The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Some Iowa papers want the Moffett
bell punch introduced into that State
The faculty of Beloit college will not
permit students to attend dancing school.
A farmer drove fourteen hundred
turkeys into Concordia, Neb., the other
day, to be shipped to Chicago.
The number of persons of nearly all
nationalities, who have this wear taken
part in the pilgrimage to Mecca is 1922
The Michigan Southern railway paws
Mrs. John Wentlautt, Of ,Coldwater,
Mich, $3.50 for having killed that lady's
husband.
Mrs. Hannah Graham, of Paw Paw.
Mich, aged IS, has just recovered 81 ,246
pension for the loss of a son killed in the
late war.
It is charged that the genuine Kansas
grasshOpper - millions of them have
Matched out at Dundee, Mich, and other
places Whereabouts.
The Missouri papers are mourning
that their State gets SO little of the vast
tide of immigration which is sweeping
through it and filling up Kansas.
Mrs. Alex. Laroche, of West Bay CITY.
Mich, has valuable dog. She dropped
q roll of bills containing $16O, and the
dog picked it up and took it home-in
his stomach. Only $50 of it is redeem-
able.
A pedestrian named Davis is at Des
Moines, Iowa, trying to arrange for a
walk across the continent from San
Francisco to New York in eighty days.
This would be an average of over forty
miles per day.
Eaton Rapids, Mich, claims to be the
banner town in the Temperance business.
Out of a total population of twenty-five
hundred fully one thousand persons are
enrolled as members of the temperance
organization.
A Newton county, Georgia, negro
carried three two hundred pound sacks
a distance of six hundred yards. He
took a sack in each hand, and took the
third sack between his teeth. The same
negro can hold any mule in the county
by the hind legs.
A tramp has been practicing new
dodge at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He takes
an envelope, and placing in it piece of
folded paper, enters the business houses
asking for stamp to put on it. He sue.
ceeded in getting quite a number before
he was arrested.
"A young man in st. John, N. B., who
was bound over to keep the peace toward
a personal enemy, got his two sureties tc
give the latter tremendous thrashinp
and enjoyed it immensely.
It is proposed to build one hundred
and seventeen miles Of the Black Hills
railroad this season, and the stopping
point will be at Fort Laramie.
Hartford's greatest income is from In
surance stock. The residents of that
Connecticut city hold $7,474,O5l of such
capital, as against only 81, 729, 1926 of bank
stock.
Parties from Cheyenne are taking to
the Hills machine for working dry dig
gings, and expect to commence opera.
tions on ground in the vicinity Of Rock
erville.
The contract for the construction of
the track of the Rochester and Northern
Minnesota railroad, ready for the rolling
stock as far as Pine Island, Mimi, has
been let.
The Pioneer Oil company, Of Salem,
Oregon, has failed for $4,000. The
assets will fall considerably short of that
amount. A failure in flax and decline
in prices was the cause.
The Bismarck Stage company is buying
in St. Louis one hundred and twenty
large horses to stock the road for the
daily. Twenty-Five half-bred horses
have been also purchased for the outri-
ders.
Half mile of steel rails per day re-
place the iron ones on the river division
of the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul
road. The entire distance to Chicago is
to be SO relayed, after which the sched-
ule time is to be materially reduced.
"Do you reside in this city p asked a
masked man of masked lady at a mas
querade party the other evening. He
felt sick when she said to him in low
voice: Don't be fool, John; know
you by that wart on your thumb" 1t
was his wife.
An Intelligent man in Bruce, Ontario.
went to shoot crows and placed his left
hand over the muZzle of his gun so as
to keep the crows from smelling the
powder" till the last moment. He has
more sense now, but less hands.
Doctor K. is man of superior ability
and q poor shot. But every year he
takes his vacation, and tramps over hill
and dale with his gun on his shoulder.
One of his professional friends SAYS it is
the only season Of the year when he
kills nothing.
"What is this?' said fond mother in
Kentucky to her four-year-old son, with
whose wisdom she was DESTROYS of
charming the company assembled at
dinner, as she pointed to nicely
Drowned sucking pig. "a bow-wow-
WOW, ma" replied the dear child.
The champion nose lives at Sacrament
to. Its owner was at breakfast when
friend seated on the opposite side Of the
table, knowing him to be a little near
sighted, remarked, There's fly on the
end ofyour nose. "Is therep' respond.
ed the owner of the horn of plenty. 81
didn't know it. just please scare him
Oft you're nearer to him than am.n
The five year old son of a family the
other day stood watching his baby
brother, who was making great noise
over having his face washed. The little
fellow at length lost his patience. and