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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
HONORS TO HENDRICKS.

The Cook County Democracy Aranges to
Go to Indianapolis.
The County Democracy held an en-
thusiastic meeting at rs La Sale
street, and unanimously decided to ac-
cept the invitation of the Hendricks
Monument Association to attend the
unwilling of the statue of Thomas A.
Hendricks at indianapolis July l. The
committee reported $50 names, and the
club will meet again Friday night at s
o'clock to perfect arrangements. The
expenses will not exceed IS for the
round trip, covering the cost of music,
badges, buffet, and gloves.
A resolution was read and unani-
mously passed indorsing the States
Attorney, Joel NJ. Longenecker, in his
untiring efforts toward the yindica-
ton of the law. The club declared
approval Of his present undertaking,
the Indictment and prosecution of eX-
Aldermen who are accused of selling
their votes to certain corporations
which came seeking valuable fran
chises.
A committee to secure further names
of persons who desire to go with the
club to INDIANAPOLIS was appointed,
consisting Of Capt. J. H. Farrell, Aid.
Roth, John P. Hopkins, Joseph Scho-
field, r. W. Nelson and Charles Hef
ter.
Aid. Roth showed his belief in the
undertaking by pledging fifty names
and putting up a margin of 5000 as
expense guarantee. The Alderman is
rapidly convincing the County De
mocracy that he is a stalwart.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

IT is estimated that over twenty mil
lion cigars are manufactured every day
in the United States alone, and this
enormous number requires in the neigh
borhood of 100000 boxes for their
keeping. As result there are over
two hundred factories in the country
turning these boxes out. The wood Of
which these boxes is made comes from
Mexico, Central America and the West
Indies. The manufacturers buy the
wood in large, heavy logs aud cut it up
to suit themselves. Some of the cheaper
grades of boxes are made from poplar
cut in the West, which is afterward
stained to initiate the real cedar. But
the only real good wood for the pur-
pose is the cedar which comes from the
countries named.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THOUSANDS go down and disappear
for want of power OF physical endur-
ance; quite as many thousands fail for
lack of steadily improving brain capac-
ity; but perhaps most of all are smit-
ten, crushed, and routed because Of
their poverty of clear and moral pur-
pose. The real strength of man is his
health, mental and physical, and, with
out this, no start, however good, no
advantages of the way, however
great, no stroke of luck, however won
derful, can save him from defeat. Like
all other creatures, his means Of defense
must be commensurate with every pos
sible occasion, or final victory can
never crown his brow.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

"The question will be then whether
the city, dealing directly with the rail
road company, will insist on the mill
ion and half boot for the fifty or
more acres of land under water north
of Monroe street. If the Council, rep
resenting the people, demands the
money and the road persists in its re-
fusal to give it, the Lake Front Park
drops out as a site.
Judges Harlan and Blodgett have
made decision generally favorable to
the city and against the Illinois Cen
trail. The matter has been appealed
to the Supreme Court and has not
been decided. The city is confident it
will win. The railroad corporation
processes equal confidence. Thus the
property is tied up, and without the
harmonious action of these two hti-
giants it must remain untitled and UNI
improved till the Supreme Court has
spoken, some years hence, and it will
be out of the power of the directors to
offer it as a site to the National Com
mission.
at will be seen that the situation is
not q pleasing one for the participants.
If the road refuses to pay that million
and half and the Fair should be
driven from the Lake Front to some
other site, and for any cause the Elk
position should not be a success, the
Illinois Central would become i'm
mensely unpopular. If the Council
insists on the million and half the
same results may follow. If it valves
the money it may be accused of selling
out to a corporation and sacrificing the
property of the city.
"To add to the perplexities it is by
no means certain that the National
Commission will accept the Lake
Front even if rendered. A majority OF
its members may think the $50 acres
it would afford too small a space.
Some of them are talking of thous.
and acres. Many are disinclined tC
split the Fair in two parts But the
site question has not been presented
to the commission in any form, non
can it be till the city and the railroad
have agreed, or have agreed to differ
regarding the Lake Front.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
A BANNER ASS.

