Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-15
NOTES AND coMMENrA

,rat an act perfectly allowable In one
: ATE is crime in another. \ still
: eater confusion often results when
u right Of property Is considered.
The professors of agriculture In ,
| r>,nch colleges throughout the coun-
try are being put to practical use by
the government. in consequence Of the
failurc of the hay crop. NJ. Mclne has
ordered them to proceed to the rural
districts. where they will try to per
c,iadc the farmers to sow vctchcs.
corn. and other fUider to make UP for
the hay. and to make use Of oil-cakc.
straw. bran. and corn.
This IL an extraordinary flag year.
says The Philadelphia Record. Since
March fiag factories all over the
country have been running on double
time. The pattern of the flag includes
one new star-for utah--aud by an old
law Of Congress the star Of a new state
.can only I've added to the dag on the
Fourth of July following Its admission.
These new flags have been distributed
20 every Government building In the
Nation. TO the warships. the military |
posts. and they will first see the light |
of day on Saturday next. The new
regulation Government flag Is ) feet O
inches long by 4 feet 4 inches wide.
The field is = feet q inches long by 2
feet chcs wide
We have all heard Of the bicycle
face. nnd now it Is said there Is new
ailmcn, resulting from devotion to the
silcnt steed. This Is known as the BIZ
cycle eye. and the oculists are rubbing
their hands In glec at the prospect Of q
rich harvest in fees. The "scorcher'
who humps himself. with spinal col
umn elevated and nose down ut the
hantllc-bars. naturally has to use his
eyes. rs well as the rider who sits
strsiirht in his saddle. In order to nc.
cVmplish this feat a severe strain Is
placed upon the optic nerves. and an
unnatural condition of the eye cnsues.
Experts claim that II takes about two
years to develop case Of bicycle eye,
md the disease Is rapidly increasing.
Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnnto.
the South African mining kings. are
said to have turned their attention to
tbr newly discovered gold fields In
the region lying west ana southwest
OF Lake Kootenai. In British Column
bia. Just north Of the international
boundary line. They have sent OK.
pcrts to investigate the prospects.
These experts declare the richness Of
the Rossland ana Trail Creek mount.
ain regions far surpasscs anything
South Africa ever dreamed Of. This re-.
port, 1t Is thought. will be followed by
the investment Of large amount Of
capital In that section by those mining
magantes and other wealthy English.
men who follow their lead In such en-.
tcrpriscs.
Game IL to be preserved In central
Africa. Major Won wissman has set
aside portion Of German East Africa,
within which no shooting will
be allowed without license
from the Governor Of the
colony. A license to shoot elephant
or rhinoceros costs 800 rupees year
for n native; females and young ele
plants with tusks weighing less than
six pounds must not be shot at all
White men will pay 100 rupees for the
first elephant shot and $50 rupees fol
every other. 50 rupees for the first two
rhinOceroses, and 100 rupees for nj
after them. Monkeys, beasts Of prey
boars. and birds, except ostriches ant
secretary birds. may be killed without
. license.
At the recent National Council Of
Congregational Churches a committed
WnS appointed to meet committee
from the National Conference Of thu
Christian denomination and consider
the subject Of confederation or unioi
OF the two denominations. The feeling
between the two bodies Ii very cordial
One Of tho colleges conducted by thu
Christian churches. Elon College. o.
North Carolina. has just conferred tn,
degree OF doctor Of divinity upon tn
Rev. Frank 4. Child, pastor Of the Con
gregationai Church In Fairfield, Conn
This Is a pleasant recognition OF tn
friendliness Of relations between Con
xregationalists ana Christians. MI
Child has spoken on various public oC
caslons In Massachusetts, Virginia ant
Ohio on the subject OF Christian union
and has come into personal cOntac
with many Of the leading men In tn
Christian denomination.
Punctuality In woman has been at
tained under hypnotic suggestion, In
remarkable set OF experiments recent
reported to the Society for Psychica
Research. 4 young person Of nineteer
who had never shown any capacity 10
calculation, and who was In gOO
health ut the time, though her nerve
had been unstrung for a year before
was hypnOtizcd and directed to do Gel
tain simple things at specified timei
writing down the time when sh
thought she did them. The interval
suggested varied from few hundre
to over 10000 minutes. and sometime
a. many as six suggestions startin
at different hours were wOrkin
on her at once. The experiment
read like the painful examples In tn
mental arithmetic. At o'clock on
DAY she was asked to do something
10000 minutes, beginning at 10 the da
before. In ffty.five experiments theI
were only two failures. On awakel
ing the subject had no recollection {
the suggestions made to her.
A Yucatan correspondent OF I'll
Philadelphia Record describes a lari
cocoanut plantation Of a New Englar
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