The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-05
GOSSIP
Political Sights Seen Through
a Minneapolis Mans
Eye Glasses.
Evans, Eustis and Van SAINT are
Spiking Each Others Guns
While Clough Says Nit.

Special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 2, 1695.-It is
said that the first time the Chinese ate
roast pork was on the occasion of the
burning down of house in which a
pig had his abode. Ever after that, the
story runs, the Chinese have had the
idea that in order to have roast pork
it Unnecessary to burn down house.
In Keeping with this Chinese theory,
there has been an idea among certain
retail merchants in this country, that
in order to have q big bargain sale it
was necessary to have a fire. But I am
happy to announce that the big dry
goods firms of this city, or rather, those
next to the largest, have invented an
therway of getting up d bargain sale
furore. The new method is to fire the
senior partner Of the firm, or break up
the firm, for the time being, and ad-
vertise q firm readjustment sale. :"
Something like five or six stores in this
town have followed the Segelbaum ex-
ample OF a few weeks ago, and now
firms are readjusting themselves, for
advertising purposes, daily. I am told
that one of the most enterprising
houses has in mind an Improvement
even on this, and that is, to shoot the
senior partner on Monday, have a
grand funeral display of dry goods on
Tuesday, and open the sale with the
funeral GRAFTON on Wednesday,. It is
figured that this will make shirts and
hats and corsets sell off like hot cakes.
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I wonder if failing in business is 60
ing to become fashionable. Mark
Twain failed in business on the eve OF
his lecture trip. Governor Clough
failed in business on the eve of starting
his gubernatorial boom. And now Mr..
G.. M. Loring fails on the eve of en-
barking in matrimony. This much
n 4satoa be. certai n, the omen appears
to be favorable to success. Mark
Twain's lecture trip to Australasia
thus ushered in, is the most successful
he has ever undertaken. Mr.. LOring
landed his bride almost before the
news of his business failure became
common property. AS for Mr.. Clough's
guDernatorial boom, there does moi
seem to be anything in the way of it.
except little pleasantly on the part
of Messrs. Van SAINT, Eustis and Evans
all of whom say they will be proud tc
support the nominee of the ticket, each
demonstrating the others weakness
and leaving no real candidate before
the people except Governor Clough.
.:.:.:.
1t is said that Hon. Stephen B. How
ard is going to support Mr.. A. r. Nc
Gill, of St. Anthony Park, for gov
ernor. Why should Hon. Stephen B
Howard go and perch himself upon the
fence?
T. !. :.
Captain Van SAINT is said, to hold thu
Hennepin county legislative delega
ton in his vest pocket. How did the,
get there, and when will they be read.
to get out? It is to be hoped that n,
time clause was inserted in the con
tract.
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The Laun6ernaon humorously suggest
. that the difference between So pc
Thousand feet and 1926 per thousand
3 the first representing what Mr.. G. a
Smith was to pay for pine at privat
sale, and the second being what tn
: pine sold for at public auction, is to b
accounted for by the valuable pat
3 which Mr.. Smith blazed through tn
3 section The Leu1be1mld7e is getting t
8 be a great humorist. 1t ought to b
g sold at the news stands with Puck an
9 Judge. ..
3 There was a time when a Twin Cit
3 daily would scorn to print verbatim a
: article which the paper next door pull
z lished the day before. But the dailie
8 of the Twin Cities now fall over eac
g other in printing word for word, a
: article, four or five columns long, l
g belling the jury and court which .trie
: the Merritt case-an art
3 Gle which had been printed already i
3 the Chicago papers before it went tn
sickening rounds of the ''metropolita
z dailies" Of the Twin Cities. A news
9 paper which for money will stoop t
9 such methods, and traduce the cour
and citizens of its own State to he]pou
the corrupt deals OF an outside million
aire trickster, will support the dew
: for cash. Such a paper should nc
8 pirate about principle on any ques
8 tion.
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