The Temporary Chairman of the Re
publican State Convention, Horace S,
Clark, of the "Tape-worm District, "
has long been noted for the length of
his ears During the course of an adj
dress to the overheated delegates on
Tuesday, Mr. Clark said:
THAT party shirks no responsibility
in State or national legislation, and in
our own State not only unearthed cor
ruption and exploded the Democratic
fallacy of internal improvements by
canal, wagon highways, and little creeks
made navigable only by Democratic
legislation, but paid off to the last dol
lar the enormous State debt piled up
at home and abroad, which stands as a
monument Of imbecility to the last
Democratic administration of the af.
fairs of this State"
Statesman Clark must want the
Democratic party to carry the State Of
Illinois.
Does he not know that the people
are grateful to the Democratic party
for the Illinois and Michigan Canal
and all of the internal improvements
it gave the State?
Does not statesman Clark know tina
the people Of Chicago are still in fayo
Of canals, aud the great drainage cana
soon to be commenced is an earnest O
their purpose.
Clark is a hoodoo.
As Temporary Chairman he prove
himself to be the banner ass of tn
campaign.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

The mysterious disappearance of
bottle of wine through a hole in the
cellar wall caused Mr.. w B. Bissell,
a Syracuse druggist, to open his eyes
in deep amazement. He watched and
waited, and presently his vigilance was
rewarded. He saw human arm
emerge from the hole, grasp another
bottle of wine, and disappear The
druggist quietly left the cellar, and en-
tered the cellar of the adjoining house.
There he found plumber on his knees,
and beside him were fourteen bottles
of Mr. BisselPs wine
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

MISS STEWART, a Scotch girl, of Gin
cinnati, was few years ago superin-
tendent of the restaurant department
of the Woman's Exchange at a small
salary. She and two sisters are now
running a restaurant of their own in
the Chamber of Commerce Building,
where they earn $4,000 year. They
furnish but one meal a day, from u to
~. m. 1t is a business mans lunch,
and their success shows the weakness OF
the average man for home cooking,
which is their specially.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
OUTRAGEOUS CHEEK.

The Government of the United States
has spent over IS, O00,O in construct
ing harbor for the city Of Chicago.
Now the superserviceable idiots who
are running the Worlds Fair want to
fill up this harbor and give it to the
Illinois Central Railroad for 81, 500, 600
if the railroad company will rent it to
them for three years
Just think of it.
Here is a railroad company that for
twenty years has refused to build
new depot in Chicago, aud yet makes
more out of its people than any other
road. 1t is the meanest corporation on
earth, and does not treat its employees
properly. Yet it is to gobble our har-
Dor and millions Of dollars worth of
land besides. The Tribune had the
following on the subject the other day,
which speaks for itself
"The Worlds Fair directors have
made the following proposition to the
officers of the Illinois Central, condi-
tional on its acceptance by the Mayor
and the Council: That the city allow
the road to fill in and possess the space
between Randolph and Monroe to the
Government dock line and the right of
way of the road, the Worlds Fair to
have the use of that part of it which
the railway does not need for track
purposes. This piece of land amounts
to about ffty-fve acres. That in re-
turn for this the road shift its tracks to
the eastward, going straight north,
beginning at Twenty street,
and give to the South Park
Commissioners, to fill up and make
park of, the triangle between
the new tracks, the present right Of
way, Twenty-third street and Six
teenth street This will give the PARK
Commissioners about thirty-one acres
including the 300 feet right of way oc
cupied by the tracks. That the roat
also give the Commissioners the ives
ninety feet of the right Of way from
Sixteenth street to Park row, and tn,
entire 300 feet right OF way from Parl
row to Monroe street.
"The directors also ask the Illinois
Central to give the city 81, 800, 900 t
boot, the useable value Of the Ian,
which the railway viii get being
much greater than what it surrenders
The company refuses to pay an
money.
"lu the negotiation uich have bee
going ON the directors never assume
e. have the right 10 represent tha city
They have said that d ths road "a,
oepted their proposition they though
tbe Cuy Council would Do .ts pare ,u
tbe State vould wtty tbe action
tho e.ty a. the extra setloa The "a
rectaa having uae reached lha sai
Shots lslhsf have Askel taa Na.ol N
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A GEORGIA colonel named Scott has
attracted considerable attention by his
determination, that the wealth which
he devotes to public and philanthropic
purposes shall be applied during his
lifetime. Having recently come into
possession of $3.50, 900, The has bestowed
liberal gifts upon educational institu-
tons, and declares that he intends to
leave his heirs only a merest compe-
tence. Colonel Scott deserves the
praises that are given him. His head
is level and his heart is in the right
place,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

