A HOUSEHOLD GOD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8740, 28 March 1890, Page 3

A HOUSEHOLD GOD.

London Figaro flays : — "Sir Arthur Sullivan may be interested to learn that scraps from "The Mikado' buve been sung before the great bronze image of Buddha, at Kcmukura, Japan. Colonel George P. Bisseil, of Hartford, Conn , and a party of friends Blood laet month before this ftunous statue, and as the nativeß gathered around and set up a great clatter, the Americans broke out as one man in ' Mere's a how d'ye do.' The Japanese wore awed by the eon?, aud thought it wan offered ub an invocation to Buddha." Which is a very good story as far as it goep, and recalls another which »s absolutely trup, of an important Japanese official nt Yokohama, who had his own particular household f.od decorated with v St. Jacob's oil bottle suspended round the neck by v MiluabUi string of jewels. Ho had for years bet n v murtjr to the demon of n^uralgiu, and the contents of that paiticular botilo had t ffected a rapid ond permanent care, where all ehe had failed. That is one of the peculiar virtneß of this remarkable oil, and the one of all others which has made it so amazingly popular in all lands ; but the above is probably the only instance on record in v bich it bos received such an elevated nco nitinn. The donor of the bottle; to the tfflictcd Jap. wa« an old Ben captain of the mont pronounced New Xt .stand t\p<-, and the solemnity with which he ustd to nlate the mci ent wan commhrubiy intensified by bin own un boun 'ed faith in the paiu-3onquering piopertk-H of St. Jacob's oil.