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The Wingham Times, 1889-03-08, Page 3,. A,Atetat. !JAPANESE ARTISANS .� *'areeteter'a Who Work to Croda Waya, Uma achieve importer Awake. MEWING GUM, SOME HINfa ABOUT THB HABIT The ;Japanese artisan has four bunds 1 THAT HAS GROWN ON US, • and twelve f.ngere. ilc uses his feet ea. tux extra p:ziror hands,. and his two gnat1 toes can wrap themselves around the articles with which he works 1.1e an • Araerfc:an's thumb, I saw a cooper at ;. work mending to bucket, Ile held the' bucket between Ida feet while he sal" down to his work and put on the hoops with :a Hammer and wedge. Ilia legs wore bare and his cue was tied in the old Japanese_ fashion, while his almond eves closely watched tho work he luta before lain, After ten minutes-ofound- my, he laid down his tools and took a ,t oke, nil during the hour that T sat neer hmid 110 smelted foto times. The i Japaueso pipe only holds a pinch of tobacco, and he could do this cheaply,' but the time consumed was at least - twenty minutes, This perpetual siesta; i� one of the features of Japanese labor. • , I am told by old American residents that a Japanese.workman will not do one-' , third as much a day as an American workman, and in every case they seem ' to do their work in the hardest of ways, l The methods of labor in Japan are the direct opposite of those in America,. The carpenters, for instance, pall their planes' the other way, and when they use the drawing knife they push it from them • instead of pulling it towards there. They do most of their work sitting and they do all the- work on the pull throve stead of the push stroke, and they stand tido board as a rule at an aglo of 0 legs. against something rather .than lay it on • a bench or sawhorse as we do. They do their m,irlriag, not with chap:, but with • a reel and an inked string when they wish to raw in a straight UDC, and the - - whole of the work of turning the rough logs into the finest of •cad&iuot work is dein). by hand. There are no planing; nii113 in Japan, and the sawmills can be s.cannted on•tho fingers of one hand. The'i;Isua1 method of sawing loge into boards.is to standthe loaa at an angle against the suppert and sale it by hand. The saw used its list the powerful cross cat tiaw of:;America, but a wide short Japanese instillment, widish .;las a handle about two, 144 long, and which looks like butohel"ys cleaver filed, into a saw. The humans sawmill, stands On top of the lou or under it, and pulls away for ten hotu's a day for about dirty, cents. skilled carpenters in cities get about forty American cents a day, and the host inea in the boniness do not get over forty- live. -stall, you will find no bettor work- men 121 t110 world than here. Their: work a is done with the use of very fow »nidi, 't and they have to be cabineturiaaeiV,00. r, well as c.,a pentors. Every 1 apanea lli ttse has Walls which must -Move, i i+' 'tdsgiv s . an and out every day; .antla gio crlclinary home is as Palely put to,g ther s: s iu bei eau. _110. joining of everything is by dovetail- ing*, and the Japanese could teach our • American workmen much in tho poli'11i- ing and joining of lino Woodsaj Speaking ofhouse building,the Japan- • eco begin thou• work et the. top. -The • roof groes on first, and then they begin to .build the walls and toconstruct the lute rier.—Frark G. Carpenter. The body of the Lamb. •. This was a festival peculiar to an an - ;tient 1iuglish town and occurred in June, on the first Monday after Wlritaun week:. A fat lamb was provided and at a given signal, with scores of lookers ou to cheer, nodoubt, the maidens of tho town, having had their thumbs tied be- hind theta, anted in fall chase after the Harmless creature. Well fr'fghtened little woolly coat must have 'been -at such tin, usual•nierriment and with Bach a bevy of swift footed hunters after him. The damsel that with her mouth did catch. and Bold the lamb was declared "Lady of the Lamb." After it was'. dressed it was borne aloft on a long pole to the • public green and close behind followed the fair prize winner, attended by her 'companions in the race, while a band of luttslo kept step beside them. The next qday came the grand feast, presided over by the "Lady of the Banquet," who "with great &acorn»; and rare show of • '+courtesy and with -friendliest words -'pressed upon her guests the goodly pleasures of the table.