Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS
A wE1.L-KNowS Episcopal Bishop from

A wELL-KNowN Episcopal Bishop from
Western State was in New York a
short time ago, and during his visit ran
across young English curate walking
the streets foot-sore and weary. Il
came over to America" he said, lust to
get bit of experience, don't you know,
and am hoping to find a small parish
with q vacancy Just come right
along with me, said the Bishop. Il am
going away out into the Southwest and
will give you chance to get all the ex
perience you want" The young curate
gladly availed himself of the opportunity
and shortly afterwards arrived at the
scene of his future labors. That very
day the Sheriff of neighboring county
came in with a six-footer who was jailed
on a charge Of triple murder; there was
freight collision ''up the road;" the
police raided the ''Half Acre." crap
shooter slashed another with a razor;
there was an alarm of fire and suicide.
To add to the young curate's expert
ence," the local paper that night apollo
gized for the lack of local news, saying
that there wasn't much going on OF a
StUSdllOu1l dno ROiASS ShN'SS
were unusually quiet But the curate
will remain and thinks he has struck
field where he can do good work.
THE great Yukon River of Alaska is
soon to be made highway of commerce
by the establishment on it of a regular
service of sde-wheel steamers. The first
boat of the proposed line, now building,
will run from St Michaers Island, fifty
five miles from the mouth of the Yukon
at which point it will connect with
Norton Sound steamers-over 2, 200 miles
up the river The fact that Alaska has
the third possibly the second-largest
river in North America is not often re-
membered. The new steamer, the p. b.
Weare, will establish trading posts along
the river. will trade in all kinds of mer-
chandise, and the returns will be in gold
dust and furs 1t will carry complete
assaying outfit and everything that a
miner requires in taking out and testing
valuable mineral. 1t will also take along
a sawmill to cut timber for trading sta
lions. The frame of the Weare was laid
and fitted at Seattle, and she will be put
together at st. Michael's Island. She
will be IFS feet long, rs feet beam, and
4 feet deep. The Yukon is only navig-
able during July, August, and Septem.
Der, and it is thought that for the pres
ent probably but three or four trips g..
year may be made.
AN interesting feature of the report O..
the Connecticut Bureau of Labor Stats
tics is the part showing the growth OF
mutual benefit societies among working
men and women in that State. The
largest increase was in the group for
aiding sick members and burying the
dead. There is similar evidence of grow
ing forethought and provision among the
laboring classes of other States. 1t is
well, however. warns the New York
Press, to look into the character of the
societies which promise benefits. where
the prominent feature is speculative
there is danger ahead Losses to in
vestors through associations whose prom
Uses of return have far exceeded the
legitimate results of investment or other
accumulation have been too frequent
during the past year."
IT seems rather incredible to speak OF
the candle power of search-lights as il
the millions and hundreds of millions,
but according to the Electrical World
this is warranted by facts. The lamp
itself does not give very high candle
power when measured in any one direc
ton, but when magnifying lens il used
which collects all the light, as it were,
and throws il in one direction, the inten
sity OF the light is enormously increased
For instance, in the search-light which
is being experimental with upon tn,
WorMs Fair grounds. the candle-powe
. of the arc light alone is only $50, 00'
: candles, the carbons being ~ inche
long and / 3-16 inches in diameter
When this is surrounded by refecto
four feet in diameter, the candle-powe
, is multiplied to the somewhat startlin:
figure of AGO, 600 candles.
b THEY are trying what they call a Goo,
Will Farm in Maine, with a considerabl
e degree of success. Bad boys are sent t
+ it instead Of to reform schools. On tn
: farm they are separated, as far as possible
x into groups, in a number of cottage
!. that have been erected. The idea is tina
!. in this way the boys may be subject t
s the beneficial influences of home life
!. The household work in each of thes
e families is divided up among the boys
: who also work on the farm or in shops
= The same thing is to be tried in Massa
: chusetts also. A farm has been bough
i in Danvers, on which it is proposed t
: care for 500 homeless and destitute chi
s dren. Its distinctive feature, the cottag
n system, might well be trieo on large
d scale in other States, in place of tn
Y great institutions in which so Inany boy
n and girls are huddled together
y THERE is a rush of gold hunters to til
/ new diggings in the san Juan country
he Colorado. Claims have been s,aked OF
DC IN the San Juan River for seyenty-iiy
p miles fromits mouth, and for tweaty-f,
$ miles up the Colorado River. Men al
ID pouring in from all the adjoining r,
n gions, and from Utah aud Arizona The
TO are stalking claims over each other, an
ct lively trouble il looked for. Living
y. enormously high Supplies cannot |
&c obtained anywhere IN the vicinity. tho
y, persons who brough; supplies won't sci
re- and those who didn't are suIehu.
ll Few, II any. took tents there l. no M