The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-18
WINGED MISSILES

A good horse-meat dinner can now he ~
in Berlin for cents. Americans win tina
no fault with the price. .
An apple tree at Newbury, Ohio, tisonglp
nearly century old, is still a prolific hear
er OF bright yellow fruit.
The new cable to Bermuda got into tnss
ness at once. Its first weather, rel9f
brought news of a cyclone.
Charts have been prepared showing that
the eye has 100 distinct expressions, eos,.
veying as many different shades of mean.
ing.
James Carbaugh, a collier, living In tina
mountains near Mount Alto, Nd, killed
eighty-seven copperhead snakes few days
ago.
Mrs. Maggie Ellis, a mulatto of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, has given birth to the small
est child on record. It weighs thirty-one
ounces
A carpet used in a room of the mint.
after being in wear some years, was burn
ed the other day in pans, and yielded 81. 500,
worth of gold.
man at Langhorn, Pa, is fitting up a
pigeon house to accommodate a thousand
birds. It will be the largest stock OF
carriers In the country.
A curious result of Tolstoi's last book
has been the imprisonment in Berlin OF onr
of his disciples for publicly denomcing
christian marriage as immoral
Chambers broke out in band of horses
owned by Colonel Waters, of Miles City,
Mont, and sixteen animals were killed to-
prevent the disease from spreading
10 c%of
company of Madrid has in CONTEMPLATION
the installation of plant for electric plow-
ing on large property ia the central part
of Spain.
Pauperism has declined in England and
Wales, and is declining in Ireland In,
view OF the failure of the potato crop, how
ever. the trouble is likely to increase in the,
latter country.
Dr. Koch read before the medical COZ
gress in Berlin paper in which he is said
| to have declared that he had discovered a
| way OF killing the tuberculosis bacillns
and OF curing tuberculosis disease
Elizabeth Comstock, an aged Quaker
preacher living in Union Springs, N. Y,
has visited in her lifetime 122 900 persons.
and nearly twice that many sick persons ia
and out of poor houses, on battle fields, ETC.
A revolution is taking place in the drink
ing habits of the Japanese The rice
brandy called 'ssaki,' which has been SO,
long their national beverage, is; being sup
planted by beer brewed after the German
method.
A sycamore tree near Newton, Conn, isz
said to be eighty-fve feet high and twenty
one feet in diameter, while it's branches
| CHI do
the trunk It produces large and abund-
ant white blossoms.
Abner Dorsett, a negro living in Hickory
Mountain township, N. c., has the largest.
head Of any person in the United States Sc,
far as heard from. It is thirty-tvo inches,
in diameter and gives Abner decided
''top-heavy' appearance. f. ..-s
some one has invented an electric mouse
/ trap. 1t consists of metallic cage con-
tanning cheese. The mice naturally ap-
proach it for purposes of investigation but
i the instant they touch the wires an electric
current strikes them dead.
The lords of the admiralty have received
a petition from the belted cruises complain
ing of the cruel treatment of subordinates
It is alleged that they are put it cells So,
|
! are nearly roasted to death.
A school girl in France died recently
from a curious cause. At the distribution
OF prizes she obtained a laural wreath col
ored green. She thoughtlessly put the
painted leaves in her mouth and died after
ward from the effect of the poison
A rug valued at $500 was bought in Lon
don lately. It was about thirteen feet
square and had about two hundred and
fifty-six stitches to the inch. The material
was wool combed, not cut, from the animal.
and worth more than its weight in silk
AS the result of a severe burn a little
Grass Valley, Cal, girls. side and arm.
grew together, becoming united by web
bling of flesh nearly an inch in thickness.
She was released from her unpleasant pre-
dicament by successful surgical oper--
| alton.
| A mortgage was raised from a Door
| Woman's house at Plaintield, N J.. by
watermelon seeds. The guests of sumrner
| hotel paid so cents apiece for the privilege
of guessing the number of seeds in a
watermelon and the proceeds were devoted
to the widow >.:'.
England has been laughing at the decora-
lions in the dining-room on Emperor VIII
helms yacht. Green panels are quite mr.
lifted in effect by a table cover of electrSar
blue. In his bedroom a violet velvet coy
| erlet ''swears at'' walls covered with light
lowered chintz
A patent was issued in Washington last
week for steel fence post 1t is to b@
made OF steel tubing, seven feet high, with
a neat cap and with bands to hold the barb
ed wire. 1t is said that these posts can ns
furnished complete for placing in position
at "a cents each.
The wire to be used for the telephone bsr
tween Paris and London is made of bronze
1t IS estimated that the French share OF
the expense of establishing the telephene
will be about S150oOO. Enthusiasts ba-
lieve that all the telegraphic communica-~
ton will be superseded.
A house in Georgetown, D. c., has JnsE
been shingled for the first time since 1904
and the carpenter says he has found sawed
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