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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
Singular CO1cks.

In an answer to a correspondent,
who asks: "What is the most curious
material out of which time-piece has
been nader" London Journal prints
the following rather interesting item:
Bread, we think, is the most curious
material out of which a clock has ever
been constructed. There was. and
may still be, in Milan, a clock made of
bread. The maker was a native Of
Milan, who devoted three years of his
time to the task. He was very poor.
and being without means to purchase
the metal for the making Of a clock,
he set apart regularly portion Of his
bread each day, eating the crust and
saving the soft part. To solidify this
he made use of a certain salt, and
when the pieces were dry they became
perfectly hard and insoluble in water.
The clock was of good size and kept
fair time.
"Another strange clock was exhibit
ed some years ago in Liverpool. 1t
was constructed of pins, buttons and
all sorts of odds and ends, by pauper
named Mercer. The maker of this ex-
traordinary time-piece thus describes
it himself: The back and front of the
clock were made from iron bed-laths,
while the barrel was part of a large
brass ferule, the ends being brass but
tons, hammered out. The barrel arbor
had originally been the blade Of
shoemaker's awl; the main and several
other wheels We're nothing more nor
less than suspender buttons from the
makers own trousers; while the cog
teeth were portions Of bygone knitting
needles. The teeth of the center
wheels had been boot rivets. In the
dial there were 100 separate pieces
S-Harper's Round Table
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
A Jolly Old Tar.

The captain of a certain large sailing
vessel insists upon being addressed as
"Sir" by everyone on board. One day
a new hand Joined the ship, and a
shortatiDle after leaving tie harbor, be
ing a we'll seasoned old salt, he was in
trusted with the wheel. The captain
came up and put the usual question:
"IIow's her head?'
.Nor'-by yeast answered the old tar,
very grufly, taking the customary
hitch in his trousers
"My man." suavely answered the
captain, ION this craft, when one Of
the crew speaks to me, he gives me
title of respect. Don't you think you
might do SO, too? Now, how's her
head ~
Nor by-east, tell yer!'' shouted the
tar. displaying not little irritation.
.'I'm afraid you don't quite under
stand me- responded the captain.
good humoredly. .'Let me relieve you
at the wheel. and then do you take my
place and ask me the question [ will
show you how it should be answered.
They accordingly changed places
t'Ow's her cad 2" roared the tar.
Nor by-east, SIR replied the CAP
tain. with gentle emphasis on the
ssir.''
''Then keep her so, my man, whilst
goes forrard and has a smoke was
the startling rejoinder from the old
reprobate. who calmly commenced to
suit the action to the word, and disap-
peared up the forecastle, lighting 4
match as he went. -Harper's Round
Table.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
SAVED BY A "LIFE-CHAINn

Most Thrilling Rescue on RECORD
Made by Connecticut Lads.
There is newly made hero down in
the little post village of Sandy Hook,
Conn, says the New York World. He
IS Stephen Keane, a bright lad of fif-
teen years. Stephen has been valor-
boy all his life, but it was not until
last Monday that he became g. real
hero.
He and party of his classmates
from st. Michael's parochial school, at
Sandy Hook, on that day went skating
on Mantle mill pond. In the party
was, hAlchael Heating, a boy of twelve
years. Michael, venturing where the
ice was thin, broke through and fell
into the water. Stephen Keane cried:
Form a 1ife-chain,' boys, and we'll
save little Mike easyr'
Lying flat, face downward. on the
ice, he directed one of the boys to lie
down as he had and hold tightly onto
his ankles. The ankles Of this one
were in turn grasped by another lad,
and so on until a ''life-chain'' &C six
brave boys was formed.
Keane Wriggled his way carefully
out on the thin ice. Before him wls
poor Heating struggling for life. Once
he went down, and still the first link
Of the "life-chain" was crawling slowly
on the ice far away. Down he went Il
second time.
Hold tight, boysv' cried Keane.
just as the drowning boy was disap-
pearing for the last time Keane seized
his coat.
Crack! went the ice and the first two
links of the ''life-chain'' We're also in
the icy water.
Finally all the boys were dragged
out, the worse only for a. wetting.
When the crowd gathered about
young Keane and shoWered praises OH
him for his forethougnt and pluck, he
only said:
read in a newspaper how to do
that trick, and | thought I'd try it,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
CultureSin the Home.

