The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
THE STEAMER BELGIC.
Interesting News From the ORR
ent and From the Islands.


! have Hong-Kong dates to September Sd.
Yokohoma dates to September 18th and
| Honolulu dates to September Goth. from
which the following items of news are
taken:
The Chinese Government. it is said, has
agreed to pay taels III, 900 in settlement OF
the French claim at Wuhu.
Admiralty Surveyor Ferguson was
| drowned in a ilter-bed August 31st.
The discovery of a comet near the
| PleiadeS has created intense excitement
among The snpersttious Chinese, who think
| II fUrbOdes trouble.
A dividend ~ of $40. 900 in gold has been
received from America for distribution
| among the shareholders of the Sheridan
and Mendoza Mining Companies.
Cor the past month the death-rat OF 500
! chow has been very high, principally due to
the prevalence of cholera, from which the
| Chinese suffer terribly, because they use the
| dirtiest water for washing their food and
cooking it in. In one instance, first one
| member of a family of seven persons was
attacked by the disease in the most severe
| form, dying in an hour alter being seized
| with the affection. His friends prepared TO
bury him, sending one OF their number to
| fetch the graVe-c lOthes, but this man on his
way home fell sick himself and died by the
| roadside from the same scOurge. lie was
|
| family were already bewailiug the demise
| of the first man. The second victim of the
| cholera was placed side by side with MS de-
ceased relative, and preparations were be-
! ing made for the lntrrment0 OF the Two, when
| without any warning third member OF the
| af1l icted family fell down and died of the
| same dread affection. The four remaining
relatives then fed horror-StrickeD, and the
three bodies had to be buried by a charita-
bic nstitution.-ShaDghai Mercury.
X is announced that a Chinese daily
| newspaper, the Hanpa0, Is to see the light
for the first time at HankOw on or about
| the 1st proX. 1t is to be ''edited by expert
enced native scholars and foreigners yersed
in the Chinese language" notwithstanding
which ut will be sold at lower price than
any other Chinese paper"
The dearGh of rice at SOuraOaya, accord
ing TO the COurant, has Resulted III heavy
| importatIons OF grain there from Siam and
Saigon by Armenian firms, who have found
| prices reeeding in consequence.
| The promoters of the petroleum syndicate
| of East Java held meeting at S0urabaya
early this month. Those present included
many Europeans and Chinese interested in
that branch of trade. The dealers con-
eerned agreed to start the syndicate and
| signed an agreement to that effect. These
preliminary steps led 10 retail prices OF the
| oil rising considerably.
Here are some specimens Of English as
| she is wrote III japan: Please grant a safe
OF no dangerous, 500 only Of capital. This
was an application for an insurance policy,
as also was the following really great effort
"a pass book of National Marine Insurance
| Association has all been used up now. |
| hope You shall give some one for we are pre-
pairing to send careOS bound to Canada.
We shall also SEND cargos 10 Australia on
! the boards OF SIS. Tdiyuan. Should you
! insure those goods ,"
sporadic form of cholera has bro ken
out i'll Chnkiang. Deaths are daily re-
ported. Both doctors and quacks are doing
| a splendid business.
The steamship HankOw, which arrived at
| Singapore from Jeddah on the 23d ult. WI III
$50 pilgrims, was placed in quarantine, ow
| ing to smallpox having been on board.
Things in general are looking much more
cheerful in Bangkok, says the Times of thai
| city, for the rams have fallen, the paddy
fields are flooded and several huge teak
RATS have arrived from up river One lot
of a hundred logs is made fast at Messrs.
Grassi Bros. " Co.'S, where the mills are in
full blast.
A self possessed Monaghan last week
shipped eight boxes marked "Sundries y
from Hong Kong to SwatOw. and entered
them in the CuStom-houSe as househ0ld
utensils. In moving the cargo on arrival
one of the boxes broke open and allowed a
stream OF silver dollars to run upon the
deck, all of which proved bogus. The Gu $
toms officials seized the remaining seven,
which proved to contain the same base coin.
