Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-01-14

could accommodate nearly half the In.
eral basis--h you can imagine any.
body wanting to settle down In Ne
vada.
Those who know something OF what
penal servitude means In Russia will
see small tendency toward lenlency In
the sentence of Sasoneff. the assassin
of Won Plehve.
a magazine Is Offering prize to
the first person who will correctly
guess the most popular book Of the
Nenr. A bank book with the balance
on the right side.
The women who want to do away
with the typewriter girl have started
question that will be harder to de.
clde-than the canteen controversy.
Word comes from Constantinople
that Turkey has arranged to borrow
$15OOO.O00 from foreign financial
group. The sultan must have Mrs.
Chadwick on his stan.
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A Brooklyn Judge has handed down
an opinion that a man who dyes his
hair may be considered weak. minded.
Some people will insist that the Brook.
Ign jurist is too conservative.
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Mariners assert that the gulf stream
Is flowing with an unusually swift cur.
rent this year. Unless 1t Is doing mis-.
chief, however, the case does not up.
pear to be one that calls for an In.
junction.
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Are you going to the exposition?
| What exposition? Why. the Lewis and
Clark exposition to be held In Portland
In 1905?
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When a high.salaried Office finds 1t
necessary to seek the man you may
expect to see thieves trying to break
into jail.
TolstOi says constitutional govern.
ment Is no cure for the evils that afiiict
mankind. How does he know? Has
he ever seen constitutional govern.
ment that was run In strict accord.
ance with Its constitution?
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The latest museum freak Is a pig
with two legs. Outside a museum 1t
isn't necessary to have four legs to be
Il hog.
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The comic papers are right some
times. a New York man had to sum.
mon the police to help him discharge
the cook the other day.
There were 10000 divorces In the
United States last year. or an average
of nearly seven for every hour OF the
day and night Sundays included. The
business of making and unmaking mis-
tit marriages appears to base become
Il great national industry.
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A German court has decided that
poker Is Il game Of skill, not chance,
and that man who has played poker
cannot be said to have gambled. The
presumption Is that the court had not
only played poker itself, but had been
fairly successful in accommodating the
blue checks.
The practice among Mormons of
divorcing people after they are dead
looks like a clear waste of energy.
AS long as the corpse can't be put in
Jail for refusing to pay alimony, what's
the use?
The servant girl who found $4,000
In the street requested deadhead al.
vertisement In newspaper, saying
she had no money with which to pay
Ingrowing honesty would seem to be
that wOman's complaint.
1t will be sad blow to the Russians
and Japs after they have sacrificed SC
many lives and spent SO many millions
but there seems to be no escape from
the conclusion that the war Is a fail
ure. Richard Harding Davis is dis
satisfied with the situation and left the
field In disgust.
There has existed. and still exists
to some extent. false sentiment that
labor is degrading or belittlins. The
contrary II true. An ideal condition