The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-09-04
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
A man never thinks Of borrowing his own
UMBRELLA
The potato blighthas appeared in many parts
of Nova Scotia.
Cyprus, which should be called Beaconsfeld,
is the home Of the caulifower.
One can live on $50 month China We
would prefer to live on d farm.
The KeOkuk Constitution thinks there is
corn doctor Of divinity that shapes our ends.
Bogardus, when not glass-ball shooting, can
make way with forty-nine fish balls out of
possible fifty.
A Franco-Jewish company has obtained
monopoly for the extraction Of bitumen from
the Dead Sea.
Boston Post: Di Murska is fond of pies. She
| always takes a couple Of magpies with her
when travelling.
Women are urging mems rights in Colorado
They have organized themselves into gangs and
are stealing horses
1t Is SAID that at Saratoga this summer the
| most extensively dressed women are the wives
| and daughters of coal and ice men. -.,, f..
Louisville young woman advertised in the
| papers for an escort to concert Tuesday even
ing, and forty young men replied.
Every day since her birth each of the parents
of Flemingsburg, KY, girl have deposited 10
cents for her benefit. She is now 60
Miss Ransom is at work on a portrait of
| Mrs. Senator Dorsey, who is said to be the most
beautiful lady in Washington society. ~
South Holyoke, Mass, woman picked
fGrty-two quarts of blackberries from her cul-
| tlVated patch in two days last week. sa
! A decree has been issued by the car ordering
| thai the recently purchased cruisers shall not
be included in the list of the Russian navy.
Fanny Davenport has analysed London. and
says it is nine parts fog and one part conceit.
She Brought some of the latter away with her,
| New York Chinaman is named Hang Flu.
but this will not satisfy the profane Kearney.
Hang Flu, indeedr' II would hang 'em alb
The federal government has sixty million
acres OF Land open to presumption in Califor-
| MIA, including twenty million acres of tillable
| soil. - -.----.~. -.-.-,-'
German and Austrian law forbids the sale of
dead fish. The fish are brought from the sea
and rivers in tanks, and are killed after being
! sold. ~ ~
silk manufacturing firm in Lyons, France,
| presents on its silks variety of photographed
| Impressions, comprising pictures by the old
| masters.
The scratch of pin, which grew into an
| infamed ulcer and threw her into spasms,
caused the death of DR.. John Stones wife at
Linton, Ga.
| The further north you travel in Pennsylvania
the poorer the whisky becomes. So saws the
| ''Twinkler' of the New York STAR and he
ought to know.
More suicides are committed, in proportion
to the population, in San Francisco, than in
any other civilized city. We hope Kearney
will hurry home.
The Russian provinces have 2l57O, 900 horses,
the United States 100000, Turkey LOCO, OUO.
| Austria $500, 900, Germany 1882, 600 and
France 5000, 600.
Lord Beaconsfeld is renewing his youth and
becoming quite gay again. He is regular at
! tendant to the theaters and evening enter
tainments in London.
An English critic says that Frenchman in
one respect is like Scotchman-he likes SER
mon, only the sermon must be delivered by a
comedian on the stage.
| We have seen a pack of cards that have
! been cut several hundred times, and yet they
| are whole now.-Boston Post. That Joke will
pass, though it's deuced low.
| A company has been formed in Algeria for
the introduction of Chinese laborers, on &C
count of the scarcity of hands for timber
cutting and mining operations.
Victor Hugo's ''Miserables' will be a feature
of the season at the Boston Theatre. The only
stars engaged there are Frank Chanfrau, John
Mccullough and Mary Anderson.
|
gnawing bone which proved to be woman s
arm. Other fragments of the body were found,
and a horrible murder is suspected.
IA lady in the northern part Of Herkimer
county, Ohio, was SO frightened at the appear
| ance of snake IN her path that her hair, pre-
viously glossy black, turned white.
Itrequires great moral strength and tenacity
Of purpose to enable a man to sleep till Z in
| the morning, when an industrious fly has de-
cided that he had better get up at 80.
The marriage of the Duke of Cannaught with
| the Princess Louise Margareta of Prussia has
been postponed, for some reason or other, till
February next. 1t is to take place at Wind
sor.
Miss Annie Ward Tiffany, who played at the
Chestnut, Philadelphia, during the summer
season, has been robbed in New York of $500
room.
In the Commune de L'Herault, France,
priest has eloped with young girl who was or
the point of being married to another man
She took with her in cash $4,000 of dowry
given by her father.
The salmon catch in British Columbia this
season exceeds that of any other. They are
sold along the banks Of the Fraser river at ont
cent each. Indians catch them and Chinamer
clean and can them.
| graduate of one of our leading American
colleges is acting as cook at one of the summe
resort hotels, and the hash is served up il
seven languages-just six more than the averag
guest can wrestle with.
A New York dressmaker employs three me,
cutters goes to Paris for styles every season
owns house for which she paid 1886, 900, ant
keeps her carriage and horses. She has mad
her way entirely herself.
sensation has been caused at Rast Bostol
by the elopement of beautiful and wealth
young widow with penniless but dashing an
handsome milkman, the woman leaving her 1e
| months-old baby to take care of itself.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza king ha
sapphire which was once the property of
Russian prince, and it cost her $l50,00O. 1t
! an inch in diameter. Her pearl necklace cos
$10O, 900, and her coral set cost $18, 900.
!, The New Orleans school directors resolve
, that all female teachers who marry during vacs
tion shall lose their places; their theory is tina
married women have supporter, and shout
give way to their sisters who have none.
: Lightning struck the Russia leather pocket
book of Mrs. Chenery of Salem, Mass. whic
she was carrying in her hand, and $50 in green
backs was burned to crisp, silver coin black
J ened on one side, and railroad ticket scorched