The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-29
SEPTEMBER % 8s
Miscellaneous Matters.

Miscellaneous Matters.
The fat mems association dinner at Rat
an Point, Conn.,, consisted, among other
things, Of the following: One thousand
chickens 900 Holsters, I 900 pounds of
blue fish, 600 ears Of corn, 100 bushels Of
round CLAIMS, SO bushels Of oysters, S bar
rels Of hard shelled, 200 pounds Of tripe.
3 barrels Of sweet potatoes, and 3 barrels of
other potatoes.
. In writing to friend on the subject of
fair trade, /" recently, John Bright held
that the sole cause Of the present agitation
in England is to be found in the poor
harvests and consequent diminution Of
wealth IN that country. During the last
three years, he believed, England has lost
81 ,0O0, 0O0, 900 from bad weather.
There were expended in England in the
last fiscal year, for indoor maintenance
and out-do relief of the poor, e4,548,-
$50, about one-sixth of which was paid out
in, London. The increase in London over
the year before was about forty per cent,
throughout the country about four per
cent.
This lisa time when we are making his
tory every day, the Boston Herald thinks,
and it believes the county does we'll to go
slow, and that the vice president has been
true to the American principle in refraining
from any word or step that looks toward the
arrogation:o of power that does not clearly
belong to him. The strength, the elastici-
ty, and the real conservatism of our system
of government have never had but one SUI
premer test-that of the war-than that so
nobly sustained during the past nine weeks.
The Ute Indians have gone to their new
reservation. As soon as they left the old
reservation the whites crowded in, and in
one day claims covering twenty miles of
land erestaked out. The scenes in the
Indians camp on the night preceding their
departure were narrowing in the extreme,
the women kissing the ground and giving
vent to Departing shrieks for the departed
relatives they we're to leave behind, while
the buckssat stolid around the camp fires.
The New Jersey man who recently mar
RED his mother ia-law, is in trouble. Such
q union is in violation of state law and is
punishable by fine of $500. IF they let
the man alone he will probably be punished
sufficiently for his rash act, but law is law
in jersey, and its iron clutches have proba-
bly, ere this been fastened upon the man
whom halethe world has been commend
ing for bIasery. ,..
The imperial family of Germany have
shown much good sense in cordially &C.
cepting The marriage Of the princess of
SchleswigsH olstein to Prof. Esmarch, of
Kiel. The professor, though great surgi-
cal authority, has no noble blood in his
veins, while his wife is not only princess,
but the aunt Of the future empress Of Ger
many. Tie kindly couple often entertained
their imperial relatives; and when Profess
or Esmath lately attended the medical con-
|gress IN London the Crown PrinceSs- took
particular pride and pleasure in presenting
him to her mother, the queen. Madame
Esmarch never regrets having relinquished
her royal title, and her home at Kiel, which
is open to every student who seeks an intro.
duction, and which is gathering place for
all the: resident celebrities, is an unusually
happy one.
Brother Gardener at the lime kiln club:
/ am compelled dis evenin' to make de
announcement dat Brudder Alpaca Taylor
am locked up IN cell at one of de purcele
stashuns. He jined dis club six months
ago, and you ali know he has been q quiet.
but yet Interested member. De officers of
dis club had cherry confidence in him. and I
trusted him SO fur personally as to send
home several watermellyons at his hands.
Dis mawning got word dat he was locked
up, and went to soc him. To my amaze
ment diskivered dat he had two wives in
Canada and one in Detroit, and dat he had
also been stealing salt fish from grocery.
He owned it all up to me, and his only ex.
cuse was dat he hadn't bin quite right in de
head since mule kicked him in de shins
twenty years ago. De law must take
its course.