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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-04-10

eB Wanted, at this Office, about five
hours sa each ,,ca,, week, boy who can be de-
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A Chicago Head Dress Of the Period.
nhicann Inter-OceaIl.

Chicago lnter-Uceah'
There was lady at the opera on MohuaS
evening who attracted much atten1ion
uor hair WAS an astonisher, and effectualiy
hid the stage from the view OF all those
unfortunate enough to be seated oenino
her. 1t was amusing to see the anxious
eyes of the unfortunates dodging 10 this
side and to that to catch glimpse OF so"o
interesting climax in the acting. lt was
not the head Of the lady that was remark
able. but the make up of jute and halr
which lowered 'sgrand, gloomy and pecu-
liar" above the place where the brains are
usually located. On the top of the tower
sat iaunty white hat, quite neat ana DC,
coming, which had evidently been iasteneu
into its place by some artistic mlllineI si'
ting on top of two story step iauueI'
or course men do not know what y s's
lish and stunning, but if such is gong y
be the fashion in head dress, we want 70
return at once to the good old Quaker anu
Puritan method OF men on one SIDE OF 'nS
house and women on the other. just iooH
over the audience and see the NUMBER oi
polite men who do not wear any hair On
top of their heads. The example ougn.
| to be worth something. 1t is to 90 nopeu
that American women will not ADOPT sno
the two story head dressing It is Simply
| b ideous and has not redeeming feature
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How He Got the Pass.

There are those who are constitutionally
opposed to granting favors to their fellow
beings-an uncomfortably class, who de-
serve no consideration from any one. Then
there are those who are continually thrust
ing their avors upon others-a class al
most as uncomfortable to get along with,
especially as the recipient of their atten-
tIons is invariably le under sense OF OBJ
legation. But there is class of favors
which may be accepted without any such
feeling, since they cost the giver nothing,
either in time or money, yet are invaluable
to the recipient. y poor fellow who had
been badly injured in railroad accident
out West "drew the line ~ admirably. He
was brakeman, and had been hurt in the
discharge of his duty. His home was in
the East, and the road which he had served
passed him to the terminus of It's hne. The
next did the same, and also the next but
at last he came to superintendent who
hesitated. The poor fellow pleaded his
case. He was railroad man and had been
hurt at his post. He Lad been passed by
all the other roads.
"All very well, ,, said he superintendent,
8. but can't see my way clear to give you q
pass. If you were working for farmer,
and were to get hurt IN his employ, would
you expect another farmer to get out his
team and take you to the next town.
No, sir" said the brakeman, "not that
exactly; but If he was hltched mp and going
my way. I should think he was mighty
m can il he wouldn't give me ride He
got the pass.
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tod cent His Ii singers earth
With songs of sadness and of mlrth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
The Queen Of the Z -oby.

