The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-16
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Living in London is 40 per cent
cheaper than in the large cities Of the
United States.
Out of every million letters that
pass through the post Office it Is cal
culated that only one goes astray.
The COW tree of Venezuela is nat
ural dairy. Its sap is very similar to
milk and is used as such by the ma.
tives
The transient hotel population of
New York is figured at 250,000 people
day. The hotel properties are valued
at over $sO,OO0,OO0.
There Is great demand In China for
lead. 1t Is used in several Chinese
manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea
chests for export.
Caleb Watts, Of Lily Pad, Pa, who
raises frogs for the market, gets the
best results by feeding them on liver,
corn meal and flies.
Great Britain imports over $35,000,-
900 worth of eggs year from Russia,
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada
and the United States.
Mrs. A. B. Enright, Of East Concord,
VT, is county supervisor Of schools and
said to be one of the busiest women in
the State. Besides her school work she
performs all the duties that fall to the
lot of the wife of Methodist pastor
of two large parishes.
Professor Jowett's comments on the
young men Of Balliol, Oxford, often
took the form of crushing sarcasms.
"The college, Mr.. X, thinks highly Of
you," he once said: perhaps too high
ly; but not half SO highly, I am sure,
as you think of yourself"
China is buying lumber from British
Columbia. 1t is largely needed for
railway construction. American lumber
is shipped to Shanghai. On one day of
his recent visit four full cargoes Of
Oregon pine arrived there, says the
Canadian trade commissioner at Yoko-
hama.
Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides being
the most popular writer in Sweden, has
just received an honorary degree from
the University of Upsala. She is the
first woman In Sweden to receive this
and it Is said to be only
matter of time when she will get the
Nobel prize.
Mrs. Emma Barry, of San Francisco,
has just returned from a trip to the
Arctic Circle, during which, it is assert
ed, she went farther north than any
other white woman. She accompanied
her husband prospecting for gold, and
after she lays In certain supplies she
will rejoin him In Alaska.
Mrs. G. Meyer is responsible for the
monument that has just been erected
at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the
Of the horses that died during
the Boer war. 1t cost upward of $4,000,
and is in the shape Of a stone water
ing trough, on the top of which is the
figure Of bronze cavalryman giving a
drink to his horse.
The State Of North Carolina Is one
Of the most notable in the Union for
the production of gems, particularly
emeralds, rubies, aquamar-
ines, beryls, hiddenite, rhodolite, ameth-
ysts and remarkable rock crystals
These gems have been found mainly
In the course of mining operations, al
though a few systematic searches for
them have been made and two com.
panies are now engaged exclusively in
such work.
A British lieutenant In the Second
Lincolnshire Regiment, who
was lately called LEO Quintus Tolle-
-Tollemache de Orellana Planta-
genet e-Tollemache," gave no.
tice short time ago by means Of ad-
thdL AC ldS ISuOuuCeu Ll6
names Of Quintus Tollemache- -Tolle-
mache Plantagenet Tollemache, and in
tends henceforth upon all occasions and
at all times to sign and use and be
called and known by the name Of Leo
de 0rellana Tollemache only.
Count Won Zeppelin, the aeronaut
was born in 1888, and devoted what
are for most men the best years of life
to military service. Retiring in 1880
with the rank of general, he turned
With a boyish enthusiasm to the DUR
suit of his hobby, aerial navigation.
To the solution Of the problem which
had baffled the investigators Of two cen.
turtles he sacrificed his fortune, with
little apparent progress toward tho
goal. Poverty spurred him to greater
exertion. In 1892 he made a success.
ful balloon journey from Berne to In.
cerne, but his work was lightly esteem.
ed until 1900, when the surprising suc-
cess of the first dirigible caused gen.
line sensation. Since that time his
has been easier.
AS long ago as 1895 Leipsic house
published a German novel illustrated
By something closely resembling a
Roentgen picture. The story tells of
The Countess Abilllnia, who gave her
heart to the knight Gibello. The knight,
y lover was thoughtless enough to kill
his lady loves father, her affection
turned to hatred, she vowed to kill him
In dream she saw the man who had