Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-12-12


ana draw q per cent interest. DR..
Fruit estimates that the building will
pay Il rental of $4,000 a year.
It's as difficult to see how money
makes the man us IL is to see how
some men make their money.
Train robbers have begun to operate
in South Africa. 1t must be true. after
all. that Pat Grove has settled over
there.
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The railroads of the United States
killed 3.554 persons during the year
ended June 30. still some people go
around worrying because of the hor.
rOrs Of war.
John Farson, of Chicago. has mil.
lion dollars to give away. Ebert Hub.
bard says he refused It once. and Mr..
Farson corroborates this. Mr.. Farson
dasscnt give us Il try.
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There Is some tank of II Siberian rev.
olution. 1t isn't likely to go any far.
ther than the throwing of the first
bomb, however.
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The talk of signaling from Mars has
been revived. Better get through with
the north pole and the flying machine
before taking up this proposition seri-
ously.
They say that Abdul Hamid has
cerebral anaemiu. lie should be Op.
Grated Oh ut once and the cerebrum
excised.
Somebody has written n book Of
"Sonnets Of the Head and Heart"
Now let's have some "SOnnets Of the
Lights and Liver"
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II n mans children turn out half as
bad rs he was ut their age he thinks
the world Ii growing worse.
The Kaiser una the Car IRE said
to be In league against thinkers. hut
as long as the thinkers do their think
Ing inside their heads, they need not
fear jul or Siberia.
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The VanderUilts and Il few Western
families are forming new smart set
in New York. Western families who
wish to get In will have to apply
early, though.
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| Ii Mr.. Rockefeller has secured con.
troll Of the steel trust, how would'i Il
do for him to let the rest Of the water
out ana MI 1t up with oil?
The sudtlenness Of the thing took
Colombia's breath temporarily and her
canal route permanently.
English authors have organized n
society for the temporary suppression
OF fiction. Move to substitute per.
manent' for temporary"
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China will perceive that the United
States has enough matters to. Interest
In It's own hemisphere without rush.
Ing into any collisions over Asiatic
affairs.
James Il. Keene Is reported to have
made SG,OoO!OOO on the short side OF
steel. II will no doubt be pleasing to
Il large number of people In this coun.
try to receive this pointer us to where
the money went.
Mr.. John Morley examined more
than three hundred thousand dOcu.
ments, 1t is said, In preparing his Life
of Gladstone" The sum which he Is
reported to have received from the
publishers for the wOrk-$50, OOO--does
not seem excessive.
American aristOcracy has beei
crowned with real success. There
have been sham dukes, ana counts, ant
princes. but now somebody has thought
1t practicable to make himself up AZ q
sham Goelet nobly cOndescending to dC
the King Cophetua act.
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The Sultan mas cancer Of the stOm
ach ana can't live more than two OF
three years. \ German doctor mad,
the discovery, probably because til,
Turkish physicians We're afraid Of get
ting themselves beheatied II they toll
tie old man about 1t.
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Sir Henry Durand. the new British
ambassador to the United States, has
hitherto represented his sovereign II
countries which have the lion for ,
symbols: Persia ana Spain. lie now
comes to the home of the eagle; an,
the British lion. although 1t will no
lie down with the lamb, will Censor
with the bird of freedom.
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Jules Verne, the French rOmancer
In his seventy-siXth year, is compelle,
by defective sight to work very slow
ly; but he tells Il correspondent tina
that does not much matter, since tn
book he is now engag ed upon-his on,
hundred and first-will not be wante,
| nv tla Driuiars until nhaut 1o10 II,