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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
The Princess Mercedes.

Princess Mercedes Of Spain, who is
now in her nineteenth year, enjoys the
altogether exceptional distinction, for
so young a girl, Of being an ex-queen
Her little brother, the present king Of
Spain, was not born until over six
months after the death of his father,
the late King Alfonso XII. and during
those six months Maria de las Mer-
cedes held the rank of queen Of Spain
On the appearance of her baby brother
she was obliged to step down from her
throne and surrender the title of queen
and Of majesty, assuming in their
stead that of princess Of the Asturias
The title Of prince or princess of the
Astalrias is invariably borne by the
heir apparent to the throne, just in the
same way as the title Of prince OF
Wales is borne by the eldest son of the
ruler Of Great Britain. Princess Mer
cedes is a very clever little girl, with
all the self-possession. the gravity and
the sedateness of a Spaniard.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Care of Clothing.

The well-dressed person is usually
the one who bestows proper amount
of care upon the garments they pos
sess rather than excessive thought
upon new garments. Some one has re-
Gently we'll said that to keep clothing
looking well is an art, and requires
time. Never put a garment away
after wearing till you have cleaned it
thoroughly. If you have worn some
thing at night that is to put away
again, hang the garment carefully
over the back of a chair or your
clothes-rack till moi ming; then go over
it with a brush and soft silk cloth,
taking out every bit of dust, and is
there are any spots, cleaning them be-
fore dust has a chance to settle in
them. If bindings are ripped, buttorS
gone, trimming pulled loose, fasten it
all in shape, then hang the garment
away SO that it will not be In
wrinkles, and when you need to put it
on again in a hurry your temper will
not be in evidence for a whole day
over a badly conditioned gown that
you had not time to fix, The same is
true of hat, gloves and shoes. Five
minutes care of them when laid aside
will add weeks to their freshness
WOmankind
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30

their coaXing fingers without much ap-
parent effort on their part. Such may
ma their vocation in the management
or greenhouse. Raising flower seeds
is a remunerative occupation. Choice
pansy seed is sold at 81 an ounce at
retail, rare ones at double that price,
ana some varieties of yerbenas at $3
an ounce. Cut flowers always COM
mand a good price in winter, spring
flowers at Easter and choice cut flow
ers all the year round.
The care of precious plants for alb
sent owners, supplying potted plants
ana ferns for the decoration Of dinner
tables and drawing rooms, help to
swell the balance. Some florists not
only supply flowers but arrange them
IN their receptacles, charging an extra
sum for the service.
A girl choosing this occupation must
be content to learn her business thor
oughly under an experienced florist,
and should also have little capital to
begin with.
There are so many good technical
schools now that there need be little
difficulty in obtaining excellent in
struction in whatever ayocati it is
wished to take up.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Household Hints.

Buy of your druggist an earthenware
mortar and pestle. After each meal
tip out the salt into the mortar and
mash it we'll, and then put it back and
smooth over with the back of a knife,
and while your salt in the cellar will
look like adamant, it will be what salt
should be, and what it very seldom is.
Try it.-Harper's Bazaar.
Bananas are excellent fried as dough-
nuts are fried-in a deep vessel of
boiling fat These may be eaten SIM
ply or with little glaze of sugar and
lemon. Another way to serve them is
to bake them in their jackets and eat
them with sugar and cream. The
fruit should be we'll ripened and the
oven fairly hot. Ten or twelve min
utes will usually suffice to cook them.
Tides made Of antique lace can be
washed satisfactorily if soaked in
borax water; then let them lie in
warm suds, squeezing them with your
hands; rinse, but do not blue them.
Instead Of ironing them pull them in
shape and pin them to clean cloth on
your ironing board; pick out each lit
tie point and pin it down. Let them
get perfectly dry before removing
them.
A novel work box can be made by
lining the bottom Of a tambourine
with quilted satin of any desirable
shade, while between the metal clap
pers are spools, thimbles. wax. etc. Ii
desired second tambourine n size
larger may be converted into cover
by lining it with satin ribbon across it
in such way as to form compart-
ments for scissors, papers or needles
anu other necessities Of a sewing out
fit
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Will Ten Volts Kille