In the confusion which arose the willy im-
porter managed to effect his escape, leaving
behind his wearing apparel, a iull set ot
| counterfelters' tools and lot of memoranda
as 10 where he could dispose of his goods.
the American schooner Lo0ng-wha, from
| Tien-tsln, arrived at Shanghai on the 81
ult., in charge of the mate, Captain Lord
having died of Brights disease on the
previous Thursday morning, on the voyage
| down.
| JAPAN.
The value of commodities purchased by
| japanese merchants in Yokohama during
last month amounted TO S1,502. 273. and the
value of goods sold to foreign firms in the
port was s., 724, 1875. of which S2,27S, 23+
| represented raw silk, Sli9. 2S3 waste silk,
aud S296, 900 tea. The above shows an ex-
cess of S1,222, 1913 in the amount of sales,
| The values of handkerchiefs, grapes and
habutaye "a kind of silk fabric) exported tC
! Europe and America during the same period
amounted to $780, 97.
There is no part of Japan, says the Stats
tical Record, where medical mea are so
| scarce in proportion to the population as is
| the Riuku Islands. Only one doctor is TO
| be found there for every 1920 houses Toxic
stands at the other end of the list: 1t has n
doctor for every 102 houses. Stated by
numbers Of persons this means that twenty
| two physicians look after ten thousand
units of the population in the ca pital, while
seven (?) doctors have charge OF the same
number in Riukiu.
The Statistical Re ord (Tokei Shushi
says that during the first tweGty-three
years OF the Meij era, tho number of clocks
and watches imported into Jap;n was
| 2,070,00S, and that during the last eight years
of this period-the statistics on this point
do not extend farther back-the number re-
| exported was 546i, SO that there remain in
the country 2,064. 5i4. Comparing this latter
| figure with the number of houses in the EN-.
| pire in 1889, it appears that there ought 10
be sixteen time-keepers to every hundred
houses. or five to every hundred inhabitants,
| approximately.
Nothing but the lateness of the season
enables us TO read with comparative indif-
| ference the intelligence sent along the wires
| from ShimOnOseki. By noon on the 2Sth
ult. there had been two cases of cholera
| there and Que death, and on the 18th tele-
| gram from Osaka announced that all the
necessary measures had been adopted at
that place and at Kobe to treat Shimonoseki
as an infected port Two cases of cholera
in forenoon are not much, but 1t is always
thus that the fell disease makes its appear
| ance, and If the news reached us in June,
instead of the close Of August, there would
| be strong grounds for uneasiness.
| The big Worlds Fair of 1898 in Chicago
promises to be the scene of japanese enter
prise in various forms The Fiji Shimpo
says that some spectators project nm ex-
| port OF dancing girls to give Zest to Japan
ese cookery Of the most orthodox fashion,
and to display, of course. their own special
| accom- plislIments. Others contemplate a
large garden la Japanese, fully stocked
with dwarf shrubs and all the other curl
osities OF the cOuntry's horticulture.
| HONOLULU.
One hundred dollars is not bad price for
young eoeoanut tree. IS it? That price was
asked, it is said, of gentleman who was
looking for one TO send away.
One of the passengers by the Hail reports
that the caterpillars are engaged in n raid
on Kau. From about a mile on the Hilea
side of Honrapo to Naalehu, a distance of
about five miles. they are very thick aver
aging a bucket to the square inch, the Ad-
vertiserS informant saysD.
Captain Cushman. who is breaking up the
wreck of the Vandalia, passed through on
the Mon0wai yesterday. He says that the
timber5 are worm-eaten and worthless. but
a good deal of valuable iron will be taken
out. One OF the German men-oi-war has
been broken up. and work is now in progress
on the other. 1t will take eight months
more work to clear these wrecks away.
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