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Wingham Times, 1890-01-17, Page 7IEET L ens.. g6 p0 eOQ . 4 O4 1 60 • r line ,went 3t , ,oq.0 l�neg;.j Inas, for' ti bo rg,t. s;p• Vent eta .. • eu•: nd fi ' 'J'V 10 st 414;1!:ITI ;t bi, '. _. 0.rct•16.11>:t',PPTO 11 the rib .af a shad', C04114 A BEAU TiFel l, OffeECTB FOUND IN THE FAR EAST, 'I''ho Forest Dweller's illethod of Starting X''lroa•.,.Capi)reireurne "Coins" of the t)yak eldcs*aliany and Interesting Tone's of ads. The forest dwelling peoples of the fur- ther east have an ocld instrument for making Ore,' Very seldom, so far as we xlbserved, (lo they employ the proverbial „ded nt(!tltod of "rubbing;, two sticks --which, r*la not rubbing at all. Near the coast every elan carries a bit of pitcher in the sir' fioz or bamboo slung at his waist, a alhip of a plate, English or Dutch, and *handful of dry fungus, Holding this tinder limier his thumb upon the Crag- Inentof earthenware. he strikes the side of this, siri box sharply,, and it takes fire. BA this inethod can only be used by tribes which have puck communication with the foreigner as supplies them with European goods. The inland peoples use iferstere singular process. They carrya efeert "cylinder of lead, hollowed roughly **cuplike form at ono end, which fits' jont of bamboo. Placing this cylinder to the palm of the left hand, they 011 the cap -with tinder. adjust the bamboo over it, strike eliarirly, remove thecoveringas. quickly, and the tinder is alight. Ob- servers who take a narrow view have de - clued that theearliest art practiced by human beings after they escape front ' mere barbarism is pottery. These races 'have long passed that stage, but we do 'swot recall any evidence that they use the art. The fact is that,'in countries which ,produce the bamboo, earthenware is liardly needed except for luxury. They Make charms and fetiches of dried clay. MEASURINQ VALUES. Bat in Borneo the Dyak peoples have a class of foreign earthenware singu- larly interesting. As Malays employ brass guns for their Currency, so the Ilyaks employ antique vases. In neither Instance do the actual "coins" pass from hand toe. hand, since by brass gun a down the greater pant of this cargo was Malay signifies a 'cannon, twenty feet recovered. The frigate was' one of the long, - perhaps, and a Dyak signifies a first wrecks to be bought and examined el eighteen inches high or more; by the speculators. She was found to be ese things . are measures of value, I free in twenty feet of water. Her ma - 'divided into, imaginary fractions. There cllinery is in a fair state of preservation, are three varieties of this earthenware— the gusi, which represents about 4500 and the seeoleRsurfaceas will beocean.fore The sterling, the nags and. ruse, much less machins ry, theft the his. The valuable. The first is certainly Chinese, present da, if'unfit for for ships of .the` and die last probably, but perhaps they present date, is still fit for the )narket, Hever cams from the Continent. At some +date unknown the north of Borneo was teem?IIe by a Chinese colony whibh ;Wiestav a numbered millions. This ,urealme, +A -hen a: third part of the island was cultivated and densely peopled, may have been 800 years ago. But the first paragraph in the ".ennals of Bruni" recognizes a powerful Chinese kingdom of Batangatz in the Fiftaentb century— ...lute , tamingin groups alte"rnate"ly with he; , +trill tee tenet nuggets. But the 'ul•io-'itl+r.a sa u(i in that loot bear only a •ni:,t'ral,k. proporti(:n to those whlioil Wren of taste admired in the palate awl the. :rig !liaises of the erste/veers. But one stool was carried away—esti, memorial for the t'rilrce:rs of 11• eles---an}Cel; the hundreds Wonted with silver wlilcix 'lay in all di- rections, Very charming were many of these --.the . shanteo artist seemed to de= vote his best attention to the stools. Seven. were Ailed, us if for removal, in the courtyard of a great house, each plated with re ousso work, showing much taste and ingenuity of design. These people have "gifts."--Saturette Review. RESURRECTING QI,D WRECKS, Specuiatore Raider Bulks of Ships Sunk oh the Fatal Coast or Jutland.. There is perhaps no coast known to navigators pf the present day more dan- gerous than that of Jutland. Aiore ships' have beezi lost on that little treacherous stretch than on any other in the world, not excepting foggy Sable Island. The whole ooast*is strewn with wreaks. The bottom oe the'"<se* off the cbast Is covered with .the decaying carcasses of hardy vessels, blown to their destruction by hostile gales. The Danes are a thrifty set of people, and, on theprinciple that it is indeed an M wind that blows no one any good, have gone to work to reclaim the major- ity of these old craft. Many speculators are in the scheme, and are now engaged in raising the