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

affected the religious life Of the coun.
try.
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One fact which considerably I'm.
creascs King Peters expectation of
life," as the insurance actuaries call
1t. Is the circumstance that he Is Il
widower SO long us he maintains
that condition he will be moderately
safe. since he will have no wife to
excite the envy and jealousy Of his
female subjects and he can always
keep up a pretense Of looking for n
wife. which will keep all the sDlnstcrs
and widows on their best behavior.
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Many prophets have been saying TINT
that this will be the woman's cen.
fury. At any rate, It looks rs IL the
old maid would disappear before Its
close. The bellies Of u generation or
two ago were sixteen or eighteen yeats
old, and a woman of twenty-five was
regarded rs hOpelessly stranded IL no
man had won her. To-day the unmar.
ried women do not begin to call them.
selves bachelor maids"-thc most re-
cent euphemsm for "old maid"-un.
til they are past thirty.
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The French have found q reason for
the popularity of the cake walk In
Paris. The thing is French! One Of
the negroes at the Nouveau Cirque,
interviewed by Paris paper, says
that the origin of the dance was
French. According to this latest nc.
count some of the French refugees
from the court of Marie AntOinettc
introduced the minuet into New Or.
leans about the time of the revolution,
and 1t was the native imitation Of the
most fashionable dance In Europe that
was afterward developed into the cake
walk.
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At recent convention Of airbrake
men an interesting report was present.
ed showing how the distance required
for the stopping Of trains had been re.
duced by the new high-speed brake.
a train running eighty miles an hour
was stopped In 2,2lO feet by the high.
speed brake mt 40 pounds, where or.
binary pressure of seventy pounds
took exactly half n mile to bring It to
Il stand. Other train speeds ana re-.
ductlons In stopping distances were
these: Fifty miles an hour, from $40
to 700 feet; fifty.hve miles. 1000 feet;
siXty.hve miles, 1885 to 1900 feet;
seventy miles, 2,O1O to 1880 feet; sew.
enty.fve miles, 1905 to 1,S40 feet.
New York City, according to the
latest estimate, has a population Of
three million seven hundred thousand.
Since New York was enlarged by the
addition Of Brooklyn ana other adjoin-
ing communities 1t has been the sec.
Ond largest city In the world. London
Is the largest. The addition to New
York Of the New Jersey cities within
the metropolitan district would still
leave 1t hundred and fifty thousand
short Of LOndOn's four million five
hundred and eighty thousand pOpula.
ton, ana more than two millions short
Of the population Of the London metro.
politan police districts. The other cit.
les of the world come Il long way after
these two great English-speaking com.
munitles. OF the fourteen cities which
have more than million population,
three are In the United States. Two
are In Russia and two In China, II the
estimates Of the population of Pekln
ana Canton are trustworthy No other
country has more than one. This fact
will not justify boastful attitude on
the part Of Americans, for 1t takes
more than big cities to make u great
nation.
Judge Franklin Ferris, Of st. Louis
took occasion recently to read ia
therly lecture to II couple that applied
10 his court for u divorce. The hus
band was Il confirmed lOdge-goer. Ill
belonged to lodge for about ever!
night In the week. His prediction
was for those lodges In which ladies
are members. The plea made by til,
applicants for the divorce, agreed t,
by both, was "incompatibillty. Sum
ming up the evidence, the judge dc
MED the decree and among Othe
things said: The husband Is strong
healthy man, of Il social nature, o
good appearance and evidently quit
popular with the ladies'" The outline
suggest picture easily filled In: Hus
band, who is disposed to be a NAL
fiirt, at the lodge--wife ut home worl
out with the days work or by fretfu
children-husband particular as to pei
sOnal appearance-wife negligent O
slatternly - husband seeking goo
cheer and lively cOmpaniOnship-wif
nervous and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
divorce application. The Judge size
up the situation as "A typical one. IL
gave both parties good advice. II
told the husband he must quit fiirtinl