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4 Farm near Tukey's Landin:

A Farm near Tuksy's Landing.
wish to inform the public that have
u farm f0E safe. right along side Of good
road from Port Townsend to Tukry's
Landing OH Port Di:cove y Bay-abnnt
~ miles from the latter paint. There are
100 ACRES OF LAND.
or which about IA acres are IN cultivation /;
nearly as much more can be easily put ia.
la- Among rho Improvements may be
mentioned: q honse, barn, COW shed, chick
ell house and other buildings.
FOX SALE CHEAP.
For particulars. apply 10
w. II. PRICE, Port Discovery.
Refer ARGUS office. If.
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TIE "Press" will not be issued
this week until tomorrow morning.
, 1880-10-01
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES A. GARFIELD,
or Ohio.
FOR YICE.PRESlDeNT,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
OF New York.
TERRITORIAL TICKET.
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS:
HON. THOMAS ii. BRENTS,
OF Walla Walla.

OF Walla Walla. ....
Brigadier General-G. W. Tibbetts, Of
King Co. Adjutant Gensral--A. r.
Hathaway. of Clark Co. Quartermaster
General-R. G.. O'Brien, Of Thurston Co.
Commissary General-A. X. Bush, OF Pa
cific Co.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: First Ju-
dicial District-T. Z. Frary. Of Columbia
Co. Second Judicial District-C. A.
Reed, Of Pacific Co. Third judicial Dis
tIict-J. W. Young. Of King Co.
Prosecuting Attorney, Third judicial
District
HON. IRVING BALLARD,
OF King Co.
Joint Councilman, for jefferson, Island
Clalam, Kitsap and Mason Countless
w. Hovey. Of kitsap. = e...--
JOINT Representative, for jefferson. Ma
son and Clalam COunties-D. w. Moor
Of Jefferson. 4, HrE.
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THR Steilacoom "Express" is to
change hands.
, 1880-10-01
Notice to Creditors.

IN the Probate Court of Jefferson
County. Washington Territory.
In the matter of the estate of
, 1880-10-01

TREfS GALvANIC MEDICAL BELT, A
new and wonderful invention tthe only gcnu!
tism, Paralysis, Neuralgia, Kidney, Liver.
Spinal diseases, lmpOtency, Rupture, Ague,
Nervousness, Dysnepsia, and other diseases Of
both sexes. We challenge scientific investi-
gntion OF Its merits. Call on or address
HORNE h WEST ELECTRO AClNETIC
BELT CO., 102 Market 81. San Francisco.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Gen. Grants Wedding,

81 remember Grants wedding WE'LL -
said Mr.. Darby. cold man Dent met
me on Third street and asked me to
comearound, as Julia was going to be
married to q fellow named Grant. I
knew Grant; so when 7 got home
asked my wife if the wanted to 20 to a
wedding.
Whose?' said she.
"'Julia Dents, said I; she's going
marry man named Grant
GET s'pose we might as we'll go, says
she.
cit wasn't much of wedding. A
Methodist minister performed the cere-
mony."
"Did they have wedding-tour %
asked the reporter.
"Well, no; they didn't have any
money, and the walking in those days
wasn't very good so they just staid at
home"
6 Where was the Dent residence?"
Corner Of Fourth and Cerre streets. .
The way Of it was,' continued Mr..
Darby, young Lewis Dent went to
West Point as cadet. He there be.
came acquainted with Grant, and, on
one Of his vacations, brought the future
President home to make a visit. He
thus became acquainted. with, Julia, and
they were shortly aftarygiard married. p
st. Louis GlObe-D Democrat
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Not So Easily Fooled.

Chambers Journal recalls an anec-
dote which is related of certain Edin-
burgh professor Of natural history who
was engaged in delivering q course of
lectures on geology, but which had2a re-
suit different from what was anticipated.
One day a chosen band of his students
acquired possession of brickbat, which
they painted a variety of specious hues,
and placed among the other fossils and
rocks on which their master was to dis
course. The professor illustrated his
lecture by reference to the specimens
before him on the table, saying, for ex-
ample, as he went on, ''This is piece
of volcanic trap-rcck," or "This is q
piece Of granite" At length he came
to the mysterious stranger with the
gaudy livery, and, after taking it up in
his hands and examining it attentively
for few moments, he proceeded :
And, gentlemen, this is, am sorry to
say, piece Of foolishness.
A similar story is told of an American
professor, whose speciality was entomol-
ogy. Some Of his students, wishing to
test his knowledge, prepared a bug with
great care, making it up of the wings,
legs, etc., Of the different insects. Car
rying it to the professor, they said :
Professor, here is strange specimen
that we have found. Can you classify
it? The professor studied it few
moments and then said quietly g Gen-
temen, this is hum bug"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Happy Mothers.

