Salt Lake Herald | 1892-02-21 | Page 6 | Notes from Oriental Lands

NOTES FltOU ORIENTAL LANDS Japan has a radish ten feet in length Opium smoking is absolutely forbidden in Japan India has a priest who is drawing a pension pen-sion and is in his 152nd year Jerusalem is rapidly becoming again tha city of the Jews In 1SSO there were probably prob-ably not more than 5000 Jews there now there are more than 30000 Wages are so low in India that men maybe may-be hired for 2 a month to do household work A dollar is a great sum to them and one meal a day the rule Chinese dentists are said to possess a wonderful powder which is rubbed on the gum over the affected tooth After an interval in-terval of five minutes the patient is told to sneeze whereupon the tooth falls out One of the effects of the earthquake in Japan was the sudden disturbing of the sea seventyfive miles from shore and tho deluging of the American bark Hesper with water so hot as to be apparently at the boiling point