Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-05-20

nature simply as forms and colors, as a
child sees it, without reference TO what
reason and experience may teach them.
| No two of them see exactly the same
way. One painter in New York says
that he is astonished to find how gray
everything is-even sky and foliage.
Another finds the streets full of reds and
puppies. A younger artist sayss s';;When
( / began to paint. everything seemed to
me dark The longer look at nature
the more light find in it, My great
trouble now is to get my pictures as
| light as nature seems to myseye. / find
more yellow in the landscape than fused
to. But, after all, these things are sub
iective, and man paints what is inside
of his head, not what he sees outside of
| it."
"THERE is one trait of character about
an Apache Indian that is peculiar said
Judge Porter of Arizona. 'The Apa-
ches are very cowardly. They are muir
dcrers rather than warriors, and always
wait until they get the drop on you or
have anaunfair advantage. But they are
exceedingly truthful, have tried over
thirty for murder. In every instance,
with one exception, the Indian would
confess to the smallest detail of the fatal
occurrence. In the exception | have
mentioned the Apache afterward told
me that he wanted to tell the truth, but
that his lawyer wouldn't let him."
ANDREW FAIRcHMD of Fallarsburg,.
Mich, owned tame dove that was
favorite pet of his wife's until child
was born to them. Since then the dove
has refused to have anything to do with
Mrs. Fairchild and appeared to be very
Mrs. Fairchild while engaged in house
work left the baby alone in the room for
some time, until she was attracted by
its crying. Running into the room she
found the dove picking at the infants
eyes, one of which was so badly injured
that the sight is entirely ruined.
A FEW weeks ago, an English lady
was obliged to pay four pounds Twenty
dollars) as damages for having given a
good character" to a servant whom she
knew to be unfaithful. Her written
recommendation of the servant enabled
the latter to get place which she could
not have obtained without the recon-
mendation and in which she proved I'M
faithful and detrimental to the lady who
employed her; and it was on the proof
of these facts that the damages were adj
judged by the court.
THE American hen is busy and use
full fowl. There are 125,000,000 of
rbo,,, o,,J fbov low ayorxr uoar n 000 010-
600 eggs. In Waterloo there is one
which is an expert in catching rats. 1t
leases them a while and then releases
them The owner of this remarkable
fowl has observed that no rat ever comes
the second time within reach Gifts claws,
A report comes from a Pennsylvania
town of fastidious hen that refused to
sit upon some colored eggs left over from
Easter.
, AN Illinois man recently tried to Dig
we'll and found a river. That is, he
bored we'll on his farm to a depth of
II feet, when suddenly the entire bottom
fell out, carrying all but about five feet
of the walls with it, At the bottom OF
the deep hole thus formed could be seen
a swift-rushing stream. All efforts tC
,, fill up this hole have proved futile, the
! rushing current carrying away everything
thrown into it.
t ONE of the most remarkable sights
t witnessed on the face of the globe i!
c afforded by the subterranean lakes o
= Sinoa, in Zambesia, in Central Africa.
a Lionel Decle, the French explorer, ha
n returned from there and reports that tn,
3 water is of the deepest indigo dye, anc
a that the azure grotto of Capri can IL
=. nowise compare with the beautiful colo
:, of these wonderful lakes.
!, A FARMER living near Grand Island
= Neb., was thrown from his wagon b,
. the horses becoming manageable, anC
;, caught one of his legs in the rear wheel
! lie saved himself from serious injury b.
Il grasping the spokes of the wheel so a
y to keep it from revolving, and slidin!
" with it for a mile before the horses wer
stopped by running through barbe'
wire fence.
n PASSENGERS on a train over the Pts
cataquis division of the Bangor an,
AroOstook Railroad in Maine, one da
Il |
- recently saw an exciting race between
y deer and the train The animal was
= buck, and ran alongside the train for
y mile or more in woods road abov
:, Shirley Finally, when the train crosses
- the road, the deer disappeared into tn
- woods.
n 4 YOUNG man in Wrentham, Mass.
E, has been finding amusement in mailing
t. postage stamps and sending greeting
N to European potcntatcs. He is delighte'
&c beyond measure at having already re
|, ceived acknowledgements from the cza
e Of Russia, the king of Greece and q few
IS others.
;. The 10000, 900 men of the United
States are wearing an average of twent
:, buttons each, making 400, 900, 90
7 buttons for all, estimated to weigh
i 5000, 900 pounds