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Show THE NEW YORK SUN says that the railway system is extending rapidly in Japan, two lines, having been recently completed in the Island of Nyphon [Niphon], and a third in the Island of Yesso, the most northerly of the Japanese group. The rails are of English make, but the rolling stock and engines have been ordered in America. The two first engines are to be named Benkei and Yoshitsze?, after two celebrated early Japanese heroes. It is the first order of the kind that has been given by Japan to American houses. |