Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-02
OUR centennial LETTER,
The Brewery neutrality-suspicious.
lain, Ceramics, Pottery-vegeta-
BILE Wax-Miscellany.
THE BREWERY BUILDING.

THE BREWERY BUILDING
This is called the Brewers Building, and
to the visitor who will survey its pretentious
architectural display, and then enter, and
wonder at the many hops required to adj
vance this interest to its present position of
importance, he will readily conceive how
grandly significant is the onward march of
lager: how weak-kneed drinks, soda, cider
and cobblers, yield in despair; and how the
more vital fuas, cognac whisky, and alb
Sinthe tremble at the victorious progress of
King Gambrinus.
The building is an immense affair to be
devoted to a specialty-272x96 feet, of wood
The contents are malt, hops, barley, feed
nails, Washers washers, valves, malt bags,
iceswimmers. hop kills, kegs, hogsheads,
malt shovels, barrels, rinsing machines,
steep tubs, watts, tanks, tunnels, yeast sieves,
cement floors, seamless bags, compound for
lining barrels, stoves to dry hops. and all
the material that is necessary to set up first
class brewery. Hence, any of the readers of
this, by cutting it out, will always have a
guide for establishing an establishment by
which, when their thirst becomes so ardent
and unquenchable as to demand large GUAM
titles, they can absorb it at wholesale rates.
The exhibits in the building represent brew
cries and beereries scattered over Europe and
America, the principal of which in the lat
tar country are those of the city of New
York, city of Philadelphia, and the states
OF Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, New Jer-
sey, Michigan and Illinois.
have made frequent allusion to this
country. Her marked sympathy with the
United States in the Centennial movement
also her material aid rendered in the varie-
- and value of exhibits, this in itself will
allow more extensive notice of country,
and people, with whom our relations,
social, in certain sense, educational to
degree; as l notice great interest in the Jap
anese in the matter of educating their youth
n our country, and the increasing extent of
our commercial relations; hence it will be
OF value to the general reader to know few
details not found in the school-books.
The emblem of the Japanese empire con-
sists of the sun represented by a golden ball
On red ground for the imperial standard,
and by red ball on white ground for the
nation flag. In ancient times the flags had
double crest, the sun and moon crescent
shape, the flag shaped like pennant. The
Shioguns of the Aslikaga family, introduce
ed the vertical flags 400 years ago, Under
the Shioguns of the Tokugawa family, the
emblem of the sun alone figured on the flag,
and has now been adopted for the new flags
Of the different departments.
JAPANESE PORCELAIN, CERAMICS, POTTERY.
This is the most important feature of
japanese industry. Japanese legends attri-
blte the invention of pottery to Oosei-tsumi,
who lived in the time of Oanamuch- no mi
kato, $50 B. c. In 90 B. c., human figures
we're formed of clay and buried with the
thus obviating the necessity of their servants
accompanying their masters to the grave.
am assured this idea was heartily relished
by the servants, who at compensation for
living lmperially in the kitchen, were re-
CURED to be buried in tn same grave with
their masters while alive. In the 9Th GEN.
anry Corean tile manufacturer came to the
capital to teach his rofession, and from
that to the 10th century continued to -four
1sh. At this period a new article was intro
uueed called Raku, by Corean. It was q
common black earthen ware. The begin
ing of the making of real porcelain, was
under direction of Goro davu Shonsui,
native of Isle who went to China, where he
studied the art. On his return he settled in
the province of Hizen, which is to-day the
most important centre of the porcelain in
dustry. The different kinds of porcelain
manufactured by this pioneer and contin-
are painted with cobalt oxide under the
glaze; the Kanyu or Hilki is the Cragull; the
Seldi or Seladon ware, the Arkai, or the
red ware; and the Gosai, which latter means
colors. This is used for the porcelain
painted with vitrifable colors uppn the
glaze. It is now called Nishkida. In 74
a. D., priest named Giyeki, introduced
the potter's wheel.
VEGETABLE WAX.
This is valuable production Of Japan,
which seems to have escaped the attention
of correspondents. It is produced from the
fruit of several trees, belonging to the
genus Rhus amongst which the Rhls Sue
eedrica is important. The lacquer tree,
Rhus Vernicifera, also yields wax. The
Rhus Sylvestris is the wild wax tree. The
cultivated wax trees were imported from
the Loo Choo Islands. The berries, the
size of a small pea, and united in punches,
contains the wax between the kernel and
the outer skin. They are crushed, winnoW-
ed, steamed, placed in hemp cloth bags,
steamed again, and afterwards pressed in
wooden wedge by hand. To facilitate the
flow OF wax, percentage of Te no abura,
Toll from Perilla cimoides) is added.
This wax is made into candles; the art was
introduced from Loo Choo towards the end
of the 18th century. Another tree yielding
q kind of vegetable tallow is the CHINA
momum Pedunculatum. There is also an
insect producing kind of wax exclusive of
the honey bee. They are identical with the
Chinese "pela." They live upon the Lig-
ustrum Ibata 1t is wonderful the variety
of designs made from this vegetable wax.
Candles are painted and of a variety of
shapes, crude and artistic. This wax tree
as well as the wax insect could be intro
dHced into the United States with the most
productive fruits. There is nothing known
to the varied fields of agriculture and hor-
ticulture, and their results in any part of
world, but can be reproduced in America,
and the necessity for this introduction is
apparent, when we consider how different
elements exhaust themselves, and balance
of power can alone be preserved by promot-
ing supplanting gifts whose strength. will
take the place of the efete productions of a
soil devoted to specially for generations.
Let our people study Japan and her re-
SOurcaS and the cODSaouenco will be a