Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-07-22

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ooney & Boland Detective Agency
ocean yacht race. If some enthusi
asts possessed that treasure they
would stay ashore and live in Il safe
deposit vault.
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Somebody has hunted up the figures
and found that the average salary OF
Harvard professor Is S3.0SO. while
the average minister In the vicinity
of Boston draws 5000. This may par
tally explain why the theological
schools are not turning away appll
cants.
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When Japanese baby Is born II Is
customary to plant tree. On the
childs wedding day the tree is cut
nj IL 81 60. IA la N Mt m 4. or
Furniture made of the wood Is regard
I'd rs one of the chief ornaments OF
the new home.
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This may be country of standpat'
tiers. but 1t can't stand Nan Patterson
\ New York woman has obtained n
divorce and S6,OOO.OOO In place of ali
mony. Giving that much money Is a
dangerous precedent. But man who
was willing to give $6,OOO.OOO mus,
have been pretty tired.
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1t sometimes happens that when a
man comes home about 2 n. m. and
finds his wife waiting for him ut the
head of the stairs he imagines he Il
Il bigamist.
a New York society woman has
started model dairy In order to pro
vide pure milk for babies. That's
another anti-race suicide proposition
which may well be encouraged.
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Nicholas Is perfectly right In sup
posing that his disabled ships will BIZ
safer--fOr the czar-in the hands OF
the American government than IL lef,
to the tender mercies Of the Japanese
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Nicholas OF Russia has assured tn,
2emstvoists that he thinks RUSSIA
recent experiences will do her good
Nicholas must believe In the efficacy o.
heroic treatment.
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We want popular verbs for severa
operations introduced by modern
science. The X.rays, the Finser
treatment for lupus, the operations OF
radium for cancer, and what not
what are the words for these?
man is guillotined or hanged; his LEI
amputated; he Is trepanned. What 1.
1t when he IL rayed, Finsened. ra
diumed? We still want a wireless,
word. What Is the synonym for tele
phone when one speaks over the In
strument to which photograph I,
attached? And have we finally agreed
that tomotor Is the verb to travel by
automobile?
When Governor General Trepof
was appointed by the Gear virtual die
tatOr Of Russia, the first thing he did
to give the people taste Of his power
was to summon additional bodies OF
COssacks to st. Petersburg to pu,
down public meetings and to shoe,
down persons who dared to partici
pate in public professions. His next
step was to call meeting of the
heads of the universities and colleges
and to advise them to raise the tuition
fees to 500 rubles to prevent the
matrlculation of poor students. A
tyrants advice Is as good as high
wayman's command, and 1t Is needles,
to relate that Trepoff was obeyed by
the pedagogues. Trepoff's reason was
The spread of education among tn,
people is dangerous to the govern
ment." In that one sentence is con
fessed the whole story of the weak
ness and rottenness of the Russian
government.
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A Japanese cadet has just been ad
mitted to the Naval Academy at Ann
apolis. 1t might not be bad idei
now to send an American cadet t.
Japan.
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II King Oscar doesn't like such {
short title he might I'LL a whole line
on the hotel register by writing this
way: oscar, King of Sweden and ex
King Of Sweden and Norway"
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A Tennessee man has been fined fol
snoring in church. Serves him right
One snoring man in church Is nui
sance to those who want to sleep.
Tom Lawson is not cOmDlaininp he.