4 Wealth has brought many forms of
luxury, including foreign travel, for
which Americans have developed a
passion. Contact with the art and re-
fnements Of the Old World has created
atlast a genuine desire for culture for
it's own sake, and this desire has
grown so rapidly, and has made itself
felt in SO many subtle ways, that,
without anyone's being quite aware Of
what was happening, a new concep-
ton of education has silently displaced
the notions of twenty years ago. The
business man, no less than the profess
SlOnal man, now sees that education is
to have henceforth a tremendous prac-
teal Importance. He sees that in the
purely -theOretical researches of the Ia
boratory are laid the foundations Of
all the practical arts that must here
after depend upon an exceedingly re-
fined knowledge Of physics and of biol
ogy. He sees that the pleasures of
life will soon be exhausted for his
family and for himself unless their
Intellectual and moral resources are re-
plenished from the inexhaustible
streams Of literature philosophy and
art. He is beginning to see that the
redemption of our ma tional and munic-
ipal governments from the control Of
greed and corruption can be accom-
plished only by the unselfsh efforts of
men who are willing to make some
personal sacrifice for the public good,
and he already knows, as the result of
III, finvr 49,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

chance the different bands composing
the hunting party camped close to-
sgether, it being the usual custom for
each band to keep we'll separated from
the others; a party Of traders stopped
at the Indian camp. They had with
them large supply Of whisky, and it
was natural that the Indians should
be an xfors to sample the 'sfirewater.' .
a LIBERAL sampling caused the Indians
to become drunk and quarrelsome, and
1T was not long before some Of them
commenced to fight among themselves.
Old Little Wound and Red Cloud
We're members of the party. The for
,mer took his peace pipe and went to
quiet the Indians who were fighting.
When drawing near the spot where
the tight was fiercest the old man
dropped dead with a bullet in his
body. I
n It is said that Red Cloud himself
tired the shot. The brother and wife
OF Little Wound ran to the spot, but
both We're killed by the excited parts
ans al IS. OF Red Cloud. The killing caused
a general fight, in which a number
We're killed. After the fight was over
Little Wounds band separated from
LIZ Dd1dnCe Ol4GlueE OSal1llaS, ana
would have nothing further to do with
them. On account of this they were
given the name of Cut Offs,'' and the
name still sticks to them. Little
Wound, the younger is now chief of
the band, which is always referred to
as the Cut Off band. The educated
Pine Ridge Indian who related to the
writer the above incident said it was
always anticipated that the present
Little Wound would some day kill Red
Cloud for the alleged murder of his
father, but although bitter hatred ex-
listed between the two for many years
it has long since passed away, and
the Indians Of each faction have in
termarried with the members of the
Cut Off band as the logical result of
INDUCING too freely in the white
mans "frewater."
I Red Cloud has a daughter who is
known as the last queen Of the Sioux.
She is the wife Of Charles P. Jordan,
a white man, who first met her years
ago while clerk to the United States
Indian agent at Pine Ridge agency.
Several bright children have blessed
the alliance, and the home Of Jordan
and his family, thirty miles from
Rosebud agency, is said to be an ideal
one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
KEEPS A LEDGER FOR POKER
System Followed by One Perststen
+s Drawer of Cards

system Followed by One Persistent
Drawer of Cards
"See that man walking down the
lobby?'' said a railroad man to re.
porter for the Commercial Appeal yes,
terday afternoon in the Gayoso hotel,
He and have played poker together
numerously the past twenty years. ]
noticed that at the end of every game
he would make memorandum. Az
we have both sworn off now 1 asked
the other day what he was putting
down. He said that he had kept a per,
feet set of books on every time that
he had played for the entire twenty
years, and that the balance at swear.
ing off time showed him loser lust
81, 100. How does my account stand !;
. can figure up a heap more than that
amount in my mind, but he is the ONLY
man | knew who kept a set Of books
covering that time so that he knows
his exact status. Now this year T am
going to live a regular dog life and do
something that / have never done in
m ylife-pay my honest debts.''-Me en-
phls Commercial Appeal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
The Worlds Rivers.