A most important issue has been
raised by correspondent in the col
u1nns Of a leading electrical journal.
One of the laborers in mine was
killed by an electric shock received
while handling an electric mining ma
chine, Notwithstanding the fact that
the electromotive force on the circuit
did not exceed 2SO volts. The young
man was strong and we'll built, and
poSt-mortem examination ny physi-
clans showed that the heart and brain,
and indeed the whole body, was
sound. and there were no marks to
indicate the cause of death. Richard
Lamb, whose pioneer work in cleo
trical logging in the Dismal Swamp
is familiar to electricians, states that
too much publicity cannot be given to
the fact that even 40 volts will kill
if applied to a bleeding sore, and al
lowed to remain a few seconds. The
fact that no volts does not paralyze
the nerves, and that, therefore, the
contact can almost invariably be with
drawn at once, is the reason why
there are so few records of DEATH if
any, by that voltage. With $50 volts
in contact with a bleeding sore upon
the hand, person would be killed al
most instantly. Blood is a good con-
ductor of electricity, and the current
would be transmitted at once to the
heart. For this reason, Mr. Lamb re-
quires all the men operating his log
ging and electric canal-bcat towing
cableways to wear rubber gloves, to
prevent the possibility Of contact with
4 sore, although he uses only 22O
volts. Mr.. Lamb says he was assured
by Mr.. Nikola Tesla that 10 volts ap-
piled to bleeding sore on the hand
would put a man to sleep. Another
correspondent believes that the man
died from fright, and relates how n
party of persons who had no knowl-
edge of electrical apparatus visited his
laboratory to experience the novelty
Of receiving a static discharge. A
harmless shock was administered to
each. Where it was unexpected the
persons nearly swooned from fright,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
From the Pail Man Gaxette.as

At first I kissed the viOlets
Because they came from thee,
And, then because no storm-wind
frets
Where they were plucked for me;
But in garden green and fair,
Beyond the bitter snow,
Where nightengales a. eve repair,
TO music they did grow.
But, though they breathe of sun and
song
And rivulets that dance
AdoWn enchanted slopes, where throng
Sweet ghosts Of old romance;
Though fragrant with such dew as
vets
The dales of Already,
At first l kissed the violets
Because they came from thee.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Scientific Notes.

For fourteen years there has been
an average of but twenty hours of
sunshine in London in December
The National Academy of Sciences
has awarded the Barnard gold medal
to Lord Rayleigh for his discovery of
argon in the atmosphere.
There is a butterfly of India. which,
! if pursued by bird, simply alights on
bush or tree and become invisible
by mimicking the leaves.
Humboldt gave it as his opinion that.
the earth contained $4,000 species of
plants, $1,000 species of animals, A.
600 species of insects, 1000 species of
birds and 1000 species of reptiles.
Lord Raleigh has made tlash-light
triumph. He photographed the break
ing up of a soap bubble, a process
which occupied between the two-hun
dreth and -hundredth part of a
second.
The great Edison incandescent lamp
works are no longer turning out lamps
with bamboo flaments. Bamboo has
given way to paper as the basis of the
delicate black tilament that gloNs
golden when the current passes
through it.
A twenty-two-ton Armstrong rifle in
the British navy throws a solid shot
twelve miles, much further than it's
report can be heard. At it's highest
point for this extreme range the shot
would be over three miles above the
earth's surface.
1t is estimated that for every degree
of change in temperature during the
cold half Of the year throughout the
territory in which anthracite coal is
used the consumption is Influenced 2
per cent. The temperature effect is
largely upon the coal used in heating.
and is definite factor for calculation.
Coffee has been found by German
Investigator to possess marked germi-
cidal properties. Pure coffee of the Or
binary strength in which it is utilized
as beverage killed cholera bacilli in
three hours and typhus bacilli in TWEEN
ty-four hours. The anti-bacterial SUBJ
stances seem to be developed in the
coffee bean by the roasting process.
Glass has been produced in Germany
which will transmit light freely, but
not heat. Such material containing
2.S per cent of ferrous chloride allowed
only 4.O6 per cent of radiant heat to
pass through it, while another plate Of
equal thickness and containing the
same amount of iron as ferric chloride,
permitted 11.2 to pass. One per cent
of ferrous oxide produced a glass hay
ing a very faint blue tinge, but even
more impervious to heat than the 9TH
or sample.
M. Berthelot of Paris finds in manip-
ulating the newly discovered compo-
nent Of air. argon, that it developed at
an ordinary pressure magnificent
f1uorescent substance of greenish vel
low color, and characterized by a spec
trum similar to that Of aurora borealis.
From this he deduced that the north
ern lights were caused by the fluores-
cent matter derived from argon and
generated through the influence Of
electrical emanations developed in the
atmosphere.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30

