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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
FLOWERS OF THE NIGHT.
Peculiarly Adapted to Attract Winged
Insects.


AS we all know, there are day-bloom-
ing and night-blooming flowers, says
the Cornhill Magazine. The former
lay themselves out for the fertilizing
visits of bees and butterflies; they
are generally decked in red, blue, yell
low orpurple, and have often lines, spots
or markings on their petals which
point to the nectaries and SO act as
honey guides. The night-blooming
flowers, on the other hand, lay them
selves out for the visits of moths or other
crepuseular insects, and therefore have
recourse to something like the tactics
of the firefiics and the glow-worms.
They are usually pure white and the
petals are often of such peculiar tex
ture that they seem to glow with in
ternal light in the dim shades of even
ing. At times one might almost fancy
they were stained bv nature with
some curious forerunner Of luminous
paint, SO strongly do they reflect every
invisible ray of the faint twilight.
They thus succeed in catching the
eyes of moths, which, of course, are es-
pecially modified for receiving and per-
ceiving the slender stimulus of dusk
and the gloaming
But the nocturnal flowers have no
lines or spots, because these last could
never be perceived in the gray gloom
of evening. Theym make up for it, how
ever, by being heavily scented; indeed,
almost all the strong white flowers,
like jessamine, tuberose, gardenia,
stephanotis, cereus and syringa, which
are such favorites with florists, belong
to night-blooming plants, specially
adapted to attract the eyes and noses
Of night-hying insects.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
HUNGRY BEARS.
An Interesting study In Their Way OF
Feeding.


The black bear and the grizzly must
be closely alike in their manner OF
feeding, according to the descriptions
given by Mr. Roosevelt in his book,
''The Wilderness Hunter" He once
watched a black bear for half an hour.
At first, he says. the fellow was ''shuf-
fling along and roofing in the ground,
so that he looked like great pig.
Then he began to turn over logs and
stones to hunt for insects, small rep
tiles and the like A moderate sized
stone he would turn over with single
clap Of his paw and then plunge his
nose into the hollow to gobble up the
small creatures beneath.
big logs and rocks he would tug and
worry at with both paws. Once, over
exerting his clumsy strength, he lost
his grip apd rolled clean on his back.
Under some of the logs lie evidently
found mice and chipmuni,s; then, as
soon as the log was overturned, he
would be seen jumping about with
grotesque agility and making quick
dabs here and there, as the scurrying
little rodent tarned and twisted, until
at last he put his paw on it and
scooped it into his mouth.
"Sometimes--probably when he smelt
the mice underneath-he would eau
tiously turn the log over with one paw,
holding the other lifted and ready to
strike"
The grizzly, too, Mr.. Roosevelt says,
is at most times "a grubber in the
ground, an eater of insects, roots, nuts
and berries. Its dangerous fore claws
are nominally used to overturn stones
and knock rotten logs to pieces, that it
may lap up the small tribes of dark
ness which swarm under the one and
in the other.
''It digs up the camas roots, wild
onions and an occasional luckless
woodcbucl or gopher When food is
plentiful bears are lazy, but commonly
they are obliged TO be very industrious,
since it is no light task to gather
enough ants. beetles, crickets, tumble
bugs, roots and nuts to satisfy the
cravings of so huge bulk.
1.-THE true time of plenty for bears is
the berry season, Then they feast
ravenously on huckleberries, blueber-
ries, kinnillinic berries, buffalo ber-
ries, wild plums, elderbcrries and
scores of other fruits. They often
smash all the bushes in a berry patch,
gathering the fruit with half-lux
urious, half-labolious greed, sitting on
their launches and sweeping the ber-
ries into their mouths with dexterous
paws,
so absorbed do they become in their
feasts that they grow reckless and feed
in broad daylight, while in some of the
thiclscts, especially those of the noun
tain haws, they make so much noise
in smashing the branches that it is a
comparatively easy matter to approach
them unheard."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
THE GREYHOUND.
Dogs Used for the Chase by English
Sovereigns and Mobiles.

