Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-27


'3i.6aO. and that he could not live on
css than 100000 Il year. Henry Lobb.
# Fond du Lac, says he can easily live
IN S24 year.
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1t Is said that hash is likely to be
recognized by our government. Already
officers i'm different parts
# the country have made experiments
m the troops in the use of canned
iasli. and the result Is claimed by the
officers to be satisfnctory-tO them.
'elvcs. One advantage of 1t will be
hat 1t will not require the thirty-two
bites which Mr.. Gladstone asserted
should he given to every mouthful of
'ood before swallowing 1t.
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The possibilities open to modern
apostle are seen In an attractive light
through the experiences of a Massachu.
sets clergyman who, In little more
than a year. has completed "a preach
Ing tour round the world" supporting
himself and family by holding meet.
ngs and taking collections. lie started
with only nine dollars, and seems to
have earned his expenses. or more,
even while visiting Japan. China and
India. But the minister who under.
takes such trip In this year of our
Lord owes most of his success to those
earlier evangclists who did not find
many friends along the road-until
they had made enemies their friends.
According TO the doctrine of chances,
a boy who has no middle name il more
than twice as likely to become Presi.
dent Of the United States rs one who
has a middle name: ana the boy who
has more than three names has no
chance ut all. or the twenty-five men
who have filed the office of President.
seventeen had two names cach--fol
Van Buren, Is one name. ana not two.
Since 1850 no triplc.named President
has been elected except Mr.. Cleveland.
who gained Il chance by dropping his
first name.
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Last year steamship was launched
bigger than any ever built before. and
Il still bigger one Is ordered. Plans are
being prepared for building higher
than any of the stone an. brick noun.
tans In New York. The record for
trottng horses has been lowered. Is
there limit mt which all these records
must stop! The ocean Is large enough
to receive larger and larger vessels for
many years to come. The sky Is high
enough for taller and taller monsters
of steel and stone. But after a hundred
and sixteen seconds have been shaved
off the trotter's mile, the record-brCakcr
will have to win the post some seconds
before the start, and we shall need Il
new mathematics of time and space.
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Few societies In the world have done
more to relieve suffering than the Red
Cross. yet few have had 10 small n
fixed income. The American branch
has had to depend upon few annual
and such voluntary con-
trlbutiOns as have been evoked by
disaster Now a movement has been
to create a large national PEG.
pies fund, made up OF annual con-
tributiOns of one dollar, to be held In
such u way that the instant cry for
help Is heard the help will he ready;
md rs the Red Cross IL ut the same
time organizing or conducting "tirst aid
all over the United States. II
Is intended that the help shall be Intel
ligent as well as prompt.
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The French are determined that the
lrt of making lace by hand shall not
DO lost in this age when machines are
loing so much. The parliament has
passed bill establishments fessorship
N lace-making in the public and nor.
nal schools in the departments where
the industry flOurishcs. and arrange.
ments have been made for opening spe-
rial schools for the artistic education
Df the girl workers and designers Two
hundred thousand women and girls are
now employed In making lace in their
own homes. and the government hopes
that the number may he increased. II
lace-making should become the fash.
ion in America thousands of girls
would discover that there was profit as
well rs pleasure in reproducing the
famous mcshcs of Nalcncicnncs. for
instance, ana they could have real
lace that Is, lace made by hand, on
their wedding garments.
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For years the national party convcn-
lions We're held in Baltimore more fire.
luently than in any other city. This
was ut the time when the center of
population was In Maryland or in old
Virginia. The present center of popu-
ation Is in southeastern Indiana. st.
Louis and Chicago; the cities in which
he national conventions are to be held
his year. are west of the center, but
they are nearer to 1t than any other
cities save Cleveland, Gin
,nnati, indianapolis and Louisville.