The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24

Il. q. DUNN, Publisher.
Terms:-S2. Copper year in advance.
CURRENT TOPICS.
To use a Board of Trade phrase,
now is the time to sell short on snow.
1t is continually coming down. Still
it differs from stocks, because the
more it falls the higher gets on the
street.
A BELFAST (Me.) man has succeeded
in writing all President Hayes last
message on a postal card, which the
same he sent to Hayes, who biograph-
ed reply suitable to the solemn oc-
GasiOn.
AT the council Of ministers at Paris
it was announced that the proposal Of
France for an international monetary
conference this year has been accepted
by the United States, so far as regards
the double standard.
NONE of the seats in the senate
chamber at Washington are ever re-
moved. When broken, as will some
times happen, they are carefully re-
paired and returned. AS a rule the
seats now used by senators have sur
vived generations Of users, and hardly
one is without its history.
SOME Of the stalwart politicians Of
Washington affect to despise Secretary
Schurz because he plays sWeetly on
the piano. "Why,,' said one of them
the other day, ''he doesn't know any
thing about Poncas, Uncompahgres
and Sioux; but he can scalp amazurka
and tomahawk a Darcarole.'
THE syndicate which has subscrib-
ed some millions of dollars for the
New York, Chicago and St. Louis road
is the one which constructed the Ohio
Central, the Lake Erie and Western,
and the Evansville, Peoria and
Decatur roads. The lines to Chicago
and St. Louis will be the shortest of
all routes.
AT the opening of the supreme
court at Wilmington, Del, Chief JUS
tice Comegys called the attention Of
the grand jury to the recent utterances
of Bob Ingersoll in that city. The
Judge thought they were blasphem-
GUS, and indictable as such under the
laws of the state. Bob would probably
enjoy trial on the charge outlined
by the Judge.
FROM some correspondence of the
late j. w. Croker, just published. it
appears that the Duke of Wellington
did not say up Guards, and at
them!" at the battle of Waterloo. In
answer to an inquiry as to the matter
the Duke himself wrotey "sWhat I
must have said, and possibly did say,
was Stand up, Guards and then
gave the commanding officer the order
to attack
The New York Graphic contains a
very striking cartoon that will bear
thinking over. It represents stupid
engineer in the shape of an ass with
the legend in his hand, $50 week."
The figure of death hovers over the
boilers and seems to be attending to
the gaugecocks. There is little doubt
that many disasters can be directly
traced to cheap men in responsible
positions.
THE news comes from Paris that
the ex-Empress Eugene has nearly
finished history Of the life and death
of the Prince Imperial. 1t is her pur
pose to publish the work as soon as
she becomes settled in her new resi-
dence at Marlborough. She also in
tends to publish the daily notes of the
Emperor written during his reign, in
collecting which she was assisted by
M. Rouher.
AN insurance conspiracy Of deep
interest has been unraveled at Evans
vile, Ind, by detective employed by
one of the companies involved. Julius
A. Coleman, a prominent young lawyer,
induced Charles II. Lucas to insure
his life for $4,000 and make a feint
of having been drowned in the river.
The preliminaries of the fraud were
duly carried out, but Lucas and his
minor accomplices were soon captured.
The largest torpedo-boat in ex-
istence has lately been launched at