Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-01-19
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| give II written receipt FOR the State
jewels every time she wears them,
and ~ II result, usually contents
herself with II private collection
which is worth about ~ 500, 900.
How much ure u mans whiskers
worth TO him? Herman VAIL, Of
New York, pulled out half of his
cousins beautiful beard, and the
court decided that it was worth 300.
| a verdict of six cents damage was
first brought in, but the Judge said
this would not foot the bill, and he
set the verdict aside
THE first sailing vessel to be light.
ed by electricity is said to have been
the Spani1h bark La Vigusea, u bulk
oil ard general-cargo carrier. She Is
fitted throughout with incandescent
lights, the power for the dynamo
being furnished by small oil engine,
which also furnishes power to pump
her oil cargo when she is loading or
unloading.
A VIBRATING helmet for the cure Of
nervous headaches has been invented
by Fren III physician. Il is con-
strueted of strips Of steel, put in vi.
brntion by n small clectro-motor,
which makes 600 turns u minute.
The sensation, which is described Us
not unpleasant, produces drowsiness;
the patient falls asleep under its in.
iluen.o and awakes to find that the
pain has ceased.
Sir JoHN LUBBoCK, addressing the
Sociological Congress at Paris recent.
ly, said that in London since 1870
the number OF children in English
schools had increased from 1,5O0, 900
to ), COZ, 900. and that in the same
time the number Of persons In prison
had fallen from ~, 900 to 5000. The
yearly average OF persons sentenced
to confinement for the worst crimes
hnd declined from 5000 to 800.
A FROG farm with about million
head OF stock Is carried on success.
fully BY man in Contra. Costa
county, Cal. He started ranching in
frogs u few months ago with a herd
Of about 1000 frogs, and Is already
making lots Of money. He supplies
tho markets Of San Francisco. Oak.
land and other large cities on the
const. IL costs little or nothing to
raise the frogs. and the ranchcr Is not
anxious to trade his ranch even for
gold mine, so he says
ACCORDING TO Stewart Culin. the
Curator OF the Museum Of Archaeol.
ogy OF tho University of Pennsyl-
vania, football originated with those
beginners Of everything. the Chinese.
Mr. Culin Is making I'm exhaustive
study of games, ancient and modern,
and has curious and ancient draw.
ing showing Il parsonage in the dress
OF Prime Minister playing football
with kuge, or noble. and two OF
their chnmbcrlains. The time Is
somewhere In the tenth or eleventh
century, but long before then the
game was cultivated rs an exercise
suitable for the training OF soldiers.
Abou. the eighth century It was in
troduced into japan, where II became
very popular From these two
countries 1t spread over the entire
world.
THE question having been raised
whether Maxim's flying machine,
supposing Its propelling mechanism
to break down, would fall to the
earth edgeways, after the manner OF
u boys kite, the inventor has ex-
planned that It would not Kites. he
says, us commonly made by boys In
the United States, arc very crude In
they have to be pro.
ridcd with tail, and will often pitch
headlong to the ground with very
great force. In China, where men,
md not boys, treat kite.hying as
quito n serious pastimc, the kites are
so perfectly adjusted that they do
not require tail, and they never
fall to the ground edgeways. The
famous lying machine Is somewhat
like kite and il made on the Chi.
nose model. II, by u mishap. the
came to standstill, 10
would come down to earth, rs 10
were, on an inclined plano, while the
vertical velocity would not DO great
enough to damage either the machine
or its occupants,
IN the opinion OF leading cleo.
lricians one OF the next great steps
In electrical development
will be the doing away with wires for
the transmission OF electricity. Our
present methods for the transmission
Of electric energy are held to belong
TO primitive stage of the science.
All the paraphernalia OF wires, poles,
etc., that are now necessary are re-
,arded us crude, clumsy and waste
ul belonging to II period OF devel-
'pment corresponding to that in the
growth OF q child where it cannot
walk without support In the COM
ng period all necessity for these
Kings will be done away with, and
he methods for the transmission of
he marvellous energy that has been
larnessed to do the work of the
world will be as invisible rs the flow
If the fluid itself, The harness will
disappear, and Ariel will do his sub.
lie service with no outward token OF
his existence save In the effects pro-
lnced. That such will be the case il
loid by electricians to be no wild
ancy.
lN recent address to the Rayal
photographic Society, Sir Henry
Irueman-Wood summed up very
'oncisely the various services which
photography had rendered to science,
'irSt comes its association with the