The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-16

ab you Woulu Bee anywhere.
"Sop here a moment and let us see thcm making their
Joss sticks'n As he spoke entered quite large
ground floor apartment, where several good natared
locking fellows at work, and ntimated 70
them by signs that we were curious to see what
going They use vast quantities Of those
sticks TO burn at the graves of their ancestors"
continued our companion wth what object know not.
Examine the ease with which they made, and the
great dexterity Of the workmcn." We approached sin
guar looking cider press like affair and laughed, and
got OF the usual salutaon of "0hio.n The workmen
tured both our "ohio'' and our smile. "0nio' mean
good morning, but the japanese never nse IT, they
content with bowng low to each other when meeting
parting, but Of course understand very well what
when it. Upon examining the press found
consist Of two vertical blocks OF wood and long
horizontal lever the three being arranged in the form
lever Of the second order In the top Of the block
which received the weight followed out saucer,
and the bottom part of the block had away SO
to leave it standing upon four legs man was oearny
down upon the lever at the time, and pressing
mass Of putty like matter through the perforated
bottom of the tower As these round and pencil like
strings descended with a uniform velocity they
caught upon fat piece of board by another broken
of by sudden twist, and caught again (other engths)
until the whole surface Of The board was covered Then
another piece OF board nOtched up as the full
pafsed on to third workman who adjusted the strings
to admit of handling After the whole Of the mixture had
been thus pressed through, looked into the
and saw that there thirty round holes, about as
large as small lead pencil, separated about a six.
teenth of an inch from each other, and in q straight
ne--tha at every motion with his board the workman
had cut of thirty Of the sticks. The ease with
which they thus made accounted readily for their
absnrdy low cost. "They will sell you package
taining ten OF those sticks for tseny - remarked
friend.
''And what is a ,scny9" asked
"Wc is hard to say what tseDy is--that IS what
is really worth Fifteen hundred and eighty four Of them
arc equal TO zabu and three zabus have lately been
made Through the exertioDs of your Consul Mr. Town
send Harris, at Simoda,) equal to Mexican dollar. II
would therefore, be supposed that forty eight them
equal to your cent; but at tho time the amount Of
copper and iron required 10 forty eight tseny could
not be bought in Europe for less than from twenty
twenty FIVE cents tscny, therefore. is actually worth
about half q cent
"a Il would be good speculation TO buy them up as
metal and export them, Y observed
Excellent; but il is not permitted. Nothing like metal is
at present allowed out Of the country Your Consul
Is nakirg another treaty with them, however, and
what may be allowed after that is another que stion
feel certain though that Japan will protect herself She
may consent 10 the export OF coin but will he after she
has assmated its value 20 that Of the OF the world
Thus, she viii increase her wealth in gold exceedingly
for the relative vniuc Of pold and silver now
to i've and bali while With NJ they TO six
teen. Tho Emperor will therefore, multiply the value Of
all the gold in JapaD by three as soon as be consents 70
its export How England would like 10 wipe out part
Of her national debt in so simple way
And our Dutch friend was right ia everything he in.
ferred, as we subsequently learned from Mr. Harris him
self
Leaving the joss stick shop turned the left and
penetrated 10 the OF CITY, Here, IL
cgners had never before penetrated Of except the
Dutch OF Desima) and the curiosity OF the people was
consequently, tinged with alarm With the cats, dogs,
horses and "bulls Of burden,f II was In
the latter became snagablc from rage ami
fright broke from their drivers and scattcrcd the popu
lace n every direction. OF conrsc associated our
selves with the popaace such times al sensible
mad bulls. The reader has perhaps heard that
Japanese caia have no tasn This Is sometimes appa.
