Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-01-02

llSn, u compromise may DE looked TOT
that will present weird opportunities
for the dialect writer.
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John ID. Rockefeller is said to be
disappointed because his new grand.
child Is a girl. Probably he Is afraid
she will grow up to write magazine
articles about the Standard Oil Com.
pany.
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Twenty new varieties of fish were
discovered last summer in the waters
about Alaska by an expedition from
the United States Fish Commission.
The hoy with the bent pin and the an.
gleworm does not care. TO him fish
Is fish, by whatever scientific name 1t
may be called.
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There really Is 10 limit to the prac.
teal In education. Here Is a Boston
supervisor arguing for teaching the
school children more fairy tales. Yet
| consider the extent to which the coun.
/ try Is already Overrun with promoters
| capable of writing the most alluring
prospectuses.
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One Of the reasons for recent Euro.
pean interest In the business methods
of the United States IL found In a re.
port from the Department of Com
merce ana Labor. which shows that
the United States exported to Japan
twenty-five times as much In 100! az
In 1881. whereas the British exports to
the same country were only u little
more than three times as much as IN
1881.
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''rhe Strike Of Grand Duchess"
would Ike an appropriate title for the
story Of n recent episode In the career
of the bride Of the Grand Duke Of
Sake. weimnr. When she went home
to the palace in Wcimar. after marry.
ing the Grand Duke, she proposed TO
refurnlsh her apartments In modern
style. but the conservative old women
Of the court objected on the ground
that the furniture which had pleased
the duchesses for two hundred years
ought not to be removed. Her hus.
band agreed with the old women,
Then she wished to say what she was
to have for dinner. The old women
thought that 1t was beneath the dig.
nifty Of grand duchess to interest
herself In what went on In the kitch.
en-, and the Grand Duke thought 40,
too. After several more Intellectual Mt.
tempts to be mistress In her own
house, she took the train for Switzer.
land. Her husband followed. but
could not persuade her to return home
till he had promised to get rid Of the
old women and TO let her have her own
way In the house. II the Grand Duke
had been an American husband he
would have capitulated In the first
place.
Along with the expressions Of alarm
over the terribly high percentage OF
murders In America, increasing prom
inence Is given to the danger coming
from the proniiscuous carrying of con
cealed weapons. 1t Is asserted that
we are becoming "a nation of gun car
riers." The majority Of cOwarily ruf.
fans have little temptation to engage
In a quarrel II no weapon Is within
reach, while shallow headed fellows
: who have received considerable o.
their education from "iime novels
and "nickel libraries" are not only per
> suaded that weapon IL necessary Il
their safety, but they are anxious To-
an excuse to flash u gum" Peace
officers should have authority to sup
press the carrying Of weapons by IRE
. spOnsible parties. even II legal pre-
3 cedcnt had to be established, such, 10
! instance as would allow them to ar
q rest mt sight all suspicious character
In order to search for weapons. Wher
such were found, heavy sentences
\ would do considerable to d!scOurag
!, the practice. 1t Is better to take he
role measures rather than to hav
, homicide statistics which are na
, tiOnal disgrace.
or some 1900 members of religion
r orders expelled from France. 1t Is ct
J tiniated that 61OO have settled II
> England. 100 have gone to Canad
and 1900 have entered the Unite
. States. The number Of men and VIC
men who have settled In England
about equal; of those who have gon
to Canada the women are In the ma
y jOrlty, while those who have settle
y In the United States are nearly a
men. 1t Is estimated that nearly 500
100000 has been taken into Englan
: by these religions, while the sum @
$lO,O0O,OOO has come to the Unite
States and Canada.
A New York doctor gives a formul
, for Il paste that dissolves the hair o
= Il mans face and gives him shay
y. | without Il razor. Some fear Is fe
y that 1t may take the face, too, br
:, what does man care for thar who IN
tried to shave with an old razor tina
would draw tears from Il face q
!, | stone?
/ Competent American girls are In d,
| man in the Philippines. a bushes
t man who lately returned from Manil
says that the supply Of well-trane
stenographers and typewrlters Is NJ
nearly equal to the demand, althOug
W0 ges are considerably higher tia