Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-04

st. Petersburg. BY this treaty Russia
Is to enjoy with Tunis all the CONNER.
cinl agreements that she had made with
France. In addition to the privilege Of
being. after France. ''the most favored
nation" 1t Is doubtful whether a
Franco. Russian combination has been
made to Gust the italian merchants
from Tunis. where for twenty.eight
yenrs they had enjoyed unique priv.
ileges; but the journals Of Rome look Mt
the new treaty askance and warn those
who have interests In Northern Africa
to bc en- their guard.
Phrases like II don't want to-" with
the infinltive elided after the to. hav.
Ing been declared 80 be Amerlcanisms.
the Rev. J. Erie writes to the Academy
that he had always used ana heard
the form, being n native Of South Dc.
Won, and also quotes DR.. Watts "I.ct
bears and lions grOwl and fight, for It's
their nature to-" DIR. Fitx.Edward Hall
gives u long list Of English examples
for the phrase, beginning with the year
1890, and including Jeremy Collier. De.
foe. Southey. Dickens. Charles Reade,
Ruskin and George Eliot.
A girl who Ii blind and deaf and who
Ii without the senses Of smell and taste
hns passed the Harvard examination
and will enter the annex to the univer.
sity, Radcliffe, ut a younger age than
most freshmen. She II Miss Helen Kel.
lar. singularly afflicted with burdens.
cOnspicuOusly endowed with genius.
What matchless perseverance and pa.
tience must this maid possess thus to
surmOunt obstacles that seem 10 tower
miles above the possibilities Of human
endcavOr.
A bOtanist insists that many neglect.
ed American weeds are good to eat.
The tender young shoots Of milkweetl
are said to be as delicate as asparagus,
with similar valuable properties. Pig.
weed Is related to beets and spinach.
The nettle Ii we'll favored, though
somewhat course and stringy. which
argues that the donkey may he more
Of an eplcure than IL supposed. 1t Ii
suggested that every weed has an hon.
est value II It could oniy be discovered
When New York lawyer locks horns
with the English language Webster's
dictionary has no chance ut all to win
even place. The other day the cigar
cite trust was indicted for "havlng law.
fully, wickedly, unjustly, progressively
aud maliciOusly cOnspired, combined,
cOnfederated aud agreed to control and
m0nOpOlixe the making and vending Of
cigarettes" And yet they claim Ian.
guage was invented to conceal thought.
A New York labOrer accumulated q
stock Of horse shoes, to the number OF
200, as luck breeders, and he did this
In thirteen years. All but one shoe
missed fire, and the exception was
when he was detained ut home with q
toothache and his wife could not jOiu
a theater party that night. The theatei
burned down and there IL where the
shoe counted.
A New York man who has the KlOn
dixie fever Is not disposed to be salts
fed with a grub-stake merely. He ad
vertises In one Of the papers of that
city: Gentleman 800 desires to meet
lady with money to go to Alaska; mat
rimOny." Shooting the rapids In Alas
ka on raft built for two would not be
an unromantic wedding journey.
We must have weak spot Or two In
a character before we can love 1t much
People that do not laugh or cry, or take
more Of anything than Is good for them
or use anything but dictionary words,
are admirable subjects for biographies
But we don't always care most fol
those Hat pattern flowers that press
best In the herbarium.
But there Is fatality, feeling SO ir,
resistible and inevitable that It has the
force Of doom, which almost invariably
cOmpels human beings to linger around
and haunt the spot where some great
and marked event has given color to
their life time, and still more irresist,
IDLY, the darker the tinge that sad
dens 1t.
The words we SO often carelessly use
reflect a force in the mind that uses
them; they are the messengers Of the
secret life OF men to other men. Born
Of mental energy In one. they are
mighty for good or III In others. Guard
therefore well the door Of your lips.
Weigh with care the words that may
poison or bless forever.
Such are the vlcissitudes Of the world,
through all Its parts. that day and