Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-12-02

Mr.. Porter, the United States Ambas.
sndor to France. has reported TO the
State department that the grave Of
John Paul Jones has been discovered
In Paris. II there Is no mistake In the
Identification Of the grave Congress
should not hesitate to take prompt &c.
ton for reburIal In this country and the
erection Of a fitting monument to the
memory Of the great sea fighter, who
was the first to make the Stars and
Stripes respected OH the seas. No naval
hero has more wOrthily earned the
gratitude Of the American people than
tho lion.hearted sailor who fought the
powerful Scraps and Its consorts with
that rotten old hulk, the Bonhomme
Richard, which apparently was no bet
ter fitted for fight than Kipling's old
hulk Of Bolivar Bay.
But the horsclcss age must be pre-
coded by the asphalt age.
Gasoline being noisy and od0riferOus.
automobiles will bc run by trust.
Assuming tho Holland submarine
boat Ia a success. unlike some other
fighters. oil Its accomplishments went
be on the surface.
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A pair Of boots worn by Napoleon Mt
his coronation sold Mt auction recently
for 80, which doubtless was more than
they were really worth.
After all. football appears to be an
incentive to education. After a man
has been SO badly crippled that he can't
walk he has nothing to do but study.
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| Pause moment and reflect upon the
possible effect II the POS women law
yers of the United States should meet
| to hold conference upon the state 0f
the country.
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A grand opera singer went crazy the
other day. She was probably trying
to figure out why people who know
nothing about music keep on paying -
a seat to hear grand opera.
Ono by one our favOrite stories go
glimmering with william Tells apple
and George Washington's Ratchet. In
a current magaxine article John Morley
explodes the story that Oliver Cromwell
was dissipated In youth and that he
tried to emigrate to America.
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There are few more successful meth.
4 DDS of dipping people. In their desire for
wealth. than for some impecuni0us
trickster to tell them he has q ''sure
thing" by means of which they can
speedily get rich. They never stop to
ask why he does not make himself
rich. although the precept. physician.
heal thyselfw is SO old and hackneyed.
"One of the remarkable sights of the
present day Is that you don't see any
bicycles" remarked a gentleman. "And
stlll more remarkable" he continued,
lis the way American people take up a
fad and run 1t into the ground. Four
years ago the bicycle was the craze;
before that 1t was tennis; now 1t Is golf,
and the Lord only knows what It'll be
next. But from a clothes standpoint
golf Is the captain Of 'em all. A mans
golfing suit ana his Axings make his
bicycle rig-Out look like thirty cents. as
the saying is And the women amt
far behind"
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Since we learned that the Belgian
name for automobile Is snelpaardeloos.
zoonderspoorw egpetroolritjuig we can
understand that conservative people
would feel that they must be kept out
OF the country at any cost.
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Prof. Lanciana, of Rome, says the
skyscraper was not invented In Chi
cago. He claims that there were
twelye.story buildings In the Eternal
City during the reign Of Augustus.
What a weary lot the old Romans who
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