Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

Good beet root sugar yields an aver.
age Of IL per cent Of sugar.
A statue of Liebig Is to be erected
In Darmstadt, where he was born III
1903.
British 1ndia has s0,Oi2 miles Of tel.
cgraph and cable wires, which are
worked at very good profit.
A company has been formed In Eu.
rope for the purpose Of erecting ana
operating hrst-class hotels In various
cities and towns Of Greece.
The Molteno (Cape Colony farmers
have hit upon novel plan Tor dealing
with locusts. 4 farmer has imported
some eagle kites for the purpose Of
soaring locrsts from the crops.
sault Ste. Marie canal traffic for thu
season Of 1907 reached a grand total
Of 5S,2l1,214 tons, which shows a net
increase Of ~ per cent. or 0,408,l34
tons, as compared with that Of the sea.
son Of 1008.
Maine and Missouri and North Da.
k0ta are soon TO vote upon constitu.
tional amendments embodying the ill.,
itiative and referendum for state mat.
tiers, and Maine proposes to extend this
right 10 municipal corporations.
The urea Of Maryland 10 1920
square miles, 1850 square miles Of
which arc water. There are seven
States In the Union which have
smaller area, viz. every New England
State except Mime, and New Jersey
and Delaware. The gross area Of none
Of these states equals the land area Ut
Maryland.
For the first decade Of the twentieth
century one Of Canada's greatest ac.
complishments will be the completion
Of the Dominion's second transcontl.
mental railway. The Grand Trunk has
finished Its prairie section from Winnl.
peg to Edmonton. From Edmonton to
the coast. 700 miles, through the moun-
tains, three years more will be needed.
The work Is exceedingly difficult and
expensive.
The wireless telephone Il being
steadily pushed toward commercial
prncticability by the inventors. Tie
work OF the French naval lleutenants,
Colin. Jcance aud Mercicr. and Mr..
Lee De Forest, Of this city, seems nj.
ready to have opened the ether to wire.
less converse. Of an experimental M.
ture, over distances Of from 300 to 900
miles, and Mr.. Poulscn, Of Copenhagen,
has promised n Transatlantic wireless
telephone soon.--New York Globe.
A Florida Judge ruled that mullet
were not fish, but birds, because they
had glxzards. The customs officials In
New York ruled that frogs were fish
and must pny duty rs such. A game
warden In Maine gained popularity BY
declaring oysters were game and no &C.
quired Jurisdiction. And now comes u
decision from the custom house that
bagpipes arc toys and cannot be CHASED
AZ musical instruments for purposes Of
taxation.--Florlda Times. Union.
In 1870 the production Of fer,nented
liquors In the United States upon
which taxes were paid was 5000. 03a
barrels. including l10,52O for export.
In 1905 the production had Increased
to b4,724.553 barrels, and In 1908 to
Dc, TAT $50 barrels. In 1890 tho United
States internal revenue tax was paid
for consumption on S3,Si0.3l4 gallons
Of distilled spirits other than fruit
brandy. In the nine years to 1908 tie
amount Of distilled spirits withdrawn
for consumption had Increased to no..
SOC, 4O2 gallons.
Al figured out by London Answers.
the annual cost Of stunning" q battle.
ship Of tho Dreadnought class 10 $780,.
600 year, Of which S20O.OO0 goes to
the officers for salaries aud wageA
Ammunition In time OF peace costs &c..
600 q year, the expense Of necessary
target practice being very heavy. Vic.
tualing. fuel, etc, make up the balance.
Estimating the original cost Of these
ships at S7.5OOOO0. and allowing a ilfe
Of twenty years, the cost from tae Arst
draft plans to the sale Of the vessel
40 junk reaches q total Of &l7,5OO. 00O.
Twenty.four years 10 long time for
q ship to be away from Ito home port
but that 10 the record Of q whaling
bark that has Just locked In New Bed
ford. The vessel left New Bedford In
1884 for q voyage around Cape Horn
and since has been engaged most OF the
time In whaling In northern ATTITUDES.
The snip brings news that the whaling
ships In the Atlantic are generally MAX.
ing heavy catches this season. The
whaling business seems to have expert.
enced a revival, and with this New
Bedford In developing new Importance
which presents some likeness to it, old
time activities AZ q whaling port
Springfield Union.
Baseball 10 o chronic complaint OF
Senator Crane. When he was Govern.
or Of Massachusetts he took his entire
stan out for drive aud surprised them
BY having the carriages pull up at an
open field ana announcing there was to
be baseball game. Two mines were
chosen and the game began. Pretty
soon somebody came along the road.
"What teams are they?" he asked one
Of the drivers. "Why, that man pitch.
Ing IL the Governor Of Massachusetts"
the driver replied. "The one catching