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at Convent Garden in 1861. AT the
same theater, Mrs. Jackson, In sl77G.
plays it to the Romeo Of Ward. On
her benefit night, May H., 1889, Mrs.
SiddOns acted Juliet for the first time
in London to the Romeo Of her broth
er, John Phillip Kemble. She was at
this time thirty-fOur Mrs. Cibber, by
the way, first played the part at the
same agel, and her PHYSICAL proper
tons were not in her favor. Slut, ("
says her biographer, Boaden, ''the art
of the great actress made powerful
struggle against her natural strength,
so that, at times, the ,ascendancy of
the mother and the nurse did not seem
preposterous and Incredible" The
part never held a place In her roper
tory. Mrs. Jordan, too, played Juliet
once OF twice, but did not shine in it
any more than Mrs. Siddons. One Of
the best Juliets atSthe close of the last
century was Mrs. Stephen Kemhle.
whom critic in Blackwood describes
as delicious" He adds that, thoUgh
she was not as lovely as Miss O'Neill,
''her eyes had far more Of that uncon-
sciously alluring expression Of limo.
cence and voluptuousness." 1t was on
Oct. 6, 1914, that Eliza O'Neill made
her first appearance in London, at
Convent Garden, in the part OF Juliet.
Through my whole experience"
Macready declares, ''hers was the only
representation Of Juliet have. ever
seen. She is alone the Arabian bird. :
In another place, speaking of her as a
remarkable instance of. self-abandon-
ment in acting" he says: "She was
an entirely modest woman; yet In act
ing with her, I have been smothered
with her KISSES" Criticizing her first
performance, Hazlitt said: =.
''In the silent expression of feeling
we have seldom witnessed, anything
finer than her acting, where she Is told
Of Romeo's death, her listening to the
Friar's story Of the poison, and her
change of manner toward the Nurse,
when she, advises her to marry Paris.
Her delivery Of the speeches in the
scenes where she laments Romeo's
banishment and anticipates her wax
ing in the tomb, marked the fine play
and, undulation Of natural sensibility,
rising and falling with the gusts OF
passion. and at last worked up into
such an agony Of despair lin which i'm
agination approaches the brink of fren-
~. Miss O'Neill seemed least
successful in the garden scene, etc.
The expression of tenderness bOrderetl
Oh hoydening~ and affectation. The
character Of Juliet is pure effusion of
nature There is not the slightest ap-
pearance Of coQuetry in it, no senti-
mental languor, no meretriciOus as
sumption Of fondness to take her lover
by surprise. She ought not to laugh
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
LasSOcd Il Sen Lion.

g. F. Monroe, resident Of Fresno
county, who has been spending some
weeks in this vicinity, limiting and
fishing, principally on the coast, met
with an experience which nearly cost
him his life, writes Ukiah (Cal.) cor
respondent to the San Francisco Elk
anliner. -. -
Monroe. who had been camping in
the redwoods, near Usal, discovered,
while riding on the beach some miles
south Of Bar Harbor, group of sea
lions summing themselves. According
ly, dismounting, he described a wide
circle and came upon them unawares.
Watching them for some minutes, ne
finally took aim and fired, but his aim
was untrue, and, though wounding a
lion severely. the animal was still able
to founder about, and was making all
possible haste to get back to the water
again.
Being an expert with the losso, Mon
roe determined to capture the creature,
and, mounting his horse, he Embossed
his rope and threw it over the lions
head and behind one Of his nippers,
then taking a turn with the rope
around the pommel Of his saddle. Not,
withstanding the wounded condition
sc the lion, it still struggled toward
the water. It was not long before al
were houndering In the surf Monroe
| 1nally succeeded In loosening the ropt
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21

The greatest natural wonder in Java,
If not in the entire world. is the justly
celebrated "Gheko Kandka Gumko,"
or 'Home of the Hot Devils" known
to the world as ''The Island Of Fire"
This geological singularity is really a
lake of boiling mud, situated at about
the center of the plains Of Grobogana,
and is called an island because the
great emerald sea of vegetation which
surrounds it gives it that appearance
The island" is about two miles in cir
cumference, and it is situated at a dis
lance Of almost exactly fifty miles
from Solo, Near the center of this &C.
illogical freak immense columns of
soft, hot mud may be seen continually
rising and falling like great timbers
thrust through the boiling sugstratum
by giant hands and then again quick
| ly withdrawn. .
Besides the phenomenon Of the boil
ing mud columns, there are scores of
gigantic bubbles of hot slime that fill
up like huge balloons, and keep up a
series of constant explosions, the in
tensity Of the detonations varying
with the size Of the bubbles In the
past, so the Japanese authorities say,
there was a tall. spire-like column Of
! baked mud on the west edge Of the
lake, which constantly belched a pure
stream Of cold water; but this has long
been obliterated. and everything is
now a seething mass of bubbling mud
and slime.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Destroying Microbes.