DOGS Oheu TOT the CHts6 Dy Gu6nSh
Sovereigns and Mobiles.
Greyhounds have existed in very
much the same form as we find them
to-day for more than three thousand
years, as we find them pictured on
Egyptian monuments of that remote
period. The name probably came from
their general color in England when
King Canute decreed that none but
princes and mobiles should keep them.
The color now, in either smooth or
rough coated greyhounds, is very sell
dom grey, but more often fawn, red,
brindled (either red and black mixed
or fawn and blue), or black.
The smooth coated dog is known as
the English greyhound, and the rough
coated as the Scotch deerhound. In
conformation they are very much
the same. They are the fastest run
ners of any of the canine race. On
level ground they can go as fast as a
race horse, and over hilly ground they
can unquestionably beat even the fleet
footed thoroughbred. Formerly the
English dog was used in chasing the
red and fallow deer, and it is related
that on one occasion Queen Elizabeth
witnessed the pulling down of sixteen
bucks. The dogs of that day must hare
been stronger than those now found in
England. When the master of the
royal buckhounds now has meet in the
royal forests of England it is sorry
sight, for the deer are themselves more
than half aumesticated, and do not
know how to get away.
The greyhound is used, however, in
coursing hares, and it is one of the ma
tional sports of Great Britain. In
Texas and some other parts of America
where jack rabbits abound grey
hounds are kept to chase them. The
English greyhound is beautiful,
graceful and aristocratic looking dog
but the Scotch deerhound is more dig
nified in appearance. These dogs arr
trained TO hunt game by the eye alone.
They have good noses, however, and if
permitted to do so will also hunt by
scent.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
THE AUTHOR OF "sPARTAcus."
Composed by Elijah Kellogg When Stu
dent ut Andover.

Talking with a correspondent of the
Boston Herald Rev Elijah Kellogg, of
Harpswell, Me-, thus described how he
wrote that favorite defamation of
school boys: "Spartacus to the Gladia-
tors:
'It was while I was at Andover,"
said he, smiling as the remembrance
of the event came back to HIM. "We
were required to prepare speeches for
our rhetorical exercises, and after each
man had spoken he was subjected TO
criticisms by his fellows-and their
comments weren't always SO compli-
mentary as they were pointed. Then
the professor would follow with seri-
Gus criticism, and he always found
faults that needed correcting.
$50 these speeches came to be looked
upon with dread, and at last made up
my mind that I'd try to get something
so different from anything we had had
and so interesting that it would hold
their attention too closely for them to
think about points on which to criti-
else me, and so would get off free.
well, wrote 'Spartacus' When l
began it worked just as / had ex-
pected. They were so taken by sur
prise that they never thought of any
thing but the speech. You could have
heard pin drop at any time while /
was speaking, and they did not recover
until had finished and had come down
to ask for criticism.
"Then when Prof. Payne turned to
the students and inquired: What
criticism have you to offer, young gen.
tlemen?' there wasn't one of them had
word to say, for they were all think
ing of the piece and hadn't noticed
anything else.
" Gentlemen said the professor,
we are not here for theological dis
QUESTIONS nor for learned arguments,
but these exercises are purely rhetor-
ical, and, gentlemen, that is rhetoric
"Then, turning to me, he remarked;
4 could criticise you, Kellogg, but 1
don't know whether it would do you
more good or harm, and so, on the
whole, think will say nothing
49," added the old gentleman, with
chuckle, 81 escaped criticism"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
CHANGES IN IRISH NAMES.
Keely Comes from CaoiIs and Kennedy
from Crineidigh.


