The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-28

The cells are filled with glucose, which
is the sweet syrup of common corn,
and looks and tastes like honey. The
cells, once filled, are closed by smear
ing a hot iron plate over the wax tops,
and the product is sold us the Z. best
clover honey It is in great demand
and out sells the regular honey. Gal.
Ions and gallons of the best tomato
catsup are made from the tomato skins
which are purchased from the great
tomato canning establishments.
Persons and Things.
A MAN who was snow bound in
Western Iowa, found his horse
stopped by what seemed to be a wire
fence, He found that he had beer
trying to drive through the telegraph
wires.
THE Crown Prince Of Germany ha;
just bought for $4,000 Rubens mag
nifcent picture of S Neptune and Am
phitrite.'' It has long been one Of the
ornaments of Count Schonborn' S eel
ebrated gallery at Vienna.
Mrs. MARK HOPKINS, of San Fran.
cisco, is fitting up handsome home
in Great Darlington, Mass, intending
to make that town her legal reside
thus saving a large amount of taxes
in California.
SECRETARY and Mrs. KirkWOod are
assisted in their hospitable duties by
an adopted daughter, Miss Rachael
Kirkwood. Miss Abigail Dodge and
Miss Alice Blaine aid Mrs. Blaine in
receiving her guests.
GENERAL ORD has been received
with great honor in Mexico, gorgeous
banquets and special cars being offered
to him. The General took to Mexico
with him a quantity of German carp to
be used in stocking Mexican waters.
DIR. SCHL1EMAN is going to excayate
in Crete. and expects to find rich
treasures. Nothing in the way of
scientific research has been done there
since Admiral Spratt worked chiefly
upon the surface more than fifteen
years ago.
THERE was something terribly real
in the part taken by a young woman
at a recent masked ball in Paris.
While the revelry was at it's height,
she leaned against pillar, snatched a
stiletto from beneath her cloak. and
plunged it into her bosom.
Mrs. HoRATIo NELSON WARD has
just died in England in the eighty
first year of her age. The deceased
was Lady Hamllton's little daughter
Horatia, the same whom her reputed
father, Lord Nelson, bequeathed with
his dying breath to the care of his
country.
AN observant page in the Senate
Chamber, whom Senator Malone in
structed to carry to Mrs. Malone, in
the Arlington, a basket of flowers that
had been sent to him by a pretty Vir-
ginia widow who is said to be in sym
pathy with the Re-adjusters. made
this reply: Il have been here a Tong
time, and have noticed that the Sena-
tors always take the cards off. .
IT will hereafter be prudent for
surgeons to be careful not to take off
a mans arm unnecessarily, or else to
take off both arms. A physician in
Michigan, narrowly escaped being
killed recently, with a pistol held in
the remaining hand of a man whose
arm he amputated many years ago,
and who had come to the conclusion
that the amputation was unnecessary.
PROFESSOR SWING says: cat the
risk of a trial for heresy, I will affirm
that the Sunday dinner should be a
great advance upon the h-day re-
past, or upon the picked-up affair of
Saturday. On Sunday the laborer, in
body or in mind, does not eat outscof a
bucket or basket, but at his home Ia
BILE. In honor of such an event the
meal should surpass the common
standard, and be a reason for loving the
Institutes Of religion
In California, Chinese and Indian
cheap labor have been brought into
competition in railroad construction.
The Indians handled the pick and
shovel industriously for twenty dol
lars a month, till, pale-face fashion
they became dissatisfied, and struck
for a dollar day and found The
Cinnamon were satisfied with a dollar
for a days work and ''found" them
selves. So the contractors let the
Americans 60, and hired Orientals in
their stead.
WITHIN very short period Col.
Thomas A. Scott, who has always en-
joyed a reputation for munifcent
deeds, has bestowed the sum Of $s13O-
600 upon three of Philadelphia's most
favored institutions. The Orthopedic
Hospital receives 100000 of this
princely gift, while the remaining
100000 is equally divided between
the Jefferson Medical College. and the
University of Pennsylvania. The
gift to the University of P Pennsylvania
has enabled the trustees to endow the
chair of mathematics, now occupied
by Professor Kendall. The like sum
to the Jefferson Medical College is
also to endow professorship.
A Long Canoe Voyage.
Charles E. Chase, of New York,
commander of the Jersey City Canoe
club, began on the oath inst. in a
Racine canoe, what will be a long
cruise starting at Clean, n. Y,
hence down the ALLEGHENY and Ohio.