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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
"A Snake Charmer's Training.

III B. r. s : - 8
Mcconnell is 81 years old. He was
brought up in Lords Valley, q lonely
part Of Pike county, Pa. When he was
a boy, playmates were few, and he
used to amuse himself by hunting up
rattlesnake dens and killing the rep
tiles. He had no trouble in finding
them, for the country about his homo
was very rocky and rattlesnake were
plentiful. He became so used to this
sort Of amusement that he lost all fear of
the snakes. He knew their habits per-
tectly, and frequently handled them.
He kept his parents in mortal terror,
Tor it was not an uncommon thing for
him to bring a RATHER to the house and
drop it upon the kitchen floor. His
father used to keep a loaded shotgun
mandy, to kill the rattlesnakes that
Johnny brought home. When he
grew old he collected a den of them.
They were a constant JOY to him, and
he was never weary Of attending to
their wants. He never used a forked
stick to pin the snakes fast before he
captured them, but used to aggravate
chem, until they struck at him, and
then, while they were uncoiled and un-
able to spring, he would pick them up
in his hands. About six years ago he
started out to exhibit his pets. He has
travelled all over the country. New
York Sun.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
"ArsCLosE QUARTERS

The Tiger Hunted the Duke, but
Royalty was Too Much for Him.
During the recent stay of the Duo
d'Orleans in India he visited Lord
Dufferin at Calcutta, and grand tig-
er hunt was organized, which lasted
six weeks and ranged over 100 miles
of country. The duke shot eight
tigers. One incident he relates as
follows: a &-. 5
81 1.-Two cubs of a tigress had been
shot and the mother hemmedA in by a
line of elephants. There was an idea
that she was crouching in q small
stream, but none of our elephants
could be got anywhere near it. After
some time my elephant, being pluck
Iier than the others, was induced to
move forward and push the tree down.
While thus engaged the tigress sprang
Eout from beside it with roar and q
h tremendous leap right to the top Of
my howdah, smashing the front of it
breaking my gun with one blow of her
paw and exploding the right barrel
before I had time to fire. This is the
gum" producing a double-barreled
rifle broken in two pieces just below
the barrels. the trigger guards and
metal plates wrenched off and twisted
/ by the force of the blow, and with one
j barrel discharged, the other still at
half-cock.
fortunately for me-" continued the
prince, .'she then tumbled backward,
possibly startled by the explosion,
and made off for the jungle. My ele-
plant, mad with fright, bolted in the
opposite direction, and for consider
able distance nothing would stop her.
When at length we got back to the
( others we found the whole line of ele-
Yphants so demoralized that we had to-
give up the sport for the day and re-
turn to the camp. Next morning we
4 cornered our game in nearly the same.
! spot, and had the good luck to bring
her down just as she was crossing the
river" =
'What became of the mahOut when
s the tigress leaped on the elephant?"
was asked.
-"Oh, he managed to slip round in
some extraordinary way under the
elephants ears, and was unhurt, but
lost his head-dress.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
Mourned for the Wrong Man.

A week or more ago a gentleman
whom we will call Mr.. Blank died, says
the Washington post, and the time and
place of his funeral were announced in
the papers. Another gentleman whom
we will call Banker, saw the. notice
and said to himself:
'Dear, dear, my old friend and bene-
factor is dead. I knew he was in
Washington and intended to call on
him, but now it is too late. -
And he censured himself for his neg
lect of the man who had been his friend
when he sorely needed a friend.
Tortured by his conscience, he
sought to make up as best he then
could for his fault. He sent the most
magnificent floral piece he could buy
and on the day Of the funeral was one
of the most demonstrative of the mourn
ers.
After. the casket had beed lowered
into the grave and the ceremonies were
at an end, the repentant Mr.. Banker
turned with tears streaming from his
eyes and said to a gentleman walking
beside him toward the carriage:
II am almost heart-broken at the loss
of my dear friend
"Was he relative?o" asked the other
compassionately.
''No but we went al, through the war
! together and he was my best friend
and benefactor afterward.''
There must be some mistake said
| the gentleman. mir. Blank was not
in the army. He has been in this
country only a few years.
''The deuce you say!" said Banker,
forgetting his grief; "then. by thunder,
I've been chief mourner at another
mans funeral. And he straightway
looked up his old friend, who was in
excellent health. It cost Banker a
a good deal for flowers, but that isn'ta
circumstance to what it has since cost
him for wine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
A Chiropodist Has His Saw.

