The Hermiston herald., May 28, 1925, Image 2

THE ILEBMlSTON HERALD, HERMISTON. OREGON.
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I d o l F o u n d in B u rm a
Splendid Work of A rt
T he bronze Buddhu of Yokohama la
commonly thought to be the largest
statue o f that god in the world, but
there la one In Burma that exceeds It
In at least one dimension und gives an
Impression of greater size.
When the English were building the
railw ay from Rangoon to Mandalay
they searched the vicinity of Pegu for
stone w ith which to make the embank­
ment through the great swamps. In
the whole arelt there was only one
elevation of any Importance.
The
engineers thought that this hill might
provide the necessary material, so they
dug Into Its base and were surprised
to find some artistic brickwork, the
Washington Star says.
On clearing away the earth further
they found an enormous stone statue
that represented Buddha In a reclining
position. The statue is about 11)0 feet
long and, Including the brick base, It Is
more than 40 feet high. The Yoko­
hama Buddha Is 55 feet high and 110
feet In circumference.
Although the Burmese statue Is not
so artistic as the Japanese, It Is a
wonderful piece of work.
Not the
least remarknble thing about It Is the
way In which so huge a monument
bad disappeared absolutely from Bur-
mese history and legend.
T h e news of the discovery at once
brought numberless Buddhists to the
place, who glnzcd and decorated the
gigantic image as a work of devotion.
The sides of Its Inigo feet were orna­
mented at great cost with an elabor­
ate glass mosaic and each toe was
embellished with a separate decora­
tion.
W orld’a W ettest Spot
Found in Assam Hills
W e often complain about rainy
weather, but really we do not. know
wbat rain means I One hus to go to
the Khasl hills, In Assam, to see rain
at Its heaviest, for there It comes
down In Niagaras. This spot, for It
Is not of large extent, rejoices In
the name of Cherripungl, nnd It de­
serves all the other bad names one
can give It. Its annual ralnfull aver­
ages 458 Inches, or Just eighteen times
the rainfall of London.
In 1801 Cherripungl nearly doubled
Its average, for In that year 1)05 Inches
fell, of which 300 were recorded In
the month of July I On the 14th day
of that month 40 Inches of rain fell
In twenty-four hours, anil In the five
days, June 12 Io 10, the total reached
upwards of 114 Inches, or more than
four times the average annunl ralnfull
of London.
The henvlest recorded ralnfnll In
Great Britain occurred at Bruton, In
Somerset, on June 20, 1017, when 0%
Inches f e l l —Tit-Bits.
English Co,r,;nor.v.’cc ilh
O d d Spociee o f Fish
That Possess Lungs
We are so accustomed to think of
flab breathing by moana of gills that
It Is difficult to Imagine a species
which have lungs and can breathe
a ir like the higher land animals. These
are the Dipnoi (meaning double­
breathers). A t one time numerous,
they are now almost extinct.
There
are three species of them. These are
found In different parts of the world
— one group In Queensland, another la
Africa, and the third In South Amer­
ica.
They Inhabit the tropical rivers,
which, though fu ll In the wet season,
are parched up when the heat comes.
During the dry season they bury them­
selves In the mud of the river bed
and start to breathe air, which they
are able to do by means of a swim-
bladder, sim ilar In structure to our
own lungs, though naturally not so
highly developed.
T heir Internal structure Is certain­
ly Illuminating. As well as In their
lung or swim-bladder, they show re­
semblances to amphibians and land
vertebrutes In the skull, heart, and
blood vessels. In spite of these re­
semblances, however, It Is not certain
that they are really a “missing link” !
between fish and amphibians. It Is
thought that the latter have been
evolved through a different line, even
the lungs of land vertebrates being
of supposedly different origin to the
lung of the Dipnoi.
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WEST END FARMERS
Have learned that The Herald printa the
beet butter wrappers. We have the large
size, 9 by 12 inches. Our prices are—
100
200
300
500
for
for
for
for
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$1.25
$2.00
$2.60
$3.75
Many are buying them in thelarger quan­
tities, but we are here to serve you all. If
you want only a few we have them with­
out the name. These we sell as follows—
12
30
62
100
for
for
for
for
10
25
50
80
cents
cents
cents
cents
W hen you have a
FIGHT THE
FLY
plain themselves as a masked or frolic
expression of that which In grave |
earnest the mind o f that period tolled
to - achieve.
Magic, and all that Is
ascribed to It, Is a deep presentment
of the powers of science. The shoes
of swiftness, the sword of sharpness,
the power of subduing the elements,
of using the secret virtues of min­
erals, of understanding the votcas of
birds, are the obscure groplngs of the
tulnd In a right direction. The pre­
ternatural prowess of the hero, the
g ift of perpetual youth and the like
are but the endeavor of the human
spirit “to bend the shows of things
to the desires of the mind.”— Ralph
Waldo Emerson In “Essay on His­
tory."