rentiy true until sou come 20 examine them. That is,
you see acss cat seampering away but you bribe
small hoy 10 catch her for examination you find that she
fail f.ttt
before Il looks like We have two ef them board
now and every night they catch more Of the
thousand rats that swarm around before the
lights are put out They make excellent mousers. As
regards dogs, of them very small and beautiful
while others quite large and very ugly. They never
attacked MS but would bark, run away with their tails
dropped then appear again IN 10 bark out Of
sight These were the large and ugly ones-the others
would retreat hastily 70 the arms Of their owners and then
bark away hravey, as II secure from harm. These latter
very small, beautiful and ceanly. ncy have large
which occupy probably fourth Of the whole head
ant pug noses Commodore Perry took some OF them
home present nom tho Emperor, and they
cited general curiosity II is said that tho celebrated King
Charles spaniel originally from this breed. They
% BE- raised here also rets, aud very highly
valued tried to purchase pair of them, but they ask
ed $50, and gave up the dca The horses scarce
and small, but very enduring Al Hlkodadi, however
they renufgi, and il IS there thar they raised
The street Gown which turned from the oes stick
shop took macadamizcd length 70 the very
edge of The town. Come down this lane a moment ex.
claimed our guide; - want 70 show you factory"
so followed him 80 the portal o very large story
building passed under u, and found ourselves roomy
apartment, the half OF which occupied by raised
platform covered with the soft and thick mating
country rron this mating loihng several japanese
smoking their small pipes, and drinking their hot tea
mot The slightest thng was wanting TO add TO their com
fort. They all rot MP entered, with the
clsmation, 'Ob,o, John ~ and after making us share
then refreshments, took us over the factory 1t
immense but irregular building, looking II the
had got rich by degrees and added house after
house 70 the main pJe, as his means expanded.
wna. y the nscessy Tor such large building Nv when ,
reader And Ia reply say there Is little bccswax
prepared in Japan. All that they make for home con-
sumption and export through the Dutch s obtained from
the berries of peculiar tree wish were botanist
enough to name this tree for Il is not unknown 10
but, sissl bowers 10 not grow al see. Well, we saw
q large pile oi these berries, and Oiled our pockets
with them. We saw also huge granite rollers that
must have weighed several ions each, crushing them
10 a pasty powder a they turned heavily By
the power of bulls-there oxen in Japan. VIC
also this pssy powder put into large cauidrons
with water, and were told that the 10 the
surface skinned or purified melted, and finally
into cakes for export With call people
very extrayagant who burn candles In Japan
candles common as tallow with u.s. Ther
weks, however are bad, being made Of papcr; they
consequently burn dmly, do al candles 10 fact
and require frequent snnng But some Of them the
They often covered with raised figures, brilliantly
coored and would hc ornament TO any dressing table
We have all bought 70 take home curostcs and
are now wondering the Custom llouse will charge
duties.
on hoard. II Is several days after our arrival
and japanese high oAcef and several Inferior
ones nave come on TO "ree machine aud hig
guns, about which have heard 80 mach /" The
reedcr must not be surprised at the accuracy q this quo
taton They brought along an interpreter, who spoke
Dutch very we'll and We have Dutch seamen on board
who spoak English also. Thus asked and answered
questions. Amer had taken them over the ship we
stopped 10 tho wardroo and opened several bottles of
constanta They great fellows for drinking cordals
and often visit us for that only believe one of only
being able 70 converse ~ time brought out several
copies of HarTers Nogartne for them look at.
They became very much interested in the On
grayings, particularly WITH The fashion plates.
remember oUc 81 these plascs in particular which ex-
cited their wonder and the reader refer the June
number of 1881 he will not be surprised that they should
have been startled
How very fat your = said the high officer
"Te him hs All humbug ! replied "IIold on Ill
show him how they manage ~ I took down another
yonne and turned 70 the January number of 1851 and
again to the April number 81 1855 OF course they laugh
ed heartily. especially at the latter, where sprug fash.
ions for ladies' admirably clearing the track cor an
apopecc poodle OF course they laughed II was enough
20 make horse laugh And here will take occasion to
remark that these very observing peopIe which
added 10 their strong good sense enables readily 20
detect everything that Is absurd or unnatural.