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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
AlIsent.Minded.

One popularity OF Sheridan
Knowles, the clever Irishman, was
his absent mindedness At one time
he mailed large sum Of money to
his vile, In banknotes, and discov.
cred, Q week afterward, that the let.
tor had Fever reached her
In towering rage, he wrote to the
postmaster general, and was informed
that the notes were quite safe In the
dead-letter Office; for Knowles had
not only omitted to address the en-.
velOpe, but had neither signed his
name to the letter nor enclosed his
address
He was always laundering over the
identity Of two friends, Mark Lemon
and Lemon Rede, and not only con.
founded their names but their per.
sons. One day he met the pair, arm
In arm, and was more perplexed than
ever.
"Well now, I'm bot cred entirely!"
he exclaimed In his choicest brogue.
"Come, one of you tell me which Of
YOU Is the other!"
In the days OF dear postage,
Knowles was contemplating u jour
ney, and asked q friend II he could
take any letters for him.
"YOu are very kind" said the
latter, shut where are you going?"
swell, now," replied Knowles,
''that's inquisitive! I haven't quite
made up my mind"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Gov. Hogg and tho Game Laws.

Tho Governor, being asked about
the information for killing deer In
Nac0gdoches County, filed against
him and Others, said he intended to
compliment the County Attorney Of
Nacogdoches on his devotion to duty.
III have violated the law in hunt
ing deer" no added, II will plead
guilty as soon as / find 1t out. I
have never lodged or evadcd the law,
but the question over there 10
whether NacOgdoches is not exempt
from the game law. When we were
In camp In Cherokee County, Judge
Perkins, who was with US and had
been District Judge In that district
twelve years, SAID he had examined
the question, and NacOgd0ches County
was exempt Then we crossed the
river into NacOgdoches County and
hunted faithfully, and, ! suppose.
killed the only deer In the county,
No, / propose II ! have violated the
law to pay my fine." This last OK
preston was In reply to a question
whether he would refer the case ia
the pardon board, Galveston (Texas)
News.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
TWO HORSES HARD TO SEAT


n They Pull Together Nothing Can Pad
In q healthful little letter to the
Herald and Presbyter, Rev. DR..
Thomas Parry, Of Frankfort Ind,
breaches the following simple, every.
day sermon: Prayerful and watchful
hitched together are the only safe
draft power to bring to a prosperous
issue your train Of daily events The
man who had prayed that he might
not be cheated in buying q horse,
bought the first horse that came
along. He was deceived beyond
measure. He had committed the
watching to God instead Of joining
IL to his prayer. A friend asked him
II he expected God to come to market
riding q horse especially for him.
You cannot trust your prayer when
you drive II single.
Here is q business man. He IL q
Christian. lie Is also intensely active,
strong and ambitious. With all, he
has temper which ignites with
rather slight percussion. In the
morning this man prays that he NAV
fulfill the law Of Christ during the
day. At the family altar he pleads
with words that are full Of genuine
pathoa His thoughts are gathered
into Q focus Of intensified earnest.
ness Ills voice Is plaintive and
humble. His manner proves him TO
be man who has business with God.
He has In his mind the crOchety peo.
pie he has To meet, the knotty ques.
lions he has to settle, and his own
small stock of patience.
The prayer Is finished, and he 40.
sumes the work Of the day. But the
bOok.keepers and clerks lack the rigid
discipline desired and are less atten.
tive than they ought to DO. Men
come to him with sharpened tongues,
and there begins m understanding.
lie Is fasped. and he storms as n he
were q second edition OF Queen Eliz.
sbeth. lie has forgotten his prayer
and mellow voice OF the morning.
He comes home severely wounded.
He has disgraced hins Next
morning he prays again that he may
OcuT uuu IVIUcoi, OuV tuc ucAV uoy
Is as the tlrst-passlon on flre.
Now, the fault was not In the
prayer. or in Gods promise to keeE
him In perfect peace. His fault may
be. as We have been told, that he
trusted In his prayer, and relied upon
II and did not trust God. But
think the fault was 10 this, that he
thought the PRAYER relieved him from
the responsibility Of watching Of
self.training. He did not join watch
full with prayerful. His kindly dis
position ought always to drive double
watch and pray. Prayer helps I
man to yoke himself with the law oil
charity; to work under II and train
under IT, Prayer does not relieve
the responsibility Of watching.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07

