The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-05
PIrH AND POINT.

"A FINANCIAL crash cannot DO worked
up into towels.
IRIS game Of bluff when you try to
scale precipice.
JONAH is reported to have been the
man who struck oil.
A PAIR of ears that 60 on head Of
civilization Pioneers and frontiers.
IF q policeman's club were red, |
what city would it representa- Baton
Rouge.
A MAN who declared himself to be in
toxicated with music was considered
alright.
The latest fgurative expression upon
seeing q man bored is, Throw him q
rope" In other words, Hang the fell
low" ....-.
No MATTER how handsome family
monument man may have in the GEM
etery, he never wants to lie on his back
and look up at it.
A FAITHFUL brother in Fairfield
co., church recently prayed for the alb
scot members & who were PROSTATE on
beds of sickness and chairs of wellness."
The bell-punch is generally supposed
to be modern invention, but it was
evidently in use in Macbeth's time,
from the fact that he says, go bid thy
mistress, when my drink is ready, she
strike upon the bell"
II WOULD rather" says the editor of
the Okolona States, "be living ass
than dead ion." Nature having
grati6ed him in that particular, what in
the world is he growing about?-
Buffalo Express.
"MA," said q little girl, "do men
want to get married as much as women
do?" "Pshaw! what are you talking
about?" "Why, ma, the ladies who
come here are always talking about
getting married; the mon don't"
If the sun were not boiling, and the
sand didn't get into the salad, and the
rocks were soft and smooth, and there
were no hornets or mosquitoes, and one
hadn't 70 60 three-quarters of amile for
water, what q tame affair picnic would
be.
Some folks wonder why it is that
man worth quarter of million will
step off the sidewalk into the mud to
pick up lost cent. The reason is plain
enough. He does it to prevent man
worth half million from getting hold
of the cash.--Detroit Free Press.
snow, Mr.. ROBINSON" said a fair
= young city visitor to the kind-hearted
! farmer, won't you show us your water
melon orchard?" II haven't q water
melon tree on the place this year,
ma'am; they were all winter-killed; )"
and his questioner wondered why he
smiled SO pleasantly as he answered.
"I'vE new thing-a big thingl" he
said; I'm going to get up matri-
monial agencyl" "The scheme is ven
cradle" said cold-hearted bystander.
Not on my plant" was his proud re-
ply. "'All goods not satisfactory
cheerfully and promptly exchanged I"
The deaths from violence-by muir.
der, accident, etc.-are four times
greater in England than in Italy, nj.
though the latter has larger popnla.
ton. This is due to the number killed
in mines in England
aJo4SNY," said fond mother to he1
boy, (which would you rather do, speak
French Or Spanish :" Il would rather,
said johnny, rubbing his waistband and
looking expressively at the table, 81
would rather talk Turkey"
"You made fool of me" said IN ir
ritated man to his wife, land that's tht
way you got me to marry you" IN,
love-" sweetly responded the wife, "yol
do yourself an injustice. Call you rsel
fool, if you please, but remember tia
you are in all respects q self-mad
man."
TIE Widow Colin, of Rapid Greek
Mo-. received an offer of marriage from
wealthy but old and ugly man. Sh'
wrote back to him that within a weel
she would choose between becoming
his wife and another disposition OF her
self that she had in view. A little late
he heard that she had attempted t.
commit suicide.
SOME railway memoranda lately pull
lished in Germany give the highe.
points yet reached by existing raj
ways passing over mountain ranges {
through mountain passes. The Apel
nine line reaches height Of 2,0A fee
the Black Forest line, 2,789; the Sen
meripg, 1920; the Caucasian line,
1893; the st. Gothard tunnel, 1886; Il
Bremen, 4,475; Mont Gents tunnt
1890; the North Pacific, s, 400; the Ce
trail Pacific, 1921; the Union Pacif
8,573; while railway over the And
climbs 5,646 feet.
Agriculture In France.
Hardly any art has advanced more
France during the last forty years thu