Imay say, rather, cheerful mothers,
but / do not, because there is no real
sunshiny cheerfulness possible without
happiness in the heart. And there may
be happiness, if the heart be rightly
placed and strong in love and faith, even
when the outlook in life is dark, and the
clouds upon the path are heavy. There
may be little money in the purse There
may be q dear one lying paalid on the
couch, and fading by degrees There,
may be a marrow grave in the cemetery,
and vacant seat at the table. But yet,
my sister, if Christ be your friend, abid-
ing with you and holding fast your hand,
there may be a strange gladness min
gled with your sorrow. 4
We all want our little children to be
happy. Now the happiest children are
those who have happy mothers. The
young life, which grows up IN the
shadow Of a discontinued, repining and
gloomy mother, is like aplant unwatered
by kindly dews. It is apt to be dwarfed
and stunted. So, even when things are
crooked, and temptations to ungentle-
ness come, let the mother, for her sons
and daughters sake, try to be happy
Margaret D.. Sangster.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Weeds.

Prof. Prentiss reports the experiments
performed by his pupils to determine
the number of seeds usually existing in
cultivated soils. Small portions of the
soil we're measured in bulk, and the
number of weeds obtained from these
portions in pots counted. From these
results, after number Of trials, it was
determined that from S,O00,OoO to no. :;
600, 900 seeds usually exist in cultivated
soils enough to supply any number
found in farm crops without resorting to
the notion Of transmutation. The only
soils in which the seeds Of weeds were
not found were peat from bog after
the top was removed, and sand from an
area recently graded.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
The ssDepartlnentv CIerk.

The worst-abused man in Washington
is the department. clerk. He earns from
81 300 down to $500 per year. It is
safe to. say that all get as much as they
are worth. Half Of them who owe board
bills and sport SO much style around
Washington could not make enough in
competition with the world to wear two
suits a year. The clerk is polite pau
per. He thinks that for some reason or
other this country owes him o living.
He goes to work at 8 o'clock, and is
found, all Sticky brushed and gloved,
issuing from the front steps of:his great
asylum just before 3 O'clock Wash5ng-
tom letter. HI. +. ....g
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Presence of Mind.

There is nothing like presence OF mind
after all. During a tremendous shower,
a gentleman entered fashionable New
York club, bearing splendid ivory
handled silk umbrella, which he placed
on the rack. Instantly another gentle
man, who was mourning the abstraction
of just such an article, jumped up.
evil you allow me to look at that :"
he said, sternly. Certainly" re-
marked the umbrella carrier. I was
just taking it to the police headquarters.
It was left in my house last night by a
burglar whom we frightened off. hope
it will prove frst-rate clew." And,
though the exasperated owner could
plainly see where his name had been
scratched off the handle, he sat down
and changed the subject. -NeaO York
Hour.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Alike.

The twin daughters Of John Ramsey,
Of Lexington, KY, are so accurately
alike as to puzzle even their parents in
determining their identity. Not only
are their features exactly alike, but they
are the same size, same height, same
figure, same weight to within half a
pound.
They are now in their 18th year, have
never been sick, nor separated for any
length of time, are in the same classes,
study from one book, are both remark
ably sprightly, quite handsome, and
each devoted to the other
The most remarkable feature in the
case is the fact that they have never had
the slightest variation in weight from
birth to the present time. They are
named Mary and Martha.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
No HYnOcrite.

The pupils had got as far as the word
"hypocrite. None of the children
could explain what it meant. One
guessed that it meant 'big feeling" and
another thought a "hypocrite " was a
"big animal that walters in the mud"
So the teacher explained: GA hypo-
critic, children, is person who pretends
to be what he is not such a one may
be pleasant to your face, but speaks i'll
behind your back" 'sPlease, marm,"
cried little boy eagerly, raising his
hand, 6 then my pa amt a hypocrite,
cause he said you was COMPOUNDED old
maid, and he'd just's lives tell yer SO to
yer face !''-Bosto,a Transcript
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
THE MOON.
Statements Going to Show that 1t Is
Very Much Set in Its Way.