A rkansas Diamonds
The Arkansas diamond mine, In Pike
county, has produced several thousnnd
diamonds equal In color to the best
produced In other parts of the world
and 1 per cent harder than the hard­
est from other parts of the world. In
the Arkansas diamond mines the gems
have been found “In place,” as the
geologists put It, and nowhere else on
this hemisphere have they been so
found. The Arknnsns mines ere be­
ing worked only enough to pay over­
head, as the management has decided
that the per load recovery of dia­
monds Is not sufficient to Justify the
operation of the mines at this time.
C h ristian ity in China
I t cannot he definitely stated who
wns the first Christian missionary to
China, since a tablet found In 781 A. D.
Indicated that Nestorlan missionaries
operated In Chinn as early as 508 A, D.
There are, however, no definite rec­
ords. T he first definite record Is that
of F ria r John of Monte Corvlno, a
Franciscan fria r who went alone to
Chinn In 1205 shortly after the return
of the Polo fam ily to Europe, aad be
remained In China for many years,
when hls effort wns reinforced by the
pope of Rome and he wns consecrated
archbishop of Camballn (Peking).
W e have just received our new
stock in and would be pleased
to show them to you.
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Special To Close Out!!
IM PLEM ENTS
Johnston Mowers
W as $105.00, Now $ 6 5 .0 0 Cash
John Deere Mowers
W as $105.00, Now $90.00 Cash
John Deere Hay Rakes
W as $65.00, Now $ 5 2 .5 0 Cash
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Side Delivery Rake
Was 135.00, Now $ 6 0 .0 0
One Ford Delivery Car Cheap
RoacA, Pantry Pest,
Is Native of India
Sir Francis Drake, buccnnecr of
three hundred years ago, once took ns
a pr(xe a Spanish ship loaded with
apices from India. It Is recorded that
on that ship wns a strange “black
btigge" which the Spanish called cu-
carache. which strictly speuklng, meant
"wood louse." This cucaraclte became
the modern cockroach.
It was a native of India, never until
that time seen In Europe. These cock­
roaches, however, were sturdy fellows,
given to living In dark and narrow
place« and therefore happy In the
holds of «hips that plied the seas.
Thu« these argosies of commerce have
served as a meuns of broadcasting the
cockroach, and It Is found In abund­
ance wherever man dwells. His hones
have provided suitable breeding nnd
dwelling places for these children of
the warm countries.
New species, one In America nnd
one In Australia, were found Hitd dis­
tributed. So have world-glrdllng m ulti­
tudes of them appeared where before
there were none at all or but locnl
tribes. This increase In the range and
numbers of the cockroach Is typical of
the man Influence In the Insect world.
Purr-rr-rr
when rtthhed, melts at 550 degrees
Fahrenheit, and bums with a bright
U nlike Dickens, Thackeray did not
Edinburgh likes, or on«* liked, to he flame and pleasant smell.
delight tn placing among the men and
called “the Modern Athens," nnd there
women of hls novels unforgettable lit­
Is certainly a suggestion of the old j
tle portraits of tltelr dogs and cats,
“
In
D
urance
V
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”
Greek capital about the 12 tall col !
parrot« or canaries. Nor do we think
limns which stand out against the sky- ! This conversation la said to hare of Thackeray as having that personal
line on Calion hill. These have been taken place In an exclusive underworld
fondness for domestic creatures which
called "Scottish pride and Scottish circle:
was characteristic of Dickens, whose
"Here’s ■ paper," said Languid own dogs no less than hla favo rl's
poverty." A public subscription was
opened In 1824 lo erect a memorial to Lewis, “which tells shout a horse run-
raven. Grip, figure largely In hls let­
the Scottish soldiers of the I'enlnsn j nln' sway with a woman, an* she waa ters. But Thackeray’s (laughter. Lady
laid
up
for
six
weeks."
la r war. This was to 'tike the form ;
Rttehle, give« In her recently published
"T hat’s nothin'." rejoined BoastfU, letters several delightful little glimpses
of a building a fter the style of the
Parthenon.
But the plnn failed for Benjamin. "A friend o’ mine ran away of her own and her friends’ pets; nnd
lack of funds, and the 12 solitary pil­ with a horse, an' he was laid up for ! In one brief and charming note she
lars, erected at n cost of «5,14)0 each, tlx years."
even ventnrea to Interpret a few words
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alone reinuln to tell the story.
from Fetlnese Into English. She writes
' to her friend, Mrs. Gerald Ritchie:
DO IT NOW
a
In waging your battle with the
house fly start early and m ake
it successful by using the screen
doors and window screens of
W riting of Fiction
Universal nature, too strong for the
petty fiber of the bard, sits on his neck
and writes through his hand; so that
when he seems to vent a mere caprice
and wild romance the Issue Is an exact
allegory. Hence Plato said that “poets
• a t t7r” great and wise things which
t|1P„ do not themselves understand."
