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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
A Spirited Shark Fight.

The New Zealand Herald describes
desperate fight between a man and a
shark which occurred in Manckau
harbor. Mr.. Henry jacobson, who is
employed at the North Manukau
Heads as beacon lightkeeper. was out
in his boat about six miles down the
harbor. when it was struck by a suuall
and swamped and the occupant left
In the water jacobson dived and en-
deavored to relieve the ballast, but
without success. He then grasped an
oar, and. being a good swimmer,
struck out for land, but, as strong
tide was running he was swept down
the harbor distance of three miles.
At that point he was attacked by a
large shark. which grabbed at his
hand. He protected himself, how
ever. with the oar. which he tried to
ram down the sharks throat. The
fish then made a circle around him and
renewed the attack. But this time.
however, Jacobson had his sheath
knife drawn, and desperately stabbed
the shark. ripping its side open, so
that the water became red with blood.
A y8tner attack was made, when
jacobson again stabbed the monster
near the tail. and it swan away. At
that time a boat came IN sight and
Jacobson exhausted, was hauled into
the boat, having been in the water two
hours and thirty minutes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
NERO NOT IN II.
ny nl lnods of Fighting Fires In An.

the Methods of Fighting Fires in An.
cient Rome.
An interesting article upon fire.
agntlng as practiced by the ancient
Romans appeared in the London Globe
q 2 recent date. According to the
writer The tirst Roman fire brigade
was organized by the Emperor Au-
gustus and consisted of seven bands
eacn under captain, charged Win
The protection from fire Of two of the
fourteen municipal districts The
project of the watch was the chief of.
ficer OF the brigade.
Ihe weapon used by the firemen
was termed a lama. but what this was
Is doubtful as some writer's maintain
that 1t was water bucket, and others
pole with a hooked end. There
were lncendiaries in those days, as in
the present One Of these is referred
to under the name of Arturius, who
burned down his house, and then. az
was the custom after a fire. sat around
ana solicited the help of his friends
and neighbours obtaining gifts that
proved to be thrice the value of the
goods destroyed by his willful act OF
arson.
There was another custom by which
many Roman millionaires, including
the elder Cato and Crassus. obtained
their riches. This was a kind of
speculation in fires.
AT the first news of a building in
flames the wealthy fire monger-as the
profession has been appropriately des
lgnated-hastened to thespot wellpro-
vlded with money and accompanied
by a train OF slaves. Rapidly esti-
mating the risk upon the basis of the
probable salvage from the blazing
mouse, ne then rendered a sum-fre
quently a5surdly small in proportion
TO the amount at risk-to the owner,
who seeing that he was powerless to
save anything. generally accepted the
offer.
Thereupon the purchaser slaves
were set to work to extinguish the
flames. or; failing in that to snatch
everything possible from the burning
building. 1t is reported that Crassus.
who obtained an immense fortune by
this means. employed no less than 500
trained slaves in extinguishing a sim
gle fire.
At a later date the hand pump in
vented by Ctesibus of Alexandria,
was used in Rome, but was soon
superseded by machine devised by
Apolidorus. architect to the Emperor
Trojan. This consisted of a pipe or
pipes to which leathern bottle was
attached. forming crude sort of syr-
lnge which appliance continued in
use for some handreds of years, and
was only replaced by some modern
apparatus in the seventeenth century,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
Why He SObbed.

It is generally supposed that it is
only judges have the power of she'd
ding tears at an advanced age, but
emlnetn counsel occasionally display
this gift. A century ago it was com
mon enough among lawyers. At
Horne Tooke' trial the attorney gen.
eral (Scott), who was against him.
fell into the error of justifying his
own character: 1t is the little in
heritance l have to leave to my chill
dren. and, with heavens help. I will
leave it unimpaired. Here he began
to sob; and, not to be behindhand, the
solicitor-general (Mitford) began to
weep in concert. Look at Milford!
What on earth is he crying for?" said
a bystander to Tooke. He is cry
ing -" was the reply 'to think of the
little inheritance Scott's children are
likely to get. "-Argonaut
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
OVER THE WIRES.
The Mysterious Power of the TELEGRAPH,
and Operator.

