The New York herald., 1879-09-04
FOREIGN NOTES.

telegram from Panama dated August &C. says =.
"The heaviest sea and toughest weather which have
becn noticed for many years in this port visited
last week. Some damage was done to small
craft and several coasting steamers obliged to
sock the anchorage of the Pacific Mail Company foi
safety. Tho wind was from tho south ward, ana the
in many places dashed over the heavy wall
which surrounds the city For several days tngs
Panama Railroad wharf. Tho week of storm han
been succeeded by most delightful Weather"
Evidence Of probable intercourse between ancicn
been substantated by the Chinese Minister to Ger
many, the result OF whose examination of u certain
inscription in DIR. Schliemann's collection is thu
reported in European journals Tho Norddeatscb
Ieitun0 says that the Chinese Ambassador at Berlin
Ii Fanspao. well known in his own country as
great scholar has lately read Chinese the iscrip
tion on a vase found by DIR. Schliemann in the low
est stratum Of his excavations at Hissarlik aud
his ..rroy and Its Remans.' rho iearnc.
Ambassador has thus confirmed the ideni
fcation of tho language Of the inscription mado sii
years ago by the eminent Orientalist Emile Burnouf
which greatly ridiculcd ut the time. Ii Fang
pao Is quite confident that the unknown characters
which r,cur again and again on the Trojan antiqut
ties. especially ON the terra Gotta whoris arc those
OF his native tongue, and gives. rs the purport OF
the inscription. that about b. O. l2O0 three pieces OF
linen gauze packed in the for inspcc
ton. Durnoufs French version Il. c.. p. 5l alss
contained the words pieces dtfc0es. "rhis vase.
adds tho Norideufsche Zcititg. "secns consequently
to furnish fresh proof OF the active commercial IN
tercourse which the people OF the 'Hyperboroans,
the Chinese carried on with Grcece and Asia Minor.
com mnerciai intercourse AS to whose route tho Geo.
graphical Society hero has just listened to most
Interesting lecture"
The following letter from Chnaman In regard
to the OF cholera is published by the Hiogc
Neus. Our Hiogo contemporary, in publishing It.
says:-"As evidence OF its genuine nature We may
state that it was originally handed IN al
vertisement, the physician whose skill In tho
of cholera IL makes known HAVING
1--WE are assured by one OF tho most respect
able Chinese residents OF Kobe) made fortune ou
of his practice during tho brief porod In which the
cholera has been raging. and being therefore In
position to pay for tho fame which he doubt con
sidcrs to be his due, outside OF tho narrow sphere
I'm which no has been laboring Tho letter itsolf IL
written a no. bold, clorkly hand, and we are i'm
formed "a tho unassistod production of q Chinese.
We give II verbatim, and shall be happy to show 10
to the curious:'
49, OSAKA July ~, 1870
SiRwith your permission vonld beg to direct through
public 20 subject WHICH most important and interest
Ing 10 tho medical world In the general opinion Ut tho
European ns wl Hs tue Japanese cholera IL infectious
disease plague against which there certain remedy
whereas according to tho opinion of Chinese doctor
who has been curing hundreds Of Japanese Ia Osak .,
IL Is not at all infectious: Ms soon tho black
blood or the poisonous matter is lot out from the
joints In the limbs and tho middle Bngcrs thu
disease can bc cured immediately This may seem alb
snrdiy TO the European. but II s nevertheless, fact
eraton IL the medical OF the Wost would care TO
how this disease Is treated tho Chinese doctor rcf.ol
TO- and anayzc the blood o thcr patients at the various
stages OF the disease Yokohama resident In his letter
superior medical knowledge and skil dlscovor i'm.
porant antdoc Tor the disease am dear SIR your moss
NATIVE OF THE rLowKRY LAND.