Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-06-02
CURRENT COMMENT.

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Everybody, almost, has heard of tn
venerable trick so common to al
mankind of "straining at a gnat ant
swallowing q camel" and that thi
is true, Is evident from the fussy gal
with which q certain humane societ,
Of this city has rushed before tn,
May Grand Jury to secure an in
dictment against Will J. Davi,
Of the Columbia Theater and q Mrs
Ever, mother of Regaloncita, the
child dancer. The cause of the Hu.
name Society's wonderful excitement
as regards Regaloncita Is the fact
that she dances on the stage. II
this so.called Humane Society has
any agents, and II, having them, 1t
will set them to looking after the
children who slave in brick yards all
around this city, who are dwarfed in
stores, and who are the Tags Of pa
drones, 1t will do something in the
humane line really. Mr.. Shortall
seems to be all short in some things
aud terribly assiduous In others.
On Sunday evening another little
steamer, the Cragga, from Bergen,
Norway, steamed into the port OF
Chicago. Welcome, little Norseman.
Last year We also had a transatlantic
visitor from Scandal.
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A man In a state bordering on de.
lirlum trcmens walked into Justice
Fosters court on Monday and suavely
but persistently demanded to be
fined and sent to the bridewell. Now
that was little out Of the course OF
human events; but 1t was not any
more so than the ejectmcnt suit
brought by tho Cook County Commits.
sioners to eject q vast majority Of
the people OF Cook county from
public building that they erected,
paid for, and have occupied for years.
The drunken man, however, had the
excuse Of intoxicstion. He may get
sense. The County Commissioner
arc lunatics.
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The Senatorial prophets are still at
it Senator Jones now "predicts"
that final vote on the tariff will be
taken by June Is. That final vote
ought to have been taken months
ago.
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One Of the newly appointed park
commissioners says that III the PEG.
pie want flowers and beautiful parks"
he Is with them. Correct. That's
what the people want.
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That wild.eyed suit In which Dea.
con Swift or Deacon Swift's friends
pretend to contest Mayor Hopkins
right to his official position made its
regular weekly appearance on last
Saturday and went over" again for
one week. 1t does not seem to show
the slightest vitality under the
strongest galvanic treatm snt It's
getting quite moss.b backed, too, and.
as the warm weather Is approaching
1t might be just as we'll to withdraw
1t or put 1t In a cold storage ware.
house for the summer.
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Somebody has started the story
that .Coxey pocketed $4,000 as the
result Of his march on Washington.
Whether this be true or not, he has
ut oil events exploded the idea that
revolutions never 60 backward" for
We now know that when they strike
the grass line they fly to pieces.
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Election Commissioner Hutchings
has resigned his seat on the Election
Board, In compliance With the vail.
ings, lamentations, outcries and com.
plants of various and sundry Repub.
lican politicians who seem to think
that he was not success as q vote
manufactures. Mr.. Hutchings, in
his letter OF resignation, says that he
did not consider 1t part OF his duty
as an Election Commissioner to be
"heeler." But tastes differ.
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Our esteemed fcllOw.citizen, John
NJ. Smyth, has refused an appoint
ment on the Board Of Election Com.
missioners, vice Hutchings, resigned.
John NJ. knows what q thankless job
the position Is, and very properly, al
though a stanch member of the G.
o. r., has decided to stick to the
Town Market.i
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Decoration day has come and gone,
and the dead who fought In the long
and awful struggle of civil strife lie
covered with flowers once again. The
sad memories of the great struggle,
now stripped of acerbity, on each