THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



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Odds and Gnds. 



SKETCHES OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 



Article II. 



The European settlement at the foot of a rocky 

 irange called Kahchio, is the place where the 

 American, English, French, and Dutch consuls 

 live. The range of rocks are intersected by va- 

 rious ravines, which are used as paths for the 

 inhabitants in traveling from place to place. X 

 number of Missionaries' homes are located here. 

 In 1842 Europeans first came to the neighborhood 

 of Swatoo, China. In 1S.51 they formed a settle- 

 ment on Double Island, which now is the home 

 of the pilots. In ISIJO Swatoo was declared 

 •open to the Americans and English, and a year 

 later the natives allowed them to live in the city. 

 • Swatoo is 180 miles nortli of Hong Kong. 



Mogibav, about four miles from Nagasaki, 

 Japan, is' the place where, in the Seventeenth 

 centurv, about 37,000 Christians were extermi- 

 nated 'by order of the ruler of the place, one 

 Taico Sama. About 300 years ago thousands of 

 men, women, and children were massacred by 

 being driven from the clifis of Pappenburg at 

 the pike's point, and crushed to death on the 

 rocks beneath, because tliey would not trample 

 on the cross of the Saviour. The island of Pap- 

 penburg is about one mile in circumference, and 

 presents a beautiful ai>pearance. 



Until 186!i no Christian was allowed to set his 

 foot upon the island, and none but the Dutch 

 •were allowed to trade in the country. 



It is said that when the Dutch asked Taico 

 Sama, the stern ruler, after the Imperial edict 

 was is.sued forbidding any but natives of the 

 country to remain on .Japanese soil, what the 

 shape and situation of tlie ground should be that 

 w.is to be given to the Dutch merchants, he con- 

 temptuously Hung out his fan. They took tliis 

 for granted that he intimated that it should be 

 that shape, and .so on an artificial island, con- 

 nected with the shore by a bridge, and watched 

 by an insolent guard who prevented all commu- 

 nication with the neighborhood, e.xcepting in 

 rare cases, and at an exorbitant expen.se to the 

 merchants, they — the Dutch— built what is now- 

 called " Dessim'a," said island being of fan shape. 

 Dessima is now a great place for .Japan cricket- 

 ing. The houses are of the Dutcli style of 

 architecture. 



I herewith make some interesting extracts 

 from the private diaries of the late Dr. Samuel 

 P. Boyer, U. S. Surgeon, which I have iu my 

 ))ossession : — 



On the 2'2d of November, 1869, we anchored at 

 Sliangliai, China. On the 2.5th, it being a cool 

 day, Mr. Wilson and myself took a drive around 

 town, and had a lively time. We drove over 

 several natives who were either too lazy, indif- 

 ferent, or deaf from smoking opium to hear us 

 and get out of our wav, although the driver 

 yelled like the "Old Ha'rry." 



The streets are crowded all the time. All 

 -women have small feet, except Coolie women, 

 who have quite large, inferior extremities. The 

 unformed bones of the infant's feet, at a very 

 early age, have to be broken, and the toes are 

 then bent beneath the .s(des of the feet ; in this 

 way the feet are bandaged and not allowed to 

 grow, the consequences are very small feet, but 

 huge, unwielding ankles, and no calfs. The 

 pain must be great, judging from the alteration 

 in the direction of the bones. The pain, I am 

 told, often kills the infant, yet mothers pride 

 them,selves in their own feet, and subject their 

 offspring to the same treatment. In order to 

 walk, some of these beauties are compelled to 

 totter with the help of a stick, which, w-ith a 

 -white p<iwder used to blanch their countenances, 

 called forth the following verse from an inspired 

 Oriental poet: 



" Pale as rice — 



Graceful as a bamboo? " 

 Every now and tlien one meets a wheelbarrow 

 ■\vith two seats on each side of the wheel, occu- 

 pied by the ladies, an<l ]>ropelled by a Coolie. 

 They can thus travel for miles at very little 

 expense; twenty-five cents for ten miles is a fair 

 price. Chinese'woman have very little express- 

 ion — all look alike ; when you see one you have 

 seen them all. I prefer' a Japanese woman. 