Ferey's Wash. Letter to Bos ton journal.
When we left Philadelphia In the early
morning / noticed among the passengers
who had joined us there lady passenger
who has for some years past been known
here at Washington as " the Queen OF the
Lobby' Age adds to her personal charms
and could but notice her, as she sat grace
fully yet proudly as a throned sovereign,
glancing over the newspapers with her keen
grey eyes, and a purpose marked in each
line of her handsome face. OF course she
was exauisitely attired, for the soldier of
fortune, of either sex, must wear gay un-
tarnished uniform, although the pockets
may be empty. At Baltimore every feature
softened asa western Congressman came
into the car, and she gave him Joyou
greeting. Before we had left the monu-
mental city che rural representative, fresh
from his iares and Penases, had marched
into the little parlor, and when at the Re-
lay House the fair spider opened her lunch
basket, pertaining the car with the odor
of Old Bourbon, it was evident that the
Hon. Jefferson Caucusman would vote for
the Oregon and Alaska steamship subsidy,
the South Arizona elevated railroad grant,
and the other jobs which have retained the
Queen The session is to be short, and
there is no time to be lost. Here was an
early worm who was accidentally caught by
pretty bird before he could reach the me-
tropolis.
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William the Conquerer died from enor-
nous fat, from drink, and from the violence
of his passions.
William Rufus died the death of the poor
stays which he hunted.
Henry died of gluttony.
Henry II died of broken heart, occa-
stoned by the bad conduct Of his chill.
dren.
Richard Ceur dc Lion, like the animal
from which his heart was named, died by
an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody knows how; but it is
said from chagrin, which, we supposed is an
other term for dose of hellebore.
Henry III is said to have died a natural
DEATH"
Edward I is to have died of natural
sickness"
Edward III was barbarously and indie
Gently murdered by ruffians employed by
his wife and her paramour.
Edward III died of dotage.
Richard II died of starvation-the very
reverse of George ".
Henry " is said to have died Of "fts
caused by uneasiness," and uneasiness in
palaces in those times was a very common
complaint.
Henry V is said to have died of very
''painful affiiction, prematurely." This is
a courtly term for getting rid of a king
Henry vi died in prison, by means known
then only to his jaiier, and now only knoNn
in heaven.
Edward V was strangled in the tower by
his uncle, Richard III.
Richard LII was killed in battle.
Henry VII wasted away, as a miser ought
Henry VIII died of carbuncles, fat and
fury.
Edward VI died of a decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of a
broken heart.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died of
melancholy, from having sacrificed Essex to
his enemies.
James I died of drinking aud the effects
of vice.
Charles died ON the scaffold.
Charles II died suddenly-it is said OF
apoplexy.
William III d,ed of consumptive habits
of body and from the stumbling of his
horse.
Queen Anne kied of d,opsy.
George died of drunkenness, which his
physicians politely called an apoplectie
fit.
George II died Of a rupture of the heart
which the periodicals of that day termed a
visitation of God.
George III died as he had lived-a mad
man. Throughout life he was at least q
consistent monarch.
George " died of gluttony and drunken
nosa
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.
Who Mrs. once to take kiss,
Has Mr.. thing he should not Miss.

Election telegram: "County doubtful" :"
Repeated BY echo: "Counted out, fool.'-
". 0. Pic.
A New Haven paper thinks Pope Leo is
humorist because he congratulated King
Humbert on escaping from "grave dan
ger.'
Judge Humphreys, of Washington, alias
"The old mans drunk again." has ruled
that Ammo Domini is an English word
Post.
It is not generally known that Horace
Greeley was West Pointer, When busy
he always pointed and told young men to
60 West.
Spikes says he understands there is land
in Indiana so extremely poor and unplo-
ductive that some of the farmers are unable
to raise more than one foot at time when
going to dog fight.
When Satan took Simon Cameron up
into the Allegheny Mountains and offered
him the State of Pennsylvania, Simon took
the old boy at his word. Ever since the
State of Pennsylvania has been in the Cam
e1on family.-CoUrjer-Jo Journal.
The German population of Virginia are
excited over the report that young man
living on B street has succeeded in invent
ing cheese superior in all respects to that
of Limburg. By the introduction of as
afeotida into the cheese he has heightened
the o,dorous qualities 45 per cent. and a
lump of the cheese the size of pea will
drive a polecat from its native wilds.-
ThronicIe
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The Birth Of Whist.

The origin and date of the first playing
of whist have of late been much discussed,
particularly in England, where the game
receives degree Of study and attention
we'll nigh religious. Edmond Hoyle, the
earliest writer of any note, commonly
called the father of the game, published
the first short treatise about 1742, in his
10th year. Though educated for the law,
he loved cards passionately, and was so
skiilful a player that he used co receive
guinea lesson for teaching the
different games. He spent his days
and nights at the card table, which SO
agreed with him that lie lived to be 81.
Whist is thought to be development of
the game of trump or triumph, played in
England at least as early as the reign of
Henry VIII. Trump is mentioned in a
sermon by Latimer, the Sunday before
Christmas, 1892, and by Shakespeare, pun
ming on the word triumph, in Antony and
Cleopatra. Whist, however, is not named
by any writer of the Elzabethian period.
The earliest re ferenc, to whist is in 1921.
in the poems of John Taylor, the water
poet. In the first edition Of Cotton's Com
pleat Gamester, 1774, no allusion is made
to whist, but in the second edition, issued
six years later, it is mentioned as a game
commonly known in England. Cotton's
saying that ir gets its name from the ST
lence observed in playing it, albeit gene
rally received, is by many regarded as in
correct The proper name is probably
whisk
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RAILROAD RATTLE.
THE NORTH PACIFIC LEASES THE ST. PAUL.
e PACIFIC.
Bismarck Tribune, Noy. 25,

