The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-06-18

The Princeton Union.
R. 6. DUNN. Publsher.
Terms-el.so par year in advance.
CURRENT TOPICS.
On the list of March the total number
OF poor in London was S9,529-45,013 il
Warehouses, and $40 outside, though
receiving help.
AN Illinois man sleeps every night on {
spot of ground left bare for the purpose il
his house, and has an attendant shove
clean earth over him to take the place Of
bed-clothes He believes that in this way
he guards against disease.
BUslIRANGING is once more active in
Australia. A gang lately captured the pc.
lice of Jerilderie, small town of New
South Wales, and held the town for two
days, taking $4,000 from the bank. A
reward OF $4,000 is offered for their cap.
ture. Is 0... '.., ~. ... +..- 1911.
THROUGHOUT England and Wales the
average product per acre Of the best farm
land is 5000 annually. In those countries
as we'll as in Scotland, the smaller the
farms the better they are cultivated, and
the larger is the average productiveness
per acre.
It is generally supposed that Chinese
"rice paper" is made from rice. 1t is
really made from the pith of a tree, which
grows to the height Of twenty feet, and
which is also used for the manufacture of
artificial flowers and certain toys and fan
cy articles.
KING CETYwAYo IS described as black
head-ringed man resembling his father,
the late King Panda, and firm in flesh.
He is large, but his body is firm, not fab
by, like the bodies Of other large men
among the Zulus. His favorite attire is a
spotted blanket.
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CARDIAC hypertrophy or muscular en-
largement of the heart-a very serious dis
ease-is often induced by an excess of
muscular exercise, fact that should not
be forgotten by those men and women
who indulge in contests of strength, endu-
rance or agility.
NINE. FoULD, the widow of the French
Finance Minister during the Napoleonic
era, has just bought the American paw
lion which was used by Gov. Mccormick
and the United States Commission during
the season Of the Worlds Fair in 1878.
Madame Fould intends to have her acqui-
sition erected on her property near Nice.
In France one-half the people, Or fully
100000, live by agriculture. That
country has 1,S15,000 farms under ten
acres in extent; and as fully 100000
acres are owned by $4,000 persons, there
are hundreds of thousands of so-called
land owners who are forced to work on
farms for the larger and richer proprietors.
The longest subterranean construction
in the world is in the mines Of Freyburg,
in Saxony. A series of galleries, which
were begun in the twelfth century, reach
ed in 1885 a length of 1923 miles, and had
yielded an immense quantity Of silver.
In 1888 a new gallery was commenced,
which was finished year ago, and is eight
miles long.
A SYSTEM Of weather signals will short
ly be put in operation along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, un-
der the supervision Of the signal corps at
Washington. Bulletins will be posted
along the road at "a distance of twenty-five
miles from each other, by which the ap-
proach Of a storm can be learned several
hours in advance of its arrival.
AT the Church Of England Chapel Je-
rusalem prayers are read on Sunday, first
for Queen Vlctoria. and the royal family,
next 1Or EDWARD Albert, Prince OF Wales,
and his family; then for his Royal High
ness, William, Emperor Of Germany, and
his family; afterward for the President of
the United States; and finally for his
most gracious Majesty the Sudan Of
Turkey.
AFTER forty years of careful considela.
ton committee of the English parlia.
ment have declared that all statutory regu.
lations Of freight rates are disastrous tt
both the railroads and the people. The
Massachusetts railway commission, afte1
an experience of dozen years and the tria
Of many plans suggested, have finally re
jected all attempts to settle by law the re
]ations between the railways and their pa
irons. ,5.l-= -t.l .. =,