while those expecting It made lcs the
slightest demonstration. Those he
were so badly frightened at first re-
ceivcd afterwards a much greater dis
charge without flinching. One lady
picked up L pair OF cartoons carrying
27e volts. and after holding them
while, threw them down with IN cx-
clanation of Impotence, but without
bel.g impressed with the heaviness of
the shock.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30

fussing when Beatrice greeted her
friend, and the house was atmos-
phered with the general air of unrest
that invariably precedes a marriage
ceremony. Ethels letters to Beatrice
had been brief and spasmodic, and the
name OF the groom had not been men
toned. He was always dear boy"
and my sweetheart" in Ethers let
ters. SO the very day that Beatrice
arrived there were loads Of secrets to
divulge and gossip unreasonable to
be told.
"Oh, the Queerest thing happened"
Ethel dubbed, almost before Beatrice
had removed her hat. "Some girl sent
the dear boy the very sweetest Christ
mas present you ever saw, and what
did the silly do but bring it right to
Inc! He said too, that he thought the
girl was rather in love with him; but
you know, he doesn't care a row of
pins for her, anl-oh, yes, here it is.
Isn't it lovely?" And Ethel held up a
little shell penholder.
1T certainly is very sweet and
pretty" said Beatrice, with calm dig
nifty. as she realized that the dear
boy was the dear Tom who for three
years had been the hero Of her
thoughts and the object of her faithful
affection.
His name is Tom Darrow, DEAR"
Ethel continued, not noticing her
friends pale face. land we're desper
ately in love-make perfect ninnies Of
ourselves, you know. Toms such a
spoon"
Il wish you both much joy and
happiness" said Beatrice. II happen
to know Tom barrow. He will, no
doubt, make a model husband."-
Chicago News
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Lives Out of Tune.

There is no more Earring discord in
the world than that Of two clashiny
souls. If they are tied to each other
IN matrimonial bondage they need all
the religious and all the PHILOSOPHERS
OF Greece, Palestine and the Orient
merely to keep the peace. The most
tragic moment of life-a situation more
heartrending than any that tragedy
has cOnceived-is the moment when
two such welded beings stand face to
| face with a shuddering soul frost and
realize for the first time what this
thing means which they have done.
Each has struck the others funda-
mental keynote and found it discord-
ant. What Observation-Disclosures
cold, shlvering- upon the world
which, but as hour ago. lay smiling in
the hopeful flush of morning! And
what an awful wrench it takes to ac-
quire Indifference for one whom one
has loved or fancied he loved! It was
the moody hero of 'Locksley Hall"
who proposed to bury himself and let
the devil pipe to his own;'' but that is
an imperfect and only momentarv re-
lief. 1t is impossible to go through the
world thus sullenly self-absorbed, with
an one senses closed to the beauty of
life. And yet, how to get the tender
little corpses Of ones dead illusions
decently and unobtr,lsively buried
that is more serious problem than
one is apt to imagine For. truth to
tell, it is the sweetest and most pre-
clous part of cne's self which one then
hurries out Of sight
The part that survives is, perhaps,
scientifically considered, more fit to
cope with the hard conditions Of mu1-
dane existence; but it is less beautiful.
less noble, less loveable. Like the
frozen tunes in Baron Munchasuen's
French horn, these melodious little
ghosts havea way Of thawing out in
the solitary hours Of middle-age and
filling the memory with their elegiac
music. And they are. even in this
post norton guise precious. One is
the better for having had them. even
though they have been lost beyond re-
"a1. IT it were not for this, I should
cav that it. was in pure wantonncss
n"+7're equipped us with these illusions
which are doomed. in nine cases out of
ten, to die so hard-Boyeson.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
One Boot Too Many.