Bismarck Tribune, Noy. 25,
An arrangement has been entered into
between the St. Paul s. Pacific Railroad
Co. and the North Pacific r. r., whereby
the latter gains q 90-year lease Of the road
bed and depots of the former company be-
tween St. Paul and St. Cloud, doing away
with the necessity for the construction Of
the st. Cloud and Minneapolis line, and en-
bling che North Pacific Company to use
funds which would have been required for
the construction of that line, for the extern
sion of its line from Bismarck to the yell
lowstone, and advertisements are now out
for grading on this extension.
Heretofore the North Pacific has been
tied by the St. Paul and Pacific and could
not
MAKE THE CONCESSIONS
That were absolutely demanded by the rap
idly increasing business Of the Northwest.
It was because of this that hundreds of
tons of freight that should have been ship
ped this way reached the Hills via Fort
Pierre. For the same reason the North
Pacific has not been able to compete sue
cessfully with the Chicago lines on the Mis-
souri, river freight, and much has been ship
ped up the river from Sioux City and Yauk-
ton which might have been shipped by this
line. Our local interests have, also, been
held back, and apparently excessive rates
have been charged. But the trouble is over
now, and with the beginning of this new
era the North Pacific will be able to and
will make any concessions which the bu-
siness interests of this legion demand.
Then they will have direct connection
with rival lines at st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis, and can arrange for through freights on
the most favorable basis. This they have
never been able to do. AT first they were
tied by the st. Paul aud Duluth Railroad
and they gained nothing, except in distance,
by the completion of the Brainerd Branch.
But they now have
ALL THE ADVANTAGES
OF an independent line without the delay
of construction, and they can and unques-
GiOnaDly VIII SO Ou Will cAtcASlou VI tAcL
road to the Yellowstone.
This will make Bismarck che headquar-
rs for work on the extension and will give
its business men untold advantages. Fol-
lowing the building of the Yellowstone line
We may reasonably look for the construc-
ton of the Black Hills line, which should be
finished within the next two years. Then
will follow the construction from Lake
Kampeska to Dismarck-the extension of
the Northwestern.
There are certainly three years of pros
perity in sight, from railroad construction
alone, for Bismarck, aud all old residents
of Bismarck know what that means. By
that time our farming interests will be
great enough to fall back upon.
In this connection it is proper to remark
that the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Company has determined to build line of
road next season from the State line to
Yankton giving them, s,lsa,a Missouri river
terminus.
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JUDGE NOT.

How do we know what hearts have vilest sin?
How do VIC know?
NJ any, like sepHlchres arc foul within,
Whose outward garb is spotless as the snow,
And many may be pure we think not SO.
Hew near to God the souls of such have been,
What melcy sec,et penitence may win
flow do we know?
How can we tell who have sinpcd mo than we !?
How can we tell?
We think cur brother walked full guiItily,
Judging him in self-rishteousness. An well |!
Perhaps had we been driven through the hell
Of his untold temptations, we might be
Less upright in our daily walk than he
How can we tell7
Dare we coldemn the ills that others do?
Dare we condemn? :?
Their strength is small, their trials not few,
The tide of wrong is diff cult to stem,
And if to us more clealy than 20 them
Is given knowledge of the good and true,
More do they need our help and pity, too;
Dare we condemn?
Gold help us all, and lead us day by day,
God help us all!
We cannot walk alone the perfect way:
Evil allures us, tempts us, and we fall.
We are but human and our power is small;
Not one of US may boast, and net day
Rolls DER cur heads but each hath need to say,
God bless US all
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EvE-ANGEL1cAL CORNER.
Crimped hair is old-fashioned.