for two years, receiving his appoint
ment at the hands Of Mayor Wash.
burne. He is a member Of the Royal
Arcanum, Commerce Council, and
was Regent Of this body In 1888. He
Is quite a sportsman and Is mem.
Der Of the MiltOna Club, holds mem.
bership in the West Sides Republican
political organization, the Lincoln
Club, and belonged to the defunct
LaSalle Club during its existence.
Justice Blume Is the author Of three
volumes Of collected matter, origin.
ally printed In the Chicago Tribune,
Prof. Swings Chicago Alliance, Bo,-
ton Advertiser and other papers.
These consist Of q series Of condensed
biographical sketches Of Edwin For.
rest, Longfellow, Charlotte Cush.
man. Stephen A. Douglas, Abra.
ham Lincoln, Edgar A. Poe,
Robert Il. Lee and a host
Of other political characters.
There are also many articles on
such subjects as THE Abolition OF
Poverty" "The Abolition OF the Sa-
loon," Success and Failures; or, the
Moral Grandcurs Of Life" "Husband
and Wife," Marriage and Divorce,
etc. The foregoing list includes but
q few Of the many interesting articles
which Justice Blume has written. II
Is his intention to print all OF his
various productions In full In book
form. Justice Blume was married on
Nov 10, 1875, at Des Moines, Iowa,
to Miss Olivia A. Little, OF Boston,
Mass, a principal In the public
schools there. They have one daugh
ter, Mary, now In her seventeenth
year. Justice Blume was great
friend Of Colonel John L. BurleIgh
the lawyer, who entered the field Of
tragedy here some years ago with the
Rev. George c. Min, and he took Q
great interest In the debut Of tho
two stars In "Othcllo" ut the Grand
Opera House. He lisa hearty, jovia
character, who has faculty Of max
Ing and keeping friends, and his stal
wart figure is very familiar on TIT
West Side.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Ripe and Unripe bananas.

Whether for shipment or for home
consumption the fruit Is cut a. soon
a. II Is rulr--that 10. when IL has
reached Its adult form and size. but
10 still quite green. The plant IL cut
of by q single blow OF q machette
welded by o powerful arm. As IL
falls, the bunch Is caught Topped of,
end laid aside, while the harvester
goes on TO the next bunch. II IL o
popular supposition that bananas
ripened on the tree are incomparably
superior to those cut green. But, 20
q matter OF fact. writes James Il
Humprey In the Popular Science
Monthly, one never eats them thus
ripened In jamaica They are said
to be not so good; at all events one
finds no better fruit In texture or
flavor than the best of our own mar.
kcts. But every lover Of this fruit
knows that Its quality varies extra.
ordinarily as II Is offered to US.
This IL due partly to the different
sources from which II comes. The
best that IL brought to US comes from
Jamaica. 1t Is also due still more to
the condition Of the fruit when cut
Bananas which are perfectly full will
ripen mellow and delicious; but those
cut when immature, as too many are,
will turn yellow, yet never truly
ripen, retaining always their hard
texture and unripe taste In ia.
maica. % elsewhere the com petition
of buyers leads the INSCRIPTIONS once
to accept fruit Of any sort even when
totally UNFIT; and this sort OF cOmpe.
tition makes all the more unavailinH
the efforts OF honest buyers to raise
the standard and to teach the PEG.
pie to withhold their fruit until It 10
properly developed.
Americans can give moral support
to these efforts nv accepting only such
fruit as II mature at any price. A
little pains will soon enable one to
distinguish good from poor fruit
though 1t Is difficult to give q gen.
eral statement Of the distinctive dit.
ferences. but, as q rule, 1t will be
found that bananas which are the
largest, deepest yellow, and least
angular are the most mature aud
best.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Wanted q Good Foot.

Models are an important part Of q
sculptor's need. doubt whether 10
this particular We differ from our
Greek predecessors, for we read OF
choice presents, such as poacocks,
given by Phidias to his models show.
Ing how much he valued them, pre-
sumably because 1t was as difficult
then as now to get good ones To be
q model l. q business OF itself, aud,
when we remember the number OF
art schools there are, even In Lon.
don alone, and the many artists ewh0
are entirely dependent upon them, 1t
may be realized what large body
they must be.
The men are mostly Italians,
chiefly, l am told, from the neigh.
horhoOd OF Naples. The women are.
as rulc, English, and have often
sat from babies To lind O we'll.
formed foot Is almost an impossible.
ity among the best Of them, owing
to the, long cramping In boOts, but
friend once told me that he had q
cast of the foot of an Indian woman
that was as beautiful as the foot Of a
Greek statue.
Our English models lack often the
suppleness of figure that distinguishes
more southern races, such rs the
Italian, which Is partly accounted
for by the heavy, cumbersome clothes
our climate nccessitates But such
as they are we have to make the best
of them, and really good one II
eagerly sought after.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Warmth or Clothing.

