The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
FOR n THE YOUNG FOLKS.
INTERESTING READING FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS,
"A Billion Dollars--Cnsar Dispan-
sing Justlce--A Dangerous
Tiger Fun-- Making Ac-
quatntance - Mis-
arrangements.
A Billion Dollars.

A Billion Dollars.
/ was reading in paper the other
day that if billion dollars were
placed on the ground edge to edge,
they would extend to distance Of
24,674 miles, nearly all the way
around the earth at the equator.
Broken into three parts, the line
would form a solar and an equatorial
axis for the globe, with spare one
left over in case of accident. This is
very startling, but / do not believe
that most boys and girls know how
startling it is. You are not very
much interested in solar and equa-
torial axes OF the world, because you
haven't hall OF you any idea as to
what solar and equatorial axes are;
indeed, I don't really think that
even your fathers, in spite Of all they
know, could intelligently describe to
you the difference between the solar
and equatorial axes and George
Washington's little Ratchet. u
And SO, of course, this wise item
about q billion dollars does not CON
vey much OF an idea toyour minds as
to what a billion of dollars really
amounts to; but look at it in this
light: II a billion dollars were to be
expended in tarts at five cents apiece,
you would get twenty billion tarts,
and If you ate q thousand OF these q
day it would take you twenty million
days to get through with them, and
twenty million days would be very
nearly fifty-fve thousand years, by
which time the last million tarts
would be extremely stale.
birds OF the most expensive kind the
tive-dollar kind that begins to sing at
three o'clock in the morning, and
keeps it up until eight o'clock atnight.
A billion dollars would buy you two
hundred million of these birds-a
number for which, I have a strong
fear, your father would find it diff
cult to provide room, especially if you
live in g. small city house.
The same amount of money would
buy ten million hundred-dolla dogs,
or twenty million ffty-dollar cats,
and if each cat had five kittens, you
can easily see where you would be in
the cat way after a while, it you were
so foolish as to spend your money
entirely upon them, and when you
think OF the amount of milk 1t would
take to feed all these cats and kittens,
! am sure you will hesitate before
making any such investment.
[ mention these things just to show
you what q terribly large sum of
money O. billion dollars is. 81 have
such confidence in boys and girls that
/ do not believe they would ever
spend as much money as that in the
way have indicated, but it is
just as we'll that you should learn the
value of money now when your saw
ings-banks hold not more than half
that sum. so that when your billions
are completed, you will know what
not to do with them.-Harper' Young
People.
Caesar Dispensing Justice.
Caesar, our great Newfoundland, had
a very friendly way with small dogs,
because he was used to them, there
being always few house-dogsin the
family, but he showed a decided pre-
ference; for although he would permit
Juliet, a small Scotch terrier, to
make his broad side her place OF re-
pose when she was out-of-doors, and
seemed to like it, yet if Romeo, her
mate, only a few pounds heavier offer
ed to follow her example, an ominious
growl warned him off:
One of us children had to 90 every
morning to the bakers for fresh rolls,
and Caesar carried the basket. On the
square there was tailor's establish
ment kept by a man named Gain,
who owned little reddish brown dog
which had arrived at old age without
either it's wisdom or its dignity. He
had a bad habit OF flying out at every
dog which passed, even though the
dog might be attending strictly
to his own business, but he never
meddled with Caesar, unless he had
his mouth too full to resent such i'm
pudence.
One morning I was accompanied by
an elder sister one who had very
high spirit, and who could never bear in
justice in any form-and when the lit
tie cur had made his usual attack, she
remarked, in low tones, Caesar, put
down the basket, and teach him a les
son."
Cesar needed no urging. Very de-
iberately he set the basket down,
picked up the small red dog by the
skin on the back OF his neck, and be.
gan to trot off with his tormetor
dangling from his mouth, in very
shrunken and scared condition. Caesar
soon broke from a trot into a run,
and in much less time than it takes to
tell it, he had sped around the square
with his odd-looking burden, and re-
turning to the starting point, dropped
him from his mouth, very much terri
fed, but entirely unhurt
The dog lost no time in getting in
side the shop door, while Cesar pick ed
up his basket and walked proudly
away, never again to be molested by
Gain $ cur, for if he caught glimpse
of Caesar coming, he would disappear
as if by magic, and he was much more
careful about attacking other dogs as