Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — The Japs. [ARTICLE]

The Japs.

The Japanese take strange and unaccountable fancies. At one time a mania for rabbits dominates the country, and speculators pay exorbitant prices for lop-eared or other ugly varieties of the rodent. This is succeeded by a dangerous liking for large foreign dogs, followed by a less romantic attachment to pigs, which in its turn gives way to a more aesthetic, taste for tea-roses, varied by a taste for pisciculture. In Tosa we hear that dog-fighting is the passion of the hour, and public exhibitions of the sport are paying speculations. —Japan Mail.