There has lately been o tendency
among those women who dress for
comfort, instead Of fashion. to reduce
the number OF their undergarments
as much as possible, 90 as to lessen
their weight DR. Robson Ro0se,
who has been studying clothing sci.
entidcally, and In particular as q
protection against cold, concludes
that the value OF several layers Is
greater than that of q single warm
garment These Gal ments should 1T
easily and loosely, 60 that there Is q
chance Tor q layer OF air between the
underRarments and the skin. For
this reason II Is known that the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Fourteen Long.Liyed Children.

Canon Roswell, who died recently at
the advanced age Of -, came OF long
lived family. Mr.. Roswell's father
married at the age OF 10, his wife being
20. They had nineteen Children, OF
whom five died In infancy. Toe re-
naming fourteen attained or have at.
tanned three are still living the fol-
lowing ages: 70, -, -, u, 80, u, 80
(still living, 81, 81, u, 20, 70 lstill liy-
ing', - and Is (still living. What Is
perhaps as remarkable Is the length Of
days reached by the re spective hus.
bands and wives OF the twelve OF tho
above fourteen who entered the married
state. These are the ages: u, 45, %,
~, 81 (still living, IS, 10, 81 (still liv.
ing, u, 81, %, S7.-I-OndOn Times.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Harvard College.

Harvard is the oldest American col.
lege, the richest, and has the greatest
number of students. II has been in ex.
istence for two and one .half centuries.
II has graduated over 1900 men. 1t
has accumulated property OF 81, OOO,-
OOJ, OF which about $4,000, OO) bears In.
terest as an endowment. 1t expends
for educational Purposes $l,CO 1000 q
year. 1t has 322 teachers and $500
students. 1t occupies over 90 buildings,
many OF them costly and pretentious
II uses 69l acres of land and floor
space nearly equal t. that at the
Worlds Fair. 1t spends 500, 900 yearly
In helping poor students. And most Of
this marvellous growth has been within
70 years.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
WHAT FRIENDSHIP IS.
Mans Necessity for One who Can Share
Mis- Joys and sorrows.

Mans Necessity for One who Can Share
Mis- Joys and sorrows.
At any time OF life great friendship
IL q great happiness, said NJ. Mangasa.
rian In o recent address before tho
Society OF Ethical Culture, Chicago.
Friendship Is the moral law OF gravi.
tation by which things unto each 9th.
or like" are brought together. II is
BY touch and contact, by friction and
fellow feeling that Development be.
comes possible. OF all i,OlatiOns, the
saddest Is solitude OF soul; II Is sure to
bite and blight even the most fertile
souls pant for cOmradeship. Society
is TO us what the sea Is TO the fi.h,
what the air IL to the birds, what the
early spring Is to the buds upon the
trees. We are not satisfied to be alone
In anything.
The only word which, when dropped
into the human car, touches bottom Is
the word friend. You say, this is my
father; but Is he your friend? 1t Is
: evident that the word Is frequently
used In jest. Men and women often
take this holy name In vain. We speak
OF friendship when we mean commerce
or interest; We mistake the shallow
tinsel for the sterling ore, the imita-
tion flower for the gift OF nature. The
alliances which pass for friendship are
but q burlesque OF friendship.
A friend Is one who understands u.s.
one who believes In US, and In whose
presence we can be our very selves.
To the stranger We are clOake1 and
masked, but we approach q friend as
to an altar; we come into his house as
into temple, we Look up to his eyes
as We look up to the sun; In his pres.
ence our thought IL speech, our speech
Is truth" At the approach OF friend
fear, care, doubt, clouds, all take wings
and fly away as birds do from q nest at
which some one has thrown q stone.
My friend Is myself p0etized, myself
sainted. There can be no friendship
where there Is no consOnance OF soul
and harmony Of pursuits. Persons Of
dissimilar dispositions may be good
friends, but persons following contrary
aims can never join In friendship. One
passion, one ideal this Is the rock upon
which friendship steadies itself.
The virtuOus alone have friends.
The depraved have their accomplice,,
cOnfederates, associates, partners; the
politician has his agents and cliques;
the prince his courtiers; the woman OF
fashion and wealth her admirers the
virtuOus alone have friends Catallne
had his w.cOnspiratOrs, Octavius
Caesar and Louis XIV. their cOurtiers;
but Socrates, Cicero and Jesus had
friends.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
JUSTICE JARVIS BLUME,
The Able and Popular West Side Jurist