and Operator.
was talking to the telegraph oper-
ator during lull in his work. saws a
writer in the Detroit Free Press, and
with somesdegree of awe was dilatino
upon the mysterious power he con-
trolled with a finger tap. ,.-..- I'll
Its wonderful thing, isn't it,,
said, this claiming Of the lightning"
live always understood chain light.
ming was 40 SLOUGH" he responded,
rafting the key of his instrument.
Your work is most interesting. l
should say" continued, when the
messages go flashing over the wires"
Il never saw one flash. l think.
They just go ticketty. tick, tick mostly,
unless wires down."
But in moments of exciting events.
the wires are kept hot with flying
messages aren't they?"
Il never went outside to feel a
wire, - he said slowly as if he wanted
to be sure he was right but don t
think the wire ever sets the telegraph
poles on fire."
The lightning-like rapldity with
which" began with sense of some
thing unsatisfactory in the difference
of opinions we held and feeling that
the operator had no poetry in his SOUL
when he made a grab for the key and
for the next ten minutes was so busy
swearing at something that I became
very tired and walked out of the
place ...... -..a. 49,. ...a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
Buddhist Prayer wheels.

In the sacred city of Ourgo the
headquarters of Mongolian Buddhism,
are numerous prayer Wheels in
scrlbed with prayers and dedication to
Buddha, and the more they are turned
the more religious they make you.
Many OF the more devout persons turn
smaller wheels held in the left hand
while manipulating the large one with
the right hand. The curious bits of
rags noticed flying above the palisades
OF the Enclosures OF this town are
prayer flags" No Mongolian house
is without them the more the better
for each one is supposed to convey
q prayer to Buddha. Jewish Tidings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28

other in quick succession down his
sun Drowned cheeks. He felt as did
many others Of the congregation, that
at last Deacon Ellis stood face Is face
with that moment in his life when
there was nothing left for gratitude,
For the first Sunday since the little
church had heard his prayers there
would be no thanksgiving. IhSn the
sympathetic farmer thought Of the
mortgage, already as good as lifted,
and he felt strong impulse to rise IN
in his place and tell him; to cry out:
Thank the Lord If you wish; 20 on
thanking Him"
So excited did he become that Mrs.
Foster touched him on the arm and
said. in q whisper: Ezekiel. kneel
down"
The deacon had begun his prayer
broken and qulvering the accents soft
and slow the petition. The rod had
fallen 50 heavily! There was Plead
ing cry for strength, a grasp at faith.
full surrender to the will of Him
who doeth all things we'll; and then,
as the voice gathered strength and the
heart returned to it's old time trust,
the chief characteristic of his religion
exerted itself. and Deacon Ellis
thanked the Lord that she whom He
had given to be to him helpmate and
solace had been gathered into rest
before his calamities had overtaken
him. I t.
Then as the grand old voice rose
again in the sweet familiar hymn:
''Here I'll raise mine Ebenezer,"
the people listening felt indeed the
sublimity of faith erecting its altar
upon the ashes of despair. ~ outh' s
Companion.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS,

A dinner table rule is, ''Pass to the
left"
It is now the fashion to serve the
smallest oysters as an overture to
dinner-the smallest obtainable.
A Russian can plead infancy for a
long time, as he does not come of age
until he is twenty-six years old.
The girls Of the Woman's college,
Baltimore, have decided to don the
cap and gown. They are to be worn
on all college days and all college oc-
casions.
Women dentists have proved so pop
ular in Sweden that scholarship has
been founded for the purpose of rend-
ering to women without means assist
ance in the study of dentistry.
A Deer Isle Me-, man has a curiosity
in the shape of an egg which had on
one end a cap-ike excrescence, which,
being lifted, showed a full-sized cram
berry bean between the cap of the
shell and the inner lining membrane of
the egg.
Ten years ago a Pittsburg man, while
in Dakota, received intelligence of the
death of his wife and paid all the fune-
raj expenses. Lately he was surprised
at receiving word that she was alive
and had begun suit against him for de-
sertion.
1t is stated that there are more
priests, monks and nuns in Jerusalem,
in proportion to the population, than
in any other city in the world. They
belong to every nation Of Europe and
many of Asia and are Of every creed,
form Of worship and dress.
Bernard Domecq, who died recently
in Bayonne, treasured coin that was
given him at the time of the siege Of
that city in 1914. He was then thir-
teen years old, and the money was
given him by the duke Of Wellington
for holding the latter's horse for a few
minutes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
He Was Strlnolex IS,