The Worlds Rivers.
The .rigris is ], 100 miles long.
The Tiber is only 23O miles long.
The world famous Orontes is only
24O miles long. Is
The Zambesi, in South Africa, is
l,SOO miles in length.
Slow rivers flow at the rate Of three.
70 seven miles an hour.
a Twelve creeks in the United Statesi
bear the name of the Rhine
Every ancient city of note was lo-|
: GATED on or near the sea or a river.
The Ganges is 1870 miles long and
drains an area Of 10000 square miles
The Hudson river, from it's mouth to
the lakes, is 400 miles in length.
The Mississippi and it's tributaries
drain an area Of 100000 square miles.
The branches of the Mississippi have
an aggregate length Of 1900 miles,
For over 1000 miles the Nile does
not receive single tributary stream.
me river Jordan has it's origin in
one or the largest springs in the
world.
In islands Of too small size to have
rivers, creeks are dignifed by that
name.
The Connecticut the principal river
in New England is $50 minles in
lnrgth. :,
+ During a single flood of the Yang
-hlang. in China, 100000 persons
We're drowned.
The most extensive protective river.
works in Europe are at the mouth Of
the Danube.
The Rhine is only 900 miles long, but
drains a territory nearly double that.
Of Texas. ~....
The Irish, in Siberia, is 900 miles ini
length and drains 100000 square niles
Of territory.
The Nile, from it's delta to the great
lakes of Central Africa, is over 1000
miles in length.
The Thames. in England. is 22O
miles long. The river of the same
name, in Canada, is 100.
There are twenty creeks in this coun-
try which have been dignified with the
name of the Tiber.
The, Columbia river, in Canada, is
1,4OO miles in length; the stream Of
the same name, in Oregon, is 600.
The Arkansas river is 2,17O miles
long, but at various points in it's course
it is very thin for it's length.
The Potomac river is only 400 miles
long, and it's lower course is rather an
estuary than stream g.5.- ~.
The British islands are better pro-
vided with rivers than any other coun-
try of the same size on the globe
The Mississippi, at the point where
it flows out of Lake Itaska, is ten feet
wide and eighteen inches deep.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
sMISCHIEVOUS
MATCHMAKER.

L am sure, Cousin Molly, that Mr..
Beaumont is in love with you"
Nonsense, Nellie! He knows very
little about me. ! have only been stay
ing with you three weeks
But don't you believe in love at
first sight?''
Il am sure / don't know; but
Now, be sensible, Molly. You know
you are very fond Of him"
Il don't know anything of the sort.
don't care a bit about him-that is,
think he is very agreeable, and hand
some, and kind-hearted, and all that
You might add clever, virtuous and
fascinating
"Why?''
Because then you would have given
him all the qualities that a woman can
expect in the man she would marry"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
a Fortune In Connections.

The bon bon boxes of this season are
the most charming things ina ginable.
The confectioners have departed from
the old conventional designs, and one
may send to ones sweetheart nova
days the daintiest CONNECTIONS in Ibas-
kets fairly riotous with summer flow
.ers so like the real thing that one can
scarcely believe them artificial. Low
ers of more ingenious devices may
send their almonds and nougat and
chocolate creams in grand pianos or
in the heart Of a melon, according to-
their taste. a fellow can go br ~ on
sweets nowadays without half trying.
p ittsburg Dispatch.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

