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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
DISPATCH.

Affected dispatch is one of the
most dangerous things to business
that can be. It is like that which
the physicians call predigestion, OF
hasty digestion, which is sure to fill
the body full of crudities and secret
seeds of disease. Therefore measure
not dispatch by time OF sitting, but
by the advancement of the business,
and as in races it is not the large
stride or high lift that makes the
speed, SO in business the keeping
close to the matter, and not taking
of it too much at once, procures dis
patch. 1t is the care Of some only
to come off speedily for the time, or
to contrive some false periods of
business, because they may seem
men of dispatch; but it is one thing
to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off, and business
so handled at several sittings or
meetings grows commonly back
ward and forward in an unsteady
manner. We knew a wise man that
had for a byword, when he saw men
hasten to a conclusion: "Stay lit
tie, that we may end the sooner. I"
New York Ledger. I'll
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
The Chair Took a Notion to
Stroll,

From the New York Tribune.
The action of a chair, which formed
part of q display of furniture on q
corner in one of the imp rtant cross
town streets, caused no little wonder
ment one windy afternoon not long
ago. The pavement in front of the
store is smooth, and slopes to the
gutter at a consid erable angle. This
chair which had a solid back, stood
right on the corner, and the wind,
blowing squarely against it, caused
it to slide gently toward the gutter.
The wind blew steadily, with just
sufficient strength to move the chair
at q slow pace. The persons who
happened to be looking out of neigh
boring windows or of passing car
riages, and therefore did not feel the
wind, could not imagine what had
come over the chair, that it should
thus gravely and sedately leave It's
fellows.
Even those who were on the side
walk. for the most part, never
thought that the wind could be the
cause of the phen omenon. A police
man across the way made up his
mind that some thief had tied g. thin
wire to the chair, and was drag
ging it where he could put it into a
wagon and drive off with it. The
officer started toward the chair, and
just then a clerk who happened to
see the runaway dashed out Of the
firm 81 1,.r, No, 40 :, rS1 ~, =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
AC Convict "a Murd eress.

Who, Of all the public spirited
gentlemen now discussing the aboli-
tion Of capital punishment III this
state, says an Albany letter to the
New York Mail and Express, remem-
bers thatit has already been onct
abolished? For one year, in fact,
hanging was torbidd den by law in the
state of New York.
The circumstances were extraordi-
nary, and the woman the murderess
in whose behalf the law was passed
is living to-day and keeps O. tobacco
MIST shop on Green Street. in this
city. She has married since, is so
years old eminently respectable, and
has a charming daughter, a graduate
OF Wellesley College; SO never mind
the name she is known by--in those
days she was Mrs. George Hartung.
She murdered her husband at the
instigation Of her paramour, was
found guilty, and sentenced to be
hanged.
The case was a cause celebre. The
woman was not Unlocking or unsym-
pathetic, and many believed her in
nocent of generalization. Thirty
years ago, though, when this happen
ed, vapid sentimentalty had Slight
foothold; and, being sentenced, Mrs.
Hartung was transferred to the
Albany jail to await her nearly APP
preaching execution. Her lawyer,
William J. Hadley, was clever man
Of original methods and Astounding
resource. Failing to convince aiury,
as her lawyer, that hanging her
would be a crime, in particular, he
started in to persuade thelegislature
OF 1861 that capital punishment was
crime, in general. Oddly enough,
he succeeded. The bill passed and
became q law.
After a year it's grave consequences,
in the increase of murder and the
general laxity representations caused
it's repeal, and it remained only as a
warning to future generations. But
Mrs. Hartung, whom the law was ex-
pressly designed to save, was a
charge on the county's hands. The
case was without precedent, and
after wresetls with it's complexities
the counsel for the state opened the
jail doors. The convicted murderess
walked out scot free. She has re,
manned UNPUBLISHED ever since.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Corsets on Monkeys.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

