Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-13
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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There IL a weekly average Of 450
deaths in New York City among chill.
dren under years old.
Iongwood. the house Napoleon occn.
pied on St. Helena, was given to the
French by Queen Victoria.
The United States consumes more
than half Of the worlds production Of
sugar. This means G.OOO,OOO,OOO pounds
year.
The greatest monolith Of modern
times Ia the Alexander column in Ad-
miralty Square. st. Petersburg. 1t ID
eighty feet in height and weighs 400
tons.
Great Britain would like to rid itself
Of rats. Recently deputation from
the Incorporated Society for the De-
struction Of vermin. headed by Sir
James Crlchton Browne and the Duke
Of Bedford. waited upon Lord Caring.
ton mt the offices of the British Board
Of Agriculture and urged him to mp.
point commission to inquire into
the destruction Of crops by rats.
Mr.. Knox will be our fourth mono
syllable Secretary Of state since 1897.
lie succeeds Root, who succeeded Hay.
who succeeded Day. The earlier mon
osyllabic Secretaries Of State were
Smith. Clay, Case. Black. Fish and
Blaine. Only one Secretary Of State--
Frelinghuysen.--had four-syllable
name. There are seven threc-syllable
names In the list and twenty-0ne two
syllable names.
| When the German Emperor was the
guest Of the Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand at Eckarstan for deer shooting he
spoke every day to his encourage at
Berlin over a special telephone line.
This wire. forty miles long. was spe-
cially laid at great expense to suit the
Kaiser's convenience for q few days.
and because the ordinary wires did not
carry the voice clearly enough. To
prevent the Kaiser's telephone talk be-
ing overheard all other lines were dis
connected before his majesty began to
speak.
Chief among the natural riches Of
Asia Minor are the vast forests which
cover the interior mountain ranges Of
the country. In the vilayet Of Smyrna.
for example, there are 100000 acres
Of valuable woodland, which comprise
nearly One-eighth Of the entire vilayet
or province. The kinds Of timber con.
slst chiefly In larch. oak. lockwood.
pine. cypress and cedar. In the vilayet
Of Adana there are 100000 acres Of
forest and there 10 considerable tim.
Der. tar and resin explored from the
port Of Mersina every year.
Miss Ella G. Wilcox has been elect
ed to the School Board Of Maiden.
Mass. This II looked upon a. great
triumph by the women Of Maiden. a.
both political parties refused to nom.
mate her and she was forced to run
independently. In Everett Miss Belle
ID. Curtis was elected to the same Of
fice without opposition. In Somervilla
the regular Republican candidate de.
feated Mrs. Mary Il. Brewer ON the
Citixens' ticket. while In Haverhill
Miss Anne Wheeler was elected by q
handsome majority over her male com.
petitors.
Mrs. Jennie l.. DOane Of Br0cktOn,
Mass, has been appointed to admin.
lister the 100000 estate Of the late II.
N. Packard and also Is to have com.
plete control Of his large shoe fac.
tory. Mr.. Packard died suddenly with.
out making will. Ills heirs were q
brother and two sisters, none Of whom
knew anything about his business. Mrs.
Doane had been In the employ Of Mr..
Packard for number Of years and he
had often spoken Of her ability to his
relatives. declaring that she had more
brains than any two men Of his &C.
Quaintance. For that reason his heirs
asked to have her appointed and put
in full charge Of his business.
The mineral wealth Of Asia Minor 10
prOverblal. In the Vllayet Of Smyrna
there are about sixty mines being
worked under fremans and seventy.
five under licenses. On the shores Of
the Black sen the coal fields Of Her.
aclea form an actual source Of vast
potential wealth to the Turkish Elm.
pire. The beds extend long the shores
Of the Black yea for nearly forty miles
and run inland. coming to an apex at
Angora. q distance Of nearly 200 miles.
: The coal, though lying In very thick
seams. contains too many impurities
, for 1t to compete with English coal
except after being hand picked and
= screened.
An Austrian inventor appears to
have solved the problem of the rc4u.
: lation Of clocks by wireless telegraphy,
. which has heretofore been rendered
difficult because Of the various disturb.
Ing influences In the atmosphere. The
= central clock OF this inventor sends
a signal only once every sixty seconds
j. and the clocks to be controlled are
J. provided with apparatus which will re-
T. ceive the Hertzlan waves for that sec.
y ond only, while for the remaining fifty.
q nine they are unaffected by any Hert'
= xian waves. In case Of disturbance
Z during the one second when they are
10 In circuit with the receiver. the dis
q turbing wave may set the clock In
n | corractlv and for the next ninutn n