The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-11-04
BREYITIES.

PHHADELpHA has 1851 grog shops.
4 THE enrolled militia Of Massachusetts
I numbers 245, 1852.
Canon FAREAR is said to have sweet
| and musical voice.
SENATOR BLAINE wears nickel-plated
watch that cost $3.50.
APPLES were never before so plentiful,
OF such fine quality, and SO cheap.
/ AT q recent dinner the Queen Of En-
gland plucked ripe peaches from ported
| trees.
"SwEAR not at ALL not even when
putting up a depraved and ungoyerna-
BILE stove-pipe.
NUN YEw CHUNG, a Chinaman who
weighs just 100 pounds, is coxswain Of
the Yale crew.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has postponed
her, visit to the United States for the
/ present season.
4 JOHN p. OWENS, the actor, has given
/ up the stage for mining speculation in
San Francisco.
BELL, the telephone man, has been
elected professor in Johns Hopkins Uni
VerslCy, baltimore.
The Lowell Courier believes that the
lover who pressed his suit was a tailor
OF clothes-cleaner.
THERE are in Georgia 88, 500 colored
men who own, by the tax receivers re-
turns for their respective counties, SOL, :
1919 acres Of land.
PROVIDENCE, r. L, has twenty five
national banks with q capital Of $l5,-
IA, 900, and So, PSI, 203 surplus and I'M
divided profits.
"GHAsTLY jolly" is given as the latest
addition to fashionable slang in England.
1t was probably created for use at a
mother-in-law's funeral.
/ Mrs. JOHN G. GREEN has given $780,
QUO to the American Sunday School
Union, to be used in developing higher
order OF Sunday school literature.
THERE are hundreds Of entertaining
writer's who would be good historians il
they did not know SO many things that
have never happened. -Nea0 Orleans
Picayuae.
MARK TWAIN draws and paints little.
He drew the lumber to build fence at
the back Of his house, and the white
washing on said fence is said to be one
OF the finest sights in Hartford.
1 In what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life % asked q
Brooklyn Sunday-school teacher of a
quiet-looking boy at the foot Of the
class. dead, " calmly replied the boy.
A HORSE in Nevada, being sick with
colo, ended his sufferings by deliber-
ately dashing out his brains against the
stone wall OF the corral. It was in Ne
vada, also, that pet dog recently com
mitted suicide by drowning.
w. N. ARMSTRONG, a lawyer of New
York city, has been appointed Attorney
General in the new Cabinet of King
Kalakaua, Of the Sandwich islands.
His father was one Of the first mission
aries to the islands, and he himself was
born there.
SUICIDES are on the increase in France.
The number in 1870 was 4, l57 in 1879,
5,275; in 1874, 5,617 in 1876, 1904 :
in 1877, 1922 and in 1873 to which
only statistics have been made up
6,424. A great number Of cases, too,
are hushed up and never appear.
! A PRIZE was offered for the mother
Il WHO presented buo SFehCeSC uumDer OF
her own children at the Indiana State
fair. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Line were
each accompanied to the fair by nine,
but Mrs. Line gave birth to tenth on
the grounds, and so took the prize.
A THEOLOGICAL professor asked his
class the question whether they could
think Of any reason why the grave OF
Moses should have been so strictly con
cealed, and simple youth, who, un-
fortunately, stammers, thought it must
be 'be-because they would t-take him
up and st-stuff him."
AMONG the languages of civilized ma
tons English is the most widespread. Ii
is the mother tongue Of about SO, 900, OOO
people; German, Of between SO, 900, OOC
and 6O,000,000; French, Of between
100000 and $4,000, 600; Italian. Of
2S,000,00 and Russian, of between
SIS, 600, 900 and 60, 100000.
The correspondence of Peter the
Great will shortly be published by i'm.
perial authority at st. Petersburg.
The work of editing the materials has
already been seven years in hand. The
text is elucidated by commentaries from
the pen of the Russian Academiciar
Bytchkof. The appearance Of the vol
umes has long been anxiously awaited
and is expected to be literary event q
the FIRST order, no less on account Of tho
monumental character of the work thar
the elegance of its execution. It i
probable that it will contain many inter