Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-07-11

photographer Is that he Is too candid.
He never gives his subject a chance
to look pleasant.
Mr.. Carnegie has discovered that 1t
requires as much discerrment to give
money away judiciously as 1t does to
nmass 1t.
Heretofore Inca traditions led scien.
lists to believe that Peruvian civiliza.
ton existed only few centuries be.
fore the coming of the Spaniards. The
work of DR.. Uhle is said to have estab.
lished the fact that great civilization
flourished in Peru 1000 years earlier.
Since the introduction of the Be:til.
lon system in France 10000 persons
who have committed crimes and who
we're concealing their identity have,
by means OF the system, been Identified
and brought to justice, and among
these not one mistake Is known to
have been made.
In the election of 1892 there we're In
England and Wales 36,1O9 illiterates;
in Scotland, 4,677; in Irela d. s4,s19.
| At the 1895 elections the figures were:
llliterates in England, 2s,521; Scot.
land, 4,0G2; Ireland, 40,357.
That the low.lying territory OF the
| Mississippi should at times be over.
flowed Is not surprising II one consid.
ers that the Father Of Waters draws
supplies from twenty.eight States.
draining one.third Of the area Of the
United States.
The Milwaukee Sentinel remarks
that the automobile has come to stay
and should be welcomed as q modern
Improvement Of great possibilities.
both Of pleasure and usefulness. But
II Is obviously not q machine to be en-
trusted to the guidance Of the thought.
less and the featherbrained, who pur.
sue their own pleasure regardless OF
the comfort and safety Of other people.
Canada Is about to become the chief
source Of the worlds supply Of arsenic.
The arsenic which for many years BAT
fed the gold miners of Hastings coun'
~, Ontario. in their efforts to extract
the precious metal from Its matrix
has become the more profitable Of the
two minerals. The strange turn OF the
wheel Of fortune has been caused BY
the virtual exhaustion Of the former
chief source Of supply Of arsenic In
Germany and England, together with
the superior quality and purity Of the
Canadian product.
The Pail Mall Magazine thinks thai
life would become intolerable II girls
could not be on frank and uncoquettisf
terms with men Of their own age, OF
some years their seniors. The idea tina,
because two young people may have
great deal in common they must alst
be in love Is happily dying out. NJ
one Is hurt, no one Is compromised
when a friendship does not lead 4
marriage.
One definite advantage in substitut
ing khaki for blue cloth uniforms 70
the army in the tropics and In summe
was not considered when the Chang
was discussed in the War Department
the anopheles mosquito not having
that time been exhaustively studied
The Misunderstanding mosquitoes will
not light upon substances having q vel
low color, but swarm about blue TAT
RIGS.
Sir Clements Markham. President O
the Royal Geographical Societ,
strongly deprecates the costly exped
lions which the various nations sen
out In rivalry without any system
cooperation. He considers futur
: North Pole expenditiOns as WORTHLESS
useless for geographical purposes
useless from the naturalists point
view.
That the motorist cannot help reel
less driving was maintained by
French savant In a recent meeting
? scientists In Paris. The furore stea
ON them. In setting out they intend
20 at a moderate pace, but az the
warm to the work they must rush q
faster and faster. The flying land
cape through which they tear forwal
> produces the kind Of giddiness whit
Q. Arabs say takes hold Of them In Il
u fantasia. In this state motorists wou
II run down those nearest and dearest
g. them as unhesitatingly as though thu
were so many animals.
In an article on irrigation in Il
Y Year Book Of the Department OF Agl
~ culture, Edward A. Beale, Of Il
y Weather Bureau, says that there a
&c more than seven million acres Of irl
gated lands in the United States. II
D. total cost of the irrigation systems
81 the country is $64,os9,6Ol, and q
~ value OF the irrigated crops for I
IT single year of 1899 was $S4,4S3,43S,
" 30 per cent. greater than the cost
~ the irrigation plants. The number
u, irrigators was 102,Sl9, which civ
" nearly seventy.one acres to the farm.
W. According to the Denver Republics
Nv the current Of immigration to the VI
VI ted States is unusually strong, but
as comparison shows that in proporti
e' to the population it is not so great
that into Canada Although we q