Crimped hair is old-fashioned.
Patti asks only $4,000 night for her
singing.
Pearls are now more fashionable than
diamonds.
Fashionable gloves for the street have
six buttons.
Flowers made entirely of fur are new,
novel and elegant.
Heavy gold chains and pendent lockets
are no longer fashionable.
Mixed laces are among the novelties.
They are white and colored.
Velvet and wool combination costumes
are as fashionable as ever.
A pretty face-ln is the most important
part of bonnet trimming.
Scall0ps, beauty-curls and beau-catchefs
are the newest in the way of hair-dresssng.
The new styles of furniture coverings
resemble the new styles of dress materials.
New dinner cards are panel-shaped and
beautifully ornamented with landscape de-
signs.
And now Olive Logan claims that Nellie
Grant is unhappily married. "Told you
so is in order.
Susan's Town, named in honor Of Susan
B. Anthony, has just been made the county.
seat of Halper's county, Kansas.
John and Ida married,
Lived in Idaho forlorn,
Cause John played billiards
And let Idaho the corn,
The latest fancy in stockings, is for white
polka dots in silk embroidery on black silk
feet and legs, while the toes, heels and the
upper half of the leg of the stocking are
white.
Denver has man dressmaker, and all the
ladies patronize him. There's an explica-
BILE facination about it. He is not regard
ed financially strong because he is always
engaged in busting.
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BURIAL.
Richard Whiting writes from Paris to
World MS follows:
Sarah Bernbardt objects strongly to the
imputation of singularity, and yet, if it
were not rude to contradict q lady, one
would admit that she sometimes does sin
gular things Her latest proceeding is to
have herself photographed in her coffin.
The coffin has long been part of the furni-
ture of . her home, and a very beautiful
thing it is. It is enough to make one long
for death. 1t was originally present from
friend, who had spared no pains in ma
king it worthy of the lady's acceptance,
and has since been largely embellished by
cIe .-r.-4r II -sasaz 81 -laazs
which she shares or might have shared
with the late Admiral Lord Nelson and
with others of the great to have her last
lodging constantly in view, and, as it were,
under repairs at the hands of a prospective
tenant. Whenever she has had bit OF
lace 20 spare Or new idea in quilting or
embroidery she has put 1t on the coHn.
For a long time she used it as her bed, but
that practice was finally abandoned at the
earnest solicitation of the doctors, as tend
ing so hasten the approach OF the moment
when she would have to take it Tor good
and ALL Musing of late on that moment
and lis incidents. it occurred to her that it
would be a good thing to leave explicit d.
rectlons for the manner of her funeral, ana
so she forthwith laid herself out with ex-
ouisiie taste. and called IN photographer
TO .sfxn her IN pictorial black and white
for the purpose of exemplifying her testa-
mentary instructions. The man did DIS
offies. and there she lies, as Mrs. Camp
might put it, "the sweetest corpse" on'y
four copies were made, for strictly private
keeping, but if the public could see one OF
them, which it never will, it would 'nsis0
On there being a thousand. The coffin IS
half smothered in flowers and branches OF
palm, most artistisally arranged, ana IL 10
placed on an incline, so as to permit you W
have a good view of the occupant. que
lies on pillow of white saCin; she is rooeo
II white cashmere, and her bare arms are
crossed meek,y over her breast-opheha
going to her grave. The eyes are closed s
and all the features are beautifully CON-
posed. Everything is done to carry ou' 'no
;daa that death is but long dreamless
sleep. Ask me why the greatest actress III
France, and the most admired, woman
vho has won her way to throne of genius
sbou,d have such fancies, and must
frankly admit I cannot tell you. There
Is onlv this to be said: I think her very de-
LIGHT in her present glory makes her NOR
bidly sensitive in speculasioUs as TO tne
future. Death is ever in her thoughts, out
not SO much the death of the body as the
death OF fame-that terrible forgetfulness
of a gceat and once popular name OF Whicn
she has seen so many examples in her the
| atrical career.
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Chinese Ladies

