Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-20
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.


agraph for Busy PcrsOns to Read.
A company is being promoted III
Bradford, England, for tho manufac-
ture Of artificial silk.
A japanese brides plnythIngs nrc
burned on her wedding day, typifylng
the end Of her childhood.
Labrador has 900 species Of flower.
ing plants, ilfty.nine ferns, and over
$50 species Of mosses and lichens.
At recent wedding In Kansas there
were twenty.four bridesmaids. Tho
effete East Is outmatched at every
point.
The sawmill showing Of Minneapolis
gives a grand total VI Adj, 250, 7O3 feet
Of white pine lumber manufactured
during 1903.
1t has been estimated on recent OH
cial authority that the population OF
Maine IL now 722,OO0, gain Of 1000
In four years.
Chicago clergymen have formed q
club to instruct prospective mission.
aries IN foreign languages by means OF
the photograph.
The Board Of Education Of Mount
Vernon, N. Y, has decided to expel
from the public schools any boy caught
smoking cigarettes.
The Russian Government 10 contcm.
plating the erection of grain elevators
along the Government railroads In the
grain districts.
A company has been formed to utll-
lie the power Of the Susquehanna Riv-
er for electrical works. something ike
those ut Niagara.
The new Siberian railway traverscs
regions where game II SO abundant
that the project Of establishing Gamer.
les Is being considered.
The income for the McAll mission for
the last year was $50, $40, Of which $780,
TAO came from Grent Britain and $751;
$50 from the United States
When a Chinese woman Is married
she goes out after the marriage cere.
mony and prays before the tombstones
Of her husbands ancestors.
A religious canvass Is being made at
Abilene, Kan, with the result that up
to date POI families have been found
that are Christian and III that ore not.
In Turkestan, II a wedding engage.
ment IL broken, the girls parents must
either return the lovers gifts or sub
stitute another daughter, II they have
one.
The first shipment Of oysters in crates
to England left Newport News BY
steamship. sixty.Ave crates were con.
signed to Liverpool firm rs an expert.
ment.
The woman's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist Episcopal
church has issued over 10000 pages
Of missionary literature during the last
year.
Canadians arc beginning to buy vel.
low pine from the Southern States In
large quantities. finding 1t especially
desirable for flooring. jOists ind inside
finishing.
In the last year 1900 people died Ia
Irdia from snake bites, nearly 1000
were killed by tigers. and 1900 by 9th
er wild animals. About 10000 head OF
cattle were destroyed.
: At Helsingfors. in Finland. a news
paper has been started. edited aud
managed entirely by women. The chief
editor IL Miss Nina Kant, vino II well
known among the Firms as novelist
In 1885 DR.. Rickel. at Wurzburg
lighted his house with gas made from
, the dry distillation OF bones. He dis
continued his experiments because Ia
was suspected Of s0rcery aud feared
: trouble.
After Victor Hugo's death more than
10000 isolated verses were found scat.
tered about his room written on small
slips Of paper. He used to write inces
sanity. even while dressing himself III
the morning.
In Switzerland there Is a law by
which railway and steamboat com
panies, factory establishments, etc
are liable to indemnify their employe.
In case Of accidents. or their widow,
and children In case Of their death.
, The chief seats for the production Of
edible snails In France at present ar,
the department Of Jura, Cote dor, an'
Barses Alps. At one time tho snails O
Burgundy were celebrated. but the In
dustry there has died out
In Slam each year 10 named utter NJ
animal, and people born In certal,
years are forbidden to intermarry
Thus, an elephant baby can't marry
tiger, nor q Hon o lamb. And there or,
heavy penalties for lying about ono
age.
The erection Of great reservoir Il
Upper Egypt II now IN assured fact
The work will begin this spring. Il
the next Egyptian budget the sum o
10000 Egyptian pounds. about $500
600. will be set apart for the purpos
1t 10 announced.
Twenty thousand dollars was PAL
by the Government to the Sac and FO
Indians three weeks ago, and Wee
later white gamblers and bunkO meg
who followed close behind the Govern
: ment pay agents, We're In possession 0
practically the whole amount.
A peculiar substitute for windoy
glass, known as "tectOrium," Ia state
to have been for some time employee
u In Austria, Italy, Germany, Switxel
J land. ana Russia as covering for ho
houses, verandas, windows Of factorie,
roofs of stores, etc. 1t Is d special. II