The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The reclamation service of the Unit
ed States has already committed itself
to irrigation projects which will in
volve total cost of $90000,000.
The number of automobiles regis
tered in London is nearly $4,000.
Traffic between the eastern and
western coasts Of the United States
by way of isthmus railways and
steamship lines amounted to $40,000,-
900 in value in 1908, marked in
crease over any earlier year.
The most illiterate country of Eu-
rope is Roumania. Two-thirds of the
population can neither read nor write.
The recently discovered eighth sat
elite of Jupiter has been successfully
photographed at Greenwich observa-
tory.
At the funeral of Fred Cavalla, q
London costermonger the open hearse
was drawn by six horses. One of the
leading horses was ridden by postil-
ion dressed in black, while four bear
ers carrying white wands walked be-
side the hearse.
Canada, Denmark, France, Ger
many, England, Russia, Sweden and
the United States were, In 1908, repre-
sented among the twelve expeditions
which were struggling toward the
pole. Eight leaders were veterans
Peary and Cook of the United States,
Bernier of Canada, Erichsen and Ras-
mussen of Denmark, Charcot of
France, Shackleton of England, and
Geer of Sweden.
Mrs. A. A. Anderson, Of Greenwich,
Conn, has given $4,000 toward a par
ish building to be devoted to the so.
c1al and educational purposes of the
deaf and dumb. The house Is to be
three stories in height and to contain
rooms for entertainment, handicraft
and physical training The entire cost
of the building and its equipment as
now planned will be 100000, and Mrs.
Anderson has promised to double her
gift If the balance is raised during the
present year.
In the course Of report on the dis
Infection Of school rooms w. H. Marsh,
an English science teacher, asserts
that tests made of samples of school
room dust showed the number Of mi
cro-organisms therein to be from 5O,-
100000 to S0,000,O0O an ounce. On
some days as much as one and one
quarter pounds of dust was swept
from room 400 square feet in area,
which, on the basis of the figures
quoted, would yield from 100000 900
to 1,600,000000 micro-organisms.
One of the most famous bells In the
world Is the first great bell Of Mos
cow, which now stands in the middle
OF a square In that city and is used
as a chapel. This bell was cast In
1873, but was In the earth for over q
hundred years, being raised In 1885
by the Emperor Nicholas 1t is nearly
twenty feet high, has circumference
Of sixty feet, Is two feet thick, and
weighs almost 200 tons The second
Moscow bell, which is the largest bell
in the world that Is actually In use,
weighs 1923 tons.
A rabbit hears a man and a dog
coming and goes bounding away for
safety. The dog strikes the scent,
smells around briefly, and then Is off
In the direction the rabbit has taken.
The wonder is not that the dog should
strike the scent, but this: Each of
the several spots the rabbit touched
was touched by him within fraction
Of second of one another; yet so
accurate Is the sense of smell of the
dog that he can tell which was touch.
ed last, and so get the direction of
the rabbits course.-New York Press
Mrs. Fannie Friedman, who died the
other day in New York, was said to
have just passed her 112th birthday.
She was born in Hungary, married be.
fore she was 21 and had thirteen chill.
dren At the time of her death she
had five children, fifty-nine grandchil-
dren and eighteen great-grandchildren.
Up to the day of her death she was
active, both in body and mind and
took pride in the fact that she had
never had doctor In her life. Her
rule for good health was: Don't wor-
ry, take things easy, sleep ten hours
a day and eat five meals"
The inscriptions on church bells are
often quaint and interesting and fire.
quently relate to historical events.
They are more often than not in Lat.
in, sometimes bad, but nearly always
terse and vigorous. The IL o'clock
bell taken down In the French revolu-
tion bore the inscription, Ego sum
vox vita, oco-orato-venite." The
Holy Ghost bell at Strasburg bears the
motto, 20 Rex Gloria Christie, veni
cum pace" and is only rung when two
fires are seen In the town at the same
time. The following is quaint and
fairly common inscription: "Funera
plango, Fulgura FRANCO, Sabbato pam
go, Excite lentos, Dissipo ventos, Paco
eruentos. London Globe.
Philadelphia is up In arms, as new
er before, over the action of its trac-
tion monopoly in abolishing Its six
for-a-Quarter rate and establishing a
straight scent fare. Here's where