New YORK commercial Advertiser.
A recent number of the London
Standard contains in prominent
place an advertisement with the
somewhat unusual heading, "Tight
Lacing in Monkeys" This is not, as
might be supposed, a mere trick to
attract attention to subsequent
catalogue Of merchandise for sale.
It is an appeal from the society for
the abolition of vivisection against
the experiments of certain DR..
Brunton in dressing female monkeys
in the prevailing style of fashionable
Woman's apparel. The experiment.
were highly interesting. Within q
few hours the corsets caused the
death of several of these unfortunate
simian ladies and the survivors pull
ed through, according to the doc
tors. only because Of certain lucky
peculiarities in their internal organ
ism. The society for the abolition of
viyisection protests in bitter terms
against the outrage. "Such prac-
tices,' the honorary secretary and
treasurer observes, are not of a ma
ture to promote the propagation of
the gospel in foreign parts" And
the honorary secretary may beright,
especially if the heather natives in
foreign parts were to get wind of the
civilizing processes INDUCED in by
DR.. Brunton upon their fellow hea-
thens and neighbors. But why
should not the society for the aboli-
tion Of vivisection turn it's attention
to the wicked infection of the same
instrument OF tortu re upon unfortu-
nate females who are neither m onkeys
nor heathens? Is prosecuted and
suffering slave OF fasion to be ignored
by benevolent associations, merely
because she is not a monkey?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
8HEWILL FALLIN LOVE WITH HER
ss SURE


o the woman Of the future! I can see her
through q haze;
She is coming minus ba&tie, she is coming
j can see her through the shadows of the pres
ent's misty light
She is coming, she ID coming like an angel Of
delight Il. is5s
The woman of the futurel o how beautiful
As in fancy behold her in the brightest Of
my dreams; III
In fancy behold her and long to hear her
$E dice 81 5sss 53558 IS, s5
Ringing down the pleasant valleys: Il am
coming, 0 rejoicel"
The woman OF the future will not trife with
4{t5 our hearts, #s u
She will find more time to study into sciences
She viii not Be- too disdainful, irreveront, and
proud, i 5'.'#ls ss
But with ali the highest virtues and attain.
84s ments be endowed 0
The woman Of the future will be modest in
58 her looks.
She will sing the sweetest ballads and peruse
the choicest books Ii s5EE
Her sympathies will widen and her goodness
will extend,
Until the poor shall bless her and the weak
shall call her friend.
The woman Of the future will not throw her
self away, s5
For the bathrooms giddy pleasures, bring
ing wrinkles and decay;
Nor drink the honeyed nectar of ench ant
ment, long and deep,
Sowing seeds of dissipation that in anguish
she must reap.
The woman Of the future will come to lis as
-es pure
As the fragrant easter lilies, and herfame will
FIJI rest secure;
When she comes to dwell among u.s. in her
eyes that light will be
That we have neyerseen on land, nor not yet
upon the sea. d.
0, the woman ofth future will be generous
and brave,
And her honor she will cherish without blem-
ish to the grave.
In joy wait her coming, she will blossom
like a rose
And her heart will find q lover who is worthy
to propose.
Moses Gage Shirley in the Boston Globe.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Goodbye to Carrara Marble.
You can bid goodbye to Carrara

GU can DID goodbye to Carrara
marble" says a house decorator in
terviewed by the Washington Star.
He adds: sit was all very we'll up
to a few years since, but the develop
ments Of our own land and of Mexico
have driven it to the wall. It's most
fcrmida BILE foe is the Mexican onyx.
This, although it looks soft and
creamy, is as hard as steel, and when
once polished, is almost indestructi-
BILE. At present tits used in small
quantities, and is chiefly known from
its white and yellow varieties. More
remarkable than the onyx is petrifed
wood OF Arizona and New Mexico.
It comes in all colors, and is superior
in beauty and elegance to most of
the moss agates and wood agates
used in jewelry. 1t takes magnifi-
cent polish and is not SO costly but
that it can be used for mantelpieces,
bar fronts, Washstands, ash receivers,
table tops, and bureau slabs. The
supply is inexhaustible.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Terrible Wedding Cake Expe-
rienCeS.

A party of young ladies on a Wood
ward avenue street car amused the
other passengers very much by their
naive confessions of sleeping with
wedding cake under their pillows the
previous night. They were relating
their dreams. A sleepy eyed miss,
who strangled various sized yawns,
related her dream.
"Girls would you believe it, had
not the least idea of dreaming any
thing in the world, and dreamed
that | was at a party and a wild
kangaroo with a tall silk hat asked
me to dance, and the horrid thing
squeezed my hand, and [ was so
frightened l woke right up, and then
l-au-yaW-aw - excuse me ate the
piece of cake that was under the pill
lows"
II had an awful dream, too" re-
lated another OF the girls. II dream
ed something was running over me
that had cold slippery feet and when
l touched it the thing bit me, and
then ] dreamed the house was full OF
burglars, and in the morning the
cake wasn't neutrality-suspicious.
it-was-goneE'
What took it?'' asked the girls,
breathlessly.
"Mouse!"
Then they all smothered shrek
and got out together. Detroit Free
Press. If
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
"A Gre,eIy Story.

