The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Canton has fewer than 500 foreign
residents.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
In time of war have been tested in the 4
Russian army. Their speed is four
times as great as that Of carrier pig.
cons.
If the real estate of Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
Its inhabitants each individual would
own 5000 worth, according to the as
sessed value.
Prof. Carl Won Noorden, addressing
number Of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the subject of Food and
Nourishment," declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi-
ately after they have married is be-
cause their wives give them their favor
lite dishes on every possible occasion
london Standard.
Vegetable milk" is used in Japan.
1t is made from the sofa bean. The
liquid is exactly like cows milk In ap-
pearance, and In taste can hardly be
distinguished from it. To make 1t the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
In water. Some sugar and phosphate
of potassium are added, and it is boiled
down till 1t has the consistency of con-
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison Parkma1, of EN-
poria. Mr.. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing In Chile. He brought the seed
to America, and in the late seventies
he went to Emporia to live. He sowed
alfalfa in farm which he bought and
| the plant prospered. 1t was slow in
gaining popularity in Kansas, but is
now one of the States most important
forage crops.
In New Zealand everybody is bound
by law to take a weekly half-holiday,
and there must be no shirking the obi-
cation. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several walters, instead Of obeying the
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half-holiday, remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori-
ties came to hear of 1t and the proprie-
tor of the hotel had to appear in court,
where he was convicted ana punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen d. Lee
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals Of the Confederate army. They
are Gen. A. P. Stewart, ranking lieu
tenant-general Of the Confederacy, of
Biloxi, Miss, and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, Of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
anniversary on October Z last Cen
eral Buckner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer in 1885, He was
eighty-fve on April 1 last.
The German Emperor has wen
equipped pottery which brings him in
$4,000 year. The King of Wurtem.
berg owns two large hotels which yield
him yearly income of some $4,000.
The King of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Meissen, and the
Regent Of Lippe Detmoid runs large
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk and eggs The King of Servia
Is said to own a barber shop AID an
apothecary shop, In addition to which
heholds an agency for mtotor cars.
once had cat that did a rather
remarkable rafting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the caves Of low
fiat stable roof, and caught one In the
usual way. The other jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob, how
ever, not satisfied with the one grasped
1t firmly in his mouth, and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
in his mouth and the other In his paws,
AID promptly killed them both.-The
| Scotsman.
strange story comes from one OF
the Balkan states, where commercial
morality is still in Its infancy. At a
recent banquet given at the house of
the prime minister a distinguished dip
lomat complained to his host that the
Minister of Justice, next to whom he
was sitting, had taken his watch. The
prime minister said: "Ah, he shouldn't
have done that. l will get 1t back for
you" Sure enough, toward the end of
the evening the watch was returned to
Its owner. "Aad what did he say?''
asked the guest. "Sh-hl He does not
know / have got 1t back" said the
prime minister. philadelphia Record
Instances of desertion from the army
In Mexico are very rare and for the
best Of reasons" said Senor Jose de
Minaldez, Of Nueva Leon. 'Srhe reason
lies In the almost sure capture Of the
fugitive and the certainty that he will
get not one but numerous foggings on
his bare back. These lashings are done
/ In the presence Of the comrades of the
deserter, and when the men see how
great Is the suffering Of the miserable
wretch who tried In vain to quit his
military obligations, they are forced
to conclude that 1t Is better to stick to
the army than undergo such a terrible