The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-02-20
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! . diamond thief always makes q
brilliant record.
The opinion Of confectioner is al
ways candid one. ..ss
The city dailies are all installing dot
editors, and they are all counts. 81.
Some call the age we are living in
the iron age. It must be SO for there
is plenty Of steal in it.
Croker, the ex-Tammany chief, will
make his son dairy farmer The old
man himself was pretty clever at milk
ing.
They launched a ship in Duluth last
week. It was sent out onto the ice in
the bay on runners and will be foated
next July.
/ This is the time of year when the
hen overhauls its egg-manufacturing
mechanism, and gets ready for Easter
blue-prints. ~. ~. =
t Between the legislative proceedings
and the patent medicine ads in the
metropolitan papers good reading is
hard to find. ~ Z.
And our Emmett has been Caught on
the Wing" by the Minneapolis Journal.
But then, Emmett, there are others in
the same fix. ~. ...-..s .
Gov. Taft says we have some splen-
did timber in the Philippines. That
may be true enough, but it's an awful
long ways from home. " Il
The Pioneer Press refers to our
member of the Minnesota House of
Representatives as Representative
Works. From this we take it that
Mark is it. .~-.
When the house gets on it's dignity
an ordinary committee that can poke
itself away back in some little room on
the upper floor of the capitol and
swell up, is made to feel like defaced
coin.
The report of the Pan-American
board of Commissioners has been pub
lished and shows an unexpected bal
ance of just thirty cents in the treas
ury. It canlbe transferred to the St..
Louis commission fund if necessary.
The Presbyterians who are working
on new creed at Philadelphia pass
up infant damnation, and deny that
the church ever promulgated such a
doctrine. Surprising it did, the world
never took any stock in such a "declar-
alton of faith.'' The great trouble
with religion inside the churches has
been that it was well-nigh screeded"
to death.
The question RESOLVED, That
Blondes are Preferable to Brunettes"
was discussed: at the armory at the
Minnesota university the other night,
and the orators pounded the subject
until it was black and blue. The next
topic for discussion will be, 'Resolved,
That Mother-in-Laws are of More
Benefit to Mankind Than the Seven
Year Itch.'' -.,..s.
Now, this is too bad, indeed. The
st. Anthony Study Circle has discov-
cred that an error has been made in
naming the State flower, and instead of
''cypripedium colcecalus" the correct
botanical name is ''cypripedium regin-
to-. - The legislature will be asked to
make the correction. How timely the
discovery, and the legislature will rush
to the rescue with whoop
In the course of time well-to do
business man from the North Star
State was "gathered to his fathers,''
and as he journeyed up to an outpost
at St. Peters he was challenged by
the guard. - 81
$50 "Who are you?" inquired the officer.
II am Belated Believer, of Horn
pike, Minn.' ~. w..
Have you any credentials"
eyes, slr-here IS write-up in the
Great Men of Hornpike, that cost me
$50, and here are few words the min
lister said" and he handed them to the
sanity sentinel, who went in and
looked over the records, presently re-
turning, and inquired:
"Did you ever pay any taxes in Min
nesota?''
Eyes SIR" replied the man from
Minnesota.