LEMONS are used for soap in many
countries where they grow. When, for
instance, the men and women of the
West Indies want to wash their hands
they squeeze the juice of lemon over
them briskly in water until they are
clean. There is an acid in the lemon
similar to that used in soap. And in
countries where oranges grow in great
plenty country gentlemen use the
cheapest kind for backing their boots.
The orange is cut in two and the juicy
side of one half is rubbed. on the SCOT
of an iron pot and then on the boot.
Then the boot lis rubbed with a soft
brush and bright! polish at once ap.
pears.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

IT is not perhaps generally known
that gamblers and detectives in New
York and,other large cities wear steel
shirts as precaution against daggers'
points and bullets. Yet the majority
of them do and very effective protectors
these steel shirts are. The shirt is very
flexible, and sleeveless. Each link is
welded finely and firmly and is made
of the best kind of steel. The shirt is
so light and so finely welded together
that it does not impede the action OF
the wearer in any way. The shirts are
absolutely impenetrable to bullets or
dagger thrusts.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THE Cherokee Indians have been
offered fair price for their lands by
the Government, but refuse to sell.
The Indian who stands in the way of
civilization is like the farmer who "can't
a-bear" to sell strip of land to trunk
line across the continent. The Indian
will go down with thump. Progress
is no respecter of sentiment,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

RECENTLY, while Buffalo family
was moving, the mother suddenly
missed the baby. The infant could be
heard crying, and the mother finally
conjectured that she was inside of a
roll of carpet 1t was true. The baby
had been left in the middle of the sit
ting room floor, and the men who took
up the carpet tossed breadth over
her without observing her, rolled her
up in it and stood the carpet up in the
hall. The child, when discovered, was
punctured here and there with rusty
tacks, and her mouth was partly stuffed
with carpet dust, but otherwise she
was all right.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
IS IT PROHIBITION Z?

The platform adopted by the Re-
publican party ia convention assem-
bled al Springfield contains the fol-
lowing curious declaration
We recognize the importance Of
the temperance question aui favor all
proper and practical methods nr
abauus the evils Of the liquor traffic
~o tbe Republican parts of Illinois
hke fbs Republican pa.t at Kansas
ml ata He.r,. H HHn.mu rsr
hnm lnt
fa.ahllt.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A MARcELLUs, Mich, school teacher
received the following note from an
angry parent recently: Mey 6 1880
when my Boys are Stang away from
School / have Work for them, and when
They are dare you Teach them. and
when They are to home, that is non of
your Bisness you liant rening My
Silently not by dem Side, at my
home"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A PHILADELPHIA paper publishes a
list of fifteen American girls who have
hired titled foreigners to marry them
within the last ten years, and shows
that only two are now living with their
husbands. The man who buys wife
has right to treat her as a chattel.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A GRAND RAPIDS paper says there
are many counties in Northern Michi
gan without a single church and thous-
ands of people growing up heathens.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THE agricultural college professors
have figured it out that two little spar
rows in ten years will produce an an
cestry of 275, 716, 983, 6l9S birds. Well,
that isn't more than a bird or two out
of the way at most.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
Thing. Cot Mor.e.

Stranger Your farm doesn't seem
b. be iu a very douFishing condition.
Farmer ~, Things are getting
worse and worse A Teller came round
here selling hooks aHd papers, and
d. stil au I needed was h suhscrihs
rs the F1fms Friend did but
Do doaf ieam % help things any
i4Htts Blade
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A STORY comes from China that the
people of Soochow are greatly alarmed
by atmospheric phenomena. They APP
pear first over rivers and creeks in the
form of black cloud which bears some
resemblance to boat, which gradually
becomes a ball of fire, and after time
bursts into a myriad Of starry flashes
of light that float about in the air for a
a while to the great terror of the be-
holders.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