We were camped on the Bear river
in Eastern Utah, when a prospector
came along one morning on mule.
He had his jaw tied up, and at first he
seemed inclined to pass on without a
word. On second thought however
he halted and grutfiy queried:
How fur to Salt Lake?"
Three hundred miles"
'Humph!" 49,
Travelled far?'' . @.t....-
about 200 miles,
Get your jaw hurt?"
mo. It's jest an Internal tooth
ache, and Tn a ridin' 500 miles to get
it pulled"
We invited him down, and one of
the crowd got a piece of string around
the tooth and jerked it out as slick as
you please. After the overjoyed man
had ceased dancing about queried:
why didn't you try the string be-
fore starting on such a long ride?''
BEST kind of reason, sir. hadn't
nary string to try. IN. Y. Sun.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
steel Tools.

10 etch a name on steel tools: Clean
thoroughly from grease, and then
spread thin coat of beeswax on the
tool a! the place where the name Is to
be. This must be as thin as possible.
Then with sharp needle.point write
through the wax to the steel. Paint
this over with a mixture OF nitric and
muriatic acid; and when bubbles cease
to rise the work is done. Wash in
strong soda-water.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
HIS CHARITY.
Case Where Poor Boy Aided Rit
Man. .-,H.

Man. 49,
A great deal is written about rich
men giving to poor boys and it is
pleasing and novel to hear q true
story of poor boy showing charity to
a rich man. soliloquizes the Boston
Transcript. 4 W.
One night not long ago General
Swayne of New York was going up
town on Fourth avenue car. He
tucked his crutches under his arm to
investigate his pockets and found he
had no money. 4aS
Il suppose Twill have to get off.
he said to the conductor The con-
ductor said he supposed he would.
Then up spoke a voice from the bot
tom of the car. It belonged to a
small one-legged rewsboy, who had
to depend on crutches as General
Swayne did. s.-#.,@< See
There's a pair of us" said the boy.
III lend you nickel 20 pay for
vour ride. " -. r.
The offer touched the generals
heart. for it was plain that desire to
spare his pride had led the boy to call
it a loan. He said to himself that
sometime he would pay the five cents
back with interest ~
He asked the boys address. The
boy gave it. but told him it didn't mat
ter. When Mrs. Swayne, at her hus
bands request, drove to the address
OF the boy who had pitied her husband
she found that he was dead The
debt could not be paid to him,
but he had left a mother and some
little brothers, vino have profted by
their brothers loan. 49,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
Another Victim,

The man in the macintosh had
been studying the time tables in the
book for half an hour and getting
madden every minute.
lis that railway guide?" inquired
the man with his feet on the table.
Nor snorted the other throwing
it on the floor. Pm the guyed"-
Chicago Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28

inspirations through the nostrils ap.
peared decided in his opinion. If ii
happened TO be unfavorable, he sud-
denly went to distance with every
appearance OF disgust; iffavorable he
showed disposition to become more
intimate. and expressed by his coun-
cen ''F'a more or less satisfaction in
accord ance with the degree OF his APP.
probation
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
He,llBe ON Hana

Police Commissioner What assur-
ance could you give that you would
always be on hand when fight wGs
going onp n
O'Toole-Oi have allus been very
fond OF 'em, yer hanor. Puck.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
SYMPATHY.