Statements Going to Show that 1t Is
Very Much Set in Its Way.
[From the Popular Science Monthly.l
After getting somewhat accustomed to
the greatness and strength of bar Of
solid steel sixteen and one-half feet
square, imagine one which is one mile
square $50 feet wide and as many
thick. IF it lay on the ground near the
Catskiu mountains, its upper surface
would overtop their highest summit by
more than 1000 feet. Itwould be equal
to 104, 200 SUCH monster bars as the last.
Its lifting power would be nearly 24O,-
869, 1000, 900 tons. The mind is utterly
unable to grasp such figures. The whole
globe contains 1000, 600, 900 inhabitants.
Ii each man, woman and child could
pull with a force Of 100 pounds large
estimate to move such a weight would
require the united efforts of 1900 such
worlds as this. AS L shall have frequent
occasion to speak of the load which such
bar could sustain, shall, for conyen-
fence, call it in round numbers 24O, OOO,-
OOO, 900 tons, neglecting the other fig
ures, because the number is so incon-
ceivably great that taking from it a
billion or so Of tons will alter the result
less than one-half OF one per centum
This bar is to be the unit of measure
which 1 shall for the present employ.
If half dozen persons were asked
how large the moon appears, they would
give as many different replies "The
size Of cart-wheel; /" twelve inches
across ;" the size of dining plate y
6 as big as a mans head,'' etc. Prob
ably no one would mention q smaller
measure, yet cherry held at arms
length more than covers it's disk. It is
difficult to be believed that SO small a
body exerts any considerable influence
on the earth, which seems SO immensely
larger. It is easy enough to admit that
the earth holds the moon in it's orbit !;
but that to do this, to bend it's course
into nearly-circular orbit. requires any
great outlay Of force, is not so clear.
Our credulity would be taxed were we
asked to believe that the moon, in its
efforts to move in straight line, would
break away, although held by bar Of
force able to Lift nearly 5000 tons. An
astronomer would grant it, making first
a mental calculation to see if he were
justified in doing SO; but even he would
hesitate, and perhaps would deny that
it was possible the moon could pull
asunder one Of these great unit bars one
mile square, and equal to more than
$4,000, 900 bars each one foot square.
But we would have no hesitation in
saying, Impossible Y if told that.
rather than change its course from a
straight line to its present curve, our
willful little satellite would snap like
pack thread not one, nor two, nor three
Of those unit bars, but the united
strength of 1O,000-or, in other words,
one gigantic bar whose section is 100
miles square. Yet. more than eight
such bars, or, more precisely. 1900
unit bars, would but barely defect the
moon into its present path.
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4
And then he escorted her mother to
quiet, retired place, and introduced
/ her to his mother, q dear, gentle old
lady in silver putfs and silver gray
satin.
Then lie returned to opon the ball
with fair Gernlaine.
One little month afterwards Con
stance Merrivale flung a set of we'd
ding cards spitefully on the floor.
s'Tlle audacions little wretch! Oh.
could strange her. To think, Of all
creatures, Germaine de Courcy should
catch Leonard Burnfeld !"
And then she cried in her fury till
her face and eyes were red and swol-
len.
Only, it was not Germaine who
caught Leonard Burnfeld.
~ told you my prince was coming"
she said to her mother, one happy
night, when her lover had left her.
..Yes, I remember" \
And Mrs. De Gourcy smiled.
mamma, no treason! Leonard is
my king-my darling and, mamma.
he says did perfectly right in not
making Miss Merrivale's dress.''
Mrs. De Courcy caressed the soft.
shining hair lovingly.
Eat all events, there is no present
prospect Of having to refuse to mako
another" a.
And then they sat in the starshinc
two fair, sweet women, to whom
such ecstatlc happiness had been Offer
ed to one aud such glad content to the
other.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
THE INVENTORS.
And Some of the Queer Things They
Are Getting Up.