before the troops and Ind ians met in
bloody conflict Red Cloud and his in
innate I'M friend, Big Road I leader of one
OF the most pow erful bands which par
stlclpated. in the Custer massacre, were
together almost constantly during this
peraod, and were frequently at the
agency UP to the day of the battle Of
Wounded Knee, Dec. 90, 1890. KS &.
& for. some weeks previous and up to
that day there were several thousand
so-called friendly. Indians encamped
about the agency But the news Of
the battle, so distorted as to make it
appear that Col. James w. Forsyth
had disarmed Big Foot's followers,
stood them in. a row and shot them
down like rats in a trap, caused the
friendly Indians encamped about the
agency to become alarmed, and they
at once stampeded to the adjacent
hills. and made every preparation for
battle. Red Clouds dwelling, a fine
frame building, stands a short distance
! northwest lItir of the agency buildings, on
the bottom lands along White Clay
creek. and twas there that the larger
portion of the stampeding Indians
gathered, presumably for the purpose
of coaXing Red Cloud to stampede with
them and assist in avenging the death
OF Big Foot and his people. While
surrounding Red Clouds house some
OF the Indians opened fire upon the
agency, thinking, no doubt, that in
excitement of the moment the war
spirit of the good chieftian would be
aroused sufficiently to induce, him to
go with them
After exchanging shots with the
troops and Indian police for time the
Indians retreated, taking Red Cloud
with them, he afterwards insisting
that they forced him to accompany
them The next day word was re-
zceived at the agency that the stamped
ing Indians were, attacking and at
tempting to sack and burn the Drexel
mission, located some four miles north
OF the agency, and the Seventh caval-
~, Col. Forsyth commanding, was at
once sent to drive away the 1lostiles.
1t was soon after driving the Indians
from the vicinity of the mission that
the cavalry narrowly escaped a repeti-
ton of the fate Of Custer and his
troopers. The main portion of the hos
tile camp was some distance. ahead,
and hundreds of warriors were dis
cerned running to and fro, but only a
small proportion of the Indians showed
fight, and for some time Kept the
troopers holly engaged.
The regular Indian method of fight
ing was adopted, the reds quietly
sneaking to the tops of elevations and
occasionally firing at the troopers,
while they themselves were steadily
retreating toward their village and
slowly drawing the troops to what the
Indians supposed would be their
doom. A trap had been set for the sol
diers land before they were aware Of
their danger they were drawn into the
valley surrounded on almost all sides
by high elevations. Instantly the tops
OF the hills became fairly black with
the forms of what was evidently the
entire force OF the hostiles, and they
prepared to close in on the troops. Col.
Forsyth is unquestionably one Of the
greatest and most experienced Indian
fighters in the army, and he saw the
trap into which the troops had been
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
CHIEF RED CLIO I'D.
GOING TO SEE THE '.GG IRlEAT FATHER.
I FOR THE LAST TINE.
As the Head Chief Of the Entire
sioux Nation, He Ranks With the
Chiefs Famous In American His
tory-Of Late Years He has Devoted
HI. Life to oivilizatt dents ents
. In His Career.

The journey of the venerable old
chieftain Red Cloud as chairman of
the delegation of Pine Ridge Sioux
which will visit Washing ton to lay the
grievances Of the Sioux nation before
the great father will doubtless be
the closing event of Red Clouds re-
markable career, says ALT Burkhol der
in the Pioneer Press. This famous
chief is approaching his eightieth
birthday, is growing quite feeble, and
considers this his last opportunity to
visit the national capital as he has
within the past few weeks expressed
a desire to once more shake hands
with the great father (meaning the
president of the United States). and
then return to his reserva tion to die.
This ''last visit will be in conformity
with what is recognized practice
among many members of the Sioux ma
ton, who, however, being of lower.
rank than Red Cloud are satisfied to
make their last visit include their
agency only Instances are known
where old Indians, who felt that their
I days were numbered, arose from sick
heds for the purpose Of making final
Csaits to the agency, and thus show
their good will toward the agency au-
thorites.
Red Cloud is certainly the greatest
Indian Of modern times, and the last
Of long line of famous chiefs He is
the head chief of the entire Sioux ma
tion, comprising about 10000 persons,
and ranks in the same line of chiefs as
POwhattan, Osceola, Black Hawk, Ger
onimo and others prominent in history
Misinformed and careless writer's have
caused newspaper readers to look upon
subchiefs of minor degree such as Lit
tie Wound, Two Strike, American
Horse and others-through magnifying
glasses. Little Wound; for instance, is
simply what might be called second
hand leader of an unciviEZed and semi
hostile band of Sioux. Red Cloud, dur
ing Late years, has given his efforts to-
ward civilization, and because he
wears ordinary white mans clothes,
and because some of the subchiefs
stick to paint and feathers, he has been
considered in wrong Light by the SUI
perfcial reader But, nevertheless.
Red Cloud is far ahead of any and all
of them, being the absolute ruler of
the great Sioux nation
The early deeds Of Red Cloud have
taken their place in history, and cover
the period during the early settlement
and development Of the central and far
West, when the relentless warfare OF
the Sioux and other Indian tribes
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27
The British blue book on Armenia is

The British blue book on Armenia is
out, which says that Russia Informed
England that any attempt Of that
power to coerce Turkey into institut-
ing reforms in Armenia would be dis
tasteful to Russia. IN spite of this, it
is added, Great Britain did keep up a
semblance Of coercion Hereafter it
will not do to sheer at blue books for
their lack Of news and interest This
particular one has scooped" all the
newspapers in the world.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-02-27

There Was Nobody There,
congratulated everybody, and every.
BODY was in the end supremacy happy,
But three of the company insisted
that Nellie was a wicked, meddlesome,
mlschievous little thing, and that she
would have to be kept well in hand
when she became Mrs. Durston.
RitS ~ -.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
Tcller'S Generosity.

