The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-03-17

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Garfield announced his cabinet, and
being the first day he had spent
in the White House, he sent for an
intimate fri end. The friend rushed
over, thinking perhaps that there
was crisis in the affairs of the
government. The President talked
inaugural, and then asked bluntly:
"Colonel, what time do they have
dinner at this house?''
THERE is now in course Of construc.
ton an electric railroad from Sichter-
field to Berlin. The track has width
of one metre-that is, about three and
One-half feet. The cars accommodate
twenty passengers each, and are built
like tram-cars. Outside Of the track
an isolated copper cable is fastened
upon pillars. Upon the cable move
rollers through which the electric
current is transferred to the dynamo
electric motor machine, which is fas-
tened underneath the car and between
the two axletrees of the four wheels
upon which the car runs. The
conductor of the car stands in the
centre of the front platform, where he
can readily handle the signal-bell and
the lever stopping the car.
OFFICIAL figures show that during
the year 1880, lO6, l01 German emf
grants sailed from the ports of Ger
many and from Antwerp; or more
than three times as many as in the
proceeding year. This enormous
increase is due in part to the fairer
prospects which the general prosper
ity of this country has offered, in part
to the growing aversion to military
service at home, and in part, the Lon
don Times thinks, to the discomfort
which the protection policy of the
empire has caused ''by raising the
price of bread and other necessaries of
the poor The Times does not pre-
sent any figures to justify this argyll
ment, the edge of which it rather
blunts by observing in the next SEN
tence that at least the coincidence is
striking.
DIR. JOHNSTON, the American repre-
sentative at the intentional Canal
Conference, sends the American Geo.
graphical Society a surprising state
ment concerning the means used by
De Lesseps to raiseflmds for his canal
scheme. The widest misrepresen-
tations seemed to have been INDUCED
in. 1t is even asserted that De
Iesseps caused the report to he spread
abroad that President Hayes had
spoken favorably of the Panama Canal
in his annual message. Another cor
respondent sends word that the sub
Scriptions were obtained from the
poorest class of the French people,
and 10000 women are said to be in
cluded among the subscribers. If
these representations are true, a day
of reckoning is surely in store for NJ.
De Lesseps, if he will be considerate
enough to live until it is ready for
him.
AN incident of a highly sensational
character occurred at at the opening
of the circuit session at Essen. in west
Prussia, on the 18th of February.
Civil Engineer Kreft, from Bochold,
having been summoned to serve upon
the jury, before the beginning of the
trials stepped up to the judges chair
and asked that his honor should relieve
him from the office of juryman.
He stated he lacked an essential quail
ification for such honorable office,
because he had committed perjury, in
1872, in the case of an accused man
called Gallons. The latter had, in
duel, wounded kreft. In the trial
following, kreft, being witness upon
oath, had misrepresented the occur
renee, which constituted a case of per-
jury. The Judge pronounced himself
incompetent in the matter. But the
public prosecutor Immediately pro-
ceeded to take out judicial warrant
and had the self -accuser arrested.
The production of iron in the
United States is pretty good indica-
ton of the condition of the country's
general business. During 1880, ac-
cording to the figures just made up
by the American Iron and Steel
Association, the total output of pig
iron was 4,2O5.2l4 tons against $780,
S75 tons in 1870, an increase of l.224,-
$50 net tons. Each state where iron
is made, except West Virginia,
increased its product; and the area Of
iron producing territory was extended
so as to include Minnesota and Colo
RADIO. Iron is now made in twenty
three states, and California and
Washington Territory are about ready
to be added to the list. The great
national industry, which is the foun-