And Some of the Queer Things They
Are Getting Up.
The latest wrinkle in gas-meters is the
patent Of Norfolk man, price-indi-
Gator showing in dollars and cents the
amount due for gas.
An automatic railroad switch signal
has been patented by Hartford hotel
CLERK. 1t shows danger when switch is
displaced, and will not right itself until
the last of the Indefinite number of
switches to which it may be attached has
been properly placed.
Clocks can now be made self-winding
that is, electric clock of the Copen-
hagen variety. Louis Snnderberg, the
Dane, in charge Of them, applies to them
mechanical continuance which peri
odically cuts off the stream Of electric
fluid from the battery, and brings an
electromagnetic to bear upon the relax
ing handspring in such a way as to re-
new It's tension instantaneously.
A young New Yorker has patented
what he calls water-skates. The skate
Is an air vessel made of zinc and her
medically sealed; is about five feet in
length, ten inches broad and five inches
deep, with vertical sides, and tapers off
fore and aft, or at the toe and heel, like
q steamboat On the deck or upper
surface there is socket into which the
foot is set, the opening being guarded
by a rim of metal to keep the water
from washing into the socket. The bot
tom is fitted with double gang Of auto
matte paddles, one gang forward and
the other aft, with five blades in each
gang. The blades are set on swivels in
frame ten inches square, that hangs
vertically with the bottom Of the skate.
As the skate is pushed forward through
the water the blades are opened and
offer no resistance, but when the foot
rests so as to begin forward movement
with the other foot, the pressure back
ward closes the blades and gives a pur-
chase on the water that materially aids
IN propulsion. Each skate weighs about
eight pounds, but in the water, owing to
its buoyancy, it has no perceptible
weight on the foot. One day the invent
OF walked across the surface of the Har-
lem river on them, the movement being
a sort Of gliding step, in which the
skate is not lifted out of the water.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Origin Of the Horseshoe Superstition.


In the very early times, says writer
in BoldaVi,e's Monthly, among the Celtic
race an efigy of the patron saint, so
common in churches and temples, was
much used in the dwellings and shops
Of the people, as so-called ssprotec-
ton" against i]-fortune. The 'sglory''
above the head Of these figures which
later was often rudely carved in
wood and painted was represented by
circular piece Of polished metal, to
convey the effect Of the shining halo or
nimbus frequently seen in illustrations
of the Virgin and other scripture SUBJ
iects. Often this metal nimbus was Of
semi-circular form; and, after the figure
itself had disappeared, by reason Of de-
cay, the nimbus remained and was sus-
pended in some prominent place at the
entrance door or other point command
ing view. The efigies in question were
not uncommingly seen by the side of the
doorway. In course of time the MIN
bus was much used as substitute for
the latter, and was sold in shops for this
purpose.
The tradition of good luck, as en-
bodied in the horseshoe theory, may
thus be easily traced, since it became a
common occurrence, in the due course
of time, for the faithful adherent in the
belief in charms and symbols to adopt
the horseshoe WORE to brightness, in the
absence Of any other, which he nailed
over his cottage-door. Hence a piece
Of metal Of this shape became associated
in the common mind with supernatural
presence and care, in keeping with the
belief attaching to the original figure OF
the patron saint.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Novel Use of the Telephone.

It is well known that if a long, dry
tube, open at both ends, be held over
jet Of burning hydrogen musical sound
is produced, the pitch and quality Of
which vary with the length, thickness
and diameter of the tube. It has been
proposed, says the Electrician, to adapt
such q tube to safety lamp under
ground In mines, and to- place it near q
telephone IN communication with an
other in the managers Office on the sur
face. The alteration Of the sound due
to greater or less admixture Of gases
with the air Of the mine would warn the
manager Of the state. Of the atmosphere
in the workings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Tict0ria's Good Heart.

