Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-03
SOMETHING ron EVERYBODY


nearly d,t4O,UUV square miles.
More than half Of frances tobacco
imports come from the United States.
A ready speaker will utter about
1900 words an hour In making an ad.
dress.
A large Baptist church at Santa
Rosa, CAL, was l'ullt from the wood Of
a single California redwood tree.
Fireworks were originated in the
thirteenth century by the Florentines,
and later were popularized In Rome.
The estimated worlds production Of
lead In 1907 wGs 904,0lO metric tons,
a. compared with O0s.174 tons In 1900.
The 35O.OOO.OOO.odd tons Of coal min.
ed in the United States each year, II
piled together, would make cube hav.
Ing sides ia yards long.
Tobacco was successfully grown IN.
der government supervision In ireland
last year; but M the crop has not yet
been marketed, the financial result will
not be known for some time.
A louisiana man has invented q mn.
chine for measuring and recording the
measurements Of lumber. Planks pass
cd through It engage a roller attached
to registering device on the sideS
French scientists are studying q pc.
cullar movement Of the sands along
the northern coasts Of France, Bel.
glum and Holland. A fine sand orig.
mating on the coast Of Normandy has
been found rs far away as Denmark.
After lying buried for three centu-
ries. a frkin containing one hundred.
weight Of butter has been dug up In
Fallngherane hog, County Tyrone. ire
land. by 4 farmer. The hoops and
slaves Of the frkin. which was twelve
feet under ground, collapsed when lift
ed up. but tho butter. Of pale yellow
color. ID In q perfect state Of preserva.
ton.
About three hundred specimens Of
the steinbok are under protection ON.
the southern slope Of Monte Rosa, but,
apart from that. the animal 10 nearly
extinct in the Alps. It breeds slowly,
and the efforts Of the government In
Ito behalf have helped little. In two
places private herds have lately bceh
established. and II ID hoped thus to
prevent the extinction Of the steinbok.
Many excellent voices are ruined,
according to communication which
DR.. Weiss has made to the French
Academic de Medicine, BY practicins
In too small q room. A public singer
must throw every information Of his
voice distance Of thirty or forty
yards, he says, but student practicins
in a small room In only able to throw
II yard or two. and the consequence
10 that the voice. instead Of expanding.
becomes tclescoped.
Labiche, the French dramatist, wac
once asked to support % q candidate
for the academy a certain literary
mendicant. but he hesitated for long
time. and yielded only when he was
told that II the ambitious author
should fail to DO elected he would die
Of It. Failure. nevertheless. did como.
and the following year. when sec.
cnd vacancy occurred. I.abiche's vote
was once more solicited In the mans b.
half. mo" shouted Labiche In vehe-
ment Indignation. ~ will not vote for
q man who does not keep his word. He
did not de-"
william Redmond. the Irish leader
In the British House Of Commons, 70.
Gently In q genial mood and In play.
full allusi0n to the titles Of nobility
and knighthood recently conferred. ask.
ed whether. "as a matter Of general
convenience and In order that honor.
able members might know how to I'D.
dress their colleagues with becoming
respect. It could be arranged that hon.
orable gentlemen who had Joined the
titled classes should wear rosettes for
ct least one month after the confer.
ment Of the title" No munster was
bold enough to answer.
Australia. the land of odditis, ami.
NAL. vegetable and mineral. has few
more curious creatures than the giant
cranes--Often live aud six feet 10
height, with beautiful blue.gray plum.
age-which are called native cOmpan.
Ions. These huge birds mate for life.
and, 40 mates, are singularly and
touchingly devoted sto one another.
Among their practices. that Of dancing
together. 10 the most remarkable. To
and fro. and up and down. beneath q
scraggy tree near creek or water
hole. q pair of these curious birds may
be seen In the hour OF dawn footing Il
gravely In q sort Of grOtesQue miuuet.
The death OF Ira ID. sankey recalls
the story told by him to Tribune 70.
porter many years ago to illustrate the
the fact that some people are beyond
the power Of the evangelist and remain
unmOved In the presence OF the great.
est demonstration. "a newspaper man
told me-" sankcy said. "that he had
sneaked In at the great women's meet.
Ing which we held In Madison Square
Garden. from which we endeavored to
exclude oil men. He got into the ton
gallery, and from there looked down.
and was enthusiastic In his description
Of the ten thousand women singing and
waving .handkerchiefs In unison.
asked him what impressed him most
at the meeting and the ronOrtor aoiA