Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28
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has II SHu IoOk tIlut - "S''"'"er
Jnpan and Russia between them
have Just borrowed s210.Ooo"W. And
this is only the beginning of the war!
II Is out at last. The price of cam.
paign cigars has been determined in
court ut Boston. II Is 3 cents u piece.
Radium rays. IL has been discovered
do not cure everything. something
had to be left for the N-rays to cure.
Men who learn not to warm dyna.
mite on the kitchen stove are never
spared to get the benefit Of the ex.
pericnce.
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II might be us well TO remember that
the "highpr critics" will always leave
enough of the Bible for all practical
purposes.
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Banker Benedict observes that Wall
street il not a locality. but u prejudice.
This sounds something like u readop-
ton Of the heather definition of BOs.
ton as "a state Of mind.
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The average citizen has great din.
Guilty In prOnouncing the geographical
names In the war news. but his per-
plexity II nothing TO what II would be
II Il war should break out In Maine.
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A st. Paul man has died rs the re.
suit of being bitten by fish that he
was trying to take from his hook. Let
the man who sits hour after hour with
out getting bite cheer up. He may
be lucky.
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A Norwegian chemist has discovered
new and cheap process for making
alcohol from saw,lust. II snwdust con-
tains alcohol. this may explain the
perpetual exhilaration shown on the
face of the sawdust doll.
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Peace societies ought to take heart.
An instructor In ''jiu jitsu" Is to he en-.
gagged to teach the navel cadets at
Annapolis how to fight In the Japanese
fashion with their arms ana legs.
When international contests are re-.
fined down to wrestling matches the
dawn of arbitration for all disputes
will begin to flicker across the sky.
English spoken here; American I'M.
derstOOd." Is u sign recently seen In n
Venetian shop-windOw. Does this
mean that English customers listen.
but Americans talk? Or Is our speech
80 much more difficult than the parent
stock that the Venetian has got only
far enough to understand II! His an.
nOuncement would call for an eXplana-
ton We're It not obvious that his pur.
pose was merely to recognize politely
that both nations speak the same
tongue.
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VIII there ever be another Homer,
Virgil. Shakespeare, Dante, TassO. Nil.
ton, Schiller. or even Tennyson?
Will there he any more great masters
Of music like those who have so com.
pletely passed away ana whose com.
positions are visibly declining In pub.
lie favor? These are questions which
nobody can answer, but the promise
ut least IL far from favorable. We
have entered an age In which men
are more than ever concerned with the
material things OF life. ana when they
| seek relaxation ana diversion II Is In
the direction Of extreme frivolity and
trivlality.
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Trees with pedigree are not com.
mon, but one such was set out In the
| White House grounds In Washington
the other day. II grew from an acorn
which Secretary Hitchcock of the DE.
partment OF the Interior took from an
oak that grew from an acorn which
| Charles sumner picked from u tree
over the tomb of Washington and sent
TO the Isar. The Tsar had the acorn
planted In the grounds of the PeterhOf
Palace In st. Petersburg. ana Mr..
Hitchcock got his acOrns when he was
minister to Russia In lS9S. and had
them planted at his home In Missouri.
So the young sapling on the White
House grounds Is the gra ndchiid of the
| Washington oak. One might trace the
ancestry farther back, but rs II has
an honorable grandfather, what Is the
use?
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We rise to make plain talk on n
theme that Is big in the thought of the
girl. The theme is man and the choice
OF life mate for maid. The dear
young thing will bear in mind that n
freak hat" foul pipe, tan shoes
shaped like grown hams and pair of
fierce socks do not, of need, go to make
up the best sort of man to tie to. The
scarf and the vest, their check, tint or
noise do not take place in the worth
of the brute who must soon or late
serve the soft sex. 1t Is to say, then,
that the buds make the dude, but do