The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-02-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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The first pair of spectacles was made
by an Italian In 1899.
Norway has factory In which "a
600 pounds of haddock can be turned
into fish balls In day.
Though hydrophobia has been
stamped out of Britain, it is still ram
pant In Germany. where every year
over $500 dogs and cats afflicted with
the disease are destroyed.
When the post office was first opened
at Kai-Feng, China, the clerks had a
fight with some of the men who bought
st e ,ers esa refused =: &c sc away away until until
the stamps were licked and stuck on
their envelopes for them.
The present wave of agitation for
the amendment Of the British copy
right law is gaining strength from the
discovery that a great-grandson of
Robert Burns is now making a pre-
carious living as a mender Of pots and
pans.
Queensland and Victoria possess
only small ostrich farms, which have
not produced very encouraging results.
In all there are now about two thou
sand ostriches In Australia. The In
fertor feathers are used at home and
the more valuable ones are exported,
chiefly in Germany.
The French government takes is per
cent Of all the money staked at the
casinos Of the seaside and other health
resorts on the little horses and other
gambling devices. For the season Of
10000 this percentage amounted to
$943,393, the summer season natural
ly contributing the greater part--over
S6OO,OOO
The duke Of Atholl holds part of his
lands conditionally on his presenting
a white rose to his sovereign when
honored with visit. The late Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert once were
his guests at time when these flow
ers were out of season and the duke
had much difficulty in obtaining two
roses for the occasion.
The court house at Washington, Ma
son County, Kentucky; in which Uncle
Tom Of Uncle Toms Cabin" fame was
sold, was struck by lightning and de
stroyed on August IS. The building
was erected in 1884 1t was the sale
Of the aged negro at this place that
gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the basis
for her story.Green Bag.
One Of the main features Of the agri
cultural exhibition at Allahabad, In
dia, next month will be the tillage
field, on which as large as possible 4
choice Of plows and other implements
of tillage will be regularly at work, 81
that visitors can see for themselves
the depth and quality of the tilth, ant
the weight and draft of the various
implements.
About one million persons In thu
working period of life in the United
States are on the sick list each year
The cost of their illness is about ST.,
000,000,000 year, of which at leasi
one-half is preventable. Therefore, the
estimate, considered low, Of the pre-
ventable loss from disease and death In
this country is $1,5OO. .OOO, 900. PROBES
sor Irving Fisher.
Henrik Ibsen's posthumous works
have just been published In Norway.
They consist Of collection of verse.
biographical material and sketches of
the plots and morals of his plays, as
well as the text of the plays as first
completed, the last showing the great
Importance Ibsen attributed to careful
planning Of his plays In advance and
to thorough revision.
Wilfred Stevens, of Shakopee, MINI,
translator in the service of the United
States government, has a working
knowledge of twenty-odd languages
and can converse is as many dialects
Of various other tongues as may be
demanded OF him. He knows more
diplomatic secrets than any official
Of the government, with the possible
exception of the President and the
Secretary OF State.
Hookworm can certainly be quickly
conquered, malaria more slowly and
consumption most slowly, but almost
as completely. Consumption Is vir-
tually the same great, sweeping de-
stroyer In modern cities of science
that 1t was a century ago, say, in Lon
don. Indeed, since the great grip cpl
demic of 1881 consumption seems
worse than 1t ever was before and the
grip epidemic of twenty years ago did
not make things any better.-New
York Press.
In the British postofice savings
bank in 1907 there were 1871, ,969 de-
posits, Of the value of G44.217,28S, and
last year lS.37s,s91. representing s44,-
770.7S2. In 1907. s.30s.247 withdraw
ais were made, involving G46,463. .632,
and last year 9,922.169, representing
e45, 1896, 400. The interest credited to
depositors in 1908 was 9S,772,755, al
compared with ss.71s.975 In 1907. and
the total standing to the credit Of de