Christian herald and signs of our times (1891) (14777162382)

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Title: Christian herald and signs of our times

Year: 1891 (1890s)

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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)

Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association

Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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g ; the Japanese officers riding along,each with his betto, or groom ; the flower-ped-lars ; the bullockmen ; the bird-dealers ; thetea-houses, the little funny house-fronts andopened interiors ; the bath rooms, the temples,the stone-yards, the basket-works, the glidingrice-boats—tout le tremblement, in fact, of thewonderful and ever-interesting capital city ofJapan. Eating with Chopsticks.Chopsticks, far from being awkward, are themost convenient as well as the cleanest tableutensil, once the secret of their use is learned.It cannot be taught in words. There is an in-describable knack of fixing one stick firmly,and hinging the other with the first and secondfinger, so as to play exactly upon the fixedstick, which renders the little implements per-fect for everything except, of course, juice orgravy and soup. You can even cut with themby inserting the points close together, and thenforcbly separating them ; and as for handinese THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OUR TIMES. Feb. 4, 1891^

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The Opening of the First Japanese Parliament under the New Constitution. and precision of grasp, in a little wager at thisvery restaurant, even I myself picked up withthe hashi twenty-two single grains of rice inone minute from a lacquered tray, being beatenby a Japanese lady, whose swift skill dexterouslyconveyed as many as forty-nine. OPENING THE FIRST JAPANESE PARLIAMENT. . (See Illustration.) MUCH more significance attaches to theopening of the Japanese Parliament, apicture of which is here given, than suchceremonies have in other lands. It was thepractical fulfilment of a pledge made by theMikado or Emperor twenty-three years ago.At that time a revolution occurred in which thepetty governors or Daimios were overthrown,and the Mikado Matsuhito became the supremeruler of the empire, recovering the prerogativesexercised centuries ago by his predecessors. The Mikado, on regaining the power formerlyinherent in his office, promised the people aconstitution. It speaks volumes for the pa

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