Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-11-25
SOTk:s AND COMMENTS.

A ScorCH scientist has compiled sta
tistics to show that MARI | men live
much longer than bachelors.
THERE is less difference between the
ancient and the modern Greek tongues
than between Chaucer's English and the
English OF to day.
A FIRM in Palestine is engaged in sup
plying water from the river Jordan to
churches. 1t is put up in sealed bottles
and sold by the case.
THE only Greek insurance company in
existence, the National, was organized
little more than year ago, and in the
first twelve months pied up Sl43, COO in
profits.
The universities and colleges of this
country have IS, So. 3SI worth of scien.
tifc apparatus and appliances; their
grounds and buildings are worth SCI.
$50. 344, and they have 81, O70, 4l5 in
productive funds.
THINK of Boil church members
Christian couverls-in poor Egypt Civ
ing the sum of $3.50 for each member
per year This church, too. nearly
doubles its membership every five years.
RUSSIAN papers complain of the
gradual diminution of the volume OF
water in the rivers of that country. In
1891 the losses Through necessary land
transportation amounted to over n mil
lion rubes between Tobolsk and Tju-
men alone
VIENNA is second among European
capitals for extent of ground covered.
Professor Umlauft, in the Deutsche
Rundsehau, traces the city's expansion
from early times, when from the Celtic
settlement of Findbon it became the
Roman Vindobona.
The difference between the atmos-
phere Of the best ventilated houses and
the outer air is illustrated by the conduct
of cut flowers. Blossoms that retain
their freshness but day or two when
standing in water within doors will some
times live twice as long when dropped in
a shady place out of doors.
IT is said there is room behind the
Olympic range in western Washington
for 5000 homesteaders in addition to the
1000 or 3, 900 already settled there. As
yet the country is cut off from the out
side world. is sparsely settled, and is as
much wilderness as kentucky was in
the days of Daniel Boone.
CHEMNITz. in Germany, appears to be
very sensible place. The municipality
lor 10, ii aI Ia bar
food is furnished at minimum cost,
with view to removing the shame that
every one feels in accepting food as
charity, aud yet ne mitting needy people
to obtain it at trihing prices.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN expresses his
profound establishment at the marvellous
physical and mental vigor of Mr.. Glad
stone. He says the grand old man is
vastly better now in both respects than
| he was in 1885, and he goes SO far as to
say that he wouldn't be surprised to see
him Prime Minister ut the age of one
hundred.
| ACCORDING to the census figures, the
silk manufacturing industry in this
country has grown wonderfully in the
past ten years In 1890 goods to the
valne of $50, 600. 900 were turned out, as
against $34, 800, 900 in 1880 The num-
Der of hands employed here also in
creased from about 81, 600 to 81 900,
and the number of spindles have ex-
panded from sos. 1877 to 1854, 1893.
THx Emperor Duc-Tu, of Cochin
! China, protects his treasures by placing
them in hallowed trunks of trees,
which float about a huge tank situated
in the center of the royal palace. There
are twenty crocodiles in the tank as well.
When he wishes TO draw upon this bank
all the reptiles are killed; but this can
not take place without the joint consent
of the Emperor and his Minister of
! Finance.
IT is evidently a veteran sailor who
makes the suggestion that, as a vessel
goes ashore to Ieeward and the lifeline
shot from the shore must therefore be
fired against the wind, and with all the
difficulties which this implies, every yes
sci should carry supply of rockets
which, attached 20 deep-sea fog line and
signal halyards. would connect them
much more speedily with the shore.
IT is singular fact that Great Britain,
investor and money lender in every
quarter of the globe, has only about as
much cash per capita as the United
States. The amount of all kinds of
money IN Great Britain is equivalent
$13.42 for every person; in the United
States it is $24.34. The lowest amount
of money per capita among the leading
nations is found in Russia $7.16, and
the next in Germany, $l212 The
purse of France is the largest Of all,
$40 50 for each inhabitant.
THE extent to which British law Is
made fer the rich instead of for the poor
is shown by the statement Of the Secre.
tary Of the Treasury in the House of
Commons that imprisonment for debt re-
mains in existence for debts under 500
The only way to stave OIL Imprisonment,
therefore, is to plunge deeper into debt,
an anomalous system that weighs heavily
on the poor, whose restricted circum
stances do not onable them to get into
debt more than few dollars at a time
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