Head Surgeon ut the Hospital-I
must tell you, my good woman, that
your son will be compelled to have his
leg taken off.
Anxious Mother-Oh, dear! Then
what can I do with his other boot
Das Neue Blatt.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
The Unframed DAUGHTER,

Why should not girl be taught
bookkeeping and some of the more
common business forms? writes Eliz-
abeth Robinson Scovil in the May La
dies Home Journal. Men, pity. or
laugh at the business incapacity Of
the >-st majority of women. 1t is
often only due to want of proper in
struction and why should not this be
supplied? ..l
Some girls have passion for flow
ers, and plants grow and thrive under
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
A Pretty Foot.

She whose ambition is to possess a
'Trilby'' foot must begin early in life
to give it room to develop as nature
intended. In fact, her mother will
have to begin it for her while she is
still in swaddling clothes, and even
then the task is something like
Holmes directions for the develop
ment of a gentleman, first take a
great-grandfather,' etc.
However, with a little care almost
any foot will succumb to proper treat
ment after the age of twelve and be-
come a very fair approach to Little
Billee's ideal. The beauty Of Trilby's
foot was the freedom of the great toe
and the length of the one next to it..
1t is simply impossible to acquire the
freedom when the foot is cramped in
a razor-toed shoe. No matter what
the shoe dealer may say about it being
all right if only the shoe is severn |
sizes longer than the foot, the line is
there which turns the great toe back,
and makes the first move toward an
enlarged joint. 1t is bad enough to
confine part Of the body in an I'M
natural position, but to distort it and
then clamp it so it must stay in the
unnatural position is nothing less than
barbarous.
If Trilby did nothing more for the
world than do away with this relic of
Chinese barbarism it would be worth
the trouble of writing, if for no other
reason.
Razor-toed shoes should not be made
for children, but unfortunately they
are.-Philadelph:a Times.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS,
USEFUL IMPORTATION CONCERNING
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

fhc Cheerful III r1uencc Of Science
Improvement xA the Bfcycle-Cut-
ting and SiE='elnE Hnir-The Mi
crobe' in New ROIe-Scientiic
Notes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30
Cutting and SinEeing Hair.

line latest novelty in the BARRIERS
shop is the ''singe-cutting comb This
apparatus, which cuts the hair and
singes it at the same time, consists of
comb, over the teeth of which is
Stretched a platinum wire, which is
raised to white heat by the passage
OF current. The supply Of current is
regulated by push button at one end
Of the comb. AS the button is pressed,
the comb is passed through the hair,
which is instantly severed, the cut
ends being sealed by the heat. 1t is
well known that smuggling is extensive.
ly prncticed with the idea of saving
the oily substance in the hair tube, on
which the life, vigor and beauty Of the
hair depend. When cut with shears
this oil is supposed to escape until ma
ture closes the capillary tube. 1t is
claimed that the CauteriZing of the
hair on contact with the lot wire
closes the ends, and also reduces the
liability to catch cold in the head after
the hair is cut. There is no possibility
or either burn or q shock being COM
munlcated to the scalp. The hair is cut
evenly, as the platinum cutter is al
ways in a straight line. and in one po-
Sltlon. An advantage is found in the
TACT that since the hot wire does not
give live flame, it is impossible to
set the hair on fire, which often hap
pens when using the torch, gas fame
OF taper under the old method. The
work is done with great rapidity, and
to use the apparatus all that is neces-
sary is to remove an incandeScent
lamp from the socket. and put the
plug OF the ''Singe-cutting comb in
It's place. The apparatus is quite SIM
pie, and cannot we'll get out Of order.
When the platinum cutter is Worn out
another can be substituted in three
seconds, and without the aid of tools
of any kind.
The Microbe in a New Role.
Microbes as a class have been so
roundly abused that the discovery Of
the fact that we cannot altogether get
along without them induces certain
sense of satisfaction. A Russian pro-
fessor has been taking great trouble to
determine the value of germs in as
slstlng the body to perform it's natural
functions. He fed animals on food
that had been carefully steriliZed, and
compelled them tc breathe germless
air. The experiments proved that the
presence of microbes is necessary to
digestion. The animals soon showed
the effect Of the deprivation. First,
they began to droop, then lost their
appetite, 9Dd then weaker ed aud died.
1t was found that the food simply
would not assimilate when the mi
crobes were absent. This series of ex-
periments has beer extended to the
vegetable world. It is now proved
! that certain plants can only assimilate
the nitrogen which is necessary to
/ their growth through the action of
! the microbes that live at their roots.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-05-30

1nstinctively Discard All Foreign
Substances in Their Oats or Hay.

