The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-25

as a key of tallow. Everybody was
surprised. Some said the stuff had
got spoiled staying in the ground
three or four years; others said they
didn't believe it was real nitro-glyc-
crime, and all, the Chinaman and
guests, came forward to see the grey
stuff izz and burn up all clean, even
to the barrel. r..
Garrett O'Neil said, ooh, rats! this
is picnic. This is a marsh -mallow
barbecue. 1t is too slow. Boys,
roll out the rest of the barrels and
put 'em on the fire, If we cam make
noise, less have good bonfire.
anyhow"
So Wun Lung and You Now and
You Ly and Sam Kee and some more
ecru heather, who point the finger of
scorn at our God, and worship lop-
cared god with a mouth like the
opening in the bosom of the zodiac
man, went at it with great zeal, for
they were paid by the job, and they
got out the whole carload, or most.
oft, on the fire. One barrel was
placed over the blaze, and the others
were near by, waiting their turn. The
old settler was standing near the
burning barrel and holding his soiled
blue hands over it, when people as
far west as Provost, in Utah terri
tory, heard a low rumble like Distant
thunder, and a shower of flesh fell at
Cheyenne.
There is hole in the ground there
now that you can put a church into.
if you have a church with you that
you are through with. 1t was a ter
rlble shock to the entire community,
especially to the old settler.
1t has been supposed by Mr.. Kim
ball that something about the in
cident offended the old settler, for he
went away from there and never re-
turned to Omaha, or elsewhere for
that matter. He was of a sullen
disposition, and would go away and
sulk that way sometimes for weeks.
His wife waited two weeks for him to-
come home, and then married again.
Several of the Cinnamon on their
return from wherever they selected
to go during the explosion struck on
their feet, and at once began to
pound on their tom-toms, shoot off
fireworks. beat gongs, and in other
ways they sought to hire their deities-
and get them to convene.
[ do not, however, at this moment,
call to mind anything more utterly
impotent than a Chinese god during
O nitro-glycerine explosion. He is
apt to show less seli-reliance, think
at such a time than at any other.
We cannot be too careful in deal
ing with explosives. Old John Cum
minis, who used to preserve a mine
better than any man ever knew as
he knew just how much to salt it.
once said to William II. Root, the
putative duke of Dirty Woman's
Ranch, and proprietor OF Roots o.
trich aquarium in southern Ariz ona:
"Billy, it won't do to fool with
joint powder Che always referred to
giant yowder that way). Onct Ihad
a mine over in Utaw that I was offer
ed $4,000 for before I'd went down
in it sixteen foot, and one day, just
before the papers was drod up, anew
man that didn't know much about
mines put in a blast of Joint powder
that blowed away the whole mine-
When he got throo with it she look
ed about as rich as lime-kiln. You
| don't want to fool with this here
Joint powder, Billy, unless you want
to distribute your mine around
among those you love. It is a good
thing to blow out the gas with in
your room, but for mining it is
dangerous, and. as they say in Miz-
zoury, # I could have my ruthers I
never would use it at all. Bill Nye
in Christmas Judge.