The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-30


proposed thot one be erected to Nathan Hale.
tho hrst OF American martyrs to liberty.
Detroit is going to have . bridge across the
Detroit river. The reason il . good one, She
must have it, and she isn't going to have any
Brooklyn nonsense about its construction
either.
England have become bankrupt since last De-
cember. Scarcely any American paper fac
tories have been reported insolvent within that
period. @4.
Watertown, N. Y, has definitely settled the
tramp question by locking up the almshouse
and issuing a mandate to arrest every member
Of the travelling pests that frequents the
village. Et". .#~z aa->s
1t is said that Sothern will be accompanied
this country next month by the Duke of Beau
fort. Has Sothern sunk 40 low as to 20
traipsing around the country in company with
a duke? a $3.50
Brown wrote to his father in the country
that no one could live deoently in Boston for
less than $50 q day. The old man replied that
it decency was selling so dear, he'd better
come home. .F t,'" '-
A paragraph to the effect that a man near
Frankfort, Ky., was killed by falling into. q
we'll, the other day, is extremely astonishing.
Who ever heard of q Kentucky man being with
in a mile of q we'll?
I'VE are going out with the tied, saba
young man to a friend, as he filed down the
aisle after q wedding. SIN that case" said a
lady in front, ''you can afford to get off my
train" And he did.
Celebrated as is England for it's high farm
ing there are yet 80, O0O,O 900 acres of waste or
uncultivated land in that country-a possible
means of home food production to that island
is certainly very promising.
The English government has appointed an
Old Prob" and the London Times has begun
printing his predictions. With characteristic
John Bull-ism, the Times speaks of it al a new
and venturesome Undertaking.
The fame of Spurgeon is on the decline. He
is no longer the idol of the impressionable Dor
ton OF the people, and even his most ardent
admirers are relaxing their devotion. Joseph
Cook can sympathize with him.
The works at the Strasburg Cathedral. which
had been suspended during the winter, have re-
Gently been resumed, and are being pushed
forward with great vigor, with a view to their
completion during the present year.
They are hsving high jinks at the Brookly
PresbYtery, making the prisoner at the bar
laugh as wide in the face rs if he were at a cir
Gus. Liar and ''%scoundrel'' promise to b.
come pulpit words, from their free use by the
clergy.
A Swiss paper publishes some curious hunt
ing STATISTICS, from which it appears that dur
ing the past year 779 chamois, 4 bears, 5 eagles.
4 v%ultures, Is owls, 60 ~sparrowhawks, 324 mag
pies, and one other bird was killed in the Can
ton of Grisons.
Punch and Judy and the old apple women.
the man with the battery, the peripatetic yender
OF toy balloons, the telescope and the robins
have come with their usual unanimity and alb
ruptness. Spring is here and that is clear
Boston Transcript.
A Philadelphia detective named Roderick
is convinced that Charley Ross is alive and
living with a family in the mountains of West
V~lrglnia-another Ross Months, as it We're.
If this theory is exploded what will Roderiek
Dhu?-Utica Observer.
There is a lad in Machiasport, Me-, who,
though not more than 5 years old, has already
succeeded in having a father, a mother, a
grandfather, two grandmothers, two great
grandfathers, three great-grandmothers and
one eat-great-grandmother-all alive.
A cobbler has an everlasting job. A minis
ter will always do to tie two. A still house
that in which mutes reside. S~hoemaker's
whacks-rounding out sole leather. Jail birds
always fly away when asked to Sing Sing
Wheeling State Democrat.
Amnnr tho Zul,,. . z,k:-- L. r--
according to etiquette, the mother-in-law can
not face the son-in-law, but must hide, or pro-
tend to hide, when she secs him. In this
country the custom is reversed. 1t is the SON.
in-law who does the lodging.
The attorney general has affirmed the
decision of the assistant attorney general
for the postofice department that regular
publications designed primarily for adver-
Using purposes cannot be sent through the
mails a. the rates charged legitimate news
papers. -
Egyptian mummies are regularly ground up
into paint. They are used for this purpose be-
cause the asphaltum, with which they are inn
pregnated, is of a quality superior to that
which can elsewhere be procured. They pro-
duce a peculiar brownish tint, highly priced by !
the best artists. sr'.|.
Lord Lytton has given offense to the upper
ten of India by presenting to Miss Crooke, a
pretty circus rider, whose performances he at
tended nightly, a large gold medal. BE Offend
ed it once before by attacking the fine old
British habit Of invigoratiug the intellect of
HindOo servants with a club. |
The peanut crop this year is estimated at
l,29O,OW bushels. Will some one of our read
who is good at mathematics, estimate for /
us how long it will take the young men of this
country to exhaust this crop if they carry a !
pint of peanuts in their pockets every time |
they go to see their girls?-No,risto,on Herald.
Ternyson's ode to the dead princess and his
poem, the Defence of Lucknow 1877 lines in
brought him the sum of 81, 500. This is
for a season of distress in England, being
triffe less than twelve dollars a line. A man
can afford to take a nations grief upon his
and belch martial FIRE to boot upon
such terms. .s-.. -.
An old joke in a new role: ''Chawles,'' Ian
guidly drawled Josephine, looking up from her
book, II see one of the studies at West Point
is trigonometry. What is tr~igonometry, any