Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


of the town, and the other day he fined
himself for allowing his COW to run at
large, in violation OF the towns ordin-
ance.
Or every 900 clergymen between the
ages of As and IS it is found that only
10. SO die annually. But of every 1000
doctors between the ages of 40 andes no
fewer than 2S.02 die every year. That
is to say, tho mortality of medical men is
almost double that of clergymen. and
the rate is increasing.
A BILL before the English Parliament
aims, by somewhat singular method, to
prevent drunkenness. According to its
provisions, any party convicted of drunk
enness twice within year shall rot be
allowed on the premises on which liquor
is licensed to be sold. A licensed ven
dor who breaks the restriction imposed
in such a case shall be liable to pen
atty. The bill in question is not to
apply to centers of population with
more than 10000 inhabitants.
RAvENsTE1N, the noted statistician,
has just published the result CT series
of interesting calculations, which are
that the earth cannot nourish more than
5000, 900, 600 people. At present the
population of the earth is estimated to
be ,467, 900, 900 souls. and according to
Ravenstein's ingenious combinations the
5000, 000 900 mark will be reached in
$50 years, so that the day is not very far
off when the earth can no longer main
tain her children, unless by that time
beefsteak and potatoes can be chemically
made from air, earth and water.
OF cities with more than 1000
population England has thirty, Germany
twenty four, France and Russia each
twelve, Italy ten, Austria Hungry six,
Spain five, Belgium, the Scandinavian
States, Roumania and the Balkan Islands
each four, the Netherlands three, Por-
tugal two; the total in Europe being
116 great cities. Asia has 10j, China
having fifty-three and British India
thirty. In Africa there are seven, in
America forty, of which the United
States have twenty-six; South America
nine. Australia has only two large
cities
"FEw persons" says a railroad man,
''have any idea of the enormous cost of
rolling stock. The price Of single car
ranges from SIS, 900 down to $3.50. The
former is the price of a first class Pull
man car, while the latter is that of what
is known as fiat car, such as are used
to haul gravel and dirt. A common
fiat bottomed coal car costs $500, while
a car with double pper-bottom is
quoted at hundred more. A refriger-
ator car costs $3.50. A combined bag
gage and mail car costs SO, 500, and
frst-class coach is valued at So, 500.n
PERHAPS the quaintest and quieteSt
little settlements within hundred miles
of New York are those built at the foot
Of the Palisades The fishermen who
live there appear to be as far from the
maddIng crowd as though they were
alone on the prairie. The tall cliffs and
jagged rocks about them cut them off
from the rest of the world, and they
have few visitors. There is not horse
or wagon among them and no road to
drive on. Springs of. good water are
but beer and groceries are long way
off, unless one takes boat and crosses
the river to the metropolis that swirls
and rOars on the other bank.
JOHN ROBINSON, who now lives at Gin
cinnati, is probably the oldest survivor
of the odtime circus. He is over eighty
two years of age, and was actively en-
gagged in the business from his boyhood
up to just before the war. He says that
in those days the regular charges in the
South were twenty-five cents for whites
and thirty-seven and one-half cents for
slaves. Spanish coins were plentiful,
and dollar could be split up in nearly
any way desired. The slaves We're
charged the higher price in order to, in
certain measure, restrict their patron
/ age. 1t was nearly as easy to get thirty
seven and one-half cents as it would
have been to get twenty cents. The
slaves came in droves generally, ac-
oompanied by some member of their
owners family or in charge of trusted
slave. In the North twenty-five cents
was the usual price, but business was not
so good rs in Dixie.
A QUEER story comes from Ashland,
Kan. In common with the rest of the
country, the people of this town have
been feeling the pinch OF hard times
They therefore determined to economic.
The town is not very large, but it has
seven settled ministers, and it was de
termned that one would suffice until
better times came. So vote was taken
on the question which of the seven
should be retained. The poll showed a
plurality of votes for the Methodist
minister, and therefore the other six
were discharged 1t is proposed that
other towns In Kansas, especially those
suffering from drought, shall adopt the
same plan, and that the money thus
saved shall DO given to the needy. This
10 practical movement in the direction
OF Christian unity that will hardly be
pleasing to the discharged clergymen,
however strong may be their theoretical
belief in Christian unity.
IL many ways the United States have
educated the world in politics, and !, for
one, do not hesitate TO say that their
scheme OF government is the best that
has ever been established by q nation.
says London Truth. But In nothing do
we owe more 90 Americans than Tor their
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