The Princeton union., 1879-04-02

One million hands are engaged in raising and
manufacturing tobacco.
Chicago is now shipping cattle to Great Brit
ain by way of Baltimore.
Admiral Porter's health is much better than
it has been for some years.
John Swine is a candidate for constable in
Cincinnati, the city of pork.
Boston shipped 1921 900 worth of brown cot
tons to Madagascar last week.
The jail-birds in Kearney, Neb., are tied up
in pairs, to prevent their escape.
little girl at Marquette, Mich. drank three
drachms of chloroform-and lives.
Where is the organ grinder who can play one
thousand tunes in one Thousand hours.
A Marshalltown, Ia, girl ''scattered bur
glar' with the click OF an empty pistol.
Two feminine attorneys have recently been
We regret to learn that in $4,000 years this
earth will again encounter another glacial
period.
Ingersoll is still fighting Moses. Bob can
keep this up with perfect safety. All of Moses
relations are dead.
dinance for the punishment of persons giving
immoral shows in the city.
The late duke of Newcastle is said to have
insured his life in different offices to the aston
ishing amount of $2,5O0,0OO.
The Texas legislature is made of 81 farmers,
"a lawyers, doctors, 5 merchants, mechanics
and professional demagogues.
H..
in the lunatic asylum in Lexington, made in
sane, it is asserted, by hair-dye.
A Californian who uses bad grammar and
lights his cigar with ten dollar bills soon has
the reputation of being millionaire.
The Prohibitionists of Michigan have deter
mined rot to make any nominations for the
State Offices to be filled at the April election.
man was boasting that he had an elevator
in his house. $50 he has" !" chimed in his wife,
'and he keeps it in the cupboard in a BOTTLE -
Next month the comet will be visible through
powerful glasses. It will probably keep good
| many husbands out late at night looking for it.
A printed copy Of the proposed new consti-
tuition for California is being sent to every
| voter in the State, by direction of the conven-
tion.
Mr.. John Burnham, of Boston, has made a
tion of dining hall for the theological semi
nary.
Munkacsy. the Hungarian artist, who has
recently sold one picture for $1,000, was
formerly carpenter, and has painted only q
few years.
The philosopher of the New Haven Registe,
| soilOquiZes: I'm the race for matrimony it
isn't always the girl that covers the most laps
| that wins.'
Western editor thus kindly alludes to a
contemporary: He Is young yet, but he can
sit at his desk and brush cobwebs from the cell.
| ing with his ears.
Lillian Evans, of Tyringham, Mass, whose
husband deserted her and their child few
months ago. after only year of married life
died the other day of grief.
lawyer who tried to break mules will
| found out that there is such thing as being
| too we'll healed. A card now on his door reads
will be back in three weeks
The Detroit free Press has noticed that only
one man in six knows how to light ciga1
properly. ALI smokers will admit this, hui
| ONOAy Hu1OhcE WILL Cldl" 10 Dc CniG one.
The legislature of Florida imposed upor
grand juries the responsibility of determining
within certain limits, the rate of taxation to b,
assessed for county purposes in their counties
windfall of $4,000 has just come from
England to Samuel Mousley, one of yelling
toms soldiers at Waterloo, who has been livins
humbly at Oxford, N. H., for the past thirt,
years.
| Remarks an exchange: Full manv a ros,
| is born to blush unseen, and waste it's sweet
ness on the desert air, full many pound O.
butter that seems, is but the hiding place O.
yellow hair"
1t is in the wind at Newport that the Mar
quis Of Lorne and Princess Louise will hire
cottage there for the coming season. Sir Ed
ward Thornton will lease the cottage for th.
Canadian twain.
About the happiest man seen in New Yor]
for many day was St. Louisian, to whom
the thought suddenly occurred that he shoul,
not live to endure Chicago's celebration of tn
centennial of its big fire.
A school boy in Racine, Wis.,, is deliriou
and apparently fatally ill from the effects O
punishment by his teacher, who whipped hi1
with a ruler, and ''accidentally" struck hi1
three times on the head.
The physicians Of North Adams, Mass, al
tributed the sudden death of Miss Leonard wh
dropped dead on that town few days SINCE t
the drying up of her blood from her habit c
eating large quantities Of cloves every day.
Thurlow Weed goes every Sunday afternoo
to one Of the rooms Of the Y. M. G. A.. in Ne
: York, to take part in the 'service of song.
He used to follow Sankey from church
church when that singer was on this side of tl
ocean.
! lady in Racine, Wis, awakened by bu
giar few nights ago, sprang from her bed an
selzed him by the hair. She cried for assis
l ance' and the ruffian threw down the plundt
ne had seized, struck her cowardly blow
4 the face, knocking her down, and fed.
'' The Springfield (Mass.) Republican saws th,