Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-08-18
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A train had 10 stop In Coffee County.
tennessee, to allow bear to get Of
the track.
Herman Merlvale has received civil
list pension from Mr.. Balfour, - he
has lost his money by one Of the re-
cent failures Of solicitors In London.
"Cycliste" and "cyclisme" has been
accepted as dictionary words by the
French Academy after hard struggle,
according to the London Daily Tele-
graph.
Herbert Spencer never made any
money on his books. In some instances
he lost. On his eight volumes Of
principles Of Sociology" there was q
deficit Of $4,000.
Fred Burnham, the famous American
scout, who was specially cabled for by
Lord Roberts from the United States,
has been sent home, owing to a severe
sprain to the abdominal muscles.
An Irish witness in the House of
Commons committee.room the other
day mentioned that near Sligo there
was q waterfall which ran 800 yards
up HILL" He was surprised that the
audience laughed.
Il. Henley, formerly editor Of the
Scots Observer, has lately been con-
Tossing that Kipling's "Barrack. Room
Ballads" which were first published
In that journal, attracted little atten.
ton ut the time, and had absolutely no
effect on the circulation"
Colorado has sold sixty miles of tim.
Der near Devils Head Mountain, where
1t Is estimated there are 10000 gray
squirrels, which have lived and multi.
piled there for years. protected by
public sentiment. The squirrels will
be evicted by the woodcutters.
Senator Caffery's invariable summer
rig Is suit Of linen homespun, topped
on with q manila hat, the whole shad-
cd by q huge umbrella, green lined.
Thus arrayed the Louisiana states.
mans squat, fat figure presents q
somewhat amusing appearance.
Chicago capitalists have made some
heavy land deals In the azoo.Aiissis.
sippi delta, their purchase amounting
to more than 100000 acres, and for
which they IRE said to have paid an
average Of $40 per acre. Ten years
ugo these lands would not have brought
80 cents an acre.
The new central station ut Noting.
ham. England, erected by the Great
Central and Great Northern Railway
Companies at cost Of nearly million
sterling, was opened for traffic recently.
The site covers twelve acres. and Is
threc-quarters Of O mile long and 800
feet broad at Its widest point. Its
twelve platforms have IN aggregate
length Of mile and three.quarters.
In his recently published memoirs
Edmond do Amicis describes q visit he
paid to Jules Verne, who showed him q
bookcase containing q complete collec.
ton of his books, eighty In all, besides
translations Of many Of them into most
European languages. as well as Arabic
and japanese. "And yet" said Verne.
II owe my prosperity not to these
books, but to the dramat ixation Of some
Of them"
When q stIdent at Harvard Gen.
Leonard Wood was intimately connect.
ed with athletic sports Of oil kinds, but
principally with running and walking.
The free and easy gait Of those days
has never left him. The regulation
army step Is thirty-eight Inches, but
Gen. Woods ordinary stride is forty.
and II Is said he can cover more
ground In day than any other man
In the army.
Jacob Balgemann, public clock wind.
er ut Heilbronn. Bavaria. has struck
for higher wages He asserts that
every year he has to mount 2Ss.000
stairs, turn his keys 441 $50 times, and
raise q weight Of eleven tons. Now,
however. new church and q new
school have been opened and their
clocks added to the list. This means
another $1,000 steps to mount. and q |
proportionate weight, aud number Of |
turns Of the key,