Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE yearly average Of suicides in
Germany Is about one In every four
thousand OF her people. This Is
greater than in any other civilized
country.
TURKEY has for some time been
planning a great exhibition, to be
held in Constantinople in 1896. The
Sultan has Just decided to postpone
IL until 1897 or 1898 on account OF
the Millennial Exhibition, which Is
to be held ut Pesth in 1896, and Mt
which Turkey will be an extensive
exhibitor.
ALTHOUGH women have equal &C.
cess with the men to the College Of
Pharmacy in New York City, compa-
ratively few avail themselves Of the
privilege. OF all the callings re.
quiring careful special training there
is none 10 poorly paid, or where the
men are worked so hard, as In the re-
tail drug business. 1t must be that
the women know this.
A GERMAN aeronautic society Is to
send TYP a large number Of air bal
looms containing self-rec ording inete.
geological apparatus. They are ex-
pected to reach attitudes very far
above the extreme limit attainab!e by
man, and important results IRE ex-
pected from the experiments. I'm
peror William Is greatly intere ,ted
and has contributed largely toward
the cost.
THE uneasiness which was felt in
India recently by the smearing Of the
mango trees In some Of the provinces
has been much allayed. As It &C.
Cured prior to May 10, the anniver.
sary Of the great mutiny, it was in.
terpreted as o mysterious native sig.
NIL portending some seditious move.
ment, but that date having passed,
Sir Alfred Lyall, Lord Landsdowne
and others have concluded that 1t
had no political significance.
THE old veterans in the United
States Soldiers Home Mt Santa Moni.
ca, Cal, have been buying town lots
lately ut a rapid rate, and have
formed n little village which they
have named "Kecley." This, snys
the New York Tribune, Is in grateful
recognition OF the effects Of tho gold
cure, for many Of tho old soldiers
were unfortunately most fit subjects
for tho treatment. On the quarterly
pay.days for the pensioners, the
dusty road from Santa Monica.by.
the.Sea out to the Soldiers Home, q
distance Of three miles, would be
lined with tho poor soldiers who had
spent their meagre and fitful incomes
in riotous living. The public.spirited
people who live In the town took q
practical interest in the sad failings
Of the old soldiers, who have used
the cure with effective results and
who now propose to do some hard
work In their new village.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, says in the
Forum, that out Of every 100 adults
In the United States in 1890, there
were 20 single, 65 married and 0 wild.
owed. There were 81 single, O. mar
ried and 5 widowed out OF every 100
males, as compared with 20 single.
~ married and 18 widowed out Of
every 100 females. The United
States still shows the smallest pro.
portion OF single and the largest pro.
portion OF married adults, while the
reverse Is true In Ireland and Scot
land. The excess OF males over f.
males In the country ut large Is 1,518,.
$40. The excess Of single males,
however, Is nearly twice as great, OF
2,76l ,5SS. In Maine, New Hamp.
shire and Vermont there are practi.
cally 81 single, AZ married and 4 wild.
owed males, and 40 single, ~ married
and 0 widowed females. These three
States have the smallest proportions
Of single, and the largest proportions
OF married, in the whole country,
while the proportion OF widowed ia
fully as large as In any other part Of
the Union.
PROBABLY few Americans know
that In Westminster Abbey, among
the memorials OF those whom Great
Britain delights to honor, is a has.
relief OF him whom more than any
other America revercs. Not that II
was put there in honor OF an Ameri.
can, oh, dear no! But forty odd
years after his execution Mai. Andres
remains were moved from their place
of interment near the Hudson River
to Westminster Abbey, and marble
tablet ornamented with q group OF
figures was raised above them. In
this group two personages ure con.
spicuous. One Is Andre, apparently
waving farewell to his British com.
rades in the distance; the other Is
George Washington, seemingly refus-
ing an entreaty for the prisoners re-
lease. OF the few who know that the
father Of his country" thus stands
in etiigy in Westminster probably
fewer are aware that he occasionally
gets his head knocked Off by some
fervent Briton who resents the intru-
sion of so distinguished rebel
among Engand's loyal dead. A
glance shows that Washington's head
has been freshly replaced, and the in
formation Is given that the last OF
these emphatic vindications Of Sara
toga, "the field of the grounded
arms" occurred over u dozen years
ago.