--Harper's Bazar" The Chinese in California. Speaking of the variety of work clone here by the Chinese, they are employed in many of the factories. They are the porters and cleaners of the city -to a large extent, and they compete with the sewing girls and the chambermaids. In the Palace hotel, whore I am stopping, the . Chinese seem to do the greater part of the work, and I see quiet, almond eyed,. yellow skinned mei. in blue gowns clean- ing hero, scrubbing there and brushing in a third place all over this big house. They Ado work that an Irish servant girl would refuse to de, and I saw a half dozen of them today creeping along the narrow ledges outside the great galleries of the 9rotunda washing paint. A misstep would have surely killed theist, and you. eonld no :more get a negro or•an Irish servant girl to take such a risk than you could fly. I, visited several'of the Joss houses here and watched the Chinese at worship. They do not seen.: to be a severely re- ligions race as far as those in America are concerned, and the richer among them have an idol er so of their own whom they pray to in their own houses, There aro, however, half a dozen bigJoss houses hero, and each of these has its idols by the dozen. One idol especially worshiped is the god of medicine, who is repre- sented as holding a . olden pill and who is supposed to be abo to cure diseases, and another also mush worshiped is the god of wealth. The god of wealth is named Tsoi ?oh Shing Koun, and as all of the Chinese in this country have come here to make thole fortunes, he never lacks votaries. The worshipers bring him. offerings of food, tea and wine, mid 'the incense always barns before hint. The Chinese worship here without core- assay. They: chat together es they pray, arid,often do not take their cig8ars or pipes *Zit of their mouths while going through -their forme of worship.—San• Pre:soh:co peace;Y ..._..._. - ... . Sona of the G.1'ta Ara .Aei;ed WIi They chats--Evolutto, iq Cern matzin};--t?ptt1- Iris oE' PhyS101f144 on the Meets -Toni Ara Natio featured, In spite of the *manifold warniugs of physieiaus; in spite of the fact that the shape of Cupid's bow b changed; and in spite of all the contemptuous and serene - tic remarks which are constantly appear- ing inthe papers, gum chewing in this country is rapidly on the increase, Two-thirds of the girls, be they pretty or otherwise, that ono meets on tido high- ways of this city are either working their laws for all they are worth or have a sn1a11lump tucked away in some ob- scure eoriner of the mouth and give it a gentle squeeze 'between the teeth when they aro sure of being unobserved. Gum chewing is less disgusting than tobacco chewing. And if, it becomes a. natural habit as it seems likely to do, we may comfort, ourselvesthat the gum chewing Ameri- can is far preferable to the snuff dipping, Mexican. And gum chewing is not as exclusively confined to the female sex as is smoking to the male, for many ;nen use gum to help still the craving for tobacco, thus jumping from the frying pan into the the. perhaps. True, gay young women are lately be- coming somowhat addicted to the use of the weed, claiming that if then have the right to put their feet on the mantel and make a, room blue with smoke why should they be denied the privilege, since it has such a soothing effect on the temper? And if women can find any thing that had a salutary ,effect upon their tempers what folly to deprive them of ltd y•r 4.� NsATISFACTORY REASON$. Why; c'le women chew gtun? You do ;pot knows and even the chewers them- selves do not seem to, "0,:1 chew because I can, I guess," said,,:ono pert young miss upon being "And I bedause . my mother tellsme laugh. not to," said. another, with a misehieveus "I chew because I like the taste and because everybody else chews," said a third indifferently, • and likewise an- swered they all; the truth is, they really did not know why they chewed and he'd never thought to ask themselves the question: The history of chewing gum is like the growth of all animal and vegetable life— ono of evolution. Children began :tb chew the exude- tions from clifterenttrees, from the peach, plum, pine, spruce and sweet gat,}211, thus, putting itinto somebody's mind to make an ertshcial gran. . It was first made of beeswax, gutta- percha, and other rubbery and sticky substances, which were perfectly pure and Harmless, and costly in. preparation. But three years ago some inventive ge- nius discoverd that by hbiling some of the baser elements of petroleum and mixing in a small amount of beeswax a similar to the more expensive could as produced which was quite susceptible to flavors and trifling in cost. By the use of scents and large quanti- ties of stager, which is the principal article used in the composition of any gums the 'disagreeable ,taste and odor of petroleum was entirely obliterated,and a salable article was produced. About the same time a gum called' "Balsain Tolu" was produced, which also found a ready sale, particularlyamong Children,, and then ""Paraffin" in -all of its flavors and riii:ctures diad its clay. • One variety of white gum was for' some time quiteextensively manufac- tured in China. That country has a tree peculiar to itself which possesses an at- traction for an insect, with ti queer Chinese name which one wlll'neither at- tempt to write nor pronounce. Numbers of them collect upon the tree, and when they have departed to pastures new branches are found to bo literally cov- ered with a waxy deposit. 