Year before last had two women
patrons to one man, ''said chiropodist.
"But last year and so far this year, the
falling off in the former patronage
has been more than one half. But
there has been no decrease in the num-
Der OF my male customers. How do I
account for all this? Easily. Fashion
in shoes is responsible for it. A year
and a half ago the high, narrow French
heels were the fashion in women's
shoes, and they are the best friends a
chiropodist can have. They are regu-
lar and rapid breeders of corns. No
women can have pair Of such shoes
long without looking up a corn doctor.
But the low fiat heel is now in fash
ion. If the rest OF the shoe fits the foot,
these heels are the natural enemy of
corns, and the chiropodist has to suffer.
It is generally believed that women are
more vain of their feet than men are Of
theirs, but my experience has shown
me that quite the contrary is the fact.
Men will insist on making theirfootloo
small, and any shoe that will do that
is the fashion for them. The narrow
toed or ''toothpiek" style of mems
shoes, worn now as much as ever, will
always insure the corn doctor a living,
especially if the shoes are patent leath-
er. A patent leather shoe, for some
re ason, will call corn into being
much quicker than an ordinary leather
! shoe.
The fellows who don't have corns
are those who wear roomy-toed shoes.
But they mustn't be too large. A shoe
too large is as bad as one too small.
An over sized shoe makes corns on the
bottom Of the feet, and they are the
worst kind. The late war was the
greatest corn-curer ever known. 1
never knew Of a single case Of a soldier
in that war who suffered from corns,
and | was all through it. II law
should be passed that no shoe should
be worn in this country but the pat
tern army shoe Of the rebellion, the
corn doctors occupation would be
gone. -" New York Sun. So &.
q
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
Injection in Books.

Hereafter the Boston board of health
will cause the public library card in
each family whore q contagious disease
is found to exist to be stamped, so as
to indicate the presence of such
disease there. The library will there
after decline to allow other books to be
taken out on this card until the con-
tagion has been stamped out from the
homo. When the books are returned
from such locality they will be disin-
footed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
The Birth of a. Volcano

zalcO, IN Inc lltlle;S repuDilcs or San
Salvador, is III many respects the mo@
remarkable volcano on earth, first, be-
cause its discharges have continued so
long and with such great regularity;
again, because the tumult in the earth's
bowels is always to be heard, as the
rumblings and explosions are constant,
being audible for hundred miles, and
sounding like the noise which Rip Van
Wanhle heard when he awakened from
his sleep in the Catskills; and, finally,
it is the only volcano that has originat-
ed on this continent since the discovery
by Columbus. It arose suddenly from
;he plain in the spring of ITO, in the
midst of what had been for nearly a
hundred years the profitable estate of
Senior Don Balthazer Erazo, who was
absent from the country at the time,
and was greatly amazed upon his re-
turn to discover that his magnificent
coffee and indigo plantation had with
out his knowledge or consent, been ex-
changed for a frst-class volcano.
In December, 1869, the poems on the
! hacienda were alarmed by terrific
.rumblings under the ground, constant
trem blings OF the earth and frequent
earthquakes, which did not extend
over the country as usual, but seemed
to be confined to that particular local
ity They left the place in terror
when the tremblings and noises con-
tinued. and, returning week or two
later, found that all the buildings had
\ been shaken down, trees uprooted and
large craters opened in the fields,
which had been level earth before.
From these craters smoke and steam
issued, and occasionally flames were
seen to come out OF the ground. Some
3 brave vaqueros or herdsmen remained
near by to watch developments, and
February, %, ITO, they were enter
tanned by a spectacle that no other
men have been permitted to witness;
for about ten o'clock on the morning
of that day the grand upheaval took
place, and it seemed to them, as they
fed in terror, that the whole universe
was being turned upside down. First
there was series of terrible explo-
sions, which lifted the crust of the
earth several hundred feet, and out of
the cracks issued flames and lava and
immense volumes Of smoke. An hour
or two afterward there was another
i and grander convulsien; which shook
and startled the country for hundred
miles around. Rocks weighing thou
sands OF tons were hurled into the air,
and fell several leagues distant. The
surface of the earth was elevated
about 5000 feet, and the internal re-
sesses were purged Of masses Of lava
and blistered stone, which fell in a
heap around the hole from which they
issued.
These discharges continued for sew.
eral days at irregular intervals, accom-
Il panied by loud explosions and earth
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
FRENCH SLEEPING-CARS.