They came to me and gently said,
"Your neighbours little one lies dead"
answered not, but closer pressed
My own wee one unto my breast.
laid him down, my eyes grew dim,
And once again I bent Ger him;
Then out softly, quickly stole
The other mother to console.
clasped her hand, and tried-but no,
could not say twas bstter so;
could not say, dear heart, resign
0 Father, what if it were mine.
Kathleen Kavanagh, in New Orleans
Picayune
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
Exciting limo. IN pn,,.a.,n.,,

Johnny said Philadelphia
mother Il wish you wouldn't play
with those Smith children. Play with
Mrs. Jones little boys. see that
their mother has new wringer and
I vii! probably want to borrow It next
week Texas Siftings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28
Nothing Redeemfng About Htn

Pawnbroker--I can't gif you nod
dings on dat goat nor on der bante,
looms needer
Impecunious Man They are all
right. I didn't steal them. I pledge
you my word
You can't pledge your word here
and get a cent. | wants no peesness
NIT you. J"
bat whyp"
My frient / dells you. see nv
your face you has no redeeming gwal-
tiles Texas Siftinps
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28

nearly the final stroke. The old man
had buried his wife and child for
whom he worked and saved now the
means OF his own livelihood we're
vanishing.
His neighbors were appalled,. The
good old deacon had no enemies: and
now even those who had found some
thlng to laugh at in his great faith
In the face of calamity were shocked
The Sunday following the burning
OF the barns the neighbors met early
at the church and discussed the m latter
among themselves. 1t was finally de-
c1ded that among themselves thew
would raise enough money to paw off
the mortgage on the farm and from
their own full granaries furnish seed
for the next years crop.
4 want to hear him bless the Lord
once more" said Farmer Foster. with
big tear In either eye
land have somethin to bless Him
for /" added. his wife. as she brushed
Off a crystal drop that had trickled "a
the tip of her nose.
Then some one whispered that the
deacon was at the door and the con.
gregation settled down to its accus-
toned quiet and decorum as the old
man entered. He was aging. Deacon
Ellis was, he leaned heavily upon his
staff, and the neighbors noticed, for
the first time. how the silver in his
hair had given place to snow. 53
! Farmer Fosters tears no longer
! stood in his eyes but followed each
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-05

measure before the last Congress upon
which there was not an effort to enter
just such a filibustering campaign as the
present. They would have succeeded
had not the rules and the Speaker stood
in the way. Take, for instance, the bill
to relieve the overcrowded Supreme
Court by establishing the Circuit Court
of Appeal. This was piece of legisla-
ton everywhere acknowledged to be
necessary and useful, yet the Dem ocrats
began to make the most determined fill
clustering raid against it. They did not
succeed. because sensible rules and a
firm Speaker prevented. What was true
of the court bill was true of nearly every
piece of useful legislation in the Fifty
first Congress. The ''crowd Of incapa-
bles and filibusters" were there then,
just as active as now; but the Springfield
Republican shut its eyes and refused to
see them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-05
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The underground railroad in Glasgow,
begun three years ago, is now almost
completed. The totol length Of the road
which extends into the suburbs, is seven
and quarter miles, but not all OF this is
underground. The greatest distance
below the surface is 100 feet, the average
distance being 20 feet. There are great
many grades, some quite steep, and some
sharp curves. The contract price OF the
road was something over $5,000,000.
On Friday last it was just 200 years
since Rebecca Nurse was hanged at
Salem, Mass, on account of her religious
convictions, and because she would not
confess to being a witch. The anniver-
sary was observed in what is now the
town of Danvers. For long time her
tomb was without mark her body
having been stolen by her sons from the
gallows for interment. Her later de-
scendants have just unveiled memorial
tablet, suitably inscribed, in honor OF the
forty persons who maintained the inno-
cence of this New England martyr be-
fore the court which condemned her.
A neatly dressed, respectable-looking
man stopped Boston Journal reporter
on the road last week to ask the distance
to that city. In the course of talk it
came out that he was Homestead, Pa,
striker, who was making his way on foot
from Fall River to Boston. 1t was his
first strike experience, he said, and he
hoped it would be his last. He had been
oatfino Cd day for nine hOilrS' work in
the mill. He had been very reluctant
TIC quit, but couldn't help himself; didn't
dare stand out against ''the leaders"
They had told him they were going to
force up his wages to S. for eight hours
work. 1t seemed to him mighty fool
ish strike. "There are large numbers of
men who have snug little places in Home
stead, but they'll lose them sure" he
said.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-05
BROTHER INGRAHAM'S FIRST AP-
PEARANCE.

