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to “an exhibition of Japanese Curiosities, also a Performance of Jap-
anese feats, to be preceded by a lecture from Ralph Rogers, Esq., re-
cently from Japan.” Gus Freeman as an intimate friend was passed
in free, a dead-head. This entertainment had been advertised on
posters as extensively as the surface of the garden-gate would permit.
A portion of what Ralph said that afternoon came from his reading '
on the sofa in the International Hotel, and other items he gathered
through those faithful gleaners, the eyes and ears. As Bridget Mahoney,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the servant, put up her head above the barn-chamber stairs, at Mrs.
Rogers’ request, to see what was going on, it enabled Ralph to say,

“ Ladies and Gentlemen: —Japan is a very interesting place. It is, as
has been said, our next-door western neighbor, that is of any special size.
It is well therefore for us who are young men to-day,” (applause from
Gus, Joe, Tom, and Billy,) “to get. some idea on the subject. Japan ‘is a
spot in the temperate zone, or spots rather, for it is an empire of islands, the
principal being Hondo, Kiushiu, Yezo and Shikoku. It is claimed to have
three thousand eight hundred islands in all. Put all its miles together and