The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1882-07-20
Talk about Folks.

Mrs. Priscilla Goodwin, agrandaugh-
ter of ex-Presdent Tryler, is giving
very successful readings in the Southern
States. She is the granddaughter, on her
mothe RS side, of the actor, Cooper, who
was the rival and compeer of Macrea-
dy.
General George Stoneman, the we'll
kown cavalry leader, just nominated for
Governor by the California Democrats,
is New Yorker by birth. His age is g.
He was retired from the army in 1871 on
account of ill-health, but of late has
been active in civil pursuits.
A smallpox patient at the pest house
in Paterson, N. j., made his escape
twice on Thursday aud ran through the
streets, nearly naked. Before he was
finally captured and chained to his bed
he had come in contact with at least five
hundred persons. Of course the entire
community is in terrible frightened
state. a,, go
Mrs. Polly Shaw of Canterbury, N. H.,
celebrated the Tooth anniversary of her
birth on Saturday, nearly 200 people be-
ing present. The aged lady who is con-
fined to her bed most of the time on &C.
count of injuries received by fall
al years ago, was the recipient of useful
and valuable presents and a sum Of
money. She retains her faculties, how
ever, to remarkable, degree.
At the age of thirty-nine, says an Eng
fish journal, Nine. Nilsson feels dread
fully old, enelastic and disillusionnee.
According to the same authority, when
the lady was in America she appeared at
a fancy ball where Tammany Hall mill
prayed" still runs through the city.
One Of the most eminent of medical
men is reported as saying that there are
not less, probably, than 10000 persons
IN Germany who have become slaves to
the habit of hypodermically injecting
morphine. There are many who take
as much as eighteen injections every
day. Some have hardly square inch Of
skin on their bodies that is not marked
by scars produced by this practic.
Slaves of this habit are even more hope
lessly enchanted than those who tax,
opium in other ways, and it is speedie1
destruction.
DR.. Dio Lewis, writing in The Golden
Rule onimportance Of pure air, thinks
we may truly say that the lungs really
play more important part in the func-
ton Of digestion than the stomach itself.
For example: "A man may live upon
fried salt pork, hot saleratus biscuit and
strong green tea q don't know of worse
dosel; if he lives on the Western plains
and breathes pure air, he will have purer
blood finer, healthier skin, and will be
freer from humors than another man
who lives upon the choicest grains and
fruits, but who constantly breathes the
ar OF q close, furnace heated house,
Cruel as the advice may seem at first
sight, It is nevertheless true that the
surest way to feel comfortable in very
hot weather is to keep busy at something
that that will induce flee perspiration. The
lounger on the shore of a bav or lake
never 9 Ve feels SO copl in the thinest Is
clothing as he does when he puts t on b e.
plue flannel shirt and spends an ,honr '1 nr
Two at the oars. Ladies on piazza so or n IN
carriages, tanning themselves yieo 70 3.
Y, DestoW much pity on men laborino
~ the roadside, but the aborers ara
more comfortable than those who are do.
ing nothina.-New York Herald.