Writer in Washington Post: IL
occurred a good many years ago,
when the Tribune was a power IN the
land, as was also it's able editor. it
being before he committed the fatal
mistake of his life in running as the.
democratic nominee for the presi-
dency in 1872, the circumstances at
tending which unquestionably hast
ened, if they did not cause, his death.
In very elaborate article on a
vrey important subject, he took the
occasion to use the words which the
great bard puts in the mouth of gar
rulous old Polonius, MTis true, tbs
pity, and pity tbs, tits true, where
upon the compositor doing his best
with the hieroglyphics, set it np.
aTis two, tits fifty, and tits fifty,
fifty-tWo, 7 completely paraly wing the
sense Of the whole paragraph.
W. rds are inadequate to express
the surprise, Indignation and rage
that took possession Of the soul OF
the good old editor next morning on
reading his carefully prepared article
OF the day before. SUNNI oning the
foreman he demanded that the fool
compositor should be sent to him in
stanter, and was informed that he
was certain Irishman whom he had
taken a great fancy to some weeks
before and ordered his employment
in the office.
Upon his appearance, Mr.. Greedy
Launched forth on him in full volume
the abuse, inyective and expletives
winch ne was SO eminently capable
OF when III rage, and concluded by
saying that the fool who could not
see and understands SO familiar a quo
tation at a glance could quit his en-
ployment and go to school again.
Alter glarlng at each other for about
a minute or more, the compositor
yelled at him: ITO school again. is
it, to school again? Yes, and Mr..
Horace, the man who writes such a
id hand as you do, a few weeks or
months at school again wouldn't
hurt him at all, at ALL
The editor, as if struck with the re-
tort, apparently relented, and still
glaring at him, said: "Well, go back
to your case, and when next you try.
on quotation make a id fool Of
yourselfand not fool of me-" Then
r'nnnineg his hands through the re-
naming tafy-colored locks that COW
cred his ears, he fell into reverie. at
intervals muttering audibly, "'Tis
two, tbs fifty, and it's fifty, ffty-two.
Oh, Sheol. Sheol."
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Starvation Camp.

After informing the unfortunate
cripples Of our intention to proceed
Z forward until we could find food,
that we might not all be lost, and
send relief as quickly ais it could be
obtained, | consigned the fifty two
men, eighty one loads, and ten ca
noes in charge Of Capt, Nelson, bade
him be Of good cheer, and, hosting
our loads and boat on ourshoulders;
we marched away. Thus writes Hen
~ M. Stanley Of the Emin Pasha re-
lief expedition in the June Scribner..
omore gloomy spot The continues)
could have been selected for a camp
than that sandy terrace, encompass
sed by rocks and hemmed in narrow
ly by those dark woods, which rose
from the rivers edge to the height OF
600 feet, and pent in the never-ceas-
ing uproar which was created by the
wriGhing and tortured stream, and
the thunder. The Imagination shud-
ders at the haptWin cataracts which
ever rivaled each other s less position
of those crippled men, who were
doomed to remain inactive, to listen
every moment to the awful sound of
that irreconcilable fury of wrathful
waters and the monotonous and con-
tinuous roar ofplunging rivers; to
watch the leaping waves cOiling and
twisting into uprising columns as
they ever Wrestled for mastery with
each other, and were dashed in white
fragments of foam far apart by the
ceaseless force of driven currents; to
gaze at the dark. relentless woods
spreading upward and around, stand
ing perpetually fixed in dull green,
mourning over past ages, past times,
and past generations; then think of
the night with it's palpable blackness;
the dead, black shadows ofthe wood
ed hills; that eternal sound of fury,
that ceaseless boom of the cataracts,
the indefinite forms born of nervous
ness and fearfulness; that misery en-
gendered, by loneliness, and creeping
sense of abandonment; then will be un-
derstood something Of the true posi-
ton of these poor men.
And what OF us, trudging up those
wooded slopes to gain the crest of
the forest upland, to tramp on and
on, whittier we knew not, for how
long time we dared not think, seek
ing for food, with the double respon-
sibility weighing us down for these
trustful, brave fellows with lis, and
for those, no less brave and trustful,
whom we had left behind at the bot
tom of the horrible canyon?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
She Forgot Too Soon.