One Of the best-known figures In
the West Sides great legal center, at
Halsted and Madison, is the rotund
one Of Justice Jarvis Blume, who
presidcs over "justice shop" at the
head Of Union street. Justice Blaine
Is q native OF Germany and was born
on. May, Q, 1912, in Kissingen,
Baden, on the Rhine. Both his
rather and mother, Joseph and Kath..
crime Blume, were German, and his
father was cousin Of Robert Blum,
. revolutionary martyr, who. was
shot in Austria Ia 1s4s. Justice
Blume came to this country with his
father add three brothers In July,
lsls, and first located 10 Cincinnati.
He received his early education In
the common schools Of that city dur.
ing the winters and In attendance at
night schools during the years 1856,
1867 and 1858. Up to his Goth
year he was engaged In a hardware
house In Cincinnati, where he re.
manned until the breaking out Of the
war. He then enlisted, joining the
famous Second Kentucky Infantry,
and served through the war, being
engaged In the battles Of Shiloh,
Stone River, Corinth, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Nashville and 9th.
or engagements In which the Armies
OF the Ohio and Cumberland partici-
pated. He became o member OF
DR.. Beecher's Second Presbyterian
Church, In Cincinnati, In 1858, and,
though being resident Of Chicago,
and not an attendant there, he still
retains his membership. Justice
Blume went to Boston In 1871 II
study law at the Boston University,
graduating with honor In 1875. lie
then went to Des Moines, Iowa, was
admitted to practice there, but
deemed his chances better by coming
In 1877 to'this city, where he contin'
ued general practice for ten years.
Mr.. Blume received his appoint
ment as Justice Of the Peace In April
1857, and he was Police Justice q,
the Desplaines Street Police Station
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07

loosely woven garment Is warmer than
one that IL tightly woven. He con.
cludes that wooden IL much superior
to cotton or linen for undergarments,
and that waterproof clothing should
only be worn In very wet weather,
and generally for persons who are
not taking exercise when exposed to
It." Most important Of oil, he calls
attention to the oft forgotten fact
that the source of heat IL not In the
clothing, but the body itself, and
therefore dependent to q great ex.
tent on the food and exercise. -Nev
York Evening Post.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07

New South Wales, was founded in
1883. Australia enjoys singularly
eauable climate. 1t lies mostly In the
temperate zone, and 10 generally hot,
dry, and salubrious. Above the trOpic
line It Is healthy. but very dry and hot,
but during tho rainy season heavy
downpOurs occur. Summer months are
October to March; winter months May
to August. Australia yields all kinds
Of pastoral and agricultural products;
also coal, gold, silver, and all kinds OF
minerals. The present population Is
over 4,O9O,00l.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Rcprod uced at a Rapid Rate.

The aphis which Is known by the
common name Of "plant louse," Is an
chronological enigma as we'll as an
agricultural pest The scientists do
not pretent to known just exactly
how many varieties Of aphis browse
on the green things Of nature, but
some authorities estimate them at
1000, q large proportion Of that mum.
her having been named and ciassi.
fed. A single insect Of any Of these
species OF aphis may become the pro.
genitor Of billions of young, even
during It's own lifetime. Latiielle.
who Is regarded by the St Louis Re.
public a. an acknowledged authority
on this branch Of entomology, makes
some curious and interesting calcula.
tons: A female will produce young
at the rate Of about twenty-five q
day during the summer months, and
as each Immediately becomes the pro.
genitor Of Others one aphis may pos.
sibly DO the mother, grandmother,
Observation-Disclosures, etc. ct al OF the
enormous number of $500, 500, 900
individuals by the end Of The season.
Yongard and Molren, who are equal.
ly as good authorities as Latrielle,
extend this number into qulntillions
as being within the capabilities Of q
single mothers efforts. The late
Prof. Huxley once made calculation
which affords some idea Of what o
qu,ntillion Of aphides might mean:
Assuming that an aphis will not
weight more than the Que. thousandth
part Of q grain. and that man must
be very heavy In order to weigh more
than 1000, 900 grains, the tenth
brood Of aphides alone, without add.
ing the product Of all the intarme.
diate generations III all the mem.
bers of this immense family should
survive the many dangers TO which
they are exposed,) would contain
more ponderable substance than 600. /.
900, 900 men, In other words, they
would outweigh the entire popula.
ton Of China
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Her Faithful Lover.