NJ. ;.Pictet has for a long time ba<<
busying himself with the study Of
microbe extirpation. It is hard to de-
stroy microbic life, but the difficulty
is often in doing so without harming
human beings. NJ. Pictet treated the
culture Of the typhoid and cholera
bacilli to a dose of sulphuric acid. but
many of them were apparently little
the worse for the harsh ordeal. lie
has now discovered that an addition
Of carbonic acid to, sulphurous acid is
too much for the little atoms, which
die the instant they are touched 10y it.
The mixture Of carbonic acid and sui
phurous acid, in the proportion of four
of the former to six Of the latter, COM
bines chemically and forms a gas
called by D'Arsonyal ''Pictet's gas
1t possesses marked antiseptic prop
critics. with extraordinary powers Of
diffusion. He placed some cultures Of
typhoid and cholera Oh rags between
the leaves of a book, which he envel-
oped in a cloth and exposed to the
baleful influence of Pictets gas. To
his enthusiastic delight he found that
within an hour the germs were en-
tirely destroyed.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Miss Phillips.

when she says: I have forgot why 1
did call thee back as if conscious of
the artifice, nor hang in a fOndling
! IRE over the balcony"
Between Miss O'Neill and Miss Fan
ny Kemble, the most noteworthy Juliet
was Miss Phillips, who cannot, how
ever, be regarded as an actress of the
first rank. On Oct. 5, 1929, when the
fortunes Of Covent Garden were at
very low ebb, all attempt was made to-
revive them by bringing out Charles
Kemble's daughter, Mrs. Siddons'
niece, in the part of Juliet, her father
playing Mercutio and Abbott Romeo.
Fanny Kemble may or may not have
been a great actress, but a clever wo.
man she undoubtedly was, and her ac-
count of her first appearance ("Rec-
Ords of Girlhood," VOL y is delight
full reading. She was successful in
arorsing the keenest interest, if not in
entirely satisfying the critics. Leigh
Hunt was especially severe on her
She played the part, he said in 'the
regular conventional tragic style, both
in voice and manner, maintaining it.
with little variation, the whole even
| ing" Talfourd, on the other hand
was enthusiastic. Miss Kemble," he
wrote, ''gives the part a depth Of trag
ic tone which none of her predecessors
whom we have seen ever gave to it
Miss O'Neill, 10th as we are to forget
her destinations, used to tighten the
earlier scenes with some girlish graces
that were accused Of being infantine
Be this as it may, there were certainly
a hundred .prettinesses enacted by
hundreds of novices in the character
which Miss Zemble at once repudiat
ed with the wise audacity of genius.
Il AS the tragedy deepened, he
powers are developed in unison will
the strengthening decision Of purpos
which the poet gave to the character.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
The Wind Harp.

tacks equidistant from each other, and
in the other Stat fix the same number
Of twisting screws, such as are used
in banjos. From these stretch your
strings, which should be all the same
size and Of catgut. The "G' guitar
string will be found the best for this
purpose. Now tune all the strings in
unison, and the harp is completed. 1t
Is, however, well to add a reflector to
throw out the sound. This is easily
accomplished by placing thin board
above the box, supporting it on sticks
fitting into rests, which are glued in
the corners of the box. The reflector
also answers as q shield to prevent in
Jury to the harp.
Place the harp in current Of air, as
upon the sill of a half-open window.
The sound produced by the wind pass
ing over the strings as it rises and
falls is of q drowsy, lulling character
and extremely melodious.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
ImprovinE the Microscope.

