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


quires 1850 horses.
No less than 100000 yen ($l5,.
OOO.OOO) is yearly spent by foreign
visitors in Japan.
No fewer than 372 different ways Of
spelling Ypsilanti have been copied
from envelopes and recorded by q post.
master.
The African peanut Is less delicate
than the American as an article Of
food, but 1t yields more generously In
oil, and Is more easily crushed.
When vessel Is on her trial trip
she runs four times over a measured
mile, twice with and twice against the
tide. Her average speed Is thus or.
rived at.
Sailing vessels are coming into vogue
again. especially within the last five
years. after having been practically
banished from the ocean by the quicker
and more easily controlled steamships.
Owners of even the smallest toy man.
nfacturing establishments in the Nh.
remburg district. Germany, cater for
the foreign trade. Factories employ.
Ing from six to twenty people are no
exception.
Doki Indians In Canada IRE to be
made wealthy by the sale of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the sale
Of the lands will approximate $1,000.
900. and some families will receive as
much as $4,000.
kilograms from Kiev state that
there Is plague of caterpillars In
many parts Of southwestern Russia. In
some places the railway tracks are
covered by swarms Of the insects and
traffic Is being Kindred owing to the
state Of the rails.
China is d bad place for furniture
In the summer months 1t Is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
falls apart and drawers stick, while In
the dry months furDiture goes to the
other extreme and often exhibits cracks
half m inch or more I'm width.
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently IN the Congo district, AZ.
rica. There have been no casualties,
but the natives were panlc-striclen.
Many Of them ran for miles and re-.
fused to return to their villages unless
they received guns and ammunition.
Canada's government has Gent out a
survey party to lay out the town site Of
Fort Churchill, the future metropolis
Of Hudson Bay. The only settler who
II now on the proposed site, which is
on the east side of Churchill river, OPP
posite the Hudson Bay post, will be en-.
titled to free grant Of 100 acres.
Some navvies In railway carriage
were once In loud conversation, swear
ing boisterously the while. One Of
them was especially fluent. MY
friend" said another passenger ir
shocking tones. "where did you learr
to use such langungeY" Learnt"
cried the navy. "YOu can't learn It
guv'nor. It's u gift, that's w0t 1t is."
Dundee Advertiser.
or the late Langdon Smith, the Jour.
nalist and author, Denver reporter
said the other day: II remember my
FIRST visit to Washington. Smith, big
and handsome and vlvnclous. showed
me about. From IN eminence u great
pale dome rose up against the blue sky,
the dome Of the Capitol. What Ii
thaty said I. 'That?' said Smith, oh,
that's the national gus works.
A process for protecting Iron ana
steel from rust has been invented and
patented by 7. W. Coslett, Of Temple
row, Birmingham, England. This con.
sists In immerslng the article In a hot
phosphorlzed solution containing an
Iron compound. The surface Of the
iron IL converted into mixture OF
ferrous and ferric plOsphates. and pre-
sents a pleasing dull.black appearance.
This process makes the iron highly re-
sistant to corroslon, and Ii being ap.
piled to all kinds Of light engineering
work, such az cycle frames, gun bar.
rels, etc.
Otto e. Schaar, president Of a club
VI S>cW 4OIh NustSSSs ootu tuu OtucS
day Of a parsimonious young man
"He resembles chap they tell about
In Bucks county. This chap lived
alone with his father. On the old
mans death he would inherit the farm.
Well, finally the old man took sick.
His end drew near. The son sat up
with him night or two, expecting him
to pass away, but he fingered on. On
the fifth or sixth night the son, In.
stead Of sitting up, put u lamp, turned
very very low, on table by the bed
and went to his own room with the
caution: when you feel that 1t IL all
over with you, father, don't forget to
blow out the lamp"
A beautiful story il told somewhere
Of Sir Hubert HerkOmer. the great
painter. His father was a poor man,
ind the professor brought him from
his native land Of Germany to live
with him In his beautiful house near
London. The old man used to model
In clay In his early life. and now that
he had leisure he took to 1t again In
his old age. But his hands trembled
and the work showed signs OF imper.
lection. 1t was his one sorrow. Al
night he went to bed early, and when
he had gone his son would 20 into the
studio, take his fathers poor work and
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