Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-02-08

|. D., have been fOund Deneath TIE
t st. Pabu, Finisterre.
THE letter carriers find good many
mpty purses in the letter boxes.
think it safer to drop them
here than on the sidewalk
Ir is told of Carbon County Penn
ylvanian that he has worn the same
lat for twenty-three years, and he says
t has come into style nineteen times
THE Santa Maria (CalJ Graphic
low wants to change its paper sub
cription for stovewood, but draws its
inc sharply at hop-poles and pump
iins,
TWENTY of the Balaklaya heroes are
,ither in the workhouse, sweeping
crossings, or in the depth Of MISERY.
This shows how England rewards her
heroes.
A MICHIGAN man, true to his ruling
passion, beat down the trader from
whom he bought pistol with which
he committed suicide He got twenty
five cents off from the price.
A NEW contrivance has been applied
to watches called an appointment re-
hinder" A small dial is set into the
watch's face upon which one can set .
the hands at any hour required.
A PENNSYLVANIA lady has adopted
the plan of publicly hogging her hus-
band when he comes home drunk. 1t
is having an effect on him, as he does
not fill up again until he is able to get
out
Ir is poor encouragement to toll
through life to amass fortune to ruin
your children. In nine cases out of ten
a large fortune Is the greatest curse
which could be bequeathed to the
young and inexperienced.
A NOVELTY in road fixing can be
seen on the old gravel pike near By
berry. Pa, where rutabagas have taken
the place of dirt or stone. Several
carloads have been hauled there to
fill up the ruts and holes
THERE is a great boom in phosphate
lands in Southern Florida, and many
poor men have become rich by the sale
of their farms to spectators One
man is reported to have refused s., 600,
600 for tract of land held by him.
DIR. FREDERICK BRAMANN, who per
formed tracheotomy on Emperor Fred
erick in 1888, has now become EXtraor
binary Professor of Surgery in the
University of Berlin. He was gradu
ated in medicine and surgery barely
ten years age.
THE right whale is the most vicious
of all the whalebone whales, and a
times fights desperately for its life
The tinbacks were very rarely cap
tured before the invention of the boml
lance, as they ran 50 fast boats coul'
not stand the strain.
CONDUCTOR KELLY, who operates al
electric car at Scranton, was engage
in making some repairs to the brushe
few days ago, when bystauder sa'
a ball of fire lowering over Kelly's head
Kelly was so stunned that he was III
able to work any longer.
GOLD TowLIoN." a hermit who live
in Jacks Hollow, in the mountain
near Williamsrort, spend. his time
p digging around his wretched hut
search Of gold He has dug ten hol,
fifteen feet deep, and his place lool
like yawning graveyard.
: IT is claimed that phosphate is four
in only three places throughout Il
United States South Carolina. Ne
Mexico, and Florida In New Next
it is about exhausted, while in Flori,
it is more extensive than iu Sou
II Carolina aud assays twent v.tve p
e cent more.
n the stupendous railway bridl
s. across the North River at Ne, York
constructed, a. contemplated d
trains will run at great height abo
/. the buuae.tops Of Jersey City aaI W
MI SPAN the stream al a height H1.cie
lar tb# hehsstmastsd vessel Co pa
under
J.Ur NlsE 600 tm.a. mo
uwuJuih th. accident aI. het
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