The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-02-26
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Cement is used for roofing in France
especially near Lyons.
The area covered by the nationa
capitol is 1912 square feet.
The last edition of the New oYrl
telephone book weighed 1000 tons.
Under ordinary circumstances. tn
life of wooden boat is four times tina
of steel.
Another woman has been elected t,
the Colorado Legislature. About
dozen womea have served there befor,
her.
in the matter of drinking" muset
the philosopher with the impressionisti
nose, be sure you are right and 20,
won't get a head" Philadelphia Rec
ord.
One Of the most destructive as wei
as one of the most offensive pests tina
affiict the planters Of India is the re(
cotton bug. The insect has been report
ed as a cotton pest from every part O.
the country. Its presence is detected
by the offensive odor.
Hithereto the population of Japanest
towns of the empire as a whole ha'
been estimated from the official records
Of births and deaths and other docu
ments, but 1t has now been arranged
to make municipal house to house in
vestigation, commencing at Kobe.
Guam, which is one of the most unin
viting of our possessions, will bt
equipped with an experimental station
through the means of which its re
sources will be investigated and en-
couraged. DR.. w. II. Evans, of tht
office of experiment stations, has visited
the island and selected a site for the
station at Agana. The station will bt
conducted under the immediate super
vision Of the office, with H. L. V. Coste
noble as an agent in charge.
Lord Lyveden is an ardent peerage
reformer and tells this anecdote A
famous statesman of the nineteenth
century was called upon to visit his sor
in prison. He bitterly reproached him
remarking: Here am l, having worked
my way up from middle class home
to great position, and when l die
you will be the greatest blackguard in
the peerage." The son listened quietly
and then replied, with terrible irony
"Yes-when you die"
1t is customary in Spain when an
infant first begins to notice things tC
place before 1t a silver coin, sword
silver cross a book and some fruit
The object to which the child stretches
his hand indicates, according to accept
ed belief, his future vocation. The coir
Is for commerce, the sword for the
army, the cross and the book respec
lively point to the church and the Law
or learning, while the fruit denotes 9
farmer or landowner The English
man.
The Woman Suffrage Association o,
New Jersey recently celebrated the fiji
tieth anniversary of Lucy Stone letting
her household goods, including he
baby's cradle, be sold for taxes in Or
ange as protest against taxation with
out representation. The suffragists sa,
that this was the first instance In thu
world Of woman refusing to pay taxes
for this reason. Since then there have
been many similar instances. The las
and most notable perhaps was the case
of Lady Steel, who let her goods be solo
at auction in Edinburg, Scotland.
Lowry is man with a moderate In.
come and one child, whom he is already
sending to French master, who Is ac-
customed to be paid every Monday Re
Gently Lowry sent Henry to his lesson
without the usual bank note. That
evening the father looked over the boys
exercise, and this is what he found
Henry doing his best to put into Paris
ian French: II have no money. The
week is up. Have you no money? Has
your father no money? / need money.
What is the day Of the week? The day
OF the week is Monday. Does your ia
ther know the day of the week?"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is getting
more eloquent as her years increase, her
friends declare. She is now nearly
ninety, and the other day at reception
given her In Boston made what her
friends say was the finest speech of
her life. She said that when she be-
gan to talk about woman suffrage she
never know when to stop. ut was my
good fortune to get interested in the
suffrage question about the time the
negro men obtained their freedom, "
Mrs. Howe said. "Then for the first
time saw the whole of one sex gov
erned by the whole of the other. This
seemed to me an intolerable tyranny. |
couldn't help but think that after we
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