The compression of ladies' feet to less
than half their natural size is not to be re-
garded as q mark, or as a consequence, of
the inferiority of the sev 1t is really q
mark Of gentility N..ioas accounts are
given of the origin of this custom. One
is, that an Emperor was jealous of his wife
and to prevent her from gadding abroad,
put her feet in iron stocks. Another is,
that certain Empress Tan-ke (B. c., 110O
was born with club feet and that she caused
the Emperor to issue an edict adopting her
foot as the model of beauty, and requiring
the compreSs sing of female infants feet so
as to conform to the imperial standard.
While third account is that the Emperor
Le-yuh q. D., 961) was amusing himself
eae day in his palace, when 1t occurred to
him that he might improve the appearance
of the feet Of a favorite concubine. He
caused her feet to be bent as to raise the
instep into an arch, to resemble the new
moon The figure was much admired by
the courtiers, who soon began to introduce
it into their families. 1t is said that an
other Emperor, two hundred years later,
placed stamp of the lotus flower (water-
lily) on the sole of the small shoe of his
favorite concubine, 50 that at every step
she took she left on the ground the print
of the flower hence, girls with small feet
are complimented at the present day as
"the golden lilies" The operation of ban
daging and COMPRISING the feet is very
painful children cry very much under it.
Modification of the feet has been known to
result from this cruel practice. Custom,
however, imposes it as a necessary attrac-
ton in women. An old gentleman at Can
ton, being asked the reason why he had
bandaged his daughters feet, replied that il
she had large feet she could not make a
good marriage.
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LIGHTING THE CAPIToL.-The Capitol
at Washington is to be lighted by electric
ity. The invention is that Of MIR. Rogers,
electrician of the building. Four machines
will illuminate the Hall of Representatives,
and replace 1900 gas jets. The cost of the
new light will be about ten cents an hour.
Mr.. Rogers machine has been fully tested
and found satisfactory. It's principal fea-
lures are the placing of two long slender
carbon points inside small tubes, converg-
ing at an angle of about 45o ON the mega
tive and 90 on the positive pole, of course
opposite to each other. A constant dis
tance between them is maintained by q
gearing of weights and pulleys, while the
contact of the separate points in each set
during the combustion prevents the forma.
ton of the concave "cupo on the positive
and the stalagnnite on the negative pole,
thus insuring steady, non-fiickering, even
light of any duration that is desired. m.
Y. Herald.
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Naughty opera-A Severe Judgement Q!
Carmen"

The opera and the drama now pleasing
New York are rather high favored.
" Carmen for instance, is quite dose
for a sensitive moral stomach. This is the
opera with which Mapleson plays his new
card Minnie Haack. It is stcry of a
gipsy sIrump5I--..-s - biinoe matters
who infatuates young Spaniard, sedueed
him from his modest and lovely betlothed,
then deserts him for muscular bull fighter,
and after he has returned to and been for
given by his Michaela, ensnares him again
and is very naturally murdered by the Don
on the indications of second desertion.
That is the whole story. We observe that
Miss Hauck is much praised for the clever
and exceedingly "natural personation Of
this low lived creature. There is only one
decent character in the opera-the abused
Michaela. It is true that the singer who
assumes the role of Michaela is given credit
of doing the best she could with the cum
grateful" part. 1t has come to this-that
the undesirable parts in an opera are those
that portray virtue. This is very much
worse than "La Traviata," which Emma
Abbott will not sing because it is SO immoral.
But the lady of the cammelias, whether in
opera Or drama, is saint beside "Ca1men."
The standard is degenerating if this vul-
carly vicious story, set to perfectly sympa-
thetic music is well received in the Amer
ican metropolis. Meanwhile, in Booths
Theatre, Genevieve Ward, an earnest and
virtuous American woman, who has gained
high fame in England IN the greatest roles
of moral tragedy, is slurred by the New
York critics, excepting the Graphic's-who
does the honestest work of the kind in the
city-ln her exhibitions Of the most serious
and thorough art that has been seen since
Charlotte Cushman died.
At the same time Russian actress is
playing in another theatre the hateful
character of Messalina," the Roman En-
press, whose debaucherY was ga Kissing
and a reproach,' with the nightly approval
Of numerous audiences. Are " Messalina !"
and " Carmen the theatric fayorites of
the 'sbest society ?"-Sprt 'afesd Repn6h-
can.
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GAMBLING AT VIRGINIA CrTY.-Yes-
terday afternoon charcoal wagon drawn
by four mules came to alstandstill on Union
street, between 3 and G. The driver lash
cd the animals heartily and swore furious
ly, but they could not pull the load.
About hundred persons were then col
lected and betting became quite lively
as to whether the teamster would
reach B street with his load. Odds were
laid against the team. Presently seyera
men who had backed the mules attempted
to help them by pushing the wagon from
behind. The other men objected to this,
and there seemed a fair prospect for
fight. Finally the teauister got two horses
and hitched them On to aid the mules.
Therefore all bets were declared of. He
made B street amid cheers.