Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-11-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

hye, could be accommodated IN Texas,
each family with five-acre lot. He says
that there would be 30, 600, 600 lots left
over for parks and public buildings.
ERAsrUs WmAS is reported as saying
in late address that there are Si55, 000,-
600 in the forty-one savings banks of
New York and Brooklyn, held by more
than I COO coo depositors, and the capt
tai OF all the National banks in the coun-
try is only 500, 900.
ONE curious result of the hurricane
that struck the Southern coast recently
was the killing of quantities of fish. For
many days alter the storm the coast
around Savannah and throughout the
stretch where its force was most vented
was strewn with dead fish of all kinds.
THE whaling industry has fallen off so
much as to play but a small part in the
worlds commerce The latest figures
obtainable show the production to aver
age between -, go and $1,000 tuns OF
252 gallons each per year. There are
two kinds of whale oil, the sperm, taken
from the head of the cacholot or sperm
whale. and train oil, which is derived
from the common whale, or as it is more
| commonly known, the right whale.
Sperm oil is worth from $3.50 to 5000
per tun, and the ordinary train oil about
5000
WILLIAM ARCHER. of London, thinks
that people have too much trouble kill
ing themselves and believes that long
felt want would be supplied by the CON
struction of commodious and scientific
| lethal chamber, which shall reduce to a
minimum the physical terrors and incon-
veniences of suicide for the patient"
and his family and friends. To this
chamber the disconsoate Briton could
retire and be comfortably turned off by
| the latest scientific methods.
President PoLK's tomb has been O sub
ject of official proceedings in Tennessee,
| and it has been finally removed to plat
of ground within the shadow of the Capt.
toll at Nashville. The courts decided
that Mr. Folks will leaving his estate
''to the wcrthicst of his name forever, ;"
was void, as constituting a perpetuity,
and the Legislature provided the money
for the removal of the tomb, as the land
on which it stood became liable to dvi
sion.
The Chinese in California have a
chance to go to a warmer climate. They
are offered $25 head in British Guiana
to hoe sugar cane and dig for gold. The
colony only wants 5000 of them in the
meantime, but if they behave themselves
and do not make Their queues stand out
at right angles with pride, there may be
demand for more. The European can
not toll with his hands in Guiana. and
John would have monopoly of the labor
market Here he is at disadvantage,
because the white man is able to under
take Il great deal more work than there
is in sight
The discussion concerning the extent
of the supply of natural gus which re-
ceived an impetus from the falling off OF
the output of many wells near Pittsburg,
is apt to be renewed by the discovery of
another tremendous body of gas near
Findlay, Ohio. The capacity of the well
struck there is estimated to be equal to a
discharge of so, 600, 600 cubic feet day.
Ii this enormous quantity of gas can all
be utilized it will, in the opinion of the
San Francisco Chronicle, be a source oil
great prosperity to Findlay, which has
protited by the presence of other large
wells, but it is not likely that the supply
will continue indefinitely. It's very i'm
mensity forbids the idea.
UTAH is making great strides in the
development of manufacturing interests
being in this respect an exception among
territories This fact is made apparent
in the exhibit in the Utah building.at thu
Worlds Fair. Referring to the manu-
features of Utah the Chicago Herald
says: The leather made there is said t.
be as good as the best in the hide anC
leather building. The cotton goods fine
ready market, and only recently, il
competition with eastern factories,
Utah wooden mill has taken the contrac
to supply cloths for new uniforms TO
the national guards of California. Elk
ampes of all these manufactures ar
shown in this building, and their appear
ancc iustifes all that is claimed 70
them"
TO investigate the rapid disappearance
, Of the Columbia River salmon the Unite'
, States Government has sent Dr. G. Ii
Gilbert, professor of zoology at Lelan'
Stanford, Jr., University, and o. p
: Jenkins. professor Of physiology at tn
, same institution, and one or two othe
{ scientific men upon an expedition to tina
stream. They have just returned t.
San Francisco, and report that the nu
merous nets seines, traps and other de
vices that ill the lower Columbia lror
: Astoria long distance upward, and tn
Q reckless slaughter OF the fish by the can
( ners are the cause Of the scarcity OF sal
o mon. Professor jenkins said that Maio
n Marshall Macdonald. United States Fis
10 Commissioner, would go West this fa
1 with a view to securing legislation i
q Oregon and Washington to protect tn
u salmon.
o CArrAN PARSER, of 'he Fourt
g Cavalry. who is superintendent OF I'll
Z sequols and General Grant nations
Is parks in California, has made his aunul
u report 10 the secretary OF the interior
and says that during the past year theI
y has been no trouble with ilres or tire
= passcrs. Tie speaks of the giant fore
a.. "A e.