The appearance of the Hon. Darius II.
Ingrahain on the stump has been looked
forward to with more than ordinary in
terest. The tremendous eulogiums pro-
nounced upon him by the Argus as
statesman, finaneier, literary man, friend
of the people ct cetera had thrown the
voters of the first district into something
nearly approaching fever of excitement
to see and to hear this latest discovered
man to beat Mr.. Reed There was
naturally therefore somewhat of impa-
tience in. the audience as it waited
while candidate johnson rehearsed his
columns of dreary figures, for the spark
ling champagne that it was supposed, in
accordance with tradition, had been kept
for the last. But all things come to
those who wait and Mr.. Ingraham finally
came to those who waited at Alfred.
There was q murmur of expectation, a
burst of applause and then the cham
payne was uncorked. The first go-off
was disappointing. The cork did not
fly very high, and the fiz and the sparkle
were of so mild kind as to suggest
champagne cider rather than the exhilar-
ating beverage of the widow Cliquot.
Yet willie Mr.. Ingraham's performance
was disappointing, he made fairly good
Democratic speech. He showed himself
thoroughly grounded in the principles of
Democracy and fully entitled to ex-
claim Il am a Democrat" His
Grafton was full of calamity and calami-
ty is the bed rock principle of the
Democracy nowadays. He shed a few
tears of the crocodile variety, as all
Democrats do, over the condition of the
laboriug man, contrasting Carnegie, roll
ing in wealth, with his poor firemen,
s'bared to the waist and earning but a
dollar day. picture that does great
credit to Mr.. Ingraham's imagination,
inasmuch as all the testimony goes to
show that the wages paid to the Carnegie
werkmen did not in any case fall below
$3.50 a day and i'll many cases rose as
high as $40 a day. Indeed all through
his speech Mr.. Ingrallam showed that
facts constrained him only TO very
slight degree, and that is thoroughly
Democratic. He had considerable to say
in condemnation of the present represen.
tative of the First district;, and was quite
sure that the election of Mr.. Cleveland
for President and Mr.. Ingraham for
representative from the First district
would lift the prevailing gloom from off
the country, and bring happiness and
sunshine to everybody.
Though, as we have said, Mr.. Ingra-
hams speech was fairly good one from
the Democratic standpoint, it made it
abundantly evident that he cannot rely
upon his eloquence to ''whoop up the
boys He will need to take brass
band or barrel around with him tc
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-05
HINTS 10 HousEKEEPERs.
WAGES INCREASING.
Showing Up the Falsity of Mr.. Clevelands
Claims.
New York Adyertiser.l


When MI. Cleveland stood up in Madi-
son Square Garden, and deplored the
condition of American labor, he must
have known that the facts did not justify
his lamentations. Had Mr.. Cleveland
any concern at all as to the condition of
American labor, he could not have failed
to observe that under the Mckinley bill
wages have been steadily increasing.
In another place today we reprint from
the Utica Herald list of twenty-seven
prominent manufacturing firms which
have lately increased the wages of their
laborers from to 25 per cent. And this
list does not include the Fall River and
Lowell cotton manufacturers, who have
entered into an agreement to increase
the wages of their men, nor hundreds OF
other firms in different lines of business
throughout the country.
Eight days after the increase of wages
by the cotton manufacturers of Fall River
came this cable from London:
A crisis is threatened in the Lancashire cot
ton trade. The Federation of Master Cot y
Spinners recommends that a 10 per cent y
duction be made in the wages OF operaUy
anu UlldI lllG HILLS NC vi ~
said that the Analgamated Association of
Operative Cotton Spinners will refuse to accept
a reduction of wages and that strike or lock-
out will follow. 1t was only la short time ago
that general lockout was settled In the Lam
caShire cotton mills.
There we have both sides of the pic
ture. In Free Trade England the wages
of operatives in the cotton mills are be-
ing reduced 10 per cent, and the mills
are to run on short time. In Fall River
wages are increased, even in the face OF
the recent law which shortens a week S
work from sixty to fifty-eight hours.
''This action of the Fall River manufac-
t,lrers," says dispatch, twas com
plete surprise to the operatives, and was
unsolicited"
And yet Mr.. Cleveland has the Buzz
yards Bay effrontery to tell American
workingmen that we are confronted by
Calamity.