 Chinese women are fond of opium, and they 

 love to luxuri.itfc in filth. 



The streets of Shanghai are narrow and very 

 •dirtv. The cost of living among the inhabitants 

 averages from $1.50 to "$2..50. The dead are 

 buried anywliere — along the wayside, in the 

 yard, or anv open field. 



In a popular Chinese medical work I found a 

 catalogue of 1012 medicines, of which there are 

 from metals and stones, 133 kinds, grasses and 

 •vegetables (including roots, leaves, flowers and 



seeds) 313 kinds, trees 117, from the human body 

 20 kinds, from animals 91 kinds, from fowls and 

 brrds 34 kinds, ih ni bugs, worms, snakes, shell- 

 fish, turtles, flies, &c., 99 kinds, fruits 40 kinds, 

 of the "five grains" 38 kinds, of the cabbage, 

 turnip, and melon families, 62 kinds. Chinese 

 druggists in this city claim to have as high as 

 1000 of these varieties of medicines upon their 

 shelves. 



A portion of the medicines taken from the 

 human body are as follows; — Hair (cut fine, and 

 used iu plasters), curly hair, daudrufl, teeth 

 fillings, ears effluvia, pairing of finger and toe 

 nails (reduced to ashes by burning), bone of the 

 foreliead (reduced to ashes), beard of the upper 

 lip, blood, the gall, &c. ; all this medicine from 

 tlie human body is procured from the dead 

 bodies of felons, who have not been claimed by 

 friends. In this connection I might also say 

 that the dead Irodies of very young children are 

 often simply sewed iu matting and tossed into the 

 boughs of trees, or exposed on the surface of the 

 earth, among the tombs, for dogs and vultures to 

 feast upon. The largest part of the medicines j 

 used by Chinese physicians, and sold by the | 

 druggists, consist principally of vegetable sub- 

 stances. It is hard to say whether the Chinese 

 medical system is allopathic or homecepathic ; it 

 seems mi.xed. 



THE FLO-WEB MISSIONARY. 



Bi/ J. E. MeC. 



There lived in a thriving, new western town 

 a toiling, noble-hearted woman who managed, 

 in the luidst of her busy life, to become a real 

 benefactor to the community in which she lived. 

 A devoted lover of flowers, she always found 

 spare minutes in which to cultivate the choicest 

 and sweetest she could obtain. It seems wonder- 

 ful how such plants thrive for their real lovers. 

 It seems as if there was a magic in the touch of 

 a loving hand tliat was good for flowers as well 

 as for the little human plants. 



This good house-mother rejoiced to share her 

 treasures with those who had none. Far and 

 near were little doorway bowers wiiich she had 

 instigated, covered with hardy climbers, which 

 gave an air of taste to even a caliin home. 

 Scarcely a home spot but what had its flower 

 border blooming from early spring until the fro.sts 

 came, and it was largely through her influence 

 and help that the desert so "rejoiced and blos- 

 somed like the rose." In too many new settle- 

 ments the time is so absorbed in the hard tug for 

 every day wants that little attention at first is 

 given to matters of mere taste. But this good 

 woman-missionary felt that the culture of these 

 sweet gifts of God would be a rest to many a 

 weary woman, and lift her heart out of the dull 

 rounj of wearisome cares. She knew, too, that 

 their presence would exert a refining, softening 

 influenc* on the children of the household, and 

 that a lore for flowers would, iu a measure, coun- 

 teract many allurements not so safe and health- 

 giving. 



She has long since passed away, hut her good 

 work lives in many beautified homes; in many 

 liearts which her influence blessed. Quiet and 

 unobtrusive as her work seemed ; simple as were 

 her little gifts of a bush or a flower plant, with 

 the needed directions for their culture, it was not 

 unnoticed by Him who metes even the " cup of 

 cold water." Her spirit was akin to that of the 

 old gardener who, rather than see his beautiful 

 flowers and shrubbery wasted when they multi- 

 plied too much for his grounds, would plant them 

 in waste, wayside places where they might de- 

 light some eye or be taken home by someone 

 who could api)reciate them. 



