Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-02-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

featuring corpo. ations of Massachu-
setts have obtained legislation en-
aiding them to do business In other
States than Massachusetts,, which
means that they propose to build and
operate mills in the southern States,
nearer the base OF supplies of cotton
and coal. Labor also IS very much
cheaper than ut the North.
on cold day in Japan mine host
has glowing bed Of Goals in his
kotatsu-a square hole in the mid
die of the room flied with sand
Over this he hangs horizontally u
futon. or blanket, to keep the heat In.
With his feet stuck under this
blanket and his red fingers spread
out over the hibachis, or little NOV
able dishes of Goals, u fellow doesn't
freeze.
1t seems likely that one OF the
most important benefits to civlliza-
ton Of Stanley's African expedition
will be the introduction OF African
mahogany to Western commerce.
There is even now n ilourishing trade
| in this wood, which Is sold more
cheaply in the United States than 1t
formerly was in Liverpool. Central
America, Brazil and the West Indies
have hitherto contributed the worlds
chief supply of mahogany. 1t was
one of Sir Walter Raleigh's discov.
cries, and it first began to be used in
making furniture toward the close
of the seventeenth century.
THE most finished negro scholar in
the world to-day, according to the
Boston Transcript, Is Edward Wilmot
Blyden, who represented Liberia ut
the court of st. James. lie Is q
valued contributor TO many English
magazines, Is linguist OF pro-
nounced ability, and is one Of the
most profound thinkers the negro
race has yet produced. lie is the
author of a work entitled, Chris
tianity, Islam and the Negro Race.
which has had two editions in Lon
don. DR.. Blyden Is pure negro,
without u trace Of white blood In his
veins.
FIGURES are always coming up to
worry people who have no head for
them. They cannot lie, and there
they IRE. Statistics on the reason
able expectancy OF lie indicate that
IL a man Is a drunkard ut 20 he will
live Is years longer; II sober, he has
"A years more to live. At 30 the pro.
portions OF years OF life remaining
under the Same conditions are four
teen and thirty.six. II man Is a
drunkard at his fortieth year, he
cannot reasonably hope to live to be
older than 81. But II he Is temperate
at that age the expectancy Of life
extends to I'D.
CARTER. who pleaded guilty OF
stealing 800. 900 from the New York
National Bank OF Commerce, was for
years confidential clerk In the bank
and the money stolen, which was
taken ut periods stretching over d
score OF years, was used to make an
aged mother and father mor'
comfortable and help to edu
cato several children who wer,
growing up around him. Thi
Is no pallation o. the ofrense legally
but there Is u moral In 1t just til,
same, With six years Of prison liz
staring one in the face, ones reilec
tions may SAVIOR Of regret.
NJ. GIRAULT, Henard and Paulir
have received the three first prizes o
l,2O0 each for plans for the Pari,
exposition OF 1900. All three ere
serve the Eiirel tower and the Ma
chinery building OF these exhibition
NJ. Henard proposes apalace Of illu
sions with mirrors for walls, an,
also II continuous moving platform
along both banks of the Seine. NJ
Paulin builds floating Indo-Chines,
and Japanese tower on the river
Among tho suggestions in the othe
plans that received prizes are tina
the Court 10 Refine be turned into ,
sort Of Midway Plaisance, that ,
marine basin be built in the Troca
dero garden and that another Crysta
Palace be built.
A PHILADELPHIA barber who ha:
become convert to the germ theory
; OF disease has discharged the boot
black and coat brusher connected
with his shop, and refuses even t.
keep a brush on hand for the indl
J vidual use OF his customers who ma,
want to shine their shoes or dus
their coats. He holds that the doc
tors are right, and that the germs O
consumption and other diseases ar,
so plenty that they settle on ever
particle OF the human wearing up
parel; and he is not going to hav
> any brushing going on about hi
place that will disturb disease germ
and send them hunting for ne,
place down his throat, where the
can do more damage than on cloth
ing.
"Three thousand notices." say
tho Philadelphia Record, will 6
out to American artists informin
. them OF the generous offer of q prlz
OF rs, 600 by William l.. Elkins, G
this city, for the best picture painte
by an American painter and Stain
the conditions under which the com
petition will be conducted. The d
rection of this interesting artist
rivalry will be under the control {
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