eld' wrecks and recovering their cargoes and machinery. The first thing was to purchase the old wrecks and the, privilege of raising and selling them. The owners were found without groat difficulty, and were only too glad to get anything .for the wrecks. Expe- rienced divers were engaged and the work began several months ago.. Twenty-one years ago the Russian frigate Ale sander. Nevsky stranded off Jutland. She had a cargo of 20,000 pounds of brass. Several years after she went If the speculators find it unprofitable to rebuild the ship they will still be able to sell her at a good profit. Two of the other ships purchased for resurrection are the Britishors Helen and Westdale. The Helen was sunk years ago. She carried a cargo of copper, none of which has ever been recovered, and all of which .� is.now in a verygood condition, consid• we are not to digress into that fasctnat- ink• the years it has been in the: water. itsg theme, however. The Celestials Divers who recently went down to her ..Pere .exterminated about two ggnera- • gfourd her free and her machinery ed bans ago; an old ,friend of ours, the. Andald odition. The ship well 1#e raised great Chief Ce'asing, still carried ten pig The Westdale went to the bottom on tails attached to, leis sword of state— trophies of his father's valor Deo. 2,04, 188E;, off T g ironi in She oar- , -probably pied 2,000 tons of ;pig iron in her hold. e nese merchants have tried again and The speculators have recovered all of to counterfeit the old jars, as have this and will also recover the ship's ma - .the tchs bat they never succeeded in chinery, fittings and trappings. Other P_aasui off their imitations. The Naga wrecks are being negotiated for and will may be Ilindoo or Japanese, of very re- undoubtedly bo recovered, with their mote antiquity; both peoples' had great cargoes and machinery, New York ship- eettlements in beyond human "memoryyisland They havtime 1 p ping men think that this would be a good Buddhist remains of importance here way to rid our coast and waters of the Zitlld there.- ' . We secured no sampl :s of these curi- ous things, for reasons that have been ,suggested. But the recollection calls to mind some extraordinary objects of the same class, in a sense, which are treas- ured onthe other side of the world. ` WONDERFUL BEADS. The Aggry and the Popo beads, which eerve for jewels in3vest Africa, are glass 3'esembling earthenware of unknown Manufacture, of immemorial antiquity, and beyond modern skill to counterfeit. Most European nations, probably, have tried their band at imitating the Aggry bead. The shrewdest chemists and the ;cleverest artificers of Venice and Bir- mingham have done their best; the pot- ters of England, France and Germany e exhausted their resourbes, but in a. It does not seem such a difficult enterprise, however. The beads are ir. A. V E R T I S E R regular cit shape and size; many haste many dangerous derelicts' which are a menace to safety at sea.—New York Evenings Sun. , ' Chronic Coughs and Colds And all Diseases of the Throat and Lunge cam be cured by the use of Scott's Emulsion, as it contains the healing virtues of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophos• phitea in their fullest form. See what W 5 Muer, M D. L R C P, ect, Truro, N 8, says : After three years' experience 1 consider Scott's Emulsion one of the very beet in the market. Very excellei,t in Throat affeo ions Sold by all Druggists, 60c. and SI. GREAT SUCCESS THE /WESTERN been sawn in two, They have an opaque ground—ochre yellow in the most Yalu - able species—but so various that this point gives no trouble. A rough orna- ment of circles in another hue Puns through .the material from side to side or end to end. Here, again, imitation seems easy, to the craftsmen of Venice in par - star;; but eppeerances are •deceptive, ently, The Popo bead,' less valuable, but valuable enough, is blue glass,trans- parent, but so Manufactured that it shows d dull .yellow against the light. These things are all found in the earth; but, so far as can be ascertained, they never leen up in compathy with bones or other stigns of ia!, which, to cur mind,is the most' • a fact of all. ' That thy are ? gyptian is a certainty. undreds, if not thousands,were" j the sack of the palace at Cdo- strung, in general, upon that ve pretty cord which we mentioned, wi,goid'nuggets beaten Hat, and cubes of .. ria' and tufts of colored silk inter- Ilpereed, Very handsome they lacked, !do doubt, upon• the smooth brown" skin Ort digs royal' dara4s. A pretty Witold LONDON, ONTARIO. Published in twelvetpage form, and beautifully printed on ohe of the best web•feeding presses in America. :Valuable Presents FOR SUBSCRIBERS AND AGENTS. LARGEST $1 PAPER In Chiba of fou :,,ad.iapwarde Ira, aswh. 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