The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-09-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs

FACTS AND FANCIES
;DE. GLENN, the great landowner Of
California! Gal Owls $4,000 acres Of grow
ing wheat.
AND now physician says that long
walks before breakfast bring on dvs-
pepsia.
THE italian Parliament has ordarad .,
monument to Victor Emmanuel at q cost
Of 81 300, 900.
ITALIAN opera was first introduced ,
into England at the beginning Of the
eighteenth century.
The spots on the sun Go not begin to
create the disturbance produced BY the
freckles on the daughter.
enc, I DON'T care for sfnd to-day =
said an art-patron, muslngfy. Sup
pose you give me bass-relief. !"
JOSH BILLINGS has found one thing
that money cannot buy, and that is the
wag of dogs tail. It is an honest ex-
preston Of opinion on the past Of the
dog.
A BOY will go in swimming and fool
around the water for hours together
but when told to wash his face he will
have almost hydrophobic dread Of half
q pint of water.
IMMENSE focks of sparrows and black
birds have completely exterminated the
army worm in Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania, to the great relief of inhabitants
of those States.
MICHIGAN had f,835, 1911 acres under
wheat this year, against ], 601, 40 acres
last year. The crop was an average one.
and the yield is estimated at from 80
600, 600 to 81, 000, 900 bushels.
The British House of Lords will not
last long in its present form. according
to the London; Truth, which says that It
has only existed up to now because there
has never been a democratic House of
Commons.
ToDD1EKINs is a very small man. in
deed, but he said he never minded it at
all until his three boys grew up to be
tall, strapping young fellows, and his
vile began to cut down their old clothes
to tit him. And then he said, he did get
mad. |,
ct WILL not learn a trade !" exclaimed
the Chicago lad to his father: But this
business Of learning a trade, is only
matter of time, for within a year that
young man was studying harness-mak-
ing in State prison.
"WAs 1t a wailing bird of the gloom
Which shrieks on the house Of woe all night
Or shivering fend that few to tomb,
To howl and feed till the glance of light?
Twas not the death-bird's cry from the wood,
Nor shivering fend that hung in the blast!'
Twas only my ght-shirt-stout and good
And it tapped on the line as the storm rode past.
A WINE merchant at Rheims, in.
France, is the owner of 200 bottles of
champagne which he says he Will not
sell at any price, because it was the: only
lot in any cellar Of the city that escaped
the clutches of the German soldiers dur
ing the war Of 1870. ..>. fra@
THE nearest star in the whole heavens
is the Alpha Centaori, bright star near
the South pole. Its distance is twice as
near as any other star, yet it is computed
to be more than 100000 times as far
away as the sun from the earth, or about
20, 0OO, 900, 900, 900 miles.
WHEN 1 goes a-shopping," said an
old lady, ct alters asks for what wants,
and if they have it, and it is suitable,
cheap, and cant be got for less, I most
alters take it, without clappering all day
about it, as some people do.
A BEEFsTEAK chopped up fine and
baked with flour and yeast in the form
of a meat-bread" loaf is the latest
| dietetics sensation. It is asserted that
meat thus treated entirely disappears
during the process Of publication, the
! nutritive principles becoming incorpor-
| ated with the bread.
A SAN FRANCISCO manufacturer has re-
ceived from the interior Of the State an
order for a pair of boots which, if the
numbers in use ran so high, would be
eighteens in size They will be seven
teen and three-quarters inches in length
and five inches in width. The man who
is to wear them is small, except as to
hands and feet:
| The Rev. J. w. Grubbs officiated at
| what was intended to be a mock mar
riage, at Springfield, Mo-, but afterward
| declared that the knot was legal, and
made a formal record of the certificate.
The couple were indignant at this action.
and had the clergyman prosecuted. He
was fined $25 for making false return !:
but he has appealed, and for months the
pair will not know whether or not they
are husband and wife:
| In alehouses, in ancient times, chalk
'sscores" were marked upon the wall, or
behind the door Of the tap-room. It
was customary to put the initials .sP +"
and 90" at the head of every mans
account to show the number Of pints
and quarts for which he was in arrears.
When person was indulging too freely
in his rotations friend would exclaim,
pointing to the chalk score, g Mind your
P's and o." In this way originated
the old saying.
"N1Hm" is. a Latin word, which means
i. 'notHing,!v and the Nihilists of Russia
+ profess to beliege in nothing political ex-
listing in. their country, and believe it
! their:duty to destroy With ruthless hand
! the pr4sspt ioitical system, and remove
all who oppose them by assassinations or
by open fighting. The wretclied tyranny
of Russia has created " Nihiism," as
the tyranny Of the robber- knights OF
Germany created the sVehme Gericht y
! Of the middle ages.
| THE gold dollar was first authorized to
be coined by an act Of March 3, 1849-
weight, TIA grains; fneness, 900. 1t
has continued to be coined ever since.
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