Chicago eagle., 1894-05-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

AFTER all, some OF us are only
fittlc ahead OF the time. A French
scientist says that in the near future
whiskcrs will be universally worn.
FARMERS Of Lincoln County, Ncb.,
do not belong to the great army OF
the unemployed. They are kept
busy fighting chicken thieves, and
the Russian thistle simultaneously
They have their hands full.
AUSTRALIA has given up altogether
the maintenance OF founding hos
pitals and orphan asylums and has
substituted for this the system OF
placing children in private homes
until such time as they are able to
care for themselves.
NOWHERE else has economic forest.
ry advanced so far as in Germany or
France. Students OF forestry in
England finish their course Of study
by a visit Of three months to the most
suitable forests Of Germany. These
annual visits have developed into a
system Of apprenticeship, extending
over five months, from the middle Of
April to the middle Of September.
BRITISH seq captains are trying to
stir the sluggish British Government
to take action with the United States
Government in destroying the dere.
licts that threaten life and property
In the North Atlantic. A petition
urging such cooperation, signed by
$50 captains, representing crews ag-
gregating $4,000 men, and property
worth 600, 900, 900, has just been pre-.
sented to the First Lord Of the Trea-
sury.
LAST year no less than 900 bodies
we're laid on the marble slabs Of the
Paris Deadhouse, and Of this great
number more than 200 were unknown
men and women claimed and recog.
nized by none. The greater number
Of the corpes were those Of men. and
the statistics 20 to prove what has
been already amply demonstrated by
scientific investigatlon-that those
who commit suicide, oftener choose
the summer than the winter for seek.
ing the end.
EIGHT years ago, says the New
York Press, Clevcland's wealth
amounted perhaps to 80, ,0OO-no
more. Now he Is rich man-vcry
rich-taking into account the short
time which has elapsed, and to-day
his property, us estimated by the as
SCISSORS books of New York, will
amount to over quarter Of million.
Up to within a couple Of years he
has lived In no luxurious way, but
about two years ago he began IN en-.
tirely new course OF existence.
A THEORY has been put forth by NJ.
Rateau in the French Academy OF
Sciences that the crust OF the Garth
beneath the continents does not
touch the fluid globe, but is separated
from II by u space filed with gaseous
matter under pressure. The conti-
ncnts would, therefore, constitute q
sort OF blister, much flattenei, in
fated and sustained by gases, while
the bottom Of tho oceans Is supposed
to rest directly on tho fiery mass.
BY this hypothesis the author be-
liovcs that many phenomena OF the
terrestrial crust may be explained,
which are not clearly accounted fol
under the present theory.
AUSTRALIA Is greatly perturbed
over the emigration movement In
Paraguay. The government Of Para
quay has given nearly 500, 900 acres
| Of good land for settlement to Aus
tralian colonists, or others OF suitable
standing In means and character who
Join them, and there Is al expecta.
tion that 10000 persons may settle
on tho lands. All who go from old tc
new Australia aro teetotalers and
have considerable amount saved,
and tho loss Of few thousand men
| OF that stamp Is a serious matter
South Australia has, therefore, passcC
a village settlement net, under which
those who want to cultivate land are
favorably dealt with. Then come,
tho question whether the Australian
land is as (Sood us that in Paraguay
and It Is not. But thcre arc disad
vantages there as we'll.
THE rulos OF all railway companic
recognize to some extent the fact thu
alcohol units their employees 70
their responsible duties. It In re
ported that on fifty-four North Amcri
can lines total abstinence while OF
duty Is insisted upon by the railway
companies; on fifteen abstinenc'
without restriction to time OF duty
on thirteen tho companies insist or
abstinence us essential to promotion
and on one tho employees signature
OF the abstinence pledge Is required
before engagement. The Rock Islant
Railway Company has been enforcing
Its anti.drlnk rules lately with grea
vigor. General Prince Kuropatkil
recently issued an order to the OF
fetal staff Of tho Trans Caspian Rail
way, requiring all officials and en-
ployes guilty OF indulging In intOxi
eating drinks to be reported t.
him.
The proft-sharing system. says tn
Baltimore Herald, appears 10 have 1t
advantages, not only as q means O
inspiring greater industry, care an
closer application on the part OF en-
ployes, but also rs preventive Q
strikes. There have been q numbe
OF labor disputes in New Englan'
during late years, but in all this tim
tho Bourne mill at Fall River ha
been running uninterruptedly, be-
cause tho operatives had an interes
In keeping ut work beyond the mcr