Kiely, or Keely, and sometimes the
name is written Cayley, but according
to the Boston Post, more correctly
o'Keeley or O'Kiely, is name derived
from Caoile, an individual of the same
blood as the O'Donovans of Munster,
and is written O'Caoile and MacCaoile,
pronounced like O'Keeley and Mae
Kelley Mac Tire was chief of
Ui-Mac-Caoile at the time of the
English invasion of Ireland and,
according to old annalists, slew
Raymond LIE Gros. His name still
survives in the name of the village
Baile-Mac-Tire, now Castlemartyr, in
County Cork. The name Kennedy, or
more correctly written O'Kennedy, is
derived from Crineidigh or Crinneidigh
pronounced Kennedy the king of
Munster and father of Brian Boromha
(Brien Boru.) The septs of O'Regan,
in Irish O'Riagain, O'Cathasaigh, angli-
cized 0'Casey, and O'Twomey or O'Too-
mey, in Irish Guiana, are also de-
scended from Donchuan, pronounced
like Donnegan. The name MacNeill,
or Mcneil, originated with one of the
progenitors of the O'Ruairc (now writ
ten O'Rourke), prince of Brefney fam
lily. 1t signifies son of Neill formerly
written Niall.) The name has been
anglicized to Nelson and Nelson. This
name is different from O'Neill, which
is derived from Mall of the Nine Hos
tages, king of Ireland in the fourth
century.
Coyle, MacCawmel, MacCawell and
Cawmil are derived from Fearach,
brother of Murtagh Nor MacEarca
(Murta More McGarka), the one hun
dred and thirty-first monarch of Ire
land. This Fearach had son named
in Irish Cathmaoill pronounced Caw-
MILL, whose son took the name Mac
Cathmhaoill (signifying son of Cath
mhoilD. The Clan Campbell, of Ire
land, had the same common progen-
itor, and the name is pronounced to
the present day Cawmell in many parts
of Ireland. The name is derived from
the Irish word cath battle, and
maoill, heap. Caulfeld is from the.
same root so also is the name Cagh-
VIGIL buu ocNSIdl ObllCI vi
the old Clan Cathmhaoill. The clan
were located in Ulster, where many
representatives yet remain. The name
Hegarty, O'Hagarty and Haggarty
is of Irish origin, and written
O'H'Eigcheartaigh pronounced 0'Hag-
arty). The name Desmond has its or
igin in the Irish word Deas-Mhumhan
pronounced Dasvooan) which was
afterward anglicized to Desmond, and
means South Munster Some of the
owners of the name have tried to Nor
MAMIE it into DESMOND. Dillon, LIE
Dillon and Diluane is traced back in
Irish history to an individual named
Lochan Dilmhain (Loghan Dilwinn)
who fled to France in ancient times,
and one of whose descendants, Robert
LIE Dillon, or Dillon, returned with
Dermod MacMurrough at the time of
the Norman conquest of Ireland He
was afterward given a large territory
in Leinster, which his descendants
held until the reign of Queen Eliza
beth. The Dillon family have been ia
nous in Irish history for the past three
hundred years. A number of them
were chiefs of the Irish brigade in the
service of France, in which there was
Dillon regiment.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
CHIMNEIs IN ENGLAND.
They We're Not In Use There Before tn
Twelfth Century.


Twelfth Century.
There does not appear TO be any evil
dence of the use of chimney shafts in
England prior to the twelfth century.
In Rochester castle, which is in all
probability the work OF w. Corbyle,
about 1880, there are complete fire.
places with semicircular backs, and
shaft in each joint supporting a semi
circular arch over the opening, which
is enriched with zigzag molding;
some Of these project slightly from the
wall. The flues, however, go only
few feet up in the thickness of the
wall, and are turned at the back, the
apertures being small oblong holes.
At Castle Rockingham, Essex, which is
about the same date, there are fire.
places and chimneys of similar kind.
A few years later the Improvement of
carrying the tluc up through the whole
height of the wall appears, rs at Christ
church, Hants; the keep at Newcastle;
Sherborne castle, Dorsetshire; Conis-
borough castle, Yorkshire, and Boothby
Pagnell, Lincolnshire. The early chim-
ney shafts are of considerable height
and circular, afterward they assume a
great variety of forms, and during the
fourteenth century they are frequent
ly extremely short. Previous to the
sixteenth century the shaft is often
short, and not unfrequently terminated
by q spire or pinnacle, usually of rath-
er low proportions, having apertures
OF various forms, under and sometimes
in 1t, for the escape of the smoke
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
iNATTENTlvE HOUSE MEMBERS.