The Illumination of Opaque objects
for the microscope has, for high pow.
ers. been hitherto almost impossible:
M, Oh. Fremont has described an ex-
tremely ingenious method of carrying;
out the desired end. Inside the body
Of the microscope is fixed a concave,
mirror which reflects the bundle, Of
rays of light received through an ap-
erture in the side and rendered parae
lei by an interposed prism, through an
object glass, on to the object under
examination It is difficult, without
seeing the continuance, to understand
how the eye, and at the eye-piece end,
can see the object. This is clearly
provided for by the simple expedient
Of boring a hole through both mirror
and prism in the track of. the rays
passing from the objective. From this
device great service is anticipated in
the chrome photograph study of the
movement of microscopic beings.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Poison scntters

The idea Is apparently widely enter
tanned that Sidewalks and the floors
of public conveyances and buildings
are a sort Of eyer-ready cuspidor. The
habit of ubiquitous eexpectoration, all
ways disgusting and unnecessary In
health, becomes dangerous when prac-
ticed by consumptiyes Sweeping
trains catch a surprising amount of
filth and tubercle bacilli as well as
other germs have been found in the
skirts Of ladies' dresses, whence they
may be introduced into houses. How
often do we see a conSuInptiye shiY-
ering over a register and dropping the
scourings of the cavities in his lungs
down the hot-air pipe, to be dried and
disseminated throughout the building!
An apparatus, differing only in detail
from the ordinary register, is used in
laboratories for the experimental in
oeulation Of guinea pigs with tllber-
culosis.
On the other hand, the consumptiye
must not swallow the infectious ma
terial raised from the lungs, for, by so
doing he might set up tubercular in
| f1ammation Of the stomach and intes-
| tine. The expectoration should take
place into a cup that can be readily
disinfected, or into a Waterproof-paper
receptacle that can be burned.-From
| Consumption Considered as a Con-
tagious Disease, by A. l.. Benedict,
NJ. d., in the Popular Science Monthly.
The Disposal of Domestic Garbage
A new device for the complete re-
moval of and ready disposal Of domes-
tic garbage in a simple and inexpen-
sive manner has been highly COM
mended by many sanitary and street
cleaning officials. The garbage is car
BOMBED in horizontal cylinder about
One-tbird larger than the stove pipe,
in which it is placed, according to con-
venience, in joint or an elbow of the
pipe making the connection between
the stove and the chimney. The car
bomber may be applied to any stove
or furnace and any size of pipe. At
tached to a removable end of the cyl
inder is q basket or scoop Of some
what reduced diameter, with perfor-
ated sides and a tight bottom. Free
passage for the smoke and heat from
the stove is thus afforded. When the
scoop is filled with garbage and
placed in the cylinder the water is
quickly driven off and the resdum
changed to charcoal. which burns
freely when placed in the fire, and
forms a valuable material for kindling
the fire in the morning. No odor is
permitted to escape into the room, as
the gases from the drying garbage are
thoroughly deodorized. To obtain the
maximum service from the carbonizer
all the waste should be placed in it as
1t is made. This will obviate the &C
emulation Of garbage in the kitchen
and the need Of garbage bucket.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21

from the pommel OF the saddle, when no
found he had forgotten to unfasten It
surf, It was too dangerous to now try
cast adrift his faithful animal and
struggled for the shore, which he
reached in an exhausted condition. He
saw his horse but once afterward, and
1t was then being towed to sea. It
was found the next morning on the
beach.
1t seems that, in some way, the rope
was broken and the drowned horse
was then cast up on the SIND
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
To Garry Her Dog.

A pretty young woman entered a
Sixth avenue elevated train at Thirty
third street. She carried an odd
shaped black satchel in her right hand,
and carefully deposited it on a vacant
seat beside her. The receptacle was
about foot square and on one side
was an open-work silver plate, perhaps
is foot square, and curiously worked
in fllagree She got off at Forty sec
ond street, and then a young man re-
marked to his companion THAT'S
Mile. . She's going to the Metro
politan opera house, suppose. Did
you notice the bag she carried? 1t
was made for her pet dog. It ena-
bles her to take the animal past hotel
and car porters. The silver plate ad-
lnits air. presume there were pair
Of snappy eyes in that bag just now,
1T know there were outside" retoined
his companion. And he was right
New York Correspondence Pittshurg
Dispatch
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
OLD-'TIME ,JULIETS.
EARLIER ACTRESSES IN SHAKE.
SPEARES IMMORTAL TRAGEDY.
Mrs Betterton the First Juliet-Col-
ly Cibber's GranddNuEhter-Mr
S5Edons, Fanny Kemble and Many
Others.

