Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-12-28

In Gettysburg Park 500 monuments,
225 nounted cannon and over 200 tablets
tell the story of the great battle.
London is utilizing the telephone in
connection with the post office to the
fullest exteut. AT present the lines en-
brace 64o sf,iare miles.
Recently cat playfully climbed a
pole and diverted 1000 volts of electric
ity, generated by mighty Niagara, and
temporarily cast several towns into
darkness. The cat has no idea of what
happened.
A few heavy bills for damages for
injured pedestrians may teach the reck-
less automobile drivers that public
streets are not racecourses. Their own
common sense does not seem to teach
them the lesson
King Edwards order that at his coro-
ration identical l,onors shall be paid 10
Presidents and crowned heads is the one
rent in the fabric OF mediaevalism which
ne purposes to exhibit to gaping twcn-
tieth century world.
4 live musk OK was brought to San
Francisco the other day by the whaling
steamer Beluga. just back from long
cruise in the Arctic. This is said to be
the first live musk OK ever taken to a
temperate climate, this animal being Pc
culiarly sensitive to changes of tempera-
ture.
The people of Florida are looking for
ward to a winter of large prosperity,
because their orange orchards are again
IN fine condition after years of blight
from. the arctic frosts in the nincties,
and they hope to secure handsome profits
by extensive shipments of the golden
fruit to Northern cities.
Mexico has a total railroad mileage of
only $500. about the same as the State of
New York. and the topography of the
country is such as to offer excellent OPP
portunities for the profitable introduce
tor of minor or collateral electric lines
for passenger traffic and for the utiliza-
ton of electric power in many inan,i-
featuring interests.
The photograph has rarely carried a
more interesting vocal repetition than it
brought back from the Uganda jungles
in the songs, colloquics and miscellanc-
Gus catcalls of the native tribes inhab-
ting them. 1t was happy conception Of
Sir Harry Johnson. the explorer, to bring
home with him their voices as well as
their photographs, and the Royal Geog-
raphical Society. which he recently adj
dressed. had the opportunity of listen.
ing to the most striking performance OF
minstrelsy OH record.
The salt industry at Salton. CAL.
might almost be described as salt farm
ing, for the product is plowed up on a
snow-likc field and hoed into piles.
which are afterward carried to mill
and crushed. Various grades are thus
prcpared-from table salt to hide salt.
The deposit is constantly added to by
springs which rim into the basin. Most
OF the work Is done by Indians. who
seem better able than white men to en-
durc the intense summer heat OF the re-
gion--Iso degrees in June.
The Massachusetts, Horticultural So
ciety is working along a line which
promises m,irh good in its offers OF lib
eral prizes to schools for school gar
dens. The hope is that such gardens
will be instituted. planted and main
tanned chiefly by the teachers and pu-
pills, and that the plants and their re-.
quircments will become the subjects of
more or less effective study on the part
for children's herbariums. The object
of this offer is much the same.
rvooorox;o,, NM x1,n Tonouaeo UarA
barbarous and unenlightened people.
nations. Now Japanese naval cleo
tied by British electrical review with
having made some valuable researches
and discoveries on the influence of the
earth on wireless telegraphy which COM
pletely rcvolutionize some Of Marconi's
theories. This Japanese electrician be-
lievcs that the earth connection works
by its capacity rather than by its con-
ductivity and that large earthing plate
is therefore advantageous. Signals over
a distance Of fifty miles were obtained
with an earthing device consisting of
three oil cans placed on the grass.
While the popular simile, "as strong
as Gibraltar" will doubtless continue in
favor, Continental critics no longer re-
gard the name of the fortress rs syn
onym for impregnabiity. Modern ar
tillery has brought the neighboring
Spanish shores so much closer, in a
military sense, than they formerly were
that the new docks and the torpedo sta
ton, which the British are constructing
on the west side of Gibraltar. would
probably be at the mercy OF Spanish
guns. The Spanish have. in fact. reared
a comprehensive series of Notifications
all along the north and west sides OF
Gibraltar, and. in some instances. only
four miles away. The British Govern
mcnt is just waking Up to the fact that
its dream of the security of Gibraltar
must be interrupted. and that the new
works on the west side must be ADAM
doned to build their duplicates on the
PERCEPTIONS east side, states The Great
Round World.