Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-01-11
CHICAGO EAGLE.


tent. The omission of an unmistakable
sign of homicidal mania, whereby the
victim might be secured before disas-
ter occurs, seems to be an oversight of
Providence. Come to think Of it,
though, the sign may be there in each
case if the unscientific mind could but
read it.
To TALK about ones busin ess in a
mixed company is at complete variance
with good taste, and those who do it
make themselves disagreeeble They
do so, as a rule, however, thoughtless-
". Better swear off and talk socially
about anything else. Mosquitoes, vel
low fever, rain, highway robbery or bal
let dancers are better and more inter
esting subjects to discuss.
SALLIE McALLIsTER, of Springfield,
KY, colored girl of 10, is believed to
be the largest woman in the world
She is 5 feet inches high, measures
7 feet 3 inches round the waist, and 3
feet Ct inches round the arm above the
elbow. She weighs 632 pounds. She
enjoys excellent health, and makes her
living at the wash-tub.
IN Providence, r. l., 4S5 saloons run
full blast from Sunday morning to Sat
urday night in defiance of the State
law, and yet if a grocer puts jar of
beans in his window and offers a box
of soap to the one who guesses nearest
the number, he is hauled into court
and made to pay twenty-five dollar
fine and fourteen dollars cost.
ALFRED n. HAZARD, 70 years old,
turned up in New Haven recently,
much to the surprise Of his son, Alfred
n. Hazard. Mr. Hazard deserted
his family in Western New York
forty years ago, and after wandering
about the West has become wealthy
and returned to his son. AS he puts
it, he has come home to die.
The steamer City of Paris, of the
Inman Line, plying between New York
and Liverpool, is of TO-, tons bur
den, $4,000 horse power, and has main
tanned a mean speed of %. 70 miles per
hour throughout the voyage of about
5000 miles. She has ffty-four fur
naces, and her boiler tubes exceed
thirteen miles in aggregate length
The cannon used at Columbia, S.
c., in firing the Davis memorial salute
exploded. The cannon was that used in
firing the salute when South Carolina
| seeded from the Union. 1t was tished
out Of the river some years ago, where
| it had been thrown when Sherman's
| army was about to enter the city.
| REPREs ENTATIvE WILLIAM MARTIN,
of Texas, who had good deal of fun
poked at him during the last session of
Congress, is the heaviest smoker in
official life at Washington He is al
ways smoking cigars. He is not par
ticular as to the brand, quality, style,
or price. All he requires of cigar is
that it draw well.
A COUNTRYMAN went to a store in
Morgantown, w. Va, the other day
and purchased a kerosene lamp.
"That's the first one O them notions
that ever come to my house" he re-
marked. Candles was allus good
enough for marin and me, but darter's
got beau and thinks we ort to put Oh
a leetle style.
a GREEK paper reports that q mum
Der of Golfers containing 10000 golC
and silver Spanish pieces of the yea
1866 have been hauled out of the SET
near the island of Andres. Six bronz'
cannon were also found, and it i
thought the articles came from TIN
wreck of a Spanish war vessel.
AT the recent fire in Boston one firm
was entirely cleaned out, not even
penholder left, and added to this tn
papers in their safe were also destroyed
Since the great Boston fire many firm
have duplicate of their monthly tria