Instinctively Discard All Foreign
Substances in Their Oats or Hay.
Did you ever watch a horse graz
ing? If you never did you have missed
one of the prettiest sights nature at
fords her lovers. 1t is something to
watch the animal enjoying good
meal Of hay, shutting it's eyes and
burying it's head to the ears in the
fragrant grasses in the manger, or to
note the unerring accuracy with
which it picks up mouthful Of grain
from the box or repectS without ever
seeming to see, the bit of stone or
dirt that has got mixed in with it.
have known a horse to eat meas
ure of oats ''slick and clean," and
leave in the manger the medicated
powder that had been mixed with it.
Even an elephants prOboscis is not
more keenly alive to the presence of
foreign substance, in the creatures
food than is the long, flexible, sensi-
tive upper lip of the horse, which
serves him as unerringly, as faith
fully, almost as universally, as fin
ger does the human being. His cous-
in, the rhinoceros, and his brother the
tapir have this prehensile upper lip,
even more markedly than he, changes
in the manner in which he obtains
his food, having somewhat modified
his use of this organ, but not sufti-
GENTLY but that we may trace some
very interesting "reminiscences Of his
origin therein.
The long, tapering upper lip is
characteristic mark of well-bred
horse A blunt, square nose is an in
RI of III -
accompanies an otherwise well-form-
ed head
I have said that horse grazing is
one of the prettiest sights in nature,
and I think those who have watched
the process will agree with me. Just
outside my window, as write, a pref
ty mare is feeding upon the short,
thick alfalfa. The ground is strewn
with eucalyptus leaves and twigs and
all the wind-blown debris of the re-
cent storm. In with the alfalfa burr
clover is growing, which horses never
eat in it's green state, and a few
weeds, but not a stray leaf or tN'ig
not a sprig, of clover nor a stalk of
any weed finds it's way into nladam's
mouth
She has just eaten every spear of
tuft of alfalfa in the midst of which
a meadow mushroom is growing-and
left the mushroom intact. Weeds are
bent back, leaves turned over, clover
brushed aside and tWigs tossed away
in the most unconscious manner by
the busy upper lip, while all the while
the even white teeth are nipping off
leaf after leaf of just the pasturage
sought for, never by any chance get
ting bite of anything else. 1t is
quite wonderful to watch her.
There are no other animals quite so
we'll equipped in the dental line as is
the horse. That is to say, of course.
for his own particular needs. His
dentition is peculiar. and shows clear
ly the modifying influence of his So
journ with man.-San Francisco Call
Pretty Foot.
She whose ambition is to possess
"Trilby" foot must begin early in life
to give it room to develop as nature
S,oA I~1
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-28

tity. 1t was this ideal law that tho
great Roman orator and writer declared,
in Il burst Of immortal eloquence, was
not ono thing in Rome aud another ut
Athens, aud thouuiyCrsnl cultivation Of
tho scioncent juriaprudence will event.
ually produce tho same plant on every
soil. But tho positive legislative deter.
limitations OF nations can be. assimilated
or roconcllod only by conscious and
concerted action, Much hus already
been, accomplished In this direction by
treaties. and by those Concurrontly
adopted regulations operative upon tho
sea, the common domain OF all nations.
The wiaO lurtheranco OF this benelcsnt
work dopendsupOn tho intelligent over.
sight aud corporation Of tho eulight.
ened jurisls OF the world"
Following the Presidents address,
tho executive committee reported its
approval OF 1913 nominations for mem.
bOrShip, all of whom were there
upon elected unanimously. The seGrs,
tary reported l,lI4 members on the
roll besides those elected to-day aud
during tho year. A balance Of So, 200 80
was shown by the report Of tho treas
urer, Adjournment was then taken
until this evening,