The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


| Inc pay roll or American rallroaus
amounts to billion dollars year.
If each individual in New York City
owned an equal portion of its real es
tate he would be worth in land Sl,'
$40, according to the assessed Valua
ton.
While the British send Oh an aver
age two kilograms a head each year
according to government statistics, the
Americans send only one and one-tenth
and the Germans nine-tenths.
Money is accumulating In New York
City more rapidly than at any time
in the last two years. Banks are re
ceiving much faster than they are pay
ing, and good investments are being
diligently sought In every direction.
The new catalogue Of Columbia Uni
versity shows the total number Of Off
GERS Of the administration and in
structors to be 670; the total number
of resident students 1888, as against
5,155 last year. Since the last cata'
logue was published eight special funds
have been created by special gift OF
bequest.
Briquettes composed Of calcium car
bide have been prepared by H. X. Kof'
fer of Vienna, and are claimed to be
non-hydroscopic, keeping indefinitely
and do not continue to give Off gas
after withdrawal Of water. They are
made by intimately mixing finely gran
ulated carbide with binding material
and compressing In molds.
DIR. William s. Bigelow, who Is re.
sponsible for the cutting Of the new
United States gold coins in intaglio
instead Of In relief, a new departure In
coinage, is neither sculptor nor d
numismatist, but the author Of the re-
cent book on Buddhism and Immor
tally" He has given years of study
to the literature Of the Far East.
Discussion arose at a meeting Of the
Ballycastle County Antrim) Board of
Guardians on a letter from the local
government board asking what order
the guardians had made on former
letter from the board requesting that
the paupers should be supplied with
forks at meals. 1t was decided to In
form the local government board that
the guardians did not consider forks
ecessary.-London Globe
A counting machine that Is reported
to be an improvement over anything
of the kind yet produced, the inven-
ton Of Swedish engineer, was recent
ly supplied to the counting house Of
the Bank of England for experimental
purposes, and its performance was
highly successful In point of rapidity.
The machine Is operated by electrici-
ty, and is capable Of counting up and
sorting money into paper bags or tubes
at the phenomenal rate of 72,000 coins
an hour The coins are placed In n
receptacle at the back of the machine,
and are mechanically sorted, stacked
and inserted into paper tubes.
Two Russian sailors, wishing to de-
sert from their ship lying In the Tyne,
England, took boat and rowed for
the open sea. They took with them
food and clothing and $500 in cash.
The flood tide set them ashore again
and they tried to land, but the sea
was running too high. For many hours
they drifted helplessly about, and final.
ly their tiny craft was pitched upon
the beach Of Manhaven, near South
Shields. Here they took refuge In a
cave, where they lived four days and
nights, until their food became ex-
hausted. Hunger drove them into the
open, and eventually they. were ar
rested.
In times past fashion lasted, with
slight notifications, for years. Much
the same fashion continued through the
long reign Of Louis XIV, and another
through that Of Louis XIV, while the
ladies Of the middle ages never thought
of varying their costumes. AS for the
Greeks and the Romans, generation
succeeded generation with little change
in female dress; and yet all these la
dies Of the past were more artistically
dressed than those Of to-day. Many,
no doubt, spent more than they could
afford, but when they had a costly
dress they kept 1t, and did not throw
it away to replace 1t with another
Truth.
Some curious thermometers were
made Otto de Guericke, burgomaster
Of Magdeburg, made one which was
twenty feet long and gorgeous with
blue paint and gilt stars. 1t consisted
Of a large globe fastened to a tube
both Of copper. The tube was bent
upon itself into the form of very
narrow o, In which was placed the
requisite amount Of alcohol One arm
Of the U was shorter than the other
and open at the top. On the liquid was
float, to which was attached a cord
passing over pulley. At the other
end Of this cord was hung a gilt an
gel, Its finger pointing to a scale on
which the degrees we're painted.
Poseidon, the newest Australian gold
field, is producing some remarkable
nuggets. One, shaped exactly like a
cricket ball, was recently found thera