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

DtIIlOn OOIl0rs. OF InOrc tnuu tWCc
the value of the entire output Of oil
the mines. Yet nowhere on earth is
the wealth Of the forests wasted more
wantonly than in this country.
In recent address In New York, e.
Francis Hyde declared that the 31S
square miles of area of Greater New
York was sufficient to accomm0 late with
standing room all the Inhabitants Of
the earth. 1,45O. 100000 in number, and
allow six square feet to each indi.
vidual.
French authors will henccforth have
power to have the books Of their pub.
fishers examined in order to ascertain
whether they have been paid their
royalty In full. A decision has Just
been rendered in tho case Of Paul
Bourgct versus Lemerrc. Lemerre OBJ
5ectcd to an inspection Of his books,
and this was the cause of the suit.
Electric railways have displaced In
the United States no less than 275,-
OO0 horses, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. 30 many horses would require
about 5000 bushels Of grain day to
feed them. amounting to 45.OOO.OOO
bushels a year. The loss of the com.
mcrclnl demand for this grain in the
cities where these railways run mean
an enormous loss of transportation
tonnage for the railways-somc g.
500 carloads. Here Is n question of
domestic economy that Is serious.
1Iair.splitting on a legal technlcalIty
this time In Minnesota. The crime al.
this time In Minnesota. The crime was
legged was forgery. and the indictment
cha gcd the defendant with having
fraudulcnt;y and feloniously uttered
and disposed Of a forged instrument
then knowing the same to be forged.
That would appear to the lay mind to
he sufficiently definite. But 1t happens
that the statute, In defining forgery,
makes the crime to he the uttering Of
q forged document ms true" The
words "as true were omitted from the
Indictment, and this. in the opinion Of
the Supreme Court. was fatal defect.
DR.. Toner. the venerable historian.
who knows more than any one else
about the private life OF Washington.
for he has made II q special study for
half a century, says that the recently
published story about woman ut Will
liamsburg, Va. being Tilted by the
Father Of HIS Country Is untrue.
Washington had many love affairs, but
he never Tilted any woman. He was
sentimental and susceptible, fell In love
with n number of girls. and offered
himself to several before he captured
the pretty Widow Gusts. But he was
not heart.breakcr. and In all his re.
lations with woman was sincere and
honorable.
The importation Of American horses
into France Is becoming success that
10 not only stimulating to the national
love for tho honest penny, but to pa.
trlotic pride rs well. The French will
not yet acknowledge that our product
equals their finest breeds, the Perche-
rons. for instance. but as carriage
horses, draught animals and perhaps
Tor cavalry use they regard them as
Tar superior to tho corresponding class
Of horses bred In France. Tho French
breeders arc taking fright, and VIC may
perhaps expect to see some sort OF a
contract.labor.al icn.hOrsc law passed
by the French Parliament.
Lepcrs arc not 30 uncommon Ia Eu.
rope as IL generally thought. One was
picked up In the Paris streets recently
and sent to the 1t. Louis Hospital,
where there were already ok other pm.
clients with the same disease. There
are isolated cases dotted oil over
France, while the lepcrs' hospital nj
San Reno and In Spain and Portugal
are never without patients. They are
gaining ground In Turkey aud the
Ionian Islands. Crete has 800 Of them
They arc most numerous, however, Ia
Norway, where there are 800. and ar
rapidly increasing In Sweden. which
has already 462. In British India
there are 100000 lcpers. The disease
infests Indo- China. Tonquin, China
and Japan, % well % Hayti, Trinidad
Guiana, Venezuela, Brasil and Para
quay.
zone Of the most remarkable new
departures in the freight bnsiness.' y
Said Mr.. Omar II. Bartlett, general
freight agent Of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. rs tho idea Of icing
vegetables for shipping long distances
It has been tried spasmodically In otheI
years, but never until this year wa,
tho plan carried out to any extent. Now
tho New Orleans shippers are icinl
their vegetables right along. We have
already this season hauled twenty-five
cars to New York city alone that con
tained Iced vegetables, and the ship
ments to Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburg
Baltimore, Philadelphia and, In fact, Il
all the Northern cities, have followed
out this new idea. You know. thu
shipment Of cucumbers, cabbages
beans and all kinds Of garden stuff
have grown very rapidly In the pas
few years, and now the producers hav'
found 1t necessary to ice them. Tit
process Of packing Ia quite interest
ing."-Ncw Orleans Democrat
The Railroad Gazette says: '"Th'
records Of the new railroad building II
the United States In 1896. which hav'
been gathered, show that TT miles o
road has been built In the first half O
the year. The total Is not very differen
from the amount of railroad which I'm
been constructed In the first half OF an!
year, since the conditions In 1S9'
called a sharp halt in railroad building
Last year 622 miles Of new road wa
built up to July /, and the record u
1894, only 4O5 miles between Januar!