oommodatlons for Unhappy
Travellers. ~ 81 g
The charge for bed in the Sleep
ing-cars from Basic to Calais, says the
London Standard, is about 10 francs,
and from Basic to Paris, for some oc-
cult reason, francs more. By one of
those extraordinary arrangements that
can exist only in countries whore no-
body trusts anybody, and everybody is
suspected by everybody else, even the
unfortunate traveller who has hired a
bed at 9:15 is not allowed to turn into
it till 1880, the reason assigned being
that at the French frontier the .'small
baggage" must be examined, and if
people were allowed to turn I'M be-
fore the examination took place there
is no saying what amount of tobacco
and laces and the rest of it might not
be secreted in or under the bed by the
tourist or by the servants Of the sleep
car company. When, however, the
conventional ceremonial of affirming
that you have nothing to declare
has been gone through and your dress
ing bag has been defaced by hieroglyph-
les in white chalk, then the operation
of bed-making in the wagon-lits com
mences. Any one who has watched
it will be disposed to exclaim, with
Macbeth: ''Sleep no more" In a
small and sometimes filthy den narrow
4 : 80 . : 49,.
cushions and hard pillows of hoar
antiquity are perfunctorily covered
with shabby rug and sheet, and un-
der covering OF a similar character
the traveller who has paid moro than
FL for this extraordinary indul gence
is invited to betake imself to slumbe
If he happens to have travelling
companion they can procure the lux
ury, such as it is, Of privacy, though
one of them, on the Dogberry princi-
pie, must needs sleep on the upper shelf,
which is an experience several degrees
more painful thansly on the lower
| one. If the number Of passengers be
not equal to the number of beds they
will be able, by bribing the person in
charge, to get a four-bed compartment,
and thus both will avoid the torture Of
being suspended from the ceiling.
AS rule these vacant compartments
are to be had by tipping the dirty of
fetal in charge OF them and thus. per-
haps. for Is shil lings apiece two people
can secure the mitiga ton Of misery we
have described. One Of the main
inducements to many people to
have recourse to a wagon-lit is
the belief that at any rate in the
morning they will be able to have s'a
good wash and will thus emerge from
the train the stimulation of civilized
being instead of an unwashed, un-
kempt, unshaved savage. Morning
throws fuller light on this pleasing
anticipation. AS some of our CORE.
sPondents point out the '.lavatory''
arrangements in the sleeping cars be-
tween Basic and Calais and between
Basic and Paris are abominable beyond
description, and can not be turned tc
the slightest account by any one Of
the most ordinary fastidiousness.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
Remedy for Noxious Gas.

A single plate Of perforated zinc
about a foot square suspended over a
gas jet is said to retain the noxious
emenations from burning gas, which is
known to destroy many articles in a
room and to vitiate the atm osphere.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15

Only three ~ How many George Wash
lngtons are there mere to.dayl'' asked Clerk
clagett in the Police Court today. Only
three, !, answered Bailiff Kendig. They
were all colored. Washington Star.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15

"Ho long do mosquitoes livc9'' asks a
correspondent That depends good deal
ION the kind Of fellow they light n.--Burl-
ington Free Press.
, 1889-09-08
THE SOCIAL SWIM.
The F0rtnightly Club has a Session
on lafayette.
Mrs. D. C. Rhodes Elegantly Enter
tanned the Members.
This Weeks Social Event Will be
the TisdaIe Reading.