OF the performances OF Romeo and
Juliet" in Shakespeare's own day, no
tradition is preserved. The first Juliet
of whom we have any record-the first
woman Juliet, as opposed to boy Juli-
ct. who ever trod the boards--was Mrs.
(tilat is. Miss Saunderson, afterward
known as Mrs. Betterton. OF her per-
forlnance-at Lincoln's Inn Fields, in
16G2-nothing is recorded, though Do
ran does not fail to romance about It..
The Romeo was Harris, BettertOn's
only rival among the younger actors;
Betterton himself played Mercutio.
The Hon. James Howard, Dryden's
4brother-in-law, provided the play with
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21

Two years earlier a Juliet, whose car
eer in England was obscure enough,
had taken Paris by storm, revealed
to Alexander Dumas the full possibil-
tiles Of the romantic drama, and in
spired Hector Berlioz with the passion
Of his life" This was Harriet Smith
son, "a young lady with figure and a
face Of Hibernian beauty" says Fan
ny Kemble, whose superfuorls native
accent was no drawback to her merits
in the esteem Of her French audience"
Charles Kemble was her Romeo.
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prove Miss Bellamy in her declara-
tons of love in the same character
more than in any other it is because
she has a heart also more susceptible
of tenderness than Of any other pas
sion" The same critic declares that
he who has seen Mrs. Cibber in the pO-
ton scene "haS seen all that is posi-
bic to be conveyed this way of terror"
1t appears that "the disproportion in
stature between Barry and Mrs. Glib
ber' yerged upon the ludicrous, but
that the genius of the actors carried it
off Between Garrick and Miss Bella
my the dispropOrtion was, probably,
all the other way. Mrs. Cibber, falling
into ill-health, Barry, in 1853, found
another Juliet in new actress, Miss
Nossiter, scarcely older than the Juliet
of Shakespeare. ''She was possessed"
says Tate Wilkinson, "of a handsome
fortune and a genteel education, and'
{what was, perhaps, Of more import
ance) "strong sensibility and feeling"
Moreover. ut added to the perform
ance that Romeo and Juliet were real
ly in love, and well known to be So"
This lady was successful in Juliet, but
did not fulfill the promise she thus
gave. The same may be said of Miss
Pritchard, who played the part at Dru-
ry Lane in 1856 to the Romeo Of Gar
rick She was introduced by her moth
@er, the great Lady Macbeth, who
played Lady Capulet for the occasion,
and her extraordinary beauty made q
great impression Oh an audience which
was resolved to applaud her mothers
daughter. Nevertheless, she presently
faded into obscurity. From this time
forward Juliets abound. The part
became, as it remains, favorite one
with debutantes. C'You must help me, y
says Lady Muriel, in pantomimc re
hearsal. give had so little experience
I've never played anything but JUL
eth "a young gentleWoman," after
wards Mrs. Mattocks, makes her debut
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Miss VanderhOf.

ments of glass were eating their way
into the tender palm, and the blood
was trickling down in little stream
over my pretty dress. This had been
for some time apparent to the audi
ence, but the Juliet l-rew nothing Of it,
and felt nothing, until the red stream
arrested her attention. This
never occurred again, because they
ever .afterward played with a, wooden
phial But. oh, my dress! 1 was in
cCnsola ble!'-The Sketch.
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Mrs jackson (l77S).


n neyer-ending Romeo and Juliet re-
manning alive at the close, 80 that,
when the tragedy was revived again."
says Downs, ''twas played alternately,
5tragically one day and trugi-comical
another, for several days together
on, 10 HIols Gun oAoM HgMlO OS9I vi
meO and Juliet into his Caius Marius
about half of which was lifted bodily
from Shakespeare; and, this history
seems to have superseded Shake
Sneares plays on the stage for more
than half century. Thus, neither
Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Bracegirdle nor Mrs.
Oldfeld ever appeared as Juliet, and
We have to leap from Mrs. Betterton
to Mrs Jane Cibber, Colley's grand
daughter, who played the part at the
IiHymarket in 1744, to the Romeo OF
. he" father, Theophilus Cibber. Thus
reconstructed, the great love tragedy of
the world was never again suffered to
lapse into disuse. and every generation
for the past century has had not only
its .Juliets, but it's bevy of Juliets.
The first actress whose rendering OF
, the part we find described in any de-
tail is Mrs. Cibber, who played it at
Drury Lane in 1854, to the Romeo of
Barry. When she and Barry, two
years later seeded to Coyent Gar
I den. they opened in these, their most
popular characters; while Garrick, at
Dirty Lane, produced the same play
on the same evening, himself playing
Renee to the Juliet Of George Anne
Tellamy. Except in one or two indi-
vidllal passages, Garrick was probably
inferior to Barry, and there is little
doubt that the Drury Lane Juliet was,
throughout. inferior to Mrs. Cibber.
Mrs. Rcllamy, according to Francis
Gentleman, "eXcelled in amorous rap
ture.' While Mrs. Cibber ''called every
power OF distress and despair to her
aid eff we ask" says HILL in the
Actor 1755), ''why Mrs. Cibber is more
herself in Juliet than in any Other
character, it is because Mrs. Cibbel
has heart more formed for love than
for any other passion; and if we ap
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Crocoli1c., Tears.

