The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-25
WINGED MISSILE

8lnese are seven mllli0nalro editors nt
New York.
Nine water companies supply London
with water.
Over 10, 900 Irish people settle in England
every year
There 100 deer forests in the Highland.
of Scotland.
Whisky was first made in ireland by an
English monk.
There are Il, 465 women commercial tray
elers in the United States.
There are seventeen registered sects Of
Wesleyans and Methodists.
The Chinese endure change of climate
better than any other race
People eat 20 per cent more bread when
the weather is cold than when it is mild
shoe firm in Macon, Ga, has been con-
Quoting business at one stand for sixty
years.
Turin is the first Italian city which can
boast OF library intended exclusively for
women.
tits estimated in England that one man in
500 gets college education, and in America
one in every 200.
Old Battersea bridge, toe solitary sur
viving pile bridge on the lower Thames, is
to be pulled down.
A mountain side makes the best pasture
for young. cows, because climbing tends to.
strengthen the calves.
The number Of diamonds known of the
weight of thirty-six carats and upward
does not exceed twenty
A Chelsea ms Tl1,f bic
over ducks egg and Matched duckling
with four eyes and two bills
A Georgia woman who is engaged in tho
chicken business has sold $50 dozen eggs
from tWenty-seven hens this year. i
A Benton Harbor man has muskeb
which used to kill Frenchmen 200 years
ago, and powder flask older by century.
BY the agency of the London children's
| county holidays fund 10000 children last
year enjoyed short holiday in the coun-
Try.
In the year 1919 sugar is said to have been
sold at Is 915d a pound, and was considered
| a very luxurious article till the eighteenth
| century. -..
1t is Known that the Chinese, as early as
800 A. D., fastened rockets to their arrows,
that the latter might be thrown to greater
| distance.
William l. of Germany served in the
army as full private before he had attain
| ed his seventh year. At seventeen he was
in action. " .".-. .... ..'.
| Husband-''Dr. Foote, the chiropodist.
will dine with us this evening"" Wife
''All right: I'll order 'corned beef New
York Journal.
| One ostrich farm at Port Augusta, South
! Australia, contains TOO birds worth 500
each, and the yield Of feathers this year is,
expected to be worth $1,000.
An English geologist predicts that with
| in fifty years CONFUSION of nature will
sink the whole of New Zealand fifty feet
below the surface of the sea.
| Between one hundred and fifty and two
hundred hogsheads of beer are given away
every week to the employees at Burton on
Trent in the way of allowances
A Polander woman living at Salamanca
one day last week picked and marketed
over twenty quarts of blackberries, and in
! the afternoon gave birth to triplets.
The use of India rubber for erasing PEN
Gil marks was first suggested in or just.
prior to 1852 by an academician named
Magellan, descendant$ofs the great navi--
gator.
The mortality of the globe is said to be-
sixty-seven every minute, 1890 every day..
or 35, 630, S35 every year. The births
amount to 100000 every day, 36, 792, 900 ev--
cry year.
The MeSicans are more original than.
those countries which celebrate their VIC
tories. They have just been celebrating
their defeat at the battle of Churubusco on.
the 22d of August, 1S47.
| A woman in Salem, N. J., thirty-four
years ago lost two silver coins in slit in
| the floor Last week, the floor being taken
up for repairs, she instituted a search for
the long lost money and found it.
The vatican library at Rome contains 50,-
900 printed books and 25 900 manuscripts
j The manuscripts form one of the most
valuable collections in the world, being:
mostly Greek, Latin and Oriental
/ The Austro- Hungarian convict who is
condemned to die stands on the ground with
, q rope around his neck and at given
signal he is pulled off his legs to remain
/; struggling in the air until he is strangled-
A new KIND OF lance has been introduced
into the German cavalry regiments. It's
popularity lies in the fact that it is con-
structed wholly of steel, tho necessary
lightness being secured by making the
shaft hollow
Recent very trustworthy calculations Of
the population Of the Chinese empire by
Russian authorities reckon it at 3S2, 900, 900,
and the annual increase at 4,000, 900. Not,
one in 0.0O0,0o0 ever heard Of the religion
of Jesus Christ.
To the list Of poisons may be added, as a
source of occasional danger, tho fragrant
nutmeg. at least one fatal case has oc-
Cured, where a boy of & having eaten two
nutmegs, fellinto o comatose condition and
died witain twelve hours,
Here is an excuse brought one dayby a
tall, red-haired boy Of II to his teacher:
"Dore Cr-Plese to eggeucs Henry for abb
scnts Yesterday We made sourSrous and
he had to trornp it down. Also he had to
Help bucher pigs. Respectful yoers, His
Pap.
A Pitts burg hardware desler tells of r