The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-06-03
4 ITEMS OF INTEREST

There is town in Kansas named Mon
key Wrench. 81
It's said that only few locomotives can
make f fifty miles an hour. ..5s
A whale seventy five feet long has been
seen seer off St. Mary's Lighthouse, Alabama.
A Persian will establish at Durham, N. O.,
q factory for the manufacture of silk.
Female convicts in the Kentucky peni-
tertiary are required to dress il pantaloons.
It is established beyond question that the
coffee plant can be successfully cultivated
in Southern Florida. III
There are three million unmarried men
in the country. This is understood not to
include the divorced. III
Over in England, when anybody has q
complaint which puzzles the doctors, they
lay it to American beef. 5 5.
1t is proposed to change the name Of
Central Park, N. Y, to Irving Park, il
honor of Washington Irving.
Detroit has restaurant where cup Of
coffee and roll of bread can be obtained
for two cents, or a cent a piece.
There are nineteen bachelor farmers II
Walnut ll, township, Pike county, Iowa, who
are farming aid doing their own cooking.
In the Iowa Agricultural College every
girl in the junior class has to know how to
make light bread before she can rise to the
seniors
The st. Louis police searched all day for
q baby whose mother said it had been
stolen, but which was found under the bed. 1
were it had fallen.
In order to enlarge q church in Dover,
England, a yew tree, 1000 years old has
been removed. The earth and tree weighed
fifty tons.
An artesian well at Davenport, Iowa, has
been sunk to the depth of $50 feet, and
400 gallons of water q minute few from it,
rising twenty five feet above the surface Of
the ground.
A man, woman and child, who have been
begging for some weeks in jacksonville.
Cal, have been found to have $65, 900 in
vested in San Francisco, have four sons
engaged in profitable business, and $500
in gold was found in the possession of the
man., tfs4
The Superintendent Of the Pittsburgh
ga schools highly commends the use Of
the daily paper as a text book, as the lively
interest the pupils take in the geography
and history of affairs connected with daily
events would serve to impress both studies
deeply upon their minds.
The grain crop in Syria has proved so
poor that, instead Of exporting, as Northern
Syria did three years ago, she is importing
wheat at from Egypt and corn from America.
Camels are carrying American Indian
corn" from Tripoi to Klamath, one Of the
graharies Of the East. sf
The first ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next good sense, the third good,
humor, and the fourth wit.
There is q German Evangelical Church
in Jerusalem Of 14o members, German
school, a hospital and an orphan asylum, all
in fourishing condition and literally sus-
tanned by Christian charity. In Bethlehem
German missionary labors successfully.
He has school Of 100 pupils and an or
phan house.
A German newspaper mentions that cor
tain druggists Of Leipsic offer for sale col
ored inks for writing labels on glass, porce-
lain, ivory, marble and metal. The writing
is done with goose-quin, and when dry
adheres SO closely that it cannot be remoy-
ed by any liquid. Black, white, red and
blue inks of this kind are made.
Madame Adelina Patti, writing Of her ex-
perience in singing, says that when her
name is on the poster for appearance, she is
all the morning preoccupied, nervous and
agitated; as the hour of the representation
approaches, she grows more and more fe-
vered, and at the last moment, when leaving
her dressing for the stage, one feeling
dominates her-a terrible fear.
The Oldest house in New England is that
now owned and occupied by Alfred Poor,
just beyond the Old Town Bridge, in New
bury, Mass. The Poors came to Essex
county in 1886, and built their house IN
1913, and the first child born in that house
was named John Poor, and the last one
christened the same. The Poor family have
occupied this house through eight genera
tons, and now it is stated it is to be torn
down and q new dwelling erected upon it's
site. q.
An Italian newspaper says that young
female slave has escaped from the harem
Of the ex-Khedive at Resina, and taken
refuge IN an opposite house, in which lives
q young man who has fallen in love with
her from seeing her at the window, and
with whom she has managed to carry on q
pantomime wooing. The young man in
tends tend to marry this Oriental waif, and
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