13y boiling the branches the wax is separated from them, and when the water and twig's are drawn off the white deposit renliains. moat TITAN $1,500,000 A YEAR. This is purified, sweetened, flavored, cooled in cakes, and a little fancy picture pasted on top, and we have the.cld white gum which so many of us have, chewed until our jaws ached. The sale of this Variety was enormous, but it has now been supplanted by newer kinds, as has tho oldrubber wax. Physicians differ considerably in their views on the subject. An eminent phy- sician hysician fro; i Ohio declares that gum -.chewingseriously affects tho eyesight, and'"that he never fails to detect the use of it by an examination of the Faye. Another says that themusclesof the jaw and face near the temple are enlarged and hardened and the curve of the lips is dettroyed. And, on the other hand, doctors without number advise its use to cleanse the teeth and aid digestion. It is quite the fad at the present time to chew s rued gum. It, at least, is pure from. all the ;adulterations which aro now . so common. Dealers in guns say that until within a few years its use was almost exclusively confined to children, but at the present time the deitiand among adults is Con- tinually increasing. It has been computed by a statistician that the people of the United States spend alien than $1,500,000 every year for showing gum. There is a manufac- tory is Louisville, Ky., that alone turns out 500,000 boxes of six dozen cakes each yearly, , 'tr hich is distributed alb over the world. And when we think of all the other" manufactories of gutnsof dhherent varieties wltielt are in full blast, sellfng as much or more tin:tithe one lnentiolred hovel, we are astounded at what n.sai'S ja'')•s e"art do,—Chicago Tribune. • A NASAr, Tlrsscxox free with sack bottle et Shilob'i Catarrh ltelnedy, I'ri4V 10 tents, bet sale by C. D w 1REAlIIti.. 20110 400111 ror Corr ontou. ,ta 1?ourth. Avenue (N`ew York) eon. pawner liar the card in Lis wintiuw, "a Pies open all night." A Bowers placard reads, " I3oine mad'a Uuitl Booms, Fanilly Oysters," A wrst 13rtladwav I'estaurauteur sells " 1lointt made Piles, Pastry and ()yeti ie." An East frond' ay caterer retails *"tread Salt Oysters Alla Larger Beer " A Sixth Avenue barber hangsouta sign reading "t Boots Polished inside," en another street the *allowing catches the eye : , "" Warthin Iroltin .and (iv ing out by the Day Done Here." ,11:1 Peer to Take a Paper, Referring to the importance of farmers subscribing to a good news- paper, a french contemporary in it: • agricultural colutnn, slys s -"In n liquor shop, for five cents, you get a glass t,f whiskey ; repeat the operation twenty times, and you. will have spout one dollar, weakened your health anti lost your reason. Oo back to. tlir same place next week and the wee;: after, five or ten times during the, week, and you will have spent twenty, thirty, fifty or a. hundred dollars dur ing, the year, almost without knowinti it, and you wilt be so much the poorer Nevertheless, you say that you are too poor to take a newspaper." Oh, merchant, in thine hour of p e g, If ou this paper you should c c o And look for something to ap p p p Yoor yearning for greenback vv v Take our advice and now be y y y Go straight ahead and advert i You'll find the protect of some u 1 u ; Neglect pan offer no ex q q q Be wise at once, prolong your d a a a,. A. silent business soon de k It k, A lawyer and a parson we.e talking about which way the wan d was. The farmer said : " We go by the court- house vane." "t Weil," said the par- son, " in the matter of wind that is the best authority ;" .aud :the lawyer went to cogitate. According to Indian linguists. " scheullFndarnouvtchwnger" is the motile red man's word for love, watha then was in " seheinlendamour- tCI1wag er " with lblinnehah. The Eiffel Tower in Par's had reached a height, of 701' feet on January 9, 1889—the highs strut- erre upon the globe. All the railroads in the United States and