Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-01-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A combination of circumstances
renders it an interesting fact that
there has been only one dcfalcation in
bank Of China in 200 years. All the
bank officials were beheaded the last
time a shortage was discovered.
It Is estimated that about $40, OOO,.
600 have been invested in coffee
houses, as an antidote to the saloon
in England. 1t is said that there are
about Z. 900 Of them, employing &c..
600, and they are q paying invest.
ment.
Science shows that possible danger
turks In everything. Butter, for In
stance, may contain pathogenic
germs, and every one knows how bad
they IRE. So, also, it is shown
In the London lancet, that bread
contains many living kinds Of bac.
terra. And the conclusion Is reached
that many unaccountable diseases
may be eventually traced to the
agency Of bread.
Estimating the annual yield OF
cotton Mt 6,OOO, 700 bales and the
price at 10 cents a pound, Il will be
found that this one Southern crop in
twenty.seven years has added over
80, 600, 900, 600 to the wealth Of this
country. This does not include the
value Of the oil, cake and hulls from
seed. This industry Is a growing
one, and adds over $25, 600, 600 year
to the value OF the cotton crop.
When the Americans won signal
victories ut seq In the war Of 1912,
the London Times said that q new
power had made It's appearance on
the ocean. Tho capture Of Port
Arthur shows that new military
and naval power has established its
place among the nations. Japan will
hereafter have to be reckoned with
in oil questions affecting Asia, and
will have an influential voice In tho
eneral affairs Of civilization.
There are forty-three missionary
societies ut work In Africa, forty in
India, thirty in China and eighteen
In Japan. Ono hundred and four
teen general and missionary societies
are directly engaged in foreign mis-
sionary work. There are eleven Off.
cial missionary societies not sending
out missionaries, but giving aid.
There are fifteen Bible and publica.
ton societies engaged in missionary
work which have published so fur in
this century 220, 900, 600 Bibles and
Testaments.
The number OF deaths caused by
Wild animals Is increasing greatly In
India, snake bites heading the list
last year with 1900 victims. OF
$500 persons who were killed by
animals, tigers killed nearly 200;
leopards, 20l; wolves, 175; bears,
121. and elephants. 6S. Ninety
thousand head OF cattle wero do.
stroyed, an increase OF 5000 over
the year before. On the other hand,
$1,000 wild beasts were killed, in.
Guiding nearly 1900 tigers and over
1000 lcopards. besides almost 12O, 0OC
deadly snakes.
Speaking Of the great clock which Il
% be placed on the Philadelphia City
Hall, the Record, OF that city. says
1T will be a marvel OF ponderous
delicacy. The face Of the clock must
be twenty.seven feet in diameter
and hand thirteen feet six inche,
in length would weigh close on tc
half ton, and yet must move with
unerring accuracy. No one yet
knows who will have the honor Of
constructing this great mechanism,
but sentiment among the Commits
sioners iavors American manufac'
ture, II 1t can be done in this coun.
try. Some time ago a European
expert visited this city with reference
to bidding for the work, and he main
tanned that its construction would
occupy three years after the ordel
was given"
} Whatever may be the case will
} the upper and middle classes, mar
. riage Is certainly on the increase
J among the lower, declares New Yorl
Truth. Unfortunately this state o
things IL hardly one which proves t.
, DO altogether satisfactory, as Il
would appear from recent police
0 proceedings that the number OF to
, tally irresponsible .husbands--mer
0 whose means are totally inadequat,
Q to support q wife, to say nothing o
8 a family-is legion. These youn.
> men enter the thorny path OF matri
4. mony, apparently without the leas
Q idea, or seeming care, where the!
8 are to find sufficient funds to supper
r a home; and IL Is little wonder thai
, courts are so frequently called upor
to investigate the terrible cases 0
want and restitution which are TIN
inevitable consequence.
Some OF those people who wonder
cd why 1t Is that u ship Of war ncve
9 beats the record 1t made upon 1t
. trial trip while ocean steamers al
: ways move more swiftly after the
: have been some time in service thai
!. they do during their earlier voyages
h will find u solution Of the problem
in the statement made by Charlie
n III. Cramp, the shipbuilder. Mr.
# Cramp says that when n govsrnnlsn
0 vessel is tested for speed, just bcfor
acceptance, its engines are operates
4 by men who have attained the great
: est possible skill, the fires are fe
; with the best quality OF coal, trust
worthy men are posted In the vicinit
of all the principal bearings to sc
that there Is no lack OF lubricant
and in every possible way advantag
&c, @,lynn ~ onu condition that MON