Phonographs, outlawed in America, are here by the millions. Japanese typewriters have One hundred and sixty eight keys on them. A Japanese clerk can not add eight and six without his abacus. Tokyo, Nagaya, Kyoto, nor Kobe has any sewerage system yet. Electricity costs two cents a kilowate, hair cuts cost eights cents, cigarettes four cents for a package of twenty.
Street cars charge two cents a ride with universal transfers.
A seven course dinner including chicken costs fifteen cents. Shirts of finest material made to order cost less than a dollar. The largest bell in the world is suspended in a temple in Osaka. Its height is twenty-two feet and largest diameter fourteen feet. It has no clapper, but is rung from the outside by a huge suspended beam like the old Roman battering rams.