Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-09-26

Nearly one-third of the immigrants
Who arrive in the port of New York
never go beyond the city for home.
There Is a lot of poverty on Manhat.
tan Island, but the assessment rolls give
$1,000 In taxable property to each in.
habitant.
Courts are great expense to New
York City. The Jurors alone last year
cost s4l5,l6S. The year before the cost
was 1897. 203.
In China there are match factories at
which only hand labor Is employed One
q them, nj Hsieh Chang, has COO work.
ers, 400 of whom are women.
When New York City's Catskill aque-
duct Is completed the city will have wa.
ter enough for population Of 100000,
without any cause for anxiety.
In Paris last year 40,20s horses were
killed for food, which was 5000 more
than the previous year. These animals
yielded 26,GOO,OOO pounds Of meat.
Hot weather has brought marked
Increase In the number Of children who
are taken to the New York hospitals for
treatment, and the diagnosis shows that
10 per cent Of the trouble arises from
improper feeding.
An electric railway Is being built on
the Zugspltzc. the highest peak In the
Alps OH Bavarian territory. Its height
Is about 10000 feet. The railway will
run tS the summit. while hotel will
be built at the 7,OOO-foot level.
W. w. Hilditch, Of the Sheffield Sci.
entifc School, has by laboratory tests
ascertained that the bacteria found on
paper money, while running up into
the thousands for each bill, are not
usually Of an infectious or virulent
type.
THE Swamp Angel was the name
given by the Federal soldiers to an
eight.inch Parrot gun which was
mounted on q battery built on piles
driven into swamp outside Of Charles.
ton, 8. C., and used during the siege Of
that city. 1t burst Aug. %, 1868. After
the war It was bought with some con.
demned metal and sent to Trenton to
be melted, but, having been identified,
was set up on a granite base on the
corner Of Perry and Clinton streets In
that city.
Two odd-looking craft are to be seen
at work on the St. Lawrence ship
canal. They are used for removal Of
powders which are too large for q
dredge to lift or to clear the bottom
before the dredgc Is placed to work ut
any locality. The litter consists Of a
wooden.hulled boat with n middle we'll,
through which the large sixty-ton ca.
pacity tongs or grips can descend to
the river bottom. there to pick up bowl.
ders, which can be hauled to the deck
by the hoisting engine situated aft.
The new Chinese Board Of Education
proposes to establish Shih.fan
Hsueh.tang, or civil normal college. In
Picking. for training teachers for ser.
vice In the various civil schools and
colleges throughout the empire. In nd.
ditlon to Chinese classics. says Har.
per's Weekly, English, French. German
Russian and japanese will be taught In
the proposed college, Under the instruc.
ton Of experienced teachers. The col.
lege will be established In the Chinese
city In the course of the present year
and the annual expenditure Is esti.
mated to be about 100000 taels (about
S70.OOO).
The readiness Of Japan ana China
In adapting themselves to Western
methods Of electrlfcation, says the
Railway News, Is to-day amply evil
denced In the work going on In the
large cities Of these two countries
Yokohama has Its electric tramways
Toxic, the capital Of Japan. has fine
system Of electric railways The rail
way engineers and directors are Japan
csc. Shanghai has recently completed
splendid system OF tramways, and
Hong.KOng has operated street rail
ways for several years with good re
suits. There are many other cities II
Japan and China which will undoubt
eddy follow the example Of these cities
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
was IS years old on Aug. ID, but hs
Ia still an ardent hunter. Having set
tied down at Ischl for his summer hol
iday, the Emperor lost no time In be
ginning his favorlte sport Of deer shoot
ing. In tine first formal court shoot tn;
Emperor and his party drove In car
riages as far into the mountains rs pos
sible and then took to horses Blu
after riding for quarter OF an hOul
his Majesty was forced to walk the res
OF the way up the Steinhcrg, 1000 fee
high. An hours climb brought the
party to the hunting ground, and tho
Emperor shot four stays.
Good anecdotes OF Saphir, the grea
German humorist and editor, ere still
In circulation. A young couple, newly
engaged, were favored with letter O
introduction to him, which they dull,
presented. Now, the gentleman wa
notorious for his effemlnate habits al,
ways, and his appearance at one
struck the eyes Of the Observant jour
ualist, who had heard about him. II
said nothing, received the pair with EN-
pressement, insisted upon their bein
seated In his most comfortable cas-
chairs, assured them how pleased b