Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-10-05
EAGLETS.

A RUNAWAY JFlln Oh inc Dhu'H anu
Iron Range Railroad attained a speed
of 40 miles an hour.
FRESH air with physical exercise, is
the elixir that lays the Brown-Sequard
remedy on the shelf.
IT is calculated that during Lon
don season the average amount spent
in flowers daily is $4,000.
UNDER the laws of China the adult
who loses his temper in discussion Is
sent to Jail for five days to cool off.
a PUBLIC school at Delmar is partly
situated in Delaware and Maryland.
Each State furnishes teachers for its
pupils.
JOHN TEMPLEToN, OF Adams County,
Pennsylvania, rs years of age, has
iack-knife that he has carried since he
was Is years old.
MORE wheat is grown in Europe
than in all the rest Of the world, her
average yearly product being over
1900, 600, 900 bushels.
PRINCE GEORGE of Wales is the
only member of the English royal
family who speaks the language of his
country with foreign accent.
In consequence of the success of the
smokeless powder, the Italian Govern
ment has suspended the manufacture
of all other kinds of gunpowder.
The simplest way to fumigate a
room is to heat an iron shovel very hot
and then pour vinegar on it, drop by
drop, the steam arising being a disin-
fectant.
IT is said that more than fifty thous-
and women voted at the school cleo
tons held recently in Kansas. Many
women were elected on the school
boards.
The new alternate current motor
lately experimental with at Buda-
Pesth shows an electrical efficiency of
% per cent and a commercial efficiency
of so per cent.
IT is claimed that a new discovery in
tanning will reyolutionize the leather
business and make shoes five times as
durable as now. Leather manufactur
ers fidicule the idea.
THE latest dispatches from China
indicate that the Chinese propose to
retaliate in kind on our Chinese eXclu-
sion policy. The Mclean man must
go alice samee Chinaman.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has
sued a cigarette-maker for using his
daughters photograph on his goods.
This cigarette photograph business is
being carried too far entirely.
The shooting of brakeman on the
Pennsylvania railroad by tramps will
probably revive the old proposition to
make special police officers of all rail
road employees and arm them for the
discharge of their duties as such.
A WEST YIBGINIAN trained a tiny
stream of water to fall drop by drop
on a rock, and in five years it has worn
a hole seven inches deepin solid stone.
He could have made the same hole in
fifteen minutes with a chisel and ham
mer.
EDWIN RIGGs, a farmer of peasants
County, West Virginia, being greatly
annoyed by rats in his barn, filled a
half hogshead with water, put chaff
over the top, scattered meal on it. and
in the morning fshed out over twc
hundred dead rats.
AN officer of the Russian army has
been cashiered for saving the life Of a
peasant woman, "and thereby lowering
his standard as a gentleman" If he
had ruined her life, instead of saving
it, he would have retained his standing
as gentleman But some men seen
bound to disgrace themselves
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE wa,
very poor when she wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin" The last chapter wa,
written in the Office of her publisher
in Boston. 1t was a cold winter morn
ing and she arrived at the store hall
frozen. She stood over the stove hal
an hour before she was sufficiently
thawed to hold her pen. Three month.