Paris officers, going to seize the
goods Of q woman against whom a
judgement had been obtained found
her lying pparently dead and prepar-
ed for burialin her rooms. They were
about to retire when one Of them
could not resist the temptation to
pinch the plump arm Of the woman.
The supposed corpse promptly sat
up on the bier and gave the impert-
inent officer regular dressing down
before she IenlemD ered that she was
dead to her creditors, if not to the
world. The execution was made at
once and the goods sold. New York
Sun.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Action Of Electricity.

An electrician, writing on the ac-
ton ofelectricity on the human body,
says that just what takes place in
the human organism to produce
death from an electric currant seems
to be an unsolved problem. One 81
the theories sometimes advanced con-
corning it is that when a being suf-
fers death from electric shock it is q
pure case OF internal rapture or ex-
aplosion from the generation Of gas
or vapor.New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
ALost Opportunity.

He looked so glum and down in the
mouth that the half-dozeu of us con-
cluded that he had lost his wife or
met with some other distressing ca
lamity, and SO, after leaving Elmira,
one of the boys slid into half of his
seat and began:
: My friend, you appear to be i'll.
No, not exactly ill., was the re.
ply:
.'Wife dead"
Never had one.'
Heard any bad news?'
g s'No."
tIf there's any thing our crowd can
do for you we shall be glad of the op.
portunity.''
Will your"
"Ofcourse.''
Swell, then, wish you'd begin on
ne and kick until the last man can't
swing his leg for another lift, for of
all the born fools in America I'm the
biggest 2:&Hs !, !,
We had an accident on this road
about three weeks ago, and a lot of
US lost our baggage. We were told
to file our claims, and I've just been
down to get my money"
well, wasn't that all right"
''All right! Why, jab my eyes, if I
WASH t fool enough to hand in true
list ofabout So worth of old buds,
while a neighbor of our'n who lost
two pair of socks and and box of
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
Changed His Swear.

Until recently Chauncey Depew al
ways had q queer habit ofsaying 'ssby
gosh when excited. One dayIa friend
upbraided him for using profane
language What, asked Our Chaun-
.cey, you don't really mean to call
BY gosh swearing?'' Why, Of
course, ! do, replied his friend.
well, then, by gosh, I will never say
ST again. And DepeW has kept his
word. He now swears by jingo. Z
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
A Sioux Graduate in Medicine.
Boston special to New York Trib-

Boston special to New York Trib-
une: Charles Alexander Eastman,
one of the Boston University gradu-
ates in medicine, is a Sioux Indian,
whose name was Ohiyesa, signifying
a winner. He was born Feb. 10,
1862, on the Sioux Reservation, now
a part Of the State Of Minneso ta..
His father was the son of one of the
Sioux chiefs, joined in the Sioux out
break of 1862. The father was
wounded captured and condemned
to be hanged, but his sentence was
commuted by President Lincoln. He
remained in prison four years when
his good conduct gained his release.
The mother Of young Eastman died
at his birth and in the troubled times
before the outbreak occurred the in
FAINT was carried by some Of his tribe
through the unbroken forests several
hundred miles to British America.
Here he lived until he was IL years
old, where his father, who had become
a christian, sought him out and
and brought him to Flandreau, in
Dakota Territory, which was then q
civilized settlement. Here he receiv-
ed his present name and was sent to
school at Gales burg, Ill. From there
he went to the academy at Meriden,
N. H., where he was fitted for the sci
entific department at Dartmouth Col
lege, which he entered in 1884 and.
was graduated in 1887. The same
year he entered the medical depart
ment at Boston University. He will
return to the reservations for such
work as he can best perform there.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03

