The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-08
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Few events in the history of the
world will have tended more to promote
universal peace than the worlds Col
umbian exposition. Some writer has
called attention to the fact that the
first great worlds fair held in London
in 1851 was shortly afterward followed
by the Crlmean war, and that some
of it's successors have had more or less
great wars closely on their heels. If
the worlds fairs did not bring on those
wars they certainly did not prevent
them. But our Columbian celebration,
as, Harpers Weekly remarks, has pre-
sented one spectacle which is probably
without precedent, and should be Of
good augury. Many of those who wit
messed the great parade of sailors and
marines on the streets of New York
on April 81 may not have been mind
full Of the fact that they saw some
thing that perhaps had never happened
within the memory of the present gen
| Grafton, and would not be possible
| anywhere else in the world: sailors
and soldiers of ten different nations
with arms in their hands, united in one
festive -Englishme Russians,
! Germans and Frenchmen belonging to
! the armed forces Of rival powers that
may, as lis thought, at any moment
come to blows among themselves
peaceably marching with muskets on
their shoulders and swords at their
sides behind one another in one column
1t was spectacle cclblematic of the
position of this great American repub-
lie among the nations of the earth
the great peace power Of the world,
embracing in it's hospitality the great
war powers of the world for a celebra-
ton of human progress and mutual
goodwill q
| Some Curious Calculations
Some clever. scientist has made up
the following table, showing the span
of life granted under normal condi-
tons to various living creatures and
| things:
| The life of field-mouse is a year
The life of a hedgehog is three times
| that Of a mouse.
/ The life of dog is three times that
| Of hedgehog.
| The life Of horse is three times that
! Of dog.
The life of man is three times that
Of a horse.
The life of goose is three times that
of man.
! The life of a swan is three times
that Of a goose.
The life of swallow is three times
that of a swan.
The life Of an eagle is three times
that of a swallow.
The life of serpent is three times
that of an eagle s@- s
The life Of a raven is three times that
of a serpent.
The life Of a hart is three times
that of a raven.
| And an oak groweth five hundred
years, and fadeth five HUNDRED years.
Certain portions Of this table are hard
to believe. An easy calculation shows
that if it be accurate the hedgehog
lives three years; the dog nine years;
the horse, twenty-seven years; the man,
eighty-one years; the goose, two hun
dred and forty-three years; the swan,
seven hundred and twenty whine years;
| the swallow, two thousand one hundred
and eighty-seven years; the eagle, six
thousand five hundred and sixty-one
years; the serpent, nineteen thousand
six hundred and eighty three years;
the raven, fifty nine thousand and forty
L O<lA AAkO Tic %n61IlS O1lG sulIuuI0u
| and seventy-seven thousand one hun
dred and forty-seven years
Give the Small Boy a Chance.
did you ever stop to think what
a hard time the small boy Of to-day
has has in getting along in the world y
asked q Chief Clerk Sylvester, Of the po-
lice department in Washington Il
mean the small boy in the city, he
added. This is a subject for serious
thought. Much of the crime committed
and many a fast life is the result not
50 mi. much of the parents neglect and
the existence of places Of evil resort
as the prevailing disposition Oh he
part Of the citizens to crush out the
small boy The majority Of the com
plants made to the police Just now
are arraignments Of young America.
II he coasts down the street in winter