ELECTRICITY can now be used to
operate a machine for mining coal.
This fact has recently been demon
strated at Pittsburg, Pa, and revo-
luton in coal mining is likely to ensue.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

A DAYTON, Me, man says his town
doesn't owe a cent and has 81, 900 in the
treasury, and that neither q lawyer,
doctor nor minister resides within its
limits. Neither is there any church in
the town.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

member next to him. Communion
service, the breaking of unleavened
bread and the drinking of unfermented
grape wine were also a part of the
services.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

FooLscAp is a corruption of the
italian tolio-capo, folio-sized sheet.
The error must have been very ancient,
as the water mark of this sort of paper
from the thirteenth to the seventeenth
century was FOOLS head with cap and
bells.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
EAGLETS.

Quill toothpicks, as a rule, are i'm
ported from France The largest fac
tory in the world is near Paris. where
10000, 900 are annually produced.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THE EAGLE can be ordered at Chas.
Macdonald & Co.'S literary emporium
and book store, So Washington street,
and can be found also at.all first-class
news stands in the West.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

all well, an I hope these few lines will
find you all the same.
"We hev got along fust-rate accept
in tibet one clutch ducks all dide
frum the straddles, by roostin in the
dog fennil, an the ole turky gobbler
will run off, Gather to Roperses' or
Purdy's, every whoop steetch, an the
last settin chickings most all dide o
the pip.
Ben VOWS he's goin to hev house
keeper of his own; sum ses it's one an
sum another, but he don't go with
marry one twict in row. The wilder
Van Dyke is so mad at the school,
marin thet she wunt look tord the
house when she goes past.
You node Jonathan Blodgers' all
he'd the whoopin coff, didn't you?
Well, they've got it purity bad cot it
frum Mis- Peter Roperses little gal.
Ole Zekes haint goin to give
house warmin till it gifts cooler.
Ole Speck he'd the boiler horn jest
awful, but Ben an me dosed her up
with turpentide an so forth, an she is
| better now.
We wus all over to the Squire's
tother day a visitin EN-. We he'd a
awful nice time. They he'd fride
choking an tomattoses an cake an Sc
forth fur supper
We don't git menny aigs now, an
what we do git were putin down fun
winter use.
Bens craps air all G lookin fine. I
SEES to my gran.dotter, Hes q goin to
make some gal nifty fine husban sum
these days"
you bet he air" ses she.
We air a maxim a heap butter
now, but faint no price at all skursely,
only a shillin. Mis- Giles WIS a
tellin me week ago cum next Mundy
thet Mis- Boggs he'd got a Teller an WIS
goin to be marryed. Hev you seen
ennything spiciou3? Laws nose she
wunted to find number bad enuf
We killed thet ole bob tale rooster
fur dinner the day Mis- Peter Roper an
Mis- Giles an Mis- Purdy WIS here. He
wus kindly tut, but we EFT him fur all o
tibet.
Ben ses to tell you eff you wunt to
be here when he fetches on his new
housekeeper you must hurry up.
Every buddy is wunderin an q
wunderin who in the world it kin be.
Eff you no, I wish you'd tell me in
your next, tho l spose you'll be home in
about weaks more.
Ben sed you he'd some forty gratis
took, an every buddy aroun here wunts
one.
SO good-by. Frum yure friend,
GRAMMAR MARCH. i.
William Henery wus jest on pins to
git home an find out who Ben's best
gal wus But l felt more consumed
about my ducks dyin off with. the
straddles, etc. An SO we cuncluded to
cut our visit short here to the boys a
few days es thay wus all Twin In to
the same town.
t Mis- Boggs an her bow set out on to
: the steps talkin an eatin penuts, tell
supper time, an then arfter supper
thay went in to the parlor an he stade
tell most mornin.
D "He sed he coodn't stay away nc
r longer" ses Sally.
81 Student think he Good" ses /
kindly dry.
SO no more at present frum
e HESTER ANN SCooPER
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