Canada, without exception, now use the standard time of one of the four :sections—eastern, central, mountain or Pacific.' •Cities and towns have very generously conformed• to railroad time of their respectiva sections. "01st of 288 cities of over 10,000 inhabitants, less than 25. still retain local time. . It is proposed by a new. company just formed 111 Brussels, to build a railroad to connect the Head of navi- gation on ihe.lowcr Congo with Stan- ley pool, thus opening up a line of about 7,000 milesin the iuteriur` of Africa to trade and commerce. By' the magnificent gift. of Arr. I T. Williamson of stooks of a market value of $2,250,000, a "Free School of Mechanical Trades" is to be erected and organized near'Philadelphia. The following notice was posted on the courthouse door by a eonstable : I have ceased and took into execution, a cordin to law and iniquity, the the following aforet+etid property, SHII,Oa'sCATARnu REMEDY—a positive cure for Catarrh.Diphtheria and Canker Mouth Por sale by C. E. Williams. 911 men are not homeless, but some men' aro home less than others. Ann you made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation', Dizziness, Voss of Appetite, Yellow Skin 9 Shiloh's Vitalizer is a posi• tive apse. For sale by 0. E. Williams "The churn must go," says an agri- cultural exchange. Of conrse itmust, 'iri order that the butter may come.— Way will you cough when Shiloh's Cure will rive you immediate relief ? Price 100, 50e, and 01. I'or sale by 0.E.Williams. reacher t "Why do you not punctu- ate your composition?" Pupils: "Be cause you told us the other day it was vulgar .to point." Stilton's Culls will immediately relieve Crotip,WhcopingCough and Cronchitis, For solo by O. E. Williams, &hoot Teacher : "Now Bobby, spell needle." Bobby N e -i -d -1-o. needle," 'Wrong. There's no 'i' needle." "Well. 'tain't a good needle, then." Pon iieverSTA and Liver Complaint yon havo a printed guarantee on every Mottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. For sale by Wflliaiils. .Polite Curls (showing goods): "Here is something is something I would. like to call your attention to, lady, It's the very lates thing out," Fli't's, Rounder absently: "If there's 'ally thing out later titan niy husband i'II take it, it only ifor a curiosity. -Life.. THE ileo. Geo. 'II, T'HAYlttt, of Bourbon, Ind„ says : "" Both myself 'and wife owe our lives to' SRA011's CortsuMrrtoS Chalk," For sate by 0,B. Williams. 'j'Jw' O. 1?, It 'a net profits for "Iteary int $150,960, c`Finpared , tetth $2,2,'* (t fel' the correspoiidh g' month ttf Itifik.. Dr Wi ;+}nary is $5,000 bal,ides allowances Ile has a paid citet'1 , carriage Allow:tlll;', stationery, it honge, and a tlnit,llel' of other .allGYM il Q, which brie;; his minty up to Between. $7,00t) Old 9:,000. Brilliant ! Durable! Economical !a. Prominent features of its Ixosestanor durtno be Diamond Dyes excel all others in Strength, Purity and Eastness.•1 None other are just as good, Be-', ware of imitations, because they, are made of cheap and inferior materials, and give poor, weak, crocky colors. To be sure of, success, use only the DIAMoNn DYEs for coloring Dresses, Stock --1 ings,' . Yarns, Carpets, Feathers, Ribbons, &c., &c. We warrant them to color more goods, pack- age for package, than any other - dyes ever made, and to give more brilliant and durable colors; Ask for the Diamondand take no other. il' A HOLSTEIN ,Z31:JLL °ALF Owned by Jamee Mika, Bluerale. Jived by :F. Ballon, Cusses, Ont., Late of birth, April s?Oth tN '�. Sire, Baynton, No. 3237, II. II. 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The undersigned desire to inform farm- ers and the people generally that they have reopened their at MeaI iII in ging nm, And are now prepared to liluciiiuse Oats in unlimited quantities and at the Highest Market Price. will supply customers with' the BEST G1iADss 14 Oat Meal, ELDER & CLEGG, W 2N't_?r2-TAM - - OJ T'z' • Social and 1 olitiral 4rtilas, BY Prot. win. G. Summa , Prof, Ilerhert B, Adam.,., ArtProfh. ur RHichadardleyT,a. nd Ely, otl Swofa;. It. G. Thompson, Pm.' Litera y Articles, BY Thomas wentwsrih Il} ,ginson, Maurice T lorn o .,_ Charit a llutilsy 1Yttrr ei ;amen pay», Andrew tart FArauncl 0osse, le. IL ;soda»;, ;Urs. Schuyler Vat,, Rensselaer, Louise 11 men uuiuey, H. H. Boyes,l ,, Isabel F, Hapgood. an others; Poems and Stories, IIY E. O. Stedman, Eli, beth. Stuart Phelps, Fsiwar•1, Everett. Hale, Ilan iet • Prescott Spofford 310 t Scheyer ltoseTeri'y G oke, EdithM,Thomas, Andr Lang, Joaquin Millet Lucy Lareom, John Bo:, ' O'Reilly, and others. 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