Your gift of a rose bush or a clump of pansies 

 to a poor child may be worth much more to him, 

 in the final results, than a gift in money. 



ors who fixed the twelve degrees of the chromatic 

 scale, at the wake-and-call-me-early period (,f 

 3468 B. C. The potentate in question, was named 

 Fou Hi, the first. He invented several instru- 

 ments, improvements upon which have made 

 the fortune of many an unscrupulous invader of 

 Chinese patents in these our times. 



.\mong ills instruments were of course the 

 bones, wliich, when rattled by Fou Hi, gave forth 

 celestial harmony. His bones were a peculiarly 

 prime order of article, better tlian those in use in 

 these degenerate days. Tlie lowness of the stand- 

 ard of national taste in .\merica to-day, was 

 never more distinctly shown than in the utter in- 

 difterance of tlie average auditor as to what a 

 minstrel's bones are made of, so that they rattle 

 lustily. Fou Hi with that nicety of taste invari- 

 bly observable in the fabrication of choice articles 

 by. the Oriental people, always insisted upon 

 having his bones made of the right shank of 

 infants of good ancestry, specially massacred in 

 the neatest way, for the purposes of manufacture. 

 The bones were the first instrument Fou Hi in- 

 vented, but his genius soon took a wider flight 

 and he dropped them for another, namely, the 

 lyre. Tlie inheritance of bones as a musical 

 instrument, left by Fou Hi, was carefully cher- 

 ished by the Greeks. It was varied in form by 

 them, and called the " plat.igi," a word which 

 signifies " clapping," and was principally used 

 with other instrument to mark the time for dan- 

 cers. Instead of two bones held together between 

 the fingers and rattled, the Greek platagi was 

 formed of a long bit of liglit wood, split up part 

 of its length, the shorter jiiece hung on loosely at 

 the middle, and the upper end serving as a handle 

 by which the performer could rattle it conven- 

 ientlv. 



EASTERN BRIDAL DRESS. 



The wedding dress is even more a matter of 

 importance with an eastern bride than with us. 

 The preparation of her toilet, in the presence of 

 female friends, often occupies a large part of two 

 days. The costumes are often rich and gorgeous 

 beyond expression. Fashion, as interpreted by 

 an oriental milliner, quoted by Dr. Van Lennep, 

 prescribes the characteristics of an ideal wedding 

 dress. It should measure six yards from the 

 shoulders to the end of the train ; the long sleeves 

 should sweep the floor; the material is silk ; it is 

 elaborately embroidered by a party of profes- 

 sional embroiderers under the direction of a 

 chief. The sum paid for superintending the 

 needle work on a single robe was $500, while the 

 the charge for the work done by the subordinates 

 was $2,500, and the entire cost of the dress was 

 $10,000, nor must it be forgotten that labor in that 

 country is very much less expensive than in this. 



LATODT d' AtJVERGER. 



At Carhaix, in Brittany, is a bronze statue of 

 Latout d' Auvergue, by Marochetti. His real 

 name was 'I'heophile Malocret, he was born here, 

 and died at the battle of Newburg, in 1800. 

 Auverque was a brave conscientious soldier, 

 whose merits often made him a fit subject for 

 promotion, which, however, he steadily refused, 

 prefering to serve his country in the rank in 

 which he had enlisted. In consequence he re- 

 ceived the title of" the first Grenadier of France," 

 and to honor his memory, after his death, his 

 place was always retained in his chosen regiment, 

 and at regimental roll-call his name was always 

 the first called, and the reply was as uniformly, 

 " dead on the field of honor." 



ORIGIN OF THE " BONES." 

 The historv ol music plainly shows that the 

 elements of musical art were in a manner sys- 

 tematized from the very earliest ages of mankind. 

 The Chinese have records of one of their Emper- 



The best melons in the world grow in Persia. 



Caesar threw a pile and trestle bridge across 

 the Rhine in ten days. 



Elm piles driven by the Romans at London, 

 werein good order when removed to build the 

 abutments of London Bridge in 1829. 



"He whobuililetli In the street 

 Many niiislt-rs liulli to niet-t, 

 -Who will builcl lip.. 11 the walk 

 Needs must let the people talk.' 



SEED WHEAT! 



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