The Fortnightly club held a most sue
cessful meeting at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. ID. @. Rhodes on Friday even
ing. Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Hicks, MIR. and Mrs. jeffrey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kent, Mr.. and Mrs. D. G. Rhodes,
Mrs. j. w. Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs. F.
+. Addoms, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Baird,
Mrs. K. Mason Smith. MIR. and Mrs.
Guiterman. Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Organ,
Mrs. Hale. Dainty programmes decor.
ated with the tri-colors of France recorded
the Proceedings of the evening as folio VS.
Music, Mrs. Rhodes.
Current Events of the Day, Mrs. Ad.
doms.
Reading, Mrs. Jeffrey.
History OF the Acadians, Mrs. Ham
mond.
Lafayette IN America, Mrs. Baird.
Lafayette In France. Mrs. Hale.
Sketch of Madam Roland, Mrs. Gutter
man.
Origin of the Marseillaise hymn, Mrs.
Kent.
Biographical Sketch of Aaron Burr, Mrs.
Organ.
Following the literary programme re-
treshments of an elegant character were
served.
A pleasant party was given by Mrs.
Breckons to her friends Friday evening.
The dramatic reading and musical en-.
tertainment which will be given by Mrs.
Laura j. Tisdale on Wednesday even.
ing promises to be a most successful soci-
ETY. event. The following programme will
be given:
Overture, Egmont; Observation-Disclosures
Thomas, Sturgis, Brewster and Adams.
Recitation, Gabriel Grub; Dickens-Mrs.
Laura Tisdale.
Song, Lognia; Schiora-Mrs. Paul O
Brewster.
Recitation, Drummer Boy, Voices at the
Throne-Mrs. Laura Tisdale.
Violin Solo. Ungarish Raphsod;e; Prof.
Hutchinson-Miss Elsie Myers.
The Chariot Race, Ben Hur-Mrs. Laura
Tisdale.
Either Solo-Mr. Brooks.
Sleep Walking scene. Macbeth-Mrs.
Laura Tisdale.
Song, Marguerite's Three Bouauets-
Mrs; Paul Brewster. Violin Obligito
Prof Hutchinson.
Vashti's Defense, Monologue with music
Mrs. Laura Tisdale.
The CotillIon party at Library hall
Thursday evening was a great social sue
cess.
Yesterday afternoon a jolly party of
young folks picniced at the fair grounds
grove. Henry and Nat Whipple, Bessie
Smith, Stella and Florence Hellman,
Laura Kent. Claude and Charlie Draper,
and Lena, Fannie and Willie Mast made
up the party.
DIR. Garrard will entertain his friends
by. an elaborate dinner at the Normandy
this afternoon.
, 1889-09-08

Rev. f. NJ. Shrout. pastor United
Brethren church, Blue Mound, Kan,
says: Il feel it my duty to tell what won
ders DIR. Kings New Discovery has done
Tor me. My lungs were badly diseased,
and my parishioners thought | could live
only a few weeks. | took FIVE bottles of
Or; hing's New Discovarv and am sound
and well, gaining 26 lbs. in weight"
Arthur Love. manager Of Loves Funny
Folks Combin. ton. writes: After a
thorough trial and convincing evidence. |
an confident DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, beats EN- all and cures
when everything else fails. The greatest
kindness ! can do my many Thousand
friends is to urge them to try it. FREQ
trial bottles at B. B. David's drug store,
Regular sizes SOC. and 81. 90.
, 1889-09-08
DETERMINED TO DIE.
A Love Lorn Girl Desperately
Attempts Suicide.
Throws Herself in the River
and Fights Her Rescuer.
Finally Landed Safely but
Savage as a Tigress.
A Girls Attempted Suicide.

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-0ne OF the most
determined attempts at suicide ever heard
of wa made last night by Lena Herlzog,
IL years Of age, who resides with her
parents in Williamsburgh. She was a
passenger on the ferry boat from Brook
lyn on the 1910 trip last night to this
city. When the boat reached Grand
street ferry on this side Miss Hertzog
came ashore, but Immediately returned
and paid her fare and once more took a
seat In the cabin. The boat had lust
cleared the slip when she walked rapidly
out OF the cabin and jumped overheard.
The boat was stopped aud life preserv-
ers. ladders and ropes were called into
requisiuon. The electric light made
things as clear as day. The first life pre-
server thrown fell close to the girl, but
she pushed it way with an angry
gesture.
The noise and shouts attracted Ticket
Taker Kelly, who has already saved thir
teen people from drowning. He Jumped
into the river. seized the girl by the waist
and lifted her bodily up so she might
breathe. The girl turned upon him and
struggled to free herself from his grasp.
Kelley held on, however, and made for
the slip. A desperate struggle followed.
The half drowned girl seemed to gain
strength and fought like a tigrcss.
When near the slip ropes were thrown.
Kelly caught one and wound it around the
body of his charge. but it was quickly
thrown off. This the girl repeated three
times, and then seizing her rescurer by
the arm savagely bit him Kelly was be
coming exhausted and saw if the girls
life was to be saved violence would have
to be used, 30 he was compelled to beat
her into submission.
The blows had the desired effect for a
time, but when an attempt was made to
lift her up on the ladder she broke out
afresh, but was finally landed wet, limp
and exhaused. This ate battle lasted
fully fifteen minutes.
When stimulants were offered the girl
later on she threw the glass from her and
smashed it. Finally the reckless creature
was placed under arrest and afterwards
sent to the hospital in an ambulance
where to day she was doing nicely.
Her parents say the whole adventure
arose from a love affair.
, 1889-09-08
Man and Horse Killed pv n r,x.

