The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-10
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IT is the cat that fights with eclat.
IT is easier to blame than to do


better.
SELF-1NsPEoT1oN is the only means to
preserve Us from self-conceit.
FANCY runs most furiously when
guilty conscience drives it.
NEVER break of a match. This adj
vice refers to heart affections, not to
lucifers.
The fat boarder called the mold on
the pie an oasis q green spot on the
dessert
BECAUSE man wears stove-pipe
hat that is no sign the top is stuffed full
of brains.
The older the tree the more rings it
has. 1t is very much the same way
with city.
A TREE may be downcast, and not
chop-fallen. It may be blown down,
for instance.
3WHAT struck you most in Italy?" q
newly-returned traveller is asked. "The
sum-" says he.
IT is right to be contented with what
we have, never with what we are
Macintosh.
FAST horses only should be clipped,
therefore do not clip your horse unless
he is clipper.
MRS. PARTNaToN says Ike has bought
a horse so spurious that it always goes
off on decanter.
BLESSED are the piece-makers," said
the small boy, who dropped costly
porcelain ornament.
IT is the easiest thing in the world to
discover all the grease spots on mans
coat when you don't like him. u
JONES, being told he looked seedy,
and asked what business he was in, re-
piled, "The hard-wear business-look
at my wardrobe!"
I ONCE knew man who had advanced
to such a pitch of self-esteem that he
never mentioned himself without tax
ing of his hat.-Coleridge.
A BACHELOR editor, who had pretty
unmarried sister, lately wrote to one
similarly circumstanced, "Please ex-
change" thinking it no robbery.
CORK was the material of which the
ancient Egyptians made collins, but the
moderns have changed the uses of this
article from grave to gay purposes.
THOMAS MORE, being sent for by the
King when he was at prayers, returned
answer that he would attend him when
he had first performed his service to the
King of Kings.
In 1878 Nevada yielded in round
Numbers $35, 100000 in precious metal !;
California, $19,OOO,OOO; Utah, $6,OOO,-
600; Arizona, $2,300,000; Idaho, g.
100000; British Columbia, $1,3OO,OO0;
Oregon, $1,000, 1000; Washington, $780,
600.
THERE are many hard tasks for WON.
en- in this world, but few which they
find it impossible to perform. Still,
there never was woman who could
keep fur-lined circular from flying
open and showing the fur.
ARABELLA (on her toes in chair,
clutching convulsively at her skirts
ooh, Bridget! A mousel mouse!
Come and catch it, quickl" Bridget
aSure, mum, there's no hurry. If this
one gets away. I can catch plenty more
for yer, num-"
cav, MY good man, what kind of q
wesidence do you think would suit
me?" asked an exquisite of house
agent. After taking him in, eyeglasses
and all, the agent replied: Something
like flat, I should think, would be
most appropriate"
I SAID to my little girl one day,
@What a large forehead you have got
It is just like your fathers. You could
drive pony carriage round it." To
which her brother, 5 years old, said,
Eyes, mamma; but on papa's you can
see the marks of the wheels"
A MEMBER of debating club down
in the country was soaring in the flights
of spread-eagle eloquence. He flew his
kite over republics and their institu-
tons, and then began to mention
Dukes, Emperors, Kings and Queens.
As he cane down to Queens some un-
regenerate heather parenthetically add
ing, And ten-spots," broke the orator
all to pieces, paralyzed the society, and
the ayes had it on q resolution to ad.
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