A New York Congressman Thinks Their
Writing Desks Should he Taken Away.
"There is but one way in which this
can be made decent Legislative body"
said member from New York to a
Washington Post reporter as he sur
veyed the house and heard one man
speaking while one hundred and sixty
six others chewed gum or rustled pa
pers, "and that way is to take from the
members their desks. They should be
given no opportunity to write while
Legislative business is on tap, II placed
upon straight, hard benches with moth
ing to do save talk or listen they would
know more of what is going on. Long,
long ago the English realized this fact.
In the house of commons there is never
disturbance of my kind unless an ex-
tremely heated and factional debate is
on. Everybody in the chamber hears
what the man who has the right of way
is saying. II the members wish to
write or read the newspapers or swap
yarns that used TO be funny many @ons
ago they 60 into room provided for
that purpose. ] am not much of an
Anglomaniac myself In fact, think
that coclnney immigration ought to be
permanently barred. But there are
things other than trousers that we
might copy from England and be moth
ing the worse for It,"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
A TALL FEE.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for .
Three Mlnutes' Job.

One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for
Three Mlnutes' Job.
In the Bloomsbury county court, not
long ago, Judge Bacon tried the case of
Browne vs Earl OF Annesley, which
was claim for eighteen guineas. bal
ance of an account, by DR.. Lennox
Browne. for an operation performed by
him on Lord Glerawley, the defendant's
son. II appears that Lord Glerawley
suffered from stammering. lie was
under the treatment OF Mrs. Baker,
who recommended that DR. Browne
should be consulted. Lord Annesley
took Lord Glerawley to the plaintiff,
who put him under 'chloroform. For
that two gunneas was asked and for
the operation which followed medium
fee of thirty Ruineas was charged
Plaintiff said he was q recognized au-
thority on matters OF this kind and
had received as much as. fifty guineas
for similar operations In cross-ex-
animation DR. Lennox Browne said
that he never promised that Lord Gle
rAwley would be cured of stammering
by the operation. Ir. Collier and other
surgeons gave evidence as to the rea-
aonablencss of the charges.
The defense was that It was under
stood that the operation would cnre
Lord Glerawley Of stam@sering. 1t
had not done so. Lord Annesley paid
the two guineas for an assistant and
ten guineas for the plaintiff. which
brought the claim down to eighteen
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FACTORY. MILL AND MINE.

THE average annual production of
the precious metals in the world from
1876 to 1880 was: Gold, $119,975, 900;
silver, S112, 100000.
AT Kansas City packing house a
few days ago, in eleven hours, S,21S
cattle were killed and prepared for the
beef market, an average of about five
a minute.
TWENTY years ago there were but
two or three manufacturers of horse
hide leather in this country. The con-
sumption of this leather is large and
rapidly increasing.
IT is undoubtedly profitable to keep
cow. A census report shows that the
average yield of milk per COW for the
whole United States in 1890 was 2,Os2
pounds, or 1,262 quarts.
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old Exypt'a slot boxes.

The Alexandria correspondent OF the
st. James Gazette thinks that ancient
Egypt is looking up" in every way.
Some of its contrivances appear to
have been quite up to date. Actually
they had already, more than two thou.
sand years ago, what we call ''niclxel
in the slot, 4" for the extraction of some-
thing useful, pleasant or otherwise
serviceable. Heron, the philosopher
of Alexandria, who flourished in the
third century B. G., himself an in
ventor, describes an automatic ma
chine used in the Egyptian temples for
a long time past. by throwing a piece
of money in the slot the worshipers ro-
ceived some consecrated object through
a valve. The box. the two-armed lever
with its closing valve, and the other
details OF the machine are all correct
ly described.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
Executrix's Notice.

In the county court of the State of Oregon, for
Umatilla county.
In the matter of of the Estate of
James f. Ely, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
as Exeeutrix of the estate of James H. Ely, de
ceased, has rendered and presented for settle
ment and filed in the above entitled court, her
final account of decentralization of said es-
tate, and that Monday, the 9TH day Of March,
1885 at O'clock D. u., of said day, being a
day of a term of said court subsequent to the
filing of said final account, to-wtt: Of the
March--iS95-term thereof, has been duly ap-
pointed by the Hon. VIM. Martin, Judge of
said court, for the hearing and settlement of
the said final account and for the hearing Of
any objections thereto dated at Umatilla
county. State OF oregon, this ilth day Of jan
uary. 1895 ELIZA j. ELY,
f. DEPRATT, Attorney. Executrfx.
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guineas. Sir Andrew Clarke said he
would charge ten to fifteen guineas for
such an operation.
His honor said the evidence was en-
tirely against the defendant. Plaintiff
had said the operation took him three
minutes. but thirty guineas was his
charge. lie must have q verdict for
eighteen guineas, with costs.-N. Y.
Journal
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THE VANISHING MOOSE.
Departure of New Yari<'s tiame for Parts
Unknown.

