The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
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Tom MooRE's birthplace is now
candy shop.
The Jews of the world are estimated
at 6,600,0O0.
WHEN is q railroad track like ship?
When you see cargo on it.
SAMUEL J. TnDEN and Senator Thur
man are of the same age-65.
The locks used in tho new War O1ice,
in London, are Of American manu-
facture. ...-.
Some of the mails in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan are carried by
dog trains. ..@ 49,
GEN. BURNSIDE two years ago became
establishments man and has kept his
pledge to date. ,..... - ~. 81
THERE has been failure of the win
ter rains in the North of India, and the
people are apprehensive of another
famine t.- ~! 4s- -...
The ordinary life of LOGON olive
engine is stated at thirty years. Some
Of the small parts require renewal every
six months. 4. ...s.@ &c.. e..
ALL the guns recently captured from
the Afghans are of Cabul manufacture,
and are rifed, firing very accurately up
to $500 yards 49,.
THERE is this difference between mag
istrate in his Office and the violation of
another's rights: One is Justice in,
and the other is an injustice.
The successful man has faith in his
profession, and loves the task it i'm
poses. Aye more, he performs those
duties with strong heart and willing
hand: = ..st.
A POPULAR bill to allow the same re-
ward for killing stage-robbers as for cap
turing and convicting them has just
been defeated in the Nevada Legis.
lature.
The tenant farmers Of England pay
larger sum per acre for the use of land
than they would be obliged to give in
purchase money for better lands in this
country. l.-.
DPHTHER1A, according to the expert
ments of Prof. Klebs, of Prague, can be
very successfully treated with benzoate
of soda. No Inconvenience is felt from
doses of five grammes.
PAGES in the United States Senate
go about among the Senators with al
buns, to which they solicit signatures
for people in the galleries, who give q
slight compensation to the pages for the
| favor.
The Lieutenant Governor of Colo
RADIO is worth $5,O00,000, owns two
mines, is President of bank and pro-
prietor of large wholesale store. A
few years ago he was poor stone-cutter
| in Augusta, Me.
The St. Louis Common Council is
petitioned to stop the ringing of church
bells, some of which are so ponderous
and gloomy and in such continuous
action that real estate in their vicinity
is depressed"
| JOHN E. SKINNER, Omp0sitOr on
the Journal and Courier, at New
Haven, c., has fallen heir to $3.50, 900,
left him by Antonio Mercer, of the
Island of st. Thomas, whom in youth
he befriended, at Port Jefferson, Long
sland, N. Y. -
A GENTLEMAN who lives in Indiana,
but who has been sojourning in Missis-
sippi for two or three months, states, in
ia recent letter, that yellow fever is still
lurking around Vicksburg, and several
cases have been reported, notwithstand-
ing the cold weather.
| A MAN who died in Utica, n. Y, the
other day, had spoken but twice in
nearly forty years. On one occasion
| H. IL
he calculated "Oh!" and on another
when he saw snake creeping over the
body of sleeping child, he cried out
"See!" And, strange as it may appear
this singular man was not a barber.
The American House of Representa-
tives is renewed once in two years; thu
French Chamber once in four years; tn,
German Reichstag, the Prussian Die
and the Hungarian Diet once in three
years; the italian Chamber once in fv,
years; while in Great Britain the nom
inal period of the elective House il
seven years.
AN article in the New York Tribat7a,
places the population of the United
States at 47,568, 900, and of the Terri
tories at 662 ,O00-a total of 48,O35, Zoo
The population of the Eastern ant
Middle States is set down at IA, 100000
of the Western and Pacific States a
16,27O,0O0, and. of the former slav
, States at 16,80O.0OO.
THERE is one woman in Maine VIII
} has lived good deal in year. This i
her story: "She lives in Fairfield,
40 years of age, and is the mother Q
seventeen children. Inside of yea
l she gave birth to two at different times
, married off two, and lost three by death
One of the two married sons lost hi
, wife and was remarked within the sam
year."
A Giant Unearthed in Nevada.
The fossilized remains Of giganti
} prehistoric man have been discovere,
: 200 feet beneath the earth's surface in
cave recently opened in the Kit Carsol
mine, near Eureka. The lower limbs
D head and neck were as natural as thos
of the Cardiff gian., and in some re
, spects the traces of the human feature