The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-01-09
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| It is the year 'O2. Look out for twins.
The cold wave has certainly got q
hot box: IS
The Christmas tree of 1901 is now on
the ash pile. .@as% - s.ot 81.
Il, Sculptors are like receivers-they
work on ''busts.'' 4 Sss|>."+~ ;.
There is war on between cane and
beet sugar. It will be hard to beet
cane. ...-..
Perhaps the president wishes that
the lieutenant general of the army was
! miles away.
., Brockton, Mass, shipped the past
year ID, 800, 900 pairs of shoes. Quite a
feet, to be sure.
! The harness men met in St. Paul
recently. They wore; high collars and
held high rein.
A St. Paul man dropped dead the
other day because he received a divi-
dend from defunct bank.
A mosquito was caught in Winnipeg
last week. 1t was one of the New Jer-
sey pioneers looking up land in Mani
toba.
1t begins to look as if Uncle Sam
would soon give US penny postage on
letters. He is far from being penny
urious.
King Alfonso of Spain will soon be
of age. The cupboard will be more or
less bare when the young man takes
possession.
Some of the bankers in the country
do not believe in an elastic currency.
They are too much on the squeeze to
appreciate elasticity.
| A St. Paul alderman would tag all
street cars. The patient people OF St.
Paul have been tagging the street cars
for 10, these many years.
| There is a revival of the crusade
against the blind pigs of the Midway
district in St. Paul. The beer wagon
keeps coming just the same.
A man in St. Paul went into an un-
dertaking establishment and shot him.
self. He did not fall into his coffin,
but he came pretty close to it.
Many old-time railroad favorites are
now engaged in deep thought and
meditation on the "Passing of the
Pass, or How I Walk or Pay Fare.'
| The bones of a mastodOn recently
found in Missouri indicate that the
beast had a throat six feet in diameter.
He must have emigrated from Ken
lucky.
The supreme court has decided that
the normal schools are charitable in
situations. With this view of the mat
ter the legislature ought to be very
generous with these institutions.
Some Of the orange crop of southern
California has been destroyed by a
wind storm called "Santa Anna,''
and the peach crop of Michigan has
been partially wiped out by a cold
wave. By their fruits ye shall know
them-nit.
Marconi, the genius who can throw
a message across the Atlantic, intends
to get married as soon as he gets lit
tie time. Better stay single little
longer, old boy, for after you are mar
ried there will be little time to flash
messages.
Strawberries from Florida are on the
market in the twin cities and are sell
ing at IS cents box, or two boxes for
$1.30. The shipments consist of nine.
tenths crate and one-tenth berries and
the bottom of the boxes are pretty well
up in the world.
At the Modern Language associa-
ton meeting in Cambridge, Mass, last
week professor stated that according
to reports from thousand persons the
most hated word in the English Ian.
fguage was the word "women." We
fail to see the reason. The word is
good. 1t suggests effeminateness, and
"wee men" are on the effeminate or.
der.
A Chicago professor says that. in
three to five years the secret of life
and the book of mysteries will be re.
VealeQ. He intends tn hepet life from