Departure of New Yark's tame for Parts
Unknown.
A deer, when started by hunter or
drivensby hounds, usually returns in q
few days to the same hill or mountain
side where he was first found; but a
moose, says Madison Grant in the
Century, when once thoroughly
alarmed, win start on long, swinging
walk, and, taking with him his entire
family, leave for good. 1t is one of the
greatest difRculties--and there are
many-in still-hunting this animal, to
avoid getting him under way, for then
the hunter may as well break camp
and try other fields, since not a moose
will be found within miles. i'scJ
scent a moecasin track or tse smoke OF
fire at an incredible 5isgce. A
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
AsslcNEs.s NOTICE.

In the matter OF the Assignment of
Alexander Moore, InSovent Debtor.
The undersigned having been duly appoin-
ted Assignee of the estate of the above nameSz
insolvent debtor, under and by virtue Of an
act of the Legislative Assembly of the State Of
Oregon, entitled San act to secure to creditors
just division ofthe estates of debtors who may
convey to Assignees for the .beneflt Of credi-
tors approved Oct. 18th, 1875 and all subse-
quent amendments thereto.
All persons having claims against said ek-
tate are hereby notified TO present the same 10
me at my place of business in the city OF At
hena Umatilla county, Oregon, duly verified
as BIZ law reQui red, within three months from
the date Of this notice. Athena. Gre Nov q
1891 c. w. HOLLIS z. DEFKAzTs
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There are also taller shafts of various
forms-square, octangular or circular
-surmounted with cornice, forming
sort of capital, the smoke issuing
from the top. Clustered chimney shafts
DO not appear until rather late in the
fifteenth century; afterward they be-
came very common, and were frequent
ly highly ornamented, especially when
-. u
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Notice.

The undersigned having been ap-
pointed by the court Receiver for
the c. A. Barrett Co., all parties
owing said firm are requested to
call and settle their accounts.
G. Al. BARRETT,
Receiver.
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kEn serge, camel's hair or sacking
dresses are combined with black wa
tered silk and trimmed with many
rows of very narrow jet gimp.
GERANIuM red bengaline for vests on
black gowns is a fashionable freak
that viii have cheerful effect when
the cheerless days of winter set in.
GRANITE and armurc weaves in two
colors, but not changeable, are among
the late importations. They are in
cheviot finish and are exceedingly soft
and pliable.
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Langunge Of the poe,s ram.

All dogs wag their tails when
pleased, and the movement is gener-
ally understood by their human asso-
ciates as an intimation that they are
very happy. The chief delight of wild
dogs, as with modern hounds and
sporting dogs, is in the chase and it's
accompanying excitement and conse-
quenceS, When the presence Of
game is first detected is invariably the
time when tails are wagged for the
common good. The wagging is almost
an invariable accompaniment of this
form of pleasure, which is one of the
chiefest among the agreeable emotions
when in wild state. Owing to some
inoscnlation of the nervous mechanism
the association of pleasure and wag-
ging has become so inseparable that
the movement of the tail follows the
emotion. whatever may call it forth.
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-12

At the meeting Of the Executive Committee
of the Commandery General Sons Of
America, at Shamokin, considerable business
was mapped out for the year. A new com
mandery will be instituted at Reading ON the
27th inst, with l6O members, and another at
Chicago on January 18th. After the meeting
the members were banquetcd by the local
commandery Among those present were
Commandcry General Joseph F. Bier, of Port
Carbon Senior Vice Commander, ;. h.
Brown, Of town State Recorder +. T. Stces
of Philadelphia District Commander c
Hood, of Milton, the latter being accom-
panied by eight members Of the Milton
commandery.
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Best gas fitting is done by P. W Bell.


The report that Levi Orme, of South Chest
nut street, was suffering from a fractured
skull sustained by fall and that he was in a
critical condition, was without foundation.
He has been suffering from congestion of the
brain, but is now convalescent.