The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-06-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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the military academy, cost $103,727,-
900, and the navy $136,000000.
Vclapuk, one of the most preten-
tious attempts at universal language,
was introduced early in the '80s.
The sale of dairy cheese in the New
York wholesale market last year
amounted to more than 100000.
Tea imports in 1909 amounted to
&c., 100000, against $11 100000 in 1889;
coffee imports, sS6,5OO,OOO, against
56.000,O00 in 1889; and cocoa imports,
$14,OO0,00O. against $6,OOO,00O in 1899.
Insurance authorities tell us that it
requires about 100000 new houses ev-
cry year to supply our increase Of
population and $4,000 more to take
the places Of those that are destroyed
by fire.
There has been big increase In
the, production of salt In the United
States in the last ten years. Close to
25,000,000 barrels were produced in
this country last year, which was in
excess of any such period previous.
Nine. de la Roche has won an air
pilots license from the French Aero
Club by flying four times around the
aviation course at Heliopolis, a total
distance of twelve miles. She Is the
first woman to gain this distinction.
1t has been discovered by skillful
observers that the average load of
nectar carried to the hive by the bee
is almost $40 Of grain, so that the
collection Of one pound Of nectar re-
quires nearly $4,000 foraging excur-
sions.
The United States is first with re-
gard to revenue derived from the tel
egraphs, $29,OOo,OOO, while the Russian
treasury benefits by $20,6OO, 900, Great
Britain drawing S15,S00,000, Germany
$S,600,000, and France s7600,000 for
the year.
AS regards the number of kilograms
handled for the year, Great Britain
heads the list with nearly $4,000, 900
messages, the United States coming
next with 65,500,O0O. France stands
third, with nearly $58, 100000, and Ger
many fourth, with $4,000 messages
Mrs. Marilla M. Kicker, a lawyer
and a leading suffragist in New Hamp-
shire, has telegraphed from Califor-
mia, where she Is spending the winter,
that she will be a candidate for Gov
ernor Of New Hampshire on the suf-
frage platform. Mrs. Kicker Is ma
tive of New Hampshire, where her
husband died in 1868. She went to
Germany and France, where she
studied the condition of women for
more than two years. She returned
to this country and put herself on rec
ord as the first woman who ever at
tempted to vote.
For taxes out of the common one
must turn back to the days of George
III. For In the reign Of that monarch
one was almost forced to 'die beyond
ones means" The army and the navy
were in urgent need of money and the
chancellor was at his wits end. He
thought of the dead and gravely sug-
gested tax on collins. Which pro-
posal recalls the day when one could
not be born without involving proud
parent in tax A graduated tax. The
birth Of an eldest son, for instance,
cost duke as much as ESQ, whereas
cottager was forced to pay only 3
shillipgs. To be born with a silver
spoon in the mouth cost money in
those days.-London Chronicle.
SIN connection with 'humbug,' bug
bear and gold bug, 1t may be OBJ
served" says the London Chronicle,
that the last has probably no direct
suggestion of terror to the American
mind. Bug is freely used in Ameri-
ca for any kind Of insect. Our Eng
lish word, however, is directly afili
ated to the Celtic word, which meant
demon or bogey. 1t is conjectured
that when the Objectionable insect be-
came acclimated here, which was not
many centuries ago, the terror of its
attacks earned 1t its name. We get
the bug in its old sense in Shakes
peare-This Warwick was bug that
feared us all"-and the terror by
night is 'bugge by night in old Bi-
bles."
In France a method Of seasoning
wood through the agency of electricity
Is credited with much success. 1t Is
called the Acknowledgement process.
The timber is nearly immersed in a
tank of water containing 10 per cent
OF borax, of resin and little car
Donate OF soda, and rests on lead
plate connected with the positive pole
of dynamo. Another similar plate,
lying on the exposed surface of the
timber, is connected with the negative
pole. Thus current Of electricity
can be passed through the wood, from
which all the sap appears to be re-
moved, while the borax and resin take
its place in the pores. In few hours
the timber Is taken out and dried and
the seasoning is said to be completes
Perhaps the greatest enthusiast the
world over regarding cats is Mrs. w.
Eames Colburn, wife of Chicago
banker. Mrs. Colburn's blue ribbon
cats alone number thirty-fve, and she
has a big collection Of less patrician
pussies which receive as much loving
care. Each of the eighty-odd cats in
her possession Is known to Its mistress