There is an advantage, after all, in be-
ing Queen as we'll as woman, when
a heroic act is to be recognized in an eff
fective as well as tender way. And it
must be acknowledged that Queen Vic
tor1a never fails to use this, her preroga-
tive, with admirable and fine discretion.
Two English soldiers, it will be remem-
bered, Melville and Coghill, were killed
at the battle Of Isandula, Zululand,
while bravely attempting to rescue the
colors OF their regiment. Their widows
were pensioned, OF course, but the
Queens own womanly heart suggested
further and more gracious recompense.
She sent out by the Empress Eugene
two wreaths, and the Empress, after she
had made her pilgrimage to the spot
where her son was killed, continued her
journey to find the graves Of these OBJ
scure English soldiers and to Law the
wreaths upon them with her own
hands. She wrote afterward a letter to
the Queen describing the wild, grand
spot where they are buried, the heroic
circumstances of their death, as she had
been able to learn them, adding few
words OF earnest sympathy for them and
congratulations for the sovereign who
had men SO brave to lose all Of which
the Queen copies in her own hand and
sends with a letter Of earnest sympathy
to the widows Of the dead heroes. Ger
talnly there is something in being a
woman as well as Queen. Even to a
practical American mourning for her
dead, the knowledge that these two
women, who had been seated upon
thrones, had suffered precisely like her
self, and held out their hands to her in
sympathy, would bring a certain conso-
latlon. To loyal Englishwomen the few
scrubbed words would outvalue all pen
sions or rewards.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
Press Censorship IN Russia.

Again the Tifis journal. Obzor. has
come to grief. /" For five years the edit
or, N. Nicholadze, has waged warfare with
the censor, and three parts Of that time
his journal has been in suppressed con-
dition. In 1875 Nicoladze, who had
made mark as contributor to the Golos,
went to Tiflis with the express purpose
OF fighting there the battle Of the Rus
sian provincial press. Between the lat
ter and the newspapers Of the two CAPT.
tails marked difference exists. The
Coos, Moscow Gazette, and other large
newspapers of st. Petersburg and Mos
COW are allowed to publish their news
and articles without previously submit
ting them to the censor, while the
provincial sheets cannot print advertise
ments, let alone paragraphs, without OBJ
tanning first the sanction of the local
press authorities. By law, the proof of
Leading article, after being corrected in
red ink by the censor, has to be submit
ted again to that functionary before it
can be published, and, as Russian CEN
sors are usually as. deficient of energy
as Government officials in our own
country, an article sent in on Monday
and corrected on Wednesday can hardly
be issued, if it contains alterations, be-
fore the following week. IF town has
no censor, the poice-master or some
official supervises the local press, read
ing carefully everything, from the puff
OF somebody's pills to the official an
nouncements copied from the Govern
ment gazettes. Nicoladze made it his
practice to publish the shreds of the ar
ticles expurgated by the censor, without
taking the trouble to fill in the gap with
fresh words. When he had sufficiently
stimulated public opinion against the
censor by this practice he openly dis
credited him by inserting the articles
with the expurgations, which showed
how ridiculous the provincial censors act
in erasing words and sentences having
nothing Illegal or obnoxious in them.
This led to repeated suppressions, and
at last to trial, which lasted two years,
and resulted in the Supreme Court at
Tiflis finding a verdict in Nicoladze's IA
vor. Since then he has been elected a
municipal councillor, and was one of the
members who recently impeached the
Governor Of Tifis Of malpractices. =
London Examiner. 4
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CON KNOWS BEST.
BTEMMA CLARK WHITNEY.


In many troubles that perpleK, an
And make us weary Of this life,
We would say, " viii not vex Y
MY soul no more with worldly strife,n
But, looking upward . God knows best n
Unto His care leave ali the rest. =
Instead we strive with hands so frail
To part the clouds upon our way.
All! life gives us no warrior mail
Invulnerable to sorrows sway;
AID when its darts pierce through our breast,
Teach us to feel that God knows best.
When in the throes of fiercest pain,
And our weak spirits seek release,
And cry aloud to Him in vain,
To succor or to still in peace,
Though granting not our wild request,
Teach us to feel that God knows best
When like serpent from its lair,
With coils that kill all they embrace,
Sin springs upon us unaware,
And poisons what was pure and chaste,
Though falling meath temptations test.
Teach us to feel that God knows best
HARRISBURG, W. Va.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
A WidoHer.

A Western man having lost his wife.
a sympathizing friend remarked upon his
woe-begone appearance.
d" Well. 1 guess you would look thin,
too, was the melancholy rejoinder, g if
you had to get up before daylight, make
the fires, draw water, split wood. and
feed the cattle before breakfast. I tell
you what it is, if don't get some one to
fill poor, dear, sainted Maria's place. I
shall be resting by her side before many
weeks"