Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-07-29
0PARKLES FROM FIELD
Extracts from Sharps and Flats in
the Chicago Record.

nize Washington at all when he gets
back there and discovers that the
Hon. Ben 7. Cable and Congressman
Durborow have both vamOsed the
diggings
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John Boyd Thacher finds life full
of action this weather. Yes, it must
be a very cold day, indeed, when
something doesn't come along toopen
MIR. TEACHERS pores and stroke his
temper the wrong way of the nap
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WOW! but how we potatoes do swim
when 1t comes to tackling such meas
~ peewee baseball clubs as the st.
Louis Browns and the Louisvilles,
Ii IS worth a farm to hear old Anse
say, after walloping the Kentucky
Neversweats or the Missouri Swipers,
There, | told you so!"
From the East comes the ronort
that Ben L. Cable is at Bar Harhor
looking very much as the family cat
does after eating the canary.
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Now that the Indiana editor, arc
en- route to Chicago, the local report
er, II he be truly enterprising. will
get ready to PROFOUND two vital ones.
lions, viz: "Will Ben Harrison be re.
nominated?" and as dialect poetry
going to the bow wows?"
**x
Poor Aldermen And did the
naughty Mayor abuse them? Well,
we won't let him to it any more.
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AS we understand it, the charge of
cowardice on the part of Fire Mar
shall Murphy has never been limited
at. 1t is recklessness, rather than
cowardice, that some people impute
to Murphy. Personal recklessness TO
the limit of foolhardiness may be adj
mired and applauded, but when it
involves the lives of others it becomes
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The Hon. Ben r. Cable exhibited
commendable taste in declining TO
join the presidential party at Buzz
Yards Bay. While it is understood
that the party is devoted to recrea-
ton, the presence of Mr.. Cable lust at
this time would doubtless have given
rise to unpleasant comment. Until
the numerous complications arising
from the wrangle over Federal pat
ronage in Chicago are disposed of it
is emlnently proper that Mr.. Cable
should not avail himself of those adj
vantages Of which his position as
gentleman posse 'ses him.
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The prospect is hat the Hon. Mr.
Twohig will need his winter fannels
before he returns from Washington
with commission in his inside
pocket.
w.
Does anybody suppose that, il men
Of the intellectual, moral and bust
ness caliber of Philip d. Armour
Marshall Field, NJ. E. Stone, or H.
n. Higinbotham had been made
members of the Sanitary Board the
lrainage ditch would not already
nave been completed and in opera
Jon? There can be no better public
servant than the man who h some
,ther visible means of support.
Where would you find two better
business men than Frank Wenter or
Tom Kelly?)
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The authorities are hereby ap-
Drised that we have in our posses
sion cigar which was purchased for
'unf pfennige in Milwaukee last
week during the funniest, This
weapon was left in this office yester-
lay by one who seems to harbor i'll
will towards us. We are in doubt
we should refer it to the
lrainage commission, to the humane
ociety, or to the contractor for the
emoval Of dead animals.
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Is IL true, as rumored, that Carter
j. Harrison has sprinkled salt on the
,ails OF those coy binds that roost in
he Council chamber?
II the statement published in
London that over 200 persons have
lied Of cholera in Southern France
.lnce May is true, there l. no evidence
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