The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-05-20
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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The wind gauge on shipboard regis

good life preserver. It's buoyancy Is
sufficient to keep several persons af1oat.
According to the United States CEN
sus tables, based on the present
growth, the population of New YORK
City will be 100000 in 1880. Man
haitian island will then have 100000
Siam has adopted the gold stand
ard, which really was promulgated IN
| 1908, and henceforth the unit OF the
Siamese monetary system will have
value equal to 55.S centigrams OF pure
gold.
Baltimore's school board has under
consideration the question OF allowing
corporal punishment in the public
schools. The subject has been referred
to a committee, to confer with the
teachers.
Portuguese gardeners at Punta Del
gada, on St. Michaels, Azores, are get
ting rich raising fine pineapples un-
der glass for the New York market.
They are the biggest and best that
reach that town.
The cup of ST. Jacques, which, In New
York, is a dessert of delight, with its
peaches, cherries, pineapple, orange
and citron en- compete in delicate ices,
becomes in Paris wretched compound
of sliced sour apple in mushy snow.
French lights are the best along the
shores, say the navigators. They are
posted low, close to the water line, and
so do not mislead like the Italian
pharos perched high above the sea.
They have the best lenses and are al
ways visible.
The project for building new iron
railway bridge across the Neva in st.
Petersburg has now been worked out,
and the bridge is to be begun with
out delay. The bridge will be OF. an
extremely simple pattern, and its
length is to be 1,750 feet.
The last statement of the interest
bearing debt of the United States
makes the total 1897, ,253, 800, while the
gross bonded Indebtedness of New York
city at its last statement was $685.
260,115. The metropolis Is carrying
$8, ,O06, 1875 more than the nation.
There has recently been launched at
Bath, Me-, the largest wooden vessel
ever built in the United States. The
Wyoming, as she has been named, is
six-masted schooner of $3.50 gross tons.
with total length over all of $50
feet. Next to her in size among wood
en- vessels is the William L. Douglas,
with q gross tonnage of 3,70S.
Sausage is served as an adjunct to
roast chicken on the London & Great
Western dining cars. 1t rather resem-
bles a frankfurter in flavor and tex
ture. The dining car service is dill
gent and well-meaning and the food
Is simple and plain. The car itself
has about the same aspect Of luxury
as an American freight caboose.
The common law of England is an
ancient collection of unwritten max
inns and customs of British, Saxon and
Danish origin, which, by long use and
approval, have become fundamental in
English jurisprudence. Many of the
principles of the English common law
hold in this country, and throughout
the English-speaking world as well.
AS to the name Smith, correspond
ent of the London Chronicle points out
that while there are now about 100000
members of the great family in Eng
land alone, in Old Testament times, ac-
cording to the first book of Samuel,
"there was no Smith throughout the
land of Israel" This verse the late
Bishop Wilberforce said was the hard
est one in the Bible to quote without
smiling.
Just before the American feet left
for its famous trip around the world
there was some newspaper talk Of a
possible clash with Japan. The yarn
goes that a highly placed person asked
Admiral Schroeder what he would do
If the Japanese fired on his ship.
Schroeder shifted. "They won't fire on
my ship" said he, positively. "But If
they did?" Now" said Schroeder, an.
grily, "if they did, hey? What the
dickens do you think I'd do? Sue
em?'
Love your wife like your soul, and
beat her like your carpet" This is a
Russian proverb. Another of the same
spirit: mot long hurt the bumps from
loved ones thumps." Wives have un
doubtedly been subjected to much i'll
treatment in Russia, where most hus
bands have always held to the opin
ion that Liberty spoils good wife
Some Russian proverbs are cynical as
to the delights of matrimony, and mosi
, married men know how to say: "Wed
! once, wall always"
D Not being in sympathy with certain
!; actions of the hereditary branch of ths
D British Parliament, the London Chron
! icle has been speculating on the posi-
e Bile future of the word lord" "St
6 far it has resisted the democratizatior
that has befallen lady no one talk
of chorus lords, or begins a speech
with Ladies and lords!' In moderI
, Greek, however, 1ordos' means simpl,
, Mr. and it would be rash to predic
, that our descendants will not all b,
1ordS' In fhe twapfv.first cart,,rx,u