Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-08
NOTES AND COM eNra

LONDON has called the roll Of
deaths by starvation In 1903, and
they number fifty.one, from which IL
would appear to the New York World
that London charity is too much oc.
cupied with the heather.
In the opinion Of the Hartford
Journal the South Carolina mother
who, with the aid Of a revolver, drove
of the man who intended clipping
with her IA year old daughter, 10 Ger.
tainly q new woman"
THE London Times says that the
opium commissions report, just is.
sued, decides against the prohibition
Of the growth Of the poppy or the
manufacture Of opium in India.
There Is too much money in opium
to allow It to be driven out OF India.
A FRENcHMAN must still obtain tho
consent Of his parents II he wishes to
marry. The Chamber OF Deputies
has rejected proposal OF Abbe
Lemire to dispense with the consent
when the man Is 2j or the woman
81, but passed another doing away
with the necessity for the grand.
parents consent when the parents
ore dead.
MEDIEVAL doctors used to pre-.
scribe powdered oyster shells for
children suffering with the ricketts,.
Now Drs. Muntz and Chatin tell the
Paris Academy of Medicine that
nothing better can be found. They
soy that II q little powdered oyster
shell were mixed with the food Of
growing children their teeth would
be better and the whole frame
stronger.
IT has been learned that the gypsy
moth pest, which has cost New
England 81, 600, 900 In an endeavor to
stamp II out, Is directly traceable to
q Prof. Trouvolot, who imported the
moth to this country twenty three
years ago for the purpose Of crossing
1t with the moth that produces the
silk worm. The moths escaped thor
place OF confinement and In few
years had multiplied into countless
millions.
The New York World observes
The police census shows the popula.
ton Of the city to DO !. SAG, 1896. This
Is 1874, sos In excess OF the population
reported by the Federal census OF
1890, 180, 151 more than the police
census OF that year showed, AMI a
gain Of 4S. 127 over the results OF the
State census OF 1892. The work OF
enumeration has been done rather
incapably in many instances, and II
Is certain that the total figures are
below the actual number OF inhabi.
tants. But taking them rs they are
they represent only u part Of the
great city which American energy
has built here as the metropolis and
business center OF the Republic.
There are q million more people liv.
ing just across the bridge, rs much O
part OF this metropolis as the inhab'
itants on either side OF the Thames
are q part OF London. When the
Legislature shall make up its mind
to carry out the decree OF consolida'
ton which the people recorded Mt the
polls New York will take her proper
place as tho second city on Garth
with population well In excess o.
three millions.
ONE OF tho most ancient industrlei
OF Great Britain Is about to disap
pear. extinguished by foreign com
petition. Already In the days OF tn,
Phoenicians, prior to tho Christian
era, Britain was famed Throughout,
the then known world for It's copper
and tin, and In Cornwall workings
and likewise implements have beer
found which furnish conclusive
proof that this metal was mined even
In prehistoric times. Within the
last two decades, however, the in
dustry has shown marked decline
especially in Cornwall, and what will
the fall In the price OF tin and the
increasing cost OF the working owing
to the great depth to which the
shafts have attained. the mines have
been closing down one after another
the most famous OF all. the great ole
"Botallack," which for two centur
les has been one OF the sights not
alone OF Cornwall, but OF the Who'll,
kingdom, being now about to follow
suit. It 10 the last one OF any i'm
portance, 10 situated OF Lands End
runs out o considerable distance un
der the sea, and by reason OF Its 70
mantle situation and OF the many
Druidlcal legends associated with til,
grand and majestic headland ha
| CON aktkukad tho thou,o ~ mOuv ,
sensational novel and Of many u stir
sing poem.
THE shelters In Omaha and Den
YER have lately introduced u devic
for recovering the mineral that here
: tofore has passed away In smoke ant
fumes. 1t Is not generally known
that the smoke from such plants Il
laden with metals OF value, princi
pally gold, silver and lead. 1t ha
been the constant study OF metallur
gists for years to contrive some prac
tlcal and economical method OF con
densing such materials. This M,
device consists OF a horizontal flu
some fifteen hundred feet in length
exposing u surface for radiation an
condensation OF the heated gases @
upward OF $4,000 square feet. Tn
fumes are drawn through this tlue b
means OF u fan, tho outer circumfel
ence Of which, ut full speed, revolve
with velocity OF nearly two miles
minute. Under this pressure tn
fumes are forced into a large build
Ing. from which there are no mean