Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-18

loltoW me. ANA the sanitary agent
led the way to house in the Rue Lafon
tame, near the station. At this bidding
the traveller entered large, bare room
and took off all his clothes, which were
taken away to be disinfected. Tim,
passed; the traveller grew cold and i'm
patient, tried the door, only to find i
locked, and at length realized that h,
was the victim of a new and ingeniou.
form of robbery.
CHICAGO will be the crank centre OF
the Union during the Fair and the con
vention is already assembling. The latest
headed that way is a Spokane man, who.
so he says, is going to walk there, a dis
lance Of /, 922 miles. He proposes to
accomplish the trip in ninety-six days.
He promises to nail to each of the rs
$50 or so telegraph poles along the track
big poster publishing the praises o
eastern Washington. He will wear a
long rubber coat, lead color behind aud
rose color in front, on which he is going
to have painted pieces of the picturesque
scenery and portraits of the prominent
people of his region.
A BANTAM hen at Norwich. Conn.
has adopted "a young peacock, newly
Matched from an ordinary looking egg,
to the greatest disgust of another hen.
who did the Matching. There were three
pea chicks first, but the latter hen killed
one and another died. The bantam soon
manifested warm interest in the pea
cock and the peacock became attached
to his foster mother. Although the pea
cock ID three times the size of the bantam
hen he does not like to be left alone, and
when his little mother gets out of his
sight 1t is amusing to hear him set up his
ear-piercing yawp for her to return to
him. The little hen is very faithful to
him, and devctes her whole time to the
plumaged giant
Nj. RAsPAIL, a French naturalist.
atfirms that last summer fifteen thousand
five hundred little birds -nightingales,
red hroats, fycatchers, warblers, and SO
on--wers caught for fashion purposes
in two forests alone, in a small part of
the Department of Meurthe and Mcselle.
Throughout the whole province, it ap-
pears that like determination goes on,
so that at least considerably ovor a mil
lion of little birds must be annually de-
stroyed. Various means are employed
for the destruction of the feathered
victims, electricity even being called in
AID. Wires are stretched, we read. as
inviting perches for tired birds. which
have crossed the Mediterranean and land
IN the south of France, those who perch
being killed by the means of electric
shocks.
Mrs. SARAH HOWARD of Houlton.
Me-, has pair of muskrats for pets.
They came up through the drain into
the cellar and soon became so tame that
they invaded the kitchen and make them
selves entirely at home, eating out of the
cats saucer. The old cat pays no atten-
ton to the rats, but the kittens some
times cuff them. The strange visitors
tore npa broom, and with the straw
made for themselves a nest under the
cupboard. When eating milk they dip
their paws into the saucer and then lick
the milk from the fur. 1t takes them
half an hour to eat small saucer of
milk.
In Mexico you can hire a street car
and ride all over the town in it whole
day by yourself for $3.50, and you can
stop at any one place for two hours with
out extra charge. Not only that. your
friends can hire a whole train of these
street cars for your funeral at low rates.
There isno other city in the world where
you can have such big funeral with
great deal of show for SO little money as
in the City of Mexico.
Two professional men of Milan. Italy.
who had repaired to a frontier village
to fight a duel, were prevented from
dong SO by an enormous st. Bernard
dog which appeared on the scene Just as
the would-be duellists were taking their
places. Several attempts to begin oper-
atoms were made, but the dog interfered
each time. Finally the righteousness
Of the situation dawned upon the prin-
2ipals, and they shook hands and re-
turned to Milan together
THE natives of AMMAN believe that
heaven consists of an immense garden in
which only two kinds of fruit grow. both
1t requires a thousand
years for one of these to ripen and six
thousand for the other. Every Annamite
S believed to be sure of heaven, and he
who is able to eat one of these ''applesn
Will dwell there as long as heaven lasts.
THE story of the painter who painted
rult so like nature that tbs birds tried
o eat it from his canvas is discounted.
Two hunters near the Dalles. Oregon.
ew days ago were hunting wild geese.
they set out their decoys and retired
when almost Immediately big gray
agile swooped down on the decovs and
urled one off in its claws. The hunters
hot the eagle. 1t measured seven feet
rom tip to tip of its wings.
A HoG killed at Scio, Or, last week
'as found 20 have two perfect stomachs
nd two complete sets Of intestines. The
wner never noticed anything unusual
bout the animal when it was alive. ex-
ept that it had a wonderful appetite.
ANTHONY WHITE Of Pressure Isle. Me.
as a hound that hauls him several miles
and from his work daily, aud which
uring the day renders good service
alling cedar railroad ties, four on five
eing @ usual load.
A TRAIN on the Great Northern Rail
lad recently rat into large herd ofH