Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-18

$3,O00,000 on Wall street Is, In sub
stance, that he'll divide with the man
who proves 1t.
Cleveland Is not content with hav.
ing become the chief city in Ohio
by the census of 1900. but has just
voted to annex one of her flourish.
ing suburbs.
At a sale of rare coins in Philadel.
phia a $50 United States gold piece
Of 1860 brought only $195, which was
considered very cheap.
The Official register for 1907 will
show that the whole number Of ofYlcis'
and oil sorts of employees in the Gov.
eminent sevices Is 3O6,l4l.
The Mexican government Is ex.
perimenting with various methods for
obtaining the best results from ir.
rigation. The dry.farming method 10
also to be we'll tested.
Manufacture of rubber from the ma.
tive guayule shrub has begun in Mara.
thOn. Texas. II Is estimated that the
factory owners control % per cent. Of
the guayule land in Texas.
Grass widows have formed a club
In Chicago. To be named the Sun.
shine Club? queries the New York
American.
Those knots in Saturn's rings may
merely have been placed there TO
keep him from forgetting something.
suggests the indianapolis News.
George Bernard Shaw declares that
he is opposed to war because he 10
afraid, and that peace will come only
when every one has the courage to
confess himself a coward.
Happily work Is plentiful and wages
good, rejoices the Merlden Journal.
for there never was a time when
men had to hustle so lively to keep
abreast Of the prices Of living.
Hayseed and coal tar dye with other
ingredients are being put up and sold
as strawberry lam. by some eastern
dealers. says DR.. II. W. Wiley. U. 8.
Chemist.
An eminent Frenchman, who lived
to be one hundred years old, gave
as his single rule OF life: Some
thing Of everything: not loo much ol
anything"
A loan Of S5,50O.0OO at 8 per cent
has been accepted by the Government
Of Chile, the proceeds to be used
In improving the port Of Valparaiso
II IL supposed to double the capacity
Of the docks and increase the facili
ties Of the custom house.
A New Jersey man did his banking
in q pasteboard box In the attic and
red squirrels carried on the money
TO make nests. Even squirrels know,
observes the New York American
that money ought not to be boarded
Tho mikado had assurances say
the Washington Star. that ought "a
make him proof against any efforts
to scare him about the movements
OF American warships.
Travellers who have passed through
the unshorn Southwest report to tho
Richmond Times.D dispatch that tho
Texas pies are now SO small that thu
unfortunate natives eat them whole
sale with . teaspoon.
The coal trust has 200 years Il
operate In, and then u must 20 Int
some other line OF business, notes the
Birmingham Age.Herald. for II hal
been ascertained there will be no coal
In this country after the year 2l07
Every maiden stands with reluct
ant feet. exclaims the Atlanta Jour
nal, where the brook and river meet
or anywhere else when she tries Il
crowd number Ave foot into mum
Der three shoe.
London chemists claim to have die
covered that two.thirds OF the weight
Of q girl IL composed Of sugar. Which
makes II seem to the Washington
Post all the more remarkable that
there are no files on the American
girl.
A Chicago woman thrashed hel
husband when she heard that he had
filed an application for divorce, That
will teach him thinks the Washington
Post, never to take such q step agail
without Arst obtaining permission.
Hoarding IL not only an economi,
mistake, but an economic crime al
well. announces the Calcutta States
man. II 10 In fact a survival OF thu
evil days or NATURALIZATION. !,
comes down to US from the time wher
nearly all Governments were con
querors who considered themselves
entitled to plumber their subjects
Thus. boarding is founded upon dis
trust OF the Government.
Wall Street may be described a. {