Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-11
NOTES AND COM MCNrs.

can cure men OF the appetite for
drink" It cures them in this
country also II they take enough Of It.
BECAUSE the Reichstag was spite.
tul against Bismarck, conservative
iiermany Is roaring against universal
suffrage. But It Is well to remember
that only few years ago the En-.
peror himself was spiteful against
Bismarck.
A PHILADELPHIA street railroad
now operated by electricity saves
%, 915 a month as between the cost
OF coal and that OF horse feed. II is
said that this Is only one Of numer.
Gus items In which the trolley system
has greatly cut down operating ex-
penses.
ORDINARY vigilance would prevent
nine.tenths Of the bank defalcations
But the vigilance which does not see
anything suspicious In the personal
deposits OF q 81, 200 clerk reaching
40. 600 In recent case, IL not or
binary; It's extraordinary, in the
opinion Of the Hartford Journal.
THERE are q great many medical
missionaries. but DR.. Jennie NJ. Thy.
lor is the first person to 60 to for.
eign land % q dental missionary.
She IL the daughter Of the Rev.A. T..
Taylor, q Methodist minister Of
Martinsville. Pa, and 10 working in
Africa as missionary and'dentist.
A New YonK woman, whose name
10 held secret. has endowed the chair
Of history in the National University,
to DO built at Washington, with
&107, $50. The intlmation OF the offer
was made on an old postal card, and
within twenty.four hours the head Of
the university was leaving New York
with securities to the required
amount in his possession. For expe.
ditiousness this surpasses the en-.
dowment record. When the woman
was asked why she selected the chair
Of history she said: Men can give
for bricks and mortar, Ill give for
brains"
THRIFT IL not an extinct trait in the
original home OF the thrifty, New
England. A young woman writes to
q Boston paper to tell how we'll o
family Of thfee can live on 80 o week.
MY mother" she says, 'is an in.
valid. My father IL foreman In fac.
tory and earns $21 week. and I stay
home and do the work. Every week
We put $l2 away. I dress we'll and
can play the piano. I attend the
theater twice o week, but the % cent
seats are good enough for me. Sat.
urday ! cook q quart OF beans and
buy a loaf OF brown bread and one
half pound OF salmon, and that does
us until Tuesday. Tuesday pint OF
oysters 10 sufficient for dinner. We'd
nesday I buy chicken or q small
piece Of lamb. which does until Sat.
urday with q little fish. We use q
small quantity Of pastry and bread
and cake and vegetables. We run
two fires, burn gas; we use matches
and pepper. My father only spends
10 cents week for pleasure. When
my company stays to tea Sunday we
have o few extras. I do all my dress
making. and average four dresses q
year" But the poor fathers IL
cents worth Of pleasure 7"
The power OF hypnotism has been
made responsible for almost every
thing, and now writer In the Pitts.
burg Dispatch attempts to show
that sleeping In church is often due
to this subtle force. The conditions
under which the phenomenon IL most
frequently observed are described %
follows: "There 10 a dim and sub.
dued light In the room; the atmos.
phere Is somewhat close. tho tenn
perature IL high; somewhat behind
the speaker, In q position which com.
pels the eyes OF the congregation, Ia
q jet Of gas or q sharp CLEAN Of cleo.
trlcity, Into which thoy look as the
sermon proceeds; and the preacher
goes on and on, In . gentle and mon.
otonous voice. and down and up, like
. mothers lullaby; and behold, oul
eyeIids are pressed down against our
will by soft, Invisible fingers, and
everything 10 deliclously vague and
far away" This, the writer would
have his readers believe. 10 hypnotic
sleep. Most people. however, will
be inclined to think that poor venti'
lation In the churches, or natural
fatigue on the part OF the sleepers, II
responsible for more Of this kind Of
somnolence than can be traced tc
any mysterious power.
THE importation OF beans at the
ports OF New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia last year was 244,776 bag!
OF 200 pounds each. and yet this
country Is admirably adapted fol
bean culture. A correspondent o
the Country Gentleman says
Where the crop is grown on q larg,
scale 90 that machinery can be large
ly used the cost Of growing should
not be materially greater thar
that Of growing an equal area o
wheat. They may be planted BY
machinery, harvested by machinery
threshed by machinery. and thu
large buyers In bean growing district!
use machinery largely In picking owe
the product. The yield will probably
on the average, equal that OF wheat.
Then look ut the price per bushe
compared with that OF wheat. Thu
straw, too, Is q valuable food 70
sheep, as we'll as for other live stock
far exceeding wheat straw In this re
spect. Bean prices, usually high, ar
likely to be higher this year. Thu
domestic demand always exceeds tn
home grown supply, and large quan