CHARLES DICKENS, like all successful |
authors, was pestered by literary as
pirants anxious to find out "how the
thing was done" Here was a sensible
reply to one of these young gentlemen.
Though the letter was written forty-six
wears ago, the advice still holds good
II fear the best reply can give you, in
acknowledging the receipt of your let
ter. will be rather unsatisfactory; but
if is so, it is not from any lack of inter
est on my part. 1t is in the nature of
all literary beginnings to be surround
ed by unsatisfactory circumstances.
The rate of remuneration to unknown
writer's is six or eight guineas a sheet,
usually Many unknown writer's write
for nothing. / wrote for the next thing
to it myself, when l was one-and-
twenty. The only additional piece of
advice can give you is to concentrate
on this pursuit all the patience that
would be required in all the other pur-
suits OF this world put together, and to
lay your account with having it tired"
Az Indian of the Cheyenne Agency
had one of his legs injured, making
amputatiou necessary to save his life.
i DR. Daniel Of the agency urged him to
have an operation performed but the
noble red man thought he would cut a
sorry figure with one leg, and said he
would rather die Argument were un-
a,ailing The doctor then thought Of
good scheme 10 gain hi. consent lie
hied himself To Pierre, where me- se.
cured the service If "a friend who Jour
news through life ou one Deg Of hesh
and another manufactured from che
bark 10 the cork tfee. Together thcy
started totbe reservation anal after
tta doctor friend bad given ihr brave
an .tb.minnaI hla bee11td m around
ua han.s nmtgf the Indian aa.
satisfied 4al He. anxious 90 submit u
Incorporation aal nli lba la t,r thaI
.It Hahtllt .H ba'h ast ss hu sa.
WbimI.fH a1.rieIih atieai etar
.eah
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

Extraordinarily minutes later, writ
ing Business is booming. Our pub
lic-spirited fellow-townsman, Mr.. Elihu
Backlots, has just left a gallon jug oi
prime hard cider in payment for six
months subscription. Thanks, Elihu.
plck
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

SOME very interesting facts of crime
are revealed by a Scotch sheriff He
knew OF one woman who, between the
years 1874 and 1865, was committed 1857
times for being drunk, and when drunk
her invariable practice was to smash
windows. A man when drunk stole
nothing but Bibles, and was trans
ported for his seventh theft. Another
man stole nothing but spades: a wo'a-
an stole nothing but shoes; another
nothing but shawls; but the lueerest
thief was one who stole tubs, and was
sent 10 penal seryitnde for his seventh
tub
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
Pleasant JOUrneYS.

Pleasant journeys can always be had
via the Wisconsin Central Line. The
employees are courteous and obliging;
the sleeping and dining cars and day
coaches are peers of any in the North
west. The leaving hours at principal
terminal points are convenient and the
depots are centrally located. All to-
gether it is the most desirable route in
either direction between Chicago, Mil
waukee, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Ash
land, and Duluth. Try it and be con-
WINGED,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

4 QUAINT love feast was celebrated
recently by Che Pennsylvania Dunk
ards After the night services of three
hours duration loayes Of broad and tin
dishes containing coup made oi rice
and beef vera placed ga che table and
AFT tbe mcmhtu paroak ol che lnrih
aup. IS Esert fotoi mnr brothUH snl
etef, aet Il mar .lsleu age SOAP oat ut
oaa llsh. ESQ sitting "a each tl,ie oI iha
nsfma nblr tHs alaAina af iha
halT So mlasal iaa unref shea
a.h mnl.afetak.uaa thaNnaf iha
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
The Chicago Photo.
WINGED.

The Chicago Photo is one of the
brightest publications in the country,
and it is certainly the best Illustrated
paper west of New York.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

WHEN will the Drainage Board be-
gin work?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

tH goa eAat maFfF 4 wamaa wlih
lIllsa tha satt baal ihnG 90 somaa
wta taAaa
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THE Republican party has too many
cheap leaders.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

THE State tickets are up. Now for
the county.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

WHO are the men who own the AS
SCISSORS?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28

No WOMEN on the School Board, Mr..
Mayor.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-06-28
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS

wv h N G. Gorge
Washinton kim up
lfrum the store fur
.his supper he
fetched me a letter
frum the school
,marm's grammar;
it red:
Deer Mis- Scoop
Ier-I take my pen
fin han to write you
u few lines to let
you no tibet we air
H. g., 1,nno Mill