Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-01-26
MOTIFS AND COMMENTS.

the Appenzellar Zeitung the past
year alone, seventy.three tourists
and guides met with violent death in
the Alps. while twenty others re ceived
serious injuries, and four more were
lost, never to be heard Of again.
THE United States now have about
forty vessels engaged in whaling
the remnant OF q fleet which once
numbered 500 ships. The demand
for whale oil has SO greatly decreased
that the industry has dwindled away.
It Is now supported chiefly by the
demand for whalebone.
THE longest distance letter can
be carried within the limits Of the
United States is from Key West. Fla.,
to Ounalaska, 6,271 miles; and oil
for two cents! People who would
save money will ut once start for
Key West or Ounalaska and so ad-
dress their CORRESPONDENCE that they
shall get their full moneys worth.
1.-THE newspapers refer to the fact
that the late Car Of Russia was an
enthusiastic stamp collector" re
marked u New Yorker who Is inter.
ested In the stamp-selling business.
"Some years ago received an order
from the Gar for complete nssort-
ment OF United States stamps. / sent
them to him and received n very large
sum Of money in return"
ACCORDING to the most recent in.
formation the Christian missionaries
whose lives a~c In constant danger,
especially since the beginning of the
japanese war, can be classified as
follows: Seven hundred and five OF
them belong to the Roman Catholic
Church, forty-onc being bishops aud
ga priests. The Protestant mission.
aries from Scotland and England
number $50, belonging to tho Church
Missionary Society, and to the China
Inland Mission. The American aud
Swed;ch missionaries of the Protes-
tant faith are pretty numerous, but
the exact figures are not reported In
regard to the strength Of their mis-.
sion.
LONDON ENGINEERING" says: "Ths
heavy naval fighting in the far Eas,
has given not u few opportunities Of
gathering valuable information abou,
the behavior OF guns and nrmor
which no doubt will be available at
u later date. IL Is stated, on VIVA,
appears to be reliable authority
that the fate Of the Chinese ironclat
Ping. Yuen was decided by ono rount
from u Canet ~ .6O.inch gun, til,
heaviest weapon In both fleets. The
shell which sunk tho Ping. Yuer
weighed $50 kilogrammes, nearl,
1000 pounds, and was one Of Hotter
make 1t crashed through the after
part Of the vessels urmored deck
the ship sinking by the stern almos
Immediately"
THE First Parish in Dorchester
Mass. over which the Rev. Eugen,
II. Shipper was recently installed al
pastor, Is the oldest church or relig
rous society In Boston. II Is Uni
tartan. although in one usually we'll
informed religious weekly it Is SO
down Us Congregational. II Is NOR
thnn $50 years old and has had onl,
eleven pastors In its history. Tn
invariable custom has been to in
stall young man, and not to call
minister from another church. Mr.
Shlppen IL the son Of Rev. Rush II
Shippeh. pastor OF tho Unitarian
Church In Washington. lie Is
graduate OF Harvard. and for the las
year has been studying ut Oxford
Previous 20 that, however; he wa
settled over Congregational Churcl
In Wichita, Kan. The Rev. X. X
Shipper preached the sermon at tn
installation Of his son.
A JAPANESE contributor in 9Th
Popular Science Monthly" says
when I was young boy the Gus
tom Of eating beef began to spread
As blood was regarded as unclean
and also as Japan had been q stron
agricultural country, there was
deep.rooted disinclination to en-
beef. In this, OF course, ono In
also to recognize the influence OF tn
vegetarian principle OF Buddhism
But to anybody who had ever taste
beef, IL was SO delicious that no coul
hardly control his natural appetit
by his religious scruple. My fathe
was one of those who knew its tastt
and so now and then we used to treu
ourselves to beef. But where did "
eat 1t? We did not eat 1t inside G
the house. We cooked 1t and ate
In the open mir, and in cooking an
in eating we did not use the Ordinar
utensils but used the special one
kept for the purpose. Why all thes
things? Because beef was uncleai
and We did not like to spread its III
cleanness into our house wherin I'll
'gods-shelf Is kept, and into our O
binary utensils, which might be use
In making offerings to the gods. Th
day when we ate beef my father di
not offer lights to tho gods nor 81
evening prayers to them, as he dl
usually, for he knew he was unclea
and could not approach the gods"
NEVER were the physician an
! the chemist more dismayed by Oh
meagerness of their knowledge
) great though tho results OF their ],
b0rs have been-than now. Takin
. the apparently simple question I
, water analysis for example an En-
lish chemist observes that 1.-THE II
tellect OF the civilized world for fiji
years or more has been unable to d
wise process physical, chemica
,,,;.,o,.on;nol on binlnoiooN whi IL