The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-04-21
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
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BALD heads are never seen among
the red men.
IT is vulgar to keep timo to music
with your feet.
WHITE hair is the flag Of truce under
which old age parleys with death.
The Boston Transcript says that if
you eat onions the fact will leak out.
A BAR that industrious men do not
hesitate to patronize-The crow-bar.
THERE is but one easy thing to Dor
row. and that we don't want trouble.
The wise man telleth his love, but
the foolish man writeth his in q letter.
RIGHT after q pair gets into double
harness they want to 60 on bridal
tour.
AN apparent contradiction: A man
living generously and yet giving moth
ing away.
WKEN pilot dies on New York
ferry boat every other pilot drops his
steer for him.
The reading-room of the British Mu-
scum contains three miles of bookcase
eight feet high.
A CORD of stone, three bushels of
lime and cubic yard of sand will lay
100 cubic feet of wall.
SAYS Jones: II hate fool" eyes,"
replied Smith, "like hates like" They
meet as strangers now.
COLDS and coughs are so common in
Russia that many Of the citizens have
names ending in the syllable "koff."
The State prison offers favorable OPP
portunities for revivalists. Nearly
everybody there is under conviction.
IL some artists could be hung with
their pictures at art exhibitions, these
affairs would not be without their good
results. - t.s
AN Illinois girls toast" The young
men of America--Their arms our sup
port, our arms their reward; fall in,
men; fall in"
A MODERN poet, in describing the
charms of his true love, says: II
feasted on her deep, dark eye, and loved
1t more and more" The cannibal! A
vulture could not have acted more saw
agely. = '
Soft soap, mixed with solution of
potash or caustic soda, or pearl ash
mixed with sufficient water to form a
paste, if laid on with q brush or rag
and left for some hours, will easily re-
move old putty and paint. .~
A wELL-KNowN English dog fancier
applies paste poultice of carbonate of
soda upon wounds made by the teeth
OF dog, and leaves it on for two hours,
meanwhile keeping it moist. Then
Turkish baths are ennn1oved -
Roofs and tubers must be plump,
even sized, with fresh, unshriveled
skins, and are good from ripening time
until they begin to sprout. All green
vegetables should be very crisp, fresh
and juicy, and are best just before fow-
ering.
A FRENCH newspaper states that If a
little chloride of lime be spread on the
soil, rats, mice and insects will at once
desert it. Plants may be easily pro-
tected by it from insect plaques by
simply brushing over the stems with o
solution.
rCATARRH.- - Dried MULLEN leaves are
said to be an excellent remedy for ca
tarrh. Dry them first in the sun, and
then by fire; powder fine; put in
clean clay pipe and smoke, blowing the
same through the nostrils, but being
careful not to swallow into the lungs.
LADIES doing their own marketing
will do well to remember that young
poultry may be told by the tip of the
breast-bone being soft and easily bent
between the fingers, and when fresh by
its bright, full eye, plant feet and soft,
moist skin. ...,
BEES W1NTERED ON SUMNER STANDS.
- have wintered on summer stands
ten years anu have not lost a colony.
My plan is to drive stakes around and
within six or eight inches, then fill in
hay or straw, and cover over to keep
rain out."-E. D., Godfrey, Iowa.
A BELLE, meeting her rival, said, with
an air OF much concern: "My dear, how
old you look to-day! I never saw you
looking SO old!" 7"Wen," she quietly
replied, shat is not at all wonderful,
for, you see, I never was 80 old before
as I am too day."
A TRAMP found q woman alone in
Vermont farmhouse, and threatened to
kill her If she did not give him 5 cents.
swell, here it u.s." she said, showing the
COlu, Ulb GUESS II SuOOC IL 10 you,
and she dropped it into the barrel of
shotgun. The fellow did not wait to
take it,
CHEST PROTECTORS. One of the best
chest protectors on a cold, clustering
day, when one is riding, is a newspa-
per, folded so as to have three or four
thicknesses, and placed over the chest
and buttoned under the overcoat, cloak
or sacque. ..'.. .'..
"OH! I'm just delighted with George"
said soft-hearted maiden to an older
and more matter-of-fact brother. "He's
just too sweet for anything. The last
time he was here he was so full of fun;
didn't you think SO, brother?" "He
may be full of fun, sister, but he acted
more to me as if he was full of beer"
A tableau and q sharp slam of the par
lor door closes the scene.
The LAwN.-Ayoung hedge of Usage
orange or honey locust should not be
cut until it is Q or 8 years old; not, in
deed, until the shoots are one, or even
two inches thick. Then they should