The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-07-05
ROUND The Globe

The Suez canal traffic has doubled IL
fifteen years.
Great Britain has seven and three
quarter millions Of dwelling houses.
The colors In the new Chinese faf
are red, yellow, white, black and blue
In one night recently 1,785 homeless
persons were picked up by the police
Of London.
Nearly sixteen and half million
tons was the worlds production ol
sugar for 1911.
On an ostrich farm each bird has an
individual valuation based mainly on
the quality of feathers yielded.
Among the employees of the govern.
ment printing Office at Washington are
250 persons over sixty-fve years of
age.
Liquid air loaded in thick phosphor
bronze cartridges is being successfully
used for blasting in some English coal
mines.
1t requires five big volumes to ac-
commodate a new condensed diction
ary for the blind printed at Vienna
from raised type.
Berlin is now within twe2;y-one
hours of London by the new schedule
of the Great Eastern railway. by way
of the Hook Of Holland
The performance at the Court thea
ter of Il drama based on Buddhas life
and teaching was recent novelty Of
the London theatrical season
The total strength of the Rritish
army on Oct. l, 1911, was 7l7,32G men,
including the regular and special re.
serves and the territorial force
Desertions in the United States army
In 1911 amounted TO only 28 per cent,
lower rate than in any other year
for ninety years, except in 1893
Members of the staff OF the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History Lave
| sailed for Japan to hunt the gray Call
fornia whale, Il specimen of which is
needed for the collection.
The new Elbe tunnel which connects
Hamburg with Steinwarender. situated
on an island in the river, Is 40 feet
In length occupied four years in con.
| struction and cost E525.000
The battieship Espana, the first ship
Of SPANS new navy. has been launch.
ed at Ferrol with elaborate ceremonies,
in which the king and queen took part
Spain is making new start on the sea
with moderate and modest program.
According to figures gathered by the
Journal of the American Medical asso-
citation, only sixty-four lives were lost
last year In celebrating the Fourth. In
1908, the year in which agitation for
safe and sane celebration began, there
were S72 deaths.
Berlin almost stands still. The in.
crease since 1906 is only IL per cent
or from 100000 to 2,0G4,000 inhabit-
ants Besides the capital, six cities
have more than 100000 people-Ham-
burg, $4,000; Munich, $4,000; Leip-
zig, 5S5.000; Dresden, $4,000, Cologne,
511,000, and Bresau, $4,000
All persons on reaching the age of
sixty-fve earning less than 1854 year
will participate in the old age pensions
established In France According to
estimates prepared by the government,
these pensions will entail an expendi-
ture of $24,000000 In 1912, $25,50O,000
in 1918 and $2G,00o,o00 in 1914.
Elliot Conroy, an usher in an Indian
apolis theater, refused a reward of
500 offered him by a woman for re-
turning to her valuable ring which
she had lost in the theater. Conroy
said his mother had taught him that
though it paid to be honest he must
never accept pay for being honest
Texas raises more turkeys than any
other state, perhaps because turkeys
require plenty Of room for range. and
Texas surely can give them that Lit
tie Rhode Island, however, is said to
produce the largest number of big tur
keys, some Of them weighing forty
pounds and worth 40 cents for every
pound,
The picture of President Taft has
been removed from the reception room
Of the Ciudad JuarcZ custom house, in
which he and President Diaz of Mex.
leo met two years ago, The picture
was removed by an order of President
Madero, forbidding the exhibition of
pictures Of any living persons in fed,
eral buildings,
There are 1876 smoke consuming
furnaces In London Fifty.four differ.
ent types Of apparatus are used In the
metropolis, all OF which are effective
smoke consumers Up to the date of
issuing the report from which these
figures come 672 convictions for smoke
nuisances had been obtained before the
magistrates,
Forty young Chinese women are
qualifying for the medical profession
in American universities through tho
influence of DR., Yamei Kin, the first
woman doctor In China. DIR, Kin, as
tue head of the Hospital For Women
In Tlentsin, has also for the last ten
years been training Chinese women for
the nursing profession
In Italy means has been discover.
ed to turn TO account the hitherto
worthless pips Of the grapes used in
wine making. oil Is now extracted
from them ON commercial scale by a
process OF direct heating with tetra-
chloride Of carbon, The latter is OBJ.
tanned IN abundance in Italy in the
preparation of electrolytic soda,
Although the earlx expectations of