with only the house IN which she
lived to call her own had been re-
duced to the dernier resort of taking
boarders. Now calamity had come
upon her, she was about to lose her
best-paying boarder-lose him just
as the winter was coming on, and
the Thousand and one extra expenses
which cold weather is certain to
create all to be met.
Mrs. Moffet was a meek little Wom-
an, timid and retiring; she disliked
change in her household affairs, she
had disliked worry and anxiety, be:
ing naturally cheerful and lively in
disposition, and she did like Mr..
Montgomery. And now this cold
morning in the early winter Mrs.
Mofett was forced to stand face to
face with the truth. He was going
away. And why? All, that was the
worst oft! He had lost money-a
large amount from his room, and
refused to longer remain in house
where thieves were harbored.
Mrs. Mofet listened to Mr. Mont
gomery's story with alternate hor-
ror, terror, despair. At it's close she
burst into tears.
"Oh, dear! It is awful!'' she sob
bed. 'sYou know that amignorant
Of the whereabouts Of your money;
and oh, it will ruin my house if it
gets knoWnp'
Cant help it, ma am. Very sorry,
I'm sure; but then it's mere case Of
self-defense. Cant stay in house
where am liable to- to-be robbed.
And then Mrs. Mofet bowed with
as much dignity as though she we're
an empress.
every well, sir. You know best, Of
course, sir. l will have your bill
ready in q few moments, and you =
Stay, Mrs. Moffet. / will not
leave until my month is up, which
will be in three days, I believe
Mrs. Moffet bowed once more.
AS you like, sir. In the mean
time We will ID ali in orr mower -
recover the missiinp money
But Mr.. Truman Montgomery
looked blank s5aa#.
"Poor little thinpl How na1a aha
looks ]" he said "a himself 40 Ia
went back ia his room "a % ihrnnob
with q long and fruitless search 4 once
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-07-03
THE SOMNANBULIST.

RS. Moffet was in
despair. No won
der. Here she
was, "a lone lorn
wild ow 4 " no
having been left LEFT
in straitened cir
o11nn.c tanonc
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-11-03
THE news F.!
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS TO
THE CITIZEN.
COL. FLEMING: OF FKNONVII.I.E X
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
he COULD NOT STAND HIS PHYSI,
GAL SUFFERING.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov, 3,-lroiound
sensation was created III Knoxville this
morning when it's citizens learned that
Col. John NJ. Fleming. the well known
newspaper editor and once politician, at
tempted suicide yesterday afternoon
about ! O'Clock. lie is in room at the
Lamar House with three great gashcs ON
his chest about the region of the heart
and another terrible Z: :, om the left side
of his neck made by several strokes of I,
dull badcd pocket knife,
Col. Fleming has been drinking heavily
of late. As near AS can he determined
about . O'Clock yesterday afternoon h.
partially disrolcd and laid down in bed
and gave himself the wounds stated.
Near q O'Clock Il servant girl passed the
room, and she says Col. Fleming called
her. and going in the room, she was hor.
riticd to find him lying on the bed weller
ing in his own blood. She gave the alarm
and physician was called. An cxam-
nation showed that while the wounds
were painful and serious, they were not
oi fatal nature.
Fleming said that he was induced to
commit the deed by physical suffering.
Col. Fleming is some - Ia 60 years
old, widowcr with grand children. He
is one OF the most brilliant men in the
state, and wicldS a powerful pen.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-11-03
Who Told You So ?

W.. T. Crawford saws that q. Ewart
told him that he heard lin Gudger say that
Hob Vance told him that Kope i:lius heard
that there WAS no doubt hat W. " Rollins
said that Tom Johnston thought that Bob
Furman had told Sitting Buli that Buffalo
Bill had declared to ! II. Courtney that II
was generally believed that Dan Reynolds
had said IN plain terms that he heard Jack
w"ricy say that his friend Jrhn l.. sullivan
had said that Bill beaver informed him ut
the congressional convention in this city that
II was IL well known fac, that the House.
keepers Union had caught Gen Ciingmam IN
saying that II, his opinion 1t was n matter of
fact and of grca public interest that !. 7.
Mackey intimatcd to Jess Lowry that Rill
Nyc had said while attending the count y con.
vcntion last saturday that anyone caught
reading this shall repair at once to the store
uf A. d. COOPER. North Court square, and
inspect his mammoth stock oi all kinds oi
Groceries. Provisions, Ne. where arrange
mcnts have been made to furnish you all
kinds oi Staple and Fancy Groceries uf the
Hest Quality nt the Lowest i'riccs.