Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08


garden recently asked why the mon |
key-puzzler" was so named. See these
spines which cover the trunk of the
tree thickly," explained a native.
sweeping the path. THE puzzle is
how the monkey ever gets down.
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Statistics show that the average
amount of public schooling per capita
in this country Is 90S days. That is,
there would he 90S days for each in.
habitant IL it were distributed around.
Fifty years ago the average was 42O
days and at the beginning of the nine
teenth century It was but eighty-two
days. The nation gives the school
children of today twelve times as
much schooling as the youngsters re.
ceived 100 years ago.
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Now that the farmers of the North
west have begun to raise macaroni
wheat the popularity of macaroni
among Americans ought to increase.
The Italians have long understood its
value as cheap and nourishing food,
but its use in the United States has
been confined chiefly to the large
towns. With a hundred and fifty
thousand acres of macarOnl wheat In
South Dakota alone last year. and
macaroni mills in Minnesota and North
Dakota. the food ought soon to be as
common as potatoes on the country
tables.
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Provided one can keep nflOat few
minutes, and provided, furthermore,
that somebody gives an alarm. to fall
overheard In mid-ocenn does not nee
| essarlly mean that one must drown.
While a German liner was going at
express speed the other day crazed
coal-passer jumped from the midship
rail. Some one saw him, an alarm
was raised instantly. the great vessel
swung on her keel and a boats crew
got away, and In eight minutes from
the time the poor fellow Jumped he
was In the llfe-boat. There need be
no experimenting to test the efficiency
of the arrangements for rescue; but
since accidents do happen, 1t IL com.
forting to know that such system and
| discipline are the rule Of the Atlantic
ferry.
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The automobile lawn.mower was
sure to come. No sooner was It prOph.
esled than an inventor made one, and
It can be seen IN operation OH the Cap
itol grounds in Washington. When II
Is produced at a popular price, the
suburbanite, Of whom the comic pa
pers make SO much sport, may take d
few turns about his lawn every morn
Ing, and then head the mower TOWARD
the railroad station to take his trait
for town. On his return In the after
noon he may finish the job of moving
the lawn, while he keeps the gras,
along the roadside cut and rolled b,
his daily trips. Then on Sundays h,
may give his baby ride up and down
the road In Its horseless carriage, tina,
It may understand what the modern
inventor can do.
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One.third OF the white voters OF
Breathltt county. Ky. are unable t.
read or write. That county has always
had Il deficit In its account with thu
State. Out Of af.y-one felony cases OF
the docket at single term OF cOur
there was not one conviction. Their,
have been one conviction since tn,
present governor went into office, bu
he has ranted parslons In twenty-eIgh
cases. That Breathitt county Is "tht
dark and bloody ground Of Kentuck,
Is not strange. The schoOlmaster l,
not abroad" there. 1t is hard to civ
lllze people without schoolhouses. Tn,
courts hitherto have encouraged law
lessness by falling to punish. There
are signs, however, that Breathit
county Is beginning to realize that !
has been dlsgracing itself and tn
State. What 1t needs to do Is to han,
q few of Its murderers ana build som,
schOOlhOuses. II 1t has courage enough
to do this Breathltt county may re
, deem itself. and this may encourag
some other Kentucky counties to d
likewise. There are twelve counties Il
that State without a newspaper an,
without schoolhOuses enough ito sa,
So" You cannot gather figs from this
ties.
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Il There was pure food law passed b.