Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-13
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JUDGE INGRAHAM, OF New YORK
city, was quite right in recommitting
to the workhouse q woman who had
money In eight banks, yet had been
found begging. The Judge said that
q person wandering about and beg
ging IL o vagrant, even II worth q
million.
THE Russian government has taken
entire charge Of the sale Of intoxica-
ting liquors in the four eastern prov.
inces Of the empire. To prevent i'm.
moderate consumption OF drink, q
new experiment Is being tried, which
consists In attracting people away
from the gin palaces by organizing
other recreations ard amusement IS
for them.
A GREAT deal depends upon the
point Of view. The king Of Butari.
tart, one OF the Gilbert islands in the
Pacific, recently annexed by Eng.
land, made an edict that everybody
should 20 to church on Sunday un.
der penalty OF fine Of - for absence.
The English commissioner repealed
this, but made similar law looking
toward compulsory education.
IT Is announced that Japan has
ordered two modern first class battle
ships Of English make. The news
IL significant rs an intimation OF the
position which japan expects to
take rs one OF the worlds great naval
powers. japan has the advantage
Of being able to afford these luxurles
inasinuch, as we presume, as China
will be expected to pay for them.
An American In Germany was sur.
prised to find o number Of cripples
among the celebrated college pro-
fessors. men whose high standard OF
learning makes them famous the
world over. One Berlin professor ID
wheeled into his lecture room every
day, aud there are OTHERS similarly
though for the most part less palm
fully afflicted. This Ii due partly tc
the fact that under the military
regime OF Germany WREN q boy ID
disqualified for the army he 10 trained
for science or the law.
ACCORDING to the Electric Review
the Western Union Telegraph com.
pany collected aboe1t II, 500, 600 last
year for telling the time Of day
'The company has q telegraph desl
in the naval observatory at Washing
ton. Four minutes before noon tn,
wires Of the system all over tn,
country are cleared OF business, ant
the instant the sun passes tn,
seventy.Rtth meridian electricit,
carries the news to every city" II
Is only In trying to realize o fact lik,
this In ON Its bearings that we cal
get some idea OF the way modern liz
Is being regulated by science.
A waIrER in the New England
Kitchen 10 Of the opinion that tn
teacliag Of cooking In the future vii
be In the hands Of specialists, tina
10. the work will be divided Int
branches as cooking for the siek
the preparing OF meats, making q
breed, or the like. The write
further states that the demand 70
teachers Of the household arts seem
to be greater than the supply. Their
have been many calls recently "a
teachers Of cookery who are als
qualified to teach sewing and ini
linery, and good salaries have bee
offered ranging from 5000 to 81 ~
per year.
An insurance journal has recsnti
collected statistics Of suicide In I'll
United States. Many Of the TACT
gathered are surprising, but tn
most singular and perplexing 10 Il,
fact that "the classification BY cor
dition shows greater proportion q
suicides among the married me,
than among the unmarried. which 1
contrary to the accepted theory.
Contrary 1t certainly 10 to the stalls
tics OF Europe, where the fact tina
more bach elors than benedicts shut
fie of their mortal coll voluntaxil
has long been cited Is one Of tn
most obvious reasons for enteriu,
the holy state OF matrlmouy.
A WASHINGTON dispatch recent
noted that Japan had given contract
for two new battle ships. The shiE
building programme Of last year Pre-
vided for two battle ships. one pre-
tected cruiser aud one dispatch VET
sci. and negotiations were begu
looking to their construction. TIL
ceuiser Ia to be built at the HON
navy yard, ut Yokosuks, and VOC
has really been begun upon her. Sh
IL to be Of the English Apollo typ
and Of 2,7O0 tons displacement. Th
two battle ships are to be Of ~, ~
tons displacement each and OF tn
type OF the English battle ship Roys
Sovereign. The contract for one he
been given to the Thames Iron Work
aud Ship Building company, Black
wall; and the contract for the othe
has been awarded to the Armstrong;
OF Elswick, England.
WILLIAM r. CRowpER lives I
Greencastle. Ind. So does William
Fisher; and 80 does q hog, valued a
~, owned by Crowder. One da
CrOwder let his hog out. Almos
nuItaneously Fisher left the gat
Of nice new hogpen on his plac
open. As 1t was the hogs day OF l
determined to see all that was to b
seen and so 1t strayed into Fisher
hogpen. Just afterward Fisher dc
cided to close his pen, which he did
remarking: "Great Scott, I've got
hog! Well, findin's is keopin's
PRETTY N0on CrOwder demanded hi
hog. Fisher replied: II amt 60