Moses Elvich, a junkdealer of PUNK
sutawney, Pa, had a team of horses
and he thought a great deal of them.
He had been engaged to haul a load Of
furniture for a man who was moving
from Brookville to this place. 1t is a
billy road and the horses needed care
full watching. While going down a
steep hill Moses saw a large fly on the
neck of one Of the horses. 1t annoy
ed the man as much as it did the
horse, and the little insect caused the
death of the animal, and also that OF
Moses. Eivich, in leaning forward TO
brush away the fly, fell to the ground
and broke his neck. The horses took
fright, and, running into the fence,
the one on which the fly was sitting
broke its leg and had to be killed. FL
vich was picked up by his fatherin-
law, who was following with another
load of household goods. Chicago
Tribune
, 1889-09-08

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. THE new
steel cruiser Philadelphia was launched Al
Cramps ship yard yesterday. Mrs. Har.
rison, wife OF President Harrison, was
among those present Fully 10000 per
som assembled around the ship yard.
Miss Minnie Wanamaker, daughter OF
the postmaster general, was selected by
the secretary of the navy to christen the
vessel and as the hig vessel began to move
a ribbon bedecked bottle of champagne
was broken Gu the prows as she said: II
christen the Philadelphia" The ship
slid smoothly into the water amid the
cheers Of the throng and the blowing OF
whistles. The new vessel is officially reck-
oned as cruiser No A and is fourth 10 size
Of armored cruisers provided for the new
, 1889-09-08

In Cheyenne Churches During Day
and Evening.

St. Mary's cathedral-Masses at 7,
$50 and 1870 a. IN. Vespers at 7:3O
p. m.
Second Congregational church-Rev.
a. w. Williams, pastor. Sabbath school
at 3 p. m, preaching at 4 p. M. Resi-
dents of the south side cordially invited
to make this church their home.
First Presbyterian church. Rev. r. f.
FIELD Will preach at IL a. m. and at
7:30 p. m. Evening subject: David as
King" Sunday school at 1890 n, m.
Seats free. The public invited to all
services.
St. Marks church, Rev. Geo c..
Ratter pastor, celebration OF the holy com
munlon at s a. m., mathis and sermon at
II a. IN. Sunday school at 1915 D. M.
Evensong and sermon at 7:3O pm. A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
Seats free.
Young Mems Christian Association
Rooms over Union Mercantile compapy's
store. Prayer meeting to day at 4 D. m.
All young men, especially those who are
strangers III the city, are cordially invited
to attend this meeting.
First Baptist church. Services morn
ing and evening at the usual hours, con
Quoted by Rev. l.. ID. Lamkin. In the
evening the pastor will preach the second
OF his series of sermons on christianity
in Social Life" on the subject of Mar.
rage" Sabbath school at 1915. All
are invited to be present.
First Congregational church, Rev. A.
w. v illiams, pastor. Preaching at IL a.
IN: and l.:3O p. m Morning subject:
Vital Contact with the World" At
1870 p NJ. : missionary meeting will be
addressed hy DR.. Edward Mackle aud
wife, and Miss johnson, en- route to
China. Everyone is invited to attend
these services. Seats free.
First Methodist Episcopal church.
Corner OF Central avenue and 18th street,
Rev. S. A. Bright. pastor. Preaching
at II a. IN. and 1902. IN. Morning sub
iect: THE Universal Evidence" Even
ing subject: Out from Under Condem-
n%atiou." Sabbath school at 1890 D m,
ID. X. Cowhick, superintendent Young
peoples service at 6:30 D. IN. Topic:
Gods Everyday Mercles." Matt. GIL,
John 3:l6, Mis- Gcrtie Dobbins, leader.
Glass meeting at close of evening sermon.
Seats free. Everybody cordially well
coined. N. B-Note the change of time
in the evening services.