Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-06-18


itentiary: but the city man in broad.
cloth and patcnt.leathers who works
the same game goes free with fine
of $50 or $50.
A Baltimore court has decided that
the appearance of a new baby in q
Hat where the lease contained mo
children" clause makes the parents
liable to ejectment. The difficulty can
he easily adjusted. however. by send.
ing the baby to foundlings' hospital.
Marquis Ito warns the Japanese that
they cannot win on American sympa-
thy alone. Ito probably understands
that American. as well as most of the
other kinds of sympathy. goes only to
the point ut which 1t begin to cost
money.
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The late John J. Ingalls,, It appears,
was not the real author of the sonnet.
Opportunity" He found IL floating
around i'm the original Italian. and
made translation of II. And Fred
Funston did not swim the Bag Bag
river. Whittier nre we drifting? Can
we be certain of anything nowadays?
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And the bank auditor, after he had
stolen the funds of his employers,
blamed the actress for his ruin. just
as Adam blamed Eve. OF course. the
man was not IN any way at fault.
THE woman tempted me and did
eat' Is still the resort of some cow
ards.
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"aicc.' wrote the schoolboy, "is a
nice vegetable to put in soup and to
throw mt weddings" Americans have
realized its virtues. for since 1900 the
number Of pounds consumed by the
average citizen has Jumped from three
to five. Anybody who has tried to
boil rice knows that five pounds will
make a good deal Of food.
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Maurus Joliai. the Hungarian novel.
ist and patriot who died recently,
edited two papers at once. and ut the
same time belonged to the Chamber
Of Deputies. Between whites. during
his fifty years of activity. he wrote
three hundred volumes. including u
dozen masterpieces Of fiction.
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modern invention, but recent excava.
ton ut POmpeli has unearthed u piece
Of wire rope an inch In diameter and
about fifteen feet long. The rope Is
made Of strands. each containing M.
teen wires twisted together, and the
strands are twisted upon one another
exactly as In modern cordage.
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Some one has pointed out in a $50.
ciety column" that the woman Of to.
day needs, to dress properly, three
times as much money as her grand.
mother. who In 1850 dressed well Oh
800 a year. This leaves out Of con.
sideratlOn the grent majority Of neatly
and prettlly dressed women - our
wives, sisters and mothers, who hnve
but few dollars to spend for clothes.
They make their own garments, ana
with skIllful fingers ana good taste
supply for themselves that for which
dressmnkers would charge many hun.
drcd dollars.
The Michigan physician who puts
the annual money loss to the United
States from typhoid fever Mt $4,000.
600 In far from setting forth the full
truth. He reaches his estimate by
assuming $1,000 as the average value
OF the lives sacrificed and he Omlts oil
account Of the money spent In the care
Of nOn.fntal cases. The real value Of
the lives lOst--sO far as such value can
be expressed In mOney-might proper.
ly be rated ut $4,000. and ut least 500
on the average must he spent on vic.
Tins who recover. On this calculat ton,
assuming that the Michigan physician
Ii correct In his number Of cases, the
annual loss 10 the country from ty.
phold il nearly $3OO.OOO.OOO.
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Twenty thousand quarts Of skinned
milk a day are used In Austria for
making substitutes for horn, ivory,
amber and such like things. The
caseln in the milk Is precipitated by n
chemical process and then mixed with
fOrmaline. This produces galalith. or
petritied milk, n hard, elastic, insoluble
substance that Is easily worked. The
Austrian dairy experts think that the
demand for the skinned milk for this
purpose will be great enough to in
crease the profit in the butter-making
business by producing a ready market
for the by-product.
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Two eases of mpudence by tele-
phone girls have lately been noticed in
the newspapers. They deserve pub
LEFTY as an illustration OF different
ways Of treating the same offense.
One girl was impertlnent to the mayor
of IN American city. She was talking
"over the line" and did not know who
he was. He had her discharged. The
other girl. also In ignorance OF the
identity Of her interlOcutor. gave a
sharp answer to President Loubet, Of
France. lie summoned her to his of.
flee, talked to her kindly and sensibly,
and sent her back to her work. One
cannot help feeling that the French
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