The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-10-13
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ls, 1871.



The Hon. James Brooks writes to the New,
York Express very interesting letter from
japan, from which we extract
Soldiers, with not very alarming looking
muskets, save in their sword bayOnets, watch
over "the bund," they call it here-a sort of
pier or wharf. In custom-hOuse tongue it
might be called gate or portcuills. we pass
them, and then begin series OF cryings or
yellings, that scare fresh-come European or
American horses half to death, and even
trighten our passenger dogs, and would fright
en- us US il we were not expecting anything
and everything new. "YeoW," "Yeow," or
"yow," "yow," or ,""yew," or something
like it in the cat-mewing line, are screaming
whole battalions of porIers and carriers, and
men-horses, dragging, on miserable round
plankwheels, granite and timber or lumber
"Yeow," "yeow," goes up to heaven, and rolls
over all the earth. 1t is "yeow," "yeow." at
daybreak in the morning, and "yeow" all
night among the coolie Japs, loading and un-
loading the ships in the harbor. There is no
need OF horses II have already come to the
conclusion) or elephants, where men can car
ry such loads. When years ago, off Constan-
tlnopie, first saw men turned iuto horses |
thought that was something wonderful: but
these one-horse Japs, with their enormous
loads, shame the Turk, the Grand Turk, even
What glorious muscular legs they have, so ad-
mirably developed. L wish had pair of
them to trot over the world with. What
brawny arms pointed of, though, with little
hands Gymnast or boxer would have to
stand back in "a primary" where fellow had
such props, or such pointers There comes a
travelling restaurant That's the way to live,
where your dinner comes on fellows shoul-
der to you, whole score OF you, and where
no Il hov fa IN fbo in -tuh
rice and cbOpsticks, and fish, raw fish, too,
are all ready fer you-where you can squat
down on a mat and have a DelmOnicO
treat for only few cash." or two or three or
four "tempos"-not five cents even; none OF
your five dollar "Delmonico'sw There's life,
there's happiness, there's economy! True, it
rains; but has not fellow a basket hat on,
that sheds all rain as well as all sun ?-not
mere parapluie, a rain shedder' as the Frel. ch
cal! it, but an umbrella or umbrella, too, in
Latina lingua. And has be not brought out
too, to shed the rain, great straw cloak or
mantilla, that covers all but his legs and his
one-story mounted shoes or patters, tied on by
a rope of quilted straw? If it were not for
the looks of the thing among the Yankee and
English aristocracy of Yokohama, / would
squat down and try the rice (not. the raw fish
OF that dinner. If one could only learn to
squat like Jap, one never would again use a
chair or sofa. The fact is, in many things,
"civilization," as it is called, is hnmbug.
Squatting on clean mat, il you have only
been brought up to do it, am sure, from
what see here, is easier and preferable to sit
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pony anu .ne pVly iaees, anu sme .r, petto
iaoes. ~ ,r,ip Wlou ~. wn oo"', a'n you inr pony
noiVo' INC ueS.o las W n's 'a.loo hSo,y IVY
M sue" ouvIe, ~ aJ -. .,. Peina
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oay, .hn.y nie' uay' ano NJ; NJ pony & ean ~ Nv
eIuo Ina. VI Iouihoy' y aS 1et.o W., tanes ,'i.
oale VI 1uo Pony, ma.euoS osei anu lee"S ui.ni,
anu Hop. dsoSS;m Saho "o, n,,N"rbic drass
70 nan ne s eos In.sSs
ihson .no ia:. lions sseps VI sno onyP y. nou's
ono niah h;u TI'o Tno'nui - ,n n anu
uo'nS up m'o ,S S. .tns, .sot;o ~ Cos .nsn Gu
,; na,. IL ,,,, Oor oM "f ,,nrn to;,s so,so
l,mes-n1ne VI you, iops .Is VI ialI1 % nali,
danghhg oehlhu, WIN skewer 70 nola II up
ou Iop oa 'no nIauI Siossl olaoA
mar. tnanh tne horo, saiu =, W oho-
mama. AmerHah lauy, we nave reached a
country aC last Where tue WOMEN wear ohiy
the,r own nair. iou are mucn mislaKen,
said sne: AN snat hair on top o. madame
Japs head Is ialse hair: madame shaVes
on or cuts on the origlhai crown, ana piles on
tue false then. once week only IS
the halr done up, sKewered and glued,
Spanish (Cadiz) styie' thus defylng the
WINDS ana the logs Ior whole week,
anu kepI IN plece hisn.s, wnne sieepiug on
tne maj Deu WIN Wooueh plliow unaer tne
nape VI 1ne neeH. "oin"u, T,I s.us y1. sec, Is
nis Monan w nnoi i1 .il no.n!ns uue