The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-02
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The happy eagle of Brazil feeds ex.
clusively on monkeys.
The average crow is said to destroy
100000 insects year.
London has 2,151 miles Of streets
and 500 miles of tramways.
Rapid growth of the finger nails is
said to indicate good health.
Some doctors say that eating beef
regularly is bad for the temper.
The salary of lieutenant general of
the United States army is $1,000.
fEighty-seven in every one hundred
Canadian farmers own their farm.
Zinc shingle nails, cut from the
solid metal. are practically indestruct-
ible
Russia is establishing numerous
wireless stations over Its great terri
tory.
AS general rule mans hair turns
gray five years earlier than wom-
ans.
An electric machine has been made
to wash and purify the air in any
room.
"A watch ticks 157,8S0,00o times In
q year and theS wheels travel 3,558&
miles.
The Turkish government has awak-
ened to the need of irrigation and
railways.
Last year twenty-five people were
killed by motor cars In the streets of
London.
Neptune takes more than 100 years
to make the complete revolution round
the sun.
More women marry between the
ages OF 90 and Is than at any other
time Of life.
Alfred Wade, Montesono. Wash.
raised 1913 bcshels of wheat on two
acres of land.
IAN Alabama man, 81 years of age,
says he has eaten hot biscuits regu-
larly all his life.
FF Cooked food is sold from automo.
biles in the streets Of Paris, Berlin
and Moscow.
A healthy horse eats nine times it's
weight in food In a year. a healthy
sheep six times.
A rosebush in garden at Freiburg
covers ninety-nine square yards and
bears 10000 buds.
II Fifty-ton loads of coke can be dump
ed from up-to-date freight cars In less
ffthan~two minutes.
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I mate. there were 299.293 Indians In
the United States.
The rudder of the transatlantic
liner Olympic weighs 100 tons. being
the heaviest ever built.
It is estimated that 10000 horse
power can be easily developed from
the st. Lawrence River.
Astronomers discover an average of
three comets year, but few of them
are visible to the unaided eye.
From the whole of the worlds sur
face the sun sucks up about 5000
cubic tons of water per annum.
Germany's students are jealous Of
foreigners and are endeavoring to
shut them out Of the universities.
| The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her
ring season has yielded 100000. 900
herrings. which sold for 100000.
Copra Is imported for Its oil, which
is used wholly in soap-making, the
only by-product being residue used
for stock food.
The only by-product from copra is
the cake left by> the crushing, which
is used for cattle feeding. and is
worth from $34 to 500 per ton.
The United States is the only coun-
try of commercial importance which
does not forbid the use of white phos-
phorus In the manufacture Of matches.
More than 100000 persons emigrat-
ed from this country during the year
1907. This is much smaller num-
Der than shown by the previous year.
St. Louis has a concrete building
ffty-seven feet high. which is entire
ly without windows. The illumina-
tion is by means of skylights in the
roof
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany is conducting extensive expert
ments with the hope Of making wire
less telegraphy available for the oper-
alton of trains.
AS fax pulled from the ground
yields a longer fiber than that reaped
In the usual way, a Canadian clergy
man has invented a pulling attach
ment for binders.
Persons are likely to think of Rome
under Augustus as being great city
but 1t was only one-fourth the size Of
the present New York City and Its
wealth was not one-twentieth as great.
The Presbyterian church people Of
the United States are having plans
drawn for college at Montemorelos.
Neuyo Leon, Mexico, which will be
for agricultural and mechanical train
Ing.
| In response to an offer Of 10000
marks for the best plan for the en-
largement Of Berlin and its suburbs.
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