The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-03-25
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consumed ninety-five tons of food
Soldiers in the Russian army are tt
carry compasses with luminous nee
dies.
Two thousand million microbes are
sometimes injected into a persons
blood to cure diseases.
Cavalry officers in Italy undergo c
course of instruction in pigeon train
ing for military purposes.
The smallest screws are those made
in watch factories. An ordinary thin
BILE would hold 100000 Of them.
The Eastern states, from Maine to
Alabama, produced gold worth $259, ,143
and silver worth $35,O7o last year.
Covering an area of 2.45o acres. the
largest hydraulic gold mine in the
world is in Trinity county, California
The lighthouse Of Helgoland has q
light of 10000, 0,0O0-candle power. Al
Nuremberg lamp ten times as pow
erful has been made.
There are about 100000 oil pro
ducing wells in the United States, rep
resenting directly and indirectly an
outlay of about $700,000,000.
A young oak grows three feet in
three years. In the same time an elm
grows eight feet three inches, and 9
willow nine feet three inches.
One Scotch casualty insurance com
pany is offering policies to aviators
while another will extend all future
policies to cover the risks of aviation
and ballooning.
Consul Isaac A. Manning Of La Guai
ra forwards samples Of the jipijapt
palm used in the manufacture of Pana
ma hats, brought from near Barquisi
meto, and which he is told grows IL
many other parts Of Venezuela.
Among the important Improvement
contemplated in Japan are the quad
rupling of the Tokio-Y okohama rail
way, and the Improvement Of thu
Kioto-Kobe line. SO that a very mucl
higher speed may be developed.
The study Of foreign languages 4
making rapid progress In German
schools. Most of the teachers are ma
tive born French and English. Thi
work is a powerful factor in Ger
manys progress as power on inter
national commerce.
Breweries and tanneries and print
ing ink factories confer exemption
from tuberculosis, and employees \
turpentine factories never have rheu
matism. Copper mining excludes tn
possibility Of typhoid among the worl
ers. Harpers' Weekly.
The wife of Jerseyman was az
vertising for serving maid. Th
Jerseyman is an editor and his wit
has learned the habit Of cutting ou
unnecessary words. This is the wa
the advertisement read: Wanted
A white, semi-green maid servant
New York Sun.
There is no such thing as fores
of mahogany. The mahogany tre
lives by and for itself alone. 1t stand
solitary of its species surrounded b,
the smaller trees and dense under
growth of the tropical forest, rearing
its head above Its neighbors. Tw,
trees to the acre are liberal esti
mate.
In. Berlin the walters association Il
considering the plan of making tip
obligatory and according to a flxet
table. In the cheaper places they pro
pose that the customer shall pay to thu
waiter IL per cent of the amount o
his bill and in the large establish
ments the attentive 'Kellner" will b.
satisfied with 8 per cent.
This one comes from Missouri
where one editor Showed" them why
"An evangelist asked all the mel
present who were honest and pait
their debts to stand up. All rose bu
one. He said he was the local edito
and couldn't pay his debts, becaus'
the men standing we're his deliquen
subscribers. Atlanta Constitution.
In the Russian campaign the per
sonal baggage of Napoleon's brother
Jerome Bonaparte, who married Eliza
beth Patterson of Baltimore, contained
sixty pairs of boots. 200 shirts and 81
pocket handkerchiefs. The transpor
tation Of his wardrobe entire requires
several heavy wagons, while his who'll
campaigning kit stretched over hal
q mile
Thackeray was six feet two inche
In height and Sir H. w. Lucy says th'
great novelist wore q 7b-inch hat
beating Dickens and John Bright b.
full half inch. Mr.. Gladstone's ha
was 7ss-inch measurement-the sam
as Macauley 's-while Beaconsfielt
needed full 7-inch. The hat Of Dan
lei OConnell, however, would hav'
beaten them all. measuring S1a incheI
by 10 inches. J.
A portrait bust, heroic In size ana
erected on an artistic pedestal, o
Marie wit in the part Of Norma. wa
unveiled recently in the foyer Of th'
Royal Opera House at Vienna VIII
died in 1891 after brilliant career
but the acceptance Of the bust by th'
management was, nevertheless. a grea