The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-04
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
The Brewery BuiIdihE-Japau- japanese
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Ceramics, Pot
terS-teRetabie wa&-Tie sec
refary's Omce-MIsceIInny.
THE BREWERY BUILDINGS.

THE BREWERY BUILDINGS.
This is called the brewers buildini
and to the visitor who will survey i
pretentious architectural display, an
then enter, and wonder at the many ho1
required to advance this interest to i
present position of importance, he wi
readily conceive how grandly signifcar
is the onward march of lager; how veal
kneed drinks, soda, cider, and cobbler
yield in despair; and how the more wits
| fluids, Cognac, whisky, and absinth,
tremb1e at the victorious progress c
king Gambrincs. We are becoming
people of modified drinkers. What ono
was special and violent-ensuing result
from strong liqtinr, and their attendan
perhitiotis examples, has changed to gen
eral and conservative, tending to stupid
ity in excess, | mean, and harmless
rivalry. / cite the Teuton Who drarl
seventy glasses On wager, and thei
said, NoH, lesitle aeh, / drinks 70
iiiine pleasure" Is lager beer int0xica
ting? Oh, no, of course not But thi
was German who drank thusly. CoulC
an American do likewise? / can't say
l can't; can you? Then leave the ques
tion open to temperance social debate
for it will be continuous. "In medic
tutissimus," keep the middle course,
is good advice, not to be ifltemperate tol
intoleraut. Who cain? / can't. As some
one suggested during our late war, had
we hung a score of leaders OH each side
it would have settled it. So, do YOU
think, to hang d score of tempetan6e OF
anti-teniperance leaders will settle the
question? 1 think not; so let us turn
to the brewers building again.
The building is an immense affair to be
devoted to a specialty-two,h hundred and
seventy-two by ninety-six feet of wood.
The contents are malt, hops, barley, feed
mills, mashefs; wastefs valves, malt bags,
ice swimmers, hop kilns, kegs, hogsheads,
malt shovels, barrels, rinsing machines,
steep tubs, watts. tanks, tunnels, yeast
sleeves, cement floors, seamless bags, COM
pound for lining barrels, stoves to dry
hops, and all the material that is neces-
sary to set up frst-class brewery.
Hence, any of the readers of this, by
cutting it out, will always have gtiide
for establishing ali establishment by
which, when their thirst becomes so ar
dent and unduenchable as to demand
large quantities, they can absorb it at
Wholesale RATES. The exhibits id the
building represent two bundled arid thit-
teen breweries and beereries, scattered
over Europe and America, the principal
of which in the latter country are those
of the city of New York, city of Phila-
delphia, and the states of Wisconsin,
Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Michigan,
and Illinois.
JAPAN.
l have made frequent allusion to this
Her marked sympathy with
the United States in the centennial
also her material aid rendered
In the variety and value of exhibits, this
III itself will allow a more extensive no.
lice of country, and a people, with
whom our relations, social, in a certain
sense, educational to a degree as l no.
-ice a great interest in the japanese in
The matter of educating their youth in
Jur cottntry, and the increasing extefit of
our commercial relations; hence it will
De of value to the general reader to know
/ few details not found in the school
)ooks.
The emblem of the Japanese empire
consists of the sun represented by gold
III ball on red ground for the imperial
tandard, and by red ball on Il white
sruund for the national flag. In ancient
inies the flags had a double crest, the
un and moon crescent-shape, the flag
haped like pennant. The ShiOguns,
# the Aslikaga family, introduced the
Tertical flags four hundred years ago.
Under the Shioguns of the TOkugawa
amily, the emblem of the sun alone fig
Ired on the flag, and has now been
ldopted for the new flags of the different
JAPANESE CURRENCY.
The Japanese adopted the decimal sys-
EN- for weights and measures, many
centuries before the Chinese. The unity
If the weight is called the Nome" or
,he modern name of " Sen," which is the
,ame as the Chinese Mace" and is equal
% three grammes, 756, ,52t. This unity
s divided into 10-1O0-1O00 parts. XII
var-me is the highest unity and equal to
me thousand nome or three kilos, 1885,
j21. For various kinds of goods the
kim" called catty by foreigners, is used.
It is equal to one hundred and sixty
nome, or six hundred and one grammes,-
A, or nearly one and half pounds, En-
,lish. 1t varies according to the nature
# the goods and the locality. For their
measures of capacity for cereals, liquids,
,tc., they have the kaku-11 Do-100
Sho-1O00 Go-64S, $3.50 japanese cubic
ines, or one hundred and eighty litres,
and are in the shape of
wooden square boxes with diagonal iron
od stretched across the top, the upper
urface of which is on plane with the
i'm of the box. One of the richest eX
libits of the Japanese is their 1kanba-
j." from the name of the inventor.
"Papir Mache," only that
his is made from numerous layers of
heir paper, which are adhered by glue,
repaired from fern roots and unripe per-
inmons.
APANEsE PORCELAIN, CERAMICS, POT
Terry.
This is the most important feature of
apanese industry. japanese legends at
ribute the invention of pottery to OOsei-
sunni, who lived in the time of CANA
six hundred and sixty
3. c. In twenty-nine B. c., human
igures were formed of clay and buried
With the deceased members of the inpe-
ial family, thus obviating the necessity
# their servants accompanying their
masters to the grave. / am assured this
dea was heartily relished by the servants
Who as compensation for living imperi
lily in the XII chen, were required to be
buried in the same grave With their mas
5ers. while alive. In the 9th century a
Corean tile manufacturer came to the
capital to teach his profession, and from
hat to the 10th century continued to
flourish. At this period a new article was
introduced called raku, by Corean. 1t
vas a common black earthenware. The
beginning of the makingof real porcelain,
vas under direction of Goro
layu Shonsui, native of Ise who went
% China, where he studied the art.
On his return he settled in the province
# Hizen, which is to-day the most i'm
,ortant centre of the porcelain industry.
The different kinds of porcelain manu-
actured by this pioneer and continued
o the present are, Some tsuki or blue,
re painted with cobalt oxide under
he glaze; the Kanyu or Hilki is the
the Seldzi or Seladon ware, the
Arkai. or the red ware and the Gosai,
which latter means five colors. This
lsed for the porcelain painted with vitri-
liable colors upon the glaze. 1t is now
allied Nishkide. In 724 A. D., a priest
FAMED Giyoki, introduced the potter's
vheefinto Japan.