Remarkable experiments cam be per-
formed with ,anilin colors and others
of similar kinds, such as fuorescein, .
well knowm chemical product. For
these experiments we need a large
glass jar, such as is shown in the IL
ration, filed with pure water near
~ to the top. As fuorescein Is OBJ
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21

Among the accepted Julfets Of the mid
die years Of the century was Miss
Vanderhoff, daughter Of the .'respect-
able" tragedian Of that name. An en-
thusiastic critic, in Tallis' Portrait
Gallery, extols her for ''that gorgeous
and dreamy oblivion which surrenders
all to her sublime and passionate
love-" About this time, too, Miss SUI
san Cushman played Juliet with some
success to the Romeo of her sister,
Charlotte.f Many play-g0ers now llv-
ing may remember the Juliet Of Miss
Helen Faucit Lady Martin), who has
given such acharning account of her
first performance Of the part at the old
Richmond theater. She was q mere
child andtit was her first appearance.
''When the time came to drink the po-
ton, there was none, for the phial had
been crushed in my hand, the frag,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Diagnosed.

AgitatoI- Landlordism has gone to
such an extent that nowadays the only
thing that is free is air.
Boice-I suppose that is how you are
able to make such windy speeches
Truth.
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CrOcOdiles' Tears.

tanned in a pure state with difficulty,
we substitute substance that is sold
at many drug stores under the name
Of "crocodiles tears. It comes in pack
ages Of prepared pasteboard saturated
with solution Of fluorescein and cut
up into little squares, Of which each
package contains forty or fifty. When
the experiment is tried care should be
taken to see that the glass stands
firmly, as any shaking will spoil the
result. Then a little square Of the
'scrocodile's tears" is thrown on the
surface Of the water. At once the
f1uorescein in the pasteboard will be-
gin to dissolve in the water and ap-
pear as wonderful mushroom or nail
shaped streaks that are colored beau
tiful green and send out d phosphor-
escent CLEAN Of light as they sing to-
ward the bottom of the jar. At the
end Of a few minutes the whole jar
will shine with an intense green hue.
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o. 80 N..nn... r,an+,.-,.,,

His serene hfghness, while on q tour
Of inspection, was shown over a pris-
on. On entering the cell Of notorious
criminal, the latter jumped up from
his plank bed and said: May offer
you my place e Hamburger Naeh>
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-11-21
Simple Useful Gifts.

A very little girl wants to know wha~
she can make for her mothers birth
day gift. One thing which she will
find acceptable and which you can
make yourself is a set table mats, Of
coarse white crochet cotton. Crochet
two round mats for vegetable, dishes
or tureens and one oval for a platter.
You can make more in the set if you
wish. Crochet them in simple double
crochet close together until they are as
large as you want them and then finish
them with scollop all around. We
know Of a little girl of eight years who
made her mamma just such a present
the other day and her mamma was
very proud of them, you may. be sure.
Another useful little gift a little girl
might make for a friend OF sister or
any one who uses pen and ink is a
pen wiper. Buy small china doll
one that stands firmly. Make for her
several chamois skin skirts Of different
lengths, putting on the shortest one
first. Pink the edges. The costume
should be students red or black
gown and cap, and put tiny roll OF
parchment in her hand. If you have
to tie the roll in her hand, use fine silk
Of the same color as the parchment
and it will scarcely show. The gown
should be long and full. The material
may be silk, velvet or cashmere The
cap should have a square top, fastened
to a narrow band fitting close to the
head. The doll should have the ap
pearance of stateliness. Whenever the
chamois is soiled replace the skirts
and thus the pen wiper is always
clean: