The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-10-07
ITEMS OFINTEREST.

The oldest living graduate Of Har-
ward college is said to be Joseph Head,
who was graduated in 1904.
The increase Of the Roman Catholic
population in this country in the last
twenty years has been about :, 800 900;
that of priests has been 1854 that Of
jchurches and chapels, 1922. The gain
i'm priests and churches still continues.
At the termination Of Anton Ru-
binstcin's last concert in Moscow, the
! patrician beauties Of that city carried
the platform by storm, and devoured
the great pianist's hands with feryent
kisses, to his manifest embarrassment
and confusion.
Miss Sarah Martin, a Cherokee girl,
wrote letter to Rev. L. Moody. The
letter was shown to a wealthy friend
of Rev. Moody, who was SO we'll
pleased with it that he placed $1,000
lat the disposal of Mr.. Moody for the
continuation of Miss Martins educa-
ton.
S.A. Benis, an old citizen Of Bos-
ton, whose father was the first person
to announce, by ringing the church
bells, the British advance on Lexing-
ton and Concord on the night proceed
ing the memorable 10Th of April, 1875,
offers to give new; bell to the Old.
South church in Boston in exchange
for the old one. r.-- 49, $as
The new compromise" metals of
which so much was heard few
months ago are to have trial at the
mint. The director OF the mint is to
have coined four hundred specimens
each Of the "stella," the metric silver
dollar, and the ''goloid" dollar. These
are specimens Of reform coinage rel
commended by Alexander H. Stephens
and invented by Hubbell, Of Philadel-
phia. @ ...*.. RS
At ScarlettstoWn, Pa, a young man
tried to prevent his father from chas.;
Using a little girl, when father and
son clinched in hard tussle for mus
cular supremacy. The pugilists ROLL
ed into mill-race and fought in the
water for some minutes, Having end
ed the struggle at last, the father
packed up few duds and left for the
West. The son also packed his trunk
and left for unknown parts. - #
The German war maneuvers this
autumn will include the massing of
some twenty thousand cavalry behind
| the Rhineland frontier, with intent to
experiment practically on the rapid
ty with which the frontier line can be
covered and held in force by this arm.
pending the arrival Of infantry. to re-
| pei invasion. The test will be exhaus-
tive, including the marching, feeding
and disposition of the troops, as if un-
| der the stimulus Of an actual cmeroen-
roy. '1~@
Joaquin Miller who has recently
revisited California, says that the So
cial decadence and Cuisines dry rot's'
| in San Francisco are very marked, and
that nothing ever happened half so
| disastrous to the Pacific States as the
| building OF the Pacific railroad; that
the road became at once a sort Of ST..
phon, which let in stream of weak
and worthless people, and gave "the.
brave young States" there all the van
! tiles and vices of the East, With none.
| of their virtues. .ssa ss
A town in Arizona is called Toomb-5
stone. The story goes that two young
men, brothers. when about to start
from Tucson Oh q prospecting lollls
into the Dragon Mountains. Sonora,
were advised to give W the undertake.
ing, Cor if they persisted 1hcy would.
find neither mine nor fortunes, butt
their "tombstones" instead. The bows
bravely babe goodbye to their friends
though warned that they would never
come back alive. The prospectors went
off, and following blind rail made
their camp. On looking about they
saw a ledge Of occ cropping out sever
al feet, all marked and rich with prec-
| ious metals ''Wc have found our
tonbstones," they exclaimed, aud no
| other name would do to designate the
camp, The town has adopted the
name, which, il not poctical or c!assi-
cal, is certainly original.
| At Tifis some Jews from Koutais
were Oh trial charged with using
Christian blood III their Passover cer-
cmonics, and With killing a little girl
for that purpose. After a six-hours'
tria! they were acquitted. The Pub.
lie Prosecutor, feeling the aDsurlity
OF the charge, declined to deliver the
! usual olJCCCiA AL liz prosecution. .ts A
| A lady in Lowell, Mass, created
| quite sensation among her friends,
and caused some vexation to herself
on. coming out Of church one morning,
by opening her umbrella and shower.
ing herself and those near her with
peanuts shells, which miscellaneous
children had placed in it.
Rome spends $4,000 ON its public
schools, Of which ten years ago it hac
none at all. The Romans now evinct
great alacrity in attending the schools.
and the latter are entirely inadequate
to the demand of the population.
! THERE are in Germany twenty-ont
universities, with nearly 1000 profess
ors. In each university there arr
classes in the five principal faculties O
theology, law, medicine, philosophy ani
letters. A writer on the subject note.
that the most popular faculty is philoso
ply, which includes mathematics. save
at Smasbourg, where it is diferen
faculty.
James Oliver, of divers Grove
Ill, is 50 years old. He gave his wifi
q farm for consenting to a divorce, a