Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-10-06

The young men of to-day are too fin
icky--too much given to self.analysis,
sclf-pampering. Their shoes and neck
ties cost more each year than did the
entire wardrobe of their grandfathers.
They feel q sense of degradation In
small beginnings and plodding and they
wait for success ready-made to come to
them. The young man of to-day can
not be president of bank or judge Of
Il court the first week he is from school,
and he feels like the famous ELI Pussley.
that he has mo chance
\ New England manufacturing COM
pany, which has taken a contract to
make u large number of hats for the
United States government, has aban-
doned the old plan of fines for careless
ness and consequent mistakes on the
part of its employees, and henceforth
will reward skillful work by advances
in wages and by money prizes. There Is
little doubt that the plan will prove a
good one, both for the firm and for Its
employees, and that Uncle Sans sol
diers will get better hats in conse.
qucnce of II.
Life insurance men say that within
ten years the grip has come into the
front rank of causes of mortality. One
American company had % deaths from
IL In 1890. In 1892, II had 1873, and In
every year since from 20 TO 40 deaths
have been reported. The medical ex.
nminers add that the figures understate
tie fact, since many deaths ascribed to
pneumonia, for instance, are really
caused by this vicious influenza, which
seems not only to strike mt ones weak.
est point. but permanently to enfeeble
the whole system. Probably the pecu.
liar depression induced by the disease
helps to swell the mortality list.
The Agricultural Department has Is.
sued a bulletin on mosquitoes. II gives
full Information concerning the various
breeds of mosquitoes that have TO be
dealt with In this country; 1t explains
which kinds of mosquitoes bite the
hardest; it gives diagrams of their
| drilling contrivances; II goes into
minute details concerning the number
of baby mosquitoes reasonably indus
trlous mamma mosquito may become
responsible for In the course Of week
or a year, and In fact 1t tells us all
about mosquitOcs--all but one import
ant thing. The bulletin gives us no In.
formation as to how mosquitoes can
get along for whole season without
sleeping wink.
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For months hundreds OF young cou.
pies have been rushing of TO st.
Joseph, Mich, TO get married. 1t does
not appear that 1t was cheaper to get
the knot tied there than elsewhere In
Michigan, which IL not an expensive
State as a rule. But the place got a
name as a Gretna Green and became a
magnet for the victims Of Cupid. Later
these couples were startled by the news
that sham clergymen have been taking
advantage Of the opportunity to earn
fees, and many are asking whether or
not they are really "spllced" or will
have to 90 through the agony over
again. In choosing Gretna Green II
Is evident that lovers should be very
careful.
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English postOffice clerks must here
after address all male correspondent,
as Esquire" unless they ''are evident
~ laborers, personal servants or trades
men," So rules the Marquis Of London
derry, postmaster general. His Ordel
tends to widen the application OF the
title, which has been held to belong Il
the eldest sons OF certain nOblenen
officers OF the courts and the Queen,
household, barristers, justices. sheriff,
and eX.Ofiicers Of the army and navy
In the United States the title Is. per
haps, most properly given to attorneys
in practice, II Is used as indiscriminate
ly as the overwOrked Honorable.
But IL one uniformly addressed Ameri
cans as Mr." and Engllshmen Il,
esq" the Englishman could not b,
offended, and the American would hav,
} no right to be.
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The Literary Digest translates {
: statement to the effect that the mos
recent statistics show decrease of III,
, birth rate In every European country
. the average decrease being 3 per cent
} since 1891. This Is curious fact, ant
seems to show that the Malthuslan the
Dry failed to take into account certain
conditions In nature that tend to pre-
vent the overpopulatiOn OF the earth
For some time il has been known tina
the birth rate In France has been unsat
|, isfactory. But II was not suspected
.. that every country In Europe was II
the same declining condition, though
to less degree. There Is still an an
nual Increase Of population by births
: but the fact that this increase Is dimin
ishing Is remarkable, because, should 1
7 continue, the crisis would be reache,
/ and populations begin to die out. Per
) haps Macaulay's New Zealander ma,
yet have the opportunity to view Eu
rope as an uninhabited waste.
} The severity Of Russia toward Fin
land Is resulting In a large increase O
/ the population OF the United States
and an increase Of Industrious, law
, abiding citizens. When Alexander
, wrested Finland from Sweden IL
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