| A „ (he flcUong
tb# M1)1(j le gg„ ex. ,
M onum ent Unfinished
"W hich shall It bo? W hich shall It
be? ’My.' or ‘the’? 'my' or ’the’ »"
Isn't that s lll)7 I agree with you
and ye< It was the basis of a discus
alon that was carried on hy several
historical societies. The quentlon was.
did Stephen O Foster write. In 1868,
for the first time of hls famous song. i
“The sun shines bright on nty old |
Keolscky home,” or wns I t : “T he sun
■bines bright In ths old Kentucky !
ksner
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Grave Purpose Behind
The name “Commonwealth of Eng­
land’’» Is given In history to the Inter­
regnum between the death of ( 'Imrles 1
on Junuury 30, Kill), nnd the restora­
tion of Charles II, May 8, 1000. Dur­
ing this period of 11 years, the gov­
ernment of England wns nominally a
republic, although In reality a m ili­
tary despotism, ruled by Oliver Crom­
well, assisted by a council. On De­
cember 10, 1653, Cromwell wns made
lord protector, and held this office for
about live years, until Ids death, Sep­
tember 3, 1058, when be wns succeeded
by hls son, ltlcbard Cromwell, who
proved to be a weak and Inefficient
Lighting for Pictures
ruler, nnd soon retired Into private
Every picture hns a right to the
life. Monarchy wns restored In Eng­
land May 8, 1060. nnd Charles 11 rw best light that can be found for It.
turned to London May 21) of the same It Is often true that a wall space on
which there Is not the right light for
year.— Kansas City Star.
one picture Is quite the proper place
for a picture with different colors or
H ow F lattering I
details.
She always felt somewhat timid In
W hile vivid flower piece« and gar­
the hank. It was such a large hank, den scenes, sunlit landscapes and
and so many very rich persons had ac­ . bright Interiors do much to euHveO
counts there.
a somber comer of a room. There Is
She always passed her small checks no picture which may not be aeen to
through to the cashier In a furtive, better advantage If well lighted. (This
nervous manner.
does not mean glaringly lighted.)
One day she had cashed one of these
checks, and while walking out of the
A m b er in U n ite d States
hank she stuffed the notes Into her
Amber Is found In Colorado, Boul­
handbag.
One of the hank’s detectives strolled der county, nnd In adjoining counties,
her, nnd he walked swiftly to her side. particularly In the Boulder coal fields.
“Be careful, madam,” he whispered, Anther Is a fossil resin of vegetnble
"you’re being watched with all that origin. I t Is usually of a pale-yellow
color, sometimes reddish or brownish;
money In your hand, you know.”
"Oli, how ll. ili i In;, I" exclaimed the It Is sometimes transparent, sometimes
young woman Joyously, “Why, I never almost opaque. It occurs In round, Ir- I
had such a lovely thing happen In nil regular lumps, grains or drops; has a
perfectly concholdnl fracture, la «light- !
my life !"
iy brittle, emits an agreeable odor j
C ontroversy O ver Song
Ili
"Solomon (th e cat) has been purring
messa g e a. tell Peggy. H e proposes tn
w rite, but says It Is superfluous to
asy how much he ntlaaea her, and that
h o 'Is purrfectly loot without her to
stroke hls hark. He has fried my lap,
hat he doesn't much like I t ; he Anda It
too purrpendlrulsr. and he sends hls
love purr me."— Youth's Companion.
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Books kept In glass-fronted book
cases are subject to attacks from hook
worms, moths, etc.. In greater degree
than If on open shelves. To preserve
your books from these pests sprinkle
the shelves occasionally, say once ev­
ery six months, with half an ounce of
camphor, half an ounce of powdered
bitter npple (w ell mixed together).
Do not keep books In a very wann
room. Gas light affects them very
much. Russia leather bindings In par­
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Used One Year, $ 1 2 5 .0 0 Cash
M A N Y O T H E R IT E M S
The Farm Bureau will handle repair parts
for Johnston Mowers when we leave here
‘Messers" a n d “ M oppets”
The world Is divided Into the people
Who make the messes and the people
who mop them up. Ninety per cent
make the messes nnd 10 per rent are
served out with wops. I was reading
a novel called "Reddy" the other day.
I'm told It's the best picture o f modem
Oxford that has ever been done. And
from cover to cover there Isn't a single
mention of aurh thlnga aa lectures,
rending, examinations, tutors, or any
thing of that sort. It's really master
ly the way everything trivial like that
hns been eliminated.— From “Black-
marston,” by Mrs. Hicks Beach.
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Aluminum was merely a laboratory
curiosity a generation ago, hnt today
It Is a real rival to copper and steel
and the center of one of the largest
Individual Industries.
Besides being
used In hundreds of household articles
It Is finely ground for making paints.
Is necessary tn airplane and dirigible
construction and Is used as cables for
high tension transmission. The out­
put of the Industry In 96 years has
grown from nothing to hundreds of
mUUons a year.
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