Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-15
NOTES AND coMMeNrA

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DIR. J. West ROOSEVELT, q very
high medical authority, demon
strates In the Scribner that bicycle
riding develops not only the muscles
Of the legs, but most Of the import
ant muscles Of the body.
THE man who died the other day
after licking an envelope was pois.
oned by decaying animal matter from
the glue getting into . sore In his
mouth. No poisons are more deadly
than those produced by the decay Of
animal matter. Persons who lick
envelopes in sealing them do II ct
their own risk.
CONAN DOYLE, in one OF his mcdl-
cal stories, says: MEN die OF the
diseases which they have studied
most. It 10 as II the morbid condi.
ton was On evil creature which, when
1t found itself closely hunted, few at
the throat Of its pursuer. II you
worry the microbes too much they
may worry you. have seen cases Of
u, and not necessarily In mierobic
diseases either"
EXPERIMENTS made to determine ct
what age q child first becomes respon.
slve to music show that ct six or
seven months they ere fully %, ct
least % far % time IL concerned.
That they are also sensitive to tone ut
the same age 10 shown by expert.
inents on . child Of seven months,
who will not begin to beat time to"Pat.
a-cake" picked on the zithsr In any
chord higher than Il, but ut once
responds to E.
ARMY statistics in France and Ger
many bring out clearly the fact that
the latter country has . better sys.
TEN OF elementary education than It's
rival. Out Of 258, III recruits incor.
porated In the Germany Army during
last year 817 only were unable to
read or wrlte-that 10 to say, "a per
1000. In France, on the other
hand, out Of 848. 651 who drew for
the CONSUMPTION no fewer than
22,O06, or 848 per 10000, were SINH
larly illiterate.
THERE seems to be no end 70 hu.
man credibility. A writer In o French
review, to show the misery and readi-
ness to believe anything that prom.
Used to better their condition, as we'll
% the audacity Of the interruptions
rascals by whom they. are sometimes
feeced, tells the story Of On adven.
turer who persuaded number Of the
peasantry In some districts In Russia
to hand over to his keeping all their
worldly possessions with . view OF
emigrating, under his guidance, to
the planet Jupiter, whore they were
to find land In abundance, easy to
work and marvelously fertile.
CONCLUDING an editorial article In
advocacy OF good country roads the
New York Tribune says: In Massa-
chusetts there Is . permanent High.
way Commission, under whose au.
thority $500, QUO 10 being expended In
building State roads. This sum has
been divided among fourteen coun.
ties. The general plan 10 to build.
section by section, roads to connect
business centers, and join them with
through roads In other States.
Colonel Pope, who 10 On enthusiast
on the subject Of good roads, 10 con.
WINGED that the Massachusetts plan
10 superior to that OF any other
State. Certain It IL that Massachu.
sets has taken hold Of the matter Ia
earnest and with intelligence.
DIR. HOWARD, Of Baltimore. In an
address to the American Medical AZ.
ISOLATION. has endeavored to give an
analytical account OF the mystery OF
hypnotism. Every phenomenon oil
this strange influence 10 referred by
him to "suggestion'-this word be.
ing In this use . technical term,
which means that one mind controls
another by irresistibly suggesting its
line OF thought. SELF Is not an en-
tity Independent OF the orgonism. I"
The individual, the eye, the human
entity, 10 q product Of the bodily
structure. There 10 no soul which,
has Q body for Its house. There IL o
body which has u soul or mind us an
attribute OF Its physical existence.
This soul or mind may vary as the
body does. "Aiter the relations Of
the various structural elements OF
the body and you alter the SELF"
Suggestion from . superior mind az.
Stimulates the other creature to itself |;
and 90 controls its mental and physi.
cal operations. Under bad infiu.
ence anybody may be Mr.. Hyde |;
under o good one everybody 10 DR..
Jekyll.
A LITTLE over nine years ago Chi.
cago's Haymarket tragedy occurred.
On the night Of May 4, 1886. q bomb
was thrown into the ranks OF the
police, who had gone to dispense an
anarchist meeting. One policeman
was killed outright, six were NOR.
tally wounded, and sixty more or
less injured. The number OF the
crowd killed or hurt was never known.
Chicago never witnessed excitement
SO intense, and she ut once achieved
the reputation OF being the center Of
anarchism for tho whole world. No
one event ever brought labor troubles
and agitation to the notice OF 90 many
people, and probably no other inAu-
ence has done SO much to cause q
widespread study OF social economy.
Four men were hanged for the Hay.
masket crime, and one killed himself
In jail by blowing his head to pieces
with q dynamite cartridge exploded
In his mouth. 1t was never discov-
cred who threw the bomb. When n