The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-19
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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A dental college has recently been

waiter BroaQDelt, OF WllllStOn, fd.,
claims to have a hen that last year
laid 247 eggs, Of which ten were dou-
ble-yolked.
Neither boiling water nor cold 200
degrees below zero kills the sprout in
some seeds. Professor Becquerel found
three seeds eighty-seven years old that
sprouted.
Work is going on steadily to deep
en- and widen the Suez canal, and ere
long the biggest merchant vessels
with a depth of twelve meters will be
able to use 1t.
F. s. Weinhold, of Brookside, Pa,
last season raised on twenty-five acres
about three thousand bushels of ear
corn. Many Of the ears were over six
teen inches in length.
For number of years Washington
has been far and away the largest
lumber producing State in the Union,
and 1t still is ahead; but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with 1t.
DR.. James Critchton Browne, who is
the real authority behind most wise
acres and oracles on feeding" says:
"The meat ration OF the Japs in Man
churia was the largest ever served in
any army"
OF the revenue accruing from the
national forests in Colorado 25 per
cent. or 100000, is yearly turned over
to the State by the federal authorities
for use on the public roads and
schools.-Outing.
Helen, aged 6, was telling Mary, age
Z, Of her plans for the future. I'm
going to be married." she announced
land have eighteen children" "Oh,"
gasped Mary, her eyes wide with
amazement, "you mercenary wretch"
The population of Germany, apart
from immigration and emigration, in
creased by SS2,624 last year. In En-
gland, the births exceeded the deaths
by 393,S21; in Italy, by S57178; in
Belgium, by 71,715; in Holland, by
88,156; in France, by 46,411.
In old Holland, when a couple ap-
piled for divorce, they were locked
up in a one-room, trying-out-cabin,
with one dish and one spoon. If, after
a month, they had not come to liner.
ick they got the writ which was sci,
dom asked for after this bundling.
The sign read Children Under Five
Years of Age Free" The conductor
looked at 1t mournfully. "You may
not believe it," said he, "but WON
an with five children, all hers, got on
the car the other day and convinced
me that none Of them was old enough
to pay. Somehow, can't believe II
yet. New York Sun.
A news item stating that Gautemals
is considering putting her monetary
system on gold basis recalls poker
story about four players with $1,000,
900 (Gautemalan) In the pot, which
the winner exchanged for s400 (Ameri
can gold), but 1t took him four days
to do it, as 500 gold was all the
money changer would part with at q
time.
Lord Lister, discoverer of antisepsis
saw in 1857, near a hospital, an old
cholera pit which emitted horrid
stencil as 1t was standing open for the
next corpses. Walls were formed on
three sides of cofins piled one upon
another, and this was right under the
hospital window. There were five thou
sand cholera corpses In eighty pits In
the hospital yard. ....-...--
The feet of the Graham & Morton
Company, operating on the southern
part of Lake Michigan, is being equip
ped with wireless telegraph instru
ments. There will be an operator or
each boat and also one at each Of the
stations to be established at Chicago
Holland and Benton Harbor. This ser
vice Is available for passengers ant
also for emergency.
One of the greatest works performed
by Americans in Korea was the max
ing of the Korean-English dictionary
This was done by DR.. ]. 8. Gale, {
Presbyterian missionary. He began /
In 1892, after a four years residence
In the country, and completed 1t with
in five years. Prior to that there wa
no means of ntercommunication be
tween the foreigners and the native
except through the Chinese language.
There is a rumor that Hartford
Conn, intends to make a bid for fam
by establishing an asylum for tn
treatment of automobiles that hav
: been worn out In the service, and tina
society for the prevention Of cruelt.
to automobiles is also under considera
tion. A speed antitoxin and metho,
, Of injecting common sense into chaui
] feurs might lessen the labors of tn
proposed nstitutions.-New Yorl
Tribune.
DR.. Doche (French army says tina
spawning Is really the cause Of som
oyster poison In summer. spawnin
oysters are sometimes called milky.
Their Juice looks something like mill
Doche says this milky Juice holds 20!
SONS which the oyster throws of 4
spawning. He tells of the violent POI
soning of a number of soldiers fror
: eating milky" oysters. Dread of sun
: mer oysters Is practically universe