Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-02-01
EAGLETS.

HAN1H.
EAGLETS.
ECUADOR has. prohibited Chinese i'm
migration.
OF China's O,O0O, 900 people one
tenth are agriculturists.
THERE has been an extraordinary ep-
idemic of suicides in the German army
of late. In one month twenty-eight
officers shot themselves.
NEW YORK last year spent 81, 000,-
600 on her public schools, hiring 3D.
9S7 teachers to instruct l,SO3, 667
pupils.
Nor many years since Italy was pay
ing $4,000, 600 for the maintenance Of
its penal system and S5,400,000 for
educational purposes.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS in gold COIN
weighs $685. pounds avoirdupo is, and
S1,O00,000 of silver coin weighs IS
920.9 pounds avoirdupois.
THE condition of a certain cat in La
moine, Me, is literally at skies and
seyens. She has seven toes on her
hind feet and six on her fore feet
The Mexican Government has lately
ordered l,0O0,0 900 grape cuttings from
California, and will distribute them
free to all who wish to plant them in
Mexico.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN is doing re-
markably well with her new magazine.
She is living at her home in Calumet
Place, and she has her regular hours
of editorial work.
A FARMER living between Marceline
and Brookfeld, Mo, found thirty-seven
bee trees during the summer and fall,
and as a consequence has on hand more
than a barrel of strained honey.
THE average pay of locomotive en-
gineers on passenger trains in the
South is three cents for every mile
run; for freight train engineers it will
average about four cents per mile.
THE cunning dog belonging to jacob
Hendricks, of Swamp, Berks County
Pa, was stolen few nights ago an6
tied to a tree in the woods. When re
covered it was nearly famished, anC
had almost gnawed the tree down.
THERE are CSC periodical publica
tons in Russia. Seyenty-eight o
them are political and news dailie5
100 are scientific, SO religious, Is arts
tic, 80 agricultural, 50 statistical anC
photographed, Is pedagogic, 13 fo1
children, and the rest miscellaneous.
THERE is no officer IN the United
States navy who has participated il
greater number of battles than Rea
Admiral Melancthon Smith. He Tough
through the Mexican war, and during
the war of the rebellion he was in tn
thick OF much of the fighting alon!
the coast
QUEEN VICTORIA admires America
oysters. On a recent outgoing steam
er were a dozen barrels of Long Islam,
oysters bound for Windsor Castle
They have been selected with grea
care and their shells have been sand
papered and polished until they are a
smooth as a well-worn pocket-book.
THE stock of the Chemical bank i
New York is held at higher premium
than any other. The par value is 500
but not a share can be purchased
Twenty shares were sold short tim
ago in closing up an estate and eac
sold-not for 500. but for S4.195 a
auction. The stock declares a di,
dend of % per cent. monthly
A FRIEND and admirer once said t
Robert Browning: Il havestudied lon
upon this passage in your poem, an
am unable to comprehend it, Pra,
tell me, what is the idea embodied j
it," Mr. Browning read the passaq
over and replied. "Really, | caunc
tell; but / believe it will be worth yo.
while to keep on studying it..
An eccentric old German living
the town of Milwaukee recently wei
to the city and chartered a street-c,