The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-08-05

The salary of lieutenant general OF
the United States army is $1,000.
Sleeping sickness has been known in
West Africa for one hundred years.
In Norway the average length of life
is greater than In any other country.
1t is estimated that s0,0OO-horse pow
er can be easily developed from the
st. Lawrence river.
An Alabama man, ninety-seven years
of age, says he has eaten hot biscuits
regularly all his life:
The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her
ring season has yielded 800,000.000 her
rings, which sold for 100000.
Formaldehyde is used In meat ex-
ported to England, and the government
is making Investigations as to its ef-
feet on the health of consumers.
Yale students are teaching more than
one hundred New Haven boys in
classes under the direction of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Rice stands first In the list of Siam q
agricultural products. The average
yearly export of rice for the last five
years has amounted to 94S,3S9 tons.
The Belgian minister of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Congo to study sleeping
sickness and to seek means to cure it,
Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie is chairman
OF the committee which proposes to
build q woman's clubhouse in Brook
.yn at cost Of 100000. At mass
meeting held the other day in the
chapel of Packer institute stock sub
scriptions to the amount Of $4,000
were received. The largest single con-
tribution was that of the Brooklyn
Women's Club, which guaranteed
| $1,000. The building will not be start
ed until the committee has the full
100000
One Of the marvels of the age is the
extreme cheapness of ocean carriage.
The modern tramp steamer could car
~ her cargo one thousand miles for
Sd ton and make a profit of 10 per
cent. A modern tramp steamer could
leave England and go around the world
by the two capes, and even then carry
cargo at 22 So q ton. These are mar
velous figures, and they show to what
extent the world is indebted to the
carrying trade.-Cassier's Magazine
for May.
The population of southern Califor-
mia, according to Colonel Drake, who
is the worlds foremost statistician In
such matters, can not fail, in very
short time. to exceed twenty million
souls, for there is human breed there
which multiplies with the miraculous
rapidity Of Belgian hares. When Long
Beach had population of only little
more than thousand there sprang up
In few months, from the smallest
beginnings, more than nine hundred
real estate agents.
AS a specimen Of how practical the
Japanese are with their knowledge oi
western science and determination to
deal with disease, they have levied q
tax on every household to produce two
rats every month. A fine Is imposed
IL the rats are not caught and pro
duced at the time of inspection
Every rat is examined, and II found
to be plague infected the house from
which it came is to be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. Twice year
every house and shop has to disgorge
all its effects and be completely cleaned
out The things only go back after
sanitary inspection.-Java Times.
/ Perhaps the reason the English are
so far behind in flying is because they
worked the whole thing out long ago
and are sick and tired of 1t, for John
Milton, in Britain to the Conquest, y
says that the youth King Harold, last
of the Saxons, strangely aspiring, had
made and fitted wings to his hands
and feet. With these, on the top Of a
tower, spread out to gather air, he
flew more than furlong; but, the
wind being too high, he came futter
ing to the ground, manning all his
limbs; yet so conceited was he of his
art that the cause of his fall wal
attributed to the want of tail, al
birds have, which he forgot to make
| At the banquet given In her honor
after the Nobel prize had been award
ed to her Miss Selma Lagerlof, the
Swedish author, spoke Of the pleasure
such festival would have given Fred
rika Bremen. She said all old maids
should shower blessings on the mem
ory Of Miss Bremen for showing them
how to attain an independent place
| In the world and an object in life
She then pointed out the change which
had taken place In public opinion since
the days Of Miss Bremen. Women were
no longer set aside and looked dowr
upon, but had gained for themselves
education and standing. Among womer
nowadays were found graduates of uni
versities, doctors Of philosophy and
medicine and heads Of great business
houses, hospitals and schools.
It is probable that no other commod
Iity ever came into such varied uss
within so short period as india rub
Der. First employed practically fol-
footwear and other waterproof apparel
rubber has come to be employed in
electrical insulation, hose pipes for the