A pretty incident recently occurred
In public school. In class Of
small children the teacher desired by
illustration, to obtain the word ia.
vorite. She said, after several fruit.
leas attempts:
"Well, children. II there was some
one you love more than anybody else
In the world, and wished always to
keep her with you, what name would
you give herr"
A small boy held up his hand, and
when told to answer, responded
promptly:
my mother"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Greek HulnOr.

When, after Salamis, Xerxes was
In full flight from Asia, and the over.
crowded vessel, 50 the story ran, was
laboring In the storm, Nerxes, get.
ting frightened, asked the Captain
whether there was any chance OF
safety. "None," said the Captain,
'unless the ship is Heightened of some Of
its passengers. Whereup0n XerxeS
turning to the Persians, exclaimed:
SNOW 10 the time " show your 10y.
atty to your King, for on you my
safety depends" And without q
word, the we'll trained c0urtiers made
obeisance and leaped into tho sea
Thus unburdened, the ship arrived
at the land, whereupon Xerxes pre-.
sented the Captain with a golden
crown for having saved the Kings
life. and then ordered his head of
for having caused the death of so
many noble Persians Tho West.
minister Review.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Chance for American Investors

ChuhCe IOr NmerICHH INVe6tOrs'
The Netherlands Society for the Pro-
motion OF Industry desires to receive
papers containing an indication OF the
means to obtain energy through wind
mills, to accumulate this energy cleo
trically and to transmit 1t or to make
1t transportable. The drawings be-
longing to the answers must be made
on white paper mo blue prints) on the
scale OF One-quarter. The prize offered
is the gold medal OF the society and q
reward OF $3.50. Answers must be sent
before July !, with the authors name
In closed envelope, to the general
secretary OF the society, +. w. Eeden,
ut HARLEM, Holland. London Daily
News.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Some Facts About Australia.

Australia IL q compact island con.
tinent about $500 miles long, east and
west, by 1000 miles wide, north and
south, with an area OF nearly 1900, 900
square miles; that Is, more than
twenty.six times as large as Great
Britain and ireland. 1t was discovered
by Capt. Cook In ITO. The first colony,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07
Crushed tho Insurance Agent.

1.-THE toughest experience ever
had In my life," said q solicitor OF
life insurance to q New York Herald
man, was with an iron manufac.
turer In Troy. I had been informed
that he was hard customer, but q
wealthy man ana one who had care.
lessly neglected to provide himself
with insurance, and 90 I resolved to
tackle him. Upon entering his ONCE
and explaining the nature Of my
business ! was surprised at his greet.
ing. II was friendly, even cordial.
Life insurance. said he. We'll,
now, that's q sub. ect that interest
me. Come with me to the shop; I've
got to 10 there, and you can tell me
oil about the superiority Of your com.
pany over all others Then he took
up his hat and babe me follow him.
As we went out Of the Office ] noticed
q smile on the faces Of all the clerks,
and though didn't understand u ]
smiled in return. for ! thought pos.
sibly they knew nv GRAND and were
c0ngratulating me on my success
The proprietor walked hurrledly and
I after him, until ut last he flung
open o door. 1t was the machine
shop The din was terrible. A
thousand hammers, / think, were all
at work beating iron at once. In.
voluntarily ! put up my hands to my
ears. Looking At nv man ! saw his
lips move, and lowering my hands /
just managed to catch his worda
shouted above the deafeninH racket,
Now. tell me all about II" He
smiled sardonicallv rs he said this
and could have murdered him. It
was impossible TO say word, aud 90
! went right out II was Q darn
mean trick"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07

HAIR-DYE Is considered so detriment-
al to long life that Paris insurance
company refuses to insure the lives Of
persons who use 1t.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-07

SOME men spend half their time In
telling and listening to stories.