Senator Teller, who is a large owner
of silver mines, said in a speech at
Colorado Springs the other day: 81 do
not want to 60 to d silver basis alone,
but if we have to go to one metal, then
let it be silver" The cheerful phllosl-
ply with which this silver miner re-
signs himself to the prospect OF silver
miners monopoly of the metallic
money of the United States cannot be
too much admired. 1t would bring
ruin and disaster to nearly 7O,OOO,OOO
people but it would increase the profit
of a few hundred millionaire owners OF
silver mines, Mr.. Teller among them.
The generous willingness of Mr.. Teller
to sacrifice the interests OF his U,OoO-
600 of fellow countrymen for the pecu-
liary benefit of himself and the other
mine owners is one of those noble ex-
amples of patriotic self-devotion for
which it is difficult to find a precedent
since the days of the robber barons OF
the feudal era.-Pioneer Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
Getting the Best Of Us.

During July, this year, S3,661 900
feet OF lumber was imported from
Canada, valued at 1892, ,4I4, as COM
pared with SO,96O,000 feet valued at
$3.50, ,446, during July, 1895. For the
seven months ending with July the
imports this year amo united to 4O7,-
7SS,OOO feet, valued at $4,321 $50, and
for the same period last year in the
imports were 37S,211 900 feet, valued
at $4,14S,O79. The imports OF wood
pulp from Canada for July this year
amounted to $3.50 tons, valued at
$54, 1886, against 1,577 tons valued at
1924, 4,746 for 'July last year. For the
sevon months ending with July this
year %, ,273, tons of wood pulp were
imported from Canada, valued at
$780,, 800, against 9,712 tons, valued at
STA, ,4S2, for the seven months ending
with July last year. Imports of logs
and round timber for July this year
amounted to 96,836,00O feet, valued at
$773, ,41O, and for July last year II ,9O7-
900 feet, valued at 1915 ,4O7. For the
seven months ending with July the
imports of logs amounted to 213,475,-
600 feet this year, valued at 81 $685.
887, and 175,157, 900 feet last year,
valued at 81 1878 ,403.-N. w. Lumber
man, Chicago.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02

BRADsTREET and Dunn. two great
commercial agencies, bear testimony
to the fact that great prosperity eX-
listed in 1892. President Harrison in
his message called attention to the
fact. In less than year President
Cleveland noted the great change that
had suddenly fallen ubon the country.
He said, "With plenteous crops, with
abundant promise of remunerative
and manufacture, with
unusual invitation for safe investment
and with satisfactory assurance to
business enterprise, suddenly financial
distress and fear have sprung up on
every side" He, of course, laid the
fact to the Sherman act, but the repeal
brought no help. The fact are that
the very threat of violent change in
the tariff caused business men tocurtail
their expense, which threw men out
of employment and lead to the panic
which is still on.-Ex.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-02
For Lumbermen and Loggers.

The owners of standing timber in
this, the most favored OF all timbered
countries, ought not to overlook the
fact that the opening of the Nicaragua
canal will double, or more than double
the value of their stumpage. The
commencement of work on the canal
will increase the value of every tree
they own. 1t willrapidly increase the
demand for our lumber, and give en-
ployment to many who are not now
employed and at much better
wages than are now paid. This is
something that the owners of the tim
Der and those engaged in the lumber
business can readily realize and easily
understand.
These people should remember that
MIR. Bryan and his platform have moth
ing to say in favor of the canal. Worse
than that, the platform proposes
policy that will make it absolutely i'm
possible for this government to do any
thing to help the canal, or to encourage
the beginning OF work on it. Mr.. Bryan
has adopted this platform, approved
It's every word and pledged himself, if
elected, to carry out every policy that
1T proposes. This is something that
Washington lumbermen should not
lose sight of.-Ledger.