The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-29
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The thinnest and toughest leather
is made from frogs skin.
/ Out of every one thousand letters
used in writing English E occurs 137
times. I is the next most frequently
used.
Yellow is far the most permanent
of any color in flowers. 1t is the only
one not affected by sulphurous acid
fumes
In Italy you can tell where the
peasant women come from by the size
of their earrings. The southerners
wear the longest.
Neither in France nor in Austria
are children ever permitted to be re-
ceived into warehouses. They are
boarded out with peasant families.
The highest clouds reach ten miles
above our heads. They are the white,
feathery forms which we see on a
clear day. Although apparently mo-
tionless, they travel from seventy-five
to ninety miles an hour.
Certain butterflies have marked
odors, some good, some bad. DR.. +. A..
Dixey, a British entomologist, men
tions white butterfly of England
that has the fragrant scent of lemon
verbena, and has noted many species
in Africa with such odors as those of
chocolate, vanilla and various flowers.
The agreeable odors belong to males,
being charm to attract females. The
offensive odors, shared by both sexes,
are protective, repelling enemies.
There is being exhibited IN Liver
pool prodgious egg, that of a tall,
fightIess bird-the Epyornis maxi
mus-which formerly inhabited the
island of Madagascar. The eggs Of
this immense creature are nearly
yard in circumference and foot in
length, and their cubical contents,
roughly speaking, are equal to six os-
trich eggs, or $50 hens eggs, or sixty
thousand humming birds eggs, or two
gallons of water. The market price
ranges from f35 to EGO, only twenty
known specimens being in existence.
Having personally eaten some hun
dreds of species of caterpillars," says
NJ. Dagin, French entomologist
"raw, broiled, boiled, fried, roasted
and hashed, | find most of these pleas
ant to taste, light and digestible." But
the despised cockroach of our kitchen
is what NJ. Dagin wakes most en-
tEusiastic over. Pounded in a NOR
tar, put through sieve and poured
into beef stock, these creatures make
soup preferable to bisque." Never
theless, a Chinese proverb runs to the
effect, "If your stomach is delicate,
abstain from the cockroach!'
The tortoise is great sleeper. One
was a domestic pet in an English
house, and when his time for hiber-
mating came he selected a corner of
the dim coal cellar for his winter
quarters. A new cook was engaged
soon after who knew nothing of tor
toises. In few months the tortoise
woke up and sailed forth. Screams
soon broke the Kitchens calm. On
entering that department the lady of
the house found the cook gazing in
awestruck wonder, and exclaiming, as
with unsteady hand she pointed to
the tortoise: "My conscience Look
at the stone which I've broken the
coal VII a. winter!"
At the cuose of a banquet given by
the Maharajah of Gwailor to the
Prince of Wales a centerpiece in the
form Of temple and decorated with
electric lamps and flowers was hoist
ed to the ceiling by pulleys, and re-
vealed perfect model railway on the
table underneath. The locomotive and
train was eight feet long, and car
ried decanters, cigars, cigarettes and
matches. The train was started by
closing an electrical circuit. AS long
as this was closed by a spring the
train moved, but the lifting of a de-
canter or box of cigars resting on the
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