Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-01-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS


Il Is not entirely out VI the world by |
sending a subscription Of $3.50. raised
among its sixty families of fishermen.
~ the fund for the relief of the Arme.
mans.
According to a recent Parliamentary |
report. scventy.one persons died Of |
starvation In London during 1895. In
onty few cases was the privation |
that led to the fatal ISSUE due to self
neglect. The majority of cases We're
women aud over 80 years old.
An effort Is being made by the Gov.
ernmeut authorities OF Missouri to put |
into execution scheme FOR changing
the course Of the Usage River near Its
mo,r,'h 50 as to make II follow q
straight course to the Missouri instead
Of winding around and wasting much
valuable land.
The big revival now going cn IL
Philadelphia cu,mlnatc1 rhc other day
in a street parade CT 5000 church.
workers. In a way this suggests uhc
religious professions Of the Miillc
Ages In Europe. The houses along the
EpuNc VI tit l'stAatt WHY uNN''"'N'
with flags aud Chinese lanterns; red
fire was burned. ami skyrockets were
see of. while the paradors sang va.
r,ous Gospel hymns as they marched.
An extraordinary Instance Of hercll-
tary tendency to su.C.lc was told by
Professor Brouarlel. in Paris. recent
~. \ farmer near Ea,ppes hanged
i,imsci without apparent cause. loav.
ing a family of seven sons and four
daughters. Tea of The eleven subse.
uuet.sly followed the fathers example.
burt not until they had married and
bcgottcn children. all CT whom like
wise hanged themselves. The only
survivor is a son. who Is now sixty
eight years of age AMI isas passed. safe
ly beyond the family hanging age.
When the University Of Chicago was
started 1t was thought good policy ~
secure eight or ten Of the best men
In tie country by Offering Them the un.
prcccdcntei salary OF $1,000. But aside
from the few men thus favored for a
special reason at the beginning. other
si.arics have bcon fixed upon about
tut SNtit tbtiiis A"bN. Ah"'
varl. and half dozen C.her iirS.-ciass
ius,?su,ions. In ether words. $4,000 is
the maximum that any instructor may
hope to reach. wai.lc The rank and h!a
cf the men are paid from $500 IL
$500.
Colonel n. W. Hughes Is queer gen
ius who lives In Autlrlin County, Mis-
souri,. having selected the little village
Of Vanial.a as his permanent place OF
residence after testing the advantages
TO be found In tL!,ty.elght states ant
territories. lie has invcncd many con
trvanccs of one sort or another In thu
course of his wandering career, thu
mast important of which Is n corn
planting machine. Out of this he mad
considerable money. but his hopes o
q fortune are now founded on an In
strument which. by means of y rays
perhaps. will not only reveal the cul
intary value OF eggs. but also the gcil
der OF their embryonic occupants. Bot
these things. the Colonel says. his In
vcntion will do with speed and Gel
talnty.
Andrew. Mcsscr. vice president q
the National Grange, says that I'll
Grange originated In Washington
Thirty years ago o. II. Kelly. c!cr
IN the Interior Department. was scr
out officially to look into the conl.slo
Of the Southern farmers and see WIN
means could be taken for their relic
Wnilc making his tour. Mr.. Kelly, WI
had once been a farmer himself. COZ
covcd the idea Of great fratcrn'
order OF husbancmen. to be coaducit
on cooperative lines. like the Mason
This order. he proposed. should bI!ds
over the differences between the fa'f
ers Of the North and South, and shou
teach them that rher Inleres;s we
Identical. When he returned to Was
ing,on he told some friends Of h
idea. ana the nuclus of the present q
.anlzation was Vhen formed by sev'
men, all Of them with agricultural
tcrcsts.
Emigration to America has create
SO great a dcar,h of labor In the az
cultural districts Of Germany I'll
Chinese coolies are now being Import
In perfect hor,les for field work In {
provinces Of Sllcsla. East Prussia, !
sen ana Pomerania. Innsmuch rs {
coolies are content to labor for TWEEN
cents day. all told. the German la
owners are enthusiastic about the
novaton. and those peasants who Ia
hitherto turned deaf ear to the arg
ments In favor of emigration are NJ
being driven to the wall, ana IN
shortly be expected TO arrive In Il
country In shoals. 1t Is almost certa
that coolle labor will in short iii
he extended to other German ind'
tries and trades. ana before long Jo
Chlnaman Is likely to become rs gre
n problem In the labor market and
the political situation Of Germany
he was a few years ago In the Unit
States.
Montserrut. the lirule West Inll
Stand - which death and destrunIl
have just been carried by luNica
deserves more Of the worlds rega
tl,an il has ever received, Al Mo
serrat Is made a very large part
the lime Juice to which modern saiS
owe their almost complete exempt
from that terrible form Of blood y,
oninn which used To be The result