
/ and then if you find that your system
requires anything more get trusted 10 it.
During the last twenty years the Queen
/ has occupied Buckingham Palace on an
average only six nights in each year
/ She SAYS she does not sleep well there
| She should try Kerosene or Persian
/ powder
What might have proved a fatal quar-.
/ rel between two dudes occurred on West
| Walnut street the other evening, b1t
fortunately policeman arrived ia time
| TO take their toothp!ck- away from them
/ The amount of -old i'm the United
States at the present time is estimated to
/ be s57S.OOOOOO. II VIII Ice noticed that
/ there are a great many Laughts II the
/ above We can certify that they are
/ correct,
Caterers say that at some dinners now
a days fish is omitted after the soup.
. This, however, is q mistake. We dineb
. with rural editor the other day and the
fish was not omitted after the soup. but
the dinner wa, omitted after the fish.
The only time that - man feels asham.
ed of kind actor Is when hcls chasing
another mans hat that is bowling along
i'm the wind at 30 miie- an hour with an
interested crowd of observers on either
side of the way offering him iacetiou-
advice.
The Pons comet has been discovered
to have double tail, though when It
was here in lol2 it had only one. II j,
not unlikely that it is really two comet,
in one. Hearing that more pensions
were talked Of for the heroes Of 1872 the
veteran celestial war horse brought IT.
brother along.